Substituted At Coupling Position With Other Than Hydrogen Patents (Class 430/557)
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Patent number: 5411848Abstract: A photographic element, and coupler employed therein, comprises a photographic silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler having a the general formula: ##STR1## wherein Z is a ballasted group which splits off on silver halide development which is of such size and configuration to render the coupler non-diffusible in photographic layers, prior to splitting off, andR.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each individually an alkyl or aryl group whose combined effect is to render the yellow dye formed on coupling sufficiently mobile to produce image smearing.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1994Date of Patent: May 2, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: John D. Goddard, Danuta Gibson
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Patent number: 5409807Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material excellent in color reproducibility, color forming property, color image fastness and processing dependency. The material comprises a yellow color forming silver halide emulsion layer formed on a support, said layer containing at least one yellow color forming coupler represented by general formula (I) dispersed by dissolution in a high boiling organic solvent in a weight ratio of the high boiling organic solvent to the yellow color forming coupler of 0.6 or more: ##STR1## wherein X represents an organic residue necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing heterocycle with a nitrogen atom; Y represents an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; Z represents a group which is eliminatable by reaction of the coupler represented by general formula (I) with an oxidation product of a developing agent.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1993Date of Patent: April 25, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Kohzaburoh Yamada, Kiyoshi Takeuchi
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Patent number: 5405737Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light-sensitive material which has a high sensitivity and excels in yellow-image storage stability and pressure resistance. The material has blue-sensitive emulsion layers containing specific acylacetoamide type yellow dye-forming couplers represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a monovalent group, Q is a non-metal atom group which bonds to C to form 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring and R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and does not bond to Q to form a ring, at least one of the blue-sensitive emulsion layers contains at least one silver halide emulsion (A) having silver halide grains, 50% or more of which contain 10 or more dislocation lines per grain.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1992Date of Patent: April 11, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshinori Shibata
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Patent number: 5399474Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, which comprises a two-equivalent yellow coupler represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represent an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group; L represents an alkylene group; X represents a divalent linking group; R.sup.3 represents an unsubstituted alkyl group or cycloalkyl group; n represents 0 or 1; and Z represents >C(R.sup.4)R.sup.5 or >NR.sup.4 where R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent,being contained in at least one of the above silver halide emulsion layers.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1994Date of Patent: March 21, 1995Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Atsushi Tomotake, Yutaka Kaneko
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Patent number: 5399468Abstract: A color photographic silver halide negative working duplicating element and process comprising (A) a magenta colored masking coupler in at least one blue-sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer; and (B) a combination of (i) masking couplers and (ii) color contamination of at least one photographic silver halide emulsion layer enables upon exposure and processing of the element formation of a duplicate image that enables formation of a print image that is visually indistinguishable from the original image. The color photographic silver halide duplicating element is useful in forming duplicate images, especially for color motion picture films.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1993Date of Patent: March 21, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: John F. Sawyer, David E. Fenton
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Patent number: 5399473Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material which comprises one yellow coupler represented by the following formula (1) or (2), and a compound represented by the following formula (3) or (4). ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sup.3 represents an organic residue required to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with the >N--, Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a group capable of being released upon a coupling reaction with the oxidized product of a developing agent, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.a1, R.sub.a2, R.sub.a3, R.sub.a4, and R.sub.a5 each represent a hydrogen atom, or a substituent such as an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, or a nitro group, provided that R.sub.al, R.sub.a2, R.sub.a3, R.sub.a4, and R.sub.a5 are not hydrogen atoms at the same time, ##STR3## wherein R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1992Date of Patent: March 21, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Company, Ltd.Inventors: Akiko Shono, Nobuo Seto
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Patent number: 5397688Abstract: In a multilayered silver halide color light-sensitive sensitive material having a yellow dye forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta dye forming silver halide emulsion layer, and a cyan dye forming silver halide emulsion layer on a support, at least one type of an acylacetamide-based yellow coupler in which the acyl group in the acylacetamide is represented by formula (I) below and at least one type of a water-insoluble polymer are contained in the yellow dye forming layer, In formula (I), R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group, and Q represents a nonmetallic atom group required to form, together with C, a 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic ring having at least one hereto atom selected from N, S, O, and P in the ring, R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1993Date of Patent: March 14, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuhiro Yoshioka
