Bleaching Patents (Class 430/430)
  • Patent number: 5554491
    Abstract: Color photographic elements can be effectively and rapidly bleached using acidic peroxide bleaching solutions when an alkaline prebath solution is used to activate the acidic bleaching solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Terrence R. O'Toole, Mark F. Sistare
  • Patent number: 5550009
    Abstract: Color photographic elements are bleached after exposure and development by using a peroxide bleaching solution. This solution comprises a peroxide bleaching agent, chloride ions in an amount of at least 0.35 mol/l, a first acid which is a which is an organic phosphonic acid or a salt thereof, and a second acid which is a 2-pyridinecarboxylic acid or 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid, or a salt thereof. The bleaching solution is stabilized by the presence of the two sequestering acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Shirleyanne E. Haye, Mayra B. Reyes
  • Patent number: 5550010
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a color photographic processing method, and a product for color photography comprising, in addition to the conventional layers of light-sensitive silver halides, a non light-sensitive top layer.The method and photographic product enable sensitivity to be controlled during photographic processing.The invention also makes it possible to prevent deterioration of the processing baths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Fran.cedilla.ois J. Bredoux, Yannick Begel, Henri Freisz
  • Patent number: 5547817
    Abstract: Photographic processing using an additive represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic ring group; R.sub.2 is hydrogen, an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic ring group; L.sub.1, L.sub.2, L.sub.3, L.sub.4 and L.sub.5 are independently an alkylene group; m and n are independently 0 or 1; W.sup.1 and W.sup.2 are independently an alkylene group, an arylene group, aralkylene group or a divalent nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring group; D is a single bond, --O--, --S-- or --N(R.sub.w), where R.sub.2 is hydrogen, an aliphatic hydrocarbon group or an aryl group; v is 0 or an integer or from 1 to 3; w is an integer of from 1 to 3; and M.sub.1, M.sub.2, M.sub.3 and M.sub.4 are independently hydrogen or a cation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Okada, Tadashi Inaba, Ryo Suzuki, Hideaki Nomura
  • Patent number: 5547816
    Abstract: A method of photographic color processing which comprises a bleach step wherein the bleach solution comprises hydrogen peroxide, or a compound which releases hydrogen peroxide, and halide ions and which has a pH in the range of 5 to 11 and bleach solutions therefore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John R. Fyson, Peter D. Marsden
  • Patent number: 5541041
    Abstract: Color photographic elements are bleached after exposure and development by using a peroxide bleaching solution. This solution comprises a peroxide bleaching agent, chloride ions in an amount of at least 0.35 mol/l, a first acid which is an organic phosphonic acid and a second acid which is a polyaminocarboxylic acid having one or more secondary amines at a pH of 8 to 11. The bleaching solution is stabilized by the presence of the two acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Shirleyanne E. Haye
  • Patent number: 5536625
    Abstract: This invention provides an accelerator for peracid bleaches used for bleaching silver halide photographic elements. The accelerator is a complex of ferric (Fe III) ion and a 2-pyridinecarboxylic acid or a 2,6-pyridinecarboxylic acid. The accelerator may be contained in the bleaching solution, a solution preceding the bleaching solution or in the photographic elements themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John M. Buchanan, Stuart T. Gordon, Keith H. Stephen, Richard P. Szajewski, Sidney J. Bertucci
  • Patent number: 5534395
    Abstract: A method of processing a silver halide color photographic material by processing with a color developing solution an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and immediately thereafter processing said photographic material with a bleach-fixing solution, wherein said bleach-fixing solution contains an imidazole compound represented by the following formula (.alpha.) and the replenishment rate of said bleach-fixing solution is 200 ml or less per m.sup.2 of the photographic material: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, a hydroxyalkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or an alkenyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsushige Kamada, Kazuaki Yoshida
  • 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: 5521056
    Abstract: A photographic peracid bleaching composition contains a peracid bleaching agent, and a water-soluble ternary complex of ferric ion, a polycarboxylate ligand, and a second ligand which has at least one carboxyl group on an aromatic nitrogen heterocycle, such as a pyridinecarboxylic acid. These complexes act as catalysts for the peracid bleaching agent. Preferred complexes are biodegradable, but all of the ternary complexes can be used in a variety of peracid bleaching processes to good advantage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John M. Buchanan, Eric R. Brown, Stuart T. Gordon
