Polyheteronuclear Sensitizer Patents (Class 430/573)
  • Patent number: 4971889
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion containing at least one compound represented by following formula (I):Dye--L--Hyd (I)wherein Dye represents a chromophore-containing dye residue shown by following formula (II); Hyd represents a hydrazine residue one of the two nitrogen atoms of which is substituted by a carbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfoxy group, a phosphoryl group, or an alkilydene group and L represents a divalent linkage group of bonding Dye and Hyd; ##STR1## wherein R and R.sub.1, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group; Z and Z.sub.1, which may be the same or different, each represents an atomic group necessary for forming a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring; Q represents an atomic group necessary for forming a 5- or 6-membered carbon ring or a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring; A represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; and n, d, and m each represents 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Ikeda, Haruo Takei, Satoru Takimoto, Masaki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 4965183
    Abstract: Compounds of the formulaa: ##STR1## where Z.sub.1, Z.sub.2, L.sub.1 -L.sub.5, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, m, and n are as defined herein are disclosed. A method of making the componds is also disclosed. the compounds are useful as sensitizing dyes in photographic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John D. Mee, Jal F. Munshi
  • Patent number: 4948699
    Abstract: This invention provides a silver halide photographic light sensitive material and a light sensitive lithographic printing plate material which are enhanced in sensitivity to semiconductor laser beam and improved in storage stability and printing endurance. The former comprises a support and a silver halide emulsion layer containing a sensitizing dye having a spectral sensitivity maximum in a wavelength region longer than 700 nm wherein said emulsion layer contains a water-soluble polymer containing a carboxyl group and having a number-average molecular weight of 20,000 or less and the latter comprises a support and, provided thereon, a silver halide emulsion layer containing a sensitizing dye having a spectral sensitivity maximum in a wavelength region longer than 700 nm and a physical development nuclei layer and said emulsion layer contains the above mentioned water-soluble polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishinoiri, Toshiro Kondo, Yoshikazu Takaya
  • Patent number: 4917997
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising a silver halide emulsion, at least one ascorbic acid compound, a bisaminostilbene compound substituted by a pyrimidine derivative, and at least one sensitizing dye as described herein, exhibits an increased inhibition of desensitization due to the use of a sensitizing dye and an increase in the spectral sensitivity of the photographic emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Ikeda, Haruo Takei
  • Patent number: 4910129
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light sensitive material which has a silver halide emulsion layer optically sensitized with a sensitizing dye having a maximum spectral sensitivity in the region of at least 700 nm, said emulsion layer containing at least one compound represented by the following formula (I) or at least one compound represented by the general formula (I) and at least one compound represented by the general formula (II) in combination: ##STR1## (wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, an alkenyl group, an amino group, an acylamido group or a sulfonamido group and sum of carbon atom numbers of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is 3 or more.); ##STR2## (wherein R.sub.3 represents an alkyl group of at least 3 carbon atoms or an aryl group).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiya Takahashi, Susumu Baba, Katsuaki Iwaosa, Motoshige Yamada, Kunihiro Nakagawa, Seigo Ebato, Hiroshi Nishinoiri, Yoshikazu Takaya
  • Patent number: 4876183
    Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprising tabular grains whose diameter of an average projected area/average thickness ratio is 5/1 or higher is provided. Said emulsion layer contains one or more luminescent dyes whose luminescence quantum yield is 0.3 or more when its concentration is dry gelatin is 10.sup.-4 mol/dm.sup.3 at room temperature and that can be substantially removed by development processing, and the content of said luminescent dye is 3.0 .mu.mol/m.sup.2 or more for the total surface area of the silver halide grains in said emulsion layer, or is 2.0 mmol/dm.sup.3 or more in a hydrophilic dispersion medium excluding the silver halide grain surfaces in said emulsion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Miyasaka, Masaki Okazaki, Tadao Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 4873184
    Abstract: Supersensitization of photothermographic silver halide emulsions is effected by the addition of a metal chelating agent to a photothermographic emulsion which is or becomes spectrally sensitized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Sharon M. Simpson
