Including Manipulative Emulsification Step Patents (Class 430/569)
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Patent number: 5616455Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a tabular silver halide grain emulsion, wherein said silver halide emulsion comprises tabular grains having a thickness lower than 0.5 .mu.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1996Date of Patent: April 1, 1997Assignee: Imation Corp.Inventor: Martin D. Murphy
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Patent number: 5616453Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a red-sensitive layer, a green-sensitive layer and a yellow dye-forming blue-sensitive layer, wherein the photographic material satisfies a specified relation, which is concerned with latent image keeping thereof. Further, at least one light-sensitive layer of the photographic material comprises a silver halide emulsion layer containing internally reduction-sensitized silver halide grains.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1995Date of Patent: April 1, 1997Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Tadanobu Sekiya, Hideaki Haraga
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Patent number: 5609998Abstract: A process for dispersing a particulate solid substance in a continuos aqueous phase comprising the steps of:providing a comminution reactor;providing a particulate solid substance comprising a weak acid functional group, having effective pK.sub.a1 >1 and less than 1% by weight aqueous solubility at pH=pK.sub.a1 ;providing an aqueous solution consisting essentially of water or a mixture of water with water-miscible solvent, at pH less than the greater of 7 and pK.sub.a1 +2;providing a buffering salt of a weak acid, where the weak acid associated with this buffering salt has pK.sub.a2 and wherepK.sub.a1 -2.ltoreq.pK.sub.a2 ;providing milling media;combining said particulate solid substance, said aqueous solution, said buffering salt, and said milling media in said comminution reactor to produce a multiphase mixture; andmilling said mixture to produce a reduced particle size slurry of said particulate solid substance is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1995Date of Patent: March 11, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: John Texter, Ravi Sharma, David A. Czekai
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Patent number: 5610004Abstract: A step manufacturing method of a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of not less than 95 mol % is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of mixing a silver salt and a halide to form a silver halide emulsion and chemically ripening the resulting silver halide emulsion,wherein a compound having two or more sulfonic acid or sulfonic acid salt groups in its molecule is added to the silver halide emulsion at the chemical ripening.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1995Date of Patent: March 11, 1997Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Shigeo Tanaka
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Patent number: 5607828Abstract: A radiation-sensitive emulsion comprised of silver halide grains including tabular grains (a) having {100} major faces, (b) containing greater than 50 mole percent chloride, based on silver, (c) accounting for greater than 30 percent of total grain projected area, (d) exhibiting an average thickness of less than 0.3 .mu.m, and (e) exhibiting an average aspect ratio of greater than 5, and a dispersing medium including a peptizer adsorbed to the silver halide grains, wherein the peptizer is a water dispersible oxidized cationic starch.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1996Date of Patent: March 4, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Joe E. Maskasky
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Patent number: 5605790Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising steps of:(a) forming fine-grain silver halide emulsion in a mixing vessel B separately provided from a reaction vessel A,(b) removing unnecessary ions contained in said fine-grain silver halide emulsion,(c) supplying the fine-grain silver halide emulsion to said reaction vessel A,(d) forming nucleation of a silver halide grain in said reaction vessel A, and(e) forming crystal growth of the silver halide grain in said reaction vessel A.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1995Date of Patent: February 25, 1997Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Yumiko Nimura, Chikao Mamiya, Haruhiko Masutomi, Kazuyoshi Ichikawa
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Patent number: 5604084Abstract: A method of chemical sensitisation which comprises providing a silver halide emulsion containing negative-acting silver halide grains, and adding to said silver halide emulsion a sulphur releasing organic polymer having multiple sulphur releasing groups per polymer molecule. The polymer preferably has at least 10 sulphur releasing groups per molecule which may be selected from thiocarbonate, dithiocarbonate, trithiocarbonate, dithioester, thioamide, thiocarbamate, dithiocarbamate, thiouram, thiourea, dithiooxamide, thioketone and trisulphide.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1995Date of Patent: February 18, 1997Assignee: Imation Corp.Inventors: Nicholas E. Grzeskowiak, Rachel J. Hobson, Andrew W. Mott
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Patent number: 5604087Abstract: A silver halide having at least two halides of differing atomic numbers may successfully be produced with a more uniform halide distribution within certain zones or throughout the entire volume of the individual grain and from grain to grain, if a portion or the entire quantity of the halide of the higher atomic number is dissolved in an aqueous silver salt solution and the resulting solution is introduced at any stage into the emulsion preparation process.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1995Date of Patent: February 18, 1997Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert AGInventors: Otto Lapp, Lothar Endres, Klaus Wagner