  • Patent number: 5510232
    Abstract: Certain cationic hydroquinones are useful catalysts for persulfate bleaching agents in photographic processing methods. These compounds are oxidizable by persulfate and reducible by silver metal at a pH of from 1 to 7, and have a chemically reversible redox couple of from about -0.20 to about +1.5 volts. The persulate bleaching ability is enhanced by the presence of these compounds which are used in a step prior to bleaching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Terrence R. O'Toole
  • Patent number: 5508150
    Abstract: A method of processing an image wise exposed and developed silver halide photographic element comprising bleaching the photographic element in a bleaching or bleach-fixing solution containing as the primary bleaching agent a complex of ferric ion and a tridentate or a tetradentate ligand, and then processing the photographic element in a solution containing a chelating compound represented by Formula IHOOC(CH.sub.2).sub.m (X) ((CH.sub.2).sub.n COOH).sub.2 (I)whereX is N, or C--OH;n and m are independently 0, 1, or 2; andM is a cationic ion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Mary E. Craver, Janet M. Huston, Robert J. Opitz
  • Patent number: 5508151
    Abstract: Copper (II) ligand complexes are useful to catalyze the activity of peracid bleaching agents. The complexes can be included in the bleaching solutions, or used in a suitable solution prior to the bleaching step. The ligands are .alpha.-diimines having sites available to complex with copper (II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Terrence R. O'Toole, Mark F. Sistare, Eric R. Schmittou
  • Patent number: 5500330
    Abstract: A photographic element comprises at least three light sensitive silver halide layers spectrally sensitized to the same region of the electromagnetic spectrum wherein the least sensitive such layer, or a nonsensitive layer adjacent thereto, comprises a compound which contains a releasable thiol fragment or a precursor thereof wherein:A. the amount of the thiol-containing compound or precursor contained in such layers is both sufficient to increase the extent of silver bleaching during bleaching and is greater than the amount contained in any of the more sensitive layers of the same sensitivity; andB. the thiol fragment contains a sulfur atom which is not directly bonded to an aromatic atom and contains a water-solubilizing group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard P. Szajewski, Allan F. Sowinski
  • Patent number: 5464728
    Abstract: This invention provides a method of processing a developed high iodide color silver halide photographic element by bleaching the element with a peracid bleach and fixing the element with a fixer containing sodium cation and thiosulfate, wherein the amount of ammonium ion in the fixer is less than 1.4M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard P. Szajewski, John M. Buchanan
  • Patent number: 5460924
    Abstract: This invention provides an accelerator for peracid bleaches used for bleaching silver halide photographic elements. The accelerator is a complex of ferric (Fe III) ion and a 2-pyridinecarboxylic acid or a 2,6-pyridinecarboxylic acid. The accelerator may be contained in the bleaching solution, a solution preceding the bleaching solution or in the photographic elements themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John M. Buchanan, Stuart T. Gordon, Keith H. Stephen, Richard P. Szajewski, Sidney J. Bertucci
  • Patent number: 5453348
    Abstract: An image forming method for silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The method is excellent in stability and rapidness of processing. And in the photographic color image formed by the method, staine formation due to storage is inhibited in unimaged area of the picture. The method is comprises steps of developing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material with a color developer, bleaching with a bleaching solution, immediately after the developing step, and treating, after the bleaching step, with a solution having fixing capability. The bleaching solution contains a ferric complex salt of a compound represented by the following formula A, and the solution having fixing capability contains at least one of thiocyanate and an iodide in a total amount of not less than 0.5 mol per liter of the solution, ##STR1## wherein A, through A.sub.4 are each a --CH.sub.2 OH group, a --COOM group or a --PO.sub.3 M.sup.1 M.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Kuse, Masao Ishikawa, Shigeharu Koboshi
  • Patent number: 5451491
    Abstract: A method of desilvering an imagewise and developed color silver halide element, said method comprising bleaching the photographic element with a peracid bleach and subsequently contacting the photographic element with a fixer solution comprising thiosulfate anion and sodium cation;wherein the Molar-minute fixing Time is less than about 0.2 Molar-minutes.times.m.sup.2 /g Ag.times.the grams of incorporated silver per square meter of the photographic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard P. Szajewski, John M. Buchanan
