Synthetic Resin Or Cellulose Derivative Containing Patents (Class 430/531)
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Patent number: 7144689Abstract: The use of metal antimonates at high metal antimonate to binder ratios in buried backside conductive layers of thermographic and photothermographic materials allows the use of thin backside overcoat layers. The combination provides antistatic constructions having excellent antistatic properties that show less change in resistivity with changes in humidity. The thin backside overcoat layer serves to protect the buried antistatic layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2006Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Thomas J. Ludemann, Gary E. LaBelle, Darlene F. Philip, Roland J. Koestner, Aparna V. Bhave
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Patent number: 7138223Abstract: A photothermographic material including, on one side of a support, an image forming layer containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, and, on the other side of the support, a non-photosensitive back side layer. The total quantity of an alkaline earth metal contained in the non-photosensitive back side layer is 1×10?5 mol/m2 to 1×10?3 mol/m2.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Rikio Inoue
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Patent number: 7112399Abstract: Photothermographic materials are coated with thermally developable imaging layers on both sides of the support. Such materials can be arranged in association with one or more phosphor intensifying screens capable of providing emission at a predetermined wavelength in imaging assemblies. These imaging assemblies can be exposed to X-radiation and thereby form a latent image in the photothermographic material that can eventually be heat developed and used for medical diagnosis. The photothermographic materials contain an opaque material that acts as a crossover control agent that absorbs radiation at the predetermined wavelength, for example at 300 to 450 nm, and has limited absorption at higher wavelengths. When the photothermographic material is heated, the opaque material loses its opacity. Additional crossover control agents, such as UV-absorbing compounds, can also be added to the support or to an antihalation layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2004Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Robert E. Dickerson, Alphonse D. Camp
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Patent number: 7105284Abstract: Thermally developable materials including photothermographic and thermographic materials having an outermost backside layer that includes amorphous silica particles having a narrow particle size distribution. The narrower particle size distribution provides reduced haze and increased surface roughness that reduces blocking and machine feeding at comparable weight percent. The materials can also include conductive layers underneath the outermost backside layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2005Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Darlene F. Philip, Thomas J. Ludemann, Roland J. Koestner, Gary E. LaBelle
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Patent number: 7105286Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic material comprising a paper support having resin layers coated on both sides of a base paper, and in particular, to a silver halide photographic material exhibiting superior glossiness and improved sharpness, long-term stability, fingerprint resistance and pressure resistance. The silver halide photographic material comprising on one side of the paper support having resin coat layers on both sides of a base paper, one or more light-sensitive layers and one or more light-insensitive layers, wherein after the photographic material of an L-size (having a length of 89 mm in a machine direction of the base paper and a length of 127 mm vertical to the machine direction) is processed, the photographic material exhibits an image clarity (C-value) of 20% to 60% which is determined using a 1.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2002Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.Inventor: Takesi Nakamura
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Patent number: 7105282Abstract: An image forming method using a photothermographic material a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, wherein: the photothermographic material is discharged from a thermal developing device within 35 seconds after heating for thermal development is ceased.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2003Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsutoshi Yamane, Sumito Yamada, Eiichi Okutsu, Tomoyuki Ohzeki, Yutaka Oka
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Patent number: 7105288Abstract: A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising on a support a light-sensitive emulsion containing a light-insensitive organic silver salt and a light-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent for silver ions and a binder, wherein the photothermographic material further comprises a compound represented by the following formula (A-1) or (B) and a compound represented by the following formula (A-2)Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2003Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Kiyokazu Morita, Ayumu Nishijima
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Patent number: 7094525Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having a support containing a filler and/or an undercoat layer containing a clay compound coated with an organic substance between the support and an emulsion layer or between the support and a back layer. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material shows good dimensional stability in a processing system.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2004Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shoji Yasuda, Kunio Ishigaki
