Five Or More Methine Groups Patents (Class 430/584)
  • Patent number: 12071409
    Abstract: The present invention relates to quinoline derived small molecule inhibitors of nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT), the preparation thereof and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Texas
    Inventors: Stanley Watowich, Harshini Neelakantan, Hua-Yu Wang, Stanton Mchardy
  • Patent number: 8956184
    Abstract: A coaxial cable connector includes, in one embodiment, a coupler, a body, an inner conductor engager and an outer conductor engager. The connector also includes a driver configured to axially move along an axis as a result of at least one axial installation force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates, LLC
    Inventors: Shawn M. Chawgo, Noah P. Montena
  • Patent number: 8460858
    Abstract: A near-infrared-ray absorbing material containing a cyanine compound per formula (I) exhibits a sharp light absorption in wavelength range 800-1000 nm, with excellent light resistance. R1 - R4, Y1, Y2 represents hydrogen atom, a group of formula (II) or (II?), etc., and Anq? represents a q-valent anion, provided that at least R1 is a group of formula (II) or (II?) or Anq? is an ion of formula (III); R11 - R13 each represents a hydrogen atom, hydroxyl group, etc.; Z1, Z2 represents a C1-10 alkyl group, etc. In formula (II?), the bond between G? and T? is a double bond or a conjugated double bond; G? represents a carbon atom; T? represents a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom; the ring including G? and T? represents a 6-membered ring, etc.; w? is 0-4; and R01? represents a hydrogen atom, hydroxy, etc. In formula (III), R5 and R6 represents a halogen-substituted C1-8 alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Adeka Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Maeda, Ryoya Otsuki, Koichi Shigeno
  • Patent number: 7419774
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photothermographic material comprising a support having disposed on a surface thereof, a non-photosensitive silver source, a photosensitive silver halide, and a reducing agent, and having disposed another surface thereof at least one non-photosensitive layer, wherein at least one of the non-photosensitive layers contains at least one type of gelatin having an isoelectric point of from 5.0 to 9.5; and a method for processing the photothermographic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: FUJILFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Rikio Inoue
  • Patent number: 7303851
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material wherein a silver halide emulsion layer and/or a hydrophilic colloid layer contains at least one hydrazine derivative, and a silver halide emulsion is spectrally sensitized with a particular dye, and which contains a benzotriazol compound. There is provided a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material that exhibits superior residual color property and can provide stable photographic performance even after a long term running with a reduced silver amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsunori Hirano, Kunio Ishigaki, Tokuju Oikawa
  • Patent number: 7291449
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material which comprises at least one methine dye represented by the following formula (I): wherein Y represents a furan ring or a pyrrole ring, and Y may further be condensed with other 5- or 6-membered carbocyclic ring or heterocyclic ring, or may have a substituent; the bond between two carbon atoms in which Y is condensed may be a single bond or a double bond; Z represents an atomic group necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, and Z may further be condensed with other 5- or 6-membered carbocyclic ring or heterocyclic ring; R represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, aryl group, or heterocyclic group; D represents a group necessary to form a methine dye; L1 and L2 each represents a methine group; p represents 0 or 1; M represents a counter ion; and m represents a number of 0 or higher necessary to neutralize the charge in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Nakamura, Takanori Hioki, Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Naoyuki Hanaki
  • Patent number: 7172856
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having high sensitivity and having a desired spectral sensitivity distribution. A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one multichromophore dye compound having at least two dye chromophores connected by covalent bonding or coordinate bonding, at least two of the dye chromophores forming a dye chromophore group and the light absorption of the dye chromophore group differing from the sum of individual light absorptions of respective dye chromophores constituting said dye chromophore group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Hiroo Takizawa, Katsuhiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7166422
    Abstract: Provided is a silver halide color photographic material having at least one yellow-coloring photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one magenta-coloring photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one cyan-coloring photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one non-photosensitive non-coloring hydrophilic colloid layer on a reflective support, wherein, after being color developed, the reflection density A(?) at a wavelength of ? nm in the non-exposed portion of the material is at most 0.07 at 450 nm, at most 0.09 at 550 nm and at most 0.07 at 650 nm and the mean grain size of the silver halide grains in the yellow-coloring photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer in the material is at most 0.70 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakahira, Shin Soejima, Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Naoya Shibata, Naoto Ohshima
