Sensitive Layers Differ In Speed Patents (Class 430/509)
  • Patent number: 4792518
    Abstract: A silver halide color reversal reflection print photosensitive material comprises at least one blue-sensitive layer, at least one green-sensitive layer and at least one red-sensitive layer on a support. In the characteristic curves of the color sensitive layers, a fluctuation width of point-gammas and absolute values of point-gammas are defined. The distribution of the grain size of the silver halide grains in silver halide emulsions contained in the color sensitive layer can be controlled by forming the grains in the presence of a silver halide solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kuwashima, Akio Mitsui, Masaru Sano
  • Patent number: 4791050
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is described, which comprises a support having provided therein at least a blue-sensitive emulsion layer, a green-sensitive emulsion layer and a red-sensitive emulsion layer, with the blue-sensitive emulsion layer comprising at least two layers differing in sensitivity, one of which is the highest sensitive emulsion layer containing at least one yellow-dye-forming coupler represented by the general formula (I), and the other of which is the lowest sensitive emulsion layer containing at least one yellow-dye-forming coupler represented by the general formula (II), whereby a yellow dye image having high maximum density and excellent in sharpness, graininess and light fastness can be produced: ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Ogawa, Hiroshi Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: 4777122
    Abstract: A high sensitivity multilayer color photographic material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support base having coated thereon red-sensitive, green-sensitive and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers associated with non-diffusing image-forming couplers. The red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprises an upper, an intermediate and a lower silver halide emulsion layer, sensitive to visible light in the same or substantially the same spectral wavelength range, with the sensitivity of the layers decreasing in order from the upper layer to the lower layer. The green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprises an upper and a lower silver halide emulsion layer, sensitive to visible light in about the same spectral wavelength range, with the sensitivity of the layers decreasing in order from the upper layer to the lower layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1988
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Walter Beltramini
  • Patent number: 4772546
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is described, having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing an iodine-containing silver halide on a support and having one or more auxiliary layers on the outermost surface of a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer positioned farthest from the support, wherein at least one of the auxiliary layers contains a substantially non-light-sensitive silver halide emulsion or a silver halide emulsion containing grains whose inner part or surface part is fogged, and the material contains at least one compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R, X, Y, Z, and n are described in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyasu Deguchi, Tetsuro Kojima, Hideo Miyazaki, Shigeru Ohno, Koki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4772542
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed. The material has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, said silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler which forms a mobile dye by coupling reaction with the oxidized product of a color developing agent, and said silver halide emulsion layer having in association therewith a non-light sensitive layer containing substantially non-light sensitive fine silver halide grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Haga
  • Patent number: 4761362
    Abstract: An image forming process capable of providing photographic images having extremely high contrast and high resolution for use in photoengraving is disclosed, which comprises processing an image-wise exposed silver halide light-sensitive material having at least two silver halide emulsion layers on a support, one of said emulsion layers providing a contrasty gradation and the other of said emulsion layers providing a soft tone gradation, with a hydrazine contrast development system, a tetrazolium contrast development system or a lith development system, wherein the gamma (.gamma.) value of the portion having a density (D) from 0.3 to 1.5 on the characteristic curve obtained is less than 10 and the gamma (.gamma.) value of the portion having a density (D) from 1.5 to 3.0 is at least 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Senzo Sasaoka, Shigenori Moriuchi, Kimitaka Kameoka, Kazunobu Katoh, Yoshio Inagaki
  • Patent number: 4752558
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising at least one layer of green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (GH), at least one layer of red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (RH) and a plural number of blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers with different sensitivities, provided on a support, which is characterized in that one of the said plural number of blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers is provided as a silver halide emulsion layer (BH) positioned at the farthest side from the support, at least one layer GH and at least one layer RH are provided between the layer BH and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer lower in sensitivity than the layer BH, and further fine grains of silver halide are contained in at least one of the said blue-sensitive emulsion layer of lower sensitivity and a layer adjacent thereto. The fine grains of silver halide may have a blue-sensitive sensitizing dye adsorbed on the surfaces thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Shimura, Yoshitaka Yamada, Toshifumi Iijima, Kenji Kumashiro, Takashi Kamio
