Silver Compound Having Specified Crystal Form, Habit, Particle Size Or Particle Size Distribution Patents (Class 430/567)
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Patent number: 11174089Abstract: A method of manufacturing a foil for enclosing or wrapping a product configured to be heated in an oven includes: providing an aluminium layer, applying a first ink material at a surface of the aluminium layer to form a first ink layer, and applying a second ink material at a surface of the first ink layer to form a second ink layer. The first ink layer is positioned between the aluminium layer and the second ink layer, and is configured to absorb radiant energy. The second ink layer is configured to allow radiant energy to pass through to reach the first ink layer. A binder system of the first ink material or the second ink material is based at least in part on polyvinyl butyral (PVB).Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Danapak Flexibles A/SInventors: Lars Wiggers Hyldgaard, Peter Jørgensen, Lars Christian Christensen
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Patent number: 11136343Abstract: The present invention relates to binuclear metal complexes and electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices containing said metal complexes.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Philipp Stoessel, Christian Ehrenreich, Philipp Harbach, Anna Hayer, Esther Breuning
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Patent number: 10356899Abstract: A precursor article has a substrate and a photosensitive thin film or a photosensitive thin film pattern on a supporting side. The photosensitive thin film and each photosensitive thin film patterns comprises a non-hydroxylic-solvent soluble silver complex that is represented by the following formula (I): (Ag+)a(L)b(P)c?? (I) wherein L represents an ?-oxy carboxylate; P represents a 5- or 6-membered N-heteroaromatic compound; a is 1 or 2; b is 1 or 2; and c is 1, 2, 3, or 4, provided that when a is 1, b is 1, and when a is 2, b is 2. A photosensitizer that can either reduce the reducible silver ion or oxidize the ?-oxy carboxylate having a reduction potential can also be present. Such precursor articles can be irradiated with UV-visible radiation to reduce the silver ions to provide electrically-conductive metallic silver in thin films or thin film patterns in product articles or devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Deepak Shukla, Mark R. Mis, Thomas Robert Welter, Kevin P. Klubek, Kevin M. Donovan
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Patent number: 10314173Abstract: A precursor article has a substrate and a photosensitive thin film or photosensitive thin film pattern on one or both supporting sides. A non-hydroxylic-solvent soluble silver complex is present that is represented by the following formula (I): (Ag+)a(L)b(P)c?? (I) wherein L represents an ?-oxy carboxylate; P represents a primary alkylamine; a is 1 or 2; b is 1 or 2; and c is 1, 2, 3, or 4, provided that when a is 1, b is 1, and when a is 2, b is 2. A photosensitizer can also be present to enhance photosensitivity for conversion of reducible silver ions to electrically-conductive silver metal in a resulting product article or device. The electrically-conductive silver metal can be provided as a uniform electrically-conductive silver metal-containing thin film or layer, or as one or more electrically-conductive silver metal-containing thin film patterns.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Deepak Shukla, Mark R. Mis, Thomas Robert Welter, Kevin M. Donovan
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Patent number: 9725499Abstract: This disclosure relates to collagen like polypeptides, applications, and uses related thereto. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to collagen like polypeptides wherein hydroxy proline is substituted with amino proline and containing amino acids having side chains with carboxylic acids wherein the polypeptides are configured through electrostatic interactions of the amine and carboxylic acid groups to form solid structures. In certain embodiments, the disclosure contemplates modifications of these polypeptides in order to impart desirable properties to the solid structures.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Emory UniversityInventors: Vincent Paul Conticello, Tao Jiang
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Patent number: 9257747Abstract: A Vivaldi-Monopole antenna is a small form ultra-wideband antenna configured for low frequency operation in modern wireless devices. The Vivaldi-Monopole antenna comprises a tapered-slot element and a monopole element, wherein current modes of each element are combined to yield a functional and small form ultra-wideband antenna configured for low frequency resonances.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: TAOGLAS GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventor: Javier Ruben Flores-Cuadras
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Patent number: 9163222Abstract: Modified amino acid sequences of OAS1 proteins in non-human primates, and genes related thereto, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Kineta Two, LLCInventors: Shawn P Iadonato, Charles L Magness, P Campion Fellin, Christina A Scherer, Tory Hagen, Amy Olson
