Polyhetero Atom Ring Patents (Class 430/614)
  • Patent number: 5879872
    Abstract: This invention relates to a silver halide photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion precipitated and/or chemically sensitized in the presence of an sulfenimide compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein M represents the atoms necessary to form, with R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, a five or six-membered ring or a multiple ring system; w is 1 or 0, wherein when w is 0, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic groups, and when w is 1, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently carbonyl or sulfonyl groups; R.sup.3 is independently a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group and x is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Franklin D. Saeva, Roger L. Klaus, Jerzy Z. Mydlarz
  • Patent number: 5866313
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, on a support, and comprising a reducing agent for color formation of carbamoyl-substituted hydrazine, a dye-forming coupler and at least one photographic stabilizer selected from five groups of compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsumi Hirano
  • Patent number: 5851753
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic laight-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a silver halide emulsion layer and a non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloid layer provided on the support, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layer and the non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloid layer contains a compound represented by the following Formula 1, and the silver halide emulsion layer contains tabular silver halide grains having an average aspect ratio of not less than 2.0 account for at least 50 % of total grain projected area of the emulsion, and the tabular grains have an average silver iodide content is not more than 1 mole-%;Formula 1R.sub.11 --(S).sub.n --R.sub.12wherein R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 are each independently represent an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group, the groups represented by R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 may be the same or different and they may be bonded with together to form a ring; and n is an integer of from 2 to 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Taketoshi Yamada, Norio Miura, Naoyo Suzuki, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Hideki Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 5851754
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide photographic material contains a compound by formula (IA), or which contains at least one hydroxamic acid compound having a bicyclo ring as a partial structure and represented by formula (IB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Hiroo Takizawa, Junichiro Hosokawa, Yoshio Ishii, Keiji Mihayashi, Masakazu Morigaki, Mamoru Sakurazawa
  • Patent number: 5837436
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having on one surface thereof at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material contains at least one compound selected from the compounds represented by formulae (A-I), (A-II) and (A-III) and a coupler represented by formula (m).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Mamoru Sakurazawa
  • Patent number: 5830618
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is provided which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer wherein said light-sensitive layer or another hydrophilic colloidal layer provided on the support contains a compound represented by formula (I) and a hydrazine derivative represented by formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be the same or different and each represents a hydroxyl, hydroxylamino, amino, alkylamino, arylamino, aralkylamino, alkoxy, phenoxy, alkyl, aryl, alkylthio, or phenylthio group, ##STR2## wherein R.sup.3 represents an aliphatic or aromatic group; R.sup.4 represents a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, amino or hydrazino group; G.sup.1 represents a --CO--, --SO.sub.2 --, --SO--, --P(O)R.sup.4, --CO--CO--, thiocarbonyl or iminomethylene group; and A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, or one of A.sup.1 and A.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuo Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5807667
    Abstract: The invention is generally accomplished by a method of sensitizing comprising providing tabular silver bromoiodide grains or bromoiodide grains doped with Se and Iridium bringing said grains into contact with a benzothiazolium salt or hydrolyzed benzothiazolium salt comprising ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, alkyl of from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, or aryl of from 6 to 10 carbon atoms,R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are independently hydrogen or halogen atoms, aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon moieties optionally linked through a divalent oxygen or sulfur atom; or cyano, amino, amido, sulfonamido, sulfamoyl, ureido, thioureido, hydroxy, --C(O)M, or --S(0).sub.2 M groups, wherein M is chosen to complete an aldehyde, ketone, acid, ester, thioester, amide, or salt;Y.sub.1 is a charge balancing counter ion; andQ is a substituent of the formula:--LCONHS0.sub.2 R, --LCONHS0.sub.2 NHCOR alkyl, sulfoalkyl, phosphoalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, or L--CONH.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Elizabeth Pui-lu Chang
