Developing Inhibitor Or Processing Ingredient Containing Patents (Class 430/505)
  • Patent number: 5547824
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which contains an emulsion in which the silver iodide surface content of the silver halide grains is less than the average silver iodide content of the grains. The material also contains a compound capable of releasing two photographically useful groups through at least one timing group and/or a compound capable of releasing a photographically useful group through two timing groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Atsuhiro Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 5547818
    Abstract: A color photographic print material with the usual three different sensitized silver halide emulsion layers and at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing no color coupler (control layer) with a spectral sensitization range outside the sensitization range of the image-producing layers, wherein the control layer contains a substance A, which, on negative development of the silver halide emulsion used in the control layer (control emulsion), releases a compound B which alters the gradation of the image-producing layers, is usable as a print material with variable gradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Otto Lapp, Arno Schmuck, Wolfgang Schmidt, J org Siegel
  • Patent number: 5545513
    Abstract: A multilayered color photographic element contains a support having coated thereon photographic silver halide emulsion layers including at least three layers each having the same spectral sensitivity but having, respectively, the most, mid, and least light sensitivity wherein the most and mid sensitive layers are contiguous and the most sensitive layer is extremely starved of image dye-forming coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Larry D. Edwards
  • Patent number: 5543277
    Abstract: An improved photographic element comprises a support bearing at least-one silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a hydrazide compound that functions as a scavenger for oxidized developing agent. The hydrazide compound comprises at least one polyhydroxy aromatic nucleus or a precursor thereof and at least one moiety containing an ##STR1## group which is bonded to a ring carbon atom of the polyhydroxy aromatic nucleus or precursor thereof through a linking group. The linking group can be an oxy, thio, sulfinyl, sulfonyl or alkylene group or it can be a carbonyl group when the polyhydroxy aromatic nucleus comprises at least three hydroxyl groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Stephen P. Singer, John W. Harder
  • Patent number: 5543276
    Abstract: Thermal and photochemical yellowing of a color photographic element, such as a color print, is inhibited by incorporating into the photographic element an ionizable epoxy compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R is H, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, or substituted aryl;L.sub.1 is alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, or substituted aryl;L.sub.2 is O, CO, S, SO.sub.2, PO.sub.2, C(O)O, NHCO or NHSO.sub.2 ;L.sub.3 is alkyl or substituted alkyl;m is 0 or 1;p is 0 or 1;X is selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## wherein: R' is H, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl or substituted aryl,or, if L.sub.2 comprises an ionizable group, X is alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl or substituted aryl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Krishnan Chari, Wendell F. Smith, Jr., Paul P. Spara, Sundaram Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 5541040
    Abstract: Disclosed is a positive type color light sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a mainly yellow image forming layer, a mainly magenta image forming layer and a mainly cyan image forming layer;wherein, when an exposure quantity-gives minimum density of +0.2 on a first layer selected from said three layer after developing in the main spectra sensitivity region of the first layer, a second layer selected from said three layers is given lower density with said exposure than a density without said exposure.The positive type color light sensitive material is capable of providing a color proof improved in the approximation degrees of an image quality to a printed printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Okawauchi, Yasuo Tosaka, Yoshiyuki Nonaka, Keiichi Hoshino
  • Patent number: 5541050
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer formed on a support containing light-sensitive silver halide grains which have been chemically sensitized by at least one of a selenium sensitizer, a gold sensitizer and a sulfur sensitizer and at least one of the layers of the material contains a compound represented by the following formula (I) and/or a compound represented by the following formula (II) in which A is a coupler residue or a redox group, L.sub.1 and L.sub.3 are divalent timing groups, L.sub.2 is a timing group with a valency of 3 or more, PUG is a photographically useful group, j and n are integers, each of 0 to 2, m is 1 or 2, s is 2 or a greater integer obtained by subtracting 1 from the valence of L.sub.2, L.sub.4 is --OCO-- group, and L.sub.5 is a group which releases PUG by electron transfer along a conjugated system.Formula (I)A'--(L.sub.1).sub.j --(L.sub.2).sub.m --[(L.sub.3).sub.n --PUG].sub.8Formula (II)A--L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Mikio Ihama
  • Patent number: 5541044