  • Patent number: 4820606
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer having been spectrally sensitized with adsorbable spectral sensitizing dye is disclosed, wherein a hydrophilic dispersion medium contains a substantially non-adsorbable luminescent dye which is easily removable by development processing the satisfies the following conditions (1) to (3):(1) The luminescent dye has an equilibrium adsorption of not more than 5.times.10.sup.-7 mol per m.sup.2 of silver bromide grain surface in a 5% by weight gelatin aqueous solution containing silver bromide grains whose outer surface is composed substantially of a [111] face under conditions of 40.degree. C. in temperature, 6.5.+-.0.05 in pH, and 10.sup.-4 mol/l in dye concentration in the solution phase;(2) The luminescent dye has an emission quantium yield of not less than 0.1 at room temperature in dry gelatin at a concentration of 10.sup.-4 mol/dm.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Miyasaka, Masaki Okazaki, Tadao Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 4770961
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light sensitive material for lithographic printing plate which comprises a support and at least a silver halide emulsion layer and a surface physical development nuclei layer provided on said support wherein said silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one of the sensitizing dyes represented by the following general formulas (I), (II), (III), (IV) and (V):General formula (I) ##STR1## General formula (II) ##STR2## General formula (III) ##STR3## General formula (IV) ##STR4##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Eiji Kanada, Yoshikazu Takaya, Masahiko Saikawa, Hidetoshi Miura
  • Patent number: 4607006
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is described containing at least one electron-donative, silver halide-adsorptive compound represented by the following general formula (A) or (B), which is not a spectral sensitizing agent for silver halide or a nucleating agent:D--L--X (A)D--X (B)wherein D represents an electron donative atomic group comprising an aromatic ring or hetero ring, which may be unsubstituted or substituted with at least one substituent; L represents a linkage group containing at least one of C, N, S or O; and X represents a group which is adsorptive with a silver halide-adsorptive group containing at least one of C, N, S, O or Se, said N being optionally quarternized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Hirano, Yasuhisa Sano, Haruo Takei, Tsutomu Miyasaka, Shinsaku Fujita
  • Patent number: 4593686
    Abstract: A monitor system is provided for a device used in the treatment of sleep apnea. The device engages the user's tongue in a socket. The tongue is thereby held in a forward position, increasing the size of the air passageway, while at the same time flow of air through the mouth is blocked. The monitor is responsive to the position of the tongue in the socket and activates an alarm when the tongue slips out of the socket. One example of such a monitor includes circuitry with a thermistor. Thermistor temperature changes are used to generate a voltage that enables alarm and recording circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Inventors: Stephen R. Lloyd, Charles F. Samelson
  • Patent number: 4556633
    Abstract: Silver halide color light-sensitive materials which contain a compound having a repeating unit represented by general formula (I) and a compound represented by general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents --OR, --SR or wherein R and R' each represents a hydrogen atom, or alkyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group, a sulfoalkyl group (or a salt thereof), a carboxyalkyl group (for a salt thereof), an aralkyl group, an aryl group, or a cycloalkyl group, or R and R' may form an alkylene group or an --O-- containing alkylene ring together; R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; Y.sub.1, Y.sub.2, Y.sub.3 and Y.sub.4 each represents a polymethylene group, an arylene group, or a cycloalkylene group, Z represents --O--, --SO.sub.2 -- or --CH.sub.2 --; and l and m each represents 0 or 1; ##STR2## wherein R.sub.6 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group; R.sub.7 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hatsumi Tanemura, Toshinao Ukai, Masaki Okazaki, Naoyasu Deguchi, Munehisa Fujita, Kiyohiko Yamamuro
  • Patent number: 4552837
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic emulsion is described, containing at least one sensitizing dye represented by formula (I) and at least one compound represented by formula (II). The use of compounds of formula (I) in combination with compounds of formula (II) permits the spectral sensitization of photographic emulsions without extending the wavelength region of spectral sensitivity, enabling the production of a light-sensitive material of high sensitivity and reduced fog. ##STR1## (The symbols V, W.sub.1, W.sub.2, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, X, n, R.sub.5, Y, X.sub.1, m.sub.1 and m.sub.2 are as defined in the appended claims).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Okazaki, Osami Tanabe, Satoshi Nagaoka, Yuji Mihara, Toshinao Ukai
  • Patent number: 4546074
