Five Or More Methine Groups Patents (Class 430/584)
  • Patent number: 5093226
    Abstract: A method for forming an image of a silver halide color photograph, which comprises processing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developing solution containing at least one aromatic primary amine color developing agent, comprises: processing a silver halide color photographic material having at least one layer containing a compound represented by formula (S) and a silver halide emulsion comprising at least 80 mol % of silver chloride with a color developing solution containing chlorine ion in an amount of 3.5.times.10.sup.-2 to 1.5.times.10.sup.-1 mol/l and bromine ion in an amount of 3.0.times.10.sup.-5 to 1.0.times.10.sup.-3 mol/l: ##STR1## wherein Z.sub.1 represents a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a selenium atom; Z.sub.2 represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a selenium atom; L.sub.1, L.sub.2, L.sub.3, L.sub.4 and L.sub.5 each represents a methine group which may be optionally substituted or may be combined together with another methine group to form a ring; R.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoto Ohshima
  • Patent number: 5089382
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein in at least one silver halide emulsion layer contains a compound represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Z represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; R.sub.101 and R.sub.102, which may be the same or different, represent each an alkyl group and at least one of R.sub.101 and R.sub.102 is a butyl group, a pentyl group, a hexyl group, a heptyl group or an octyl group; V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3, V.sub.4, V.sub.5, V.sub.6, V.sub.7 and V.sub.8, which may be the same or different, each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an acyl group, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a carboxyl group, a cyano group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an alkylsulfonyl group, a sulfo group or an aryl group; of V.sub.1 to V.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuo Sakai
  • Patent number: 5061618
    Abstract: A photographic element is described comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer where the silver halide is sensitized with a dye having the formula: ##STR1## wherein where Z.sub.1, Z.sub.2, Z.sub.3, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and X are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard L. Parton, Annabel A. Muenter, David A. Stegman
  • Patent number: 5037733
    Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains. These silver halide grains are obtained by subjecting the surface of silver halide grains to halogen conversion. These silver halide grains are essentially silver iodide free silver chlorobromide. They have a plurality of internal layers of different halogen compositions and contain at least one bridged pentamethine cyanine dye compound represented by the general formula (I) or (I'): ##STR1## and one compound represented by general formula (II): ##STR2## The variables in the above formulas are defined in the instant specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kensuke Goda
  • Patent number: 5037734
    Abstract: A photographic element is described which comprises a silver halide emulsion layer and a bridged tricarbocyanine infrared sensitizing dye which element is stabilized by a combination of an organic reducing agent and a surface active agent. A stabilized photographic silver halide emulsion melt is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jerome R. Lenhard, Bonnie R. Hein
  • Patent number: 5015561
    Abstract: A method of forming a direct positive image comprising:(a) imagewise exposing a direct positive silver halide photographic material composed of a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing non-prefogged internal latent image silver halide grains, at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer of the material containing a nucleating agent, and at least one sensitizing dye represented by formulae (I), (Ia), (Ia'), or (Ib): ##STR1## wherein Z and Z.sub.1 each represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary for forming a 5-membered or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring; R and R.sub.1 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or an aryl group; Q and Q.sub.1 represent a non-metallic atomic group necessary for forming together a 4-thiazolidinone group, a 5-thiazolidinone group or a 4-imidazolidinone group; L, L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represents a methine group or a substituted methine group; n.sub.1 and n.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Hayashi, Nobuaki Inoue, Shingo Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 5013642
    Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer spectrally sensitized with(a) a first sensitizing dye according to the formula: ##STR1## Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2 each independently represents the atoms necessary to complete a substituted or unsubstituted 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic nucleus,R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each independently represents substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or substituted or unsubstituted aryl.R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 each independently represents hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, andX represents a counterion, and(b) a second sensitizing dye having a maximum sensitivity at a wavelength of about 5 to 100 nm less than the wavelength of maximum sensitivity of the first sensitizing dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Annabel Muenter, Anthony Adin, Richard L. Parton, Nicholas A. Pightling, David Beaumond
  • Patent number: 4975362
