Polymeric Or Bis Coupler Patents (Class 430/548)
  • Patent number: 4711837
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the photographic material contains a compound having a dye portion in which the maximum absorption wavelength is shifted by a bond that is cleaved upon reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent and is capable of forming a diffusion resistant compound having a dye portion possessing the maximum absorption wavelength which is not shifted as a result of the reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent.By the use of the compound which permits a large degree of freedom with respect to selection of the dye for forming a color image according to the present invention, the color photographic material has an excellent image quality, and a good fastness of image or a high sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Ichijima, Mitsunori Ono, Isamu Itoh, Keiji Mihayashi, Koji Tamoto, Yoshisada Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4690889
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a specific naphthol cyan dye forming coupler is disclosed. Dye images formed by this coupler are excellent in fastness to heat and light and in sharpness, and are free from adverse influences of a bleaching solution having weak oxidative activity or a fatigued bleaching solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Saito, Kozo Aoki, Yukio Yokota
  • Patent number: 4686177
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having excellent color fastness against light, heat and heat with humidity, particularly against light irradiation, containing a cyan coupler of the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents an unsubstituted linear or branched aliphatic group or a linear or branched aliphatic group substituted with one or more substituents selected from a chlorine atom, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, a sulfonamido group, an acylamino group, an alkyloxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, an alkylcarbonyloxy group, an arylcarbonyloxy group, a carboxyl group and a hydroxyl group; R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Aoki, Michio Ono, Naoki Saito, Makoto Umemoto
  • Patent number: 4668613
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a polymer coupler which is capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and which is polymerized using a polymerization initiator represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a straight chain or branched chain alkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; an R.sub.2 represents a straight chain or branched chain alkyl group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms.The polymer coupler according to the present invention has a good stability to humidity and heat during storage of the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing thereof and provides decreased formation of fog in non-image areas of color photographs obtained by means of color development processing of the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Morio Yagihara, Tsumoru Hirano, Tatsuya Yamamoto, Kei Sakanoue
  • Patent number: 4663272
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is described comprising at least one layer which contains at least(1) a polymer comprising as constitutional components thereof a repeating unit having a photographically useful group and at least one repeating unit having a sulfinic acid group or a sulfinate group, and(2) a compound having at least one functional group capable of reacting with at least one of a sulfinic acid group and sulfinate group and at least one functional group capable of reacting with at least one of a sulfinic acid group, a sulfinate group and a primary amino group.Said photographic group-containing polymer (1) may be fixed in a photographic layer according to the present photographic material, and does not substantially migrate therefrom during development or other photographic treatment, thus resulting in formation of color images of high density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Taku Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4659652
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said material includes at least one magenta coupler of 1H-pyrazolo(1,5-b)(1,2,4)triazole type in which a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group is attached to the coupling active site to heighten coloring efficiency and speed, and further to ensure excellent light-fastness to the dye formed therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Kawagishi, Kiyoshi Nakazyo
  • Patent number: 4656124
    Abstract: A heat-developable color photo-sensitive material having a support. A photographic component layer is on the support and contains at least a photo-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and a dye-providing material. At least one of the dye-providing materials is a polymer having a repetition unit being derived from a monomer represented by the Formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tawara Komamura
  • Patent number: 4650748
    Abstract: A heat-developable color photo-sensitive material having a support. On the support, there is a photographic component layer containing at least a photo-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and a dye-providing material. At least one of the dye-providing materials in the photo-sensitive material is a polymer having a unit derived from a monomer represented by Formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tawara Komamura, Hidenobu Ohya
  • Patent number: 4631251
    Abstract: In a heat-developable color photo-sensitive material comprising a support bearing thereon a photographic component layer containing at least a photo-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and a dye-providing material; said heat-developable photo-sensitive material characterized in that at least one of said dye-providing materials is a polymer having a repetition unit being derived from a monomer Formula [I] below: ##STR1## wherein , Q represents an ethylene unsaturated group or a group having an ethylene unsaturated group; Z represents a group of atoms required for forming a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic residual group in which a polymerizable ethylene unsaturated bonding may also be incorporated into the heterocyclic ring, together with a nitrogen atom; R.sub.1 represents an alkyl, aryl, alkylamino, anilino, acylamino or ureido group; Ar represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic residual group; and n is an integer of zero or one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tawara Komamura, Shunji Suginaka, Kimie Tachibana