  • Patent number: 4727016
    Abstract: A photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer is disclosed, which contains in said silver halide emulsion layer two silver halide emulsions which are different from each other in mean grain size and which satisfy the conditions that:one of the silver halide emulsions, having a relatively larger mean grain size, has a mean grain size (X.sub.1) of 1.3 .mu.m or more;the mean grain size (X.sub.2) of the other silver halide emulsion, having a relatively smaller mean grain size, and X.sub.1 has a relation satisfying Formula (1)Formula (1): 0.5.ltoreq.X.sub.2 /X.sub.1 .ltoreq.0.9;the ratio of the standard deviation (S.sub.1) of the grain sizes of the silver halide emulsion having a relatively larger mean grain size to X.sub.1 satisfies the Formula (2)Formula (2): S.sub.1 /X.sub.1 .ltoreq.0.25;the ratio of the standard deviation (S.sub.2) of the grain sizes of the silver halide emulsion having a relatively smaller mean grain size to X.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinsuke Bando
  • Patent number: 4724197
    Abstract: A color photographic recording material contains at least one silver halide emulsion layer which is divided into a partial layers of different sensitivity, at least one relatively high-sensitivity partial layer containing a synthetic polymer and gelatin in a ratio by weight of from 30:70 to 80:20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhart Matejec, Wolfgang Himmelmann, Gunter Helling
  • Patent number: 4724198
    Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having red-sensitive, green-sensitive and blue-sensitive emulsion layers, each layer consisting of two or more layers with different sensitivities on a support, wherein the layers are constituted so as to satisfy the following requirements (A), (B), (C) and (D):(A) of the respective emulsion layers having the highest sensitivities among the the red-sensitive, green-sensitive and blue-sensitive emulsion layers, the highest sensitivity blue-sensitive emulsion layer is provided on the side farthest from the support;(B) at least the the highest sensitivity red-sensitive emulsion layer and the highest sensitivity green-sensitive emulsion layer are provided between the the highest blue-sensitive emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive emulsion layer with lower sensitivity;(C) none of the respective red-sensitive, green-sensitive and blue-sensitive emulsion layers having the lowest sensitivities exists on the side farther than the low sensiti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yamada, Toshifumi Iijima, Kenji Kumashiro, Takashi Kamio, Shinya Shimura
  • Patent number: 4701404
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having blue-, green- and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers coated on a support is provided, each of said layers being composed of a plurality of sub-layers having different sensitivities. In said material, at least a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion sub-layer having high sensitivity is provided between a first green-sensitive silver halide emulsion sub-layer of high sensitivity and a second green-sensitive silver halide emulsion sub-layer having a lower sensitivity than said first green-sensitive sub-layer, said first green-sensitive sub-layer and/or said red-sensitive sub-layer with high sensitivity giving a maximum color density of formed dye in said material higher than 0.6 but not exceeding 1.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1987
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Yoshitaka Yamada, Kenji Kumashiro, Takashi Kamio, Shinya Shimura
  • Patent number: 4670375
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material comprising a support and a plurality of silver halide emulsion layers on the support, the emulsion layers being substantially identical in color sensitivity but different in sensitivity and containing at least one of a dye image-forming coupler, characterized in that silver halide grains contained in at least one layer of the plurality of silver halide emulsion layers consist substantially of monodispersed silver halide grains, a color concentration of the emulsion layer comprising the monodispersed silver halide grains being within the range of 60 to 98% of the total color concentration of the plurality of silver halide emulsion layers.The employment of the monodispersed silver halide grains of this invention and the increase in a concentration of the grains in the emulsion layers permit the improvement of graininess, the enlargment of exposure range and better of stability to processing and stability with time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Michiue, Toshihiko Yagi, Katsumasa Yamazaki, Sohei Goto, Yoshiharu Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 4654297
    Abstract: This invention provides a high sensitivity photosensitive element used for a silver salt diffusion transfer process and capable of producing an image having fine graininess and good quality. The photosensitive element comprises a photosensitive emulsion layer containing silver halide grains having small grain size (S layer) and another photosensitive emulsion layer containing silver halide grains having large grain size (L layer), the S layer being positioned toward the exposure side of the L layer, and the amount of silver halide contained in the S layer, the amount thereof contained in the L layer and the total amount thereof being 60-5 wt %, 40-95 wt %, and no less than 80 wt %, respectively, relative to the total amount of silver halide contained in the photosensitive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 4640890
