Coupler Containing Patents (Class 430/543)
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Patent number: 11649231Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel compound as an mTOR inhibitor and a use thereof and, more specifically, to a novel compound represented by formula 1 that exhibits mTOR inhibitory activity and a pharmaceutical composition comprising same as an active ingredient for preventing or treating brain diseases associated with an mTOR pathway.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignees: MEDICINAL BIOCONVERGENCE RESEARCH CENTER, INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITYInventors: Sunghoon Kim, Jong Hyun Kim, Gyoonhee Han, Jung Min Han, Chulho Lee
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Patent number: 10464362Abstract: As a thermosensitive recording medium utilizes a coloring reaction between a colorless or pale colored electron donating leuco dye and an electron accepting color developing agent, a thermosensitive recording medium using an environment-friendly color developing agent is provided. Provided is a thermosensitive recording medium having a thermosensitive recording layer comprising a colorless or pale colored electron donating leuco dye and an electron accepting color developing agent on a substrate, wherein the thermosensitive recording layer comprises a gluconolactone as the electron accepting color developing agent.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuaki Matsumori, Akihito Ogino, Kenji Hirai
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Patent number: 9328218Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of the formula (I-1) wherein n is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 or 25, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R?1, R?2, R?3, R?4 and R?5 are each independently from each other H or C1-C8-alkyl. Compounds of the formula (I-1) or stabilizer mixtures containing compounds of the formula (I-1) are especially used for stabilization of polymers against degradation by oxidation, heat or light.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Kai-Uwe Schoening, Cinzia Tartarini, Walid Al-Akhdar, Ulrich Berens, Bruno Rotzinger, Alexander Dichtl
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Patent number: 8546070Abstract: A color photographic element has a reflective support and a blue light sensitive color record, a green light sensitive color record, and a red light sensitive color record can be used to provide color photographic prints. The element also has a non-light sensitive interlayer between the green light and red light sensitive color records. This interlayer comprises a hydrophilic colloid and an acrylic latex polymer having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of less than 0° C. The presence of this acrylic latex polymer in the interlayer reduces the formation of a cyan line defect when the color photographic print is folded or creased, such as in photobooks.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Jess B. Hendricks, III, Paul L. Zengerle, Andrew D. Church, Darrell B. Austin
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Patent number: 8481252Abstract: Silver halide photographic photosensitive materials are disclosed. A silver halide photographic photosensitive material has a support, and on or above the support, a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a first interlayer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a second interlayer, and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer in this order from the support, wherein the first interlayer includes a chelating agent and another silver halide photographic photosensitive material has, in the following order, a support, and provided on or above the support, a first interlayer containing a chelating agent, a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a second interlayer, a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a third interlayer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a protective layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroya Yoshioka, Hidekazu Sakai, Shigeru Shibayama
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Patent number: 8357485Abstract: A multi-color photographic silver halide element has a total gelatin level on the imaging side of the support is less than 9000 mg/m2, and bulk gelatin-to-junk weight ratio for all of the light sensitive layers on the imaging side of the support is greater than 1.5. This weight ratio is defined by: Bulk gelatin-to-junk ratio=[(Bgel×Bgel/junk)+(Rgel×Rgel/junk)+(Ggel+Ggel/junk)]÷(Bgel+Rgel+Ggel) wherein Bgel is the total gelatin level for blue light sensitive layers, Bgel/junk is the gelatin-to-junk ratio for blue light sensitive layers, Rgel is the total gelatin level for red light sensitive layers, Rgel/junk is the gelatin-to-junk ratio for red light sensitive layers, Ggel is the total gelatin level for green light sensitive layers, and Ggel/junk is the gelatin-to-junk ratio for green light sensitive layers.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2010Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Christopher J. Haller, Daniel R. May, Paul L. Zengerle
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Patent number: 7914977Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material, having, on a transparent support, at least one each of yellow-, cyan-, and magenta-color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler that forms a dye having its absorption maximum at a wavelength longer than 730 nm upon reaction with an oxidized product of a developing agent, wherein the yellow-color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains photosensitive silver halide grains having an average grain size of 0.4 ?m or below and a silver chloride content of 95 mole % or above based on total silver in the grains, and wherein the photosensitive silver halide grains include photosensitive silver halide grains whose iodide ion concentrations have their maxima at grain surfaces and decrease gradually toward the interior of the grains; and a method of processing a silver halide color photosensitive material for use in film screening.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2005Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hidekazu Sakai, Tatsuya Ishizaka