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Patent number: 7087364Abstract: The use of metal antimonates at high metal antimonate to binder ratios in buried backside conductive layers of thermographic and photothermographic materials allows the use of thin backside overcoat layers. The combination provides antistatic constructions having excellent antistatic properties that show less change in resistivity with changes in humidity. The thin backside overcoat layer serves to protect the buried antistatic layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Thomas J. Ludemann, Gary E. LaBelle, Darlene F. Philip, Roland J. Koestner, Aparna V. Bhave
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Patent number: 7074551Abstract: The present invention relates to an imaging element comprising at least one imaging layer and a support wherein the support comprises at least one layer comprising a splayant and a layered material, wherein the layered material has an aspect ratio from 20:1 and 500:1 and wherein the layered material comprises less than 10% by weight of the layer. The present invention also relates to a method of making a dimensionally stable imaging element comprising providing a support wherein said support comprises at least one layer comprising a splayant and a layered material, wherein said layered material comprises an aspect ratio of from 20:1 to 500:1 and wherein said layered material comprises less than 10% by weight of said at least one layer; and applying at least one imaging layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2003Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: YuanQiao Rao, Robert J. Kress
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Patent number: 7063885Abstract: A multi-layer, thermoplastic film bi-axially oriented at a stretching ratio ? to about 3.0:1 in the machine direction and at a stretching ratio ? about 6.0:1 in the transverse direction, which film comprises a layer a) comprising at least 50 wt. % of a crystalline or partially crystalline co-polyamide characterized by a Tg?100° C. and at least one outer heat-sealing layer b) comprising a polyolefin, said film being further characterized in that it has a % free shrink at 100° C.?3 in each direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2001Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Cryovac, Inc.Inventors: Eugenio Longo, Roberto Forloni, Gregorio Di Cesare
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Patent number: 7049056Abstract: A method for wrapping a heat-developable photosensitive material, which comprises bending a wrapping material so that the wrapping material can bring into direct contact with at least a part of a heat-developable photosensitive material comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and a non-photosensitive organic silver salt having a silver behenate content of not lower than 53 mol % provided on one side of a support, wherein the wrapping material is a paper.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2003Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayoshi Oyamada, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Eiichi Okutsu
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Patent number: 7040929Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive monosheet thermographic recording material comprising a support and on one side of said support a thermosensitive element, wherein said thermographic recording material contains at least one compound represented by formula (I): wherein M is hydrogen, an alkali atom or an ammonium group; R1 is an alkyl, alkenyl-, alkynyl-, thioalkyl-, thioalkenyl- or thioalkynyl-group in which the alkyl-, alkenyl- or alkynyl-group has 6 to 25 carbon atoms; X is —O—, —S— or —N(R2)—; and R2 is hydrogen, a —(CH2)mSO3M group or a group; and m is an integer between 1 and 5.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2003Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Geert Defieuw, Johan Loccufier, Luc Van Steen, Etienne Van Thillo
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Patent number: 7037634Abstract: The present invention relates to an imaging element comprising at least one imaging layer and a base. The base comprises a foam core layer, which comprises a polymer that has been expanded through the use of a blowing agent, and at least one polymeric surface smoothing layer, which comprises a solution polymer.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2004Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Peter T. Aylward, Narasimharao Dontula
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Patent number: 7033723Abstract: The present invention relates to an imaging element comprising an imaging layer and a support, wherein the support comprises a core layer having a surface roughness of at least 1.4 microns and a pit camouflaging flange layer between the support and the imaging layer. The present invention also relates to a method of forming an imaging support comprising extruding a polymer layer onto a core layer of surface roughness of at least 1.4 microns, and passing the extruded polymer layer on the core layer between two temperature controlled rollers, one of which comprises a pit camouflaging surface and a method of forming an imaging support comprising extruding a polymer layer, passing the extruded polymer layer between two temperature controlled rollers, one of which comprises a pit camouflaging surface, and laminating the polymer layer onto a core layer with a surface roughness of at least 1.4 microns.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2004Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Peter T. Aylward, Narasimharao Dontula, Sandra J. Dagan, Thaddeus S. Gula, Terry A. Heath
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Patent number: 7026104Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material comprising on a support light-sensitive silver halide, a light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein at least 30 mole % of the total light-sensitive silver halide is silver halide of high silver iodide content having an average ?-phase proportion of from 5 to 70 mole %, and a method of forming images on the heat-developable photosensitive material with a semiconductor laser.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Fumito Nariyuki