    Abstract: A photographic element is described comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer comprising silver halide sensitized with a dye of the formula: ##STR1## wherein L.sub.1, L.sub.2, L.sub.3, L.sub.4, L.sub.5, L.sub.6, L.sub.7, L.sub.8, and L.sub.9 each independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted methine group,Z.sub.1 represents the atoms necessary to complete a benzothiazole nucleus, a benzoxazole nucleus, a benzoselenazole nucleus, a benzotellurazole nucleus, or a benzimidazole nucleus, which, in addition to being substituted by --SR.sub.3, is further substituted or unsubstituted.Z.sub.2 represents the atoms necessry to complete a substituted or unsubstituted 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring.R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each independently represents substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or substituted or unsubstituted aryl.R.sub.3 represents substituted or unsubstituted alkyl of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms.m is 1 or 2,n is 0 or 1, andX is a counterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard L. Parton, Annabel A. Muenter, David A. Stegman
  • Patent number: 4965182
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Mihara
  • Patent number: 4959294
    Abstract: Infra-red sensitizing dyes for silver halide having a mucleus of the general formula: ##STR1## in which: Q represents Cl or Br,R.sup.3 represents an alkyl or substituted alkyl,n is 0, 1, 2 or 3,X is an anion of molecular weight up to 400 which may be incorporated in one R.sup.3 group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Bernard A. Lea, Ronald W. Burrows, Thomas D. G. Hellings, Charles G. Barlow, Ivan H. Skoog
  • Patent number: 4956257
    Abstract: A negative silver halide photographic material composed of a support having thereon at least one chemically sensitized silver halide emulsion layer at least one hydraophilic colloidal layer containing a hydrazine derivative and a compound having substantially all absorption maxima outside the visible light region represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Z.sup.11 and Z.sup.12 each represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary for completing a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic ring selected from benzoxazole, benzothiazole, benzoselenazole, naphthoxazole, naphthothiazole, naphthoselenazole, thiazole, thiazoline, oxazole, selsnazole, selsnazoline, pyridine, benzimidazole, and quinoline; R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, provided that at least one of them is substituted with an acid radical; X represents a counter ion necessary for charge balance; and n is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuaki Inoue
  • 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: 4945038
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is described, comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprises at least one compound represented by the formula (I) and at least one compound represented by the formula (II): ##STR1## wherein V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3 and V.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an acyl group, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a carboxy group, a cyano group, a hydroxy group, an amino group, an acylamino group, an alkoxy group or an aryl group, or V.sub.1 and V.sub.2, or V.sub.3 and V.sub.4 may be bound to each other to form a benzene ring;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group and may optionally form a salt with a metal atom or other organic compound;X.sup..crclbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhito Momoki, Takanori Hioki, Masaki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 4940657
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic spectral sensitizing dye represented by the following formula (I), (II) or (III): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.5 or R.sub.7 each represents an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or an alkenyl group, R.sub.4 and R.sub.6 each represents an alkyl group, aralkyl group, an alkenyl group or an aryl group, L.sub.1 -L.sub.22 each represents a methine group, Z.sub.1 -Z.sub.4 each represents a group of atoms necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, X.sub.1.sup.- and X.sub.2.sup.- each represents an acid anion and l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t and u each represents an integer of 1 or 2.Silver halide photographic emulsion containing the above sensitizing dye is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1990
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Hidetoshi Miura, Masao Koga
  • Patent number: 4939080
    Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material is described which comprises at least one layer of a silver halide emulsion layer provided on a base, wherein said at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprises at least one novel dye compound represented by general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2 are independently represents a sulfur atom or a selenium atom;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each independently represents an alkyl group, provided that at least one of R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 must represent a butyl group, a pentyl group, a hexyl group, a heptyl group or an octyl group;V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3, V.sub.4, V.sub.5, V.sub.6, V.sub.7 and V.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Naoto Ohshima, Masaki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 4935337
    Abstract: There is provided a silver halide photographic material wherein a hydrophilic colloid layer is dyed with a new water-soluble dye that will not adversely affect the photographic characteristics of the silver halide emulsion layer. The silver halide photographic material exhibits excellent performance in that the dye is photochemically inactive such that not allow the sensitivity to lower, the latent image to fade, or the image to fog, and the decoloring or dissolving of the dye proceed rapidly in a photographic processing step, leaving no detrimental color on the processed photographic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kuwashima, Yoshihiro Jimbo, Keiichi Adachi
