Mercaptan, Thioether, Thione, Disulfide Or Organic Bisulfite Patents (Class 430/611)
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Patent number: 5550012Abstract: A silver halide emulsion contains silver halide grains in a dispersion medium. Tabular silver halide grains having a thickness of less than 0.5 .mu.m, a diameter of 0.3 .mu.m or more, an aspect ratio of 2 or more, and 10 or more dislocations per grain account for 50% or more of a projected area of all the silver halide grains. The grains are formed in the presence of at least one compound which can oxidize silver atoms.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1994Date of Patent: August 27, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoichi Suga
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Patent number: 5543282Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic photosensitive material wherein a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion which is comprised of tabular grains. The grains have an aspect ratio at least 2 account for at least 50% of the total number of silver halide grains. The emulsion layer or the layer adjacent thereto also contains a cyan coupler represented by formula (Ia): ##STR1## wherein the variables in the formula are defined in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1995Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Yasuhiro Shimada
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Patent number: 5543278Abstract: An infrared sensitive silver halide photographic element is disclosed comprising a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer spectrally sensitized to the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. In particular, an infrared sensitive color photographic element, capable of providing full color images without exposure to corresponding visible radiation, is disclosed, said element comprising at least three silver halide emulsion layers on a substrate, each associated with different photographic color image forming materials, such as color couplers capable of forming dyes of different colors upon reaction with an oxidized color photographic developer, diffusing dyes, bleachable dyes, or oxidized leuco dyes. The three emulsion layers are sensitized to three different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum with at least two layers sensitized to different regions of the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1991Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Marco Bucci, Ivano Delprato, Giorgio Spazzapan
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Patent number: 5543281Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising at least one layer comprising a transition metallic salt of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein Q represents the atoms necessary to complete a five- or six-membered heterocyclic nucleus, and M is a transition metal cation and coupler, wherein said element further comprises silver chloride grains that comprise less than 2 mole percent iodide.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1995Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Walter H. Isaac, Eric W. Wollman
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Patent number: 5541034Abstract: Heat-developable silver-based photosensitive imaging element comprising a heat-reducible organic silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide, a developing agent, and a releasing compound that upon reaction with either the reduced or the oxidized form of the developing agent is capable of releasing a hydrophobizing agent. The invention also relates to a method for producing a lithographic printing plate comprising image-wise exposing an imaging element, bringing the exposed element in face-to-face contact with an oleophobic surface of a printing plate precursor, heating the imaging element while in contact or before being brought in contact with the oleophobic surface to cause reduction of the organic silver salt and to cause the release of the hydrophobizing agent from the releasing compound, allowing the hydrophobizing agent to diffuse to the oleophobic surface to render the surface image-wise oleophilic, and separating the resulting lithographic printing plate from the imaging element.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1994Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Luc Leenders, Rudy Van Cleuvenbergen, Rudi De Busser, Marcel Monbaliu
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Patent number: 5541055Abstract: A heat developing photosensitive material of the present invention has, on a substrate, a photosensitive layer containing at least an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide forming agent, a cyanine dye and a cyclic carbonyl compound.In an image forming method of the present invention, an image is exposed on the heat developing photosensitive material and then the exposed photosensitive material is heated.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1994Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takehiko Ooi, Tetsuro Fukui, Motokazu Kobayashi, Kazunori Ueno
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Patent number: 5541054Abstract: The present invention provides heat-developable, photothermographic elements comprising a support bearing at least one photosensitive, image-forming layer comprising:(a) a photosensitive silver halide;(b) a non-photosensitive, reducible silver source;(c) a reducing agent for silver ions;(d) a binder; and(e) a spectrally sensitizing amount of a compound having the central nucleus: ##STR1## wherein: Z is S, O, Se or N--R.sup.3 ;R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent an alkyl group of from 1 to 20 carbon atoms other than carboxy-substituted alkyl, preferably an alkyl group of from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and most preferably an ethyl group; andR.sup.3 is H or alkyl group;X and Y are thioalkyl groups of from 1 to 20 carbon atoms;n=0 to 4;m=0 to 4; the sum of n plus m equals at least 1;D.sup.1 to D.sup.7 each independently represents a methine group and adjacent methine groups selected from D.sup.2, D.sup.3, D.sup.4, D.sup.5 and D.sup.6 may form cyclic groups;p=0 or 1; andA.sup.- is an anion.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1995Date of Patent: July 30, 1996Assignee: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing CompanyInventors: James R. Miller, Brian C. Willett, Doreen C. Lynch, Becky J. Kummeth