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Patent number: 7687229Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having, on a support, at least each one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers containing yellow-, magenta-, or cyan-dye-forming-coupler, and at least one light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein at least one of the dye-forming couplers is a dye-forming coupler that forms an azomethine dye having a solubility of 1×10?8 mol/L to 5×10?3 mol/L in ethyl acetate; and an image forming method using the light-sensitive material.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2005Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasuaki Deguchi, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Mamoru Sakurazawa, Makoto Yamada, Takehiko Satou
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Patent number: 7527922Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having, on a support, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, characterized in that at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers contains a silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of 90 mole % or above, the silver halide emulsion contains at least one kind of selenium compound, and the silver halide emulsion layer containing the silver halide emulsion has a characteristic curve satisfying the following relation (1); 2.0??H/?L?0.5??Relation (1) wherein ? represents a gradient of the characteristic curve, ?H represents a gradient in the case of 1×10?6-second exposure and ?L represents a gradient in the case of 100-second exposure.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2005Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shigeru Shibayama, Toshihiro Kariya, Akito Yokozawa, Kenji Naoi, Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Hiroyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 7465534Abstract: A silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains with a silver chloride content of at least 95 mole %, being sensitized with selenium and gold, and further containing at least two compounds each having a function of oxidizing metallic silver clusters; a silver halide photographic material containing the same; and a silver halide photographic material having red-, green, and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, wherein one of the emulsion layers contains a silver halide emulsion with a silver chloride content of at least 95 mole %, and the silver halide emulsion contains a selenium compound and a metal complex of formula (D1); [MD1XD1nLD1(6-n)]m??formula (D1) wherein MD1 represents Cr, Mo, Re, Fe, Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Pd, or Pt; XD1 represents a halogen ion; LD1 represents a ligand other than XD1; n represents 3, 4, 5, or 6; and m represents 4-, 3-, 2-, 1-, 0 or 1+.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2007Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Toshihiro Kariya
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Patent number: 7455959Abstract: The invention provides a color photographic element comprising at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or a non silver-containing light-insensitive layer, in which at least one of these layers contains a colorless imidazole compound of formula (I) that undergoes less than 10% chemical or redox reaction with oxidized developer and which enables the photographic speed of the element to be increased by at least 0.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2004Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Bernard A. Clark, Philip A. Allway, Tania Zuberi, Stephen P. Singer, Charles E. Heckler, Louis E. Friedrich
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Patent number: 7425408Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having at least one each of blue-, green-, and red-sensitive emulsion layers containing yellow, magenta, and cyan couplers, respectively, on a support; wherein said blue-sensitive emulsion layer contains at least one coupler of formula (I); and wherein the light-sensitive material satisfies expression a-1) and/or b-1): wherein, Q forms a 5- to 7-membered ring with the —N?C—N(R1)—; R1 and R2 each are a substituent; m is 0 to 5; and X is a hydrogen atom, or a coupling split-off group; 0.5?Dmax(UV)/Dmin(UV)?1.1: ??a-1) wherein Dmax(UV)/Dmin(UV) is the smallest of the value in a wavelength range of 340 to 450 nm; 1300?(B?C)/A?20000: ??b-1) wherein B is yellow Dmax, C is yellow Dmin; and A is an amount mol/m2 of the coupler of formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2006Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Akira Ikeda, Shin Soejima, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Naoto Matsuda
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Patent number: 7407740Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having, on a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye forming coupler, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye forming coupler, and at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye forming coupler, wherein at least one layer of said at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye forming coupler contains high-silver chloride emulsion grains, which are selenium-sensitized and have a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more, and contains at least one coupler of formula (I): wherein R? and R? each independently are a substituent; and Z is a hydrogen atom, or a group capable of being split-off upon coupling reaction with an oxidized aromatic primary amine color-developing agent.