Laser Or Radiation Exposure Other Than Visible Light Patents (Class 430/363)
  • Patent number: 9636384
    Abstract: This document relates to methods and materials involved in delivering molecules to a mammal. For example, methods and materials for using nanoparticles to increase the half-life and the bioavailability of molecules administered to a mammal are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Christopher B. Eckman, Aimee R. Herdt
  • Patent number: 9580618
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a film, in particular to a laser writable film, and to substances used therein, and components thereof. The present invention further relates to a method of manufacturing the film, uses thereof and products comprising the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: INNOVIA FILMS LIMITED
    Inventor: Simon Read
  • Patent number: 8975323
    Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) is disclosed which is markable by a laser operating at an ultra-violet wavelength because of the presence of between about 0.05 and about 0.1 weight percent of titanium dioxide or between about 0.1 and 0.3 weight percent of zinc oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: PolyOne Corporation
    Inventors: Gerald W. Meyer, Santosh Bawiskar, Jiren Gu
  • Patent number: 8502850
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and/or a system of laser marking of an interior cavity of a securing means of a substance container is disclosed. In one embodiment, a solid-state laser marking system to mark a securing means of a substance container includes a semiconductor laser to emit a pumping laser beam. The solid-state laser marking system also includes a resonator to create the laser beam that is then focused through a lens to mark the securing means of the substance container having a maximum diameter of 5 cm. Further, the solid-state laser marking system includes a solid-state laser crystal doped with a rare-earth element, to produce a laser beam in response to being pumped by the pumping laser beam and a laser resonator. The laser resonator is configured to focus the laser beam of a spot size of less than 150 microns and a beam quality of M2 less than 1.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Telesis Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashot Mesropyan, Michael Lloyd Watts
  • Patent number: 8462311
    Abstract: A display panel has a portion of a color filter or patterned color layer with a thickness of at least half of the cell gap of the display panel, wherein the repair method includes providing a energy light beam to the portion of the color filter or the patterned color layer in the sub-pixel region with a bright point defect to make the portion of the color filter or patterned color layer have porous structure so that bright point is repaired to become a grey point or a dark point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Hsueh-Min Yin, Hsin-Chang Huang, Jung-Hsiang Lin, Shen-Yi Huang
  • Publication number: 20130052594
    Abstract: A silver halide motion picture film can be used to provide multicolor images for archival storage, exhibiting excellent dark stability as determined by Arrhenius testing. This motion picture film can be imaged using common digital recorders. The resulting multicolor image has a Dmax in each color record of at least 2.3 Status A density. The overall contrast from each of the blue light sensitive color record, the red light sensitive color record, and the green light sensitive color record is the slope of a straight line connecting a point A and a point B on the characteristic curve of Status A density vs. log Exposure (E) for the respective color record, wherein point A is the log Exposure (E) required to attain a density level of 0.4 above Dmin and point B is the point represented by the log Exposure (E) of point A plus 0.7 log Exposure (E).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Diane M. Carroll-Yacoby, Christopher J. Haller, Paul L. Zengerle, Anabisdally Castro, Cynthia A. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 8357485
    Abstract: A multi-color photographic silver halide element has a total gelatin level on the imaging side of the support is less than 9000 mg/m2, and bulk gelatin-to-junk weight ratio for all of the light sensitive layers on the imaging side of the support is greater than 1.5. This weight ratio is defined by: Bulk gelatin-to-junk ratio=[(Bgel×Bgel/junk)+(Rgel×Rgel/junk)+(Ggel+Ggel/junk)]÷(Bgel+Rgel+Ggel) wherein Bgel is the total gelatin level for blue light sensitive layers, Bgel/junk is the gelatin-to-junk ratio for blue light sensitive layers, Rgel is the total gelatin level for red light sensitive layers, Rgel/junk is the gelatin-to-junk ratio for red light sensitive layers, Ggel is the total gelatin level for green light sensitive layers, and Ggel/junk is the gelatin-to-junk ratio for green light sensitive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Christopher J. Haller, Daniel R. May, Paul L. Zengerle
  • Publication number: 20120021362
    Abstract: A method of forming an image on a substrate, which comprises applying to the substrate an activatable colour forming compound wherein said activatable colour forming compound is initially unreactive but becomes reactive upon activation; activating said colour forming compound in the areas of the substrate where the image is to be formed, and, reacting the activated colour forming compound into its coloured form to produce an image. A substrate imaged using this method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Anthony Jarvis, Martin Walker, Christopher Wyres, Tristan Phillips
  • Patent number: 7732124