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Patent number: 5536633Abstract: A silver halide photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion which is greater than 50 mole % silver chloride, said emulsion being in reactive association with a sulfur donating compound, and a sulfinate compound represented by Formula (I)Z--SO.sub.2 M.sup.1 (I)wherein Z is a non-metallic aryl, alkyl or heterocyclic group, and M is a cationic counter ion;and wherein the sulfur donor is not a thiosulfonate or a diamino disulfide; and a method of making the emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1995Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Roger Lok
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Patent number: 5534390Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one layer containing at least one compound represented by formula (A) ##STR1## wherein the definition of R.sub.a1, R.sub.a2, R.sub.a3, Z, Y, m and n is described in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: July 9, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Masakazu Morigaki
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Patent number: 5532120Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprises a silver halide emulsion layer provided on a support. The silver halide emulsion layer contains a selenium compound represented by the formula (I), (IIa) or (IIb): ##STR1## in which each of R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 is hydrogen, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, --OR.sup.13 or --NR.sup.14 R.sup.15 ; each of R.sup.21 and R.sup.31 is an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, --OR.sup.23 or --NR.sup.24 R.sup.25 ; each of R.sup.22 and R.sup.32 is an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; each of R.sup.13, R.sup.14, R.sup.15, R.sup.23, R.sup.24 and R.sup.25 is hydrogen, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; and Ch is S, Se or Te.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1995Date of Patent: July 2, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Morio Yagihara, Hirotomo Sasaki, Hiroyuki Mifune, Shinji Kato
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Patent number: 5518874Abstract: A method for manufacturing a silver halide emulsion comprising core/shell type silver iodobromide grains, said emulsion having an average iodide content of 3 mol % or more, each of the grains having two or more phases different in silver iodide content from each other which comprises an inner phase having silver iodide content of 10 mol % or more and an outermost phase having a silver iodide content lower than the iodide content of the inner phase, wherein a compound represented by the following formula [I] is present at least in a process prior to a desalting process:formula [I] ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group of atoms necessary to form a five- or six-membered heterocycle, which may be a condensed ring; and M represents an alkali metal atom or ammonium group.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1991Date of Patent: May 21, 1996Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Yoshiro Ito, Hirofumi Ohtani, Syoji Matsuzaka
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Patent number: 5514527Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having coated thereon at least one blue-sensitive layer containing a yellow coupler, at least one green-sensitive layer containing a magenta coupler and at least one red-sensitive layer containing a cyan coupler, wherein on each of the characteristic curves of yellow, magenta and cyan of the silver halide photographic material, 1) the maximum density is not less than 3.0 and the density obtained by subtracting the density of the support from the minimum density is not more than 0.1, 2) the average value of point gamma at various points in the exposure region corresponding to a density value of from not less than 0.5 to less than 1.5 is from not less than 0.85 to not more than 1.15 and the fluctuation width thereof is within .+-.15% of the average value of point gamma in the exposure region, and 3) the average value of point gamma at various points in the exposure region corresponding to a density value of from not less than 1.5 to that 0.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1994Date of Patent: May 7, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuji Abe, Shinsuke Bando
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Patent number: 5508152Abstract: A processing method is disclosed, comprising development-processing a photographic material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer or a constituent layer adjacent to the emulsion layer which contains (i) a silver halide composition comprising at least one of silver bromochloride, silver chloroiodide, or silver bromochloroiodide each having a silver chloride content of 90 mole % or more, or silver chloride, and (ii) a compound represented by the following Formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an ammonium group or an alkali metal atom; and R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group, with a developing solution containing (1) a dihydroxybenzene compound, and (2) an ascorbic acid or a derivative thereof in an amount of at least 5 mole % based on the amount of the dihydroxybenzene compound.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1995Date of Patent: April 16, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Harumi Toyoda, deceased, Eiichi Okutsu, Tadashi Ito, Kiyoshi Morimoto
