Mixed Grain Patents (Class 430/571)
  • Patent number: 6890705
    Abstract: The second silver halide photosensitive material comprises a substrate and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer formed thereon, the silver halide photosensitive material comprising at least two types of silver halide grains with different projected areas having photosensitivity in the same spectral range; silver halide grains having a larger projected area having a refractive index n1 and an average thickness a, and silver halide grains having a smaller projected area having a refractive index n2 and an average thickness b; and the silver halide grains satisfying the conditions defined by the following equation (1): n2?n1, and a?b×(n2/n1)??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoteru Miyake, Masahiro Asami
  • Patent number: 6329132
    Abstract: In a method of preparing a silver halide photographic emulsion by performing spectral sensitization by adding a cyanine dye during or before chemical sensitization, a substantially insoluble silver iodobromide fine-grain emulsion is added during or after chemical sensitization of the silver halide photographic emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mikio Ihama
  • Patent number: 6228556
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which is capable of forming an image by: after exposing a light-sensitive material, which comprises a first support having thereon at least one photographic light-sensitive layer comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a developing agent, a compound capable of forming a dye upon coupling reaction with an oxidation product of the developing agent and a binder; attaching said light-sensitive material to a processing material, which comprises a second support having thereon a base and/or a base precursor, in such a way that the coated surfaces of the two materials faced each other, in the presence of a small amount of water which corresponds to from {fraction (1/10)} to 1 time water necessary for giving maximum swelling of all coated layers constituting the light-sensitive material and the processing material; and then heating the light-sensitive material and the processing material, wherein at least one said light-sensitive la
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Asami, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Toshiki Taguchi
  • Patent number: 6040131
    Abstract: A camera-speed color photothermographic imaging method is disclosed. A photothermographic film is employed that contains a photographically responsive, thermally developable panchromatically sensitized emulsion layer unit capable of concurrently forming silver and dye image densities. The emulsion layer unit is exposed in three separate image capture areas to blue, green or red light received from the photographic subject to create latent images of blue, green and red light exposure. The photothermographic element is thermally processed to produce images of the same hue in each of the three separate image capture areas. The images of blue, green and red light exposures are then converted into a corresponding additive or subtractive primary hue, and integrated to provide a positive or negative color image of the photographic subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lyn M. Eshelman, Timothy W. Stoebe
  • Patent number: 5985509
    Abstract: A high contrast photographic material comprises a support bearing a silver halide emulsion layer. This material is free from nucleating agents and has a silver:gelatin ratio greater than 1. The emulsion layer comprises silver halide grains that are spectrally sensitized. Moreover, the material contains a density enhancing amine compound in the emulsion layer or in an adjacent hydrophilic colloid layer. The spectrally sensitized silver halide grains comprise one grain population sensitized to radiation of a particular wavelength region, and one or more additional grain populations sensitized to radiation of a different wavelength region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Allison Hazel C. Dale, Roger H. Piggin
  • Patent number: 5981154
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed which comprises a support and provided thereon, a first silver halide emulsion layer comprising at least one yellow image forming silver halide emulsion, a second silver halide emulsion layer comprising-at least one magenta image forming silver halide emulsion and a third silver halide emulsion layer comprising at least one cyan image forming silver halide emulsion, wherein at least one of said first, second and third silver halide emulsion layers further contains a fourth silver halide emulsion, each one of said first, second, third and fourth silver halide emulsions has a spectral sensitivity wavelength region at least six times higher than that in the wavelength region of the other three emulsions, and said fourth silver halide emulsion gives an optical density after development of 0.7 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Tosaka, Susumu Ohkawachi, Masayuki Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 5955255
    Abstract: A black and white silver halide motion picture sound recording film is disclosed comprising a support bearing at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said film is spectrally sensitized both above and below 600 nm. Such film may be used for recording multiple optical soundtracks by exposing said film with a first source of radiation having a peak wavelength of less than or equal to 600 nm, recording a second digital soundtrack by exposing said film with a second source of radiation having a peak wavelength of greater than 600 nm, and processing said exposed film to form first and second digital soundtrack silver images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Steven Mark Gerlach, Gregory Edward Farrell