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Patent number: 5601969Abstract: A method for the preparation of silver halide tabular emulsion grains, containing at least 75 % chloride, wherein at least 50 % of the total projected area of all the grains is provided by the tabular grains, and wherein the tabular grains exhibit an average aspect ratio of at least 5:1, an average thickness not greater than 0.5 micron and an average diameter of at least 0.6 micron. The method comprisespreparing a dispersion medium containing a gelatino-peptizer, and a compound ##STR1## wherein Z represents the atoms necessary to form a fused on aromatic carbocyclic or heterocyclic, unsubstituted or substituted ring, e.g., substituted with alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkoxy, hydroxy, mercapto, carboxy, amino or halogen, R is hydrogen or a substituent as defined for ring Z; n is 1 or 0, and Q represents carbon in which case n=1, or Q represents nitrogen, in which latter case n =0; in a concentration ranging from 10.sup.-4 to 10.sup.-2 molar. The pH of the medium is adjusted to between 5.0 and 9.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1991Date of Patent: February 11, 1997Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventor: Ann L. Verbeeck
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Patent number: 5601970Abstract: This invention provides a photographic element comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer which is greater than about 50 mole % silver chloride, wherein the emulsion layer contains a thiophosphate ester of the structure: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are independently selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic, carbocyclic or heterocyclic group.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 1995Date of Patent: February 11, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Roger Lok
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Patent number: 5595863Abstract: There are disclosed a hexagonal silver halide tabular emulsion having an excellent monodispersibility and a silver halide photographic material which contains the above tabular silver halide emulsion and excels in a graininess, a sensitivity and a preservability. The above silver halide photographic emulsion is prepared in the presence of at least one of the polymers having a recurring unit represented by the Formula (1) and at least one of the polymers having a recurring unit represented by Formula (2):--(R--O).sub.n -- (1)--(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.m -- (2)wherein R represents an alkylene group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms; and n and m each represents an average number of the recurring unit, respectively and each represents 4 to 200.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1995Date of Patent: January 21, 1997Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Yamanouchi, Yoichi Hosoya
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Patent number: 5595864Abstract: A photographic material has been coated on at least one side of a support with in at least one photosensitive layer hexagonal and/or circular tabular silver halide emulsion crystals occupying at least 70% of the total projected area of all grains, having a thickness of 0.15 to 0.30 .mu.m, a coefficient of variation of the tabular grains between 0.15 and 0.45 and an average aspect ratio of at least 2:1, prepared in the absence of ammonia by growing the nuclei, prepared at a pBr value between 1.0 and 2.0 and consuming less than 10% by weight of silver nitrate, during a first growth step at a pBr value between 1.0 and 2.5 consuming at least 10% by weight of silver nitrate and during a second growth step at a pBr value higher than 2.7 during the addition of at least 40% of the total amount of silver nitrate used.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1994Date of Patent: January 21, 1997Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Marc Van den Zegel, Marcel Mestdagh
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Patent number: 5593820Abstract: A silver halide emulsion is described, which contains tabular silver halide grains having {100} faces as the parallel two major planes, having an aspect ratio of 2 or more and having a mean silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more, in an amount of 50% or more of the total projected area of all the silver halide grains therein, and which is spectrally sensitized with a particular trimethine dye of formula (I). A photographic material having the emulsion has a high sensitivity and good storability and can be processed rapidly.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1994Date of Patent: January 14, 1997Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideyuki Shirai
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Patent number: 5587282Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion is produced in the presence of a polyalkylene oxide group-containing organopolysiloxane. The emulsion being produced in the presence of the defoaming agent is prevented from being foamed in a stirrer rotating at an elevated rotation speed. The stirring performance of the stirrer is enlarged, and the conditions for forming the silver halide grains can be controlled more uniformly. The photographic properties of the emulsion are improved and it is easy to scale up the production of the emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1995Date of Patent: December 24, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruyasu Nakatsugawa, Masakazu Yoneyama, Shigeharu Urabe