  • Patent number: 4612278
    Abstract: Photographic silver halide materials comprise a polymeric coupler which is at least a copolymer having a repeating unit (A) which comprises at least one coupler moiety (COUP) capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidized color developing agent and at least one repeating unit (B) which is derived from a monomer which is an alkoxyalkylacrylate. The polymeric coupler optionally comprises at least one repeating unit (C) derived from such monomers as those useful for repeating unit (A), those useful for repeating unit (B) and other monomers which can be selected to provide useful physical and chemical properties. The photographic material comprising such a polymeric coupler upon exposure and processing enables formation of a dye image having increased dye density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Philip Lau, Ping W. Tang
  • Patent number: 4590153
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least a silver halide photographic layer, and photographic material contains (1) at least one magenta coupler containing at least one coupler moiety derived from the compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by following formula (I) and (2) at least one metal complex selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by following formula (II), (III), (IV) and (V): ##STR1## wherein X represents a hydrogen atom or a coupling releasing group; R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, Za, Zb and Zc each represents a methine group; a substituted methine group; a methylene group, a substituted methylene group, .dbd.N--, or --NH--; one of the Za-Zb bond and the Zb-Zc bond being a double bond and the other being a single bond; ##STR2## wherein M represents Cu, Co, Ni, Pd or Pt; R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Kawagishi, Nobuo Furutachi
  • Patent number: 4585732
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, the photographic light-sensitive material containing a color image forming coupler comprising a nitrogen containing heterocyclic 5-membered ring-condensed-5-membered ring in which the coupling active position is substituted with the nitrogen atom of a carboxylic acid amido group containing at least one fluorine atom.The magenta color image forming coupler has good color forming property and provides a magenta color image having excellent spectral absorption property and good fastness to light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Kawagishi, Nobuo Furutachi
  • Patent number: 4578346
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support having two layers thereon. One layer is comprised of a silver halide emulsion layer containing a non-diffusible coupler which couples with an oxidation product of a developing agent during development processing to form a dye of such mobility that controlled image smearing occurs. The other layer is comprised of a silver halide emulsion layer containing a polymer coupler latex which is adjacent to the emulsion layer containing the dye diffusion type coupler. By utilizing the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as disclosed within the application it is possible to obtain improved results with respect to the graininess and sharpness of the images produced with the material without having bad effects on other photographic properties of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Watanabe, Morio Yagihara, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4576909
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having at least one silver halide emulsion layer in which there is provided a polymer coupler and a compound of the formulaAr--O--RO).sub.p H [I]wherein Ar is an aryl group, R is an alkylene group, and p is an integer from to 1 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sohei Goto, Ken Okauchi
  • Patent number: 4576911
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a magenta dye-forming polymeric coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Mizukura, Noboru Fujimori, Kosaku Masuda, Shinji Yoshimoto, Noriki Tachibana, Eiichi Ueda
  • Patent number: 4576894
    Abstract: A photoimaging system and method for photoimaging employing said photoimaging system, the latter comprising (i) a photosensitive element having a substrate coated with a photosensitive layer containing dispersed silver halide particles in operative association with a continuous film-forming phase of polymeric coupler, the coupler characterized by the ability to couple with the developing agent of component (ii) to become insoluble in aqueous media; and (ii) an oxidized hydroquinone or aminophenol-type developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Dennis S. Donald
  • Patent number: 4576910
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing in its silver halide emulsion layer a latex of magenta color image-forming polymer or copolymer coupler capable of coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent, wherein said coupler has repeating units derived from the monomer represented by the formula (I), (II), (III), (IV) or (V) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsumoru Hirano, Nobuo Furutachi
  • Patent number: 4557998
    Abstract: Essentially colorless, hydrophilic ligand-releasing polymers are prepared from ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomers represented by the structure: ##STR1## wherein R' is hydrogen or lower alkyl, COUP is a photographic color coupling moiety, LINK is a coupling-off group which can be cleaved by an oxidized developer composition, and LIG is a ligand capable of complexing with metal ions, while joined to the polymer, to form a dye. These polymers also have recurring units which impart hydrophilicity to the polymer. These polymers form metal complex dyes in unexposed areas of photographic elements only, while the ligand is cleaved from the polymer in the exposed areas and washed out of the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1985