  • Patent number: 5952147
    Abstract: Portal radiographic elements and a process of confirming the targeting of a beam of X-radiation of from 4 to 25 MVp using the portal radiographic elements are disclosed. The X-radiation is directed at a shield containing a port to create a beam. The beam is directed at a selected anatomical feature of a patient over a period of at least 30 seconds. The portion of the beam that passes through the patient impinges on a metal screen, causing it to emit electrons, and the electrons impinge upon a fluorescent screen, causing it to emit light that exposes a portal verification radiographic element to create a latent image in light-sensitized silver halide grains. A processor is employed to convert the latent image to a viewable silver image from which intended targeting of the X-radiation beam can be verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert E. Dickerson, Stephen A. Hershey, James C. Bolthouse
  • Patent number: 5932401
    Abstract: Silver halide photographic elements which are capable of producing reversal images are disclosed including a substantially non-image forming overcoat or intercoat layer comprising an image forming emulsion and a non-image forming emulsion. The combination of imaging emulsion and nonimaging emulsion in a substantially non-image forming overcoat or intercoat layer results in an increase in interlayer interimage effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Keath T. Chen
  • Patent number: 5837440
    Abstract: A black and white silver halide motion picture sound recording film is disclosed comprising a support bearing at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said film is spectrally sensitized both above and below 600 nm. Such film may be used for recording multiple optical soundtracks by exposing said to film with a first source of radiation having a peak wavelength of less than or equal to 600 nm, recording a second digital soundtrack by exposing said film with a second source of radiation having a peak wavelength of greater than 600 nm, and processing said exposed film to form first and second digital soundtrack silver images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Steven Mark Gerlach, Gregory Edward Farrell
  • Patent number: 5736295
    Abstract: A density enhancing amine compound is incorporated into a silver halide element containing both spectrally sensitized and non-spectrally sensitized silver halide grains in the emulsion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Allison Hazel Caroline Dale, Roger Hugh Piggin
  • Patent number: 5716774
    Abstract: A radiographic element is disclosed in which from 10 to 60 percent of total silver forming the spectral sensitized silver halide grains is provided by one or more ultrathin tabular grain emulsions. It has been discovered that by limiting the proportions of ultrathin tabular grains desirably cold image tones can be obtained while improving other performance characteristics, including achieving significant reductions in crossover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert Edward Dickerson, Allen Keh-Chang Tsaur
  • Patent number: 5700608
    Abstract: A photographic element is described which comprises a silver halide emulsion having incorporated therein a latent image forming unit, said unit being comprised of an agglomeration of silver halide in conductive contact with a light absorbing center, wherein the center is comprised of:(i) an amorphous or liquid crystalline spectral sensitizing dye; or(ii) a plurality of spectral sensitizing dye crystals.Also described is a process for forming a silver halide emulsion and the emulsion prepared by such process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lyn Marie Eshelman, David Darrell Miller, David Howard Levy
  • Patent number: 5665532
    Abstract: A black & white paper with variable gradation containing a silver chloride-bromide emulsion, which is divided into at least three portions, one of which is sensitised with a blue sensitiser and two further portions are sensitised both with differing quantities of blue sensitiser and with differing quantities of a green sensitiser, wherein the blue sensitiser is of the formula (I) and the green sensitiser is of the formula (II) ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 to R.sub.8, X.sup.(-) and m have the meaning stated in the specification, is distinguished by an extended gradation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Manfred Peters, Thomas Kaluschke, Hans Ohlschlager, Bruno Mucke
  • Patent number: 5624792
    Abstract: The present invention provides a silver halide photographic photosensitive material which has a printability from color negatives and which can be used as a variable contrast printing paper. This silver halide photographic photosensitive material comprises a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer provided on the support wherein when .gamma. (gamma) values of characteristic curves obtained by exposure through filters having a transmission maximum wavelength at about 430 nm, about 540 nm and about 700 nm are indicated by .gamma..sub.B, .gamma..sub.G and .gamma..sub.R, respectively, the following inequalities 0.3<.gamma..sub.G /.gamma..sub.B <0.7 and 0.3<.gamma..sub.G /.gamma..sub.R <1.0 are satisfied. Furthermore, an exposing method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishinoiri, Masao Okushima
