Antihalation Or Filter Layer Containing Patents (Class 430/510)
  • Patent number: 5470986
    Abstract: Hardeners for hydrophilic colloid defined by the formula: ##STR1## The hardeners are for crosslinking proteinaceous materials for use in photographic films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Ludovic Fodor, Timothy D. Weatherill, Rolf T. Weberg
  • Patent number: 5468598
    Abstract: A process for preparing a stable, solid particle dispersion of a substantially water-insoluble compound useful in imaging, comprises the steps of:(a) forming a coarse aqueous slurry of solid particles of said compound and a hydrophobic, water-soluble or water-dispersible polymer in an amount of 0.1 to 100% by weight based on the weight of said compound; and(b) milling said slurry for time sufficient to provide particles of the desired average particle size;wherein the polymer is an uncharged or weakly anionically charged water-soluble or water-dispersible homopolymer or copolymer in which at least 10 mole % of the repeat units contain an uncharged pendant group that terminates in (a) a CH.sub.3 unit, (b) a ring containing at least two contiguous CH.sub.2 units, or (c) an aromatic group.The resulting dispersion has dispersed solid particles of said compound having the desired small particle size and is stable toward particle agglomeration, particle growth and needle growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David D. Miller, Mary C. Brick, Mridula Nair
  • Patent number: 5466560
    Abstract: This invention relates to cameras designed for single or limited use. It more particularly relates to cameras that are intended for one use, after which they are recycled, subsequent to removal of the film for development and printing or scanning. The camera and film combinations provide exceptionally sharp images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Allan F. Sowinski, Richard P. Szajewski, James P. Merrill
  • Patent number: 5464734
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material containing a compound of formula (1) or (2): ##STR1## where DYE represents a methine dye residue; G and G.sup.- each represent a substituent for the methine dye residue, and are represented by formulae (3) and (4), respectively; and n represents an integer of from 1 to 6.--T.sup.1 --G.sup.1 NHG.sup.2 (3)--T.sup.1 --G.sup.1 N.sup.- G.sup.2 (4)where T.sup.1 represents a divalent linking group; G.sup.1 represents a carbonyl group, a sulfinyl group, or a sulfonyl group; G.sup.2 represents --CO--T.sup.2 --, --SO--T.sup.2, --SO.sub.2 --T.sup.2, or a cyano group; and T.sup.2 represents a monovalent group. The spectral sensitivity of the material is high, and the material has few residual color after processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Inagaki, Shuzo Suga
  • 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: 5462832
    Abstract: A novel method of forming radiation images, especially X-ray images of bones and gastric areas for medical examination, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 5460931
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a reflective support comprising a resin layer-coated base paper and having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer , wherein a hydrophilic colloid layer containing a white pigment is provided between the resin layer and the silver halide emulsion layer; the resin layer having an uneven surface; and a Wiener spectrum of the silver halide photographic material satisfying the following relation,1.1<(WS2) / (WS1)<2.0wherein WS1 and WS2 are average intensities of the spectrum within a spatial frequency range of 2 to 3 mm.sup.-1 and 10 to 20 mm.sup.-1, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeo Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 5460930
    Abstract: A photographic element comprising a cyan dummy dye present in the element prior to exposure and development, the dye having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R1 is an alkoxy group, a phenoxy group or a halogen;R2 is selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, a phenyl group; a halogen when R1 is an alkoxy or phenoxy group; an alkoxy carbonyl group of formula --COOR7; a carbonamido group of formula --NR8COR7; and hydrogen, when R1 is a branched or substituted alkoxy or a substituted phenoxy;R3 is hydrogen or an alkyl group;R4 is hydrogen, or an alkyl group;R5 is hydrogen or an alkyl group;R6 is an alkyl group.R7 is an alkyl group or a phenyl group;R8 is hydrogen or an alkyl group.Dummy dyes of the above specified type are advantageous in elements of the present invention in having good hues, good resistance to fading in weak or seasoned bleach solutions, and having good resistance to hue and density changes in cold storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, Jerrold N. Poslusny, Robert J. Ross
  • Patent number: 5459026