  • Patent number: 7083908
    Abstract: A photothermographic material including a substrate carrying on one surface thereof an image forming layer containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for a silver ion, and a binder, wherein the photosensitive silver halide has a silver iodide content of 40 to 100 mol %, and an average particle size of 5 to 80 nm, and the photothermographic material contains a compound of the following general formula (1); Q-(Y)n—C(Z1)(Z2)X??General formula (1) wherein Q represents a heterocycle, Y represents a divalent connecting group, n represents 0 or 1, Z1 and Z1 each represent a halogen atom, and X represents a hydrogen atom or an electron withdrawing group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichi Yamamoto, Eiichi Okutsu, Tomoyuki Ohzeki
  • Patent number: 7052827
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material including at least one methine dye represented by the following general formula (I) and at least one coupler represented by the following general formula (XX): wherein X1 and X2 each represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom, a tellurium atom, or a nitrogen atom; Y1 represents a furan, pyrrole or thiophene ring which may be condensed with another 5- or 6-membered carbon ring or heterocycle or may have a substituent group; Y2 represents an atomic group necessary for forming a benzene ring or a 5- or 6-membered unsaturated heterocycle, which may be further condensed with another 5- or 6-membered carbon ring or heterocycle or may have a substituent group; a bond between two carbon atoms by which Y1 and Y2 are each condensed with the carbon ring or the heterocycle may be a single bond or a double bond; R1 and R2 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group; L1, L2 and L3 each represents a methine group; n1 represents 0 o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7022470
    Abstract: A photothermographic imaging material having high sensitivity and superior temporal storage stability. The photothermographic imaging material includes silver halide on at least one side of a support, and includes at least one kind of the compounds represented by the following general formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Fukusaka, Kazuaki Nakamura, Ryouhei Iwamoto, Norio Miura, Nobuaki Kagawa, Soc Man Ho Kimura
  • Patent number: 6844146
    Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material has at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler, and at least one non-lightsensitive layer, on a support. The photosensitive material contains, in at least one of the layers, a compound having a reducing group and a compound having at least three hetero atoms capable of increasing a photographic speed of the photosensitive material in comparison with the case where the material does not contain the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichiro Hosokawa, Kohzaburoh Yamada, Yasuhiro Shimada
  • Patent number: 6838231
    Abstract: A process for producing a spectrally sensitized silver halide photographic emulsion having high sensitivity. A process for producing a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising as a sensitizing dye at least one connection dye having two or more chromophores connected through a covalent bond, the process comprising adding said connection dye to a silver halide photographic emulsion and allowing at least one chromophore out of a plurality of chromophores in the molecule of the connection dye to change in the adsorption strength to a silver halide grain; and a process for producing a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising a silver halide grain having adsorbed on the surface thereof a sensitizing dye in multiple layers, the process comprising adding one or a plural of sensitizing dye(s) to said silver halide emulsion and allowing at least one sensitizing dye out of added sensitizing dyes to change in the adsorption strength to a silver halide grain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Kobayashi, Takeshi Suzumoto, Takanori Hioki
  • Patent number: 6828087
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising at least one methine dye of formula (I) and at least one coupler of formula (X): wherein X1 and X2 each represents O, S, Se, Te, N or C; Y1 represents a furan, pyrrole or thiophene ring which may be condensed and substituted with the specific ring; Y2 represents an atomic group necessary for forming a benzene ring or a 5- or 6-membered unsaturated heterocycle; R1 and R2 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group; L1, L2 and L3 each represents a methine group; n1 represents 0 or 1; M1 represents a counter ion; and m1 represents a number of 0 or more necessary for neutralizing a charge in a molecule; wherein Z1 and Z2 each represents —C(Q3)═ or —N═; Q1 and Q3 each represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent group; Q2 represents a hydrogen atom or a coupling release group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6828088
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein 40 mol % or more of silver halide contained in the silver halide emulsion layer is silver bromide and the silver halide contains 1×10−6 mole or more per mole of silver of a metal complex containing one or more cyanide ligands, and the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material has a characteristic curve drawn in orthogonal coordinates of logarithm of light exposure (x-axis) and optical density (y-axis) using equal unit lengths for the both axes, on which gamma is 4.0 or more for the optical density range of 0.1-1.5. There is provided a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material showing high contrast and high sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tokuju Oikawa