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is described comprising a support having thereon at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, with at least one of said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers containing a mono-dispersed silver halide emulsion, said color photogrphic material further comprising at least one auxiliary layer containing silver halide grains having substantially light-insensitivity and containing more than 75 mole % silver chloride.The silver halide color photographic material is improved in dependence of photographic characteristics with respect to the extent of stirring of a processing solution during development processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munehisa Fujita, Akio Mitsui
  • Patent number: 4639410
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support and at least one light-sensitive layer. This layer has a plurality of silver halide emulsion layers substantially identical in color sensitivity, but differing in speed. The light-sensitive layer is comprised substantially of monodispersed silver halide emulsions A and B, each containing silver halide particles of the core/shell-type. The silver halide particle sizes of emulsions B and A have a ratio, when multiplied by 100, of less than 70 and the silver halide particles of emulsion B have a silver iodide content in their core that is not less than 5 mole % smaller than that of the core of the silver halide particles of emulsion A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihara Mochizuki, Sohei Goto, Toshihiko Yagi, Katsumasa Yamazaki, Kenji Michiue
  • Patent number: 4619892
    Abstract: Full color photographic images are produced by exposure of a radiation-sensitive element comprising at least three silver halide emulsion layers. At least two silver halide emulsion layers are sensitized to infrared radiation. Selectively absorptive filter layers and/or differential sensitivities between emulsion layers are used to prevent exposure of other layers to radiation used to expose a single layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Sharon M. Simpson, John M. McQuade, John R. Boon
  • Patent number: 4617259
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least a layer containing a group of silver halide grains having a relation that the larger an amount of silver of a grain is, the larger an amount of a content of silver iodide therein is, at a correlative coefficient of not less than 0.7 between a silver halide crystal grain size and a silver iodide content therein. The silver halide color photographic material has improved granularity and an improved gradient, and uses a small amount of silver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Ogawa, Satoshi Nagaoka, Yuichi Ohashi
  • Patent number: 4608334
    Abstract: A silver halide color light-sensitive material having improved graininess is described, comprising a support having provided thereon at least two emulsion layers that are sensitive to the same color light but have different sensitivities, wherein a light-insensitive intermediate layer comprising gelatin is provided between any two of said emulsion layers that are adjacent to each other and the higher sensitivity emulsion layer of said two layers has a smaller silver/coupler molar ratio than that of the lower sensitivity emulsion layer of said two emulsion layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadanobu Shuto, Munehisa Fujita, Kazunori Hasebe
  • Patent number: 4599302
    Abstract: In most highly sensitive recording materials containing silver halide, the graininess may be improved by the addition of a virtually insensitive silver halide-emulsion to a most highly sensitive light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Scheerer
  • Patent number: 4585729
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitve material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a transparent support having provided on one side of the support at least two silver halide emulsion layers and a surface-protecting layer. One of the two silver halide emulsion layers is a tabular silver halide emulsion layer containing tabular silver halide grains having a diameter at least five times the thickness of the grains. The other silver halide emulsion layer is a non-tabular silver halide emulsion layer containing non-tabular silver halide grains. The tabular silver halide emulsion layer is positioned closer to the support than the non-tabular silver halide emulsion layer, and the non-tabular silver halide emuslion layer is positioned closer to the support than the surface-protecting layer. The material may include two similar silver halide emulsion layers and a surface-protecting layer on the opposite side of the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadao Sugimoto, Sumito Yamada
  • Patent number: 4582780
    Abstract: Adjacency effects of a color photographic material may be increased by dividing a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer into three emulsion layers sensitive to the same spectral region of the visible light, the uppermost silver halide emulsion layer of which has the highest sensitivity and the lowermost silver halide emulsion layer has the lowest sensitivity, wherein the maximum color density of the uppermost silver halide emulsion layer, after color development, is lower than 0.60 and the maximum color density of both the intermediate and lowermost silver halide emulsion layers, after color development, are each higher than 0.60.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1986
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Giovanni Giusto, Elio de Saraca
  • Patent number: 4571378
    Abstract: Improved photographic recording materials containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer with comparatively high sensitivity and at least one silver halide emulsion layer with comparatively low sensitivity. Color couplers and DIR compounds of differing reactivities are associated with these layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sauerteig, Erwin Ranz, Heinz Schutz
  • Patent number: 4564588