  • Patent number: 5597683
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprising a support, having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide layer. At least 50% of the total projected area of the silver halide grains in the emulsion layer is accounted for by tabular grains of an aspect ratio at least 2:1, and a compound which can be represented by formula (I) below is in at least one layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Uchida, Shunichi Tomita, Toshio Kawagishi
  • Patent number: 5589318
    Abstract: A high-contrast photographic material, adapted for use in the field of graphic arts, includes a hydrazide nucleating agent and comprises a silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains which are spectrally sensitized with a non-desorbing sensitizing dye and silver halide grains which are not spectrally sensitized. Preferably, the photographic material also contains a booster compound which enables it to be processed in a developer having a pH of below 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Allison Hazel C. Dale, Roger H. Piggin, Richard A. Hallett, Paul R. McIntyre
  • Patent number: 5536624
    Abstract: The present invention provides a silver halide photographic photosensitive material which has a printability from color negatives and which can be used as a variable contrast printing paper. This silver halide photographic photosensitive material comprises a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer provided on the support wherein when .gamma. (gamma) values of characteristic curves obtained by exposure through filters having a transmission maximum wavelength at about 430 nm, about 540 nm and about 700 nm are indicated by .gamma..sub.B, .gamma..sub.G and .gamma..sub.R, respectively, the following inequalities 0.3<.gamma..sub.G /.gamma..sub.B <0.7 and 0.3<.gamma..sub.G /.gamma..sub.R <1.0 are satisfied. Furthermore, an exposing method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishinoiri, Masao Okushima
  • Patent number: 5503972
    Abstract: This invention describes the use of gelatin-grafted-polymer particles as peptizers for the preparation of silver halide photographic emulsions, whereby the gelatin-grafted-polymer particles remain attached to the AgX crystals after preparation of the emulsions. In an embodiment of this invention, the core polymer particles are loaded with photographically useful agents. When the photographic agent is a dye-forming coupler, multicolor mixed-packet systems can be constructed using the packet emulsions prepared in the manner of this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John D. Lewis, Mark A. Whitson, Thomas J. Dannhauser, Tienteh Chen, Pranab Bagchi
  • Patent number: 5482814
    Abstract: A heat developing photosensitive member including: a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide forming agent; and a supporting member for supporting the photosensitive layer thereon, wherein merocyanine dye having a structure in which a thiazole nucleus or selenazole nucleus and hydantoin nucleus, thiohydantoin nucleus or selenohydantoin nucleus are combined with each other by a combining group having a methine group is contained in the photosensitive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehiko Ooi, Tetsuro Fukui, Motokazu Kobayashi, Kazunori Ueno, Kenji Kagami, Masao Suzuki, Katsuya Nishino
  • Patent number: 5470700
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-sensitive silver halide X-ray photographic material comprising a mixture of tabular silver halide grains, wherein tabular silver halide grains of 0.6 .mu.m to 1.5 .mu.m in an average grain size are contained in a proportion of 70% to 95% and of 0.3 .mu.m to 0.5 .mu.m in a proportion of 5% to 30%; the aspect ratio of tabular grains is more than 3; and having sensitometric properties in which a gamma (.gamma.1) formed by a straight line portion between two points 0.5 and 1.5 of optical density is 2.7 to 3.3 and a gamma (.gamma.2) formed by a straight line portion between points 2.0 ana 3.0 of optical density is 1.5 to 2.5 in the characteristic curve of a rectangular coordinate system having equal coordinate axis unit lengths for the optical density (D) and the amount of exposure (log E).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Marui
  • Patent number: 5445927
    Abstract: A photographic silver halide material for industrial radiography comprises a film support and on one or both sides thereof a silver halide emulsion rich in silver chloride and a silver halide emulsion rich in silver bromide either in admixture in the same layer or in contiguous layers. The ratio by weight of colloid binder, e.g. gelatin, to silver halide (expressed as silver nitrate) is from 3:10 to 6:10 and the amount of silver halide corresponds to from 6 g to 20 g of silver nitrate per square meter and per side. The material has been forehardened to an extent such that when it is immersed in demineralised water of 25.degree. C. for 3 minutes there is absorbed less than 2.5 g of water per gram of binder. The material can be processed within a total processing time of less than 5 minutes with a developer and fixer being substantially free from hardening agents and the fixer being substantially free from ammonium ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Raymond Florens, Pieter Perdieus