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Patent number: 7022471Abstract: An organic silver salt dispersion containing: light-insensitive organic silver salt grains; photosensitive silver halide grains; a solvent; and a binder for dispersion, wherein the organic silver salt is prepared by using: (i) an alkaline metal salt of an organic acid other than a sodium salt; and (ii) a water soluble silver compound, and the binder is a polyvinyl acetal resin having a polymerization degree of 250 to 1000 and prepared by acetal forming reaction of a polyvinylalcohol with an aldehyde.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2004Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Inc.Inventor: Kenji Ohnuma
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Patent number: 7018787Abstract: Thermally developable materials such as photothermographic and thermographic materials have a backside conductive layer with increased conductive efficiency. This backside conductive layer is a buried conductive coating and is overcoated with a layer that contains a smectite clay modified with a quaternary ammonium compound.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2004Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Thomas J. Ludemann, Gary E. LaBelle, Darlene F. Philip, Thomas C. Geisler
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Patent number: 7005251Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material including non-photosensitive aliphatic carboxylic acid silver salts; a photosensitive emulsion containing photosensitive silver halide grains; a silver ion reducing agent; a binder; and a cyan coloring leuco dye. A percentage of the photosensitive silver halide grains having a mean particle size of 0.01 or more ?m and 0.04 ?m or less is 5% or more by mass and 50% or less by mass of total photosensitive silver halide grains by conversion into a silver amount.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2003Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Narito Goto
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Patent number: 6958209Abstract: A photothermographic material comprising a support and having thereon an image forming layer containing an organic silver salt, light-sensitive silver halide grains, binder and a reducing agent, wherein the reducing agent comprises: a reducing agent A containing at least a bisphenol derivative represented by following Formula (A-1); and a reducing agent B containing at least a bisphenol derivative not represented by the Formula (A-1), and the amount of reducing agent A is 5 to 45 weight % of the total weight of the reducing agent A and reducing agent B.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2002Date of Patent: October 25, 2005Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Kiyokazu Morita, Narito Goto, Ayumu Nishijima
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Patent number: 6946240Abstract: The present invention relates to an imaging element comprising a support, an imaging layer, and at least one layer comprising a clay nanocomposite wherein said nanocomposite comprises a splayant and at least one natural clay particle having an aspect ratio of from 20:1 to 500:1.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2003Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: YuanQiao Rao, Joseph S. Sedita
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Patent number: 6939666Abstract: A heat-developable color photosensitive material of single sheet type, which comprises a support having provided thereon at least light-sensitive silver halide, a color developing agent or a precursor thereof, dye-forming couplers capable of forming dyes by reacting with an oxidation product of the color developing agent, a reducible silver salt, a thermal solvent and a binder, wherein a water-insoluble thermoplastic polymer prepared by polymerizing at least one kind of monomer is included in layers containing the dye-forming couplers, thereby preventing the dyes formed from bleeding to ensure high sharpness and making an improvement in raw-stock storability.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiko Matsumoto
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Patent number: 6936404Abstract: The invention relates to a recording material for the production of offset printing plates, having a web- or plate-form support, a radiation-sensitive layer on the front of the support and a continuous, pigment particle-free layer on the back of the support. The back layer essentially consists of an organic polymeric material having a glass transition temperature Tg of at least 45° C., and its surface has a Bekk smoothness of from 5 to 800 s. It also relates to a process for the production of this recording material.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Steffen Denzinger, Michael Dörr, Günther Hultzsch, Engelbert Pliefke
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Patent number: 6913874Abstract: A photographic imaging element is disclosed comprising a support having on a front side thereof a silver halide imaging layer and an outermost protective overcoat layer comprising a film-forming binder, and on the backside thereof an outermost protective backcoat layer comprising a film-forming binder; the protective overcoat and backcoat layers each comprising a lubricant present in an amount of at least 5 mg/m2 and permanent matting agent having a Tg of at least 40° C. and an average particle size of from about 0.5 to about 3 micrometers in an amount of at least 1 mg/m2; and at least one of the protective overcoat layer or the protective backcoat layer further comprising crosslinked elastomeric polymer matte particles, wherein the crosslinked elastomeric polymer matte particles have a Tg of 20° C. or less, an average particle size of at least 90% of or greater than that of the permanent matting agent particles having a Tg of at least 40° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2003Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Christopher J. Haller, Charles C. Anderson, Eugene A. Armour, William J. Hennessey, Peter D. Rollinson