    Abstract: A color-image forming method in a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having the steps of: performing exposure of the light-sensitive material cut into sheets; and subjecting the exposed light-sensitive material sheets to photographic processing, while conveying them with conveying rollers, with the sheet conveying speed being 40.0 to 100 mm/sec; wherein the light-sensitive material to be exposed contains any of: 1) a dye-forming coupler of formula (IA), 2) a compound of formula (I), and 3) 1.4 mg/m2 or more of a compound of formula (II); wherein R? and R? are a substituent; Z is a hydrogen atom, or a coupling split-off group; A is an alkyl group, M is a cation, and R is an atom or group having 100 or lower total molecular weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki Deguchi, Shin Soejima, Naoto Ohshima, Tatsuya Ishizaka, Katsuyuki Takada, Futoshi Yoshida, Atsushi Maruhashi, Yoshinori Morimoto, Takehisa Ohno
  • Patent number: 7611829
    Abstract: A color-image forming method in a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having the steps of: performing exposure of the light-sensitive material cut into sheets; and subjecting the exposed light-sensitive material sheets to photographic processing, while conveying them with conveying rollers, with the sheet conveying speed being 40.0 to 100 mm/sec; wherein the light-sensitive material to be exposed contains any of: 1) a dye-forming coupler of formula (IA), 2) a compound of formula (I), and 3) 1.4 mg/m2 or more of a compound of formula (II); wherein R? and R? are a substituent; Z is a hydrogen atom, or a coupling split-off group; A is an alkyl group, M is a cation, and R is an atom or group having 100 or lower total molecular weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki Deguchi, Shin Soejima, Naoto Ohshima, Tatsuya Ishizaka, Katsuyuki Takada, Futoshi Yoshida, Atsushi Maruhashi, Yoshinori Morimoto, Takehisa Ohno
  • Patent number: 7598025
    Abstract: The present invention is characterized to provide a hologram silver halide photographic material having high sensitivity and diffraction efficiency, providing an excellent image and having less color residue and noise in a transparent part, a hologram, a method for producing the same. In the present invention, a hologram silver halide photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer formed on a support, wherein an average particle diameter of silver halide particles in a silver halide emulsion is 0.03 ?m to 0.07 ?m; a film thickness of the silver halide emulsion layer is 4 ?m to 9 ?m; a silver/gelatin ratio of the silver halide emulsion layer is 0.3 to 0.6; and the silver halide emulsion layer contains sensitizing dye of specific structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignees: Konica Minolta Opto Inc., Dia Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Michiue, Tomonobu Moriya, Masashi Iwasaki, Toshihiro Kubota, Masachika Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Tomoko Kumasawa, Kenji Ueda
  • Patent number: 7598026
    Abstract: An image-forming method comprising: employing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, comprising, on a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, at least one color-mix preventing layer and at least one protective layer, wherein the said silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler includes a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of 90 mole % or more and containing at least one specific blue-sensitive sensitizing dye; and exposing the said silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material to a blue semiconductor laser of a wavelength shorter by 30 nm to 60 nm than the wavelength at which the said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion has the spectral sensitivity maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akito Yokozawa, Tatsuya Ishizaka, Katsuyuki Takada, Yoshiro Ochiai, Tetsuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7544448
    Abstract: A method for laser marking a substrate which method comprises exposing a composition comprising a tetrabenzodiazadiketoperylene pigment to laser radiation to produce a fluorescent marking readily apparent under UV light is disclosed. Many of the tetrabenzodiazadiketoperylenes herein are novel. This method can yield fluorescent markings which are not readily apparent under ambient light. A method for producing non-fluorescent laser marked substrates containing tetrabenzodiazadiketoperylene dyes is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Damien Thurber Cole, Joseph E. Sarver, Colin Dennis Campbell
  • Patent number: 7498071
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a laminated member with an recorded information code, having a high reading accuracy, which do not detract from product design and which do not require a special reading apparatus. A laminated member 10 of the present invention comprises a transparent material layer 12 on which an information code is recorded, and a reflection-reduction layer 14 provided at the opposite side from a side where the information code is observed. The transparent layer 12 comprises low-reflectance portions 18 and high-reflectance portions 16 having a higher reflectance than the low-reflectance portions 18. The information code is recorded as a distributed pattern of the high-reflectance portions 16. The reflection-reduction layer 14 reduces reflected light advancing to the transparent material layer 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Shiseido Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Sakuma, Masayoshi Wada, Asa Kimura
  • Patent number: 7459259