  • Patent number: 5449593
    Abstract: A processing solution for a silver halide color photographic material, said solution containing at least one kind of compound represented by formula (I), (II), or (III); ##STR1## the substituents are defined in the instant specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Hiroshi Kawamoto, Shigeru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5447821
    Abstract: A reducer containing a ferric chelate compound of an amino compound and further containing an reduction accelerator and/or a complex-forming agent and a dye. ##STR1## wherein A.sub.41, A.sub.42 and A.sub.43 each individually represents a carboxyl group, a phosphono group, a sulfo group or a hydroxyl group; L.sub.41 and L.sub.42 each individually represents a divalent coupling group containing an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group or combinations thereof; R.sub.41 represents a substituent; and a represents 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. The reducer is superior in the rate of reduction, reducibility and reduction working properties and so stable that no precipitate will separate out with time. Also disclosed is a silver image reducing method wherein a silver image formed by exposing and developing a silver halide photosensitive material is reduced in the presence of the above-described reducer. The reducer and the reducing method are suitable for application to high-contrast photosensitive materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Okada, Morio Yagihara, Katsumi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5445925
    Abstract: A color image can be obtained from a color photographic element by multiple color development steps. The first color development is carried out in the usual manner after imagewise exposure. The second color development step is carried out after bleaching with a rehalogenating bleaching agent, and is used to develop only rehalogenated silver halide. This specific development is possible by either using a chloride rehalogenating agent in the bleaching solution, using a sulfite fixing agent before bleaching, or by fogging the element between bleaching and the second color development step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Peter D. Marsden, Gareth B. Evans
  • Patent number: 5443943
    Abstract: Unique imagewise exposed and developed originating color silver halide photographic elements can be processed with bleaching and/or fixing solutions. The element is characterized by several important features. It contains a silver halide grain population of at least 50 mole percent chloride, based on total silver forming the grain population projected area, wherein at least 50 percent of total grain projected area is accounted for by intrinsically stable tabular grains (1) bounded by {100} major faces having adjacent edge ratios of less than 10, and (2) an aspect ratio of at least 2. Also, at least 50 mole % of the element silver halide is silver chloride, and no more than 2 mole % silver iodide. It also contains a bleach accelerator releasing compound. The element is also free of a desilvering rate retarding amount of a development inhibitor releasing compound having a free sulfur valence which binds to silver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard P. Szajewski, John M. Buchanan
  • Patent number: 5434035
    Abstract: A method of treating a seasoned fixing solution comprising desilvering a fixing solution containing a chelating compound represented by Formula IMOOC(CH.sub.2)m(X)p((CH.sub.2).sub.n COOM).sub.q (I)where X is N, or C--OH;n and m are independently 0, 1, or 2;if X is N then p is 0 or 1 and q is 1 or 2;if X is C-OH then p is 0, 1 or 2 and q is 1 or 2; andM is a cationic counterion; andfurther containing a carryover amount of a bleaching agent which is a complex of ferric ion and a tridentate or a tetradentate ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Mary E. Craver, Manuel A. Santos-Rosario, Keith H. Stephen
  • Patent number: 5409804
    Abstract: A Photographic processing composition and a processing method using the same, wherein the composition contains a compound represented by formula (I) or a chelating compound of Fe(III) , M.sub.n (III), Co(III), Rh(II), Rh(III), Au(II), Au(III) or Ce(IV) and a compound represented by formula (I); ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1, X.sub.2, and X.sub.3 each represents a hydrogen atom, --L--COOM, or ##STR2## at least one of X.sub.1, X.sub.2, and X.sub.3 represents ##STR3## represents a carbon atomic group necessary for forming an aryl group; R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group; R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an acrylamino group, an alkylsulfonylamino group, an arylsulfonylamino group, a ureido group, an alkoxycarbonylamino group, an aryloxycarbonylamino group, a sulfamoyl group, a carbamoyl group, an alkylthio group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, an alkylsulfinyl group, an arylsulfinyl group, a hydroxy group, a halogen atom, a cyano group, --SO.sub.3 M.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Inaba, Hisashi Okada, Hiroyuki Seki