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Patent number: 6881492Abstract: A composition suitable for forming a primer layer on a polymer sheet comprising: a) polyethyleneimine; b) latex; wherein the latex has a Tg lower than 25° C. and c) a hydrophilic colloid material. A method of coating the composition is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: April 19, 2005Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Yuanqiao Rao, DeBasis Majumdar, Robert J. Kress, David E. Decker
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Patent number: 6852421Abstract: In a first aspect, organic coating compositions are provided, particularly spin-on antireflective coating compositions, that contain a polyester resin component. In a further aspect, coating compositions are provided that contain a resin component obtained by polymerization of a multi-hydroxy compound. Coating compositions of the invention are particularly useful employed in combination with an overcoated photoresist layer to manufacture integrated circuits.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2002Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Shipley Company, L.L.C.Inventors: Gerald B. Wayton, Peter Trefonas, III, Suzanne Coley, Tomoki Kurihara
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Patent number: 6828086Abstract: A water-based coating composition is disclosed, comprising a latex comprising a polymer impregnated with an infared absorbing compound and a water-soluble polyester or latex comprising polymer containing an active methylene group. An infrared absorbing film and a photothermographic material by use thereof are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2002Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Eiichi Ueda, Chiaki Nagaike
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Patent number: 6811964Abstract: A coating liquid for photothermographic materials excellent in photographing performance with high sensitivity and reduced fogging and having satisfactory surface conditions is produced. A silver halide particle feeding solution is added and mixed in a mother liquid of coating liquid during a time period between the instant 30 minutes before a substrate is coated with the produced coating liquid by a coating head and the instant just before the coating is started, and in addition, an in-plant mixer is configured such that a mixing container has an inner surface of a spherical shape, an oblate-spherical shape or a prolate-spherical shape so that a mixing blade forms a mixing area in proximity to any part of the inner surface of the mixing container when a rotation axis supporting the mixing blade is driven in a reciprocal manner, whereby the mixing performance of the in-plant mixer is significantly improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2003Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasushi Sano
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Patent number: 6794099Abstract: The invention relates to a material to form an indicator element comprising a base material and at least one photosensitive silver halide layer, wherein the base material comprises at least one specular reflective layer between two polymer layers wherein the polymer layer between the at least one specular reflective layer and the silver halide layer is substantially transparent.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Wen-Li A. Chen, Robert P. Bourdelais, Cheryl J. Kaminsky, Richard A. Castle, Thomas M. Smith
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Publication number: 20040180301Abstract: A photothermographic material containing a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder having a glass-transition temperature of 70 to 110° C., and a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, wherein (i) the reducing agent is a compound represented by the following general formula (R), (ii) the photothermographic material comprises a development accelerator, or (iii) the non-photosensitive organic silver salt contains 50% by mole or more of silver behenate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventor: Hajime Nakagawa
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Patent number: 6790584Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having layers containing a swellable inorganic stratifying compound on both sides of a support and having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on at least one of the layers. There is provided a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material showing good dimensional stability.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2003Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Ito, Toshiaki Kubo
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Publication number: 20040161714Abstract: A photothermographic material contains a support having thereon an image forming layer containing a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, and a non-photosensitive outermost layer on a side of the support where the image forming layer is provided, The photosensitive silver halide contains silver iodide in an amount of from 40 to 100% by mole, and a binder contained in the outermost layer contains at least one of a latex polymer and a water soluble polymer that is not derived from an animal protein in an amount of 50% by mass or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2003Publication date: August 19, 2004Inventor: Keiichi Suzuki
