Antistatic Agent Containing Patents (Class 430/527)
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Patent number: 5681687Abstract: Imaging elements, such as photographic, electrostatographic and thermal imaging elements, are comprised of a support, an image-forming layer and an electrically-conductive layer produced by coating a layer comprised of a metallo-organic compound and a film-forming binder and subjecting such layer to glow discharge treatment to render it electrically conductive. Use of a metallo-organic compound in combination with a glow discharge treatment provides a controlled degree of electrical conductivity and beneficial chemical, physical and optical properties which adapt the electrically-conductive layer for such purposes as providing protection against static or serving as an electrode which takes part in an image-forming process.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1996Date of Patent: October 28, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Mark Lelental, Bradley Keith Coltrain, David Appler Glocker, Dennis R. Freeman, Jeremy Matthew Grace
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Patent number: 5679505Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 21, 1995Date of Patent: October 21, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Kenneth Lloyd Tingler, Charles Chester Anderson, Lori Jeanne Shaw-Klein
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Patent number: 5674671Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a fluoropolymer and a fluorochemical surface active agent in combination for improving the antistatic behaviour of surfaces. In one embodiment, the invention provides a light-sensitive material possessing good initial antistatic properties and retaining good properties even after aqueous processing.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1995Date of Patent: October 7, 1997Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Marc Brandon, Dirk H. C. Arren, Rudolph J. Dams
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Patent number: 5667950Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 13, 1996Date of Patent: September 16, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Ronald James Schmidt
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Patent number: 5650265Abstract: Palladium compounds are incorporated into a relatively low speed photographic print element. One embodiment of the invention comprises a silver halide light sensitive photographic print element comprising a support bearing at least one silver halide emulsion image forming layer, an antistatic layer containing vanadium pentoxide, and a palladium compound. In a preferred embodiment, the silver halide light sensitive photographic print element of the invention comprises 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, and at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion magenta-image forming layer; an antistatic layer containing vanadium pentoxide; and a palladium compound.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1995Date of Patent: July 22, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Henry Joseph Sniadoch, Gary Norman Barber
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Patent number: 5637368Abstract: An antistatic adhesive article which comprises an adhesive layer and utilizes vanadium oxide to impart antistatic properties to the article. The article is preferably an adhesive tape or sheet. The adhesive may be pressure sensitive or non-pressure sensitive. The vanadium oxide may be incorporated into or onto the tape from an aqueous dispersion.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1993Date of Patent: June 10, 1997Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: David A. Cadalbert, Eric D. Morrison, Tamara L. Johnson, William L. Kausch, David R. Boston, Wayne K. Larson, Steven T. Hedrick
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Patent number: 5609969Abstract: The invention comprises a self supporting electronic packaging article comprising an insulative polymer overcoated with an antistatic/protective coating system comprising from about 8 mg/m.sup.2 to about 70 mg/m.sup.2 vanadium pentoxide, from about 36 mg/m.sup.2 to about 270 mg/m.sup.2 of a polymer latex having a hydrophilic functionality, and from about 210 mg/m.sup.2 to about 842 mg/m.sup.2 of a nonsulfonated protective topical binder, all of which may be contained in a single coating, or which may be contained in a two-layer coating system.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1995Date of Patent: March 11, 1997Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: William J. Clatanoff, Eric D. Morrison, Nanayakkara L. D. Somasiri
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Patent number: 5607825Abstract: A photographic film construction at least one side of which is coated with an antistatic layer comprising a binder of gelatin grafted to a poly(ethylenic) polymer having acid functional groups on the polymer and a dispersion of vanadium oxide particles in the grafted gelatin binder.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1995Date of Patent: March 4, 1997Assignee: Minnesota Mining and ManufacturingInventor: Robert L. Carlson