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Patent number: 5500330Abstract: A photographic element comprises at least three light sensitive silver halide layers spectrally sensitized to the same region of the electromagnetic spectrum wherein the least sensitive such layer, or a nonsensitive layer adjacent thereto, comprises a compound which contains a releasable thiol fragment or a precursor thereof wherein:A. the amount of the thiol-containing compound or precursor contained in such layers is both sufficient to increase the extent of silver bleaching during bleaching and is greater than the amount contained in any of the more sensitive layers of the same sensitivity; andB. the thiol fragment contains a sulfur atom which is not directly bonded to an aromatic atom and contains a water-solubilizing group.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1994Date of Patent: March 19, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Richard P. Szajewski, Allan F. Sowinski
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Patent number: 5500338Abstract: The invention provides a black and white photographic element comprising a support having situated thereon at least one silver halide emulsion, the element containing a release compound that provides a non-imagewise distribution of a photographically active moiety, wherein the release compound has the structure ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is an electron withdrawing moiety;m is 0, 1, 2 or 3;R.sup.2 is a group containing an aqueous solubilizing group;q is 1 or 2;TIME is a timing group;n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; andPAM is a photographically active moiety.Also provided is a method of preparing a photographic emulsion comprising precipitating silver halide grains in a colloidal medium, washing the grains, sensitizing the grains by adding dyes, chemical sensitizers and heating, and adding to the emulsion a methanolic solution comprising a release compound as described above.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1995Date of Patent: March 19, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Donald L. Kerr, Jerome J. Looker
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Patent number: 5484690Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon one or more hydrophilic colloid layers, at least one of the hydrophilic colloid layers being a silver halide emulsion layer comprising silver halide grains with a silver chloride content of at least 90 mol %, wherein at least one hydrophilic colloid layer contains at least one compound selected from the compounds represented by formulae (I), (II) and (III); and at least one compound selected from the compounds represented by formulae (A), (B) and (C): ##STR1## wherein the substituents are as defined in the claims. The silver halide photographic material can be handled in an environment which can essentially be referred to as bright room.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1994Date of Patent: January 16, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takahiro Goto
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Patent number: 5482827Abstract: Light-sensitive silver halide photographic elements comprising a support bearing at least one gelatin-containing silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion is chemically sensitized with sulfur and gold in the presence of a sulfinic acid compound and the gelatin is hardened with a carbamoylpyridinium salt compound.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 1995Date of Patent: January 9, 1996Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Mauro Besio, Giuseppe Rocca
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Patent number: 5482815Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic photosensitive material comprising a support and, provided thereon, at least one hydrophilic colloid layer including a photosensitive layer wherein the photosensitive layer comprises monodispersed silver halide grains having an average grain size of 0.2 micron or less and comprising at least 90 mol % of silver chloride, the photosensitive layer or a hydrophilic colloid layer provided on the same side of the support as the side on which the photosensitive layer is provided contains a hydrazine derivative, a hydrophilic colloid layer provided above the photosensitive layer contains a water-dispersible fine particle polymer, the photosensitive layer contains substantially no water-dispersible fine particle polymer, and amount of the water-dispersible fine particle polymer contained in the hydrophilic colloid layer is 1 g/m.sup.2 or less and is 5% by weight or more based on the weight of gelatin contained in the hydrophilic colloid layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1994Date of Patent: January 9, 1996Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills LimitedInventors: Kunihiro Nakagawa, Shoji Akaiwa, Seiichi Sumi, Kenichi Nishi
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Patent number: 5478711Abstract: A photographic element comprising a support having located thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, the emulsion layer containing a development accelerator and a release compound that provides a non-imagewise distribution of a development inhibitor moiety. The release compound is characterized in that it comprises a blocking group from which the development inhibitor moiety is released.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1994Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Keath T. Chen, John V. Nelson, David A. Dickinson, Thomas R. Welter
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Patent number: 5478721Abstract: A color negative or reversal photographic element comprising a support having situated thereon a non-tabular silver halide emulsion layer, said emulsion layer being predominantly silver chloride and containing a compound of the formula: ##STR1## where R represents an aliphatic, carbocyclic, or heterocyclic group; X represents oxygen, sulfur, selenium, or unsubstituted or alkyl or aryl substituted nitrogen; and Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 independently represent hydrogen, an acyl, aliphatic, carbocyclic, or heterocyclic group.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1995Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Roger Lok