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Patent number: 8637228Abstract: A color photographic element has a reflective support and a blue light sensitive color record, a green light sensitive color record, and a red light sensitive color record and can be used to provide color photographic prints. The element also has a non-light sensitive layer over the red light sensitive color record. This non-light sensitive layer has (1) a hydrophilic colloid in an amount of at least 200 mg/m2 to and including 2,000 mg/m2, (2) matte particles, and (3) an acrylate latex polymer having latex particles having an average size of less than 1 ?m and a glass transition temperature of at least 70° C. The dry weight ratio of the acrylate latex polymer to the hydrophilic colloid is at least 0.8:1 and the dry weight ratio of the acrylate latex polymer to the total matte particles is at least 15:1.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2012Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventors: Jess B. Hendricks, III, Paul L. Zengerle, Andrew D. Church, Darrell B. Austin
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Patent number: 8617801Abstract: A radiographic X-ray film comprising a polymer support. One or more silver halide emulsion layers are coated on each side of the support. A blue dye is contained within at least one of the polymer support or in an adjacent hydrophilic layer in a sufficient amount to result in a CIELAB measurement of L* less than or equal to 80 and b* less than or equal to ?25. This configuration provides, after imaging and development, radiographic images having desirable visual contrast, image tone, b*, and image quality.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.Inventor: Robert E. Dickerson
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Patent number: 8357485Abstract: A multi-color photographic silver halide element has a total gelatin level on the imaging side of the support is less than 9000 mg/m2, and bulk gelatin-to-junk weight ratio for all of the light sensitive layers on the imaging side of the support is greater than 1.5. This weight ratio is defined by: Bulk gelatin-to-junk ratio=[(Bgel×Bgel/junk)+(Rgel×Rgel/junk)+(Ggel+Ggel/junk)]÷(Bgel+Rgel+Ggel) wherein Bgel is the total gelatin level for blue light sensitive layers, Bgel/junk is the gelatin-to-junk ratio for blue light sensitive layers, Rgel is the total gelatin level for red light sensitive layers, Rgel/junk is the gelatin-to-junk ratio for red light sensitive layers, Ggel is the total gelatin level for green light sensitive layers, and Ggel/junk is the gelatin-to-junk ratio for green light sensitive layers.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2010Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Christopher J. Haller, Daniel R. May, Paul L. Zengerle
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Patent number: 8133665Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic photosensitive material which includes a support and at least one silver halide photosensitive layer on the support, wherein the average equivalent sphere diameter of the silver halide of the silver halide photosensitive layer is 0.30 ?m or less, the silver halide photosensitive layer includes four or more kinds of silver halide grains having mutually different average equivalent sphere diameters, and the thickness between a surface of the support at a side at which the silver halide photosensitive layer is provided and a surface of the silver halide photosensitive layer at a side opposite to the support is 10 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2009Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoichi Hosoya, Naoharu Kiyoto, Junichiro Hosokawa, Masaaki Miki, Kouichi Yokota, Ryoji Nishimura
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Patent number: 8043800Abstract: A photosensitive material for forming a conductive film including a silver salt-containing emulsion layer, and a conductive layer containing conductive fibers, wherein the amount of the conductive fibers in the conductive layer is 0.005 g/m2 to 0.2 g/m2.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kenji Naoi
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Patent number: 8034542Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding film for plasma display which is excellent in electromagnetic shielding characteristics for effectively shielding electromagnetic waves, near infrared rays, stray light, external light, and the like and even when stored under a wet heat condition, is small in change of color tint and good in adhesion, with a blackening layer hardly peeled away, is provided by a transparent electromagnetic shielding film including a transparent support having thereon a conductive metal layer in a pattern-like state having an electromagnetic shielding ability and having a surface covered by a blackening layer, with the blackening layer made of an alloy of nickel and zinc in a nickel/zinc mass ratio of from 0.5 to 50.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2007Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hirotomo Sasaki, Jun Matsumoto, Takayasu Yamazaki, Akimitsu Haijima, Yoshihiro Fujita