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Patent number: 5587281Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing silver halide grains containing tabular grains having a thickness of from 0.02 to 0.3 .mu.m and an aspect ratio (diameter/thickness) of from 2 to 50 at a proportion of from 75 to 100% of the total projected area of silver halide grains, which comprises at least nucleation, ripening and growing steps in a dispersion medium solution consisting of water and a dispersion medium, wherein gelatin having the following characteristics (a) occupies from 30 to 100 wt % of said dispersion medium used in said growing step:characteristics (a)the relation between the number percentage of a chemically modified --NH.sub.2 group in the gelatin and the methionine content of the gelatin is in the region a.sub.1 depicted in FIG. 1.Also disclosed is a silver halide emulsion comprising at least a dispersion medium and silver halide grains produced by the above-described method.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1995Date of Patent: December 24, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuo Saitou, Junichi Yamanouchi, Yoichi Hosoya
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Patent number: 5582966Abstract: A method for producing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon photographic layers including a silver halide emulsion layer, a first hydrophilic colloid layer and an outermost second hydrophilic colloid layer in this order from the support. The light-sensitive material is produced by a method comprising steps offorming the photographic layer by coatinga silver halide emulsion coating solution comprising silver halide grains, gelatin and water to form said silver halide emulsion layer;a first hydrophilic colloid solution comprising gelatin and water to form said first hydrophilic colloid layer; anda second hydrophilic colloid solution comprising gelatin, particles of matting agent having a size of not less than 4 .mu.m in an amount of 4 mg/m.sup.2 to 50 mg/m.sup.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1995Date of Patent: December 10, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Toshiharu Nagashima, Yasuhiro Wakasugi
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Patent number: 5582965Abstract: A chemically and spectrally sensitized ultrathin tabular grain emulsion is disclosed including tabular grains (a) having {111} major faces, (b) containing greater than 70 mole percent bromide and at least 0.25 mole percent iodide, based on silver, (c) accounting for greater than 90 percent of total grain projected area, (d) exhibiting an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.7 .mu.m, and (e) exhibiting an average thickness of less than 0.07 .mu.m.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1995Date of Patent: December 10, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joseph C. Deaton, Richard L. Daubendiek, Donald L. Black, Timothy R. Gersey, Joseph G. Lighthouse, Myra T. Olm, Xin Wen, Robert D. Wilson
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Patent number: 5580713Abstract: A silver halide color reversal photographic light-sensitive material includes at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, formed on a support. At least one light sensitive emulsion layer contains silver halide grains having a silver halide phase formed in the presence of an iodide ion-releasing agent, under controlled release of iodide ions from the releasing agent. At least one hydrophilic colloid layer contains a certain heterocyclic compound or a certain DIR compound.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1995Date of Patent: December 3, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takefumi Hara, Makoto Kikuchi, Hisashi Okamura
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Patent number: 5580712Abstract: Certain synthetically prepared biopolymers are useful as peptizers in the preparation of photographic silver halide emulsions and elements. Such materials can be used as either nucleation or growth peptizers in place of common peptizing colloids, such as gelatins. The biopolymers can be prepared using recombinant or chemical synthetic methods and designed to have a particular affinity (either high or low) for silver ions. Thus, they can be used to control silver halide grain morphology in the emulsions.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1995Date of Patent: December 3, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: John E. Keevert, Jr., Shane C. Weber, Ramesh Jagannathan, Gerald W. Klein
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Patent number: 5576168Abstract: A chemically and spectrally sensitized ultrathin tabular grain emulsion is disclosed including tabular grains (a) having {111} major faces, (b) containing greater than 70 mole percent bromide and at least 0.25 mole percent iodide, based on silver, (c) accounting for greater than 90 percent of total grain projected area, (d) exhibiting an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.7 .mu.m, and (e) exhibiting an average thickness of less than 0.07 .mu.m.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1994Date of Patent: November 19, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Richard L. Daubendiek, Donald L. Black, Joseph C. Deaton, Timothy R. Gersey, Joseph G. Lighthouse, Myra T. Olm, Xin Wen, Robert D. Wilson
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Patent number: 5576170Abstract: A photographic element comprising a support having situated thereon a silver halide emulsion, the emulsion comprising an alkynylamine compound of the formula: wherein Z represents atoms necessary to complete a 5 to 10-membered heterocyclic ring system, R.sup.1 represents hydrogen or an alkyl of from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, or an alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, carbocyclic or heterocyclic group; andat least one dihydroxy aryl compound represented by formula II or III: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.3 to R.sup.12 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxy, sulfonate, or an alkyl of from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and wherein at least two of such groups represent a hydroxy group.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1995Date of Patent: November 19, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Jon N. Eikenberry, Robert E. Bernard