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Patent number: 5597681Abstract: Imaging elements, such as photographic films and papers, are comprised of a support, an image-forming layer, an electrically-conductive layer and a protective overcoat layer that overlies the electrically-conductive layer. The protective overcoat layer is coated from a dispersion of core/shell polymer particles in a liquid organic medium, the polymer particles comprising a core portion which is insoluble in the organic medium and a shell portion which has an affinity for both the core portion and the organic medium.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1995Date of Patent: January 28, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Charles C. Anderson, Yongcai Wang, Mario D. DeLaura, James L. Bello
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Patent number: 5597680Abstract: Imaging elements, such as photographic films and papers, are comprised of a support, an image-forming layer and at least one auxiliary layer containing solvent-dispersible polymer particles. The auxiliary layer is coated from a dispersion of core/shell polymer particles in a liquid organic medium, the polymer particles comprising a core portion which is insoluble in the organic medium and a shell portion which has an affinity for both the core portion and the organic medium.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1995Date of Patent: January 28, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Yongcai Wang, Charles C. Anderson, James L. Bello, Mario D. DeLaura
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Patent number: 5589324Abstract: The photographic element having an antistatic layer composed of a polymer entity of (a) a water-soluble, electrically conductive polyelectrolyte, e.g., poly(sodium styrenesulfonate) homopolymer, and (b) a polymer derived from a polymerization of a monomer, such as a polyfunctional aziridine, in the presence of the polyelectrolyte. When applied to the surface of a support as a component of a coating mixture, the monomer polymerizes and entraps the polyelectrolyte molecules forming a distinct and permanent antistatic layer on the support. The electrically conductive polyelectrolyte molecules confer antistatic protection for photographic materials.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1993Date of Patent: December 31, 1996Assignee: International Paper CompanyInventor: Allan J. Wexler
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Patent number: 5582959Abstract: An image-forming method comprising processing an imagewise exposed silver halide photographic material for a laser scanner comprising a transparent support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprising a silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of .gtoreq.90 mol % spectrally sensitized to a range of .gtoreq.600 nm. Processing comprises developing in a developing bath and fixing in a fixing bath, wherein the photographic material contains one or both of a conductive metal oxide and a conductive polymer; the developing bath and the fixing bath are each replenished in an amount of .ltoreq.200 ml per m.sup.2 of the photographic material processed; the processing is carried out in an automatic developing machine. Further, an image-forming method, wherein the photographic material contains a polyoxyethylene nonionic surface active agent and a fluorine-containing surface active agent each having a solubility of .ltoreq.0.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: December 10, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tadashi Ito
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Patent number: 5582963Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprises a plastic support, a silver halide emulsion layer and an antistatic backing layer. A process for the preparation of the photographic material comprises the steps of: coating a silver halide emulsion on one side of the support to form the silver halide emulsion layer; and coating an aqueous coating solution on the other side of the support to form the antistatic backing layer. The coating solution contains electroconductive particles, a binder and a specific nonionic surface active agent represented by the formula (Ia), (Ib), (II), (III) or (IV).Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1995Date of Patent: December 10, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshihisa Tsukada
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Patent number: 5576162Abstract: Imaging elements, such as photographic, electrostatographic and thermal imaging elements, are comprised of a support, an image-forming layer and an electrically-conductive layer comprising a dispersion of carbon nanofibers in a film-forming binder. Use of carbon nanofibers provides a controlled degree of electrical conductivity and beneficial chemical, physical and optical properties which adapt the electrically-conductive layer for such purposes as providing protection against static or serving as an electrode which takes part in an image-forming process.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1996Date of Patent: November 19, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Kimon Papadopoulos
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Patent number: 5571665Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic material comprising a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer coated thereon, and a hydrophilic colloid layer coated on said at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said hydrophilic colloid layer comprises a combination of (a) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of non-ionic polyoxyethylene surfactants and anionic polyoxyethylene surfactants and (b) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of non-ionic perfluoroalkylpolyoxyethylene surfactants and polyoxyethylene-modified polysiloxane surfactants.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1994Date of Patent: November 5, 1996Assignee: Imation Corp.Inventors: Dario Ballerini, Marco Bucci, Domenico Marinelli, Renzo Torterolo