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Kariya, Hiroyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 7365199Abstract: A dye-forming coupler of formula (I), a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material containing the coupler, and an azomethine dye compound derived from the coupler: wherein Q is a residue that forms, together with the —N—C?N— moiety, a nitrogen-containing 6-membered ring; RA is a certain alkyl group having at least 7 carbon atoms, or -L-R1; X is an aryl group; Y is a hydrogen atom, or a group capable of being split-off upon a coupling reaction; wherein, when RA is -L-R1, L is a divalent linking group, and R1 is a substituent; and -L-R1 does not represent an alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, or aryl group, and -L-R1 does not represent a heterocyclic group that bonds, with a carbon atom therein, to the nitrogen atom of the nitrogen-containing 6-membered ring formed by Q and the —N—C?N— moiety.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2002Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shigeki Uehira, Kiyoshi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 7344828Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having, on a support, a yellow dye-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta dye-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan dye-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer that does not develop a color, wherein a total amount of a hydrophilic binder on the emulsion layer-coating side of the support is 6.0 g/m2 or less, and at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers contains at least one compound selected from metal complexes represented by formula (I) set forth below and a silver halide emulsion of a 90 mole % or more silver chloride content with a silver bromide-containing phase formed in a layer form.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2007Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoto Ohshima, Shigeru Shibayama, Naoya Shibata
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Publication number: 20080057449Abstract: The present invention provides a black and white photothermographic material including, on at least one side of a support, at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ions, a color developing agent, and a coupler, wherein the black and white photothermographic material includes at least two image forming layers including the photosensitive silver halide, in which a first image forming layer includes at least the reducing agent for silver ions, a second image forming layer includes at least the color developing agent, and a sensitivity difference between the first image forming layer and the second image forming layer is 0.2 or more when expressed by log E0 as a logarithmic value of an exposure value (E0) necessary for obtaining a one-half density for the sum of maximum density and fog.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Yasuaki Deguchi, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Kouta Fukui
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Patent number: 7338756Abstract: A process for making a direct dispersion of a photographically useful material comprising: mixing (i) an aqueous phase and (ii) a liquid organic phase under conditions of shear or turbulence to form a dispersion of the organic phase dispersed in the aqueous phase; wherein the liquid organic phase comprises one or more photographically useful materials and one or more organic solvents having a boiling point of at least 150° C., a molecular weight less than or equal to 300, and a solvatochromic parameter ? value greater than or equal to 0.50, wherein the weight ratio of the sum of the solvents having a boiling point of at least 150° C., a molecular weight less than or equal to 300, and a solvatochromic parameter ? value greater than or equal to 0.50 to the photographically useful materials does not exceed 0.25.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2003Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Paul L. Zengerle, Richard K. Rothrock, Jerrold N. Poslusny, Stephen P. Singer, Peter P. Garrisi, Paul B. Merkel
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Patent number: 7323294Abstract: A color photographic material is disclosed comprising a black image forming coupler substituted in the 2, 4 and/or 6 position shown by formula (I) or formula (II), where in LINK represents a divalent linking group, BALL represents a group that prevents the coupler from diffusing away from the layer containing it. X and Y each represent a hydrogen atom or a coupling-off group capable of being released upon an oxidative coupling reaction with a developing agent. The material has a good color reproduction and excellent light stability.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2005Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Huibert Albertus van Boxtel, Akira Kase, Yasuo Iwasa, Yuzo Toda
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Patent number: 7279271Abstract: The present invention provides a color material and a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, particularly, a color material and a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which are excellent in a coloring capability, processing stability, dye image fastness and a white background.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2003Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: Konica Minolta Photo Imaging Inc.Inventor: Takeshi Hakii
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Patent number: 7250249Abstract: A black and white photothermographic material including, on at least one side of a support, an image forming layer including at least a photosensitive silver halide, a silver salt of a fatty acid, a reducing agent for silver ions, and a binder, wherein the black and white photothermographic material includes a compound represented by the following formula (I) as the reducing agent and a compound represented by the following formula (BC-1) as a coupler: A black and white photothermographic material which exhibits low fog, high image density, excellent image tone, and excellent raw stock storability is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2006Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: FujiFilm CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Yoshioka