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Patent number: 5478707Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic light-sensitive which is capable of providing a rapid processing as well as a high sensitivity and in which a change in an aging time in exposing through processing provides less performance fluctuation and therefore an excellent stability.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1994Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 5468602Abstract: A method for producing silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of (1) forming silver halide crystal nuclei, (2) growing the nuclei to form a silver halide emulsion, (3) chemically sensitizing the silver halide emulsion with a selenium compound, and (4) coating and drying the silver halide emulsion on a support, and a compound represented by formula I is added to the silver halide emulsion during the time between the moment of completion of the nuclei forming step and the moment of completion of the chemically sensitizing step. ##STR1## In the formula R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, a straight or branched alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aralkyl group, an alkoxyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, a carbamoyl group, a thiocarbamoyl group or a sulfamoyl group; R.sub.2 and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1994Date of Patent: November 21, 1995Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Shigeaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 5464737Abstract: Post-processing stabilizers for photothermographic, silver imaging media are disclosed. The stabilizers are represented by the following general formulae: ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 are independently H, halogen, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a thioalkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a perhalogenated alkyl group, or taken together form a cycloaliphatic group.Compounds of formula (I) may be used as stabilizer precursors in photothermographic silver imaging media to provide post-processing stability without significantly adversely affecting desired properties of the photothermographic material.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1994Date of Patent: November 7, 1995Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Kumars Sakizadeh, John T. Blair, David T. Ask
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Patent number: 5460932Abstract: A photographic element comprising a support having located thereon a first layer which does not contain colloidal silver and a second layer, the first layer containing a release compound that comprises a development inhibitor moiety and a blocking group from which the development inhibitor moiety is non-imagewise released, and the second layer containing a development accelerator.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1994Date of Patent: October 24, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Keath T. Chen, John V. Nelson, David A. Dickinson, Thomas R. Welter
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Patent number: 5459028Abstract: Heat-developable photographic recording materials comprising (a) at least one binder layer coated on a support, the binder layer containing at least one light-sensitive silver halide and a light-insensitive silver salt of a fatty acid; and in the binder layer or in another layer in reactive relationship to the binder layer (b) at least one reducing agent and (c) a stabilizer selected from the group of hexamethylene tetramine and salts thereof, triazaadamantane and salts thereof, and compounds that can be derived from hexamethylene tetramine by exchanging one or more --CH.sub.2 -- groups with --S--, --SO--, or --SO.sub.2 -- provide excellent stability during storage and can be manufactured easily and inexpensively and which presents minimal environmental or health risks.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1994Date of Patent: October 17, 1995Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Walter Ball
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Patent number: 5457009Abstract: A method of processing a photographic material having, in the backing layer, at least one mercapto pyrimidine compound of formula (I), with an automatic developing machine, where the amount of the replenisher of the developer per unit area of the material being processed is reduced. The processed materials have stable photographic properties and few silver stains. The mercapto pyrimidine has the following structure ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, a hydroxyl group, a mercapto group, a carboxyl group, a sulfo group, a phosphono group, a nitro group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group or an alkoxy group. The sum of the carbon atoms contained in R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is from 2 to 20. R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be bonded to each other to form a ring structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1994Date of Patent: October 10, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Toyoda, deceased, Eiichi Okutsu, Kouta Fukui
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Patent number: 5457019Abstract: A silver halid photographic emulsion contains an antioxidizing agent.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1994Date of Patent: October 10, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Nozawa, Mitsuhiro Uchida
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Patent number: 5449596Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material which is rapidly processable, high sensitive and small in variations in sensitivity between production lots of the photograhic material. The silver halide photographic material comprises a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye forming coupler, a silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye forming coupler, and a silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye forming coupler on a reflective support, wherein at least one layer of said silver halide emulsion layers comprises silver halide emulsion grains and compounds represented by the following general formulas (I) and (II), said emulsion grains being tabular silver halide emulsion grains having (100) planes as main planes and a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more, and further the mean bromide ion content on surfaces of said emulsion grains is twice or more that of the whole emulsion grains: ##STR1## wherein the substituents are as defined herein the specification.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1994Date of Patent: September 12, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kawai, Mitsuo Saitou