  • Patent number: 5804364
    Abstract: A method for producing a silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains having a mean grain size of 0.15 .mu.m or less, wherein at least a part or the whole of a silver halide grain formation process is performed in the presence of an imidazole compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takehara
  • Patent number: 5776670
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, and contains an imidazole compound. The silver halide emulsion layer contains substantially perfect cubic grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Uchida
  • Patent number: 5773208
    Abstract: The invention relates to an emulsion comprising silver halide grains, said grains being tabular and comprising sensitizing dye(s) and silver salt epitaxial deposits, and addenda that includea tetraazaindene and a hexose reductone represented by Formula I: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different, and may represent H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, or an alkyl group with a solubilizing group such as --OH, sulfonamide, sulfamoyl, or carbamoyl. Alternatively, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be joined to complete a heterocyclic ring such as aziridinyl, azetidinyl, pyrrolidinyl, piperidinyl, morpholinyl, piperazinyl, or pyridinyl, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are H, OH, alkyl, aryl, cycloalkyl, or may together represent an alkylidene group, n is 0,1, or 2 and R.sub.3 is H, alkyl, aryl, or CO.sub.2 R.sub.6 where R.sub.6 is alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Hall, James H. Reynolds
  • Patent number: 5756278
    Abstract: The invention relates to a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising a silver halide emulsion wherein the grains of said emulsion comprise silver chloride said grains are sensitized with a water soluble gold(I) or (III) compound, and said emulsion further comprises a dithiolone dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Roger Lok
  • Patent number: 5750319
    Abstract: A substantially non-photosensitive recording material comprising a thermosensitive element comprising a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, on a support, characterized in that the thermosensitive element further comprises in reactive association with the light-insensitive organic silver salt and the organic reducing agent a 1,2,4-triazole compound with at least one of the nitrogen atoms having a hydrogen atom and none of the carbon atoms being part of a thione-group, said compound not being annulated with an aromatic ring system; and a thermal image recording process therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert
    Inventors: Bartholomeus Horsten, Johan Loccufier, Geert Defieuw, Luc Leenders
  • Patent number: 5731139
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light sensitive material comprises a support and provided thereon, a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or another layer contains an organic compound having a boron atom bonding to at least two oxygen atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Nakamura, Nobuaki Kagawa, Yoshihiko Suda
  • Patent number: 5726005
    Abstract: A photographic print element is disclosed having a reflective support and at least one image recording emulsion layer unit containing cube-like silver iodochloride grains containing from 0.05 to 3 mole percent iodide, based on total silver, in a controlled, non-uniform iodide distribution forming a core, an iodide-free surface shell having a thickness of greater than 50 .ANG., and a sub-surface shell that contains a maximum iodide concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Teh-Kung Chen, James Lawrence Edwards, Roger Lok, Sanford Howard Ehrlich
  • Patent number: 5719007
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is described, which comprises a support having thereon at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein one or more of the above layers contains at least one compound represented by formula (A-I), (A-II), (A-III), (A-IV) or (A-V) and one or more of the above layers contains at least one compound represented by formula (H): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sakurazawa, Hisashi Mikoshiba, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5698388
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material comprising a silver halide emulsion of high-silver chloride emulsion wherein a thiosulfonic compound represented by formula (I) and a sulfinic acid compound represented by formula (II) are added in the step of the production of said emulsion followed by sulfur sensitization. The disclosure described provides a silver halide color photographic material less in fogging due to the lapse of time after preparation of the emulsion for coating and less in fogging due to rapid development processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kokichi Waki
  • Patent number: 5693460
    Abstract: This invention provides a silver halide photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion in reactive association with a dioxide compound represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein b is C(O), C(S), C(Se), CH2 or (CH2)2; and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently H, or aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic groups, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together represent the atoms necessary to form a five or six-membered ring or a multiple ring system. This invention further provides a method of making silver halide emulsions containing the dioxide compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Roger Lok