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Patent number: 7244551Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, a blue-sensitive layer unit, a green-sensitive layer unit and a red-sensitive layer unit, each of these light-sensitive layer units composed of at least one silver halide emulsion layer, together with at least one non-sensitive layer, wherein compound (A) is contained in at least one layer in the silver halide color photosensitive material, compound (A) being a compound capable of releasing compound (Ac1) by oxidation coupling reaction with a color developing agent, compound (Ac1) being a heterocyclic compound which when added, is capable of enhancing the sensitivity of the photosensitive material as compared with that exhibited when not added, provided that the heterocyclic ring of the heterocyclic compound has 1 or 2 hetero atoms.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2005Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Junichiro Hosokawa, Naoharu Kiyoto, Ryoji Nishimura, Takashi Hoshimiya, Tadashi Inaba
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Patent number: 7241562Abstract: This invention relates to a color silver halide photographic element comprising gelatin, a support bearing at least one dye image forming unit selected from a dye image forming unit comprising at least one red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye-forming coupler, a dye image forming unit comprising at least one green sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye-forming coupler, and a dye image forming unit comprising at least one blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye-forming coupler; and a polymer represented by Formula 1.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2004Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Sidney J. Bertucci, David M. Teegarden, David E. Decker, Thomas H. Whitesides, Larry D. Edwards
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Patent number: 7241563Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having a silver halide emulsion layer, and (1) a substantially light-insensitive dye-forming-coupler-containing layer, and (2) at least one layer selected from a non-color-forming intermediate layer containing a color-mixing inhibitor and a non-color-forming intermediate layer substantially free of color-mixing inhibitor, wherein i) when the light-insensitive dye-forming-coupler-containing layer is included, the layer is positioned adjacent to the silver halide emulsion layer, and ii) when the non-color-forming intermediate layer containing a color-mixing inhibitor and the non-color-forming intermediate layer substantially free of color-mixing inhibitor are included, these layers are positioned adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2004Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Mamoru Sakurazawa, Jun Arakawa
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Silver halide color photographic photosensitive material and image forming method utilizing the same
Patent number: 7238465Abstract: The invention provides a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material including a substrate and photographic layers containing a yellow color-developing blue light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color-developing green light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a cyan color-developing red light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein a total gelatin coating amount in the photographic layers is within a range from 3 to 6 g/m2 and/or a total silver coating amount in the photographic layers is within a range from 0.2 to 0.5 g/m2, the yellow color-developing blue light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer includes a silver halide emulsion having silver halide grains which have a sphere-equivalent diameter of no more than 0.6 ?m and a silver chloride content of at least 90 mol %, and an image forming method utilizing the photosensitive material.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2004Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Naoto Ohshima -
Patent number: 7229631Abstract: The invention provides oil-in-water emulsions comprising recombinant collagen-like polymer in an amount sufficient to act as stabiliser of the emulsion. The polymer is especially a polypeptide which is free of helix structure, has an isoelectric point at least 0.5 pH units removed from the pH of the oil-in-water emulsion. Furthermore, amphiphilic recombinant collagen-like polymers are provided for use in oil-in-water emulsions. The amphiphilic polymers are polar at one end as a result of a relative abundance of polar amino acids, and apolar at the other end as a result of a relative abundance of apolar amino acids.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2003Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Fuji Photo Manufacturing Europe B.V.Inventors: Joseph Hubertus Olijve, Jan Bastiaan Bouwstra, Frederik Anton Wolf De, Marc Willem Theodoor Werten, Hendrik Wouter Wisselink, Richéle Deodata Wind, Tanja Jacoba Bosch Van Den, Yuzo Toda
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Patent number: 7189501Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material that has, on a support, at least one yellow color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one magenta color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one cyan color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one specific yellow or magenta dye-forming coupler and at least one compound represented by formula (Ph) are contained in the same layer: wherein Rb1 represents a specific functional group; and Rb2 to Rb5 each independently represent a hydrogen or halogen atom, or a specific functional group.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2003Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Makuta, Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Nobuo Seto, Kiyoshi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 7183044Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having at least one each of blue-, green-, and red-sensitive emulsion layers containing yellow, magenta, and cyan couplers, respectively, on a support; wherein said blue-sensitive emulsion layer contains at least one coupler of formula (I); and wherein the light-sensitive material satisfies expression a-1) and/or b-1): wherein, Q forms a 5- to 7-membered ring with the —N?C—N(R1)—; R1 and R2 each are a substituent; m is 0 to 5; and X is a hydrogen atom, or a coupling split-off group; a-1): 0.5?Dmax(UV)/Dmin(UV)?1.1 wherein Dmax(UV)/Dmin(UV) is the smallest of the value in a wavelength range of 340 to 450 nm; b-1): 1300?(B-C)/A?20000 wherein B is yellow Dmax, C is yellow Dmin; and A is an amount mol/m2 of the coupler of formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2004Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Akira Ikeda, Shin Soejima, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Naoto Matsuda