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Patent number: 8012676Abstract: It is to provide a process for preparing a conductive material in which transparency and conductivity are both high, and storage stability is high, and further, in a process for preparing a conductive material utilizing ultra fine silver particles, to provide a process for preparing a conductive material having high conductivity without requiring a calcination step which has conventionally been required. A process for preparing a conductive material having a conductive pattern containing silver on a support, which process for preparing a conductive material comprises acting at least one of the following mentioned (I) to (IV) on the pattern portion containing silver provided on the support: (I) a reducing substance, (II) a water-soluble phosphorus oxo acid compound, (III) a water-soluble halogen compound, (IV) warm water of 55° C. or higher.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2007Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills LimitedInventors: Takenobu Yoshiki, Shigeki Shino, Kazuhisa Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7985527Abstract: A method for producing a conductive film, having the steps: forming, on a support, a conductive metal portion containing a conductive material and a binder; bringing the conductive metal portion into contact with vapor or a hot water; and immersing the conductive metal portion into hot water having a temperature of 40° C. or higher.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Tsukasa Tokunaga
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Patent number: 7957582Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a system and method for modeling S-distortion in an image intensifier. In an embodiment, the method may include identifying a reference coordinate on an input screen of the image intensifier. The method also includes computing a set of charged particle velocity vectors. The method also includes computing a set of magnetic field vectors. The method also includes computing the force exerted on the charged particle in an image intensifier. Certain embodiments of the present invention include an iterative method for calibrating an image acquisition system with an analytic S-distortion model. In an embodiment, the method may include comparing the difference between the measured fiducial shadow positions and the model fiducial positions with a threshold value. If the difference is less than the threshold value, the optical distortion parameters are used for linearizing the set of acquired images.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Dun Alex Li, Joseph Casey Crager, Peter Kelley, Andrey Litvin
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Patent number: 7914977Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material, having, on a transparent support, at least one each of yellow-, cyan-, and magenta-color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler that forms a dye having its absorption maximum at a wavelength longer than 730 nm upon reaction with an oxidized product of a developing agent, wherein the yellow-color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains photosensitive silver halide grains having an average grain size of 0.4 ?m or below and a silver chloride content of 95 mole % or above based on total silver in the grains, and wherein the photosensitive silver halide grains include photosensitive silver halide grains whose iodide ion concentrations have their maxima at grain surfaces and decrease gradually toward the interior of the grains; and a method of processing a silver halide color photosensitive material for use in film screening.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2005Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hidekazu Sakai, Tatsuya Ishizaka
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Patent number: 7887998Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one hydrophilic colloid layer on a support, wherein silver halide in the silver halide emulsion layer has a silver bromide content of 40 to 90 mol %, and the silver halide emulsion layer is spectrally sensitized with a specific dye.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Mitsunori Hirano, Kunio Ishigaki
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Patent number: 7829243Abstract: A method for etching a chromium layer is provided herein. In one embodiment, a method for etching a chromium layer includes providing a filmstack in an etching chamber, the filmstack having a chromium layer partially exposed through a patterned layer, providing at least one halogen containing process gas to a processing chamber, biasing the layer disposed on a substrate support in the processing chamber with a plurality of power pulses less than 600 Watts, and etching the chromium layer through a patterned mask. The method for plasma etching a chromium layer described herein is particularly suitable for fabricating photomasks.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2005Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Xiaoyi Chen, Michael Grimbergen, Madhavi Chandrachood, Jeffrey X. Tran, Ajay Kumar, Simon Tam, Ramesh Krishnamurthy
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Patent number: 7829270Abstract: A photosensitive material includes a support and an emulsion layer containing a silver salt emulsion, the photosensitive material is capable of forming a conductive metal film by exposing and developing the emulsion layer, wherein the emulsion layer has a swelling rate of 150% or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2006Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shinichi Nakahira
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Patent number: 7732124Abstract: A color-image forming method in a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having the steps of: performing exposure of the light-sensitive material cut into sheets; and subjecting the exposed light-sensitive material sheets to photographic processing, while conveying them with conveying rollers, with the sheet conveying speed being 40.0 to 100 mm/sec; wherein the light-sensitive material to be exposed contains any of: 1) a dye-forming coupler of formula (IA), 2) a compound of formula (I), and 3) 1.4 mg/m2 or more of a compound of formula (II); wherein R? and R? are a substituent; Z is a hydrogen atom, or a coupling split-off group; A is an alkyl group, M is a cation, and R is an atom or group having 100 or lower total molecular weight.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2008Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Yasuaki Deguchi, Shin Soejima, Naoto Ohshima, Tatsuya Ishizaka, Katsuyuki Takada, Futoshi Yoshida, Atsushi Maruhashi, Yoshinori Morimoto, Takehisa Ohno