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Patent number: 5565311Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, which comprises at least one compound represented by the following general formula (1) or (2): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represent a C.sub.25-70 alkyl group; X, Y and Z each represent a divalent bridging group; A and B each represent any unit selected from the group consisting of --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.a --, --(CH.sub.2 CH(OH)CH.sub.2 O).sub.b --, --((CH.sub.2).sub.c CH(R)CH.sub.2 O).sub.d --, and --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.e --(CH.sub.2 CH(OH)CH.sub.2 O).sub.f --((CH.sub.2).sub.c CH(R)CH.sub.2 O).sub.g -- in which c represents an integer 1 to 3 and R represents H, CH.sub.3 or phenyl group; D represents a hydrogen atom or C.sub.1-8 alkyl group; and a represents 5 to 40, b and d each represent 5 to 30, e represents 0 to 40, and f and g each represent 0 to 30.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1994Date of Patent: October 15, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Fumio Kawamoto
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Patent number: 5561032Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 12, 1994Date of Patent: October 1, 1996Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventor: Hubert Vandenabeele
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Patent number: 5554495Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is provided, comprising a support having thereon an antistatic layer and further having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the antistatic layer comprises a water-soluble conductive polymer and a hydrophobic polymer, the layer having been hardened with a hardener, or the antistatic layer comprises conductive metal oxide particles containing at least one metal selected from Zn, Ti, Sn, Al, In, Si, Mg, Ba, Mo, W and V; and the silver halide emulsion is spectrally sensitized by adding thereto a substantially water-insoluble spectral-sensitizing dye in the form of a dispersion of solid particles dispersed in an aqueous medium substantially free from an organic solvent and a surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1994Date of Patent: September 10, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Nobuaki Tsuji
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Patent number: 5547821Abstract: Thermally processable imaging elements in which the image is formed by imagewise heating or by imagewise exposure to light followed by uniform heating are provided with an electroconductive overcoat layer or an electroconductive backing layer or both an electroconductive overcoat layer and an electroconductive backing layer. Such electroconductive layers are comprised of electrically-conductive metal-containing particles dispersed in a polymeric binder in an amount sufficient to provide a surface resistivity of less than 5.times.10.sup.11 ohms/square.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1995Date of Patent: August 20, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Sharon M. Melpolder, Charles C. Anderson, Peter J. Cowdery-Corvan, John F. DeCory
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Patent number: 5543287Abstract: A silver halide photographic material and a method for processing the same are disclosed. The silver halide photographic material has a support and a silver halide emulsion layer. The emulsion layer contains polymer latex bonded with gelatin and not less than 70 wt. % of the polymer latex is present. Dimensional stability is improved by the combination of a high portion of polymer latex with the gelatin.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1995Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Takeo Arai
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Patent number: 5541049Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic material comprising a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer coated thereon, and a hydrophilic colloid layer coated on said at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said hydrophilic colloid layer comprises a combination of (a) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of non-ionic perfluoroalkyl(ene)polyoxyethylene surfactants and polyoxyethylene-modified polysiloxane surfactants, and (b) at least one salt of perfluoroalkylsulfonyl imide or perfluoroalkylsulfonyl methide.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1995Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Dario Ballerini, Renzo Torterolo, Marco Bucci, William M. Lamanna, George G. I. Moore, William A. Huffman
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Patent number: 5536628Abstract: An imaging element comprising a support, at least one light-sensitive layer and at least one coalesced layer of film-forming colloidal polymeric particles and non-film-forming colloidal polymeric particles, one of which contains a light-absorbing dye.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1994Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Yongcai Wang, Charles C. Anderson, Kurt M. Schroeder
