Patents by Inventor Tetsuro Kojima

Tetsuro Kojima has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5534394
    Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material with which edge staining and the occurrence of staining on aging after processing can be prevented, and with which the stability of the bleach-fixer can be improved, comprising color developing and bleach-fixing the photographic material, wherein the bleach-fixer contains (1) thiosulfate, (2) at least one type of compound selected from among the group of compounds represented by formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein Ra, Rb, R.sup.1 through R.sup.4, X.sup.1 and n are as defined in the specification, and (3) an adduct of bisulfite with at least one type of compound selected from among the group of compounds represented by formulae (A), (B), (C) and (D): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 through R.sub.11, X, Y, Z, m and n are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Ishikawa, Shinji Ueda, Hirotomo Sasaki, Tetsuro Kojima
  • Patent number: 5459027
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one layer made of a silver halide emulsion comprising a dispersion medium and silver halide grains dispersed in the dispersion medium. Each of the silver halide grains contains a metal or metal ions other than silver. The emulsion has been chemically sensitized in the presence of a tellurium compound which has a pseudo-first order reaction rate constant k of 1.times.10.sup.-8 to 1.times.10.sup.-0 min.sup.-1. The metal is at least one polyvalent metal selected from the group consisting of Ir, Rh, Pd, Ru, Pt, Os, Fe, Ni and Co. The metal ions are ammonium salt, acetate, nitrate, sulfate, phosphate, hydroxide, or complex salt of the metal. Telluroketones or phosphinetellurides is used as the tellurium compound. It is desirable that the silver halide emulsion is a monodispersed emulsion having a variation coefficient of 22% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunji Takada, Hiroyuki Mifune, Tetsuro Kojima
  • Patent number: 5429914
    Abstract: A composition having a fixing ability for photography which is used as a bath having a fixing ability, for processing an exposed silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, said compositian being substantially free of thiosulfate ion and comprising as a fixing agent at least one thioether comcompound having at least one group selected from the group consisting of ##STR1## and a heterocyclic group, wherein M.sub.1, M.sub.2 and M.sub.3 may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a counter cation; R.sub.1 to R.sub.19, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group or an alkenyl group; and X.sup..crclbar. represents a counter anion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kojima, Nobuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5415983
    Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, which comprises the steps of developing and fixing the image-wise exposed silver halide photographic material, wherein the fixing bath used in the fixing step contains at least one meso-ionic compound other than meso-ionic 1,2,4-triazolium-3-thiolate compounds, wherein said meso-ionic compound is a compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein M and A.theta. are as defined in the specification as a fixing agent. The fixing bath and subsequent baths have excellent stability against precipitation, and the processed photographic material having improved image stability can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kojima, Nobuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5401621
    Abstract: A process for processing an imagewise exposed silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, comprising the steps of developing in a developing bath and processing in a bath having a fixing ability, wherein the bath having the fixing ability contains at least one mesoionic compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## In a second embodiment, a process is disclosed for processing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, comprising the steps of subjecting the material to color development, and then subjecting the material to blix in a blix bath, wherein the blix bath contains at least one mesoionic compound represented formula (III) or (IV): ##STR2##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kojima, Nobuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5395745
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a silver halide emulsion which contains grains made of silver chloroiodobromide, silver iodobromide, or silver chlorobromide, each of said grains having at least one dislocation line and chemically sensitized with a tellurium sensitizer which has a pseudo-first order reaction rate constant k of 1.times.10.sup.-8 to 1.times.10.sup.0 min.sup.-1. Also disclosed herein is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which comprises at least one layer made of the silver halide emulsion, in which the grains occupying at least 50 wt % of said emulsion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Maruyama, Hiroyuki Mifune, Tetsuro Kojima
  • Patent number: 5338648
    Abstract: A process and composition for processing a silver halide photographic material. The photographic material mat be a black and white photographic material or a color photographic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kojima, Nobuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5316886
    Abstract: A heat developable photosensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer which contains (i) at least one compound selected from among the compounds represented by formulae (I) and (III) and (ii) a dye compound represented by formula (LI): ##STR1## the definition of Y, R, R', M, T, U, n, m and for formula (I) and (III) and Y, Z and n for dye of formula (LI) are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Koide, Tetsuro Kojima
  • Patent number: 5298373
    Abstract: Silver halide black-and-white photosensitive material is processed with a fixer which contains 0.5 to 2.0 mol/liter of a thiosulfate and 0.003 to 0.3 mol/liter of a meso-ionic compound, the moles of the meso-ionic compound divided by the moles of the thiosulfate being from 0.003 to 0.2. The fixer accelerates fixing speed, enabling rapid processing of photographic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Senzo Sasaoka, Katsumi Hayashi, Kota Fukui, Tetsuro Kojima
  • Patent number: 5298370
    Abstract: A method of processing a silver halide color photographic material using a carbamoyl or imidazole type organic metal complex bleaching agent of any of compounds of formulae (I), (II), (III), (IV), and (V) and a mercapto, mesoionic or thioether fixing agent of compounds of formulae (A), (B) and (C). A bleach-fixing composition containing the bleaching agent and fixing agent is also disclosed. The processing method provides good desilvering with little bleach fogging of the processed photographic material, and the processing composition has good stability. W in formula (III) below represents a divalent linking group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kojima, Hisashi Okada, Nobuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5288595
    Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide photosensitive material comprises the steps of developing an exposed silver halide photosensitive material and treating it with a bath having a fixing function containing an N-oxide compound having a mercapto group in the molecule. When the bath having a fixing function is used, a stable fixing power and excellent desilverization effect can be obtained by processing a color photosensitive material with only a small amount of replenisher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Harumi Watanabe, Tetsuro Kojima, Nobuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5278025