    Abstract: A method of marking a thermoplastic article can comprise: combining a thermoplastic with a light-marking additive to form a composition, forming the composition into an article having a maximum optical absorption wavelength; and illuminating, at a marking wavelength, at least a portion of the article with a device having a power of less than or equal to about 200 mW, to form a light-mark. The light-mark can have a size, as measured along a major axis, of greater than or equal to about 10 micrometers. The light-mark can also have a mark absorption wavelength that is greater than or equal to about ±100 nm of the maximum optical absorption wavelength, and can have a spectral absorption curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: David B. Engel, David G. Gascoyne, Vandita Pai-Paranjape, Radislav A. Potyrailo, Philippe Schottland, Micah Sakiestewa Sze, Marc B. Wisnudel
  • Patent number: 7338619
    Abstract: A fuel cap 10 maintains high sealing even when subjected to external force; is easy to operate; and requires minimal space for accommodation. The cap device comprises a casing body 20 for closing the filler opening FNb in a sealed condition, a cover 40, a handle 45, a clutch mechanism 60 and a torque transmission mechanism 80. By upraising the handle to the handling position and applying rotational torque, rotational torque is transmitted to the casing body 20 via the clutch mechanism 60 and the torque transmission mechanism 80, closing the filler opening FNb. The handle 45 lowers back to the retracted position when released, whereupon the clutch mechanism 60 assumes non-transmission mode wherein the cover 40 and the handle 45 rotate freely if subjected to external force such as in a collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hagano, Masayuki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 7270932
    Abstract: Imaging compositions and methods of using the compositions are disclosed. The imaging compositions are sensitive to low levels of energy such that upon application of the low levels of energy the compositions change color or shade. The compositions may be used in methods of marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC
    Inventors: Robert K. Barr, James T. Fahey, Corey O'Connor, James G. Shelnut, John J. Piskorski
  • Patent number: 7247421
    Abstract: An image forming method using a photothermographic material including, on a support, at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ions, and a binder, wherein the photothermographic material includes at least two image forming layers having spectral sensitivities that are different from each other, and wherein the image forming method includes: imagewise exposing the photothermographic material by using at least two laser beams having wavelengths that are different from each other and correspond to photosensitive wavelengths of the image forming layers; and thermally developing the photothermographic material to form a fusion image made up of two or more kinds of image information. An image forming method using a photothermographic material which records a composite image made up of a silver image and a color image of different kinds of image information is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Ohzeki
  • Patent number: 7223519
    Abstract: Imaging compositions and methods of using the compositions are disclosed. The imaging compositions are sensitive to low levels of energy such that upon application of the low levels of energy the compositions change color or shade. The compositions may be applied to a work piece to mark it and removed from the work piece by peeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC
    Inventors: Robert K. Barr, Corey O'Connor
  • Patent number: 7163785
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material, including a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer, the silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide particles having a silver chloride content of more than or equal to 90 mol %, wherein a compound represented by Formula (S) is contained in the interior and on a surface of the silver halide particles and in a binder of the silver halide emulsion layer, and the silver halide particles have more than two silver halide phases therein having different concentration of the compound represented by Formula (S):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiya Kondo, Koichiro Kuroda
  • Patent number: 7150962
    Abstract: A method for forming images on a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material having a substrate and photographic structural layers thereon, including at least three silver halide color photosensitive layers having different photosensitive regions, respectively, and at least one non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer, is disclosed. At least one of the photosensitive layers contains 90 mol % or more of silver chloride. Shortly after the silver halide color photographic photosensitive material has been scan-exposed with laser beams, the material is rapid-processed with a low replenishing amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Ohshima, Akito Yokozawa, Naoya Shibata
  • Patent number: 7144676
    Abstract: Imaging compositions and methods of using the compositions are disclosed. The imaging compositions are sensitive to low levels of energy such that upon application of the low levels of energy the compositions change color or shade. The compositions may be applied to a work piece to mark it and removed from the work piece by peeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC
    Inventors: Robert K. Barr, Corey O'Connor
  • Patent number: 7008760