  • 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: 4882265
    Abstract: A photographic element useful as a laser medical recording film, for example, is described. This element has near infrared sensitivity and is characterized by having an absorbing layer with an absorbing dye as described herein present as an antihalation backing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Evan D. Laganis, Alden D. West
  • Patent number: 4847191
    Abstract: Photographic elements adapted for high intensity exposures of short dwell time, e.g. laser scanning which comprise a chemically working silver halide emulsion in which the silver halide grains were formed in the presence of one or more complex compounds of rhodium (III) having 3, 4, 5 or 6 cyanide ligands attached to each rhodium ion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Nicholas E. Grzeskowiak
  • Patent number: 4839269
    Abstract: A light-sensitive material comprising a dye containing two or more cyclodextrin groups or derivatives thereof wherein the dye may serve as a spectral sensitizer and optionally, a compound which fluoresces light of a wavelength which can be absorbed by the dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Okazaki, Junichi Yamanouchi
  • Patent number: 4835096
    Abstract: Photothermographic elements of the dry silver type may be sensitized to the infrared with sensitizing dyes of the formula: ##STR1## in which: R.sup.1 represents a lower alkyl group of from 1 to 5 carbon atoms andX.sup.- represents an anion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Bernard A. Lea
  • Patent number: 4830958
    Abstract: A photographic material having an excellent rapid processability, a high sensitivity and a less sensitivity variation due to a change of standing of the silver halide emulsion in the course of preparation of the light-sensitive material, and its preparation process are disclosed. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support bearing at least one silver halide emulsion layer thereon, and at least one silver halide emulsion layer contains highly chloride-containing silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of not less than 90 mol %, a water-soluble bromide of from 0.05 mol % to 2 mol % per mol of silver halide and a high boiling organic solvent having a dielectric constant of not higher than 6.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Okumura, Keiji Ohbayashi, Shigeo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4828962
    Abstract: Photographic elements comprising a negative working silver halide emulsion containing high intensity reciprocity failure reducing amounts of dopant comprising both ruthenium and iridium ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Nicholas E. Grzeskowiak, Keith A. Penfound
  • Patent number: 4814264
    Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprising silver halide grains and a binder, at least about 50 wt % of said silver halide grains comprising a silver halide grain matrix having thereon from about 10 to 10,000 protrusions per square micrometer of grain matrix surface, said individual protrusions having an average projected area diameter of up to about 0.15 .mu.m, and a halogen composition of said protrusions differing from that of the grain matrix; said silver halide emulsion being chemically sensitized with at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a sulfur compound, a selenium compound, a reducing compound and a noble metal compound; and said silver halide emulsion being spectrally sensitized with a methine dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Kishida, Minoru Sato
  • Patent number: 4800154
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising at least one spectral sensitizing dye having the following general formula (I):Dye--J.sup.1 --CONH--J.sup.2 --NHNHG--R (I)wherein Dye represents a dye residue capable of becoming a spectral sensitizing dye; J.sup.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkylene group, or a substituted or unsubstituted alkarylene group; J.sup.2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group; R represents hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group; and G represents a carbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfoxy group, a phosphoryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted iminomethylene group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Okazaki, Haruo Takei
  • Patent number: 4791053
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one emulsion layer which contains a silver chlorobromide or silver chloride each having an iodide content of 3 mol % or less. The monodispersed emulsion is prepared in a process comprising the steps of, in sequence, forming silver halide grains which have a grain size distribution represented by a variation coefficient of 0.2 or less, causing halogen replacement in silver halide grains by addition of a water-soluble bromide in a proportion of from 0.6 to 20 mol % with respect to the total silver halide in the presence of at least one sensitizing dye selected from among simple cyanine dyes, carbocyanine dyes, and dicarbocyanine dyes at individual surfaces of the silver halide grains, and then subjecting the resulting silver halide grains to chemical sensitization, thereby achieving enhanced sensitivity and improved pressure characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Ogawa
  • 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: 4769316