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Patent number: 7682780Abstract: An industrial X-ray photosensitive material including at least one silver halide emulsion layer on both sides of a transparent support, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains tabular silver halide particles having an average particle thickness of less than 0.2 ?m and an aspect ratio of more than 8, a core of the particles which is a core having a volume of 1% or more and less than 3% of a particle volume does not contain Ir or Rh, and a shell of the particles which is a shell having a volume of 97% or more and less than 99% of a particle volume contains at least Ir or Rh. An industrial X-ray photosensitive material having rapid processing suitability, as well as high sensitivity and high contrast is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masayoshi Fujita, Yoshihisa Hashi
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Patent number: 7674575Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material for being subjected to a color development within nine seconds of being imagewise exposed, and comprising a support and a photograph constitution layer provided on the support, the photograph constitution layer containing at least one layer that comprises a yellow dye-forming coupler, at least one layer that comprises a magenta dye-forming coupler, at least one layer that comprises a cyan dye-forming coupler, and at least one non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer. The coupler-comprising layers respectively include silver halide emulsions, and at least one of the silver halide emulsions has the characteristics of: (i) a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more; and (ii) containing at least one specific metal complexes. The color development is preferably completed within 28 seconds.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2004Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoto Oshima, Tadanobu Sato, Akito Yokozawa
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Patent number: 7598026Abstract: An image-forming method comprising: employing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, comprising, on a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, at least one color-mix preventing layer and at least one protective layer, wherein the said silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler includes a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of 90 mole % or more and containing at least one specific blue-sensitive sensitizing dye; and exposing the said silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material to a blue semiconductor laser of a wavelength shorter by 30 nm to 60 nm than the wavelength at which the said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion has the spectral sensitivity maximum.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2007Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Akito Yokozawa, Tatsuya Ishizaka, Katsuyuki Takada, Yoshiro Ochiai, Tetsuo Nakamura
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Patent number: 7598025Abstract: The present invention is characterized to provide a hologram silver halide photographic material having high sensitivity and diffraction efficiency, providing an excellent image and having less color residue and noise in a transparent part, a hologram, a method for producing the same. In the present invention, a hologram silver halide photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer formed on a support, wherein an average particle diameter of silver halide particles in a silver halide emulsion is 0.03 ?m to 0.07 ?m; a film thickness of the silver halide emulsion layer is 4 ?m to 9 ?m; a silver/gelatin ratio of the silver halide emulsion layer is 0.3 to 0.6; and the silver halide emulsion layer contains sensitizing dye of specific structure.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2007Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignees: Konica Minolta Opto Inc., Dia Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Michiue, Tomonobu Moriya, Masashi Iwasaki, Toshihiro Kubota, Masachika Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Tomoko Kumasawa, Kenji Ueda
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Patent number: 7592133Abstract: A silver halide photographic material, includes transparent support having provided thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the average equivalent-sphere diameter of the silver halide grains contained in each layers is 0.35 ?m or less, and an upper layer of the green-sensitive emulsion layer contains a fixed magenta dye, an upper layer or the red-sensitive emulsion layer contains a fixed cyan dye, and the green-sensitive layer contains a pyrazolotriazole, pyrazolopyrrole or 4-thio-pyrazolo-5-one coupler having a specific structure, and an image-recording method uses the photographic material.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2008Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Masaaki Miki, Hideyuki Shirai, Junichiro Hosokawa, Tetsuo Kikuchi, Yoichi Hosoya, Katsuyuki Nukui, Ryoji Nishimura, Kouichi Yokota