    Abstract: Silver halide photographic material for radiography comprising a transparent support having a hydrophilic colloid layer coated on each side thereof said layer comprising (a) photosensitive silver halide grains, (b) silver halide grains having surfaces covered with a solubility reducing agent and which, in the absence of said solubility reducing agent, are more soluble in a material capable of dissolving silver halide than said (a), said (b) having a sensitivity to light generally less than 1/10 that of said (a), and (c) physical development nuclei, wherein the molar ratio of (a) to (b), based on the silver content of each, is between 1:0.1 to 1:0.8 on each side of said support and the total silver content of (a) and (b) is from 1 to 8 g/m.sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichi Sakamoto, Mikio Kawasaki, Kouji Ono, Tomomi Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 4564587
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material comprising at least one light-sensitive layer, which is constituted of a plurality of silver halide emulsion layers having substantially the same color sensitiveness but being different in sensitivities and contains a dye image-forming coupler, provided by coating on a support, said material being constituted so as to satisfy at the same time the requirements that (a) said plurality of silver halide emulsion layers in said light-sensitive layer are provided by coating in the order from the support side a low sensitivity emulsion layer, medium sensitivity emulsion layer and high sensitivity emulsion layer, (b) a non-sensitive intermediate layer is provided by coating between said low sensitivity emulsion layer and said medium sensitivity emulsion layer, (c) the density of a dye image-forming coupler in said medium sensitivity emulsion layer is 10 to 60% of the density of a dye image forming coupler in said low sensitivity emulsion layer;
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Watanabe, Kenji Ito
  • Patent number: 4551421
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support base having positioned thereon a silver halide emulsion layer and a surface protective layer. The emulsion layer contains a photosensitive silver halide emulsion, an internally fogged silver halide emulsion and a compound represented by the general formula (I):R.sub.1 [(R.sub.3).sub.l X].sub.n R.sub.3 '--R.sub.2wherein the substituents within the general formula (I) are defined within the specification. The photographic material is capable of providing an image having a high maximum density at a high speed and a high contrast. The material can be processed without requiring any specific additives in a short developing period using low-temperature processing. The material also possesses high-temperature quick processing aptitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadao Sugimoto, Hideo Ikeda, Koki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4547458
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having at least one silver halide emulsion layer thereon, said silver halide emulsion layer having a sensitivity to a certain spectral region and at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers comprising a plurality of different-speed light-sensitive layers wherein the difference in speed between the fastest-speed layer and the second fastest-speed layer of said plurality of light-sensitive layers, in terms of log I.multidot.t, is 0.2 to 0.7, and each of at least said fastest-speed and said second fastest-speed layers contains at least one monodispersed silver halide emulsion, said monodispersed emulsion being light-sensitive and consisting essentially of silver halide particles having a granularity distribution represented by the formulaS/r.ltoreq.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Kiyoshi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 4543323
    Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having at least one light-sensitive layer constituted of a plural number of silver halide emulsions provided on a support, and a non-light-sensitive intermediate layer containing a diffusion resistant coupler capable of forming a migratable color forming dye or a compound capable of forming a flow-out type coupling product provided at least adjacent to the silver halide emulsion layer with the highest light sensitivity among the plural number of silver halide emulsion layers on its support side.The light-sensitive material according to this invention exhibits excellent photographic characteristics such as sensitivity, graininess, sharpness, storability and gradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1985
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Satoshi Nakagawa, Hiroshi Menjo
  • Patent number: 4539289
    Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support comprising thereon at least two emulsion layers having the same color sensitivity and being different light-sensitivities, with a layer containing comparatively light-insensitive silver halide grains of 0.05 to 0.6 .mu.m in average grain size being positioned in at least one of interspaces defined by every two adjacent members of said at least two emulsion layers. The resulting material has both raised sensitivity and improved graininess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Saito, Keiji Mihayashi
  • Patent number: 4526862
    Abstract: Film packages for obtaining x-ray energy-difference images simultaneously by exposing a body to a broad energy spectrum x-ray beam. One package embodiment has two radiographic films joined at at least two edges to form a pocket in which a light-opaque sheet is inserted during the x-ray exposure. The package is disposed between front and rear x-ray intensifying screens during the exposure. The front screen on which the broad energy image is incident is excited to luminescence predominantly by x-ray photons in one energy band and the rear screen by photons in another band to thereby produce the difference images. The opaque sheet may contain x-ray filter material. A reflective sheet is substituted in the pocket for said opaque sheet during readout of the intensities of corresponding picture elements. Another film package embodiment is laminated and unitary and has a double-sided reflective sheet in the middle, a light-opaque coating on each reflective surface and a photosensitive emulsion on each coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Norbert J. Pelc