    Abstract: A silver halide color light sensitive material with a silver iodobromide photographic emulsion layer is described. The silver iodobromide photographic emulsion contains at least one compound represented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## and at least one compound represented by the general formula (II): ##STR2## (in the general formulae (I) and (II), all symbols are as defined in the appended claims). The surface of silver iodobromide grains of the surface low iodine content type in the photographic emulsion is adsorbed from 10.sup.-7 to 10.sup.-3 mol of iodide ion per mol of silver halide. The silver iodobromide emulsion is spectrally sensitized in a red region without causing any undesirable problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Kamei, Yuichi Ohashi, Toshinao Ukai, Kiyohiko Yamamuro, Haruo Takei
  • Patent number: 4544628
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion is disclosed which includes a sensitizing dye represented by general formula (I) and a compound represented by general formula (II): ##STR1## The substituents within the general formulae are defined within the specification. The emulsion can be used to prepare a photographic material which has high green-sensitivity which is obtained without expanding the wavelength region of spectral sensitivity in the green sensitive region. Further, the resulting material has these improved results and does not show substantial change of its photographic properties such as sensitivity and amount of fogging during storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Mihara, Satoshi Nagaoka, Masaki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 4536473
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer which comprises silver halide grains containing at least silver chloride and spectrally sensitized to infrared rays with at least one dye selected from a tricarbocyanine dye and a dicarbocyanine dye having a 4-quinoline nucleus, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains from 0.0003 mol to 0.01 mol per mol of silver of a water-soluble bromide.The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material has high sensitivity in an infrared spectral region which does not substantially change during the preservation of the photographic light-sensitive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Mihara
  • Patent number: 4493889
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support having thereon a red-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion layer comprising a tetramethine melocyanine dye represented by the general formula (I) and a compound represented by the general formula (II) ##STR1## the substituents within these structural formulae are defined within the specification. The material gives improved results with respect to preventing diffuse sensitization. The material also provides a red-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion in which a decline of spectro-sensitivity in the lapse of dissolution is relatively small and which has a small amount of dye fog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Mihara, Satoshi Nagaoka, Masaki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 4442201
    Abstract: A method for producing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having on a support thereof at least one layer formed of an emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide particles sensitized by a sensitizing dye comprising the steps of adding a first sensitizing dye to an emulsion containing silver halide particles, during the chemical ripening of the silver halide particles, to sensitize the silver halide particles; adding a second sensitizing dye to the emulsion containing the sensitized silver halide particles, after the chemical ripening of the silver halide particles, to form a coating liquid; and coating a support with the coating liquid to produce a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Syun Takada, Takashi Kadowaki, Mitsuhiro Okumura, Shinichi Nakamura, Masaru Iwagaki
  • Patent number: 4442193
    Abstract: Photoconductive compositions comprising photoconductors and 1,4,5,8-naphthalene bis-dicarboximide sensitizing compounds are disclosed. Compositions and elements containing such compounds are sensitized to radiation below 400 nm. Embodiments are disclosed in which the photoconductor is an arylalkane leuco base. Such embodiments are advantageously nonsensitive to radiation above 400 nm and are also nonpersistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Chin H. Chen, Ralph H. Young, Michael Scozzafava
  • Patent number: 4376817
    Abstract: Direct-positive photographic material having at least one layer which contains a silver halide emulsion surface-fogged by chemical means or by exposure and a tri-nuclear cyanine dye, which has the formula ##EQU1## in which A.sub.1 is .dbd.CH-- or .dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH--, Z.sub.1 is a monocyclic or polycyclic heterocyclic radical which is linked by a double bond to the adjacent methine group, Z.sup..sym. is a positively charged radical which is mesomeric to Z.sub.1 and is linked by a single bond to the adjacent methine group, Z.sub.2 --is a nitrogen-heterocyclic radical which has its single positive charge on the nitrogen atom and Z.sub.3 .dbd. is a radical which has no charge on the nitrogen atom and is mesomeric to Z.sub.2, at least one of the radicals Z.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1983