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising at least one compound represented by formula (1) ##STR1## wherein A represents an acidic nucleus; L.sup.1, L.sup.2 and L.sup.3 each represents a methine group; n represents 0 or 1; R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group containing a phosphonate as a substituent; and R.sup.2, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, --OR.sup.11, --NR.sup.11 R.sup.12, --NHCOR.sup.11, --NHSO.sub.2 R.sup.11, --COOR.sup.11, --CONR.sup.11 R.sup.12, --SO.sub.2 NR.sup.11 R.sup.12, a cyano group or a halogen atom, wherein R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and may combine together to form a 5- or 6-membered ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Nakamura, Junichiro Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 5445882
    Abstract: The photographic paper support sheet having enhanced resistance to yellowing and satisfactory flexibility includes a front surface coating layer formed on a substrate paper sheet and having a laminate structure which includes an inside electron-beam-cured resin layer and an outermost electron-beam-cured resin layer derived from an electron-beam-curable coating liquid composition containing compounds (A) and (B) of the formulae (I) and (II). ##STR1## wherein R=--H or --CH.sub.3, a, b and c=0 or 1 to 4, a+b+c=1 to 4, a', b' and c'=0 or 1 to 8, and a'+b'+c'=5 to 8, in a weight ratio (A)/(B) of 30/70 to 90/10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: New Oji Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Kobayashi, Masahiro Kamiya, Toshifumi Fujii
  • Patent number: 5445929
    Abstract: There is described a photographic system comprising a variable contrast black and white photographic element and at least one filter. The element and the filter are so chosen that they cooperate to provide an extension of log exposure range of the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Vincent R. Brown, John R. Burdsall, II
  • Patent number: 5441859
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having a hydrophilic colloid layer containing a dispersion of fine solid grains of at least one compound represented by formula (1) ##STR1## wherein R represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an amino group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group or a heterocyclic group;L.sub.1, L.sub.2 and L.sub.3 each represents a methine group;Y represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group or a halogen atom;R and Y may be bonded to each other to form a ring; andn represents an integer of from 0 to 2;provided that R, Y, L.sub.1, L.sub.2 and L.sub.3 do not have a group having an ionizable proton or its salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Yabuki, Keiichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5441856
    Abstract: A photographic element, and a method of making such an element, comprising a cyan dummy dye present in the element prior to exposure and development. The particular cyan dummy dye has a high extinction coefficient, low density losses in seasoned bleach, while maintaining the desired hue and resisting density losses on cold storage. The dye has the formula:wherein: ##STR1## n is 1, 2 or 3; each R.sub.1 is an electron-withdrawing group which may be the same or different when n is 2 or 3;R.sub.2 is an alkyl group having from one to about 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having from 3 to 8 carbon atoms in the ring, or an aryl group;R.sub.3 is any of the groups which R.sub.2 may be or is hydrogen;R.sub.4 is selected from the group consisting of alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, alkylsulfoxyl, arylsulfoxyl, sulfamoyl, alkylsulfonate, carbamoyl, alkoxycarbonyl and acyl groups;R.sub.5 is an alkyl group;R.sub.6 is hydrogen, or an alkyl group; andR.sub.7 is hydrogen or an alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, David Hoke
  • 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: 5432245
    Abstract: The invention provides acrylamide polymers that, when mixed with water solvent, provide thermoreversible solutions that form low viscosity melts at temperatures separated by a third region of maximum viscosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael R. Roberts, Glenn T. Pearce, Elizabeth V. Patton
  • Patent number: 5420003
    Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed comprised of a support and a sequence of superimposed blue, green and red recording silver halide emulsion layer units that produce images of the same hue upon imagewise exposure and photographic development. A first interlayer unit overlies the emulsion layer unit nearest the support and is capable of transmitting to it imagewise exposing radiation this emulsion layer unit is intended to record. A second interlayer unit underlies the emulsion layer unit farthest from the support and is capable of transmitting to the emulsion layer units lying nearer the support imagewise exposing radiation these emulsion layer units are intended to record. The imagewise exposed photographic element is photographically developed and fixed to produce a silver image in each of the emulsion layer units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John Gasper, Gareth B. Evans, Christopher B. Rider, Michael J. Simmons
