Organic Dye Or Pigment Containing Patents (Class 430/517)
  • Patent number: 5747233
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of dyestuffs of the general formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 and M.sup..sym. are as defined in claim 1, as infrared-absorbing agents in hydrophilic colloidal layers, for example in recording materials or for detection purposes, recording materials, for example photographic recording materials, which comprise such dyestuffs in hydrophilic colloidal layers, and new dyestuffs of the general formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Riedel-De Haen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralph Lonsky, Lutz Uwe Lehmann
  • Patent number: 5744294
    Abstract: A radiographic element including an image recording silver halide emulsion layer coated on a transparent film support and a blue anthraquinone dye. Transmission of red light through the exposed and processed radiographic element is reduced by coating on the support at least one ionic linear condensation polymer containing a cyan phthalocyanine dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert E. Dickerson, Rickey J. Seyler
  • Patent number: 5744292
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material that comprises, in at least one photographic layer constituting the material, a dispersion containing fine grains of a solid dye represented by the following general formula (II), wherein the solid dye has been subjected to heat treatment at 40.degree. C. or higher, and wherein the dispersion further contains a specific water-soluble or water-dispersible polymer-compound that has a hydrophobic group bonding at a terminal of a copolymer of vinyl alcohol and vinyl ester: ##STR1## wherein D represents a residue of a compound having a chromophoric group; X represents a dissociating hydrogen atom, or a group having a dissociating hydrogen atom, which atom or group connects to the D directly or via a divalent connecting group; and y is an integer of 1 to 7. The photographic light-sensitive material prevents any change of viscosity with the lapse of time due to the dye in a state of dispersion solution containing fine grains of the dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 5738981
    Abstract: A silver halide film for reproducing digitally stored medical diagnostic images through exposure and processing, including development, fixing and drying, in 90 seconds or less is disclosed in which onto a film support transparent to exposing radiation are coated (1) a processing solution permeable front layer unit coated on the front major face of the support capable of absorbing up to 60 percent of the exposing radiation and containing less than 30 mg/dm.sup.2 of hydrophilic colloid and less than 20 mg/dm.sup.2 silver in the form of radiation-sensitive silver halide grains and (2) a processing solution permeable back layer unit coated on the back major face of the support containing less than 40 mg/dm.sup.2 of hydrophilic colloid, silver in the form of radiation-sensitive silver halide grains accounting for from 40 to 60 percent of the total radiation-sensitive silver halide present in the film, and a dye capable of providing an optical density of at least 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert Edward Dickerson, Wray Earl Paul
  • Patent number: 5731136
    Abstract: TiO.sub.2 with an average primary particle diameter of 10 to 100 nm is suitable as a UV absorber for photographic materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert
    Inventor: Arno Schmuck
  • Patent number: 5731134
    Abstract: Stable photographic coating compositions comprising a polymer latex are prepared by mixing an aqueous solution comprising gelatin with a latex dispersion of a polymer of the formula(A).sub.x (B).sub.y (C).sub.zwhereA and B are formed from nonionic monomers,C is formed from anionic monomers, andx, y and z are monomer weight fractions where x=0 to 1.0, y=0 to 1.0, x+y=about 0.98 to 1.0, and z=0 to about 0.02,wherein A, B, x and y are such that latex dispersions of polymers of the formula (A).sub.x (B).sub.y have calcium ion critical coagulation concentrations of less than 80 mM Ca.sup.+2 in gelatin solutions,wherein the gelatin of the aqueous solution mixed with the latex dispersion comprises a gelatin of low calcium ion content such that the coating composition has a calcium Ca.sup.2+ concentration of less than 2 mM. The method of the invention allows for the preparation of aqueous gelatin coating solutions comprising latex dispersions of polymers which are unstable in the presence of calcium ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James Stephen Honan, John Bruce Walters, Thomas Haile Whitesides
  • Patent number: 5725999