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least three silver halide emulsion layers different in color sensitivity from each other on a reflective support, wherein said reflective support is one selected from the group consisting of the following (a), (b) and (c): (a) the reflective support is a water-resistant resin-coated support, and at least one layer of the water-resistant resin layers between the support and the silver halide emulsion layers is a biaxially oriented polyolefin layer having micropores, (b) the reflective support is a water-resistant resin-coated support, and at least one layer of the water-resistant resin layers between the support and the silver halide emulsion layers is a biaxially oriented polyolefin layer having micropores, and between the polyolefin layer and the silver halide emulsion layers, a polyolefin layer having no micropore is provided, and (c) the reflective support is one prepared by coating onto at least the side of the emulsion-coa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Yasuaki Deguchi, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Hidekazu Sakai, Katsuyuki Takada, Yoshiro Ochiai, Shin Soejima, Kentaro Okazaki
  • Patent number: 6960426
    Abstract: This invention concerns a luminescent optical memory material and method of forming this material, including the encoding of information by a photographic process. The method involves the use of silver halide crystals of a defined size range, with the optional use of sensitizers, emulsion stabilizers, and other agents followed by the absorption of luminescent dyes on the developed silver particle to form a luminescent optical memory system. The method involves synthesis of a photographic emulsion with silver halide crystals of a defined size range, applying photographic emulsion to a substrate, exposing to light photochemical treatment and a process of transformation of the silver particles formed in the places exposed by light into luminescent particles. The method involves obtaining a multi-layer luminescent material for a three-dimensional optical memory devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: D Data Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene B. Levich, Jacob N. Malkin, Mark A. Alperovich, Boris M. Shapiro
  • Patent number: 6952435
    Abstract: The present invention contemplates a method and apparatus to generate a laser probe beam free of speckles. The present invention employs a holographic phase plate inserted in a laser beam path to modulate the relative phase across the beam. The holographic phase plate is designed to optimize the phase modulation across the beam while to minimize the degradation of the beam quality. The modulated laser beam has only a small and confined divergent angle and can then be refocused or collimated into a narrow and near collimated probe beam. The present invention further rotates the holographic phase plate to randomize the speckles in a time sequence. As a result, the probe beam preserves substantially the beam quality of a laser and produces substantially no speckles on image of its, intersection with a surface or material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Inventors: Ming Lai, Mei Juan Yuan
  • Patent number: 6916601
    Abstract: An image-forming method comprising: employing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, comprising, on a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, at least one color-mix preventing layer and at least one protective layer, wherein the said silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler includes a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of 90 mole % or more and containing at least one specific blue-sensitive sensitizing dye; and exposing the said silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material to a blue semiconductor laser of a wavelength shorter by 30 nm to 60 nm than the wavelength at which the said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion has the spectral sensitivity maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akito Yokozawa, Tatsuya Ishizaka, Katsuyuki Takada, Yoshiro Ochiai, Tetsuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6887628
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a photomask includes a step of performing a writing operation at a predetermined scanning unit in a direction in which a head of a writing system is to be scanned (Y direction) and at a predetermined overrun unit in a direction perpendicular to the scanning direction (X direction). A pattern of the photomask includes a cyclic pattern. The writing step includes a step of writing pattern units (e.g., pixel units 20) under identical overrun conditions (e.g., a grid head 17a is aligned with the left end of each pixel unit 20 such that writing is commenced from the left end of each pixel unit 20), the pattern units including identical cyclic patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Hoya Corporation
    Inventor: Fumiaki Higashi
  • Patent number: 6888663
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical component comprising a dispersion of layered minute particulate materials in a binder, the layered materials having a layer thickness, a concentration of particulate in the binder, and a basal plane spacing sufficient to provide a component having a light transmissivity of at least 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert P. Bourdelais, Narasimharao Dontula, Debasis Majumdar, Cheryl J. Kaminsky
  • Patent number: 6838230