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one layer of said photographic material contains at least one yellow coupler represented by the following general formulas (3) or (2): ##STR1## as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Yamamoto, Shigeo Hirano, Akira Ogawa, Kouichi Hanaki
  • Patent number: 5541045
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material containing at least one pyrazolotriazole magenta of formula (I) and at least one 1,3,5-triazine compound of formula (II) in the same photographic constitutive layer. ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Za, Zb and Zc each represent a methine group, a substituted methine group, .dbd.N-- or --NH--; Y represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off from the formula by coupling reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent; and the formula may form a dimer or a higher polymer via R, Y or the substituted methine group for Za, Zb or Zc. ##STR2## wherein A, B and C each represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy, substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy or substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, provided that at least one of A, B and C represents a group of a general formula (III): ##STR3## wherein R.sub.1 ' and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5538836
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having an excellent color reproducibility, high sensitivity and excellent graininess.The silver halide color photographic material contains at least one of each blue-sensitive emulsion, green-sensitive emulsion, red-sensitive emulsion layer and hydrophilic colloid layers, in which the hydrophilic colloid layer contains a compound of formula (I) and the silver halide emulsion layer, which gives an interlayer effect to said red-sensitive layer, contains a silver halide emulsion spectrally sensitized with a compound represented by formulae (II) and (III).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumitaka Ueda, Junji Nishigaki, Tetsuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5538838
    Abstract: The present invention provides a silver halide color photographic material having an excellent color reproducibility and preservability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Suga, Junji Nishigaki
  • Patent number: 5538837
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which causes less fluctuation in the photographic processing activity of a processing solution in continuously processing the light-sensitive material and which has less unevenness in processing and excellent color reproducibility and sharpness. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support, and provided thereon at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer, and at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer, and containing a coupler represented by the following Formula (I) and a coupler represented by the following Formula (II):Formula (I)A.sub.1 -(TIME).sub.a -DIFormula (II)A.sub.2 -(TIME).sub.a -DIwherein A.sub.1 represents a group having an anti-diffusion group and releasing (TIME).sub.a -DI upon a reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; A.sub.2 represents a group having no anti-diffusion group and releasing (TIME).sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Seiji Ichijima, Toshio Kawagishi
  • 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: 5518870
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a yellow coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer, wherein each silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of not lower than 90 mol %, a yellow coupler in said yellow coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer is coated in an amount of at least 1.1 mmol/m.sup.2, oil/coupler ratio by weight in the yellow coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer is 0.32 or less and the magenta coupler-containing layer contains at least one magenta coupler represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 5514529
    Abstract: A light-sensitive material having at least one emulsion layer containing silver halide grains, wherein tabular grains having an average aspect ratio of 2 or more occupy at least 50% of the total projected area of all grains, and the material contains a compound which releases two photographically useful groups from one molecule through a timing group and/or a compound which releases a photographically useful group through two timing groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Atsuhiro Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 5512103
    Abstract: The invention provides a cyan color producing silver halide emulsion layer or a magenta color producing silver halide emulsion layer wherein said at least one layer has an exposure range of at least 0.6 log E from the point where the instantaneous contrast is 1.0 and wherein the instantaneous contrast of said layer increases as a function of increasing exposure over at least 70 percent of said exposure range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James L. Edwards, Eric L. Bell, Benjamin T. Chen, Richard L. Parton
  • Patent number: 5508156
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material. The photographic material comprises a support having thereon at least a silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains, which grains have a silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more and are subjected to selenium, tellurium or gold sensitization, wherein the photographic material further contains a specific dye, and wherein the photographic material preferably has the pH value of the coated film of no more than 6.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 5508147