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Patent number: 5443947Abstract: A compound represented by Formula IMO.sub.2 S--Z--SO.sub.2 SM.sup.1 (I)wherein Z is a non-metallic arylene, alkylene or heterocyclic group, and M and M.sup.1 are independently cationic counter ions and the use of said compound in a silver halide photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion which is greater than 50 mole % silver chloride.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1993Date of Patent: August 22, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Roger Lok
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Patent number: 5441866Abstract: Photothermographic elements of the photothermographic type may be sensitized to the infrared with sensitizing dyes of the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 represents a (CH.sub.2).sub.n --COO.sup.- group of from 1-20 carbon atoms, or an alkyl group of from 1 to 20 carbon atoms; andn is an integer from 1 to 20.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1995Date of Patent: August 15, 1995Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: James R. Miller, Sam Kalousdian, Brian C. Willett, John M. Winslow, Pu Zhou, Chaofeng Zou
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Patent number: 5436116Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a mainly yellow image forming layer, a mainly magenta image forming layer and a mainly cyan image forming layer; wherein, when an exposure is conducted within 1/10 to 10 times of an exposure amount giving minimum density of +0.2 on the first layer selected from said three layers after developing in the main spectra sensitivity region of the first layer, the second layer selected from said three layers is given lower density with said 1/10 to 10 times of exposure than a density without said 1/10 to 10 times of exposure; and reflection densities in 450 nm, 550 nm and 700 nm is not less than 0.8 respectively, before the developing.The silver halide color photographic light sensitive material is capable of providing a color proof improved in the approximation degrees of an image quality to a printed printer.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 1993Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Keiichi Hoshino, Susumu Ohkawachi, Yasuo Tosaka, Yoshiyuki Nonaka
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Patent number: 5436117Abstract: Disclosed is a positive type silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a mainly yellow image forming layer, a mainly magenta image forming layer and a mainly cyan image forming layer; wherein, when an exposure is conducted with 1/10 to 10 times an exposure amount giving minimum density of +0.2 on a first layer selected from said three layer after developing in the main spectra sensitivity region of the first layer, a second layer selected from said three layers is given lower density with said exposure than a density without said exposure; and after a photographic process comprising a color developing step, the mainly yellow, mainly magenta and mainly cyan image forming layers have the monochromatic yellow, magenta and cyan tones in toe portions thereof each of not less than 1.7. The silver halide color photographic light sensitive material is capable of providing a color proof improved in the approximation degrees of an image quality to a printed matter.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1994Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Keiichi Hoshino, Susumu Ohkawauchi, Yasuo Tosaka, Yoshiyuki Nonaka
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Patent number: 5432052Abstract: In a silver halide color photographic photo-sensitive material comprising a reflective support having thereon photographic structural layers comprising one or more photo-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, pH of a coating of the silver halide color photographic photo-sensitive material ranges from 4.0 to 6.5. The photo-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains a mercapto heterocyclic compound and silver halide grains, each comprising silver chlorobromide or silver chloride and containing substantially no silver iodide. The silver halide grains are formed in the presence of a specific grain growth controlling agent. The silver halide grain contains a metal complex of Ir.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1994Date of Patent: July 11, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Naoto Ohshima
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Patent number: 5432051Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed having on a support at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprising a chemically sensitized tabular silver halide emulsion containing tabular silver halide grains having an average diameter of 0.6 .mu.m or less and an average aspect ratio of from 2.0 to 5.0. The tabular silver halide emulsion is chemically sensitized in the presence of at least one spectral sensitizing dye, to provide a high sensitivity/granularity ratio, improved sharpness and stress resistance, and high production stability.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1994Date of Patent: July 11, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuo Kashi
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Patent number: 5429916Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprises a reflective support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer. The reflective support comprises a base paper and two or more water-proof resin layers laminated on one surface of the base paper at the side to be coated with the photosensitive emulsion. The water-proof resin layers have different contents of a white pigment. The base paper has pH of from 5 to 9. The silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of 95% by moles or higher and being sensitized with selenium, tellurium, or gold.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1994Date of Patent: July 4, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Naoto Ohshima