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Patent number: 5395749Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one layer which contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be the same or different and each independently represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; Ar represents an aryl group; Ar and R.sup.1 may be linked to form a 5- to 7-membered ring but R.sup.2 and Ar or R.sup.1 do not link with each other; and n represents an integer of 0 to 2.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1993Date of Patent: March 7, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Negoro, Hiroo Takizawa, Masakazu Morigaki
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Patent number: 5385814Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having blue-, green-, and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers contains a pyrazoloazole-type compound which releases a development inhibitor in at least one layer and contains an acylacetamide-type yellow coupler having a novel acyl group in at least one layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1992Date of Patent: January 31, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Minoru Uchida, Toshio Kawagishi, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
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Patent number: 5382506Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material comprising a support which is both side coated with a polyolefin resin is disclosed. A hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a white pigment and a silver halide emulsion layer are provided on the support and the silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one of the compounds represented by the following Formula I, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.2 represents a fluorine atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a dialkylamino group, an alkylthio group or an arylthio group; R.sub.3 represents a group substitutable to a benzene ring; n is an integer of 0 or 1; Z represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off when coupling it to the oxidized product of a developing agent; and Y represents a monovalent organic group including a ballast group.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1993Date of Patent: January 17, 1995Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Yasuo Tosaka, Masayuki Sasagawa
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Patent number: 5380639Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material containing a compound capable of the timed release of photographically useful groups is disclosed. The material contains at least one compound of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl group; R.sub.2 is an alkyl or aryl group; R.sub.3 is an oxycarbonyl, sulfonamido, carbamoyl, acylamino, ureido, oxycarbonylamino, sulfonyloxy, carbonyloxy or sulfamoyl group; R.sub.4 is a substituent; n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; and X is a group, preferably of the formula (II) or (III), which, when eliminated upon coupling with the oxidation product of a developing agent, forms an o-quinonemethide or p-quinonemethide to release a development inhibitor or a precursor thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1992Date of Patent: January 10, 1995Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Osamu Ishige, Eisaku Katoh, Hiroko Fujiwara, Shigeto Hirabayashi, Shuichi Sugita
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Patent number: 5378594Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material comprising at least one sparingly water-soluble epoxy compound represented by formula (I), (II), or (III) and a silver halide emulsion layer which comprises high-silver-chloride grains containing metal ions and/or having silver bromide localized phases on the surface thereof, and/or that have been sensitized by a gold compound: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 each represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a halogen atom; L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 each represent a divalent aliphatic group, which may be substituted or unsubstituted; M.sup.1 represents an oxygen atom or a nitrogen atom; A represents a polyvalent linking group; a, b, and c each are an integer of 0 to 4; x and y each are an actual number of 0 to 20; l is 1 or 2; and m represents an integer of 2 to 4.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1991Date of Patent: January 3, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Okazaki, Naoto Oshima, Kiyoto Takada
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Patent number: 5376515Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material has, on a support, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler, at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler, and at least two red-sensitive silver emulsion layers containing a cyan coupler and having different sensitivities. The highest sensitivity layer of the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers contains a yellow coupler, and a red-sensitive emulsion layer having a lower sensitivity contains a yellow-colored cyan coupler.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1993Date of Patent: December 27, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuji Kume
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Patent number: 5376513Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the light-sensitive material contains a yellow colored cyan coupler and an acylacetamide yellow dye forming coupler having an acyl moiety represented by the general formula (A): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a univalent group, Q represents a group of non-metal atoms required to form, together with C, a three to five membered hydrocarbon ring or a three to five membered heterocyclic ring which has within the ring at least one hetero atom selected from among N, O, S and P, with the proviso that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and it does not join with Q to form a ring.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1993Date of Patent: December 27, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Keiji Mihayashi