  • Patent number: 4526863
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least two light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers which are sensitive to light of substantially the same spectral region and a relatively light-insensitive layer containing silver halide, zinc oxide or titanium oxide positioned between the two light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers and at least one of the two light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers containing a compound represented by the following general formula (I):A--B (I)wherein A represents a residue of a compound capable of coupling with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent by removal of a hydrogen atom from the active position of the compound, and B represents a group which is released on coupling and exhibits a fogging function in a developing solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Shunji Takada, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4521507
    Abstract: There is provided a multi-layer light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having plural silver halide emulsion layers having respective sensitivities to light at different spectral regions on a support, wherein at least 80% of the total number of silver halide grains contained in at least one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers having sensitivities to different spectral regions, comprise silver halide grains having grain sizes greater than 0.8 .mu. and silver halide grains smaller than 0.65 .mu..The multi-layer silver halide color photographic material according to this invention exhibits improved sharpness of the color images formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Kiyoshi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 4513079
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support base having provided thereon a fine grain silver halide emulsion layer and, positioned adjacent to the fine grain silver halide emulsion layer, a silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler. The coupler is a phenolic cyan coupler substituted at the 5-position with an acylamino group and at the 2-position with an ureido group. The material has high sensitivity and good granularity. The material produces an image which has excellent fastness to light and heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Kozo Aoki
  • Patent number: 4511648
    Abstract: This invention presents a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having at least two silver halide emulsion layers having sensitivities in different spectral regions on the same side of a support, at least one layer of the layers comprising at least two silver halide emulsion layers with different sensitivities, in which each of the at least two silver halide emulsion layers with different sensitivities contains at least one kind of substantially monodispersed silver halide crystals and at least one silver halide emulsion layer of the layers comprises substantially silver iodobromide containing 4 mole % or more of silver iodide, and further the iodine content in the emulsion layer having the highest sensitivity is higher than that of the emulsion layer having a sensitivity second to the highest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1985
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yamashita, Toshifumi Iijima
  • Patent number: 4506008
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support base having positioned thereon a silver halide emulsion layer and a protective layer. The silver halide emulsion layer includes at least two component layers including an upper layer and a lower layer. The upper layer is comprised of a photosensitive silver halide emulsion and the lower layer is comprised of a photosensitive silver halide emulsion and an inside fogged silver halide emulsion. The particle size of the inside fogged silver halide emulsion is smaller than that of the photosensitive silver halide emulsion in the upper layer and the lower layer. The material is highly sensitive and forms images which have high contrast and high density. The material is capable of forming images having a pure black tone. When the materials are processed they create substantially no stain even if a stopping bath is not utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadao Sugimoto, Hideo Ikeda
  • Patent number: 4500633
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having formed on a support two or more layers that have different light sensitivities but have substantially the same color sensitivity is disclosed. In the material, the layer having the highest light sensitivity contains only a compound of formula (I) as a DIR compound and at least one of the remaining layers contains at least one compound of formula (II) as a DIR compound:A--TIME--Z (I)A--Z (II)wherein A is a coupling component capable of reaction with the oxidized product of a color developing agent to release the group TIME--Z (wherein TIME represents a timing group and Z represents a development retarder). The photographic material has improved sharpness and granularity and wide latitude for exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Menjo, Yoshikazu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4481288
    Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer constituted of a plural number of layers which are substantially the same in color to which they are sensitive but different in sensitivity provided on a support, which comprises a layer having the highest sensitivity among the plural number of layers with different sensitivities which contains at least two kinds of substantially mono-dispersed silver halide grains with different average grain sizes.The light-sensitive silver halide photographic material according to this invention is high in sensitivity and excellent in graininess of dye image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yamada, Toshifumi Iijima, Toshihiko Yagi, Yoshihiro Haga, Kenji Kumashiro, Hiroshi Menjo