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Patent number: 5534397Abstract: An imaging element for use in an electron-beam-recording process is comprised of a film support having, in order, on one side thereof a conductive layer comprising vanadium pentoxide, an adhesion-promoting hydrophilic colloid layer and an imaging layer. The imaging layer is comprised of an electron-beam-sensitive silver halide emulsion and the vanadium pentoxide is present in the conductive layer in an amount sufficient to impart thereto a resistivity of less than 5.times.10.sup.8 .OMEGA./sq. The imaging element is free of objectionable visual density, UV density and mottle and can be manufactured without the need for organic solvents.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1995Date of Patent: July 9, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Charles C. Anderson, David A. Niemeyer, David F. Jennings
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Patent number: 5516458Abstract: Imaging elements, such as photographic, electrostatographic and thermal imaging elements, are comprised of a support, an image-forming layer and an electrically-conductive layer produced bycoating a layer comprised of a metallo-organic compound and a film-forming binder and subjecting such layer to glow discharge treatment to render it electrically conductive. Use of a metallo-organic compound in combination with a glow discharge treatment provides a controlled degree of electrical conductivity and beneficial chemical, physical and optical properties which adapt the electrically-conductive layer for such purposes as providing protection against static or serving as an electrode which takes part in an image-forming process.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1995Date of Patent: May 14, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Mark Lelental, Bradley K. Coltrain, David A. Glocker, Dennis R. Freeman, Jeremy M. Grace
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Patent number: 5508135Abstract: Imaging elements, such as photographic, electrostatographic and thermal imaging elements, are comprised of a support, an image-forming layer and an electrically-conductive layer comprising electrically-conductive metal-containing particles dispersed in a binder system comprising a blend of a film-forming polymer and an anionic polymer. The combination of electrically-conductive metal-containing particles, film-forming polymer and anionic polymer provides a controlled degree of electrical conductivity and excellent adhesion to gelatin-containing layers, such as silver halide emulsion layers of photographic elements, in adhering contact with the electrically-conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1995Date of Patent: April 16, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Mark Lelental, Jehuda Greener
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Patent number: 5506050Abstract: A plastic film material comprising a layer is disclosed, the layer containing in admixture a binder and particles comprising a compound in an amount of 70% or more by weight of the particles, the particles having a volume specific resistance of not more than 10.sup.9 .OMEGA.cm and the compound comprising an element selected from the group consisting of H, B, C, N, O, F, P, S and Cl.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1994Date of Patent: April 9, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Yasuo Kurachi, Kaoru Y. Aegashi, Yoichi Saito, Yoshihiro Wada, Akihisa Nakajima
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Patent number: 5503967Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic material comprising a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer coated thereon, wherein said silver halide emulsion layer comprises from 5 to 15% by weight of a water-soluble, electrically conductive copolymer (1) containing carboxylic groups and sulfonic groups and wherein a hydrophilic colloid layer comprising a combination of a fluorinated surfactant (2), a non-ionic polyoxyethylene surfactant (3) and an anionic polyoxyethylene surfactant (4) is coated on said at least one silver halide emulsion layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1995Date of Patent: April 2, 1996Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Fulvio Furlan, Renzo Torterolo
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Patent number: 5496691Abstract: A process for producing a silver halide photographic material comprising a polyester support having thereon at least one light-sensitive layer and at least one undercoat layer is described, wherein the undercoat layer is provided by coating a solution containing gelatin for an undercoating binder having a calcium ion (Ca.sup.++) content of from 10 to 2,500 ppm based on dry gelatin.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1995Date of Patent: March 5, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Miyamoto, Masahiko Murayama
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Patent number: 5494738Abstract: A sheet or web material being a subbed or unsubbed hydrophobic resin support or paper support coated with at least one hydrophobic resin layer and having at least on one side thereof an antistatic layer containing for at least 70% by weight colloidal silica having an average particle size not larger than 10 nm and a surface area of at least 300 m.sup.2 per gram, the colloidal silica being present in said antistatic layer at a coverage of at least 50 mg per m.sup.2, characterized in that said antistatic layer is coated with a covering layer having a smaller sticking power to a gelatin layer than said silica containing layer, said covering layer containing at least 50% by weight of a water-insoluble synthetic polymer being applied at a dry coverage in the range of 0.01 to 2 g/m.sup.2.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1991Date of Patent: February 27, 1996Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Etienne A. Van Thillo, Bavo A. Muys