  • Patent number: 5691127
    Abstract: The invention relates to an emulsion comprising silver halide grains, said grains being tabular and comprising sensitizing dye(s) and silver salt epitaxial deposits, and addenda that include a mercaptotetrazole and a tetraazaindene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard Lee Daubendiek, Timothy Richard Gersey, Robert Don Wilson, Joseph George Lighthouse, Joseph Charles Deaton, Myra Toffolon Olm, Donald Lee Black, Xin Wen
  • Patent number: 5679508
    Abstract: A color photographic silver halide with a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer, the silver halide of which is stabilized by compounds I and II, is distinguished by reduced storage fog combined with stronger gradation: ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Bruno Mucke, Cuong Ly, Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5677119
    Abstract: This invention provides a silver halide photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion in reactive association with a dithiolone 1-oxide compound represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein b is C(O), C(S), C(Se), CH.sub.2 or (CH.sub.2).sub.2, and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently H, or aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic groups, alkoxy groups, hydroxy groups, halogen atoms, aryloxy groups, alkylthio groups, arylthio groups, acyl groups, sulfonyl groups, acyloxy groups, carboxyl groups, cyano groups, sulfo groups, or amino groups, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together represent the atoms necessary to form a five or six-membered ring or a multiple ring system. It further provides a method of making a silver halide emulsion containing a dithiolone 1-oxide compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Roger Lok
  • Patent number: 5672461
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging element comprising in the order given on a hydrophilic surface of a support (i) an image receiving layer containing physical development nuclei and (ii) a photosensitive layer containing a silver halide emulsion being in water permeable relationship with said image receiving layer, characterized in that said photosensitive layer comprises a substituted or unsubstituted 1-phenyl-3-pyrazolidone in an amount between 0.2 mg/g and 15 mg/g of silver halide expressed as an equivalent amount of silver nitrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Paul Coppens, Eric Hoes, Jules Berendsen, Rik Vandenbruwaene
  • Patent number: 5672469
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive layer, the photographic material comprising a reduction-sensitized silver halide emulsion containing a compound in which a group adsorptive to silver halide and a specific hydrazine structure are covalently bonded. The silver halide photographic material exhibits high sensitivity and improved fog characteristics and improved preservation stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Mikio Ihama
  • Patent number: 5667953
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support and silver halide emulsion layer or layers, wherein at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers comprises an alkylaminomercaptotetrazole antifoggant. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention said silver halide emulsion layer comprises tabular silver halide grains having an average aspect ratio higher than 3:1 and a thickness lower than 0.4 .mu.m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Massimo Bertoldi, Mark P. Kirk
  • Patent number: 5667956
    Abstract: The grain/sensitivity ratio of a photographic silver halide material may be improved by adding a compound of the formula I to one of its layers. The material moreover exhibits a low increase in fog on storage. ##STR1## in which: Y.sub.1, Y.sub.2, Y.sub.3 each mean one of the following residues ##STR2## R.sub.1 to R.sub.34 mean H, alkyl or aryl; two residues (R.sub.1 to R.sub.34) located on the same N atom may complete a 5-, 6- or greater-membered ring containing at least one N atom and optionally further heteroatoms; two residues (R.sub.1 to R.sub.34) located on adjacent N atoms may complete a ring involving both N atoms and at least one P atom;X.sup.- means an anion required to balance the charge, for example Cl.sup.-, Br.sup.- or tosylate (TosO.sup.-).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Agfa
    Inventors: Michael Missfeldt, Johannes Willsau, Ralf Buscher, Peter Bell, Hans-Ulrich Borst
  • Patent number: 5654134
    Abstract: A silver halide emulsion is disclosed, which is subjected to chemical ripening using a labile tellurium sensitizer and/or a labile selenium sensitizer in the presence of at least one compound represented by formula (I), (II), (III) or (IV) described in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiyasu Morimura, Hiroyuki Mifune, Hirotomo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5652090
    Abstract: This invention provides a silver halide photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion in reactive association with a dithiolone compound represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently H, or aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic groups, alkoxy groups, hydroxy groups, halogen atoms, aryloxy groups, alkylthio groups, arylthio groups, acyl groups, sulfonyl groups, acyloxy groups, carboxyl groups, cyano groups, sulfo groups, or amino groups, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together represent the atoms necessary to form a five or six-membered ring or a multiple ring system. This invention further provides a method of making silver halide emulsions containing the dithiolone compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Roger Lok