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Patent number: 5429919Abstract: A silver halide photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion in reactive association with a compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are each independently an aryl, alkyl or arylalkyl group; and wherein Z represents the atoms necessary to form a 5 or 6 membered heterocyclic ring and contains at least one atom selected from N, O, S, and Se; and methods of making same.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1993Date of Patent: July 4, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Steven G. Link, Kenneth J. Lushington, Roger Lok
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Patent number: 5424178Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support and a backing layer on the surface of the support opposite to the emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide emulsion layer comprises tabular grains having an aspect ratio of not less than 3 in a proportion of not less than 50% as calculated in the terms of projected area of the silver halide grains contained in the emulsion layer and the surface on the backing layer side has a Beck smoothness of not more than 150 seconds.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1994Date of Patent: June 13, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirohiko Tsuzuki
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Patent number: 5418127Abstract: A disulfide compound represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein X is independently --O--, --NH-- or --NR--, where R is a substituent;m and r are independently 0, 1 or 2;M is --H or a cationic species;Ar is an aromatic group; andL is a linking group, where p is 0 or 1.A silver halide emulsion comprising said disulfide compounds and a photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion in reactive association with said disulfide compounds and a method of making same.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1994Date of Patent: May 23, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Jerzy A. Budz, George J. Burgmaier, Roger L. Klaus, Xin Wen
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Patent number: 5415992Abstract: A silver halide photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion which is greater than 50 mole % silver chloride, said emulsion being in reactive association with a sulfur donating compound and a phosphine compound represented by Formulae I and II, and polymers having a repeating unit derived from the compounds of Formula I,Formula (I) R.sup.18 R.sup.19 R.sup.20 PFormula (II) R.sup.21 R.sup.22 P--A--PR.sup.23 R.sup.24wherein R.sup.18, R.sup.19, R.sup.20, R.sup.21, R.sup.22, R.sup.23, and R.sup.24 are independently alkyl, or aryl groups, or R.sup.18, R.sup.19, R.sup.20, R.sup.21, R.sup.22, R.sup.23, and R.sup.24 may combine to form a 5 or 6-membered ring , and wherein A is a divalent carbon linking group, and a method of making the silver chloride emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1993Date of Patent: May 16, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Roger Lok
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Patent number: 5415986Abstract: A silver halide photographic light sensitive material comprising a support bearing thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer and a backing layer on the back side of the support, wherein; the backing layer contains a compound represented by Formulas [1] or [2]; at least one of the hydrophilic colloidal layers including the silver halide emulsion layer contains a polymer latex stabilized with gelatin; and the outermost layer on the side of the layers including the silver halide emulsion layer or the outermost layer on the opposite side of the layers thereof contain a fluorine-containing anionic or cationic surfactant(s).Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1993Date of Patent: May 16, 1995Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Akio Fujita, Takeo Arai
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Patent number: 5415973Abstract: A super-high contrast silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the emulsion layer or at least one other hydrophilic colloid layer contains at least one hydrazine derivative, at least one redox compound capable of releasing a development inhibitor by oxidation and at least one compound represented by formula (I):Q--SM (I)wherein Q represents a heterocyclic group containing at least one hydrophilic group bonded thereto directly or indirectly; and M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, a quaternary ammonium group or a quaternary phosphonium group. The material is suitable for photomechanical processes, giving sharp and super-high contrast line images and dot images with little black pepper therein. Enlargement or reduction of images is easy with the material.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1993Date of Patent: May 16, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nobuaki Inoue
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Patent number: 5411855Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic element comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer. The emulsion layer contains an organic compound having a thiosulfonic acid substituent, an organic compound having a sulfinic acid substituent, and an amine borane.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1993Date of Patent: May 2, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Gladys L. MacIntyre, Roger Lok