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Patent number: 5478709Abstract: A light-sensitive photographic silver halide material is disclosed comprising a support and on one or both sides thereof at least one silver halide emulsion layer, at least one gelatin antistress layer and, optionally, a substantially gelatin free antistatic surface layer coated thereover, characterised in that said emulsion layer(s) comprise(s) at least one synthetic clay. As a result the said material is less sensitive to roller marks in automatic processing machines.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1994Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.V.Inventor: Hubert Vandenabeele
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Patent number: 5472834Abstract: To eliminate the "pi-line" artefact after processing a silver halide industrial photographic X-ray material is disclosed comprising on at least one side of a support, at least one gelatino silver halide emulsion layer and a total amount of silver halide, corresponding to from 6 to 20 g of silver nitrate per square meter and per side, and at least one non-sensitive protective antistress coating, wherein said photographic material comprises at least one vinyl sulphone compound as a hardening agent and at least one polyoxyalkylene compound as a surfactant in at least one of its hydrophilic layers.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1994Date of Patent: December 5, 1995Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Raymond Florens, Pieter Perdieus, Andre Roefs
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Patent number: 5472832Abstract: A recording material comprising a sheet, ribbon or web support and a hydrophilic colloid binder layer incorporating an ionic polymer in the form of dispersed particulate material providing to said material an antistatic character, characterized in that (i) said ionic polymer is a cross-linked copolymer of an acrylic and/or methacrylic acid ester including 90-99 mole % of acrylate and/or methacrylate and 1 to 10 mole % of tetraallyloxyethane as polyfunctional crosslinking monomer, wherein in said copolymer at least 75% of the ester groups have been transformed into alkali metal carboxylate groups (ii) said ionic polymer is coated at a coverage of at least 14 g/m.sup.2, and (iii) said ionic polymer is present in admixture with said hydrophilic colloid binder in a weight ratio of at least 10/90.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1993Date of Patent: December 5, 1995Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Daniel M. Timmerman, Filip B. E. Byl, Frank G. De Voeght
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Patent number: 5472833Abstract: A process for making a photographic film support comprising applying a film forming coating composition containing an antistat agent to a first clear transparent polymeric film to form an antistat layer on the polymeric film and overcoating the free surface of the antistat layer with a second polymeric film having the same chemical composition as the first polymeric film.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1994Date of Patent: December 5, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Charles T. Havens, John E. Rieth, Alfred B. Fant, Raymond T. Jones
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Patent number: 5466567Abstract: Imaging elements, such as photographic, electrostatographic and thermal imaging elements, are comprised of a support, an image-forming layer and an electrically-conductive layer comprising a film-forming hydrophilic colloid having dispersed therein both electrically-conductive fine particles and pre-crosslinked gelatin particles. The combination of hydrophilic colloid, electrically-conductive fine particles and pre-crosslinked gelatin particles provides a controlled degree of electrical conductivity and beneficial chemical, physical and optical properties which adapt the electrically-conductive layer for such purposes as providing protection against static or serving as an electrode which takes part in an image-forming process.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1994Date of Patent: November 14, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Charles C. Anderson, Yongcai Wang, James L. Bello, Ibrahim M. Shalhoub, Douglas D. Corbin
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Patent number: 5466536Abstract: A photographic support material has a reverse side layer which includes a polymer having a film formation temperature which does not exceed 70.degree. C., and a conductive material. The polymer may be a mixture of polymers or copolymers of styrene, alkylstyrene, (meth)acrylic acid and (meth)acrylic acid alkylester. The conductive material may be an alkali salt of a crosslinkable polysulfonic or polystyrene sulfonic acid or a coated or uncoated metal oxide from the group of metals of the 2nd to 4th main or sub groups, and may also contain a polyfunctional aziridin. The reverse side layer can be printed with thermal printers with only slight absorption of dirt and discoloration from developer baths, and has good adhesion of adhesive tape, good printability with conventional printers, good resistance to abrasion and baths, and a good antistatic properties.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1994Date of Patent: November 14, 1995Assignee: Felix Schoeller jr Papierfabriken GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Hans-Ulrich Berner, Rolf Ebisch, Eckehard Saverin, Udo Tyrakowski