  • Patent number: 5445929
    Abstract: There is described a photographic system comprising a variable contrast black and white photographic element and at least one filter. The element and the filter are so chosen that they cooperate to provide an extension of log exposure range of the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Vincent R. Brown, John R. Burdsall, II
  • Patent number: 5441865
    Abstract: This invention describes the use of gelatin-grafted-polymer particles as peptizers for the preparation of silver halide photographic emulsions, whereby the gelatin-grafted-polymer particles remain attached to the AgX crystals after preparation of the emulsions. In an embodiment of this invention, the core polymer particles are loaded with photographically useful agents. When the photographic agent is a dye-forming coupler, multicolor mixed-packet systems can be constructed using the packet emulsions prepared in the manner of this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John D. Lewis, Mark A. Whitson, Thomas J. Dannhauser, Tienteh Chen, Pranab Bagchi
  • Patent number: 5391469
    Abstract: Radiographic elements are disclosed each containing a support and, coated on the support, at least two high tabularity tabular grain emulsions. The tabular grains coated on the support exhibit a face centered cubic crystal lattice structure formed by silver bromide with a selected portion of the tabular grains additionally containing iodide substantially uniformly distributed through the crystal lattice structure in an overall concentration of at least 0.5 mole percent with the iodide concentration at any one grain site being less than 5 mole percent. The proportion of the tabular grains selected to contain iodide as well as the distribution of iodide within the tabular grains results in a reduction in pressure induced variance of radiographic imaging response as a function of applied pressure, such as that inadvertently applied during film handling and processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Robert E. Dickerson
  • Patent number: 5389507
    Abstract: A reversal photographic element having both a light sensitive layer containing both surface latent image forming silver halide 9rains and internal latent image forming silver halide grains. A method of processing elements of the foregoing type is also provided. The elements exhibit good push processing characteristics with low loss of D.sub.max.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Keath T. Chen, Ingo H. Leubner, Robert A. Arcus
  • Patent number: 5364750
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a direct positive photosensitive material comprising at least two kinds of core/shell-type internal latent image-type silver halide grains having different average grain sizes, the smaller grains being substantially constituted of cubic grains, or tetradecahedron grains mainly of the face (100). According to the present invention, a direct positive photosensitive material having a wide exposure latitude and an extremely improved storage stability can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Yoshida, Tatsuo Heki
  • Patent number: 5362620
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a photographic material comprising on a support a photosensitive layer containing a mixture of silver halide emulsions at least one of which is spectrally sensitized and at least one of which is not spectrally sensitized characterized in that the surface of the silver halide particles of the silver halide emulsion not being spectrally sensitized is loaded with a stabilizer having a mercapto group or the tautomeric thione group thereof such that the surface covered by one molecule of stabilizer is between 10 .ANG..sup.2 and 70 .ANG..sup.2. The loss of speed due to migration of the spectral sensitizer from the sensitized emulsion to the non sensitized emulsion is reduced and can even be inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Johan Lamotte, Jean-Marie Dewanckele
  • Patent number: 5362616
    Abstract: The invention is accomplished by forming balanced cyan, magenta, and yellow coupler and emulsion mixes. There is at least one layer in which silver halide emulsion has been sensitized to blue light or silver halide emulsion sensitive to green light. Regardless of the color sensitivity of the silver halide layer that contains silver contains a mix of cyan, magenta, and yellow dye-forming couplers. Further, in order to have a black-and-white image that has a lightness such as observed by the human eye in a scene, it is preferred that the ratios of red sensitive emulsion to green sensitive emulsion to blue sensitive emulsion in the photographic element is about 2:3:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James L. Edwards, Paul T. Hahm, Mitchell J. Bogdanowicz, Joseph E. LaBarca
  • Patent number: 5270158
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a silver halide emulsion layer and a non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloid layer provided on the support. The emulsion layer comprises a mixture of at least two kinds of silver halide emulsions which different from each other in sensitivity. The emulsion layer contains a magenta coupler represented by Formula II and the non-light-sensitive layer contains a compound represented by formula II: ##STR1## wherein Ar is an aryl group; Y is a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of releasing upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent; X is a halogen atom, an alkoxy group or an alkyl group; n is an integer of 0 to 4, Xs are the same or different when n is 2 or more; R is a strait chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakatsugawa, Takaaki Kojima