    Abstract: The invention provides a multilayer color negative photographic element comprising a support, at least one light-sensitive silver halide layer sensitive to each of the blue, green and red regions of the visible spectrum, a magnetic recording layer and a yellow or orange-yellow methine density correction dye of structure I, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen or an alkyl group;R.sub.2 is an alkyl group or an aryl group;R.sub.3 is hydrogen, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group or an aryloxy group;R.sub.4 is hydrogen or an alkyl group;R.sub.5 is hydrogen or an alkyl group;R.sub.6 is hydrogen or an alkyl group;X is oxygen or sulfur;each R.sub.7 is independently a substituent selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, and alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, carbonamido, sulfonamido, carbamoyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, acyloxy, acyl, sulfamoyl, sulfonyl, sulfoxyl, alkylthio, arylthio and cyano groups;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 or R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may join to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul Barrett Merkel, Melvin Michael Kestner, David Hoke, Jeffrey Walter Schmoeger
  • Patent number: 5726000
    Abstract: A dispersion of fine solid particles having good production suitability, good dispersion stability and high spectral absorption, which is obtained by pulverizing an aqueous slurry of a dye represented by general formula (II) in the presence of a polyalkylene oxide represented by general formula (I-a) or (I-b): ##STR1## wherein a and b each represents a value of 5 to 500.D--(X).sub.y (II)wherein D represents a compound residue having a chromophore, X represents dissociative hydrogen or a group having dissociative hydrogen, and y is an integer of 1 to 7. An embodiment that a compound represented by general formula (I) is present together with the polyalkylene oxide of general formula (I-a) or (I-b) is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakanishi, Yukoh Saitoh, Masahiro Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 5725990
    Abstract: An image formation method comprising imagewise exposing a silver halide light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, a slightly water soluble basic metal compound, and a dye composition which is decolorized or discolored on heat development; contacting the surface of the light-sensitive material with a sheet coated with a binder and a compound which forms a complex with a metal ion constituting the basic metal compound and heating them in the presence of a reducing agent and water after or during the imagewise exposing; and peeling off the sheet to obtain an image on at least the light-sensitive material and the sheet, wherein the dye composition comprises an oil-soluble dye formed by a leuco dye and a color developer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hirai, Yoshiharu Yabuki
  • Patent number: 5723272
    Abstract: Silver halide light sensitive photographic elements comprising a support bearing on one side thereof at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion yellow-image forming layer, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion cyan-image forming layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion magenta-image forming layer, and an antihalation layer comprising a cyan filter dye coated between the support and the red-sensitive layer, wherein the green-sensitive layer comprises a four equivalent magenta image forming coupler and the cyan filter dye is of the formula (I): ##STR1## where L.sup.1, L.sup.2, L.sup.3, L.sup.4 and L.sup.5 are methine groups; R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are independently H or alkyl or aryl groups; and M.sup.+ is H or a counter ion; wherein at least one of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 comprises an aryl group substituted with a substituent having a .pi. value of less than -0.10, where .pi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gary Norman Barber, Margaret Jones Helber
  • Patent number: 5723270
    Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed which comprises (a) a support, (b) a radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on one side of the support, and (c) a protective backing on the opposite side of the support which provides scratch and abrasion resistance and process surviving lubricity. The protective backing is comprised of one or more layers, the outermost of which comprises a film-forming hydrophobic lubricious polyimide-siloxane block copolymer. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the backing further comprises a solid particle dye dispersion of a filter dye which is readily soluble or decolorizable in alkali aqueous photographic processing solutions at pH of 8 or above dispersed in an alkaline aqueous insoluble, organic solvent soluble film forming binder, and an electrically conductive agent, such that the backing provides halation protection during exposure as well as process-surviving antistatic protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas M. Smith, Vito A. DePalma, Scott E. Tunney
  • Patent number: 5723271
    Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed which comprises (a) a support, (b) a radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on one side of the support, and (c) a protective backing on the opposite side of the support which provides scratch and abrasion resistance and process surviving lubricity. The protective backing is comprised of one or more layers, the outermost of which comprises a film-forming hydrophobic lubricious polyester-siloxane block copolymer and a hydrophobic co-binder which does not contain polysiloxane block units. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the backing further comprises a solid particle dye dispersion of a filter dye which is readily soluble or decolorizable in alkali aqueous photographic processing solutions at pH of 8 or above dispersed in an alkaline aqueous insoluble, organic solvent soluble film forming binder, and an electrically conductive agent, such that the backing provides halation protection during exposure as well as process-surviving antistatic protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas M. Smith, Vito A. DePalma, Scott E. Tunney
  • Patent number: 5723617
    Abstract: A series of novel pyrrolo?2,1-a!isoquinoline dyes has been prepared using readily available starting materials via a simple synthetic pathway. These dyes have narrow absorption bands in the range of 500-900 nm. Those that absorb in the near-infrared region (700-1400 nm) lack significant absorption in the 300-400 nm ultraviolet region of the spectrum; this is an advantage for use in an applications such as imaging setting film. In addition, the greater thermal and chemical stability of these dyes in comparison to their indolizine analogues should be valuable in many applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Gregory D. Cuny
  • Patent number: 5719015
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide light-sensitive layer and at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein the support comprises a poly(alkylene aromatic dicarboxylate) having a glass transition temperature of from 50.degree. C. to 200.degree. C. and is heat-treated at a temperature of not lower than 40.degree. C., but lower than the glass transition temperature for 0.1 to 1500 hours after molding the polymer into the support and before the coating of the silver halide light-sensitive layer, and said at least one light-insensitive layer contains a dispersion of crystallites of at least one dye represented by general formula (I):D--(X).sub.y (I)wherein D represents a moiety having a chromophoric group; X represents a dissociable proton or a group having a dissociable proton which is bonded to D either directly or through a bivalent bonding group; and y represents an integer of 1 to 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Kiyoshi Nakazyo
  • Patent number: 5719014
    Abstract: The invention provides a multilayer color negative photographic film comprising a support, at least one light-sensitive silver halide layer sensitive to each of the blue, green and red regions of the visible spectrum and a yellow or orange-yellow methine dye of structure I, ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is hydrogen or an alkyl group;R.sub.2 is an alkyl group or an aryl group;R.sub.3 is hydrogen, a halogen atom (such as chlorine or fluorine), an alkyl group, an alkoxy group or an aryloxy group;R.sub.4 is hydrogen or an alkyl group;R.sub.5 is hydrogen or an alkyl group;R.sub.6 is hydrogen or an alkyl group;X is oxygen or sulfur;each R.sub.7 is independently a substituent selected from the group consisting halogen atoms, and alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, carbonamido, sulfonamido, carbamoyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, acyloxy, acyl, sulfamoyl, sulfonyl, sulfoxyl, sulfonyloxy, alkylthio, arylthio, and cyano groups;n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; andR.sub.1 and R.sub.2 or R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may join to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul Barrett Merkel, Melvin Michael Kestner, James Anthony Friday
  • Patent number: 5716764
    Abstract: The invention provides a multilayer silver halide color negative photographic element comprising in the same layer a cyan dye of formula (I) and a ballasted stabilizer compound of formula (II), where the respective formulas are: ##STR1## andB--L--A--R (II)wherein:the substiuents are as defined herein the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John Brian Rieger, Charles Leo Bauer
  • Patent number: 5716769
    Abstract: A radiographic element is disclosed having a transparent film support and hydrophilic colloid layers including at least one silver halide emulsion layer coated on the support. Upon viewing following imagewise exposure and processing, the radiographic element exhibits a transparent blue appearance in areas of minimum density, at least a portion of the blue appearance being attributable to the presence in one or more of the hydrophilic colloid layers of at least one ionic linear condensation polymer containing an anthraquinone dye chromophore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert E. Dickerson, Rickey J. Seyler
  • Patent number: 5709983