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Patent number: 7175976Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one yellow color developable light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one magenta color developable light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one cyan color developable light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, each of which is provided on a support: which comprises at least one yellow coupler of formula (I) and at least one cyan coupler of formula (A); wherein Q represents a group of non-metal atoms that form a 5- to 7-membered ring in combination with —N?C—N(R1)-, each of R1 and R2 represents a substituent, m represents an integer of 0 to 5, and X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being split-off upon a coupling reaction; wherein R11 and R12 each represent an alkyl group or an aryl group, J represents an alkylene group, and X represents a hydrogen atom or a group that can split off upon a coupling reaction.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2004Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Yasuaki Deguchi, Naoto Ohshima, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Akira Ikeda, Naoto Matsuda
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Patent number: 7153639Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, a blue-sensitive layer unit, a green-sensitive layer unit and a red-sensitive layer unit, each of these layers comprising at least two silver halide emulsion layers with different photographic speeds, together with at least one antihalation layer, wherein couplers capable of color formation are contained in a total coating amount of 0.02 mmol/m2 to 2 mmol/m2.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2002Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Tamaoki, Yoichi Suga, Yoshio Ishii, Mitsuhiro Uchida
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Patent number: 7153640Abstract: A silver halide light sensitive photographic element comprising a support bearing at least one cyan image forming hydrophilic colloid layer comprising cyan image dye forming coupler of Formula I and a saturated alcoholic high boiling solvent or mixture of solvents of Formula II: Formula I wherein R1 is an alkyl group, R2 is a ballast group, and X is hydrogen or a coupling-off group; Formula II wherein R3 represents an alkyl group, and R4 and R5 individually represent hydrogen or an alkyl group, or R3 and R4 may be joined to form a cycloalkyl group, provided that the total number of carbon atoms contained in R3, R4, and R5 is at least 10 and that the alcoholic solvent or mixture of solvents of Formula II is liquid at 37° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2005Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Paul L. Zengerle, Christopher J. Haller
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Patent number: 7144691Abstract: A color photographic material which contains on a support at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one yellow coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one magenta coupler, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one cyan coupler, together with customary non-light-sensitive layers, characterized in that at least one layer contains a compound of formula (I) or (II) wherein the R1-radicals and R2-radicals are preferably methyl; and wherein the compounds of formula (II) are preferably (III) R3 is a radical —CH(CH3)—X—D, wherein X is phenylene.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2003Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Stéphane Biry, Francesco Fuso, Andreas Kramer
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Patent number: 7108963Abstract: A photographic element comprises a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye forming coupler and a combination of a carbonamide compound, a phenolic compound, and an electron-rich compound. Such a combination provides improved dye stability.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2005Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Albert J. Mura, Jr., Gary M. Russo, Shari L. Eiff, Brian Thomas
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Patent number: 7090969Abstract: A photographic element comprises a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye forming coupler and a compound of the following Formula I1: wherein L is a linking moiety; X is a heteroatom group selected from O, S, or NR? where R? is H or a substituent; w is 0 or 1; R is hydrogen or a substituent group; n is an integer from 0 to 5; and ST represents a stabilizer selected from the group consisting of: A. a thiomorpholine dioxide; B. a dialkoxy aromatic group linked through a phenolic oxygen; C. a dialkoxy aromatic group linked through the aromatic ring; D. a sulfonamido group; E. a hydroxyphenyl benzotriazole group; and F. a phenolic group.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Albert J. Mura, Shari L. Eiff, Gary M. Russo