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Patent number: 7527923Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having photographic constituting layers including, on a support, at least one blue-sensitive layer containing a silver halide emulsion, at least one green-sensitive layer containing a silver halide emulsion, at least one red-sensitive layer containing a silver halide emulsion, and at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer, in which a silver chloride content is 95 mol % or more and a silver iodide content is from 0.05 to 0.3 mol % in the silver halide emulsion of the red-sensitive layer, and in which the difference between spectral sensitivities at wavelength of 685 nm and 590 nm is from 1.2 to 2.5 log E or the difference between spectral sensitivities at wavelength of 660 nm and 590 nm is 0.8 to 2.0 log E, for a distribution of the spectral sensitivities when the material is exposed to lights equal in energy at each wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2005Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shinji Ikari
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Patent number: 7476494Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material having at least one blue-sensitive layer, at least one green-sensitive layer, and at least one red-sensitive layer, on a transparent support, wherein at least one of the green-sensitive layers contains a coupler represented by general formula (I) or general formula (Z), and all of the green-sensitive layers contain silver halide emulsion having an average equivalent-spherical diameter of 0.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2007Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Junichiro Hosokawa, Koichi Yokota, Masaaki Miki, Yoichi Hosoya, Ryoji Nishimura
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Patent number: 7465534Abstract: A silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains with a silver chloride content of at least 95 mole %, being sensitized with selenium and gold, and further containing at least two compounds each having a function of oxidizing metallic silver clusters; a silver halide photographic material containing the same; and a silver halide photographic material having red-, green, and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, wherein one of the emulsion layers contains a silver halide emulsion with a silver chloride content of at least 95 mole %, and the silver halide emulsion contains a selenium compound and a metal complex of formula (D1); [MD1XD1nLD1(6-n)]m??formula (D1) wherein MD1 represents Cr, Mo, Re, Fe, Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Pd, or Pt; XD1 represents a halogen ion; LD1 represents a ligand other than XD1; n represents 3, 4, 5, or 6; and m represents 4-, 3-, 2-, 1-, 0 or 1+.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2007Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Toshihiro Kariya
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Patent number: 7425408Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having at least one each of blue-, green-, and red-sensitive emulsion layers containing yellow, magenta, and cyan couplers, respectively, on a support; wherein said blue-sensitive emulsion layer contains at least one coupler of formula (I); and wherein the light-sensitive material satisfies expression a-1) and/or b-1): wherein, Q forms a 5- to 7-membered ring with the —N?C—N(R1)—; R1 and R2 each are a substituent; m is 0 to 5; and X is a hydrogen atom, or a coupling split-off group; 0.5?Dmax(UV)/Dmin(UV)?1.1: ??a-1) wherein Dmax(UV)/Dmin(UV) is the smallest of the value in a wavelength range of 340 to 450 nm; 1300?(B?C)/A?20000: ??b-1) wherein B is yellow Dmax, C is yellow Dmin; and A is an amount mol/m2 of the coupler of formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2006Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Akira Ikeda, Shin Soejima, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Naoto Matsuda
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Patent number: 7407740Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having, on a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye forming coupler, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye forming coupler, and at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye forming coupler, wherein at least one layer of said at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye forming coupler contains high-silver chloride emulsion grains, which are selenium-sensitized and have a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more, and contains at least one coupler of formula (I): wherein R? and R? each independently are a substituent; and Z is a hydrogen atom, or a group capable of being split-off upon coupling reaction with an oxidized aromatic primary amine color-developing agent.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Kariya, Hiroyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 7396640Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, which is for use in movie projection, and which has: on a transparent support, at least three light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers which are different from each other in color developability and color sensitivity; and at least one non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer nearest to the support includes silver halide emulsion grains having a silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more, wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material further contains at least one non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloid layer containing black colloidal silver between the support and the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer nearest to the support, and wherein an amount of Fe in the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is 6×10?5 mol/m2 or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hidekazu Sakai