    Abstract: Photographic elements are formed by (a) coating a first layer on a transparent support from a coating composition comprising an organic solvent, an alkaline aqueous insoluble, organic solvent soluble film forming binder, and a solid particle non-aqueous dispersion of a filter dye which is substantially insoluble in the organic solvent and readily soluble or decolorizable in alkaline aqueous photographic processing solutions at pH of 8 or above, and (b) coating a second layer on the opposite side of the support relative to the filter dye containing layer from an aqueous coating composition comprising a silver halide emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Mary Christine Brick, Thomas Michael Smith, Ronda Ellen Factor, Eugene Arthur Armour, Wayne Arthur Bowman
  • Patent number: 5705323
    Abstract: Heat bleachable antihalation compositions are prepared using metallized or unmetallized formazan dyes, hexaarylbiimidzoles having alkoxy substituents and organic carboxylic acids. These compositions are rapidly bleached at relatively low temperatures and can be used in photothermographic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert James Perry, Ramanuj Goswami, Paul Anthony Zielinski
  • Patent number: 5698364
    Abstract: Dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising at least one magenta dye having extremely low side absorption in the blue and red regions of the spectrum, said dye corresponding to the general formula (I) : ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is H, (cyclo)alkyl, or aryl; X represents the atoms completing a heterocycle; Z is an electron-withdrawing group; Y is an electron-withdrawing group or --N(R.sup.2)R.sup.3 ; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 together represent the atoms completing a heterocycle; or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 together represent .dbd.C(R.sup.4)R.sup.5, or each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 represents (same or different) (cyclo) alkyl, aryl, or an electron-withdrawing group; each of R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 (same or different) represents H, (cyclo)alkyl, aryl, a heterocycle, SO.sub.2 R.sup.6, COR.sup.6, CSR.sup.6, POR.sup.6 R.sup.7, OR.sup.8, NR.sup.8 R.sup.9, SR.sup.8, or R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 together represent the atoms completing an aliphatic ring or a heterocycle, each of R.sup.6 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Janssens, Luc Vanmaele
  • Patent number: 5695917
    Abstract: A photographic element contains a four-equivalent pyrazolone magenta coupler and a yellow filter dye represented by Formula I. ##STR1## wherein: A is an acidic nucleus selected from the group consisting of benzoylacetonitrile, 2-phenyl-1,1,3-tricyanopropene, 5-pyrazolone, isooxazolone, barbituric acid, thiobarbituric acid, rhodanine, hydantoin, thiohydantoin, oxazolidindione, pyrazolidindione, indandione, pyrazolopyridone, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolin-2,4-dione, 3-oxo-2,3-dihydrobenzo?d!thiophene-1,1-dioxide and 3-dicynaomethine-2,3-dihydroxybenzo?d!thiophene-1,1-dioxide;L.sup.1-3 each independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted methine group;n is 0 or 1;R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John Victor Nelson, Margaret Jones Helber, Mary Christine Brick
  • Patent number: 5693457
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon hydrophilic colloid layers including a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains photosensitive silver halide grains which have been selenium-sensitized or tellurium sensitized; and at least one of the hydrophilic colloid layers contains an organic dye represented by the following formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Kojima, Yasuhiko Kawashima, Tomoyuki Nakayama
  • Patent number: 5693370
    Abstract: A method is described to provide a radiographic silver halide material by coating on at least one side of a support, covered with a hydrophobic subbing layer comprising as a latex copolymer vinylidene chloride, methylacrylate and itaconic acid, following hydrophilic layers: at least one gelatinous dye containing layer comprising one or more dyes, at least one silver halide emulsion layer, at least one protective antistress layer, and optionally an afterlayer, characterized in that said hydrophilic layers have a swelling ratio of not more than 200% and in that said hydrophilic layers are coated simultaneously by the slide-hopper coating or by the slide-hopper curtain coating technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventor: Marc Van den Zegel
  • Patent number: 5688636
    Abstract: A new type of yellow dyes with general formula Q--CO--CO--X is disclosed. They can be used in photographic materials as antihalation dyes, acutance dyes or filter dyes. Preferably they are incorporated in UV sensitive contact materials for pre-press applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventor: Eric Kiekens
  • Patent number: 5683860