  • 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: 5397687
    Abstract: The preparation of x-ray materials, especially suitable for non-destructive testing applications, is described. The emulsion layers of said material are comprising silver halide emulsion grains containing at least 75 mole % of silver chloride and less than 25 mole % of silver bromide and are characterized by a ratio between the amount of gelatin and the amount of silver halide, being expressed as the equivalent amount of silver nitrate, of less than 0.6. Hardening of said material is performed in such a way that the amount of demineralized water of 25.degree. C. absorbed in 3 minutes is less than 2.5 g per gram of gelatin present in said material. A rapid processing system is available with a total processing time of less than 3 minutes with a developer and fixer being substantially free from hardening agents and the fixer being substantially free from ammonium ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Peter Willems, Freddy Henderickx, Gino De Rycke, Romain Bollen
  • Patent number: 5391466
    Abstract: A method and chemical composition for bleaching or bleach fixing exposed and developed silver halide photographic light-sensitive material using a ferric complex salt of a compound represented by the following Formula I, II, III, IV, V, VI or VII: ##STR1##(R.sub.1)(R.sub.2)N--X.sub.1 --(Z--X.sub.2).sub.n --N(R.sub.3)(R.sub.4)(III)(R.sub.1)HN--X.sub.1 --(Z--X.sub.2).sub.n --NH(R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Ueda, Kenji Kuwae
  • Patent number: 5384233
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic processing chemicals kit comprising a processing agent and a flexible container formed of multilayer film. The chemicals kit provide a photographic processing chemicals packaging material capable of protecting the photographic processing characteristics of its content against any storage conditions accompanied by a high temperature or vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Kuse, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Haraguchi, Hiroshi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 5380626
    Abstract: A method for forming an image in a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, which comprises imagewise exposing the silver halide color photographic material, color developing the exposed material and then subjecting the developed material to a desilverization treatment, wherein the desilverization treatment is carried out using a processing solution having a bleaching ability and containing at least one of an amidine compound or a bisguanidine compound and a ferric salt of an organic acid, and also a method for processing a silver halide photographic material wherein processing is additionally carried out in the presence of a stilbene fluorescent brightener using a desilverization bath containing at least one of an amidine compound or a bisguanidine compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Nakamura, Yoshiharu Yabuki
  • Patent number: 5366853
    Abstract: A tablet-shaped bleaching agent for preparing a bleaching solution for color silver halide photographic materials is disclosed, along with the method of making it, the method of using it to prepare a bleaching solution, and the method of processing a color silver halide photographic material using a replenishing solution made from the tablet as a bleaching solution. The tablet has a bulk density of 1.00 to 3.00 g/cm.sup.3, and a total ammonium content of no more that 50 mol % of the total cation content in the tablet. The tablet comprises a ferric complex salt of a compound represented by Formula (L) and an organic polyacid according to Formula (C). In Formula (L), A.sub.1-4 each represent --CH.sub.2 OH, --COOM, or --PO.sub.3 M.sub.1 M.sub.2, and X represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group of 3-6 carbon atoms. In Formula (C), A.sub.5 represents an organic group, and n is an integer of not less than 2. ##STR1## Formula (C) A.sub.5 --(COOM).sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 5360700
    Abstract: A process for developing and its after-treatment of an exposed silver halide photographic material which is capable of replacing a step of rinsing by water washing and a step of final stabilization by formaldehyde, with a single stabilizing step without water rinsing followed by directly to a drying step is disclosed.The process comprises a solution capable of bleaching containing a ferric complex salt of organic acid, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid and a like, and a stabilizing solution containing a certain aldehyde compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Kawamura, Shigeharu Koboshi
  • Patent number: 5354647