    Abstract: A restraining method for restraining the formation of a re-reversal negative image is described, comprising incorporating a cyanine dye or a merocyanine dye which is electron donative and is adsorbable on silver halide in at least one hydrophilic colloid layer of an internal latent image type direct positive silver halide photographic material as a re-reversal restrainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Miyasaki, Shigeo Hirano, Kiyoshi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 4724201
    Abstract: A photoresponsive material containing a dye compound having a cyclodextrin or its derivative as a substituent. The photoresponsive material exhibits increased light absorptivity by increasing the amount of spectral sensitizer, the dye compound. The photoresponsive material is useful as a photographic emulsion and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Okazaki, Akihiko Ikegawa, Haruo Takei
  • Patent number: 4717650
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion having a high spectral-sensitivity in a red-color wavelength range, especially within a wavelength range of from 600 nm to 690 nm, is disclosed, which contains one or more sensitizing dyes represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 each represents an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, or an alkenyl group;V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3, and V.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an acyl group, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a carboxyl group, an alkoxysulfonyl group, a cyano group, or a trifluoromethyl group;Q represents an alkyl group or an aralkyl group;X.sup..crclbar. represents an anion; andm is 1 or 2, provided that when the dye forms an internal salt, m is 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Ikeda, Haruo Takei, Masaki Okazaki, Keizo Kimura
  • Patent number: 4713316
    Abstract: A heat-developable photographic material having improved preservability, which comprises a support having thereon at least one heat-developable photographic layer, said photographic material containing a dye represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein n and m each represents 0, 1, 2 or 3;p and q each represents 0 or 1;L represents a methine group or a substituted methine group;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are same or different and each represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group;R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a hydroxyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted amino group or a halogen atom; or said R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 form a condensed 6-membered ring;Z and Z' are same or different and each represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary for forming a substituted or unsubstituted 5-membered or 6-membered ring, or substituted or unsubstituted 5-membered or 6-membered ring which is condensed with another ring;X.sup..crclbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiiti Kubodera, Toshinao Ukai, Hisashi Okada
  • Patent number: 4690883
    Abstract: A process for forming an image is provided, comprising imagewise exposing a photosensitive material comprising on a support a photosensitive silver halide, a sensitizing dye having general formula (I) and/or (II), and a compound which forms or releases a mobile dye in proportion or counter-proportion to the reduction of the photosensitive silver halide into silver by heating, and transferring the resulting mobile dye to a dye-fixing element in the presence of a hydrophilic solvent,wherein formulas (I) and (II) are: ##STR1## wherein Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 represent a group of non-metallic atoms necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; L.sup.1, L.sup.2, and L.sup.3 represent a substituted or unsubstituted methine group; p and q are equal to 0 or 1; m is equal to 0, 1, 2, or 3; X1.sup..crclbar. represents an anion; k is equal to 0 or 1, with the proviso that the number of organic acid groups contained in the molecule except X1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiiti Kubodera, Masaki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 4677053
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide photographic emulsion containing at least one infrared sensitizing dye represented by following general formula (I) ##STR1## and at least one compound represented by following general formula (II) ##STR2## wherein R, R.sub.1 R.sub.2, V, Z, X, m, n, p, A, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and W are defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: Yuji Mihara
    Inventors: Yuji Mihara, Toshinao Ukai
  • Patent number: 4670377
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support bearing thereon a photographic layer comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer; wherein at least one of the photographic layers is hardened by a vinylsulfone hardener, and at least one layer selected from the group consisting of the photographic layers each hardened by the vinylsulfone hardener and the other photographic layers is hardened by a triazo compound, and further at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers contains silver halide particles which are spectrally sensitized by one of certain sensitizing dyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Miyoshi, Shun Takada, Kaoru Onodera
  • Patent number: 4656121
    Abstract: This invention relates to an optical information recording medium having an organic thin film recording layer, and optionally having an underlayer and/or protective layer, characterized in that at least one of said recording layer, underlayer and protective layer contains a compound expressed by the general formula (1), ##STR1## wherein R represents hydrogen or a lower alkyl group; X represents acid anion; m represents 0, 1 or 2; and A represents ##STR2## (n being 1 or 2) or ##STR3## (when m is 2); all the aromatic rings optionally having a substituent selected from the group of a lower alkyl group, lower alkoxy group, halogen and hydroxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Sato, Masaakira Umehara, Michiharu Abe, Hideaki Oba, Yutaka Ueda