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Patent number: 5376512Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material, which comprises, in a yellow color-forming silver halide emulsion layer, one of nondiffusible yellow couplers represented by formula (I-1) or (I-2) and an organic compound represented by formula (II), or further an organic compound represented by formula (III): ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sup.3 represents an organic residue to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with the >N--, Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a hydrogen atom or a coupling-releasing group, ##STR2## wherein R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, and R.sup.7 each represent a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, an aliphatic-oxycarbonyl group, an aromatic-oxycarbonyl group, or a carbamoyl group, provided that each of R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, and R.sup.7 does not represent a hydrogen atom at the same time, ##STR3## wherein R.sup.8, R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1992Date of Patent: December 27, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
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Patent number: 5376508Abstract: Disclosed is a method for forming a silver halide color photographic image comprising:exposing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material for photographing which comprises a support and provided thereon at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (B layer), at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (G layer) and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer (R layer) to light to obtain a latent image; processing said latent image to obtain a color negative image;printing said color negative image on a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material for printing which comprises a support and provided thereon a yellow color-forming layer (Y layer), a magenta color-forming layer (M layer) and a cyan color-forming layer (C layer) to obtain a color photographic image; wherein:(A) the spectral sensitivity distribution of the G layer S.sub.G (.lambda.) has a maximum value at a certain point .lambda..sub.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1993Date of Patent: December 27, 1994Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Yamada, Satoru Shimba, Hiroshi Shimazaki
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Patent number: 5374507Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material capable of providing a dye image having excellent color reproducibility, sharpness and image fastness.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1993Date of Patent: December 20, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuhiro Yoshioka
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Patent number: 5372920Abstract: A multilayered color photographic element contains a support having coated thereon photographic silver halide emulsion layers including at least one blue-sensitive and at least three red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, said red-sensitive layers respectively being most, mid, and least red-sensitive relative to each other, said most and mid red-sensitive layers being contiguous, and the most red-sensitive layer being a coupler starved layer, which element comprises:(a) a yellow image dye-forming coupler and substantially no development inhibitor releasing coupler in the most red-sensitive layer; and(b) at least one development inhibitor releasing coupler in the mid red-sensitive layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1993Date of Patent: December 13, 1994Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Larry D. Edwards
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Patent number: 5362617Abstract: A light-sensitive material comprising a support provided thereon at least one layer containing a coupler represented by the following Formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents a group represented by the following Formula (a), (b) or (c): ##STR2## wherein the groups are as defined in the specification provided that at least one of the groups represented by A, B and Z has at least one of the partial structures represented by the following Formulas (P-I) to (P-V): ##STR3## wherein the substituent groups are as defined in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1993Date of Patent: November 8, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Kohzaburoh Yamada, Nobuo Seto, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
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Patent number: 5360713Abstract: Yellow dye-forming couplers of the acylacetanilide class, having an electron withdrawing group or electronegative element attached to the keto functional group, have excellent light-absorption characteristics and are useful in photographic elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1992Date of Patent: November 1, 1994Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Ping W. Tang, Philip T. S. Lau, Stanley W. Cowan
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Patent number: 5360705Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a yellow color forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color forming silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan color forming silver halide emulsion layer. The yellow color forming emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of not less than 90 mol %, a yellow coupler and a bisphenol compound and optionally a difficultly water-soluble epoxy compound. One or more layers of the light-sensitive material may contain an ultraviolet light absorber.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1992Date of Patent: November 1, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoneyama
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Patent number: 5356767Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material includes a support, and at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer formed on the support, wherein at least one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers contains at least one type of an acylacetamide type yellow dye forming coupler having an acyl group represented by formula (I) below, and at least one type of a compound represented by formula (W) below: ##STR1## wherein DI represents a development inhibitor.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1992Date of Patent: October 18, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Toyoda, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
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Patent number: 5354650Abstract: Photographic elements are described which contain a release compound that during photographic processing provides an imagewise distribution of a photographically inert compound which can react with a uniform distribution of a second compound contained in the element to form a photographically active compound.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1993Date of Patent: October 11, 1994Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: David T. Southby, Daniel L. Kapp, Wojciech Slusarek, Louis E. Friedrich, Zbyslaw R. Owczarczyk, Xiqiang Yang
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Patent number: 5352572Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises a combination of at least one yellow dye-forming coupler of the following general formula (1) with at least one discoloration inhibitor of special amide, phosphorus or hydrazine compound type to prevent the dye images, especially the yellow dye image, formed therein from discoloring or changing their colors; ##STR1## wherein X.sup.3 represents an organic residue completing a nitrogen-containing heterocyclyl group together with ##STR2## Y represents an aromatic or heterocyclic group; and Z represents a group capable of splitting off when the coupler represented by the foregoing formula reacts with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1992Date of Patent: October 4, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Akira Ogawa, Masakazu Morigaki
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Patent number: 5350666Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having on a support, at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, which contains a coupler which releases at least two groups selected from the group consisting of a photographically useful group and a precursor thereof via a timing group upon undergoing a coupling reaction with an oxidized product of a developing agent, in which a plurality of photographically useful groups or precursors thereof are present on different atoms of the timing group, provided that when the plurality of photographically useful groups have a different function to each other, the timing group is not a group utilizing an intramolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1991Date of Patent: September 27, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masuji Motoki, Atsuhiro Ohkawa, Keiji Mihayashi
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Patent number: 5342742Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material capable of providing a dye image having an improved spectral absorption characteristic, excellent color reproducibility and yet a sufficiently low minimum density, comprises a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, a silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, and a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer containing the cyan dye-forming coupler contains at least one cyan coupler represented by the following formula (I) or (II) and the silver halide emulsion layer containing the yellow dye-forming coupler contains at least one yellow coupler represented by the following formula (III): ##STR1## With the substituents as defined herein the specification.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1992Date of Patent: August 30, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Naruse, Makoto Suzuki, Takehiko Sato
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Patent number: 5340703Abstract: A method of processing a silver halide light-sensitive photographic material in which a replenishing amount of a color developer is not more than 1000 ml/m.sup.2 and the material contains a coupler represented by formula I: ##STR1## The processing method of the invention can provides effects that even when treated with processing solution of low replenishing amount, a sensitive material suppresses deterioration in whiteness of non-image area and reproduces yellow close to that of a printing ink.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1992Date of Patent: August 23, 1994Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Satoshi Masumi, Shun Takada
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Patent number: 5338651Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which provides a good color developability and an excellent color reproducibility in every hue comprises at least a cyan dye-forming emulsion layer, a magenta dye-forming emulsion layer and a yellow dye-forming emulsion layer, wherein the cyan dye-forming emulsion layer contains at least one cyan dye-forming coupler represented by the following Formula (I) or (II) and the yellow dye-forming emulsion layer contains at least one yellow dye-forming coupler represented by the following Formula (III) or (IV): ##STR1## to form a homopolymer or a copolymer; ##STR2## wherein X.sub.3 represents ##STR3## with the substituents as defined herein the specification.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1992Date of Patent: August 16, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Naruse, Makoto Suzuki, Takehiko Sato
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Patent number: 5338654Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material containing at least one coupler compound of the formula (1) in at least one hydrophilic colloid layer which is provided on a support:R.sup.1 OCOCHXCONR.sup.2 R.sup.3 (1)where R.sup.1 represents a branched alkyl group including a cyclic alkyl group and a cyclic alkyl-substituted alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R.sup.3 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; X represents a group which splits off from the coupler compound when the coupler compound is reacted with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 may be bonded to each other to form a ring. The coupler has a high dye-forming rate to give a dye having a high color density and a high color fastness. The material has improved sharpness and color fastness and an elevated sensitivity.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1993Date of Patent: August 16, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Saito, Takayoshi Kamio, Seiji Ichijima, Keiji Mihayashi