  • Patent number: 6828086
    Abstract: A water-based coating composition is disclosed, comprising a latex comprising a polymer impregnated with an infared absorbing compound and a water-soluble polyester or latex comprising polymer containing an active methylene group. An infrared absorbing film and a photothermographic material by use thereof are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Ueda, Chiaki Nagaike
  • Patent number: 6815153
    Abstract: This invention relates to a silver halide photographic element comprising a support bearing a cyan dye image-forming unit comprised of at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one cyan dye-forming coupler, a magenta dye image-forming unit comprising at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one magenta dye-forming coupler, and a yellow dye image-forming unit comprising at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one yellow dye-forming coupler, wherein said photographic element has an ISO speed rating of 800 or greater and has an integrated RMS green granularity equal to or less than 11.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James A. Friday, Roger A. Weiss, Anabisdally I. Bodden
  • Patent number: 6806043
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said emulsion layer contains a compound represented by the following formula (1): Dye1&Parenopenst;L1&Parenopenst;Dye2)m1)m2  (1) wherein Dye1 represents a cyanine chromophore, Dye2 represents a merocyanine dye having in the acid nucleus thereof at least one dissociative group having a pKa of 5 or less, and L1 represents a linking group represented by -G1-(A1-G2)t1-(wherein G1 and G2 each independently represents an alkylene, alkenylene or arylene group which may be substituted, A1 represents, irrespective of the direction, —O—, —S—, —SO2—, —NR3—, —COO—, —CONR4— or —SO2NR5— (wherein R3 to R5 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group) and t1 represents an integer of 1 to 1
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroo Takizawa
  • Patent number: 6794121
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of spectrally sensitizing a silver halide emulsion comprising the following steps in the following order a) providing a silver halide emulsion comprising tabular silver halide grains having an inner dye layer adjacent to the silver halide grain, said dye layer comprising at least one dye (Dye 1) that is capable of spectrally sensitizing silver halide, b) adding to the emulsion at least one dye (Dye 2) capable of providing a second dye layer adjacent to the inner dye layer, and c) adding to the emulsion a non-cationic surfactant or a scavenger for oxidized developer, or a combination of the two, to form a silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains having associated therewith two dye layers, wherein the dye layers are held together by non-covalent forces or by in situ bond formation; the outer dye layer adsorbs light at equal or higher energy than the inner dye layer; and the energy emission wavelength of the outer dye layer overlaps with the energy absorption
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David R. Foster, Stephen P. Singer, William J. Harrison, Alan R. Pitt
  • Patent number: 6794122
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer, wherein the emulsion layer contains at least one compound of formulae (Ia), (Ib) and (Ic) and at least one compound of formula (II): wherein Z1 represents S, O, Se, Te, N or C; R, R31 and R32 each are an alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group; D is a group necessary for forming a methine dye; V1 to V4 represent H or a monovalent substituent; M and M3 each are a charge-balancing counter ion; m and m3 each are a number or 0 or more necessary for neutralizing the charge of the molecule; Z31 and Z32 each are an atomic group necessary for forming the nitrogen-containing hetero-ring; L31 to L37 each represent a methine group; p31 and p32 each are 0 or 1; n3 is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, but the compound of formula (II) does not include the compounds of formulae (Ia), (Ib) and (Ic).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Tetsuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6787297
    Abstract: This invention provides a silver halide photographic element comprising at least one silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains which have associated therewith at least an inner dye layer and an outer dye layer wherein the outer dye layer comprises a dye having at least one substituent that has a positive charge, said photographic element further comprising a cyanine dye of formula (I) or (II) (as described in the specification) that is capable of spectrally sensitizing a silver halide emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Steven G. Link, Richard L. Parton, Robert D. Wilson, Roger A. Bryant, William J. Harrison
  • Patent number: 6770433
    Abstract: A high-sensitive silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is provided. A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a dye having a plurality of dye chromophores, which contains at least one dye where at least one of the dye chromophores is a methine dye chromophore containing a basic nucleus comprising a monocyclic heterocyclic ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanori Hioki
  • Patent number: 6762015