    Abstract: A silver halide light sensitive photographic element comprising a support bearing on one side thereof at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the emulsion layer or a separate hydrophilic colloid layer of the element comprises a soluble absorber dye of the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein each M is H or a counterion; each R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represents H or a photographically acceptable substituent; m+p equals from 1 to 4; n+q equals from 1 to 4; and each of r and t represents from 0 to 3. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the element comprises at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a dye of formula (I) is coated on the same side of the support as the red-sensitive emulsion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Donald R. Diehl, Linda J. Beattie, Gary N. Barber
  • Patent number: 5679505
    Abstract: A photographic film that is especially useful as a motion picture print film is comprised of a support having, in order, on one side thereof an antihalation undercoat and at least one silver halide emulsion layer and having, in order, on the opposite side thereof an antistatic layer and a protective topcoat; wherein the protective topcoat is comprised of a polyurethane binder and a lubricant and the polyurethane binder has a tensile elongation to break of at least 50% and a Young's modulus measured at 2% elongation of at least 50000 lb/in.sup.2. The polyurethane binder provides a tough but flexible protective topcoat that is capable of resisting abrasion and scratching when the film is conveyed through a projector and capable of standing up to the repeated use to which motion picture print films are typically subjected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Lloyd Tingler, Charles Chester Anderson, Lori Jeanne Shaw-Klein
  • Patent number: 5672468
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having photographic constituent layers on a support, said photographic constituent layers comprising at least 3 kinds of silver halide emulsion layers different in color sensitivity and each containing a coupler producing a yellow color, a magenta color, or a cyan color and at least one light-insensitive layer, in which a silver halide emulsion contained in at least one layer of said photographic constituent layers comprises silver chloride grains or silver chlorobromide grains having a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more sensitized by at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a gold compound, a selenium compound and a tellurium compound and at least one layer of said photographic constituent layers contains a pentamethineoxonol dye containing a substituent group at the methine chain, whereby the silver halide color photographic material exhibits excellently rapid processing performance, high purity whiteness in the white background of a fi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Col., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kentaro Okazaki
  • Patent number: 5667950
    Abstract: High-contrast room-light-handleable contact-exposed ultraviolet-sensitive black-and-white silver halide photographic elements useful in the field of graphic arts are provided with an electrically-conductive layer which serves to provide antistatic protection. The electrically-conductive layer is comprised of electrically-conductive metal-containing particles, such as particles of antimony-doped tin oxide, a film-forming polymer, such as gelatin, and an ultraviolet-absorber, such as a solid particle filter dye, in an amount sufficient to provide halation protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Ronald James Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5658718
    Abstract: Multilayer silver halide color photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least a blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, at least a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, and at least a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, said red-sensitive layer containing a non-diffusible, cyan dye-forming magenta masking coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Imation Corp
    Inventors: Anna Maria Canuti, Roberto Sardelli, Massimo Bertoldi
  • Patent number: 5652091
    Abstract: Heat bleachable elements have antihalation layers composed of metallized or unmetallized formazan dyes, hexaarylbiimidzoles having alkoxy substituents and film forming binders that soften upon heating. These layers are rapidly bleached at relatively low temperatures. Polymeric acidic layers adjacent the antihalation layers provide an acidic component that increases bleaching rates when the acidic layer is also softened during processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert James Perry, Ramanuj Goswami
  • Patent number: 5624783