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Patent number: 6770430Abstract: A therally processed image forming material less causative of adhesion during storage in a form of commercial product is provided. The thermally processed image forming material has on only one side of a support an image forming layer, in which the outermost layer on the same side with the image forming layer contains a binder different from that contained in the outermost layer on the opposite side of the support.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2000Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshiaki Kubo
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Publication number: 20040142287Abstract: A photothermographic material including, at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder on at least one side of a support, wherein a content of silver iodide in the photosensitive silver halide is 5% by mole or more, the binder contains polymer latex in an amount of 60% by weight or more, and the reducing agent is a compound represented by the following general formula (R): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2004Publication date: July 22, 2004Inventors: Hajime Nakagawa, Yoshihisa Tsukada
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Patent number: 6762014Abstract: An image forming material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon an image forming layer containing a light-insensitive organic silver salt and a reducing agent and a protective layer in that order, wherein the image forming layer or the protective layer contains a binder having a structure unit represented by the following formula in which Z is a divalent linkage group, R1 is a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group containing a hydroxyl group or an aryl group containing a hydroxyl group.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Toshihisa Takeyama
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Publication number: 20040126719Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive black and white monosheet thermographic recording material has a support and on one side of the support comprises a thermosensitive element, a barrier layer and an outermost protective layer, the thermosensitive element being exclusive of a high contrast agent and containing at least one substantially light-insensitive silver salt of a carboxylic acid, at least one reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith, at least one toning agent and at least one binder, wherein the at least one reducing agent is an ortho-dihydroxy-benzene derivative and the barrier layer comprises a copolymer comprising vinyl chloride units and vinyl acetate and/or vinyl alcohol units, a copolymer comprising styrene units and acrylonitrile units, a copolymer comprising cationic units and/or a copolymer comprising styrene units and maleic acid units.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERTInventors: Ingrid Geuens, Frank Louwet, Peter Michiels
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Publication number: 20040126708Abstract: A process for modifying the surface of a polymeric substrate. The process includes digitally applying a photoreactive material comprising at least one photochemical electron donor to a region of a polymeric substrate and exposing at least a portion of that region to actinic radiation. The modified surface of the polymeric substrate may be bonded to one or more additional substrates, or may be coated with a fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2002Publication date: July 1, 2004Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Naiyong Jing, Bradford B. Wright, Caroline M. Ylitalo
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Publication number: 20040126717Abstract: A photothermographic material comprising, on a support, an image forming layer containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, and a non-photosensitive outermost layer at a surface side of the support at which the image forming layer is provided, wherein:Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Inventors: Hajime Nakagawa, Yoshihisa Tsukada, Keiichi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20040121273Abstract: The invention provides a photothermographic material including, on a same surface of a substrate, a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, a development accelerator and a binder, the material containing, as the binder, a polymer formed by copolymerizing a monomer represented by the following general formula (M) in an amount from 10 to 70 mass %:Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2003Publication date: June 24, 2004Inventors: Hajime Nakagawa, Yoshihisa Tsukada
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Publication number: 20040115572Abstract: A photothermographic material of the present invention has a support and an image-forming layer disposed thereon, and the image-forming layer contains a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventors: Yoshihisa Tsukada, Hajime Nakagawa
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Patent number: 6749982Abstract: An imaging member comprising a polymer sheet, a primer layer contacting said polymer sheet, and an image receiving layer contacting said primer layer; wherein said primer layer comprises: a) polyethyleneimine; and b) latex; wherein the latex has a Tg lower than 25° C. and c) hydrophilic colloid material.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Yuanqiao Rao, DeBasis Majumdar, Robert J. Kress, David E. Decker
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Patent number: 6746830Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material having a substrate, a heat-responsive-discolorable coloring layer and a photosensitive layer coated thereon and having a silver halide, dye-providing compound and a binder, the heat-responsive-discolorable coloring layer containing a heat-responsive-discolorable coloring composition, which is colored at a temperature lower than its discoloration initiation temperature (T) of 60 to 200° C.; which is substantially discolored at a temperature equal to or higher than T; and which does not recover its color once discolored, even when its temperature is lowered to a temperature lower than T again, and the heat-responsive-discolorable coloring composition containing a polymer having a glass transition temperature of 60 to 200° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2002Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Arakawa, Takahiro Ishizuka