    Abstract: The invention provides a bleach fix agent comprising a dilute solution of an alkaline metal or ammonium thiosulphite or a mixture thereof and iron (III) EDTA together with a soluble sulphite. The invention is characterized in that the soluble sulphite is present in an excess of the amount required for stabilization whereby the sulphite can be sacrificially destroyed by oxidizing agents in use thereby to neutralize the oxidizing effects upon the thiosulphate. The invention is particularly suitable for "RX" processes and results in the possibility of eliminating the stop-bath without allowing staining of the photographic material to occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: John R. Fyson
  • Patent number: 5352568
    Abstract: A processing method for silver halide color photographic material and a bleaching solution used in the processing are disclosed. Sufficient desilvering in a short time and prevention of bleaching fogging can be obtained by the process. The process is applicable for silver-rich high-sensitivity color light-sensitive material. The bleaching solution comprises a of a ferric complex salts of compounds represented by the following Formula A or B in an amount of at least 0.01 mol per liter of the bleaching solution and a buffer agent capable of adjusting pH value to 3 to 7; and pH value of the bleaching solution is held within the range of from 3 to 7; ##STR1## wherein A.sub.1 through A.sub.4 are each --CH.sub.2 OH, --COOM, or --PO.sub.3 M.sub.1 M.sub.2 ; M, M.sub.1 and M.sub.3 are each a hydrogen atom, a sodium atom, a potassium atom or an ammonium group; X is a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group having three to six carbon atoms; B.sub.1 and B.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Kuse, Masao Ishikawa, Shigeharu Koboshi, Masayuki Kurematsu
  • Patent number: 5352567
    Abstract: A novel method for processing a silver halide color photographic material which comprises color developing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material and then processing the material with a having a bleaching ability containing at least one bleaching agent a ferric complex of a compound represented by at least one of formula (I) and formula (II): ##STR1## wherein W.sup.1 represents an alkylene group containing 3 or less carbon atoms in total; L.sup.1, L.sup.2, L.sup.3 and L.sup.4 each represents an alkylene or arylene group; and M.sub.1 to M.sub.6 each represents a hydrogen atom or a cation; ##STR2## wherein W.sup.2 represents an alkylene group having 2 to 8 carbon atoms, an arylene group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, cyclohexane group, ##STR3## (in which W.sup.21 and W.sup.22 each represents an alkylene group, and m represents an integer of 1 to 3, and A represents a hydrogen atom, hydrocarbon group, --L.sub.A --COOM, --L.sub.A --PO.sub.3 M.sub.2, --L.sub.A --OH or --L.sub.A --SO.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Okada, Tadashi Inaba, Morio Yagihara
  • Patent number: 5350668
    Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer which comprises subjecting the silver halide color photographic material to imagewise exposure and color development, and then processing with a processing solution having bleaching ability, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide grains having a composition such that tabular silver iodobromide grains having an aspect ratio of not higher than 3 account for at least 50% of the entire projected area of the silver halide grains, and the processing solution having bleaching ability contains as a bleaching agent an iron (III) complex salt of a compound having the described structural formula, used in a concentration of 0.01 to 0.17 mol/liter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Abe, Hiroyuki Seki, Hisashi Okada, Tadashi Inaba
  • Patent number: 5338649
    Abstract: A process for bleaching or bleach-fixing an imagewise exposed silver halide photographic material is provided, comprising developing in a color developing solution and bleaching or bleach-fixing in a processing composition having a bleaching capacity containing as a bleaching agent a metal chelate compound of a chelate-forming compound or salt thereof and a metal ion selected from the group consisting of Fe(III), Mn(III), Co(III), Rh(II), Rh(III), Au(II), Au(III) and Ce(IV), the chelate-forming compound or salt thereof is represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein G.sub.1 and G.sub.2 each represents a carboxyl group, a phosphono group, a sulfo group, a hydroxyl group, a mercapto group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkylthio group, an amidino group, a guanidino group or a carbamoyl group; L.sub.1, L.sub.2 and L.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Inaba, Hisashi Okada, Ryo Suzuki, Yasuhiro Katsuoka, Hiroyuki Seki
  • Patent number: 5334469