  • Patent number: 5418119
    Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed comprised of a sequence of superimposed blue, green and red recording silver halide emulsion layer units at least two of which produce images of the same hue upon processing. The photographic element is additionally comprised of, interposed between the two emulsion layer units, an interlayer unit for transmitting to the emulsion layer unit of the two units which is nearer the support, electromagnetic radiation that this emulsion layer unit is intended to record and capable, after processing, of reflecting electromagnetic radiation within at least one wavelength region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Michael J. Simons
  • Patent number: 5401620
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material for laser exposure comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support,wherein said support or photographic constituent layers of said material contain an antihalation dye which exhibits a spectral absorption density of 0.4 or more before development with respect to the wavelength corresponding to the laser used and a spectral absorption density of 0.2 or more after development when the fluctuations of the average visual density excluding the support density and emulsion fog density are 0.02 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Sasai, Naoki Arai
  • Patent number: 5397690
    Abstract: An improved dye class and preparation procedure therefore is provided. The dyes can be prepared from a Stenhouse salt which is economical and can be prepared from readily available reagents. The improved dye is particularly suited for use as an antihalation dye in photographic elements and does not impart deleterious properties thereto. These and other properties are provided in a dye represented by: ##STR1## wherein the constituents have defined values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Dietrich M. Fabricius, Thomas Schelhorn
  • Patent number: 5395747
    Abstract: Certain poly(lactic acid) and poly(glycolic acid) polymers or copolymers, and certain carbonates, lactones, lactates, lactylates, lactides, glycolates, glycolylates, and glycolides have been found to stabilize thermal-dye-bleach constructions containing a dye in association with a thermally-generated-bleaching agent. Preferably, the thermally-generated-bleaching agent is a thermal-carbanion-generating agent such as a quaternary ammonium salt of a phenylsulfonylacetic acid or a thermal-nucleophile-generating agent such as an ammonium salt of a phenylsulfonylacetic acid. These materials have been found to be particularly effective when used in acutance and antihalation systems for photothermographic and photographic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Randall H. Helland, William D. Ramsden, Roger A. Mader
  • Patent number: 5391471
    Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material comprising on a support at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer and at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a white pigment between said support and said light-sensitive emulsion layer is provided, wherein (i) said white pigment is incorporated in such an amount that the coated amount thereof in said hydrophilic colloidal layer is in the range of 2 g/m.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Ohshima, Kentaro Okazaki, Shigeaki Ohtani
  • Patent number: 5391472
    Abstract: There is provided a method for preparing a biaxially oriented polyester sheet or web, with improved antistatic properties, comprising the steps of(i) stretching said polyester sheet or web first in one direction and second in a direction perpendicular thereto(ii) coating said hydrophobic polyester sheet or web, either before stretching or between said first and second stretching operation, on one or both sides, with a transparent antistatic primer layer, wherein the coating composition of said transparent antistatic primer layer comprises (1) a dispersion of a polythiophene with conjugated polymer backbone and a polymeric polyanion compound and (2) a latex polymer having hydrophilic functionality.The primer layer is coated from an aqueous composition and does not show a substantial change in resistivity depending on relative humidity or wet processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Bavo Muys, Dirk Quintens, Jozef Boeykens, Etienne Van Thillo, Geert Defieuw
  • Patent number: 5391470
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material containing a dispersion of a hydrophobic compound and a water-insoluble and organic solvent-soluble polymer as defined herein. The hydrophobic compound may be a dye which is photochemically inactive during storage but readily decolored and eluted in photographic processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Yasuda, Junichi Yamanouchi, Koji Tamoto