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy AG
    Inventors: Rolf Steiger, Jean F. Reber
  • Patent number: 4355098
    Abstract: Direct positive photographic elements with improved spectral sensitivity in the green and red portion of the visible spectrum are obtained from emulsions containing a supersensitizing amount of a spectral sensitizing dye (a) having a solution absorption maximum less than 495 nm and the lowest vacant energy band less than -3.7 eV, and a sensitizing amount of a spectral sensitizing dye (b) having a lowest vacant energy band between -3.7 eV and 0.3 eV below the lowest vacant energy band of said spectral sensitizing dye (a) and with the highest occupied energy band between -5.9 eV and 0.3 eV above the highest occupied energy level of dye (a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1982
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: James W. Wheeler
  • Patent number: 4311786
    Abstract: Direct-positive photographic material which has at least one layer which contains a silver halide emulsion surface-fogged by chemical means or by exposure and, as a sensitizer, a trinuclear tetramethinecyanine dye in which all or some of the methine hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine atoms. The novel trinuclear tetramethinecyanine dyes impart an excellent blue-sensitivity to the photographic materials. Furthermore, high maximum densities and very low minimum densities are achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1982
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy AG
    Inventors: Rolf Steiger, Jean F. Reber
  • Patent number: 4212672
    Abstract: A lithographic photosensitive material, suitable for exposure with light from a neon-helium laser, comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one sensitizing dye represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Z and Z.sub.1, which may be the same or different, each represents the non-metal atoms necessary for completing a 5-membered or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic nucleus; R and R.sub.1, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; Q and Q.sub.1 together represent the non-metal atoms necessary for completing a 4-thiazolidinone, 5-thiazolidinone, or 4-imidazolidinone nucleus; L, L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represents a methine group; n.sub.1 and n.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1980
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Mihara, Haruo Takei, Noriyuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 4199360
    Abstract: A method of spectrally sensitizing a photographic light-sensitive emulsion where a water-soluble solution, prepared by dissolving a methine dye having at least one water-soluble group in water in the presence of a "Red Shift Compound", as hereinafter defined, is added to a photographic light-sensitive emulsion to provide a photographic light-sensitive emulsion spectrally sensitized with increased sensitizing efficiency and with reduced fog. The disadvantages caused by the use of high organic solvent contents are avoided and photographic light-sensitive emulsions suitable for high-speed coating are obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1980
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanao Hinata, Yuji Mihara, Tadao Shishido, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: RE30303
    Abstract: 1-Amino-4-cyano-1,3-butadiene compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein n is 1 or 2, when n is 1 R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 can be the same or different and represent hydrogen, alkyl including substituted alkyl, aryl including substituted aryl or cyclic alkyl groups, except that both R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 cannot be hydrogen, or taken together R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 represent the elements necessary to complete a cyclic amino group and when n is 2 at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is alkylene or arylene; G represents an electron withdrawing group. The compounds are especially useful in photographic elements as UV absorbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1980
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne W. Weber, II, Donald W. Heseltine
  • Patent number: H583
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having, on a support, at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer containing a silver chlorobromide emulsion (having a chloride content of 80 mol % or less) substantially free of iodide, with the silver chlorobromide emulsion being spectrally sensitized with a combination of at least two kinds of spectral sensitizing dyes having specified formulae, and with the silver chlorobromide emulsion layer being hardened with at least one 1,3,5-triazine derivative having specified formula, whereby achieving inhibition for increase in fog upon long-range preservation thereof as finished goods without attended by decrease in developing speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Inventor: Masahiro Asami