  • Patent number: 5624786
    Abstract: An image forming method is disclosed, comprising exposing a silver halide photographic material through a transparent, high definition-screening original and developing the photographic material with a developer to form a halftone dot image, wherein:the photographic material forms a halftone dot image having a dot area of 57% or less when exposed, through the transparent original comprising a halftone dot image having a dot area of 50%, in two times an amount that gives a halftone dot having a dot area of 50%; and the photographic material has a maximum density of 3.0 or more and a contrast of 8.0 or more;and wherein the photographic material is exposed to light having an emission peak at a wavelength of 360 to 450 nm and developed with a developer having a pH of 10.5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Hirabayashi, Takeshi Sampei
  • Patent number: 5620837
    Abstract: This invention provides a color silver halide photographic element comprising a support having situated thereon a red light-sensitive, cyan dye-forming unit comprising a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer and an image dye-forming coupler; a green light-sensitive, magenta dye-forming unit comprising a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer and an image dye-forming coupler; and a blue light-sensitive, yellow dye-forming unit comprising a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer and an image dye-forming coupler; wherein at least one of the dye-forming units comprises two or more emulsion layers spectrally sensitized to the same region of the visible spectrum, but exhibiting different photographic sensitivities, each such emulsion layer containing an image dye-forming coupler wherein at least one, but not all, of the emulsion layers of the dye-forming unit contains the hydrolyzed or unhydrolyzed form of a benzazolium compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Sang H. Kim, Arlyce T. Bowne, Thomas J. Dannhauser
  • Patent number: 5614360
    Abstract: A photographic element and an aqueous coating composition for providing a layer to a photographic element are disclosed. The coating composition comprises gelatin in a concentration greater than about 6% by weight, and a palladium complex having the structure: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.7, and R.sup.8 are independently selected from hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, aryl or alkaryl, the alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, or alkaryl optionally being substituted with a hydroxy, sulfonate, amino or ammonium group; and wherein any two of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.7, and R.sup.8 can be bonded to form a ring;Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Kenneth G. Harbison, Wilbur S. Gaugh, Thomas H. Whitesides, James A. Friday
  • Patent number: 5601969
    Abstract: A method for the preparation of silver halide tabular emulsion grains, containing at least 75 % chloride, wherein at least 50 % of the total projected area of all the grains is provided by the tabular grains, and wherein the tabular grains exhibit an average aspect ratio of at least 5:1, an average thickness not greater than 0.5 micron and an average diameter of at least 0.6 micron. The method comprisespreparing a dispersion medium containing a gelatino-peptizer, and a compound ##STR1## wherein Z represents the atoms necessary to form a fused on aromatic carbocyclic or heterocyclic, unsubstituted or substituted ring, e.g., substituted with alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkoxy, hydroxy, mercapto, carboxy, amino or halogen, R is hydrogen or a substituent as defined for ring Z; n is 1 or 0, and Q represents carbon in which case n=1, or Q represents nitrogen, in which latter case n =0; in a concentration ranging from 10.sup.-4 to 10.sup.-2 molar. The pH of the medium is adjusted to between 5.0 and 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventor: Ann L. Verbeeck
  • Patent number: 5582966
    Abstract: A method for producing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon photographic layers including a silver halide emulsion layer, a first hydrophilic colloid layer and an outermost second hydrophilic colloid layer in this order from the support. The light-sensitive material is produced by a method comprising steps offorming the photographic layer by coatinga silver halide emulsion coating solution comprising silver halide grains, gelatin and water to form said silver halide emulsion layer;a first hydrophilic colloid solution comprising gelatin and water to form said first hydrophilic colloid layer; anda second hydrophilic colloid solution comprising gelatin, particles of matting agent having a size of not less than 4 .mu.m in an amount of 4 mg/m.sup.2 to 50 mg/m.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Toshiharu Nagashima, Yasuhiro Wakasugi
  • Patent number: 5578440
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having high sensitivity, reduced in fog and excellent in storage stability is described, which comprises a support having thereon at least one constituent layer containing at least one hydrazone compound having a methine dye residue or an adsorbing group to silver halide through a covalent bond or containing at least one metallocene compound having a methine dye residue through a covalent bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Tadashi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 5576170