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Patent number: 5573902Abstract: A chemically and spectrally sensitized tabular grain emulsion is disclosed including tabular grains (a) having major faces, (b) containing greater than 70 mole percent bromide and at least 0.25 mole percent iodide, based on silver, (c) accounting for greater than 90 percent of total grain projected area, (d) exhibiting an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.7 .mu.m, and (f) exhibiting an average thickness in the range of from less than 0.3 .mu.m to at least 0.07 .mu.m.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1995Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Richard L. Daubendiek, Joseph C. Deaton, Donald L. Black, Timothy R. Gersey, Joseph G. Lighthouse, Myra T. Olm, Xin Wen, Robert D. Wilson
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Patent number: 5567580Abstract: A radiographic element for medical diagnostic imaging is disclosed comprised of a transparent support and first and second silver halide emulsion layer units coated on opposite sides of the film support, each emulsion layer unit being comprised of a silver iodohalide tabular grain emulsion containing less than 5 mole percent iodide, based on silver. An improvement in speed in relation to granularity is obtained by the presence of tabular grains having {111} major faces, containing a maximum surface iodide concentration along their edges, and a lower iodide concentration within their corners than elsewhere along their edges.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1995Date of Patent: October 22, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: David E. Fenton, Lucius S. Fox, Donald L. Black
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Patent number: 5563030Abstract: A negative-acting photothermographic element comprising a support bearing at least one heat-developable, photosensitive, image-forming photothermographic emulsion layer comprising:(a) an iridium doped, preferably iridium-doped core-shell, photosensitive silver halide grains, generally containing a total silver iodide content of less than 10 mole %, the shell having a second silver iodide content lower than the silver iodide content of the core;(b) a non-photosensitive, reducible source of silver;(c) a reducing agent for the non-photosensitive, reducible source of silver;(d) a binder; and(e) optionally at least one compound selected from the group consisting of: a halogen molecule; an organic haloamide; and hydrobromic acid salts of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds which are further associated with a pair of bromine atoms.A process of forming photothermographic emulsions from iridium-doped silver halide grains by forming silver soaps in the presence of those grains is also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1995Date of Patent: October 8, 1996Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Chaofeng Zou, James B. Philip, Steven M. Shor, Mark C. Skinner, Pu Zhou
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Patent number: 5558982Abstract: Photographic emulsions are disclosed in which at least 50 percent of total grain projected area is accounted for by high (>90%) chloride thin (<0.2 .mu.m) high average aspect ratio (>8) tabular grains having {100} major faces each having at least one edge face oriented in an atomic plane differing from that of major faces to improve photographic performance.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1995Date of Patent: September 24, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Joe E. Maskasky
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Patent number: 5556741Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photosensitive material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer coated on a support, wherein silver halide grains in the emulsion layer are subjected to reduction sensitization and contain a radical scavenger, prior to the completion of a chemical sensitization. There is also disclosed a silver halide emulsion and a method of manufacturing the same. The said silver halide photosensitive material has a enhanced sensitivity, without causing high fog.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: September 17, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoichi Suga, Yoshio Ishii, Masakazu Morigaki
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Patent number: 5550015Abstract: The process for the production of a platelike silver halide emulsion having an AgBrI core of which the iodide content is at least 2.5 mol-% and a first shell of AgBrI surrounding the core, of which the iodide content is 40.+-.4 mol-% and at least one other shell of low iodide content, comprising (a) precipitating a core containing 2 to 20 mol-% of AgI by the double jet method at 30.degree. to 50.degree. C. and pBr 1.2 to 2.3, (b) subjecting the core to physical ripening at 60.degree. to 80.degree. C. and pBr 1.2 to 2.8, (c) growing the grains by adding silver ions and also bromide and iodide ions to the ripened core grains, the bromide and iodide each are added in an amount that the bromide iodide composition falls within the miscibility gap and (d) precipitating at least one other silver halide layer having an iodide content below 20 mol-% leads to an improved grain-to-sensitivity ratio.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1994Date of Patent: August 27, 1996Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AGInventor: Silvia Karth auser
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Patent number: 5550012Abstract: A silver halide emulsion contains silver halide grains in a dispersion medium. Tabular silver halide grains having a thickness of less than 0.5 .mu.m, a diameter of 0.3 .mu.m or more, an aspect ratio of 2 or more, and 10 or more dislocations per grain account for 50% or more of a projected area of all the silver halide grains. The grains are formed in the presence of at least one compound which can oxidize silver atoms.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1994Date of Patent: August 27, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoichi Suga