    Abstract: Yellowing of a processed photographic element is inhibited by incorporating a scavenger comound capable of reacting with magenta coupler, e.g. an epoxy compound, in a layer adjacent a layer containing the magenta coupler. In a preferred embodiment, the magenta coupler containing layer is sandwiched between layers containing the scavenger compound. Prior to processing at least one of these layers contains a solubilizing agent for the scavenger compound. In preferred embodiments, the processing solution used to process the photographic element containing an external solubilizing agent for the scavenger compound, preferably benzyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Krishnan Chari, Wendell F. Smith, Sundaram Krishnamurthy
  • 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: 5498513
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive emulsion layer comprising a DIR coupler which is represented by general formula (I) below and a compound which is represented by general formula (R-1) below; ##STR1## wherein A represents a coupler residual group, n represents an integer of 0 or 1 with the proviso that when A represents a phenol type or naphthol type coupler residual group then n is 1, and when A represents some other coupler residual group then n is 0, and R represents an alkyl group which has from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a pyridyl group;A-(L.sub.1).sub.v -B-(L.sub.2).sub.w -INH-HYD Formula (R-I)wherein A represents a group which reacts with the oxidized form of the developing agent and cleaves (L.sub.1).sub.v -B-(L.sub.2).sub.w -INH-HYD, L.sub.1 represents a group which cleaves the bond with B after cleavage of the bond with A, B represents a group which reacts with the oxidized form of a developing agent and cleaves (L.sub.2).sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Atsuhiro Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 5496689
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising:(a) a support,(b) at least three silver halide photosensitive emulsion layers on said support, where(i) each of said at least three photosensitive layers has spectral sensitivity peaks in three different light wavelength regions of not smaller than 650 nm, and(ii) said the photosensitive layer contains a cyan coupler, the other photosensitive layer contains a magenta coupler and the another photosensitive layer contains a yellow coupler, and(c) silver halide of said at least three photosensitive emulsion layers comprises silver chloride or silver chlorobromide containing at least 96 mol% silver chloride, where grains of silver halide of at least one of said three layers further contain from 0.01 to 3 mol% of silver iodide (based on the amount of silver halide in the emulsion) on the grain surface or sub-surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 5492797
    Abstract: Disclosed is a direct positive silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and provided thereon, a blue-sensitive emulsion layer containing previously unfogged internal latent image-forming silver halide grains having a spectral sensitivity to blue-light, a green-sensitive emulsion layer containing previously unfogged internal latent image-forming silver halide grains having a spectral sensitivity to green-light, a red-sensitive emulsion layer containing previously unfogged internal latent image-forming silver halide grains having a spectral sensitivity to red-light and a hydrophilic colloidal layer, wherein said blue-sensitive emulsion layer is provided so as to be located farther than both said green-sensitive and said red-sensitive emulsion layers from the support; and at least one of said blue-sensitive emulsion layer, said-green sensitive emulsion layer and said red-sensitive emulsion layer or said hydrophilic colloidal layer contains an internal latent image forming si
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Tosaka, Masayuki Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 5491050
    Abstract: A method of processing an exposed originating silver halide color photographic element comprising developing the photographic element in a color devoloper containing a p-phenylenediamine color developing agent in the presence of a 1-phenyl pyrazolidin-3-one compoundwherein the originating silver halide photographic element comprises a radiation sensitive emulsion in reactive association with a development inhibitor releasing compound and containing a silver halide grain population comprised of grains comprising at least 50 mole percent silver 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 silver halide tabular grains(1) bounded by {100} major faces having adjacent edge ratios of less than 10 and(2) each having an average aspect ratio of at least 2, and wherein the silver halide content of the photographic element comprises at least 50 mole % silver chloride and no more than 2 mole %
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas B. Brust, Sharon Gould, James E. Sutton, Richard P. Szajewski
  • Patent number: 5486450