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Patent number: 5336591Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one yellow dye forming coupler represented by the following general formula (1) or (2), and at least one yellow dye forming coupler represented by the following general formula (F): ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; X.sub.3 represents an organic residue which forms a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with >N--; Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; and Z represents a group which is capable of being released when the coupler of general formula (1) or (2) reacts with an oxidation product of a developing agent; ##STR2## wherein R.sub.20 represents a tertiary alkyl group; R.sub.21 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkyl group or a dialkylamino group; R.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1992Date of Patent: August 9, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuru Yamamoto, Akira Ogawa
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Patent number: 5336592Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a photographic layer including a silver halide emulsion layer wherein the outermost surface of said photographic layer has a pH value of from 5.4 to 5.9 and said silver emulsion layer contains a compound represented by the following formula I; ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.2 is an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an acyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.3 is a substituent, n is 0 or 1; X.sub.1 is a substituent capable of splitting off upon coupling reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent; and Y.sub.1 is an organic group. The light-sensitive material is excellent in stability during storage and gives stable photographic characteristics even when pH value of developer is varied.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1992Date of Patent: August 9, 1994Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Shigeo Chino, Takashi Kadowaki, Toyoki Nishijima
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Patent number: 5332656Abstract: Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which comprises a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a) a diacylaminomethylene yellow dye forming coupler having bonded to the coupling active position a group which provides a compound having a development inhibiting property when the group is released from the coupler active position upon the color development reaction, wherein said group is a 4,7-dihalogen-2-benzotriazolyl group and b) an alkoxybenzoyl acetanilide yellow dye forming coupler having a 3-hydantoinyl leaving group bonded to the coupling active position.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1993Date of Patent: July 26, 1994Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Massimo Bertoldi, Vinicio Busatto
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Patent number: 5328812Abstract: A dye image-forming method comprising color developing an image wise exposed silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a layer containing an acylacetamide yellow coupler having an acyl group represented by a following formula (YI) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group; Q represents a group of atoms necessary to form 3- or 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocylcic ring; provided that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and is not combined with Q to form a ring; with a developing solution containing at least one aromatic primary amine color developing agent represented by formula (D) or (E): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.4 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a linear or branched hydroxyalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sub.5 represents a linear or branched alkylene group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms or a linear or branched hydroxyalkylene group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1993Date of Patent: July 12, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akimitsu Haijima, Masato Taniguchi
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Patent number: 5328818Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material includes red-, green- and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and a non-light-sensitive layer, and contains a dye of the following formula (I). The emulsion layer or the non-light-sensitive layer contains a yellow coupler of the following formula (1) or (2), or an acylacetamide type yellow coupler having an acyl group of the following formula (Y): ##STR1## where X and Y represent an electron attractive group, or when coupled with each other, XY represents an acidic nucleus, Ar represents a phenyl group or a heterocyclic group, and L.sup.1, L.sup.2 and L.sup.3 represent a methine group, ##STR2## where X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sub.3 represents an organic group which forms a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with >N--, Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a split-off group, ##STR3## where D.sup.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1992Date of Patent: July 12, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Fukuzawa, Kohzaburoh Yamada, Keiji Mihayashi, Koji Tamoto, Shigeru Shibayama, Minoru Sato, Kiyoshi Nakazyo
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Patent number: 5328817Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material which comprises at least one yellow coupler represented by the following formulas (1) or (2), and at least one cyan coupler represented by the following formula (C): ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sup.3 represents an organic residue required to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with >N--, Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a group capable of being released upon a coupling reaction of the coupler represented by said formula with the oxidized product of a developing agent, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclyc group, R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms, R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1992Date of Patent: July 12, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Yoshioka