    Abstract: A method is provided that is suitable fur use in processing a digitally exposed translucent or transparent display material. The method includes exposing a translucent or transparent material to light emitted from a light source. The material contains at least one silver halide having a silver content of at least about 1 g/m2 based on the area of the material. The method also includes contacting the material with a color developer solution comprising at least one color developing agent and a compound having the following formula (I): in which each of a and b independently represents 1 to 4, and in which each of X and Y independently represents a hydrogen, sodium or potassium atom. The duration of the step (b) is from about 60 to about 180 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Hunt Photographic Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Hai-xing Wan, Robert S. Harvey
  • Patent number: 6836076
    Abstract: A disclosed exposure device performs controlling exposing dose by gradations of {n×(m−1)+1} stages representing shadow to highlight for each color when exposing the maximum n times under a condition that every light-emitting element is exposure-gradation controlled independently at m-stages. When a silver halide photosensitive material is used as a photosensitive material, light sensitivity is high in the order of red, green and blue. The number of aligned rows of red light-emitting elements is greater than those of aligned rows of other colors for reducing the light-emitting intensity on a time-average basis for every red light-emitting element. The area of red light-emitting elements and the area of green and blue light-emitting elements are simultaneously and independently passive-matrix driven by corresponding driving circuits. Of each light-emitting element, the driving duty improves and the peak light-emitting intensity reduces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Hyuga
  • Patent number: 6803932
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus for forming a toner image including: a first light source emitting a beam corresponding to image information; a first photosensitive member; a first developing means for developing a latent image with a first toner; a second light source; a second photosensitive member; and a second developing means for developing a latent image with a second toner, in which the coloring agent contained in the first toner and the coloring agent contained in the second toner are substantially of the same hue, with the content of the coloring agent contained in the second toner being smaller than the content of the coloring agent contained in the first toner, and in which an oscillation wavelength of at least the first light source ranges from 370 to 500 nm. With the image forming apparatus structured as described above, an improvement in terms of granularity is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isami Itoh, Takeshi Ikeda, Yukio Nagase, Nobuyuki Itoh, Yasukazu Ayaki, Tomohito Ishida
  • Patent number: 6790569
    Abstract: A color photothermographic element comprising at least three light-sensitive units which have their individual sensitivities in different wavelength regions, each of the units comprising at least one light-sensitive silver-halide emulsion, binder, and dye-providing coupler, and a blocked developer in the presence of a thermal solvent represented by the following structure: wherein the groups are as defined in the specification to promote the thermal development of the photothermographic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Xiqiang Yang, Zbyslaw R. Owczarczyk, David T. Southby, Mark E. Irving, Paul B. Merkel, Lyn M. Irving, David H. Levy
  • Publication number: 20040152008
    Abstract: A method of colouring a polymeric material containing a) a latent acid, b) a colour former and c) optionally further ingredients by irradiation with UV-light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Michael Heneghan, James Philip Taylor
  • Publication number: 20040126720
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material wherein at least one of light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers includes a silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of at least 95 mol % and a silver iodide content of 0.05 mol % to 0.75 mol % and/or a silver bromide content of 0.05 mol % to 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsunaga, Tadashi Inaba, Shinichi Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20040115573
    Abstract: A photothermographic material containing a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder on at least one surface of a support, wherein silver iodide is contained in the photosensitive silver halide in an amount of 40% to 100% by mole, and the reducing agent contains a compound represented by the following formula (R-1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventor: Kouta Fukui
  • Patent number: 6746832
    Abstract: A color image forming method that includes subjecting a silver halide color photosensitive material to an exposure, and then processing it with a processing solution, wherein at least one silver halide emulsion in the silver halide layers has silver halide grains of AgClBr, AgCeI, or AgClIBr grains, having a AgCl content of 95 mol % or more, and having at least one region where a AgBr and/or AgI content is higher than the other region; the exposure is performed based on digital image data for area modulation; and the processing solution contains at least one compound represented by formula (I) or (II):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Okazaki, Takuya Yokokawa, Yasufumi Nakai
  • Publication number: 20040072109