  • Patent number: 4477560
    Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material, comprising a group of silver halide emulsion layers constituting the same color sensitive layer, said group of emulsion layers consisting of at least two silver halide emulsion layers with different light sensitivities, the layer with the highest sensitivity incorporating at least one kind of a compound having a non-diffusion type coupler component and a scavenger component for an oxidized product of a color forming developing agent in an amount of 1 to 5 mole % per mole of the silver halide in the layer containing said compound.The light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material according to the present invention has high sensitivity and can provide high image quality with a broad latitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Koitabashi, Kiyoshi Yamashita, Toshifumi Iijima
  • Patent number: 4477561
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having formed on a support two or more layers that are sensitive to the lights of substantially the same spectral region but different in light sensitivity is disclosed. At least one of the layers other than the one having maximum light sensitivity contains at least 40 mg, per 100 g of silver, of a water-soluble compound containing an element of Group VIII of the periodic table which has a molecular weight of 100 or more. The material has a wide latitude for exposure, and this latitude will not vary greatly with time during storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Menjo, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Nobuo Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4461826
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material which comprises a support and coated thereon a light-sensitive layer containing a compound which, upon reaction with an oxidized color developing agent, is capable of releasing a diffusible development inhibitor and a negative type light-sensitive silver halide emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide crystals essentially consisting of mono-dispersed silver halide crystals of which size distribution satisfies the following relation:S/r.ltoreq.0.15whereinS=.sqroot..SIGMA.(r-r.sub.i).sup.2 n.sub.i.sup.2 /.SIGMA.n.sub.i andr=.SIGMA.n.sub.i r.sub.i /.SIGMA.n.sub.i in which r.sub.i represents the crystal size of individual silver halide crystals and n.sub.i represents the number of crystals.The light-sensitive color photographic material of the present invention provides an image of remarkably improved sharpness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yamashita, Toshifumi Iijima
  • Patent number: 4459351
    Abstract: A redox release compound that is capable upon oxidation of releasing a silver ion complexing heterocyclic thio moiety enables reduction of the concentration of silver required in a photographic silver halide material comprising a combination of (i) photographic silver halide capable of forming a surface latent image, and (ii) a photographic silver halide capable of forming an internal latent image. The silver halide capable of forming an internal latent image preferably has lower photosensitivity than the silver halide capable of forming a surface latent image. The redox release compound preferably comprises a silver ion complexing 1,2,4-triazolium-3-thio moiety. An image is developed in such an exposed photographic silver halide element by means of a surface type silver halide developer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1984
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Anthony Adin, Henry W. Altland
  • Patent number: 4446226
    Abstract: A light-sensitive color photographic material having a support and, coated thereon, at least two light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers respectively sensitive to lights of different spectral regions, characterized in that each of the light-sensitive emulsion layers comprises at least two emulsion layers having different light-sensitivities and containing negative type light-sensitive silver halide crystals essentially consisting of silver iodobromide containing silver iodide at a proportion not higher than 4 mole %.This invention provides a silver halide color photographic material, in which the proportion of the silver halide utilized for the information of a color image to the total silver halide used is enhanced remarkably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yamashita, Toshifumi Iijima
  • Patent number: 4444874
    Abstract: Photographic elements particularly adapted for forming direct-positive images are disclosed in which a radiation-sensitive core-shell emulsion layer and a silver halide emulsion layer incapable of forming a surface latent image within the direct-positive exposure latitude of the first emulsion layer and containing a grain population capable of internally trapping photolytically generated electrons are both present. The photographic elements are capable of exhibiting increased covering power, greater maximum density, and increased speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1984
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert A. Silverman, Harry A. Hoyen
  • Patent number: 4438194
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprising a base having thereon a non-photosensitive intermediate layer sandwiched between a high-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a low-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer both having a nondiffusion coupler that forms substantially the same color and having photosensitivity in substantially the same spectral region is disclosed. Said non-photosensitive intermediate layer has incorporated therein with a nondiffusion coupler that forms substantially the same color as that formed by the nondiffusion coupler contained in said high-sensitive emulsion layer and whose coupling speed is not greater than that of the nondiffusion coupler contained in said high-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Hamada