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging element comprising on one side of a support a photosensitive layer comprising a silver halide emulsion and an image receiving layer containing physical development nuclei in water permeable relationship with said emulsion layer and on the other side of the support at least one backing layer comprising gelatin and a dye and/or a dye precursor characterized in that said dye or dye precursor is such that after treatment of said imaging element in an alkaline solution with a pH of 10.9 for 20 s at a temperature of 30.degree. C. the backing layer has a reflection spectrum when treated for 20 s at 20.degree. C. in a neutralizing solution with a pH of 7.5 that is visually different from the reflection spectrum when treated for 20 s at 20.degree. C. in a neutralizing solution with a pH of 8.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Lode Deprez, Eric Kiekens
  • Patent number: 5624786
    Abstract: An image forming method is disclosed, comprising exposing a silver halide photographic material through a transparent, high definition-screening original and developing the photographic material with a developer to form a halftone dot image, wherein:the photographic material forms a halftone dot image having a dot area of 57% or less when exposed, through the transparent original comprising a halftone dot image having a dot area of 50%, in two times an amount that gives a halftone dot having a dot area of 50%; and the photographic material has a maximum density of 3.0 or more and a contrast of 8.0 or more;and wherein the photographic material is exposed to light having an emission peak at a wavelength of 360 to 450 nm and developed with a developer having a pH of 10.5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Hirabayashi, Takeshi Sampei
  • Patent number: 5620839
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the support is polyester having a glass transition temperature of from 90.degree. C. to 200.degree. C. and contains a specific dye and/or an inorganic pigment in a slight amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Kawamoto, Shigeru Ohno
  • Patent number: 5620837
    Abstract: This invention provides a color silver halide photographic element comprising a support having situated thereon a red light-sensitive, cyan dye-forming unit comprising a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer and an image dye-forming coupler; a green light-sensitive, magenta dye-forming unit comprising a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer and an image dye-forming coupler; and a blue light-sensitive, yellow dye-forming unit comprising a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer and an image dye-forming coupler; wherein at least one of the dye-forming units comprises two or more emulsion layers spectrally sensitized to the same region of the visible spectrum, but exhibiting different photographic sensitivities, each such emulsion layer containing an image dye-forming coupler wherein at least one, but not all, of the emulsion layers of the dye-forming unit contains the hydrolyzed or unhydrolyzed form of a benzazolium compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Sang H. Kim, Arlyce T. Bowne, Thomas J. Dannhauser
  • Patent number: 5609999
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material can be formed which exhibits good storage stability and provides excellent sharpness and superior color reproducibility by incorporating therein a dye comprising an indole moiety having a methyl group substituted by an electron-withdrawing group at the 1-position and an acidic nucleus which are connected together via a methine chain. The dye is typically provided in a light-insensitive layer in the form of a solid dispersion. Specific embodiments include the combination of the indole-containing dye with a magenta dye, fogged silver halide grains, a DIR compound or a mercaptoheterocyclic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunichi Aida, Keisuke Matsumoto, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Koji Wariishi
  • Patent number: 5594047
    Abstract: Loaded latex dispersions of hydrophobic photographically useful compounds with a wide variety of polymer latices are prepared by preparing an oil phase solution of the hydrophobic compound or compounds, preferably essentially free of water-miscible or volatile solvent, combining the oil solution with one or more aqueous solutions, at least one of which contains a polymer latex, and mixing the combination of oil solution, aqueous solution and latex under high shear or turbulence sufficient to cause loading of the photographically useful compound into the dispersed polymer latex wherein the pH of the mixture does not need to be significantly changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ralph B. Nielsen, Thomas A. Rosiek, David F. Bates, James S. Honan, Hwei-Ling Yau
  • Patent number: 5580700
    Abstract: The present invention provides a bottom anti-reflective coating compositions having a very low level of metal ions and a process for producing such compositions utilizing specially treated ion exchange resins. The present invention also provides photoresists produced using such bottom anti-reflective coating compositions and a method for producing semiconductor devices using such photoresists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Hoechst Celanese Corporation