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Publication number: 20040106074Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material including non-photosensitive aliphatic carboxylic acid silver salts; a photosensitive emulsion containing photosensitive silver halide grains; a silver ion reducing agent; a binder; and a cyan coloring leuco dye. A percentage of the photosensitive silver halide grains having a mean particle size of 0.01 or more &mgr;m and 0.04 &mgr;m or less is 5% or more by mass and 50% or less by mass of total photosensitive silver halide grains by conversion into a silver amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Applicant: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Narito Goto
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Patent number: 6740480Abstract: The invention provides a photographic element comprising a transparent polymer sheet, at least one layer containing negative working photosensitive silver halide and at least one upper protective shield to protect the surface of said transparent polymer.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2000Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Peter T. Aylward, Alphonse D. Camp, Robert P. Bourdelais
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Publication number: 20040096758Abstract: This invention relates to a photothermographic element comprising a support, at least one photothermographic imaging layer, and at least one filter layer, wherein the filer layer comprises a heat-bleachable composition comprising a benzothiazine arylidiene filter dye, which filter dye is in the presence of an effective amount of a base precursor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2002Publication date: May 20, 2004Inventors: Ramanuj Goswami, Margaret J. Helber, Teresa J. Hosmer, David H. Levy
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Patent number: 6737227Abstract: Thermally developable compositions such thermographic and photothermographic emulsions include certain heterocyclic disulfide compounds and ascorbic acid or reductone reducing agents. These compositions can be used in thermally developable materials such as thermographic and photothermographic materials to provide increased image density and shortened development time, and to allow development at lower temperatures. Such materials can have imaging layers on one or both sides of the support.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2003Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Doreen C. Lynch, Stacy M. Ulrich
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Publication number: 20040063005Abstract: This patent relates to an imaging member comprising a vacuous polymer base having adhered thereto an image formed on a transparent polymer sheet, wherein said vacuous polymer base has a density of less than 0.7 grams/cc and a modulus to density ratio of between 1500 and 4000 and wherein said image is in contact with said vacuous polymer base.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2002Publication date: April 1, 2004Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Peter T. Aylward, Thomas M. Laney, Robert P. Bourdelais
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Publication number: 20040063023Abstract: An imaging member comprising a polymer sheet, a primer layer contacting said polymer sheet, and an image receiving layer contacting said primer layer; wherein said primer layer comprises: a) polyethyleneimine; and b) latex; wherein the latex has a Tg lower than 25° C. and c) hydrophilic colloid material.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2002Publication date: April 1, 2004Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Yuanqiao Rao, DeBasis Majumdar, Robert J. Kress, David E. Decker
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Patent number: 6713241Abstract: Aqueous-based thermally sensitive emulsions and imaging materials include a mixture of binders in at least one imaging layer. These binder mixtures include from 70 to about 99 weight % of hydrophilic binders such as gelatin and gelatin derivatives, and the remainder of the total binder weight is composed of one or more hydrophobic binders or water-dispersible polymer latexes. These binder mixtures are particularly useful in imaging layers of thermographic and photothermographic materials and provide long term keeping and reduced crystallization of fatty acids.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2002Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Kathleen M. Vaeth, Charles L. Bauer, Jon A. Hammerschmidt, David M. Teegarden
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Publication number: 20040058281Abstract: An image forming method using a photothermographic material comprising, on at least one side of a support, at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein the photothermographic material: 1) having a gamma value of 2.0 to 4.0 is developed in a thermal development device configured such that a distance between an exposing section and a developing section is not more than 50 cm; 2) having a silver salt of fatty acid at an application amount of 5 mmol/m2 to 18 mmol/m2 is developed in a thermal development device configured such that a distance between an exposing section and a developing section is not more than 50 cm; 3) is discharged from a thermal development device within 35 seconds after heating for thermal development is ceased.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2003Publication date: March 25, 2004Inventors: Katsutoshi Yamane, Sumito Yamada, Eiichi Okutsu, Tomoyuki Ohzeki, Yutaka Oka