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of extracting two or more spectral image records from an imagewise exposed multicolor photographic element containing a plurality of tabular grain emulsions for individually recording imagewise exposure in at least two different regions of the visible spectrum. In each of the tabular grain emulsions tabular grains exhibiting a mean equivalent circular diameter of greater than 0.4 micrometer and a mean thickness of less than 0.2 micrometer account for greater than 90 percent of total grain projected area. No more than one of the tabular grain emulsions exhibits a mean tabular grain thickness of less than 0.07 micrometers, and each of tile remaining tabular grain emulsions exhibit a coefficient of variation of tabular grain thickness of less than 15 percent. The mean tabular grain thickness of emulsions for recording imagewise exposure to different regions of the visible spectrum differs by at least 0.02 micrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James E. Sutton, John Gasper, Allen K. Tsaur, Ann Tarn
  • Patent number: 5334491
    Abstract: Bleach compositions and methods that are improvements over those provided by Fyson, U.S. Pat. No. 4,294,914, are disclosed. A highly preferred bleach composition of this invention (a) has the ferric complex of methyliminodiacetic acid as a bleaching agent, and additionally comprises (b) at least 0.9 mole of acetic acid per liter, (c) from about 15 to about 35 grams per liter of potassium bromide; and (d) has a pH of from about 2.5 to about 4.0.This invention includes the discovery of a synergistic bleaching coaction of a bleach (i) comprising an alkyliminodiacetic acid such as methyliminodiacetic acid, and (ii) which has a pH of from about 3.5 to about 4.5 , and (iii) in which the amount of ferric iron is from about 2 to about 16 grams per liter. This coaction between iron levels and pH was previously unknown and was unexpected.Bleach formulations of this invention can be used in the processing of color photographic materials, such as film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David G. Foster, Keith H. Stephen, Mary E. Craver
  • Patent number: 5318880
    Abstract: This invention provides a method of processing a negative color silver halide photographic element comprising taking an exposed color silver halide photographic element with a speed greater than ISO 180 or containing at least one spectrally sensitized silver halide emulsion with a tabularity greater than 100, wherein the photographic element comprises a total amount of incorporated silver and incorporated vehicle of 20 g/m.sup.2 film or less; developing the exposed photographic material; and bleaching the exposed, developed photographic element with a peracid bleach in the presence of a bleach accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Daniel R. English, Richard P. Szajewski
  • Patent number: 5316898
    Abstract: A solid composition for bleaching an exposed and developed silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material and processing method thereof. The composition contains at least one kind of ferric complex salt and is in the form of a tablet having a bulk density of 1.0 to 2.5 g/cm.sup.3. The composition provides excellent solubility and preservability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Ueda, Hiroshi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 5300408
    Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material, which comprises processing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material with a processing solution containing at least one chelate compound of a metal salt selected from the group consisting of salts of Fe(III), Mn(III), Co(III), Rh(II), Rh(III), Au(II), Au(III) and Ce(IV) with an organic acid represented by following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Z represents a nonmetallic atom group required to form a heterocyclic group; R represents a substituent; n represents 0 or an integer of from 1 to 10; Q.sub.1, Q.sub.2 and Q.sub.3 each represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic hydrocarbon group substituted by a carboxyl group, an aromatic hydrocarbon group substituted by a carboxyl group or a heterocyclic group substituted by a carboxyl group; and W represents a divalent linkage group containing at least one of an alkylene group or an arylene group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Okada, Tadashi Inaba
  • 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: 5298368
    Abstract: Photographic coupler compositions comprise (a) a pyrazolone magenta dye-forming coupler compound, and (b) a sulfoxide compound in an amount sufficient to reduce continued coupling of the coupler compound during the bleach step of a color photographic process. The sulfoxide compound is of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are individually selected from the group consisting of straight and branched chain alkyl groups, alkenyl groups and alkylene groups; straight and branched chain alkyl groups, alkenyl groups and alkylene groups containing at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of alkoxy, aryloxy, aryl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, acyloxy, carbonamido and carbamoyl groups and halogen atoms; a phenyl group; and a phenyl group containing at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, aryl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, acyloxy, carbonamido and carbamoyl groups and halogen atoms. Additionally, R.sub.1 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, Edward Schofield, Stephen P. Singer
  • Patent number: 5272044