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Patent number: 5462831Abstract: To eliminate the "pi-line" artifact after processing a method of image formation is disclosed in a silver halide industrial X-ray photographic material, comprising on at least one side of a support, at least one gelatin silver halide emulsion layer and a total amount of silver halide, corresponding to from 6 to 20 g of silver nitrate per square meter and per side, and at least one non-sensitive protective antistress coating, wherein said material further comprises a hardening agent different from a vinyl sulphone compound, preferably formaldehyde, and at least one polyoxyalkylene compound as a surfactant in at least one of its hydrophilic layers, and wherein after exposure to direct X-rays said material is subjected in an automatic processing machine to the steps of developing in a developer comprising at least one anionic alkylphenoxy polyalkyleneoxy phosphate ester surfactant, fixing in a fixer which may comprise at least one alpha-ketocarboxylic acid, rinsing and drying.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1994Date of Patent: October 31, 1995Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Benedictus Jansen, Andre Roefs, Francis Sels, Pieter Perdieus, Raymond Florens
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Patent number: 5459021Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is provided, comprising a support having on one side thereof a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the photographic light-sensitive material has a magnetic recording layer on the other side of the support, and having, on at least one side the support, a layer containing metal oxide particles having a crystallite size, on the average, of 1 to 20 nm.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1994Date of Patent: October 17, 1995Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Mineko Ito, Koichi Saito, Yasuo Kurachi
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Patent number: 5457015Abstract: A reduction of static buildup on surfaces can be accomplished by providing a coating which is the dried and reacted product of an aqueous composition of chitosan salt and inorganic metal oxide sol. A stable, static reducing coating on polymeric substrates is particularly useful in photographic media.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1994Date of Patent: October 10, 1995Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventor: David R. Boston
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Patent number: 5455153Abstract: Clad fibrous vanadium pentoxide, antistat layers containing clad fibrous vanadium pentoxide and imaging elements containing such antistat layers.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1993Date of Patent: October 3, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Sylvia A. Gardner
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Patent number: 5453350Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having a dielectric constant for 100 Hz of not larger than 2.80 having thereon,a silver halide emulsion layer anda particle-containing layer comprising non-light-sensitive fine particles having a volume resistivity of from 10.sup.-2 .OMEGA..cm to 10.sup.8 .OMEGA..cm.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1994Date of Patent: September 26, 1995Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Yasuo Kurachi, Hidetoshi Ezure, Yoshihiro Wada, Akihisa Nakajima
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Patent number: 5447832Abstract: An imaging element comprising a support, at least one light-sensitive layer and at least one coalesced layer of film-forming colloidal polymeric particles and non-film-forming colloidal polymeric particles.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1994Date of Patent: September 5, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Yongcai Wang, Charles C. Anderson
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Patent number: 5443944Abstract: A photographic material comprising a transparent film support having on one side at least one light-sensitive layer and on the other side a transparent magnetic layer and an antistatic layer of a polythiophene arranged above or below said transparent magnetic layer shows transparency and good mechanical and antistatic properties.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1994Date of Patent: August 22, 1995Assignee: Agta-Gevaert AGInventors: Werner Krafft, Friedrich Jonas, Prem Lalvani, Hartwig Andries, Willem Mues
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Patent number: 5441860Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic material comprising a support having coated thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer wherein at least one of said layers comprises a gelatin hardening agent and said hydrophilic colloid layer comprises an alkali-insoluble acrylic polymer particles having an average particle size of from 0.5 to 6 .mu.m and wherein at least 95% by number of said polymer particles have a particle size within .+-.15% of the average particle size.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1994Date of Patent: August 15, 1995Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Brunella Fornasari, Giuseppe Bussi, Renzo Torterolo