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: William N. Washburn, Kenneth R. Hollister
  • Patent number: 4540654
    Abstract: A method of forming a color image comprising developing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material with a developing solution containing an aromatic primary amine is disclosed. The developing is carried out in the presence of a coupler represented by the general formula (I) described below and/or a polymer coupler which is a polymer or copolymer having a repeating unit derived from a vinyl monomer containing a part represented by the general formula (I) described below in its molecule: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahisa Sato, Toshio Kawagishi, Nobuo Furutachi
  • Patent number: 4522916
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta color image forming polymer coupler latex which is capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and which is a polymer or copolymer having a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein [Q] represents a magenta color image forming coupler residue; Za, Zb, Zc and Zd each represents a substituted or unsubstituted methine group, or --N.dbd.; R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, or a chlorine atom; A represents --NHCO--, --OCO--, or a phenylene group; Y represents --O--, --NH--, --S--, --SO--, --SO.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsumoru Hirano
  • Patent number: 4520093
    Abstract: A photosensitive composition, a photosensitive element employing said composition, and an improved photoimaging method that utilizes the disclosed composition. The improved method concerns a photosensitive element, formed from a photosensitive composition having a substrate layered with silver halide particles in operative association with a polymeric coupler, latently imaged, developed to render the imaged area insoluble, and washed to remove the undeveloped portion of the layer, wherein the improvement comprises addition of selected dispersed pigments to the polymeric coupler so that the optical density of the final image is neutral black.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: William J. Chambers
  • Patent number: 4518687
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support base having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming oleophilic polymer coupler. The polymer coupler is comprised of three repeating units including a repeating unit of a cyan coupler corresponding to general formula (I), an ethylene type unsaturated monomer repeating unit corresponding to general formula (II) which contains an acid component and an ethylene type unsaturated monomer repeating unit corresponding to general formula (III). The cyan dye-forming oleophilic polymer coupler is present in the form of a dispersed product, said polymer coupler having been dissolved in an organic solvent followed by emulsion dispersion of a gelatine aqueous solution in the presence of a surfactant. The general formulae and their substituents are described in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsumoru Hirano, Makoto Umemoto, Mitsunori Hirano
  • Patent number: 4511647
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. Their material is comprised of a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex. This latex is comprised of a recurring unit of a cyan coupler monomer capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent represented by the general formula (I) and a recurring unit of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing an acid component represented by the general formula (II) and a recurring unit of methyl acrylate. ##STR1## The cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex has excellent color forming properties and photographic material containing the coupler latex provides a cyan image having good fastness to heat and the combination of heat and humidity. A method for forming a color image utilizing the disclosed photographic material containing the novel couple of latex is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsumoru Hirano, Morio Yagihara, Makoto Umemoto
  • Patent number: 4500634
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material in which both a coupler capable of releasing a diffusible development restrainer by coupling and a polymer coupler latex are present to increase visual sharpness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Morio Yagihara, Seigi Ichijima, Kimitoshi Nagao
  • Patent number: 4496650
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprised of a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex is disclosed. The cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex is comprised of at least one repeating unit capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent represented by the general formula (Ia) and at least one repeating unit represented by the general formula (II): ##STR1## the substituents within the general formulae are disclosed within the specification. The cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex has excellent color forming properties and the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which contains the latex provides a photograph in which the occurrence of color stain due to light is substantially prevented. A method of forming a color image using the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morio Yagihara, Tsumoru Hirano, Makoto Umemoto
  • Patent number: 4495272
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an artomatic primary amine developing agent wherein the cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex contains at least one repeating unit represented by the general formula (I) described below and at least one repeating unit represented by the general formula (II) described below. ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; and Q represents a cyan coupler residue capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidized aromatic primary amine developing agent, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; and R.sub.3 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morio Yagihara, Tsumoru Hirano, Mitsunori Hirano, Makoto Umemoto
  • Patent number: 4482629
    Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material containing a compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein G, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and X have the same meanings as defined in the specification.The 1-naphthol coupler which is contained in the light-sensitive silver halide photographic material is high in reactivity with an oxidized product of a color forming developing agent and can efficiently impart imagewise photographic effects to light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakagawa, Hiroshi Sugita, Shuzi Kida, Morito Uemura, Ken-ichi Kishi
  • Patent number: 4474870
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta color image forming polymer coupler latex which is capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and which is a polymer or copolymer having a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; R.sub.2 represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkylene group which may be a straight chain or a branched chain; R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Company Limited
    Inventors: Morio Yagihara, Keiji Mihayashi, Takashi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 4464463
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a light-insensitive layer is disclosed. The material contains within the light-sensitive layer or the light-insensitive layer a compound capable of reacting with and fixing formaldehyde gas, said compound being represented by the general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## The compound capable of reacting with and fixing formaldehyde gas is loaded into an ultraviolet ray absorbing polymer latex comprised of a polymer having a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by the general formula (III): ##STR2## The substituents within the above formulae are defined within the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kojima, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4464464
    Abstract: The color yield and color granularity of color photographic recording materials is improved by using compounds of the general formula I as the sole or as additional oil formers in coupler-containing internal layers. The effect is particularly clear in layers having the small amount of gelatine. ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 is an aliphatic group having at least 8 carbon atoms,R.sup.2 is hydrogen or alkyl,R.sup.3 is a heterocyclic group or --(X).sub.n --R.sup.4,R.sup.4 is aryl,X is --O--, --NH--, --NCH.sub.3 --, or --CH.dbd.CH--,m is 0, 1 or 2, andn is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1984
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhart Matejec, Fritz Nittel, Johannes Sobel
  • Patent number: 4455366
    Abstract: A silver halide color, photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex which is capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and which is a polymer or copolymer having a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydroden atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; A.sub.1 represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkylene group which may be a straight chain or a branched chain; A.sub.2 represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkylene group which may be a straight chain or a branched chain, an unsubstituted or substituted aralkylene group or an unsubstituted or substituted phenylene group; B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsumoru Hirano, Makoto Umemoto, Morio Yagihara
  • Patent number: 4455363
    Abstract: A heat-developable color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide, an organic silver salt oxidizing agent, a hydrophilic binder, a reducing agent for the silver halide and/or the organic silver salt oxidizing agent and a magenta color image forming polymer coupler latex which is capable of forming a diffusible dye upon coupling with an oxidized product of the reducing agent and which is a homopolymer or copolymer having a repeating unit derived from a monomer coupler represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents hydrogen, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; R.sub.2 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Naito, Hiroshi Hara, Morio Yagihara
  • Patent number: 4444870
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a layer containing at least one copolymer coupler latex having a layered structure capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent. The polymer coupler latex having a layered structure has an exceptionally good color forming property and is capable of forming a dye with a high yield and without the formation of undesired stains and fogs. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing the polymer coupler latex has good film strength and a reduced layer thickness and provides a color image having an improved sharpness. A method of forming a color image using the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsumoru Hirano, Keiji Mihayashi, Morio Yagihara
  • Patent number: 4438193
    Abstract: There is disclosed a novel silver halide photosensitive color photographic material comprising a coupler which consists of a coupling component (A) which is capable of causing a coupling reaction with an oxidized color developing agent and a substituent component bonded at the coupling position of said coupling component (A), which substituent component is capable of being split off on coupling reaction, the improvement characterized in that said substituent comprises a coupling component (B) which can undergo coupling reaction with an oxidized color developing agent when released from said coupling component (A) and a photographically useful component which is capable of being released on coupling reaction of said coupling component (B).The color photographic material according to the present invention provides graininess, sharpness and color reproducibility which is sufficiently competent to the requirement of further miniturization of film size by use of a coupler having novel functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morito Uemura, Kenichi Kishi, Satoshi Nakagawa, Shuji Kida
  • Patent number: 4436808