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion which contains at least two sensitizing dyes represented by the following formula (I): Dye-((A)rQ)q(M)m  (I) wherein Dye represents a dye moiety; A represents a linking group; Q represents a dissociable group; r represents 0 or 1; q represents an integer of 2 or more; provided that at least one Q represents —SO3H and at least one Q represents a dissociable group other than —SO3H; M represents a counter ion; and m represents a number of 0 or more necessary to neutralize the electric charge in the molecule, and when 2 represents 2 or more, M's need not be the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Nakamura, Takanori Hioki
  • Patent number: 6759186
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer provided on a support, the emulsion layer comprising a silver halide emulsion containing at least two sensitizing dyes represented by the following general formula (I): wherein X represents an oxygen atom, sulfur atom, selenium atom or NR′; R and R′ each represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group; D represents a group required to form a methine dye; M represents a counter ion; and m represents a number of not smaller than 0 required to neutralize the electric charge in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Nakamura, Kimiyasu Morimura, Takanori Hioki
  • Publication number: 20040126721
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material wherein a silver halide emulsion layer and/or a hydrophilic colloid layer contains at least one hydrazine derivative, and a silver halide emulsion is spectrally sensitized with a particular dye, and which contains a benzotriazol compound. There is provided a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material that exhibits superior residual color property and can provide stable photographic performance even after a long term running with a reduced silver amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Mitsunori Hirano, Kunio Ishigaki, Tokuju Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20040115570
    Abstract: An image-forming method comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akito Yokozawa, Tatsuya Ishizaka, Katsuyuki Takada, Yoshiro Ochiai, Tetsuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6750002
    Abstract: A process for preparing a concentrated photographic spectral sensitizing dye-water composition which comprises adding an anionic sensitizing dye to an aqueous medium in the substantial absence of organic solvent, and agitating the combined dye and aqueous medium, wherein the anionic dye forms a liquid-crystalline dye phase in the aqueous medium and the agitation is performed in the presence of a nonionic surfactant having an HLB of less than 12 and an aqueous solubility at 25° C. of greater than 10 ppm, which nonionic surfactant is in the aqueous medium at a level of from 10 to 1000 ppm. In a specific embodiment of the invention, where the viscosity (at 0.1 s−1 shear rate) of the dye-water composition in the absence of the nonionic surfactant would be greater than 100 cp and especially where such viscosity would be greater than 500 cp, the surfactant is preferably present at a level sufficient to substantially reduce air entrainment during agitation of the dye-water composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James E. Novak, Jeffrey S. Baugher, Dirk J. Hasberg, Lloyd A. Lobo
  • Patent number: 6750003
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the emulsion layer comprises a compound represented by the following formula (1): Dye1-&Parenopenst;L1&Parenopenst;Dye2)m1)m2.CIy  (1) wherein Dye1 represents a first chromophore; Dye2 represents a xanthene dye; L1 represents a linking group; m1 represents an integer of from 1 to 5; m2 represents an integer of from 1 to 5; CI represents an ion for neutralizing a charge; and y represents a number necessary for neutralizing the charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroo Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20040110103
    Abstract: A colour photographic silver halide material comprising a substrate, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one cyan coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one magenta coupler and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one yellow coupler, characterised in that the silver halide crystals of the red-sensitive layer have a chloride content of at least 95 mol %, the cyan coupler corresponding to formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Applicant: Agfa-Gevaert (Belgium)
    Inventors: Ralf Weimann, Markus Geiger, Cuong Ly, Klaus Sinzger, Beate Weber, Heinz Wiesen
  • Patent number: 6730461
    Abstract: A photothermographic material that comprises a support having thereon one or more thermally-developable imaging layers comprising a binder and in reactive association, a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions, and a reducing composition for the non-photosensitive source reducible silver ions. The thermally-developable layers further comprises one or more radiation absorbing compounds that provide a total absorbance of greater than 0.6 and up to and including 3 in the thermally-developable imaging layer(s). These photothermographic materials are independently coated and dried while the material is conveyed at a rate of at least 5 meters per minute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Bryan V. Hunt, Steven H. Kong, William D. Ramsden, Gary E. Labelle
  • Patent number: 6720134