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material comprising a compound represented by the general formula (I), (II), or a salt thereof or a compound represented by the general formula (III), with these groups being defined as in the specification: ##STR1## also disclosed is a method for the processing of a silver halide photographic material, which comprises processing a silver halide photographic material in the presence of a compound represented by the general formula (I) or (II) or a salt thereof or a compound represented by the general formula (III).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junji Nishigaki, Akihiko Ikegawa, Masaki Okazaki, Minoru Yamada, Nobuhiko Uchino
  • Patent number: 5270148
    Abstract: A processing solution for a silver halide color photographic material, wherein said solution contains at least one kind of a compound represented by formula (I) and at least one kind of a compound represented by formula (A); ##STR1## wherein X represents a nonmetallic atomic group necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic ring; ##STR2## wherein X.sub.0 represents a non metallic atomic group necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic ring; and R.sub.a and R.sub.b, which may be same or different, each represents an alkyl group or an alkenyl group and R.sub.a and R.sub.b may be bonded each other to form a 4- to 8-membered ring, and a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material with the above processing solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Shigeru Nakamura, Yoshihiro Fujita, Hiroshi Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 5266449
    Abstract: A bleaching bath for processing of a color photographic silver halide material which contains the ferric complex of alaninediacetic acid as the bleaching agent and in a dye-stabilizing amount a formaldehyde precursor of the formula ##STR1## wherein X and Y denote the residual atoms of a hetero aromatic 5- or 6-membered ring,yields color photographic images with excellent dye-stabilizing. In the atmosphere above the stabilizing bath no formaldehyde is detectable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Christa Dacke, Heinrich Odenwalder, Hans Langen
  • Patent number: 5256531
    Abstract: A photographic processing composition containing at least one compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; and L.sub.1 represents an alkylene group or an arylene group. Also disclosed a processing composition for a silver halide color photographic material containing a metal chelate compound formed from a compound represented by formula (I) and a metal salt selected from salts of Fe(III), Mn(III), Co(III), Rh(II), Rh(III), Au(III), Au(II) and Ce(IV). A method is also disclosed for processing a silver halide photographic material with the processing compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Okada, Shigeru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5254442
    Abstract: A method of processing silver halide color photographic material is disclosed. The process comprises a step of color development, a step of processing with a processor having a bleaching power and a step of stabilization, wherein an air-time ratio at a step of color development, or a step of processing with a processor having a bleaching power is 15 to 65%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Kuse, Sigeharu Koboshi, Masayuki Kurematsu
  • Patent number: 5250401
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material, which comprises the steps of:image-wise exposing a silver halide color photographic material,color developing the image-wise exposed silver halide photographic material, andprocessing the color developed silver halide photographic material, in the presence of a processing composition containing a metal chelating compound formed by a compound represented by following formula (I) and a salt of a metal belonging to group Ib, IIb, IIIb,IVb, Vb, VIb, VIIb, or VIII of the Periodic Table: ##STR1## wherein Z represents a heterocyclic group; L represents a divalent linkage group; R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 each represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group; and n represents 0 or 1. Also disclosed is the processing composition used in the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Okada, Morio Yagihara, Tadashi Inaba, Hiroyuki Seki
  • Patent number: 5250402
    Abstract: A photographic processing composition for processing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material. The composition contains at least one metal chelating compound formed from a metal salt of Fe(III) and a monoamine compound or salt thereof represented by formula (I-a') or (I-b'): ##STR1## wherein R represents a substituent; Q represents a group of non-metal atoms necessary to form a heterocyclic ring; X and Y each represents a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom; L.sub.1 ' and L.sub.2 ' each represents an alkylene group; M.sub.1, M.sub.2, M.sub.3 each represents a hydrogen atom or a cation; and u represents 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Okada, Tadashi Inaba, Morio Yagihara