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta color image forming polymer coupler latex which is capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and which is a homopolymer or copolymer having a repeating unit derived from a monomer coupler represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents hydrogen, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkylene group which may be a straight chain or a branched chain, an unsubstituted or substituted arylene group or an unsubstituted or substituted aralkylene group; X represents --CONH-- or --COO--; Y represents --O--, --S--, --SO--, --SO.sub.2 --, --CONH-- or --COO--; Ar represents an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group; R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morio Yagihara, Tsumoru Hirano, Keiji Mihayashi
  • Patent number: 4435503
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a 4-equivalent magenta color image forming polymer coupler latex and at least one compound capable of reacting with and fixing formaldehyde gas. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material has good film strength and a reduced layer thickness. It is possible to avoid the decrease in color density and the formation of fog normally present when the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is stored for a long period of time in contact with formaldehyde gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Tadashi Ogawa, Morio Yagihara
  • Patent number: 4416978
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a magenta color image forming polymer coupler latex and at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, a R.sub.4 CO-- group, a R.sub.5 SO.sub.2 -- group or a R.sub.6 NHCO-- group; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkoxy group or an alkenoxy group; R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group or an aryl group; and R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1983
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Morio Yagihara, Takashi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 4411987
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing an unsubstituted or substituted glycoluril as an aldehyde gas scavenger. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention can avoid the decrease in color density and the formation of fog normally present when the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is stored for a long period of time in contact with formaldehyde gas. In addition, the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention has a reduced layer thickness and good film strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Keiichi Adachi, Tadashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 4409320
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta color image forming polymer coupler latex which is capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and which is a polymer or copolymer having a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; and X represents a halogen atom, an acylamino group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfonamido group, a sulfamoyl group, a cyano group or an alkoxycarbonyl group and which is present at the 4-position or 5-position of the phenyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morio Yagihara, Tsumoru Hirano, Keiji Mihayashi, Takashi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 4388404
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is described containing a magenta color image forming polymer coupler latex and at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R represents an alkyl group; and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents a tertiary alkyl group and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be the same or different. The disclosed silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material has good film strength, a reduced layer thickness and provides a stable magenta image having an improved sharpness and fastness to light while preventing the formation of yellow stain in non-image areas. A method of forming a color image using the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1983
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Morio Yagihara, Takashi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 4374923
    Abstract: A direct positive silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is described comprising a support having coated thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion layer, wherein at least one layer of the light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion layers and other hydrophilic colloid layers contains a compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 can each represent a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group; R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic group; R.sup.4 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, or an aromatic group; and X represents a divalent aromatic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1983
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Hirano, Tadao Sugimoto, Nobuyuki Tsujino
  • Patent number: 4367282
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is described comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a 2-equivalent magenta color image forming polymer coupler latex which is capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and which is a polymer or copolymer having a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; X represents --CONH--, --NH--, --NHCONH-- or --NHCOO--; Y represents --CONH-- or --COO--; A represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkylene group which may be a straight chain or a branched chain or an unsubstituted or substituted phenylene group; Ar represents an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group; Za, Zb, Zc and Zd can each represent a methine group, a substituted methine group or -N.dbd.; m represents 0 or 1; and n represents 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1983
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morio Yagihara, Tsumoru Hirano, Keiji Mihayashi
  • Patent number: 4353979
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material containing a solution of a 5-pyrazolone type magneta coupler and a high-boiling organic solvent of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represent an aliphatic or aromatic group with a carbon atom of R.sub.3 directly bonded to the phosphorus atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1982
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadatugu Terada, Hideaki Arai, Kenji Itoh, Hiroshi Sugita, Katsumi Matsuura, Thuneo Wada