    Abstract: A method for forming an image comprising the steps of: (a) imagewise exposing silver halide photographic materials; where said photographic material contains (1) a compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic group or an aromatic group; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an amino group, a carbamoyl group, or an oxycarbonyl group; G.sub.1 represents a carbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfoxy group, ##STR2## or an iminomethylene group; and A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 both represent a hydrogen atom, or one of A.sub.1 or A.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Okamura, Kazunobu Katoh, Tetsuro Kojima
  • Patent number: 5273874
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprises a silver halide emulsion layer provided on a support. In the photographic material of the present invention, the silver halide emulsion is sensitized with a new tellurium sensitizer. The tellurium sensitizer is represented by the formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## in which each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently is an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group or an acyl group; at least two of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are combined with each other to form a heterocyclic ring; R.sup.5 is an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R.sup.6 is --NR.sup.7 R.sup.8, --NR.sup.9 --NR.sup.10 R.sup.11 or --OR.sup.12 ; R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 may be combined with each other to form a heterocyclic ring; each of R.sup.7, R.sup.8, R.sup.9, R.sup.10, R.sup.11 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kojima, Hiroyuki Mifune
  • Patent number: 5266457
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprises a silver halide emulsion layer provided on a support. In the photographic material of the present invention, the silver halide emulsion layer contains a compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## in which each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently is a group of chain structure selected from an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group and an alkylthio group, each of which may have one or more substituent groups; and the number of the carbon atoms contained in the compound represented by the formula (I) is 3 to 12. A process for sulfur sensitization of a silver halide emulsion using the compound represented by the formula (I) is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kojima, Hiroyuki Mifune
  • Patent number: 5238807
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material low in fogging generation and high in sensitivity comprising a silver halide emulsion selenium sensitized with at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by general formulae (I) and (III): ##STR1## wherein each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an acyl group, a carboxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group or a sulfamoyl group, provided that a tetramethylselenourea is excluded; ##STR2## wherein each of R.sub.8, R.sub.9, R.sub.10 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotomo Sasaki, Tetsuro Kojima, Hiroyuki Mifune, Mikio Ihama
  • Patent number: 5236821
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material which is sensitized with a novel selenium sensitizer. It provides less fog and markedly little sensitivity degradation during storage under a high temperature and humidity conditions, while providing the same level of a sensitivity. The silver halide photographic material contains at least one compound represented by the following Formula (I): ##STR1## Wherein R.sub.1 represents a substituted phenyl or condensed aryl group, an aliphatic group, a heterocyclic group, OR.sub.4, --NR.sub.5 (R.sub.6), SR.sub.7, SeR.sub.8, X.sub.1, or a hydrogen atom; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, OR.sub.9, --NR.sub.10 (R.sub.11), SR.sub.12, SeR.sub.13, X.sub.2, or a hydrogen atom; R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.10 and R.sub.11 each represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, or a hydrogen atom; R.sub.4, R.sub.7, R.sub.8, R.sub.9, R.sub.12 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morio Yagihara, Tetsuro Kojima, Hiroyuki Mifune, Hirotomo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5229249
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support, having thereon one or more hydrophilic colloid layers, wherein at least one of the hydrophilic colloid layers is a silver halide emulsion layer, and wherein the silver halide emulsion layer or another hydrophilic colloid layer contains a compound represented by general formula (I):Y--[(X).sub.n --A.sub.0 --B.sub.0 ].sub.m (I)wherein Y represents a group which is adsorbed on silver halide, X represents a divalent group comprising an atom or group of atoms selected from among a hydrogen atom, a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom and a sulfur atom, A.sub.0 represents a divalent linking group which has at least two alkyleneoxy units, B.sub.0 represents an amino group, an ammonium group or a nitrogen containing heterocyclic group, m represents 1, 2 or 3, and n represents 0 or 1, as well as a method for processing a silver halide photographic material in the presence of a compound according to general formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunobu Katoh, Tetsuro Kojima
  • Patent number: 5215880
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of this invention is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers contain at least one compound represented by formula (I): formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 each represent an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, OR.sub.4, NR.sub.5 (R.sub.6), SR.sub.7, OSiR.sub.8 (R.sub.9)(R.sub.10), TeR.sub.11, X, or a hydrogen atom, R.sub.4, R.sub.7, and R.sub.11 each represent an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, a hydrogen atom, or a cation, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represent an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, or a hydrogen atom, R.sub.8, R.sub.9, and R.sub.10 each represent an aliphatic group, and X represents a halogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kojima, Hiroyuki Mifune, Hirotomo Sasaki, Morio Yagihara, Kimiyasu Morimura
  • Patent number: 5194368
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for processing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing silver iodide with a processing solution having fixing ability after developing the light-sensitive material. The object of the present invention is to speed up the fixing process in the foregoing method and to reduce the amount of waste liquor from the fixing process. The present invention is characterized in that the processing with the processing solution having fixing ability is performed while the processing solution is brought into contact with an anion-exchange resin and that 20 to 2,000 l of the processing solution per liter of the anion-exchange resin is brought into contact with the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Ueda, Tetsuro Kojima, Tohru Kitahara, Tomokazu Yasuda, Yoshihiro Fujita, Takatoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 5192647
    Abstract: A method for development processing of a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one surface latent image type silver halide emusion layer, in the presence of a compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Q, X, A, B, M, m and n are as defined above. The method prevents generation of developer fog without reducing sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kojima, Shoji Ishiguro, Hisashi Okada, Morio Yagihara