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Patent number: 7371512Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising grains is characterized that 70% or more of the total projected area of the grains are occupied by tabular grains meeting requirements (i) to (v) below: (i) silver bromochloroiodide grains having (111) faces as major surfaces, (ii) hexagonal grains having a ratio of the length of an edge having the maximum length to the length of an edge having the minimum length of not more than 2, (iii) perfect epitaxial grains having a total of six epitaxial junctions each existing only in each of six apex portions of the hexagonal grains, (iv) the silver chloride content is 1 to 6 mol %, and (v) the silver iodide content is 0.5 to 10 mol %.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2001Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Mikio Ihama
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Patent number: 7368230Abstract: An image-forming method of recording a digital image data in resolution of 2,000 dpi or more, the method comprising: recording a digital image data on a silver halide photographic material with little deterioration.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2007Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Junichiro Hosokawa, Masaaki Miki, Yoichi Hosoya, Kouichi Yokota, Ryoji Nishimura, Hideyuki Shirai
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Patent number: 7358038Abstract: The present invention provides a black and white photothermographic material having, on at least one side of a support, an image forming layer containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ions, and a binder, as well as an image forming method. The black and white photothermographic material is characterized in that 50% or more of a total projected area of the photosensitive silver halide is occupied by tabular grains having a (111) face as a major face; the tabular grains have at least 2 parallel twin crystal planes in a grain; and a variation coefficient of a distribution of distances between closest twin crystal planes is 20% or less. Also provided is an image forming method that includes image exposure using fluorescent intensifying screens and thermal development.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2006Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazutaka Takahashi, Takeshi Funakubo, Kiyoteru Miyake
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Patent number: 7354701Abstract: The invention provides a color photographic element comprising at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or a non silver-containing light-insensitive layer, in which at least one of these layers contains a colorless heterocyclic compound having either one or two hetero atoms in the ring or ring system, being other than an imidazole compound, that undergoes less than 10% chemical or redox reaction directly with oxidized developer and which has a partition coefficient to enable the photographic speed of the element to be increased by at least 0.03 stop without increasing granularity, compared to the same element without the compound. The heterocyclic compounds increase speed without a concomitant increase in size of the light-sensitive silver halide grains.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2004Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Bernard A. Clark, Philip A. Allway, Tania Zuberi, Stephen P. Singer, Charles E. Heckler, Louis E. Friedrich
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Patent number: 7344828Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having, on a support, a yellow dye-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta dye-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan dye-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer that does not develop a color, wherein a total amount of a hydrophilic binder on the emulsion layer-coating side of the support is 6.0 g/m2 or less, and at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers contains at least one compound selected from metal complexes represented by formula (I) set forth below and a silver halide emulsion of a 90 mole % or more silver chloride content with a silver bromide-containing phase formed in a layer form.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2007Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Naoto Ohshima, Shigeru Shibayama, Naoya Shibata
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Patent number: 7332265Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having at least one yellow dye image-forming layer, at least one magenta dye image-forming layer, and at least one cyan dye image-forming layer, each provided on a transparent support, which shows 3.0 or more maximum transmission densities for the respective layers upon area exposure with an exposure time of 10?4 sec, and shows a transmission density in a range of 0.95 to 1.05 when color development is started in 30 minutes after exposure with an exposure amount that gives a density of 1.0, when the light-sensitive material is subjected to color development started in 5 minutes after exposure; and an image-forming-method using the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2003Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Jun Matsumoto, Shinichi Nakahira, Hidekazu Sakai