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Patent number: 5547827Abstract: The invention relates to a radiation sensitive emulsion comprised of a dispersing medium and silver iodochloride grainsWherein the silver iodochloride grainsare partially bounded by {100} crystal faces satisfying the relative orientation and spacing of cubic grains andcontain from 0.05 to 1 mole percent iodide, based on total silver, with maximum iodide concentrations located nearer the surface of the grains than their centerand wherein said emulsion further comprises a quinone comprising ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 may be independently substituted or non-substituted alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, or halogen, carboxy, amido, cyano, methoxy; together R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 may form carbocyclic, heterocyclic, aromatic, or heteroaromatic rings.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1994Date of Patent: August 20, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Benjamin T. Chen, Roger Lok
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Patent number: 5547830Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support and at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer provided thereon, wherein the emulsion layer comprises a silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains formed of silver chlorobromide, silver chloroiodide or silver chloroiodobromide each containing at least 90 mol % of silver chloride, or silver chloride, wherein 10.sup.-7 to 10.sup.-3 mol/mol of silver halide of an iron compound and 10.sup.-7 to 10.sup.-4 mol/mol of silver halide of a sulfur group compound are added to the silver halide grains until physical ripening of the grains is completed. The photographic material is particularly suitable in an image forming method involving exposing the photographic material to laser beams for a short period of time.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1995Date of Patent: August 20, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 5543284Abstract: A method is disclosed to prepare a photographic light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, containing regular silver halide crystals rich in chloride having a predictable size distribution and wherein said method comprises the steps of precipitating silver halide crystals rich in chloride by means of the double-jet or triple-jet technique in colloidal silica having a particle size from 0.003 .mu.m to 0.30 .mu.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1995Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.V.Inventor: Ann Verbeeck
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Patent number: 5543283Abstract: The invention describes silver halide packet emulsion grains or crystals that are conventionally precipitated using gelatin of a given isoelectric pH, surrounded by a layer of gelatin-grafted-polymer particles wherein the grafted gelatin has a different isoelectric pH and the said gelatin-grafted-polymer particles are optionally chemically bonded to the gelatin surrounding the silver halide microcrystals. Such packet emulsions can form the basis for a mixed-packet color photographic system.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1994Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Mark A. Whitson, John D. Lewis, Tienteh Chen, Thomas J. Dannhauser, Pranab Bagchi
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Patent number: 5541043Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, comrising a support provided thereon light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers including a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a non-image forming layer which is located farther from the support than the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers and adjacent to one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, wherein a silver halide emulsion contained in the layer adjacent to the non-image forming layer is spectrally sensitized by adding a water-insoluble sensitizing dye in the form of solid particles dispersed in an aqueous medium; and the non-image forming layer contains a substantially light-insensitive silver halide fine grain emulsion having an average grain size of not more than 0.05 .mu.m and an average iodide content of 0.5 to 3.0 mol %.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1995Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Inoie, Masao Iwamuro
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Patent number: 5541047Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, comprising tabular grains having an average aspect ratio of diameter to thickness of 2 or more, having an average overall iodide content of 2 mol % or less, and having a surface phase containing 3 to 20 mol % iodide on the average.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1994Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Hideki Takiguchi
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Patent number: 5541052Abstract: The improved silver halide photographic material has one or more silver halide emulsion layers on a support and at least one of said emulsion layers contains silver halide grains which are of normal crystal form having at least one concave crystal face. This photographic material has not only high sensitivity but also good keeping quality.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1994Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Okusa, Syoji Matsuzaka, Hirofumi Ohtani
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Patent number: 5541053Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for obtaining silver halide photographic emulsions containing grains of the core/shell type having {100} faces with cavities, and the corresponding photographic emulsions.These emulsions present an improved sensitivity.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Didier J. Martin