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising grains, wherein 70% or more of the total projected area of the grains is occupied by silver halide grains each meeting requirements (a) to (d) below (a) the grain is composed of a tabular silver halide host grain having two mutually parallel main planes and aspect ratio of 2 or more, and a silver halide protrusion portion epitaxially junctioned on the surface of the host grain; (b) the silver bromide contents of both the host grain and the protrusion portion are 70 mol % or more; (c) the percentage of the silver amount in the protrusion is 12% or less of the silver amount in the host grain; and (d) the grain has a shallow electron-trapping zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Miyamoto, Toshihiro Nishikawa, Nobuyuki Haraguchi, Hideo Ikeda, Takayoshi Mori
  • Publication number: 20040048207
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein 40 mol % or more of silver halide contained in the silver halide emulsion layer is silver bromide and the silver halide contains 1×10−6 mole or more per mole of silver of a metal complex containing one or more cyanide ligands, and the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material has a characteristic curve drawn in orthogonal coordinates of logarithm of light exposure (x-axis) and optical density (y-axis) using equal unit lengths for the both axes, on which gamma is 4.0 or more for the optical density range of 0.1-1.5. There is provided a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material showing high contrast and high sensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventor: Tokuju Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20040038156
    Abstract: An image forming method using a photothermographic material including, on at least one surface of a support, at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ions, and a binder, in which (1) the photothermographic material is exposed and thermally developed during transportation at a transportation speed of 23 mm/sec or faster, (2) the non-photosensitive organic silver salt contains 30 mol % to 85 mol % of silver behenate and an amount of the time untill a leading end of the photothermographic material reaches a thermal development station after a power source for ae thermal developing apparatus is turned on is 15 minutes or less, or (3) a coating amount of silver inf the photothermographic material is 1.9 g/m2 or less and a thermal development time is 12 sec or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Takayoshi Oyamada, Senzo Sasaoka, Katsutoshi Yamane
  • Publication number: 20040038162
    Abstract: The invention provides a heat developable photosensitive material including a substrate, and at least one constituent layer which contains a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for thermal developing and a binder. The material includes at least one reducing agent that does not form a dye at the time of thermal developing and at least one reducing forming a dye at the time of thermal developing, and the dye-forming reducing agent is more active than the reducing agent that does not form a dye at the time of thermal developing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 6692905
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising a methine dye compound having in a molecule thereof at least one atomic group in which at least two groups selected from the group consisting of groups represented by formulas (I) and (II) are adjacent to each other or adjacent to each other through an atom: X—H  (I) wherein X represents an atom electrically more negative than a carbon atom, Y  (II) wherein Y represents an atom electrically more negative than a carbon atom, and has one or more lone electron pairs; and a silver halide photographic material comprising the silver halide photographic emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Kobayashi, Takanori Hioki
  • Patent number: 6689547
    Abstract: A photothermographic material that comprises a support having thereon one or more thermally-developable imaging layers comprising a binder and in reactive association, a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions, and a reducing composition for the non-photosensitive source reducible silver ions. The thermally-developable layers further comprises one or more radiation absorbing compounds that provide a total absorbance of greater than 0.6 and up to and including 3 in the thermally-developable imaging layer(s). These photothermographic materials exhibit reduced mottle without significant loss in sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Bryan V. Hunt, Steven H. Kong, William D. Ramsden, Gary E. Labelle
  • Publication number: 20040023174
    Abstract: A photothermographic material comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for a silver ion and a binder on one surface of a support, wherein a silver behenate-content of the non-photosensitive organic silver salt is 40 to 70 mol %, and the photothermographic material comprises a compound that can be one-electron-oxidized to provide a one-electron oxidation product, which further releases at least 1 electron, one of during and after a subsequent reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ohzeki, Kohzaburoh Yamada
  • Patent number: 6686142
    Abstract: A chemically and spectrally-sensitized emulsion has been described, wherein said emulsion comprising (100) cubic silver halide grains with an average edge length of from 0.2 up to 1.5 &mgr;m, has been spectrally sensitized by addition at least three trimethine dyes: a main spectral sensitizer added in an amount of at least 85 mole % of all spectral sensitizers added, followed by adding a second spectral sensitizer in an amount of not more than 10 mole % and a third spectral sensitizer in an amount of at most 1 mole % wherein at least said main spectral sensitizer has two benzoxazole rings in its chemical structure, at least said third spectral sensitizer has two benzimidazole rings in its chemical structure and wherein the said second spectral sensitizer has a structure more sterically hindered than the structure of the other spectral sensitizers. A light-sensitive silver halide photographic film material coated with such emulsion and a radiographic screen/film combination has been described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert