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Patent number: 7316895Abstract: A method for separating photosensitive silver halide particles by precipitation from a dispersion comprising the silver halide particles and a protective colloid of a natural polymer, the method comprising the step of mixing the dispersion with an organic polymer having a logarithm value of n-octanol/water partition coefficient (being a log P value) of 0.8 to 2.0 so as to separate the silver halide particles from the dispersion.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Inc.Inventors: Miyuki Teranishi, Hiroto Ito
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Patent number: 7314707Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains, wherein a variation coefficient of equivalent-circle diameters of all the silver halide grains is 30% or less, and 70% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains are occupied by silver halide grains each meeting requirements (i), (ii), and (iii) below: (i) silver bromochloroiodide grain having (111) faces as main planes, (ii) having an epitaxial portion junctioned to at least one apex portion thereof, and (iii) having at least one dislocation line in an epitaxial portion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2001Date of Patent: January 1, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Mikio Ihama, Hiroshi Kawakami, Takayoshi Mori
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Patent number: 7303864Abstract: The invention provides a black and white photothermographic material comprising an image forming layer containing on at least one side of a support at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ions, and a binder, wherein: the non-photosensitive organic silver salt comprises at least one compound selected from a silver salt of an azole compound or a silver salt of a mercapto compound; and the photothermographic material further comprises, a compound that can be one-electron-oxidized to provide a one-electron oxidation product which releases one or more electrons, and an adsorptive redox compound having a group adsorbable to the silver halide and a reducing group in the molecule. The invention provides a black and white photothermographic material having high image quality and an excellent storability, and an image forming method.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2005Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Tomoyuki Ohzeki
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Patent number: 7303863Abstract: A silver halide emulsion, which is chemically sensitized by a compound of formula (1): wherein Ch represents a sulfur, selenium, or tellurium atom; X1 represents NR1 or N+(R2)R3Y?; R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; R2 and R3 each represent an alkyl group or another substituent; Y? represents an anionic ion; X2 represents OR4, N(R5)R6, or another substituent; R4 to R6 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and E is a group selected from groups represented by formula (2) to (5): wherein, in formulas (2) to (5), Z represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; A1 and A2 each represent an oxygen atom, etc.; and R10 to R16 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent; W represents a substituent; n is an integer from 0 to 4; L represents a divalent linking group; and EWG represents an electron withdrawing group.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Suzuki, Toshihiro Kariya
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Patent number: 7279272Abstract: The present invention provides a silver halide emulsion containing silver halide particles, wherein a content of silver chloride in the silver halide particles is at least 89 mol %, and wherein the silver halide particles comprising at least one of (i) at least one phase selected from the group consisting of a laminar phase containing silver bromide, a laminar phase comprising silver iodide and a phase comprising silver bromide and having a maximum point where a silver bromide content ratio is at a maximum value, which maximum point is inside the silver particles, and (ii) a phase comprising silver iodide and a phase comprising silver bromide, which phase comprising silver bromide is disposed further inside of the silver halide particles than the phase comprising silver iodide. Further, the present invention provides a silver halide photosensitive material comprising the silver halide emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2002Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Naoto Ohshima, Osamu Yonekura, Satoshi Aiba
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Patent number: 7262002Abstract: A silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains with a silver chloride content of at least 95 mole %, being sensitized with selenium and gold, and further containing at least two compounds each having a function of oxidizing metallic silver clusters; a silver halide photographic material containing the same; and a silver halide photographic material having red-, green, and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, wherein one of the emulsion layers contains a silver halide emulsion with a silver chloride content of at least 95 mole %, and the silver halide emulsion contains a selenium compound and a metal complex of formula (D1); [MD1XD1nLD1(6-n)]m ??formula (D1) wherein MD1 represents Cr, Mo, Re, Fe, Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Pd, or Pt; XD1 represents a halogen ion; LD1 represents a ligand other than XD1; n represents 3, 4, 5, or 6; and m represents 4?, 3?, 2?, 1?, 0, or 1+.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Toshihiro Kariya