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Patent number: 5439785Abstract: Light-sensitive photographic element comprising a polymeric film base, a silver halide emulsion layer, and an antistatic layer comprising a colloidal vanadium oxide and a sulfopolyester. The antistatic layer may be present as a backing layer on the side of the base opposite the silver halide emulsion layer, as a subbing layer between the base and the emulsion layer in a single or double side coated photographic element, and/or as a subbing layer between the base and a different backing layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1994Date of Patent: August 8, 1995Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: David R. Boston, William L. Kausch, Elio Martino, Eric D. Morrison, Alberto Valsecchi
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Patent number: 5427835Abstract: Aqueous-based mixtures comprising colloidal vanadium oxide and a dispersed sulfonated polymer impart antistatic properties to coatings on a substrate and to self-supporting articles. The preferred colloidal vanadium oxide is alkoxide derived and provides mixed valence vanadium oxide wherein the vanadium ions are typically +4 and +5. Preferred sulfopolymers include sulfopolyesters, sulfopolyurethanes, sulfopolyurethanes/ureas, sulfopolyester polyols, and sulfopolyols. Antistatic composite structures comprising colloidal vanadium oxide and a sulfopolymer are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1992Date of Patent: June 27, 1995Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Eric D. Morrison, David R. Boston, Steven T. Hedrick, William L. Kausch, Wayne K. Larson, Simon S. Fung
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Patent number: 5422234Abstract: Thermally processable imaging elements in which the image is formed by imagewise heating or by imagewise exposure to light followed by uniform heating include an adhesive interlayer interposed between the imaging layer and a protective overcoat layer. The adhesive interlayer, which is comprised of a polymer having epoxy functionality, strongly bonds the overcoat layer to the imaging layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1994Date of Patent: June 6, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Charles L. Bauer, Wayne A. Bowman
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Patent number: 5420006Abstract: Photosensitive matting agents for photosensitive recording materials that are known can be prepared only at considerable expense. A much simplified process involves preparing a photosensitive matte material from photoinsensitive matting agent particles by incorporating the particles into the starting solutions for the silver halide precipitation. The invention is particularly useful in reprography and in medical diagnostics.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1993Date of Patent: May 30, 1995Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Erhard Jury
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Thermally processable imaging element including an adhesive interlayer comprising a polyalkoxysilane
Patent number: 5418120Abstract: Thermally processable imaging elements in which the image is formed by imagewise heating or by imagewise exposure to light followed by uniform heating include an adhesive interlayer interposed between the imaging layer and a protective overcoat layer. The adhesive interlayer, which is comprised of a polyalkoxysilane, strongly bonds the overcoat layer to the imaging layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1994Date of Patent: May 23, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Charles L. Bauer, Wayne A. Bowman -
Patent number: 5415986Abstract: A silver halide photographic light sensitive material comprising a support bearing thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer and a backing layer on the back side of the support, wherein; the backing layer contains a compound represented by Formulas [1] or [2]; at least one of the hydrophilic colloidal layers including the silver halide emulsion layer contains a polymer latex stabilized with gelatin; and the outermost layer on the side of the layers including the silver halide emulsion layer or the outermost layer on the opposite side of the layers thereof contain a fluorine-containing anionic or cationic surfactant(s).Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1993Date of Patent: May 16, 1995Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Akio Fujita, Takeo Arai
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Patent number: H1578Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer and optionally a hydrophilic colloid layer, at least one of said emulsion layer and said hydrophilic colloid layer contains a water-soluble polymer which comprises repeating unit represented by formula 1 in an amount of 10 to 100 mol %, and a electric conductive layer being provided between the support and the silver halide emulsion layer and comprising a binder and fine particles of an electric conductive crystalline metal oxide of ZnO, Ti0.sub.2, SnO.sub.2, Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, In.sub.2 O.sub.3, SiO.sub.2, MgO, BaO, MoO.sub.3, V.sub.2 O5 or a mixture thereof, each of which has a volumetric resistivity of not higher than 10.sup.7 .OMEGA.m; ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a halogen atom or a --CH.sub.2 COOM.sup.1, in which M.sup.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1994Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Inventor: Masaaki Taguchi