    Abstract: A photographic element comprising a support having situated thereon a silver halide emulsion, the emulsion comprising an alkynylamine compound of the formula: wherein Z represents atoms necessary to complete a 5 to 10-membered heterocyclic ring system, R.sup.1 represents hydrogen or an alkyl of from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, or an alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, carbocyclic or heterocyclic group; andat least one dihydroxy aryl compound represented by formula II or III: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.3 to R.sup.12 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxy, sulfonate, or an alkyl of from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and wherein at least two of such groups represent a hydroxy group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jon N. Eikenberry, Robert E. Bernard
  • Patent number: 5573903
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having the improved storability and anti-stress property is disclosed, which comprises a support having provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a silver halide emulsion, wherein the silver halide emulsion is subjected to a chemical sensitization with a selenium compound, and the emulsion layer or another layer provided on the support contains at least one of the compounds represented by formulas (I), (II) and (III): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.11 to R.sub.16, R.sub.21 to R.sub.26, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Yamashita, Tetsuro Kojima, Hiroyuki Mifune, Mikio Ihama, Hirotomo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5573901
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having the improved storability and anti-stress property is disclosed, which comprises a support having provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a silver halide emulsion, wherein the silver halide emulsion is subjected to a chemical sensitization with a selenium compound, and the emulsion layer or another layer provided on the support contains at least one of the compounds represented by formulas (I), (II) and (III): ##STR1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Yamashita, Tetsuro Kojima, Hiroyuki Mifune, Mikio Ihama, Hirotomo Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5571664
    Abstract: A negatively developing color photographic silver halide material containing at least two blue-sensitive, yellow-coupling silver halide emulsion layers, at least two green-sensitive, magenta-coupling silver halide emulsion layers, at least two red-sensitive, cyan-coupling silver halide emulsion layers and a yellow filter layer on a transparent support, the layers of the same spectral sensitivity having different photographic sensitivities and the blue-sensitive layers being arranged further from the support than the yellow filter layer and the green-sensitive and red-sensitive layers being arranged nearer the support than the yellow filter layer, is distinguished by improved development kinetics if at least one of the green-sensitive layers of highest sensitivity and the red-sensitive layers of highest sensitivity contains a crown ether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: J org Siegel, Peter Hankofer, Hans-Ulrich Borst
  • Patent number: 5563025
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, in which the silver halide color photographic material comprises at least one compound selected from the group consisting of the compounds represented by one of formulas (A-I) to (A-V); and 60% or more of the total projected area of silver halide grains contained in at least one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers is occupied by tabular grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more, and the tabular grains have a dislocation line number of 10 or more per one grain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ishii, Keiji Mihayashi, Masayuki Negoro, Masakazu Morigaki, Hisashi Mikoshiba
  • Patent number: 5543282
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Yasuhiro Shimada
  • Patent number: 5538843
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer which comprises a hydrazine compound having at least one absorbent group to silver halide, wherein two nitrogen atoms of the hydrazine compound are substituted by four substituents and the carbon atoms in the four substituents bonded directly to the two nitrogen atoms are not substituted by an oxo group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Hioki, Tadashi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 5536633
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Roger Lok
  • Patent number: 5523200
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to a method of silver halide grain finishing comprising providing a high chloride silver halide grain emulsion and adding a silver bromide fine grain Lippmann emulsion during the chemical sensitization heat cycle for each grain wherein said fine grain emulsion has a photographically useful compound adhered to said fine grain Lippmann emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul T. Hahm, Walter H. Isaac, Heinz E. Stapelfeldt
  • Patent number: 5518872