  • Patent number: 5384237
    Abstract: A thermal-dye-bleach construction comprising a dye in association with a thermal dye-bleaching agent of general formula I: ##STR1## wherein: each of R.sup.a and R.sup.b are individually selected from: hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, and a heterocyclic group, and preferably, both R.sup.a and R.sup.b represent hydrogen;p is one or two, and when p is one, Z is a monovalent group selected from: an akyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, and a heterocyclic group, and when p is two, Z is a divalent group selected from: an alkylene group, an arylene group, an alkenylene group, an alkynylene group, an aralkylene group, a cycloalkene group, and a heterocyclic group; and,M.sup.+ is a cation which will not react with a carbanion generated from the thermal-carbanion-generating agent in such manner as to render the carbanion ineffective as a bleaching agent for the dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Dian E. Stevenson, Mark P. Kirk, Sylvia A. Farnum, William C. Frank, Randall H. Helland, Jonathan P., Kitchin, Roger A. Mader, Mark B. Mizen, Richard A. Newmark, William D. Ramsden, Kumars Sakizadeh, Terence D. Spawn, George V. Tiers
  • Patent number: 5380634
    Abstract: The synthesis and the application of new dyes is described, said new dyes being incorporated in non-migratory state in hydrophilic colloid layers of photographic materials wherefrom they can be rapidly removed after being quickly decolourized in alkaline aqueous liquids used in the processing of said materials. The filter dyes have an ester function or a derivative therefrom as a substituent at the mono- or trimethine chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Eric Kiekens, Paul Callant
  • Patent number: 5380635
    Abstract: Dihydroperimidine squarylium dyes have been found to be particularly effective when used in acutance and antihalation systems for photothermographic and photographic articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Charles W. Gomez, Lori S. Harring, Randall H. Helland, William D. Ramsden, Tran Van Thien
  • Patent number: 5374508
    Abstract: A support sheet for a photographic printing sheet having enhanced anti-fogging and anti-yellowing properties comprises a pulp paper substrate sheet, a front coating layer formed on a front surface of the substrate sheet and comprising a cured resinous material produced from electron beam-curable unsaturated organic compound by an electron beam irradiation thereto and mixed with a white pigment, and a back coating layer formed on a back surface of the substrate sheet and comprising a film-forming synthetic resinous material, in which magnesium hydroxide is contained, as an anti-fogging agent, in the substrate sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: New Oji Paper Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaharu Miura, Masataka Itoh, Chieko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5374507
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material capable of providing a dye image having excellent color reproducibility, sharpness and image fastness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 5372922
    Abstract: A method of preparing a photographic element containing a UV filter composition. In the method a UV absorbing polymer latex is prepared by emulsion polymerization, then loaded with a high boiling point organic solvent. The high boiling poing organic solvent has a boiling point at atmospheric pressure of at least 200.degree. C. The loaded polymer latex is then incorporated into a photographic element. Photographic elements containing UV polymer latexes particularly of a UV absorbing polymer containing benzotriazole monomers loaded with high boiling point organic solvents, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Edward Schofield, Tienteh Chen
  • Patent number: 5370980
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a hydrophilic colloidal layer comprising at least one silver salt of a compound having at least one acid group in the molecule, and the compound is represented by Formula I, Formula II or Formula III: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represent a hydrogen atom or a group selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group and a heterocyclic residue; L.sub.1, L.sub.2, L.sub.3 and L.sub.4 independently represent a methine group; n.sub.1 is an integer of 0 to 3; n.sub.2 is an integer of 0, 1 or 2 and R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group or an alkenyl group. Q.sub.1 represents a non-metal atom group necessary to complete a 5-membered or 6-membered heterocyclic ring; ##STR2## wherein R.sup.4 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Taketoshi Yamada, Yasushi Usagawa, Akira Onishi, Yoshiko Ogawa, Shigeto Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 5368962