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Patent number: 5541051Abstract: This invention offers a new method to produce tabular silver halide grains, more preferably silver bromide or silver bromoiodide grains, having a tabularity, defined as the ratio between the aspect ratio and the thickness of the emulsion crystals, of at least 25 and a homogeniety of the distribution of said silver halide emulsion crystals, defined as a hundred times the ratio between the standard deviation and the average projective crystal diameter of said crystals of less than 30, characterized by the steps of adding to a reaction vessel containing at least one polar aprotic solvent a silver salt in an amount to get a concentration from 0.01 to 1M of said silver salt and a halide salt in an amount to get a concentration 1 to 10.sub.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1995Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Ann Verbeeck, Christiaan Van Roost, Angel Millan
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Patent number: 5536633Abstract: A silver halide photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion which is greater than 50 mole % silver chloride, said emulsion being in reactive association with a sulfur donating compound, and a sulfinate compound represented by Formula (I)Z--SO.sub.2 M.sup.1 (I)wherein Z is a non-metallic aryl, alkyl or heterocyclic group, and M is a cationic counter ion;and wherein the sulfur donor is not a thiosulfonate or a diamino disulfide; and a method of making the emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1995Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Roger Lok
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Patent number: 5536630Abstract: The invention provides a method of nucleating silver halide particles wherein said nucleation is carried out in the presence of acid processed ossein (APO) gelatin or chain-extended acid processed ossein (CE-APO) gelatin and the composition formed therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1994Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Pranab Bagchi, Melvin D. Sterman, Jacob I. Cohen
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Patent number: 5536631Abstract: The invention relates to a fast-processing photographic recording material for medical radiography which can be processed within 30 to 60 seconds in a film processor. The recording material comprises a silver halide emulsion layer applied to each side of a carrier; wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers comprises silver halide grains or crystals with a morphology which is chosen from a set consisting of plate-like or platelet shaped, spherical and approximately spherical; and the silver halide emulsion layer is described by the equation:W=N.sub.g /(N.sub.s *N.sub.m)wherein:N.sub.g is the total number of silver halide crystals per surface unit; N.sub.s is the number of elementary layers of the silver halide emulsion layer; and N.sub.m is the maximum possible number of silver halide crystals of the silver halide emulsion layer that can be contained in an elementary layer; and W is also defined by the equation:W>(0.5-A.sub.r /1000)wherein:A.sub.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1995Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Thomas Muessig-Pabst, Manfred A. Schmidt
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Patent number: 5529895Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion contains tabular grains each having a silver iodide content of 5 to 20 mol %, and having an aspect ratio of 2 or more in an amount of 50% or more of a total projected area of all grains, wherein the relative standard deviation of the distribution of the silver iodide content between the grains, is 8% or less. A multiple color photographic light-sensitive material contains the above emulsion in its highest-speed blue-sensitive layer. The method of preparing the emulsion includes a step of growing a silver iodide containing-area having a silver iodide content of 6 to 30 mol % in an amount of 50% or more of all silver amount under a condition of pBr of 0 to 3.0 by means of double jet method using an aqueous silver salt solution containing 1.0 to 10.0 mol/l of silver salt and an aqueous halide solution containing 0.01 to 0.1 mol/l of iodide.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1995Date of Patent: June 25, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mikio Ihama
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Patent number: 5527664Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion, a method of preparing the same, and a light-sensitive material containing this emulsion, wherein silver halide grains are formed while rapidly producing iodide ions from an iodide ion-releasing agent represented by Formula (I) below:R--I Formula (I)wherein R represents a monovalent organic residue which releases the iodine atom in the form of iodide ion upon reacting with a base and/or a nucleophilic reagent.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1993Date of Patent: June 18, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Kikuchi, Morio Yagihara, Hisashi Okamura, Hiroshi Kawamoto
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Patent number: 5525460Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains which are formed while iodide ions are rapidly being generated from an iodide ion-releasing agent represented by Formula (I) below, and which are chemically sensitized with a selenium sensitizer. Formula (I)R--Iwhere R represents a monovalent organic residue which releases the iodine atom in the form of iodide ions upon reacting with a base and/or a nucleophilic reagent.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1993Date of Patent: June 11, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoichi Maruyama, Morio Yagihara, Hisashi Okamura, Hiroshi Kawamoto, Makoto Kikuchi