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material comprising a support which is both side coated with a polyolefin resin is disclosed. A hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a white pigment and a silver halide emulsion layer are provided on the support and the silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one of the compounds represented by the following Formula I, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.2 represents a fluorine atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a dialkylamino group, an alkylthio group or an arylthio group; R.sub.3 represents a group substitutable to a benzene ring; n is an integer of 0 or 1; Z represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off when coupling it to the oxidized product of a developing agent; and Y represents a monovalent organic group including a ballast group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Tosaka, Masayuki Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 5484692
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one layer, wherein said at least one layer contains at least one compound which is represented by the following formula (1) and is liquid at 25.degree. C.: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, an unsubstituted unsaturated straight-chain aliphatic group, or an unsubstituted branched alkyl group; provided that both R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 must not be hydrogen atoms and that the sum of the carbon atoms in R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is 18 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Mitsui, Hiroo Takizawa
  • Patent number: 5476759
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is disclosed, wherein said light-sensitive material contains a DIR coupler represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents a coupler residue; R represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a pyridyl group; and n represents 1 when A represents a phenol type or naphthol type coupler residue, or n represents 0 when A represents other coupler residues, and said emulsion layer contains chemically sensitized silver halide grains which individually have a distinct layer comprising silver iodobromide containing from 7 to 45 mol % of silver iodide and which individually have an overall silver iodide content of more than 4 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Seiji Ichijima, Toshio Kawagishi, Naoki Saito, Masuji Motoki
  • Patent number: 5474880
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photosensitive material having on a support at least a cyan color-generating silver halide emulsion layer in which oleophilic fine particles containing both a pyrroloazole type cyan coupler and a phenol or amide type high boiling organic solvent are dispersed, thereby ensuring excellent cyan-color generation performance, desirable spectral sensitivity characteristics and satisfactory color reproduction and making it feasible to reduce the change of the generated color from pure to muddy upon storage under a high temperature-high humidity condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Makuta
  • Patent number: 5466566
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises at least one red-sensitive layer, at least one green-sensitive layer and at least one blue-sensitive layer on a support, in which (1) the blue-sensitive layer contains a magenta colored or cyan colored yellow coupler and contains an emulsion of tabular grains having a mean aspect ratio of 3.0 or more, (2) the green-sensitive layer contains a cyan colored magenta coupler and contains an emulsion of tabular grains having a mean aspect ratio of 3.0 or more, or (3) the blue-sensitive layer and/or the green-sensitive layer contain(s) a magenta colored or cyan colored colorless coupler and contain(s) an emulsion of tabular grains having a mean aspect ratio of 3.0 or more. The material has excellent color reproducibility and gives a color image having good sharpness and storage stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Tashiro, Seiji Ichijima
  • Patent number: 5464731
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support provided thereon at least one light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light insensitive layer, wherein the light insensitive layer contains at least one of the compounds represented by Formula (I) and at least one of the compounds represented by Formula (II); and the amount of the compounds represented by Formula (II) in the above light insensitive layer is 15 to 100 mole % of the amount of the compounds represented by Formula (I) in the same light insensitive layer: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 each represent an alkyl group, provided that a total of carbon numbers of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 and a total of carbon numbers of R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each are 16 or more and 60 or less and that a hydroquinone structure is not involved in R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Ohki, Naoki Asanuma, Osamu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5464733
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multilayer color photographic element comprising a support having coated thereon photographic silver halide emulsion layers, the layers including blue sensitive, green sensitive and red sensitive layers, the photographic element comprising at least one of a bleach accelerating releasing coupler and a bleach accelerating silver salt in at least one layer of the photographic element and a layer containing finely divided silver. An interlayer is disposed between the layer containing finely divided silver and a layer containing dye forming coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: James A. Friday