    Abstract: A lightsafe masking film is disclosed which includes a transparent substrate, and a transparent, lightsafe layer peelably provided over the surface of the substrate and containing a light yellow colorant and a blue colorant so that the color of the lightsafe layer is light green. The spectral transmittance of the lightsafe layer does not exceeds 1% in the wavelength region of between 350 nm and L.sub.max, wherein L.sub.max is 420 nm or more, but exceeds 1% in the wavelength region of longer than L.sub.max with the maximum spectral transmittance of the lightsafe layer in the wavelength region of 500-570 nm being greater than 50%. The light green masking film is suitably used together with a conventional yellow or amber masking film for masking a photosensitive material in photomechanical reproduction process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: Somar Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiko Kiryu, Hiroshi Maruyama, Etsuko Minezaki, Yoshinori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 5366845
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic photosensitive material comprising a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer on the support, a non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer provided between the support and the at least one silver halide emulsion layer, and a backing layer provided on the side of the support which is opposite to the side having the at least one silver halide emulsion layer; wherein(a) the at least one silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide grains having a grain size of not more than 0.2 .mu.m, and a silver chloride content of at least 90 mol %,(b) the non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer contains a dye solid-dispersed in the form of fine crystals in the range of from 10-80 mg/m.sup.2, and(c) the backing layer has an absorbance at 340-380 nm of from 0.30-0.90. A method for processing the silver halide photographic photosensitive material is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Inoue, Seiichi Yamamoto, Takahiro Goto
  • Patent number: 5364752
    Abstract: A recording material comprising a sheet, ribbon or web support and a hydrophilic colloid binder layer incorporating an ionic copolymer in the form of dispersed particulate material providing to said material an antistatic character, characterized in that said ionic copolymer is a cross-linked addition copolymer wherein at least 30 mole % of its recurring units are recurrring units containing a sulphonic acid salt group that has been obtained via a reaction of propane sultone or butane sultone with carboxylate salt groups present originally in recurring units of said copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Timmerman, Hubert Vandenabeele
  • Patent number: 5362612
    Abstract: A photographic material is disclosed comprising a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer, and optionally one or more non-photosensitive hydrophylic layer(s), characterized in that at least one of said emulsion layer(s) and/or non-photosensitive layer(s) contains a triphenylmethane dye, absorbing around 670 nm, represented by general formula (ID): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each independently represents hydrogen unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl, R.sup.3 represents an electron-withdrawing group, and the substance contains at least two water-solubilizing groups, and X.sup.- represents an anion, or an intramolecular anionic group.The triphenylmethane dyes can serve as filter dye, acutance dye, or anti-halation dye. The claimed photographic materials are especially suited for exposure by a laser diode emitting at 670 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Eric Kiekens, Paul Callant, Roland Claes
  • Patent number: 5348846
    Abstract: The present invention provides a silver halide photographic photosensitive material which comprises a transparent support and a silver halide emulsion photosensitive layer provided thereon and a non-photosensitive layer on another side of the support on which the photosensitive layer is not provided, wherein both the photosensitive layer and the non-photosensitive layer contain dyes respectively and transmission density at 350-400 nm of the dye in the photosensitive layer is 0.15 or less and transmission density at 350-400 nm of the dye in the non-photosensitive layer is 0.40 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Kunihiro Nakagawa, Seiichi Sumi, Hideaki Baba
  • Patent number: 5344749
    Abstract: The synthesis and the application of new dyes is described, said new dyes being incorporated in non-migratory state in hydrophilic colloid layers of photographic materials wherefrom they can be rapidly removed after being quickly decolorized in alkaline aqueous liquids used in the processing of said materials. The filter dyes have an amide function or a derivative therefrom as a substituent at the mono- or trimethine chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.R.