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Patent number: 7060425Abstract: A color photographic material is described containing a compound of formula (I) wherein, if n=1, R1 is, inter alia, a radical of formula (II), and, if n=2, R1 is unsubstituted or C1–C4alkyl- or hydroxy-substituted phenylene or naphthylene; or —R12—X—R13—, and other residues are as defined in claim 1. The compound of formula (I) is effective as scavenger of the oxidized form of the developer (Dox scavenger), especially when contained in an interlayer between light sensitive layers. Selected compounds of this class can also be used as additives, for example as dye stabilizer, in color photographic materials, or as an antioxidant for organic materials.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1999Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.Inventors: Suruliappa Gowper Jeganathan, Stéphan Biry, Peter Nesvadba, David George Leppard
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Patent number: 6974663Abstract: A photographic element is described comprising a support bearing one or more hydrophilic colloid layers including at least one photographic silver halide emulsion layer, wherein a photographically useful compound is incorporated into at least one hydrophilic colloid layer in the form of an intercalation composition comprising a layered host material having molecules of the photographically useful compound inserted as guest molecules between the layers of the host material. The invention provide novels materials and a method of incorporating active chemistry compounds such as developers or development inhibitors directly into a photographic imaging element with improved stability and keeping response versus known methods for incorporating active chemistry compounds.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joseph F. Bringley, Krishnamohan Sharma, Kenneth J. Lushington
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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: 6890705Abstract: The second silver halide photosensitive material comprises a substrate and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer formed thereon, the silver halide photosensitive material comprising at least two types of silver halide grains with different projected areas having photosensitivity in the same spectral range; silver halide grains having a larger projected area having a refractive index n1 and an average thickness a, and silver halide grains having a smaller projected area having a refractive index n2 and an average thickness b; and the silver halide grains satisfying the conditions defined by the following equation (1): n2?n1, and a?b×(n2/n1)??(1).Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2002Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoteru Miyake, Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 6875562Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion which contains silver halide grains having light absorption strength of 100 or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2003Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiro Yamashita, Katsumi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6858380Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material comprises at least one layer on a support. At least one of the layers contains a coupler represented by general formula (I): wherein X represents H or split-off group; R1 and R2 independently represents an electron withdrawing group whose Hammett ?p value is 0.20 or greater, provided that the sum of R1 and R2 ?p values is 0.65 or greater; R3 represents a group selected from alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, aryl and heterocyclic, each of which may have a substituent; R4 represents H, or a group selected from alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, aryl, acyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl and carbamoyl, each of which may have a substituent, provided that R3 and R4 may be bonded to form a ring; R11, R12 and R13 independently represent an alkyl group having 1-30 carbon atoms; R represents a substituent; and n represents an integer of 0-3.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2003Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Kato, Hisashi Mikoshiba, Naoto Matsuda
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Publication number: 20040229175Abstract: A photothermographic imaging material including an organic silver salt, a binder, a reducing agent, coupler and a main developing agent which forms coloring images by reacting with the coupler, those which are on a support wherein the reducing agent comprises a compound represented by the following Formula (1), the coupler is a compound represented by the following Formula (CP1) and sum of maximum density of colorant images at maximum absorption wavelength formed by the coupler and the main developing agent is 0.01 or more and 0.50 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2004Publication date: November 18, 2004Applicant: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Narito Goto
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Patent number: 6803181Abstract: A dye-forming coupler of the formula (I). A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material that contains at least one dye-forming coupler of the formula (I). A method for producing an azomethine dye, which method comprises using a compound of the formula (I): wherein E is an aryl, heterocyclic, or —C(═O)W group, in which W is a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group, Z is an aryl or heterocyclic group, and X and Y each independently are ═O, ═S or ═N—R, in which R is a substituent, with the proviso that when E is an aryl or heterocyclic group, X and Y each are ═O, and that when E is a —C(═O)W group, Z is a substituted aryl group.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeki Uehira, Jun Ogasawara, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Shimada, Yasuaki Deguchi