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Patent number: 5324626Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material, which comprises a compound represented by formula (I) in a photosensitive layer or a non-photosensitive layer and a yellow dye-forming coupler represented by formula (II), (III), or (IV) in a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, a silyl group, an acyl group, a sulfonyl group, or an R.sub.o group; R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a substituted amino group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an R.sub.p group, an R.sub.q group, an R.sub.r group, an R.sub.s group, an R.sub.t group, or an R.sub.u group; R.sub.1a, R.sub.1b, and R.sub.1c have the same meaning as that of R.sub.1 ; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, or R.sub.5 and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1992Date of Patent: June 28, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akiko Shono, Nobuo Seto
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Patent number: 5324625Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers contains a silver salt of dye. The light-sensitive material has a raised sharpness, lowered fog and improved storage stability.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1992Date of Patent: June 28, 1994Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Shigeto Hirabayashi, Yasushi Usagawa, Yasuhiko Kawashima, Nobuaki Kagawa
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Patent number: 5318884Abstract: Photographic silver halide materials and processes employ at least one coupler having a coupling-off group which includes a carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring which bears a silyl substituent on at least one of its ring carbon atoms and is attached via another of its ring atoms either directly or through a linking group or atom to the coupling position of the coupler. The silyl substituent bears three groups which are independently aromatic groups, heterocyclic groups, aliphatic groups or additional silyl groups bonded through a linking atom to the silicon atom in said silyl substituent.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1992Date of Patent: June 7, 1994Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Sundaram Krishnamurthy
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Patent number: 5316903Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material which comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of sparingly water-soluble epoxy compounds represented by formula (I), (II), or (III) given below and a dye-forming coupler in a layer on a base. ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 each represent an alkyl group or a halogen atom, L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 each represent a divalent aliphatic organic group, M represents an oxygen or nitrogen atom, A represents a polyvalent linking group, a, b, and c each are an integer of 0 to 4, x and y each are a real number of 0 to 20, l is 1 or 2, and m is an integer of 2 to 4.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1991Date of Patent: May 31, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideki Tomiyama
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Patent number: 5314797Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material comprising a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer that contains an acylacetamide yellow dye-forming coupler whose acyl group is represented by formula (I) and a high-boiling organic solvent, wherein the weight ratio of the high-boiling solvent to the coupler contained in said layer is 0.3 or below. ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group, Q represents a group of nonmetallic atoms required to form together with C a 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic ring that contains a hetero atom selected from the group consisting of N, O, S, and P, provided that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and it does not bond to Q to form a ring.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1991Date of Patent: May 24, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Yoshio Shimura, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5314796Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material excellent in both sharpness and whiteness of background while being capable of satisfactorily displaying the yellow coupler characteristics including an excellent color reproduction is provided, wherein the silver halide color photographic light sensitive material contains a compound represented by the following Formula [I] in at least one of the photographic component layers thereof, a compound represented by the following Formula [II] in at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers thereof, and a compound represented by the following Formula [III] in at least one of the photographic component layers; and ##STR1##Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1993Date of Patent: May 24, 1994Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Murai, Makoto Kajiwara, Hirokazu Sato, Shinri Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Okumura
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Patent number: 5312726Abstract: A silver halide color light-sensitive material including a support having thereon at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer is disclosed, wherein the hydrophilic colloidal layer contains a DIR coupler represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group; R.sup.2 represents an organic group; X and Y each represent --N.dbd. or ##STR2## wherein R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1991Date of Patent: May 17, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Seiji Ichijima, Toshio Kawagishi, Naoki Saito, Masuji Motoki