  • Patent number: 4618570
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having at least one layer of silver halide emulsion layers containing a silver halide having a silver chloride content of not less than 25 molar %, characterized in that at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers contains a silver halide sensitized with a compound having the following formula (Ia), and/or a compound having the following formula (Ib) and is hardened with a compound having the following formula (II) and/or a compound having the formula (III); ##STR1## in the above formulae (Ia), (Ib), (II) and (III), R.sub.1 to R.sub.20, Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2, n.sub.1 and n.sub.2, Q and Q', L, p and q are defined in the specification.The photographic material of the invention not only shows a higher sensitivity, a lower infrared sensor fogging, a superior sharpness or color reproductivity and a superior whiteness but also exerts a good storage property with time or a lower change in sensitivity after storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1986
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kadowaki, Kaoru Onodera
  • Patent number: 4603104
    Abstract: Combinations of supersensitizers for photographic emulsions have been found which provide increased speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1986
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: James B. Philip, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4596767
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material spectrally sensitized in an infrared region is described. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material has at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer containing at least one infrared-sensitizing dye represented by the following general Formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R, D, Z, Z.sub.1, X, and n are as described in the specification; and at least one compound represented by the following general Formula (II): ##STR2## wherein Z.sub.2, R.sub.6, R.sub.7 and X.sub.1 are described in the specification.The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material has improved sensitivity in an infrared spectral region and improved preservability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Mihara, Toshinao Ukai, Shoji Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 4576905
    Abstract: Compounds containing an aromatic ring portion fused with a tellurazolium or derivative tellurazole, tellurazoline (including tellurazolinylidene), or tellurazolinium ring portion are disclosed together with processes and intermediates for their preparation. With properly selected pendant groups these tellurazolium and derivative compounds can be usefully employed as dyes, antifoggants or stabilizers, nucleating agents, latent image keeping addenda, or speed or contrast altering addenda in silver halide photographic systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wolfgang H. H. Gunther, Ronald E. Leone, Rosemary Przyklek
  • 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: 4524128
    Abstract: Photographic silver halide is spectrally sensitized by means of at least one bleachable spectral sensitizing dye comprising a cyanine dye nucleus and a particular N-methylene substituent. The spectrally sensitized photographic silver halide is useful in a photothermographic material. An image in the photothermographic material, after exposure, is developed and the spectral sensitizing dye is bleached, especially at elevated pH, by heating the photothermographic material to processing temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Larry D. Edwards, Frederick J. Sauter, George J. Burgmaier
  • Patent number: 4515888
    Abstract: Cyanine dyes including two nitrogen containing heterocyclic nuclei, linked to each other through a rigidized conjugated 7, 9 or 11 carbon atom methine chain to form an amidinium-ion resonance system, are very good for sensitizing silver halide emulsions for use in photographic elements to be exposed to infrared radiation if one of said heterocyclic nuclei is 5-methyl-6-methoxy-benzothiazole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1985
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Paolo Beretta, Jonathan P. Kitchin
  • Patent number: 4283488
    Abstract: Photo-sensitive silver halide compositions and elements are spectrally sensitized with new mathine dyes having a trialkylsilylalkyl group attached to a nitrogen atom in a heterocyclic nucleus of the dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1981
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Earl J. VanLare
  • Patent number: 4263397
    Abstract: A photographic product comprising, in a package, a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having a silver halide emulsion layer coated on a support, characterized in that said silver halide emulsion layer contains a sensitizing or desensitizing dye and that the oxygen permeability of the package is below 5.times.10.sup.2 cc/m.sup.2. 24 hrs. atm. under a condition at 20.degree. C. and 0% of relative humidity and further that the sealed package is under a condition that a partial pressure of an oxygen-gas in the package is not more than 1/6 atmospheres at an initial stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1981
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Horikoshi, Zene Kumagai
  • Patent number: 4210715
    Abstract: Light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials to be treated with a hydroquinones-containing developing solution which material comprises a support and at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer coated thereon which contains silver halide grains having an average grain size of 0.05 to 1.5.mu., a tetrazolium compound and a sensitizing dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1980
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuto Fujiwhara, Syunji Matsuo, Toyoaki Masukawa, Yutaka Kaneko, Mikio Kawasaki