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Patent number: 6790569Abstract: A color photothermographic element comprising at least three light-sensitive units which have their individual sensitivities in different wavelength regions, each of the units comprising at least one light-sensitive silver-halide emulsion, binder, and dye-providing coupler, and a blocked developer in the presence of a thermal solvent represented by the following structure: wherein the groups are as defined in the specification to promote the thermal development of the photothermographic element.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2001Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Xiqiang Yang, Zbyslaw R. Owczarczyk, David T. Southby, Mark E. Irving, Paul B. Merkel, Lyn M. Irving, David H. Levy
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Patent number: 6780575Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of scanning silver-halide-containing color photographic and photothermographic film. In particular, the present invention comprises record shifting by means by employing at least one infrared dye in a color unit of the film, thereby forming at least one image record in the infrared. This expedient leads to the formation of high quality images, especially when scanning photothermographic elements in which the silver halide, metallic silver, and/or any organic silver salts have not been removed.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2002Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Richard P. Szajewski
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Patent number: 6780573Abstract: The invention relates to a color silver halide photographic element comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, said silver halide emulsion being in reactive association with an amino acid compound according to Formula (I): wherein: COUP is a moiety that reacts with oxidized developer to release the amino acid timing group but does not substantially contribute any density in the visible region to the element after processing is complete; n is 0 or 1; R1 is an alkyl or alkenyl group of 4 carbon atoms or more or an aryl group with 10 carbon atoms or more; R2 is an alkyl or aryl group so the sum total of carbon atoms in R1 and R2 together are at least 5; and PUG is a photographically useful group.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2003Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Stephen P. Singer, Christopher W. Grote, Robert C. Stewart, Janet N. Younathan, Jerrold N. Poslusny
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Publication number: 20040161713Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, a blue-sensitive layer unit, a green-sensitive layer unit and a red-sensitive layer unit, each of these layers comprising at least two silver halide emulsion layers with different photographic speeds, together with at least one antihalation layer, wherein couplers capable of color formation are contained in a total coating amount of 0.02 mmol/m2 to 2 mmol/m2.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2003Publication date: August 19, 2004Inventors: Hiroshi Tamaoki, Yoichi Suga, Yoshio Ishii, Mitsuhiro Uchida
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Silver halide color photographic photosensitive material and image forming method utilizing the same
Patent number: 6777174Abstract: The invention provides a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material including a substrate and photographic layers containing a yellow color-developing blue light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color-developing green light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a cyan color-developing red light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein a total gelatin coating amount in the photographic layers is within a range from 3 to 6 g/m2 and/or a total silver coating amount in the photographic layers is within a range from 0.2 to 0.5 g/m2, the yellow color-developing blue light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer includes a silver halide emulsion having silver halide grains which have a sphere-equivalent diameter of no more than 0.6 &mgr;m and a silver chloride content of at least 90 mol %, and an image forming method utilizing the photosensitive material.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2003Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Naoto Ohshima -
Publication number: 20040157173Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, comprising on a support a silver halide emulsion layer comprising an yellow dye forming coupler represented by formula (I):Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2004Publication date: August 12, 2004Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Rie Sakuragi, Satoru Ikesu, Takatugu Suzuki
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Patent number: 6770431Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising a 1H-pyrazolo[3,2-c]-1,2,4-triazole type coupler having, in its molecule, at least one substituent represented by the following general formula (I): wherein R1 represents a substituent; m represents an integer of 0 to 4; and R2 represents an alkyl group, alkenyl group or aryl group.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2002Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Mizukawa, Masaaki Tsukase, Toshio Kawagishi, Hiroshi Fukuzawa
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Patent number: 6759187Abstract: This invention relates to an imaging element comprising an imaging layer having associated therewith a compound of Structure I: wherein: the substituents are as defined in the application.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2000Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Wojciech K. Slusarek, Xiqiang Yang, Mark E. Irving, David H. Levy, Jared B. Mooberry, James J. Seifert, James H. Reynolds, Lyn M. Irving
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Patent number: 6756192Abstract: This invention relates to an imaging element comprising an imaging layer having associated therewith a compound of Structure I: wherein: the substituents are as defined in the application.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1999Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Wojciech K. Slusarek, Xiqiang Yang, Mark E. Irving, David H. Levy, Jared B. Mooberry, James J. Seifert, James H. Reynolds, Lyn M. Irving