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Patent number: 7241564Abstract: A silver halide-holographic sensitive material is provided and has a support and at least one photosensitive emulsion layer, with the photosensitive emulsion layer containing silver halide particles whose number average projected-area diameter is from 10 nm to 80 nm.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2005Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Mikio Ihama
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Patent number: 7241563Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having a silver halide emulsion layer, and (1) a substantially light-insensitive dye-forming-coupler-containing layer, and (2) at least one layer selected from a non-color-forming intermediate layer containing a color-mixing inhibitor and a non-color-forming intermediate layer substantially free of color-mixing inhibitor, wherein i) when the light-insensitive dye-forming-coupler-containing layer is included, the layer is positioned adjacent to the silver halide emulsion layer, and ii) when the non-color-forming intermediate layer containing a color-mixing inhibitor and the non-color-forming intermediate layer substantially free of color-mixing inhibitor are included, these layers are positioned adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2004Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Mamoru Sakurazawa, Jun Arakawa
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Patent number: 7238468Abstract: To provide a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having higher sensitivity and higher contrast and free of reciprocity failure over a wide range of exposure illuminance, A silver halide emulsion comprising a silver halide grain containing at least two metal complexes each giving an average electron releasing time of 10?5 to 3 seconds, the ratio in the average electron releasing time between these two metal complexes being at least 3 times or more and in these metal complexes, the content of the metal complex having a shorter average electron releasing time being 3 times or more as the molar ratio to the content of the metal complex having a longer average electron releasing time.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2004Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Naoto Ohshima, Tadanobu Sato, Tadashi Inaba
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Patent number: 7238467Abstract: A silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains covered with two dye layers in combination. The two dye layers comprises an inner dye layer adjoining to the silver halide grain, and containing at least one sensitizing dye capable of spectrally sensitizing silver halide, and an outer dye layer adjoining to the inner dye layer, and containing at least two dyes. The light absorption energy of the outer dye layer is equal to or higher than that of the inner dye layer, an energy-releasing wavelength of the outer dye layer overlaps with an energy-absorbing wavelength of the inner dye layer, the sensitizing dyes constituting the inner dye layer include an anion and/or betaine dyes, the dyes constituting the outer dye layer include an anion and cation dyes, and the anion dye is more than the cation dye in terms of an addition amount and/or an adsorption amount.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2004Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Tadashi Ikeda, Yasushi Tanabe, Hiroshi Kawakami, Takeshi Suzumoto
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Silver halide color photographic photosensitive material and image forming method utilizing the same
Patent number: 7238465Abstract: The invention provides a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material including a substrate and photographic layers containing a yellow color-developing blue light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color-developing green light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a cyan color-developing red light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein a total gelatin coating amount in the photographic layers is within a range from 3 to 6 g/m2 and/or a total silver coating amount in the photographic layers is within a range from 0.2 to 0.5 g/m2, the yellow color-developing blue light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer includes a silver halide emulsion having silver halide grains which have a sphere-equivalent diameter of no more than 0.6 ?m and a silver chloride content of at least 90 mol %, and an image forming method utilizing the photosensitive material.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2004Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Naoto Ohshima -
Patent number: RE40603Abstract: The present invention provides a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion contained in the silver halide emulsion layer comprises silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more, and the silver halide emulsion further contains a metal complex having H2O as a ligand. It also provides a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion contained in the silver halide emulsion layer contains a metal complex having O2? as a ligand.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2004Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tomonori Owaki, Tadanobu Sato, Takahiro Matsuno