    Inventors: Eric Kiekens, Paul Callant
  • Patent number: 5344751
    Abstract: A coating of a mixture of sodium metasilicate together with a silica sol and a silane coupling agent provides antistatic protection when overcoated with a gelatin containing photographic construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Robert L. Carlson
  • Patent number: 5342744
    Abstract: A photographic material including a hydrophilic colloid layer containing a dispersion of dye is disclosed. The dye colors a specific layer in the photographic material without diffusing to other layers during storage, yet is quickly decolored or eluted during development processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Wariishi
  • Patent number: 5342743
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material which can satisfy the specific properties required for dot to dot work photographic materials and can be handled under an environment of a bright room. The silver halide photographic material comprises a support, having provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and having provided farther from the support than the emulsion layer a light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer. The light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer contains at least a solid dye which is dispersed in the form of fine particles and further may contain a water soluble dye. The silver halide grains contained in the light-sensitive emulsion layer have an average grain size of 0.15 .mu.m or less and contain therein at least 1.times.10.sup.-7 mole per mole of a silver of transition metal selected from the elements of groups V to VIII of the Periodic Table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Goto, Nobuaki Inoue
  • Patent number: 5334481
    Abstract: Addition of compounds of formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 to R.sup.4 are each hydroxyl or C.sub.1-6 -alkoxy and R.sup.5 to R.sup.10 are each hydrogen or C.sub.1-6 -alkyl,to positive photoresist compositions based on a diazoquinone/novolak resin effectively suppresses stray radiation and halation effects in corresponding photoresist coatings, in particular if these coatings have been applied to highly reflective substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventor: Hans J. Merrem
  • Patent number: 5328819
    Abstract: An azomethine dye represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein A represents a dye residue formed by removing one hydrogen atom from an indophenol or indoaniline dye; L represents a divalent bonding group; and Z represents a non-metallic atomic group required for forming a three-membered to eight-membered heterocyclic ring together with N, provided that a carbonyl group is not directly bonded to N in the heterocyclic ring. Also disclosed is a silver halide photographic material having an emulsion layer with a covering power of at least 60, and wherein the silver halide photographic material contains at least one member of the dyes of general formula (I) in such an amount that an increase in transmission density in unexposed areas caused by the incorporation of the dye therein after development is not more than 0.06.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Ohno, Yukio Miyaki, Shigeru Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 5326687
    Abstract: A microprecipitated dispersion comprising a methine oxonol filter dye is provided which has the formula ##STR1## wherein n is 0, 1, or 2; R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 are the same or different substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl groups, one or more of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 contains carboxy substituent --CO.sub.2 Z, wherein Z.sup.+ is a statistical mixture of hydrogen (H.sup.+) and alkali or tetraalkylammonium cations (M.sup.+) such that Z.sup.+ =xH.sup.+ +(1-x)M.sup.+, where x is a decimal ranging from about 0.33 to about 0.95, and photographic elements containing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: John Texter
  • Patent number: 5324627
    Abstract: A thermal-dye-bleach construction comprising a dye in association with a thermal dye-bleaching agent of general formula I: ##STR1## wherein: each of R.sup.a and R.sup.b are individually selected from: hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, and a heterocyclic group, and preferably, both R.sup.a and R.sup.b represent hydrogen;p is one or two, and when p is one, Z is a monovalent group selected from: an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, and a heterocyclic group, and when p is two, Z is a divalent group selected from: an alkylene group, an arylene group, an alkenylene group, an alkynylene group, an aralkylene group, a cycloalkene group, and a heterocyclic group; and,M.sup.+ is cation which will not react with acarbanion generated from the thermal-carbanion-generating agent in such manner as to render the carbanion ineffective as a bleaching agent for the dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Dian E. Stevenson, Mark P. Kirk, Sylvia A. Farnum, William C. Frank, Randall H. Helland, Jonathan P. Kitchin, Roger A. Mader, Mark B. Mizen, Richard A. Newmark, William D. Ramsden, Kumars Sakizadeh, Terence D. Spawn, George V. Tiers
  • Patent number: 5322768