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Patent number: 5306604Abstract: Photographic silver halide materials are disclosed comprising a support and a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a coupler having in a non-coupling position a silyl substituent represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 through R.sub.4 individually are unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic groups, R.sub.5 is an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group which can be bonded to a non-coupling position of a second coupler moiety, and n=0, 1 or 2. In a preferred embodiment, the coupler is a photographic image dye-forming coupler. Processes for developing images in the photographic materials are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1992Date of Patent: April 26, 1994Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Sundaram Krishnamurthy
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Patent number: 5306609Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic material comprises i) a nondiffusive coupler represented by the general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## and ii) an acyl acetamide coupler comprising, as an acyl group, a group represented by the general formula (A) ##STR2## The silver halide color photographic material provides a high color density and exhibits a small fluctuation of photographic performance during preservation thereof and improved color image fastness and color reproducibility.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1992Date of Patent: April 26, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Takayoshi Kamio
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Patent number: 5306607Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed comprising a support bearing at least one photographic silver halide emulsion layer and at least one photographic coupler comprising a pyrazolotriazole moiety (PT), the coupler having the formula ##STR1## wherein PT is a pyrazolotriazole moiety.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1992Date of Patent: April 26, 1994Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: William J. Begley, Teh-hsuan Chen, Frank D. Coms, Donald Singleton
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Patent number: 5304463Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having photosensitive layers and non-photosensitive layers adjacent to photosensitive layers on a base, which comprises a yellow dye-forming coupler selected from a group consisting of couplers represented by formulas (I), (II), and (III) and a compound represented by the following formula (IV): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group, Q represents a group of non-metallic atoms required to form together with the C a cyclic hydrocarbon group or a heterocyclic group that has a heteroatom of N, S, O, or P, and Y.sub.R represents a residue remaining after removing the acyl group ##STR2## from the coupler represented by formula (I), provided that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and does not bond to Q to form a ring, ##STR3## wherein X.sup.1, and X.sup.2 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sup.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1992Date of Patent: April 19, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takehiko Sato, Nobuo Seto
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Patent number: 5302503Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material includes a support and at least one hydrophilic colloid layer formed on the support. The hydrophilic layer contains a coupler compound which is represented by formula (I) below and has a high dye formation rate and a high color forming density. This silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material can achieve an improved sharpness and a high sensitivity:A--(SO.sub.2 NHCONR.sup.1 R.sup.2).sub.n Formula (I)(wherein A represents a coupler moiety, each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, and n represents an integer of 1 or more, if n being an integer of 2 or more, respective R.sup.1 's and R.sup.2 's being able to be the same or different, and A and R.sup.1, A and R.sup.2, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 being able to combine to form a ring.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1992Date of Patent: April 12, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Saito, Keiji Mihayashi, Takayoshi Kamio
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Patent number: 5300412Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or light-insensitive layer on a support, wherein the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or a light-insensitive layer contains a yellow coupler selected from the group consisting of a yellow coupler represented by the following formula (I), a yellow coupler represented by the following formula (II) and combinations thereof, and a cyan coupler selected from the group consisting of a phenolic cyan coupler having a phenylureido group at the 2-position and a carbonamido group at the 5-position, a naphtholic cyan coupler having an amino group at the 5-position and combinations thereof; ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; X.sub.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1992Date of Patent: April 5, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Naoki Saito
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Patent number: RE34697Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive material having a support and at least one silver halide emulsion is provided. The silver halide emulsion layer contains in combination at least one cyan coupler of Formula (I) and at least one cyan coupler of Formula (II).Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1990Date of Patent: August 16, 1994Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shun Takada, Kaoru Onodera, Takashi Kadowaki
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Patent number: H1429Abstract: The present invention offers a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which is excellent in dye image storage stability, which undergoes little change in the photographic performance thereof between initiation and completion of continuous processing, which has excellent color reproducibility and sufficient color developability. The present invention comprises a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a dye-forming coupler on the support, wherein said silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one compound having an ester group and an oxidation potential of not more than 1800 mV.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1992Date of Patent: April 4, 1995Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Motoi Nishimura, Hirokazu Sato, Katsumasa Yamazaki, Shigeto Hirabayashi