    Inventors: Kathy Elst, Paul Callant
  • Publication number: 20040018458
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photothermographic material including a support having disposed on one surface of the support, at least one image forming layer containing a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, a development accelerator and a binder, and at least one protective layer on the identical surface, wherein 50% by mass or more of the binder contained in the image forming layer is a water soluble binder, and the reducing agent is contained in the form of a solid dispersion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventor: Hajime Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20030224307
    Abstract: A photothermographic material including a substrate carrying on one surface thereof an image forming layer containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for a silver ion, and a binder, wherein the photosensitive silver halide has a silver iodide content of 40 to 100 mol %, and an average particle size of 5 to 80 nm, and the photothermographic material contains a compound of the following general formula (1);
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventors: Seiichi Yamamoto, Eiichi Okutsu, Tomoyuki Ohzeki
  • Publication number: 20030215760
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion which contains silver halide grains having light absorption strength of 100 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Yamashita, Katsumi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6649337
    Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material comprises: a support; a photosensitive silver halide; a non-photosensitive organic silver salt; a reducing agent for a silver ion; a binder; and a compound having specified structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Katsumi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6649336
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, including at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide grain contained in the emulsion layer is silver chloroiodide or silver chloroiodobromide having a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more and a silver iodide content of 0.01 to 1.0 mol %, at least one hexacyano complex is doped in an amount of at least 1×10−7 mol % based on the total silver amount, and the emulsion layer contains a methine dye represented by the formula (I) as defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., LTD
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Tetsuo Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20030198906
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the emulsion layer comprises a compound represented by the following formula (1):
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroo Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20030190564
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer, wherein the emulsion layer contains at least one compound of formulae (Ia), (Ib) and (Ic) and at least one compound of formula (II): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Tetsuo Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20030186180
    Abstract: A water-based coating composition is disclosed, comprising a latex comprising a polymer impregnated with an infared absorbing compound and a water-soluble polyester or latex comprising polyer containing an active methylene group. An infrared absorbing film and a photothermographic material by use thereof are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventors: Eiichi Ueda, Chiaki Nagaike
  • Publication number: 20030157447
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive emulsion comprising a silver halide and a compound represented by the following Formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Tatsuo Tanaka, Nobuaki Kagawa, Yoshiko Iwai, Tomohiro Oshiyama
  • Publication number: 20030138738
    Abstract: A photothermographic material that comprises a support having thereon one or more thermally-developable imaging layers comprising a binder and in reactive association, a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions, and a reducing composition for the non-photosensitive source reducible silver ions. The thermally-developable layers further comprises one or more radiation absorbing compounds that provide a total absorbance of greater than 0.6 and up to and including 3 in the thermally-developable imaging layer(s). These photothermographic materials are independently coated and dried while the material is conveyed at a rate of at least meters per minute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Bryan V. Hunt, Steven H. Kong, William D. Ramsden, Gary E. Labelle
  • Publication number: 20030138746
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said emulsion layer contains a compound represented by the following formula (1):
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroo Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20030138739
    Abstract: A photothermographic material comprises: a support; a binder; an organic silver salt; a reducing agent for silver ion; and a photosensitive silver halide grain, wherein said photothermographic material contains a solvent in an amount of from 5 to 1,000 mg/m2 and the intensity of an odor generated from said photothermographic material is from −3 to 1 at 120° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Senzo Sasaoka, Yutaka Tamura