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprising, on a reflective support, at least one yellow-coloring photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one magenta-coloring photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one cyan-coloring photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one non-photosensitive, non-coloring hydrophilic colloid layer. Reflective density A(&lgr;) at a wavelength &lgr; at an unexposed portion of the material after a color development treatment is 0.08 or less for 450 nm, 0.10 or less for 550 nm, and 0.08 or less for 650 nm. Alternatively, chromaticity at the unexposed portion of the material after the color development treatment satisfies the condition: 91≦L*≦96, 0≦a*≦2.0, −9.0≦b*≦−3.0. Also provided is a process for forming an image using the silver halide color photographic photosensitive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Makuta, Shin Soejima, Hiroyuki Yoneyama
  • Publication number: 20040053175
    Abstract: A method of developing a latent image on a photographic element (such as imagewise exposed photographic film) by absorbing a dye precursor into the film, applying a developer solution to the film to develop the latent image and form a dye in the film, scanning the film with light, and detecting at least one of light reflected away from and light transmitted through the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Michael P. Keyes, Douglas E. Corbin
  • Publication number: 20040043338
    Abstract: A thermally developable light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon light-sensitive silver halide grains, an organic silver halide salt and a reducing agent, wherein when a regression line is obtained by plotting color coordinates (u*, v*) of the thermally developable light-sensitive material at optical densities of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and the minimum density on a two dimensional coordinates of CIE 1976 (L* u* v*) color space, in which the abscissa is u* and the ordinate is v*, a coefficient of determination R2 of the regression line is from 0.998 to 1.000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Applicant: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 6696229
    Abstract: Photographic process, in which a substrate comprising a plurality of superimposed layers of photochromic materials sensitive to different light wavelengths is provided. The object to be photographed is scanned and a digital file defining the image of the object is generated from the scanning. A plurality of sources of laser light having different wavelengths, each of which is the wavelength to which one of the photochromic materials is sensitive is provided and the layers of photochromic materials are irradiated by means of the laser beams produced by the sources, according to a program determined by the digital file, whereby to develop in each pixel of the substrate the color that it has in the image. The colors thus generated in the pixels of the substrate layers; and the background areas of the substrate layers are set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Kromotek, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shlomo Dukler, Jacob Hassan, Yaron Meerfeld
  • Publication number: 20030232260
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light sensitive photographic element suitable for image capture followed by machine reading to produce a single perspective two-dimensional color image, said element comprising a two-sided support
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lyn M. Irving, Richard P. Szajewski
  • Publication number: 20030211408
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for thermal development having a receiver for receiving an imagewise exposed thermal film, an accumulator for gathering the film, a drive for advancing the film from the receiver to the accumulator, a heater located between the receiver and the accumulator for developing the film, a compound image scanner for scanning the film after it has been thermally developed, the scanner having a first light source and a first sensor placed for forming a first electronic record of the image formed on the developed film by reflection, a second light source and a second sensor placed for forming a second electronic record of the image by an opposing reflection, and a third sensor and a third light source placed for forming a third electronic record of the image formed by transmission, and a lighttight container for the receiver and the heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventors: Richard P. Szajewski, Mark E. Irving
  • Publication number: 20030203324
    Abstract: A color image forming method is disclosed, comprising exposing a silver halide color photographic material and developing the exposed photographic material at 43 to 180° C. to form a color image, wherein when the photographic material is exposed so that the light-sensitive layer has a transmission density of a minimum density plus 0.1, the light-sensitive layer comprises dye-clouds having an average diameter of 3.0 to 20.0 &mgr;m. There is also disclosed a digital image forming process, wherein image recording information of the photographic material which was formed by use of the color image forming method is converted to digital image information through an image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Noriyuki Kokeguchi, Hiroyuki Hoshino, Hiromoto Ii
  • Patent number: 6599686