  • Patent number: 5464732
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a plurality of silver halide emulsion layers, wherein a silver halide emulsion layer arranged at the position nearest to the support among said silver halide emulsion layers contains a dye-forming coupler and a color stain preventing agent represented by Formula HQ-1 in an amount of 1 mol % to 5 mol % of the dye-forming coupler. ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a specified substituent, provided that at least one of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 is a group having 6 or more carbon atoms in total.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Kida, Yukio Oya, Akiyoshi Tai
  • Patent number: 5462845
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material capable of providing a dye image having excellent color reproduction performance, sharpness and image fastness is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 5462848
    Abstract: Color photographic materials comprise a support bearing a silver halide emulsion and a coupler composition. The coupler composition comprises a two-equivalent pyrazolone magenta dye-forming coupler, a ballasted carbonamide compound, and a developer inhibitor-releasing coupler. The carbonamide compound reduces continued coupling of the pyrazolone magenta dye-forming coupler during the bleach step in a color photographic process without altering the advantageous properties provided by the combination of the two-equivalent pyrazolone magenta dye-forming coupler and the developer inhibitor-releasing coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, Stephen P. Singer
  • Patent number: 5460933
    Abstract: Undesirable particle growth of particles comprising a hydrazide oxidized developer in a photographic dispersion can be significantly reduced when the hydrazide scavenger is in the form of a dispersion of crystalline solid particles dispersed in an aqueous medium. The dispersion is prepared by milling crystalline solid particles of the scavenger in an aqueous medium in the presence of a dispersing agent and in the substantial absence of an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Mary C. Brick, Norma B. Platt, Paul L. Zengerle, Jeffery L. Hall
  • Patent number: 5459020
    Abstract: Silver halide color photographic materials are described in which anti-fading agents and anti-staining agents are included in silver halide emulsion layers which contain pyrazoloazole-based couplers which have been established by coating on a reflective supports, the base material of which is covered with a composition in which a white pigment has been admixed with, and dispersed in, a resin of which polyester forms the principal component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takehiko Sato
  • Patent number: 5457014
    Abstract: Melt crystallization of a photographic composition containing dispersed particles of a filter dye and dispersed particles of oxidized developer scavenger, in particular a hydrazide or a disulfonamidophenol oxidized developer scavenger, is inhibited by dispersing the oxidized developer scavenger in the composition in the form of particles comprising the oxidized developer scavenger dispersed or dissolved in an organic solvent selected such that the following relationship is satisfied:6.65+10.0 A-1.53 B+0.11 B.sup.2 -0.99 AB.ltoreq.4.0wherein A is the weight ratio of organic solvent to oxidized developer scavenger; and B is the log P of the organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul L. Zengerle, Glenn M. Brown, John B. Rieger
  • Patent number: 5455151
    Abstract: Colour photographic silver halide material with at least two blue-sensitive yellow-coupling, two green-sensitive magenta coupling and two red-sensitive cyan coupling silver halide emulsion layers of differing photographic sensitivity, in which the silver halide emulsion of the highest sensitivity blue-sensitive and the highest sensitivity green-sensitive layers have an iodide content of .ltoreq.4 mol % and an average particle size of .gtoreq.0.65 .mu.m and the silver halide emulsions of the lowest sensitivity blue-sensitive and the lowest sensitivity green-sensitive layers have an iodide content of .gtoreq.8 mol % and an average particle size of .ltoreq.0.3 .mu.m and which material contains at least one DIR compound in an effective quantity, the inhibitor of which has diffusibility of .gtoreq.0.4, is characterised by great sharpness and very good colour separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert AG
    Inventor: Reinhart Matejec
  • Patent number: 5455155
    Abstract: Undesirable dye stain in a photographic element containing a disulfonamidophenol oxidized developer scavenger can be significantly reduced when the disulfonamidophenol scavenger is in the form of a crystalline solid particle dispersion prepared by milling crystalline solid particles of the scavenger in an aqueous medium in the presence of a dispersing agent and in the substantial absence of an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Mary C. Brick, Norma B. Platt, Paul L. Zengerle, Jeffery L. Hall
  • Patent number: 5451492