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Patent number: 5409809Abstract: An improved stabilizer is provided with decreased fog and minimal loss of photographic speed. The stabilizers are represented byA-(Y).sub.n -Bwherein;n is 0 or 1;Y is --S--, --CH.sub.2 S--, or 2,6 disubstituted pyridine with the proviso that when Y is --CH.sub.2 S-- the substituent A is attached to the sulfur;when Y is --S-- or --CH.sub.2 S-- A is pyrimidine, tetrazole, benzoxazole, benzimidazole, benzothiazole, benzoselenazole, naphthoxazole, or ##STR1## B and E separately are phenyl substituted with at least one electron accepting group or pyridine substituted with at least one electron accepting group with the proviso that when Y is --S--CH.sub.2 -- A is not tetrazole when B is phenyl;when Y is 2,6 disubstituted pyridine A represents hydrogen, benzoxazole, benzimidazole, benzothiazole, benzselenazole, naphthoxazole;B represents benzoxazole, benzimidazole, benzothiazole, benzselenazole, naphthoxazole and with the provisio that when Y is S, A-(Y).sub.n -B is limited to specific components.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1994Date of Patent: April 25, 1995Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Dietrich M. Fabricius, Allan R. Schoenberg
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Patent number: 5407789Abstract: A photographic recording material on a transparent support having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and optionally conventional interlayers and protective layers, characterized in that the photographic recording material contains, in at least one of the above-mentioned layers, a compound corresponding to formula I, II or III ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 denotes an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group or an unsubstituted or substituted heterocyclic group,R2 denotes hydrogen, an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group or an unsubstituted or substituted alkylthio group,R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1994Date of Patent: April 18, 1995Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AGInventors: Heinrich Odenwalder, Hans hlschlager, Thomas Stetzer
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Patent number: 5399479Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic element comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer. The emulsion layer contains an organic compound having a thiosulfonic acid substituent, an organic compound having a sulfinic acid substituent, and an alkynylamine.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1993Date of Patent: March 21, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Roger Lok
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Patent number: 5393655Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprises a silver halide emulsion layer provided on a support. The silver halide emulsion layer contains a heterocyclic selenium or tellurium compound represented by the formula (Ia), (Ib), (Ic) or (Id): ##STR1## in which each of Ch.sup.1, Ch.sup.3, Ch.sup.6 and Ch.sup.12 is Se or Te; and each of Ch.sup.2, Ch.sup.4, Ch.sup.5, Ch.sup.7, Ch.sup.8, Ch.sup.9, Ch.sup.10, Ch.sup.11, Ch.sup.13, Ch.sup.14 and Ch.sup.15 is O, S, Se or Te. Other selenium or tellurium compounds are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1993Date of Patent: February 28, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirotomo Sasaki, Hiroyuki Mifune, Toru Fujimori
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Patent number: 5391471Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material comprising on a support at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer and at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a white pigment between said support and said light-sensitive emulsion layer is provided, wherein (i) said white pigment is incorporated in such an amount that the coated amount thereof in said hydrophilic colloidal layer is in the range of 2 g/m.sup.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1993Date of Patent: February 21, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoto Ohshima, Kentaro Okazaki, Shigeaki Ohtani
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Patent number: 5385813Abstract: A color photographic silver halide material comprising at least one negatively developing, green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one magenta coupler can be adjusted to any desired sensitivity of that layer without any changes in other sensitometric properties by addition of at least one compound corresponding to general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein is hydrogen or halogen,Y is NR.sub.2, O or S andis hydrogen or C.sub.1-4 alkyl.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1993Date of Patent: January 31, 1995Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AGInventors: Sieghart Klotzer, Otto Lapp
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Patent number: 5380624Abstract: A novel process is provided for processing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developing solution containing at least one aromatic primary amine color developing agent, wherein said silver halide color photographic material contains at least one of anti-bacterial agents represented by the general formulas (I), (II), (III), (IV) and (V) and that the processing is effected while said color developing solution is supplied in an amount of 20 to 120 ml per 1 m.sup.2 of said silver halide color photographic material.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1993Date of Patent: January 10, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Yoshida, Takatoshi Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Fujita, Genichi Furusawa
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Patent number: RE35003Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material includes a support and at least one layer of silver halide emulsion formed on the support. The emulsion layer contains silver halide grains which have been subjected both to reduction sensitization while growing and to at least one chemical sensitization selected from the group consisting of gold sensitization, sulfur sensitization, and noble-metal sensitization. Each of the silver halide grains has at least 5 mol % of silver iodide on a surface thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1992Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shunji Takada