  • Patent number: 5240826
    Abstract: A novel silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer coated on at least one side of a support, wherein said photographic emulsion layer comprises a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion and said photographic emulsion or other layer(s) comprises a substantially light-insensitive, unfogged silver halide fine grain emulsion, with a heterocyclic mercapto compound represented by the following general formula (I) being adsorbed on the fine grains in said emulsion: general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein X represents --O--, --NH--, or --S--; R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are a hydrogen atom or a substituent group; at least one of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group having up to 13 carbon atoms, such alkyl or aryl being bonded directly or through a divalent linkage group to the aromatic nucleus; X.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Miyasaka, Hideo Ikeda, Shigeru Ohno
  • Patent number: 5213942
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide color reversal photographic material comprising photosensitive silver halide photographic layers in which the average silver chloride content of the photosensitive silver halide emulsions is less than 7.0 mol %, at least one emulsion layer of the photographic layers consists of two or more emulsions having different average grain diameters, and the emulsion layer and/or the adjacent intermediate layer contains at least one compound that can release a photographically useful agent by redox reaction with the oxidation product of a developing agent. The silver halide color reversal photographic material of the present invention has a color-reversed image improved in graininess and sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyasu Deguchi, Shigeo Hirano, Yasuhiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5183730
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material improved in gradation and processing stability is disclosed. The material has a support and provided thereon a blue-sensitive emulsion layer, a green-sensitive emulsion layer and red-sensitive emulsion layer, wherein at least one of said color-sensitive emulsion layers contains; tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of not less than 1.2; and core/shell type regular crystal silver halide grains of which the average projection area accounts for not more than 40% of that of the tabular grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiko Yagi
  • Patent number: 5154995
    Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material is provided which comprises a support having coated thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers having maximum spectral sensitivities in at least three sensitive wavelength ranges of 400 nm to 500 nm, 500 nm to 570 nm and 650 nm to 730 nm and is sensitive to said three sensitive wavelength ranges to form yellow, magenta and cyan dye images, respectively, characterized in that said silver halide color photographic material has additionally at least one function to provide a maximum spectral sensitvity in wavelength range other than said three sensitive wavelength ranges and to form any of yellow, magenta or cyan dye image by an exposure to the light of said other range. A color image formation method is also disclosed which comprises exposing said silver halide color photographic material to light in a print exposure process in combination with a scanning exposure process, and then developing said silver halide color photographic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 5126237
    Abstract: There is disclosed a monochromatic silver halide light-sensitive photographic material for printing from a color negative, which has an excellent sensitivity, sharpness, graininess and background whiteness. The photographic material is characterized by that the surface of the support on which the emulsion layer is provided has the following reflection properties:L=90 or morea*=-0.5 to 1.0b*=-5.0 to -1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okumura, Masataka Nakano
  • Patent number: 5084374
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having (A) a red-sensitive, (B) a green-sensitive, and (C) a blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, wherein the silver halide emulsion of each layer is a high-silver-chloride emulsion, and the silver halide emulsions of the red-sensitive and blue-sensitive layers is spectrally sensitized in the blue light region within a range satisfying specific relationships. Further two or more silver halide emulsions are mixed so that the gammas of the (A) red-sensitive and the (B) green-sensitive layers in the photosensitive region of the blue-sensitive layer may be in a limited range. The disclosure as described provides a silver halide color photographic material which can form a color image giving a stereoscopic feeling that can reproduce bright primary colors less in turbidity over the range from the low-density part to the high-density part, and which can produce fully the high-density region of primary colors with subtle shades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kokichi Waki, Masahiro Asami