    Abstract: An infrared sensitive silver halide photographic element which contains a dye represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each independently represent a sulfoalkyl or a sulfatoalkyl group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, Q represents the atoms necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered carbocyclic ring group, R.sub.3 represents an alkyl group, R.sub.4 represents an aryl group, X.sup.- represents an anion, n is an integer of 1 or 2, provided that that n is 1 when the dye forms an intramolecular salt, and Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2 each independently represent the atoms necessary to complete an indole nucleus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Ivano Delprato, Stefano Mana, Antonio Luzzi
  • Patent number: 5318885
    Abstract: A photographic element according to the invention includes a reflective support, one or more photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and a colored antihalation layer interposed between the support and the photosensitive layers. The antihalation layer comprises thin grains of silver in the form of-platelets having a thickness of up to about 20 nm. The platelets are distributed in a suitable matrix or colloidal medium such as gelatin. The thinness of the platelets allows the antihalation layer to be formed effectively at lower silver levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: David C. Shuman
  • Patent number: 5312722
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material containing at least one dye of formula (Ia), (Ib), (Ic), or (Id): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.9 and R.sup.10 may be the same or different and each represents an alkyl group; Z.sup.1, Z.sup.2, Z.sup.3 and Z.sup.4 each represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing hetero ring; R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.11, R.sup.12, R.sup.13 and R.sup.14 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group; R.sup.7, R.sup.8, R.sup.15 and R.sup.16 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an amino group or a hydroxyl group; R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6, R.sup.11 and R.sup.12, R.sup.13 and R.sup.14, R.sup.3 and R.sup.7, R.sup.5 and R.sup.8, R.sup.11 and R.sup.15, or R.sup.13 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toru Harada
  • Patent number: 5312724
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon a layer which contains at least one dye represented by general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein, R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a sulfonic acid group, a carboxylic acid group or a CONHR, SO.sub.2 NHR, NHSO.sub.2 R, NHCOR or NHCONHR group (where R is an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group); R.sup.2 represents a group represented by SO.sub.2 R, COR or CONHR (where R has the same significance as before); R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are the same or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a hydroxy group, an amino group or a halogen atom; R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are the same or different, and each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an acyl group or a sulfonyl group; R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 may be joined together to form a five or six membered ring; R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 may be joined with the adjacent R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Harada, Kiyoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 5312721
    Abstract: The invention involves a bleachable antihalation system, particularly for use in thermally developable photographic recording materials. This antihalation system contains, besides an antihalation dye, a bleaching agent that forms sulfurous acid or sulfurous acid derivatives on treatment with heat or irradiation with actinic radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Ingrid Gesing
  • Patent number: 5312723
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic photosensitive material which contains at least dye by general formula (I) below: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a sulfonic acid group, a carboxylic acid group or a CONHR, SO.sub.2 NHR, NHSO.sub.2 R, NHCOR or NHCONHR group (where R is an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group); R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an NHSO.sub.2 R or NHCOR group (where R has the same meaning as above) or a halogen atom, or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 may be joined together and represent a group of atoms which is required to form an aromatic ring; R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a hydroxy group, an amino group or a halogen atom; R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are the same or different and each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an acyl group or a sulfonyl group; R.sup.6 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Harada, Kiyoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 5310630
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material which has been spectrally sensitized to light of wavelengths greater than of about 670 nm in which are highly sensitive to light of wavelength greater than about 670 nm and sufficiently insensitive to visible light having a shorter wavelength. The photosensitive materials comprises a silver halide photosensitive layer containing the yellow coupler, a silver halide photosensitive layer containing a magenta coupler, a silver halide photosensitive layer containing a cyan coupler and at least one non-photosensitive hydrophilic layer. Each of the photosensitive layers are spectrally sensitized such that they have different peak spectral sensitivities at light wavelengths greater than about 670 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Inagaki