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic element comprising a support bearing a blue light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing an acylacetanilide yellow image dye-forming coupler having formula I: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.a is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkoxy, or aryloxy group;R.sub.b is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group;R.sub.c is hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group;R.sub.1 is a substituent;R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of halogen, trifluoromethyl, and substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy and aryloxy;each R.sub.3 is bonded at the 4- or 5- position relative to the anilino nitrogen and is independently a substituent selected from the group consisting of halogen, alkoxycarbonyl (--CO.sub.2 R), carbamoyl (--CONRR'), sulfonate (--OSO.sub.2 R), sulfamoyl (--SO.sub.2 NRR'), sulfonyl (--SO.sub.2 R), trifluoromethyl, cyano, and sulfonamido (--NRSO.sub.2 R'), in which each R and R' is independently hydrogen or a substituent;q is 1 or 2;R.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, Jerrold N. Poslusny, James P. Merrill, Bernard A. Clark, Paul L. R. Stanley
  • Patent number: 5451493
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic element comprising a support bearing a blue-light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing an acylacetanilide yellow image dye-forming coupler having formula I or II: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.a is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl groups, alkoxy group or aryloxy group;R.sub.b is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group;R.sub.c is hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group;R.sub.1 is a substituent;n is an integer from 0 to 2;R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of halogen, trifluoromethyl, and substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy and aryloxy;R.sub.3 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl;R.sub.4 is hydrogen, halogen, alkoxy carbonyl (--CO.sub.2 R), carbamoyl (--CONRR'), carbonamido (--NRCOR'), sulfonamido (--NRSO.sub.2 R') or trifluoromethyl; andX is hydrogen or a coupling-off group;and wherein the blue-light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer has associated therewith a development inhibitor releasing coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, Jerrold N. Poslusny, James P. Merrill, Bernard A. Clark, Paul L. R. Stanley, Hugh M. Williamson
  • Patent number: 5449592
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material for making a color proof and a method for making the color proof using the light-sensitive material. Halftone color proofs having a similar color tone of small dots and large dots can be obtained by the light-sensitive material and the method using it. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises a yellow image forming light-sensitive layers, a magenta image foming light-sensitive layer and a cyan image forming light-sensitive layer which are different from each other in spectral sensitivity, and the magenta image forming layer contains a magenta coupler and an yellow coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Tomomi Yoshizawa, Keiji Ogi, Nariko Kimura, Shigeto Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 5443946
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material and a method for forming a color image, which uses an emulsion that is suitable for scanning exposure by laser diodes, that is excellent in rapid processability, and that is high in sensitivity and contrast. And, there is provided a silver halide photographic material and a method for forming a color image, that uses an emulsion that is small in the fluctuation in gradation and sensitivity owing to a change in exposure illumination intensity and that is particularly small in the fluctuation in sensitivity owing to a change in temperature at the time of exposure in high-intensity exposure, such as laser scanning exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Asami
  • Patent number: 5437967
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material capable of providing a dye image having excellent color reproducibility, less fading of cyan, magenta and yellow colors and a dye image fastness with a good balance of the three colors, comprise a support and provided thereon a silver halide light-sensitive layer containing a cyan coupler, a silver halide light-sensitive layer containing a magenta coupler, and a silver halide light-sensitive layer containing a yellow coupler, wherein the silver halide light-sensitive layer containing the cyan coupler contains at least one pyrrolotriazole cyan couplers represented by the following Formula (I) or (II) as a cyan coupler and the silver halide light-sensitive layer containing the magenta coupler contains a pyrazoloazole magenta coupler represented by the following Formula (M) as a magenta coupler: ##STR1## wherein the substituents are defined herein the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Naruse, Makoto Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5437968
    Abstract: A silver halide color photograph light-sensitive material having an improved push-processing suitability. The material comprises a support having provided thereon at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer, and at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer. The layers adjacent to each of layer having a color sensitivity contain yellow colloidal silver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsurou Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 5437965