    Inventor: M. Dalil Rahman
  • Patent number: 5580708
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, which has on a reflective support at least one light-sensitive layer containing silver halide emulsion grains, wherein said reflective support has at least one waterproof resin coated layer which contains at least 2 g/m.sup.2 of a white pigment in waterproof resin coated layer at the light-sensitive layer coated side and further at least one light-sensitive layer contains at least one compound represented by following general formula (I) in a molecular dispersion state of a monomolecule or a dimer; ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, the sum total of the atomic weights of at least one of (R.sub.1 +R.sub.3) and (R.sub.2 +R.sub.4) being not more than 160; n represents 0, 1, or 2; and M represents a hydrogen atom or an alkali metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Kawai, Mario Aoki
  • Patent number: 5578425
    Abstract: An element for cleaning processing solutions contained in a radiographic film processor is disclosed. The element is comprised of a transparent film support and hydrophilic colloid layers coated on opposite sides of the film support. An infrared opacifying dye is contained within the element capable of reducing specular transmission through the element before, during and after processing to less than 50 percent, measured at a wavelength within the spectral region of from 850 to 1100 nm. A processing solution soluble colorant can be contained in one or more of the hydrophilic colloid layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert E. Dickerson, Kevin W. Williams
  • Patent number: 5576156
    Abstract: A radiographic element is disclosed having emulsion layers coated on opposite surfaces of a transparent film support. To facilitate rapid processing the emulsion layers are fully forehardened and less than 35 mg/dm.sup.2 of hydrophilic colloid is coated on each major surface. To reduce crossover and hydrophilic colloid, emulsions on the opposite sides of the support are each divided into two layers with the layer coated nearest the support containing a particulate dye capable of being decolorized during processing. Particulate dye and silver halide grains together account for between 30 and 70 percent of the total weight of the emulsion layers. Combined with the use of spectrally sensitized tabular grain emulsions crossover can be reduced to less than 15 percent while processing can be completed in less than 45 seconds. The distribution of hydrophilic colloid and silver halide grains chosen achieves low wet pressure sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Robert E. Dickerson
  • Patent number: 5573899
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer containing a silver halide emulsion on a support, in which at least one silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide grains of silver chloride or silver chlorobromide having a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more, the silver halide grains being tellurium-sensitized, and at least one of light-sensitive emulsion layers or non-light-sensitive emulsion layers on the support contains at least one specific compound represented by formula (I), (II) or (III) herein. The material has excellent rapid processability and a high sensitivity. It involves little photographic fluctuation before and after continuous processing thereof and little photographic fluctuation due to variation of the ambient humidity during exposure thereof. The image sharpness of the material may be noticeably improved without appreciably detracting from the sensitivity thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Kase
  • Patent number: 5569577
    Abstract: Disclosed is a color photographic material having, on a reflective support coated with waterproof resin layers, at least three different color-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers containing any of cyan, magenta and yellow couplers, in which the number of said waterproof resin layers under said photographic constitutive layers is at least three, at least one of said waterproof resin layers contains from 15% by weight to 45% by weight of a white pigment, the waterproof resin layer nearest to the substrate of the support and that nearest to the photographic constitutive layers donor contain a white pigment or contain it in an amount of 20% by weight or less, the thickness of the waterproof resin layer nearest to the photographic constitutive layers is 5 .mu.m or less, and at least one emulsion layer contains high silver chloride emulsion grains having a silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more and contains a mercaptohetercyclic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazunori Hasebe
  • Patent number: 5565310