  • Patent number: 5066575
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, which contains at least one nondiffusible pyrazolo(1,5-b)(1,2,4)triazole magenta coupler represented by the following general formula (I) in at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers in order to acquire high color formability and to produce a dye image excellent in hue: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, provided that both are not a hydrogen atom; R.sub.4 represents an alkyl group, an alkoxy group or a halogen atom; L represents an alkylene group; m represents an integer of 0 to 5; n represents an integer of 0 to 5, and when n is 2 or more, the R.sub.4 's may be different from one another; and X represents a halogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahisa Sato, Osamu Takahashi, Hideaki Naruse, Yuki Mizukawa
  • Patent number: 5035986
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising photographic constituent layers containing at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive layer on a reflective support, wherein at least one of the photographic constituent layers comprises at least one dye represented by formula (I), at least one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers comprises silver halide grains substantially comprising silver chloride and the reflective support comprises 3.0 g/m.sup.2 or more of titanium oxide: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, a cyano group, --COOR.sub.5, --CONR.sub.5 R.sub.6, --COR.sub.7, --SO.sub.2 R.sub.7, --SOR.sub.7, --SO.sub.2 NR.sub.5 R.sub.6, --OR.sub.5, --NR.sub.5 R.sub.6, --NR.sub.6 COR.sub.7, --NR.sub.5 CONR.sub.5 R.sub.6 or --NR.sub.6 SO.sub.2 R.sub.7 in which R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group, R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Sakai, Shigeru Ohno
  • Patent number: 5006455
    Abstract: A gradation-variable BW paper comprising only one silver halide emulsion layer, in which re-sensitization is avoided, is obtained with a mixture of at least two photosensitive silver halide emulsions, of which one has its absorption maximum in the range from 480 to 580 while the other has its absorption maximum below 480 nm, providing the emulsion which has its absorption maximum below 480 nm contains a compound corresponding to the following formula ##STR1## in which X represents the remaining members of an optionally benzo- or naphtho-condensed heterocycle optionally containing further substituents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Patzold, Helmut Kampfer
  • Patent number: 4994358
    Abstract: A direct positive color light-sensitive material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon at least one internal latent image-forming silver halide emulsion layer containing non-prefogged silver halide grains and which contains at least one color image-forming coupler capable of producing or releasing a non-diffusible or diffusible dye upon oxidative coupling with a color developing agent, with at least one layer different from the internal latent image-forming silver halide emulsion layer containing a surface latent image-forming, negative-working silver halide emulsion and with at least one of the negative-working silver halide emulsion layer and an interlayer adjacent thereto containing at least one compound capable of releasing a fogging agent, a fogging agent precursor, a development promoter or a development promoter precursor in proportion to the amount of developed silver of the negative-working silver halide emulsion upon development processing using an aromatic primary amine developing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyasu Deguchi, Shigeo Hirano
  • Patent number: 4987063
    Abstract: A gradation variable black-and-white paper containing only one light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer in which transfer of sensitization is prevented may be obtained by sensitization with at least one compound corresponding to the following formula ##STR1## in which at least one of the groups R.sub.1, R.sub.5 or R.sub.6 is halogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Kampfer, Walter Patzold, Gunther Mahlberg
  • Patent number: 4945036
    Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material is described, comprising two or more monodisperse silver halide emulsions of different average grain size on a support, wherein at least one of the said monodisperse silver halide emulsions has an average grain size of at least 0.7 .mu.m, and at least one of the silver halide emulsions has a smaller average grain size than the other, the average grain size of the silver halide emulsion as a whole being within the range of from 0.33 to 0.54 .mu.m, with a coated silver weight of from 2.3 to 3.8 g/m.sup.2, and which contains a sensitizing dye represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Z and Z.sub.1 each represents a group of non-metallic atoms forming a thiazole nucleus, a benzothiazole nucleus, or a benzoxazole nucleus; R.sub.0 represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an allyl group, or an aralkyl group; R and R.sub.1 each represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; L, L.sub.1, and L.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Arai, Kazuo Kagawa
  • Patent number: 4920034