  • Patent number: 4340664
    Abstract: Latexes suited for homogeneously incorporating compounds with a photographically useful group into photographic silver halide emulsion materials. The latex incorporates a copolymer comprising recurring units of a monomer with photographically useful group, and recurring units of surface active monomer, according to the general formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 is hydrogen or methyl,n is 0 or 1 to 20,L is ##STR2## R.sup.2 is hydrogen or a hydrocarbon group, R.sup.3 is a monovalent chemical bond or a bivalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group or such group interrupted by the group --COO-- or --CONR--, andY is a sulpho, sulphato or phosphono group in acid or salt form, and at least one of the groups --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is or comprises a hydrocarbon chain of at least 8 C-atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1982
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Marcel J. Monbaliu, Walter F. De Winter, Raphael K. Van Poucke
  • Patent number: 4338393
    Abstract: Photographic magenta dye-forming couplers have the general formula: ##STR1## wherein: A represents the atoms necessary to complete, with the nitrogen atom to which it is attached, a magenta dye-forming coupler moiety whose coupling position is inactivated by the --CHR.sup.1 R.sup.2 group;CHR.sup.1 R.sup.2 is a blocking group which, upon reaction with oxidized color developing agent, is detached from the coupler moiety to yield a mobile reaction product;R.sup.1 is alkyl--O--CO--, alkyl--CO--, aryl--O--CO--, aryl--CO--, --COOH, --NO.sub.2 or --CN andR.sup.2 is a group specified for R.sup.1 or aryl--NHCO--.These couplers can be incorporated in photographic elements, emulsions and processing compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1982
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Joseph Bailey, John Cook
  • Patent number: 4310618
    Abstract: Novel dye-forming couplers have the structure: ##STR1## wherein: Z represents the atoms to complete, with the attached oxygen atom, the same or different 5-pyrazolone dye-forming coupler moiety, phenol dye-forming coupler moiety or naphthol dye-forming coupler moiety, the * in the ring completed by Z representing the coupling position;R is hydrogen or a coupling-off group;Bl is a blocking group removable, during development, from the coupler moiety completed by Z to which it is directly attached; andn is an integer of 2 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1982
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jose M. Fernandez, Joseph P. Pepe
  • Patent number: 4283472
    Abstract: Novel 5-pyrazolone magenta dye-forming couplers are blocked with a coupler moiety which yields an alkali-soluble or colorless reaction product. The coupler moiety is joined via its coupling position to the enol oxygen of the 5-pyrazolone and is displaced therefrom during processing as a result of reaction by means of oxidized color developing agent to thereby activate the 5-pyrazolone coupler. These couplers have good reactivity and good resistance to aerial contaminants, such a formaldehyde, and can be incorporated in photographic emulsions and elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1981
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas E. Gompf, Howell A. Hammond, Jared B. Mooberry
  • Patent number: 4268591
    Abstract: Light-sensitive recording material for color photography, which contains, in at least one silver halide emulsion layer, at least one yellow coupler of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is alkyl, R.sub.2 is alkyl or aryl and R.sub.3 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkoxy or alkylmercapto, cycloalkylmercapto, aryl, aryloxy or arylmercapto, the sum of the carbon atoms in the substituents R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 being 3 to 30 and at least two of these substituents being able to form a cyclic radical together with the carbon atom to which they are bonded, the R.sub.4 s are each halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, halogenoalkyl, alkylsulfonyl or aryloxy, X is a radical detachable during the coupling reaction, A is a 5-membered, heterocyclic, unsaturated ring system which contains 2 or 3 hetero-atoms, at least one of which is a nitrogen atom, and can be fused with a benezene ring and which is substituted by at least one ballast group and r is 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1981
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy AG
    Inventor: Paul Tschopp
  • Patent number: H122
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which comprises a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing dispersed therein at least one magenta coupler represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being eliminated upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent, Z represents a nitrogen atom or --CR.sup.6 where R.sup.6 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent and dimers or higher polymers thereof,together with at least one high boiling organic solvent represented by the following general formula (II): ##STR2## wherein R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Kawagashi, Kiyoshi Nakazyo, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: H156
    Abstract: A silver halide color light-sensitive material having excellent properties for a sensitization treatment is described, containing a polymer coupler having an average molecular weight higher than 30,000 and having a polymeric unit derived from a monomeric magenta coupler represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, chlorine, or a lower alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; A is a phenylene group, a --CONH-- group, or a --COO-- group; B is an unsubstituted or substituted alkylene group, an unsubstituted or substituted aralkylene group, or an unsubstituted or substituted phenylene group; Y is --O--, --NH--, --S--, --SO--, --SO.sub.2 --, --CONH--, --COO--, --NHCO--, or --NHCONH--; Q is a residue of a megenta color-forming coupler which forms a dye through coupling with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developer; and m is 1 when n is 1, and m is 0 or 1 when n is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ozawa, Tsumoru Hirano