    Abstract: A silver halide color light-sensitive material comprising a reflective support having provided thereon a yellow-forming light-sensitive layer, a magenta-forming light-sensitive layer, and a cyan-forming light-sensitive layer, wherein said magenta-forming layer contains a pyrazolo[1,5-b][1,2,4]triazole magenta coupler having a substituted phenyl at the 2-position and a bulky substituent at the 6-position, and said light-sensitive material has a reflection density of not less than 0.3. The light-sensitive material has excellent sharpness and reduced dependence on processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 5563028
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer provided on a support. The silver halide emulsion layer or the hydrophilic colloidal layer contains a dye represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## in which A.sup.1 is an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an aryl group or a substituted aryl group; each of Q.sup.1 and Q.sup.2 is hydrogen, an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group, or Q.sup.1 and Q.sup.2 are combined with each other to form a five or six-membered heterocyclic ring; Q.sup.3 is hydrogen, a halogen atom, carboxyl, hydroxyl, methyl or methoxy; each of M.sup.1 and M.sup.2 is hydrogen, a metal atom or an atomic group that forms a monovalent cation; and p is 2, 3 or 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Nakamura, Shigeru Ohno, Kiyoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 5561032
    Abstract: A photographic silver halide material is disclosed which comprises a support and on one or both sides thereof at least one silver halide emulsion layer and a protective gelatin antistress layer and which comprises in an outermost layer on the side(s) containing at least one emulsion layer a polyoxyalkylene compound as an antistatic agent, characterised in that said antistress layer comprises an ionic or nonionic polymer or copolymer latex. In addition to the preservation of antistatic properties after processing of the said material an improvement in surface glare as appreciated upon examination of medical X-ray films is obtained. Moreover the occurrence after processing of water spot defects and sticking is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventor: Hubert Vandenabeele
  • 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: 5532117
    Abstract: The invention provides a multicolor negative photographic element which contains a layer containing a yellow or orange-yellow azoaniline dye of structure I ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is an alkyl group or a phenyl group;R.sub.2 is hydrogen or an alkyl group;R.sub.3 is an alkoxy, aryloxy or alkyl group when R.sub.2 is hydrogen, or is hydrogen when R.sub.2 is an alkyl group;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 or R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 may join to form a ring;R.sub.4, which may be in the para or meta position relative to the azo group, is an electron-withdrawing group selected from the group consisting of trifluoromethyl, cyano, halogen, and from alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, acyloxy, carbonamido, sulfonamido, carbamoyl, sulfamoyl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, sulfonyloxy (--OSO.sub.3 R), alkoxysulfonyl, aryloxysulfonyl, and sulfoxide groups;R.sub.5 is hydrogen or, can be a chlorine in the meta position when R.sub.4 is a chlorine in the para position; andthe total number of carbon atoms in R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, James P. Merrill, Jeffrey W. Schmoeger, Jared B. Mooberry
  • Patent number: 5518877
    Abstract: Improved photographic properties are obtained if the photographic silver halide material contains a copolymer with polypeptide segments, wherein the polypeptide segments are derived from polypeptides with an average molecular weight M.sub.w of 2000 to 40000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Gunter Helling, Klaus Wagner
  • Patent number: 5508149
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material for use in preparing a color proof image from a halftone image information is provided, comprising a support having thereon blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, in which at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers comprises silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of not less than 80 mol % and of which the reflection densities, when unprocessed, at wavelengths of 450, 550 and 700 nm each are not less than 0.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Masumi, Shun Takada
  • Patent number: H1593
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is provided, comprising photographic component layers comprising a red-sensitive layer, a green-sensitive layer, a blue-sensitive layer and a nonlight-sensitive layer, and having an ISO speed of 320 to 800, wherein the total coating weight of silver in the component layers is within a range of 3.0 to 8.0 g/m.sup.2 ; a dry coating thickness is 22 .mu.m or less; and at least one of the component layers contains a dye in the form of a dispersion of solid particles dispersed in a binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Inventors: Hideaki Haraga, Masaru Iwagaki