    Abstract: Improved sensitivity and reduced minimum density are provided by an emulsion in which high bromide tabular grains exhibit an average thickness of less than 0.07 .mu.m and have latent image forming reduction chemical sensitization sites and adsorbed spectral sensitizing dye on their surfaces. The tabular grains contain a dopant capable of forming shallow electron trapping sites, and the spectral sensitizing dye exhibits an oxidation potential more positive than 1.2 volts. A photographic element is disclosed which locates the emulsion in a layer overlying a minus blue recording emulsion layer. Exceptionally sharp images are formed in the minus blue recording emulsion layer when in the overlying emulsion layer greater than 97 percent of the total projected area of the silver halide grains having an equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.2 .mu.m is accounted for by tabular grains having an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.7 .mu.m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Roy King, Roger A. Weiss, Kenneth J. Reed, Gerald W. Klein
  • Patent number: 5508159
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which comprises a support and provided thereon, a silver halide emulsion layer containing a crown ether having a 18-membered ring condensed with at least one aromatic ring and silver halide grains having a (100) face and satisfying the following inequality:15.ltoreq.Kwherein K is defined to be (intensity of a diffraction line attributed to a (200) face)/(intensity of a diffraction line attributed to a (222) face).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Okuyama, Yukio Ohya
  • Patent number: 5508154
    Abstract: An image-forming process of a silver halide photographic material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, which comprises imagewise exposing the photographic material and developing the exposed photographic material using a developer under the presence of a compound represented by formula (I); ##STR1## wherein Q represents a non-metallic atomic group having at least one of a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom, and a sulfur atom. and which is necessary for forming a 5-membered heterocyclic ring together with the two carbon atoms of the 1,2,3-triazole ring; Y represents a substituent; and n represents 0 or an integer of from 1 to 3, when n is 2 or 3, Y's may be the same or different; and a silver halide photographic material and a developer each containing the compound represented by formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Mizukawa, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5494788
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of sensitizing (111) high chloride tabular grains having {111} major faces comprising providing the high chloride tabular grains, and sensitizing using temperatures greater than 70.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Yun C. Chang, Jerzy A. Budz
  • Patent number: 5491056
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for preparing a photographic emulsion utilizing an alkynylamine compound as a grain growth modifier. Specifically, the present invention provides a process of preparing a photographic emulsion comprising:introducing silver ions, halide ions and a grain growth modifier having the structure ##STR1## wherein z represents atoms necessary to complete a five to nine-membered heterocyclic ring system, R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently represent hydrogen or a lower alkyl of from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and R.sup.4 represents hydrogen, or an aliphatic, carbocyclic, or heterocyclic group, which may be substituted or unsubstituted, into a dispersing medium containing silver halide seed grains; andmaintaining the dispersing medium containing the seed grains, silver ions, halide ions and grain growth modifier at a pH in the range from about 4.5 to about 10, and a pAg in the range from about 6.0 to about 9.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Xin Wen, Roger Lok
  • Patent number: 5487968
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one compound represented by a general formula (I) on a support:A-(TIME).sub.m -(RED).sub.n -Q (I)wherein A represents a group capable of releasing (TIME).sub.m -(RED).sub.n -Q by a reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent;TIME represents a timing group capable of releasing (RED).sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Mizukawa, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5478721
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Roger Lok
  • Patent number: 5472838
    Abstract: Silver halide emulsions with tabular grains showing increased aspect ratio are produced by adding to the precipitiation vessel a compound of the formula I: ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 means H or optionally substituted alkyl, aralkyl or cycloalkylR.sub.2 means H or optionally substituted alkyl, aryl or aralkyl or a polymer chainR.sub.3 means H, OH, alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, halogen, NHR.sub.4, O--CO--R.sub.4, O--CO--NHR.sub.4 or an optionally substituted oxazoline ringR.sub.4 means optionally substituted or alkyl, aralkyl or arylm means 2 or 3,n means 2 to 10,000,or a compound of the formula II ##STR2## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.3, n and m have the meaning stated above and may be identical or different andR.sub.5 means optionally substituted alkene, arylene, aralkene or a polyaddition, polycondensation or polymerisation chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Gunter Helling, Klaus Wagner
  • Patent number: 5468602
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeaki Takahashi