  • Patent number: 4433047
    Abstract: Photographic elements particularly adapted for forming direct-positive images are disclosed in which a radiation-sensitive core-shell emulsion layer and a silver halide emulsion layer incapable of forming a surface latent image within the direct-positive exposure latitude of the first emulsion layer and containing a grain population capable of internally trapping photolytically generated electrons are both present. The photographic elements are capable of exhibiting increased covering power, greater maximum density, and increased speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert A. Silverman, Harry A. Hoyen
  • Patent number: 4427763
    Abstract: A color photographic recording material, in which a precursor compound for a yellow mask coupler is contained in a green-sensitive layer or in a layer adjacent thereto and in which a blue-sensitive layer is arranged between this layer and the layer support, permits very good sharpness with satisfactory speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim W. Lohmann, Gunter Renner, Wolfgang Sauerteig
  • Patent number: 4414308
    Abstract: In a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material, having a red, a green and a blue light-sensitive emulsion layer on a support, each emulsion containing a nondiffusible image forming coupler, improvement is attained by providing a layer structure in which at least one of the red, the green and the blue light-sensitive emulsion layer is separated into a high sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer and a low sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer, both layers having photosensitive regions in substantially the same spectral region, by an intermediate layer and incorporating at least one kind of DIR compounds represented by formula (I) defined in the specification in at least one layer of the high sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer, the low sensitivity silver halide emulsion and the intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1983
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Hamada
  • Patent number: 4409321
    Abstract: A method for reproducing a color image. A dye image is formed on a photographic light-sensitive material by imagewisely exposing the material and processing to form a dye image. Through the imaged photographic light-sensitive material, an exposure is made on a photographic printing light-sensitive material which is processed in an alkaline activator solution to form a dye image thereon. The photographic light-sensitive material contains a transparent support provided thereon with red-sensitive, green-sensitive, and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers. The layers each contain one of three different nondiffusible couplers capable of forming, by coupling, compounds having spectral absorption maximum wavelength in the wavelength region longer than 340 nm. The spectral absorption maximum wavelength of the compounds differ by at least 30 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Onodera, Toshifumi Iijima, Wataru Fujimastu
  • Patent number: 4401753
    Abstract: Photographic silver halide material suitable for use in the silver complex diffusion transfer reversal process for the production of a continuous tone positive silver image (sensitometric curve I of the drawing) on an image-receiving material and a continuous tone negative silver image (sensitometric curve II of the drawing) in the photographic silver halide material itself, wherein the negative silver image is usable per se for serving as an internegative in a photographic printing process. In the photographic material on each side of a transparent support a silver halide emulsion layer high in silver chloride is present with a different developing agent composition to yield from the two emulsion layers together the total silver image density and average gradient desired in the negative image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Jos A. Vaes, Jozef P. De Prijcker
  • Patent number: 4388401
    Abstract: A multilayer color reversal light-sensitive material is described, which can provide dye images having improved sharpness and graininess without a drop in color reproducibility, by employing a specific arrangement and construction of emulsion layers in its multi-layer structure, viz., a material comprising a support, a yellow filter layer, a group of green-sensitive emulsion layers, and a group of red-sensitive emulsion layers, wherein said emulsion layer groups are positioned nearer to the support than the yellow filter layer, each of the emulsion layer groups comprises at least two adjacent layers including a high-sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains having an average size of from 0.6.mu. to 2.0.mu. and a low-sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains having an average grain size of from 0.1.mu. to 0.5.mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1983
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Hasebe, Yoshisato Minagawa
  • Patent number: RE32149
    Abstract: Photographic elements particularly adapted for forming direct-positive images are disclosed in which a radiation-sensitive core-shell emulsion layer and a silver halide emulsion layer incapable of forming a surface latent image within the direct-positive exposure latitude of the first emulsion layer and containing a grain population capable of internally .Iadd.forming a latent image by internally .Iaddend.trapping photolytically generated electrons are both present. The photographic elements are capable of exhibiting increased covering power, greater maximum density, and increased speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert A. Silverman, Harry A. Hoyen