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material and an image forming method using such material are described, said material comprising a surface latent image forming silver halide emulsion layer unit on a support, and containing a hydrazine compound in at least one of said emulsion layer unit and other constituent layers, said emulsion layer unit being composed of at least two layers, with the silver halide emulsion present in a fine-grained low-sensitivity emulsion layer having a minimum average grain size being not more than 80% of the average grain size of a coarse-grained high-sensitivity silver halide emulsion having the maximum average grain size, and said silver halide photographic material attains a contrast of 10 or more in terms of gamma value when a developer containing at least 0.15 mol/liter of sulfite ions and having a pH of from 9.5 to 12.3 is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Senzo Sasaoka, Nobuaki Inoue
  • Patent number: 4895794
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel silver halide emulsion containing silver chloride-containing crystal grains which are cubic or rectangular parallelepiped silver halide crystals containing 30 mol % or more silver chloride on the crystal surface and surrounded mainly by (100) crystal faces, where the silver halide crystal has a projection of another crystal part formed on at least one (100) surface of the six crystal faces thereof and starting from the (100) surface has a bottom surface, the projection crystal part has substantially the same halogen composition as that of the surface of the (100) face of the original cubic or rectangular parallelepiped silver halide crystal grain, and the adjacent projection crystal parts have a groove part therebetween which is parallel to the edge part of the original silver halide crystal grain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 4865964
    Abstract: Siliver halide photographic elements are disclosed comprised of blended emulsions. An improved relationship between speed and granularity can be realized when a blended silver bromide or bromoiodide emulsion is comprised of a high aspect ratio tabular grain emulsion containing at least one spectral sensitizing dye and a low aspect ratio grain emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Robert J. Newmiller
  • Patent number: 4830956
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is provided, containing a pyrazoloazole type magenta coupler of the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group which is removable by a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; Za, Zb and Zc each represents a methine group, a substituted methine group, .dbd.N-- or --NH--; one of Za--Zb bond and Zb--Zc bond is a double bond and the other is a single bond; one of Za--Zb and Zb--Zc may optionally be condensed with a 5- to 7-membered ring when Za and Zb or Zb and Zc are both carbon atoms; R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kokichi Waki
  • Patent number: 4746593
    Abstract: A negative-acting photographic element comprising a support having coated thereon one or more layers of a radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsion, at least one of the layers containing a hydrazine compound in which the one or more radiation-sensitive silver halide layers contain a first silver halide emulsion having an average grain size of from 0.1 to 0.4 microns and a second silver halide emulsion of particles with an average grain volume of less than one half that of the particles of the first emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Kitchin, Kevin P. Hall
  • Patent number: 4656122
    Abstract: Silver halide photographic elements are disclosed capable of producing reversal images including at least one emulsion layer comprised of a blend of tabular silver haloiodide grains and relatively fine grains consisting essentially of a silver salt more soluble than silver iodide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Allan F. Sowinski, David C. Shuman
  • Patent number: H1450
    Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive photographic material is disclosed. The photographic material comprises a support and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer. The blue sensitive emulsion layer comprises a mixture of at least two kinds of silver halide emulsions each comprises silver chloride grains or silver chlorobromide grains containing not less than 90 mol % of silver chloride and are sensitized with a blue-sensitizing dye and have an average grain size of from 0.6 .mu.m to 0.9 .mu.m in terms of diameter of spherical grain. The average grain sizes of the two kinds of the emulsions are different from each other in the average grain size by 0.05 .mu.m or more. The coating amount of the blue-sensitizing dye contained in the blue-sensitive emulsion layer is not more than 7.0.times.10.sup.-4 g/m.sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okumura, Takaaki Kojima, Takahiko Nojima
  • Patent number: H1547
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material for laser beam scanning use, comprising a support and a silver halide emulsion layer on one side of said support, which layer having a silver coating weight of not more than 3.5 g/m.sup.2, and at least one polymer matting agent on the one side of the silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer comprises chemically unripened silver halide grains having an average grain diameter of 0.8 .mu.m to 2.0 .mu.m and chemically ripened silver halide grains having an average grain diameter of 0.1 .mu.m to 0.6 .mu.m in a ratio of 30:70 to 5:95.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuaki Tsuji