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Patent number: 5523202Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains which are prepared by a process comprising forming the silver halide grains in the presence of a dispersing medium and chemically sensitizing the silver halide grains formed, wherein, in the step of forming the silver halide grains, at least a part of the dispersing medium is a gelatin having an adenine content of 0.2 .mu.g or less per g of gelatin and the silver halide grains are chemically sensitized in the presence of a compound represented by the following formula.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1995Date of Patent: June 4, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hirofumi Ohtani, Sadayasu Ishikawa, Yoshikazu Ito
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Patent number: 5523201Abstract: A desalting method of a silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising removing soluble salts from the silver halide emulsion by electrodialysis, wherein said electrodialysis is carried out at a pH within a range of .+-.0.5 of an isoelectric point of a gelatin contained in the silver halide emulsion. Furthermore, by adding a salt during the course of the electrodialysis, the concentration of the emulsion is accomplished concurrently with desalting thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1995Date of Patent: June 4, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Yumiko Nimura, Kazuyoshi Ichikawa, Haruhiko Masutomi, Chikao Mamiya
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Patent number: 5523200Abstract: The invention generally relates to a method of silver halide grain finishing comprising providing a high chloride silver halide grain emulsion and adding a silver bromide fine grain Lippmann emulsion during the chemical sensitization heat cycle for each grain wherein said fine grain emulsion has a photographically useful compound adhered to said fine grain Lippmann emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1995Date of Patent: June 4, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Paul T. Hahm, Walter H. Isaac, Heinz E. Stapelfeldt
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Patent number: 5518873Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive emulsion and a silver halide light-sensitive material containing the same are disclosed, in which silver halide emulsion grains composed of an internal nucleus of silver bromide or silver iodobromide having a silver iodide content of not more than 1 mol % having provided thereon, in the order described, a first coating layer of silver iodobromide having a silver iodide content of from 2 to 20 mol % and a second coating layer of silver iodobromide or silver bromide a silver iodide content of which is lower than that of said first coat and is not more than 3 mol %, and are further composed of iodide phrases which are formed by halogen conversion with an iodide ion, by addition of silver iodide fine grains or by addition of a silver ion and an iodide ion at any stage during formation of 3 to 97% of the total amount of silver and after completion of the formation of the second coating layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 1995Date of Patent: May 21, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryutaro Konishi, Hiroshi Tamaoki, Masayuki Kuramitu, Hideo Ikeda, Katsuro Nagaoka
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Patent number: 5518874Abstract: A method for manufacturing a silver halide emulsion comprising core/shell type silver iodobromide grains, said emulsion having an average iodide content of 3 mol % or more, each of the grains having two or more phases different in silver iodide content from each other which comprises an inner phase having silver iodide content of 10 mol % or more and an outermost phase having a silver iodide content lower than the iodide content of the inner phase, wherein a compound represented by the following formula [I] is present at least in a process prior to a desalting process:formula [I] ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group of atoms necessary to form a five- or six-membered heterocycle, which may be a condensed ring; and M represents an alkali metal atom or ammonium group.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1991Date of Patent: May 21, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Yoshiro Ito, Hirofumi Ohtani, Syoji Matsuzaka
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Patent number: 5518875Abstract: The present invention provides a method for obtaining a photographic material by coating on a support at least one layer comprising at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion wherein the silver halide crystals contain silver chloride for at least 60 mole %, silver bromide in a range from 5 mole % to 40 mole % and silver iodide in a range from 0 mole % to 1 mole %, characterized in that a water soluble iridium compound is added between the end of the physical ripening and the end of the chemical ripening to said silver halide emulsion at a pH between 4 and 6.5, at a pCl between -0.3 and 1 and at a ratio by weight of gelatin to silver halide, expressed as equivalent amount of silver nitrate between 0.05 and 0.5.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1995Date of Patent: May 21, 1996Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Jos Vaes, Luc Wabbes
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Patent number: H1594Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is provided, wherein at least one spectral-sensitive layer comprises two or more silver Halide emulsion layers each containing monodispersed silver halide grains having two parallel twin planes and an aspect ratio of 3 or less, having development starting points localized at specific sites on the grain surface or in the vicinity thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1993Date of Patent: September 3, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Tadanobu Sekiya, Sadayasu Ishikawa