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one yellow coupler-containing blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (BL), at least one magenta coupler-containing green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (GL) and at least one cyan coupler-containing red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (RL); wherein the weight-averaged wavelength of the spectral sensitivity distribution of GL (.lambda..sub.G) of the photographic material is between 520 nm and 580 nm (520 nm.ltoreq..lambda..sub.G .ltoreq.580 nm), the weight-averaged wavelength of the spectral sensitivity distribution of RL (.lambda..sub.R) of the photographic material is between 590 nm and 650 nm (590 nm.ltoreq..lambda..sub.R .ltoreq.650 nm), and the weight-averaged wavelength of the spectral sensitivity distribution of BL (.lambda..sub.B) of the photographic material is between 430 nm and 480 nm (430 nm.ltoreq..lambda..sub.B .ltoreq.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Uchida, Toshio Kawagishi, Shunichi Tomita
  • Patent number: 5437966
    Abstract: The present invention describes a silver halide color negative photographic light-sensitive material having an improved graininess and an excellent image quality even when picture-taken under various light sources each having a color temperature different from daylight. A silver halide color photographic material comprises a light-sensitive layer unit containing a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion and a cyan coupler, a light-sensitive layer unit containing a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion and a magenta coupler, and a light-sensitive layer unit containing a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion and a yellow coupler, wherein RMS granularity of at least one of the light-sensitive layer units has the following relations;1.1 RMS.sub.0 .ltoreq.RMS.sub.1 .ltoreq.1.5 RMS.sub.0 and0.9 RMS.sub.0 .ltoreq.RMS.sub.2 .ltoreq.1.2 RMS.sub.0wherein RMS.sub.0 is an RMS value at a minimum density portion of the layer unit, RMS.sub.1 is an RMS value at a density portion of the minimum density+0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Haraga, Toshihiko Yagi, Miki Kon, Hiroshi Shimazaki, Yoshihide Urakawa, Yoshitaka Yamada, Atsuo Ezaki, Syoji Matsuzaka
  • Patent number: 5436116
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a mainly yellow image forming layer, a mainly magenta image forming layer and a mainly cyan image forming layer; wherein, when an exposure is conducted within 1/10 to 10 times of an exposure amount giving minimum density of +0.2 on the first layer selected from said three layers after developing in the main spectra sensitivity region of the first layer, the second layer selected from said three layers is given lower density with said 1/10 to 10 times of exposure than a density without said 1/10 to 10 times of exposure; and reflection densities in 450 nm, 550 nm and 700 nm is not less than 0.8 respectively, before the developing.The silver halide color photographic light sensitive material is capable of providing a color proof improved in the approximation degrees of an image quality to a printed printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Hoshino, Susumu Ohkawachi, Yasuo Tosaka, Yoshiyuki Nonaka
  • Patent number: 5427901
    Abstract: A heat-developable color light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers each sensitive to a different spectral wavelength region, one silver halide emulsion layer or a light-insensitive layer adjacent thereto containing a yellow dye-providing compound, a second silver halide emulsion layer or a light-insensitive layer adjacent thereto containing a magenta dye-providing compound and a third silver halide emulsion layer or a light-insensitive layer adjacent thereto containing a cyan dye-providing compound; at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers having a maximum spectral sensitivity at a wavelength of at least 700 nm and a spectral sensitivity at a wavelength 20 nm longer than said maximum spectral sensitivity wavelength of at most 1/10 of said maximum spectral sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Arakatsu, Yoshio Inagaki, Hiroyuki Ozaki, Takanori Hioki
  • Patent number: 5422232
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least three silver halide emulsion layers having different color sensitivities and formed on a reflective support. The support comprises a substrate and a composition layer laminated on at least the surface of the substrate on which the emulsion layers are coated, and made of a thermoplastic resin containing polyester as a main component and a white pigment mixed and dispersed in the resin. The polyester is a polyester synthesized by the polycondensation of a dicarboxylic acid and a diol. The silver halide contained in the material is silver chlorobromide having silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more, or silver chloride. The ratio of the coated amount of all hydrophilic colloid used in the material to the coated amount of silver contained in all silver halide used in the material ranges from 5.0 to 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Asami, Naoto Ooshima
  • Patent number: 5422231
    Abstract: A photographic product having an exposure function is described, which has therein a built-in color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer and having a specific photographic sensitivity of 640 or more, wherein the built-in color photographic material is characterized by blue, green and red density function curves D (logE) in which in each curve a region defined by a gamma (<.gamma.>=dD/dlogE) of 0.4 or more is 2.8 or more as logE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasushi Nozawa