    Abstract: The present invention provides a spectrally sensitized photothermographic silver halide element comprising a support layer having on at least one surface thereof a photothermographic composition which displays uniform image density across its surface when exposed to floodlight or uniform incandescent light exposure at radiation wavelengths to which the element is sensitive, said element comprising at least two layers, including a top layer and a photothermographic emulsion layer, said photothermographic emulsion layer comprising a binder, a light insensitive silver source, a reducing agent for silver ion and infrared radiation sensitive silver halide grains, wherein the coherent radiation is rendered more diffuse in its passage through the element than when it strikes the top layer. This may be accomplished at least in part by 1) the top layer of the element having haze induced therein of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas C. Geisler, Thomas J. Kub, Darlene F. Stewart, Paul C. Schubert, James C. Vanous, Mark C. Skinner
  • Publication number: 20030096175
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a photomask includes a step of performing a writing operation at a predetermined scanning unit in a direction in which a head of a writing system is to be scanned (Y direction) and at a predetermined overrun unit in a direction perpendicular to the scanning direction (X direction). A pattern of the photomask includes a cyclic pattern. The writing step includes a step of writing pattern units (e.g., pixel units 20) under identical overrun conditions (e.g., a grid head 17a is aligned with the left end of each pixel unit 20 such that writing is commenced from the left end of each pixel unit 20), the pattern units including identical cyclic patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Applicant: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fumiaki Higashi
  • Patent number: 6531271
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver-halide color photographic element comprising at least two different chromogenic couplers including, in reactive association, a multifunctional coupler and a developer precursor that liberates a developing agent enabling cyan color from the multifunctional coupler on development, wherein the multifunctional coupler has the property that it is capable of forming a distinctly colored dye with an oxidized form of the developer 4-(N-ethyl-N-2-hydroxyethyl)-2-methylphenylenediamine. In one embodiment, the multifunctional coupler has the property that it is capable of forming a distinctly colored magenta dye with an oxidized form of the developer 4-(N-ethyl-N-2-hydroxyethyl)-2-methylphenylenediamine. By means of the present invention, light-sensitive color photothermographic elements can form yellow, magenta and cyan dye records of consistent density forming ability and consistent stability in all three color records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard P. Szajewski, Lyn M. Irving
  • Patent number: 6531274
    Abstract: A radiation-sensitive emulsion comprised of silver halide grains (a) containing greater than 50 mole percent chloride, based on silver, (b) having greater than 50 percent of their surface area provided by {100} crystal faces, and (c) having a central portion accounting for up to 99 percent of total silver and containing a first dopant of Formula (I) and a second dopant of Formula (II): [RuL6]n  (I) wherein n is zero, −1, −2, −3 or −4, and L6 represents bridging ligands which can be independently selected, provided that at least four of the ligands are anionic ligands, and at least one of the ligands is a cyano ligand or a ligand more electronegative than a cyano ligand; [TE4(NZ)E′]r  (II) wherein T is Os or Ru; E4 represents bridging ligands which can be independently selected; E′ is E or NZ; r is zero, −1, −2 or −3; and Z is oxygen or sulfur; wherein the dopant of Formula (II) is selected from hexacoor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jerzy Z. Mydlarz, Woodrow G. McDugle, Raymond S. Eachus
  • Patent number: 6528241
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver-halide color photographic element comprising a multifunctional coupler enabling formation of an infrared dye on development, wherein the multifunctional coupler has the property that it is capable of forming a distinctly colored cyan dye with an oxidized form of the developer 4-(N-ethyl-N-2-hydroxyethyl)-2-methylphenylenediamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Richard P. Szajewski
  • Patent number: 6503695
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is exposed by scanning with a light beam having a pixel size of r &mgr;m for a time of not more than 10−3 seconds per pixel, and developed wherein the difference of a hwb value in thus obtained image in each of the color-forming layers and the value of r is within the range of form 0 to 50, in which the hwb is the half band width in &mgr;m of a line reproducing the line having a width of one pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Miyazawa, Junji Ito
  • Patent number: 6485897
    Abstract: This invention relates to a photographic element comprising a support having thereon light sensitive silver halide layers comprising at least one red light sensitive silver halide layer, at least one green light sensitive silver halide layer, and at least one blue sensitive silver halide layer, wherein the green light sensitive silver halide layer has an absorption spectra having a maximum absorption at a wavelength &lgr;max from 530 to 560 nm and a half bandwidth less than 50 nm; and the red light sensitive silver halide layer has an adsorption spectra having a maximum absorption at a wavelength &lgr;max from 610 to 640 nm, and exhibiting from 30 nm hypsochromic of the wavelength of maximum absorption and below an area less than 40% based on the total area of the red light sensitive silver halide layer adsorption spectra. It further relates to a method of processing said element using an electronic filmwriter device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Kristen D. Lockhart, Cheryl S. Johnston, Mark E. Johnson, David L. Fridd