Film Or Film Coating Improvement Ingredient Containing, E.g., Wetting Agent, Coating Aid, Plasticizer, Antistatic Agent, Etc. Patents (Class 430/631)
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Publication number: 20040005521Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic material exhibiting enhanced image quality and superior uniformity without causing uneven density is disclosed, comprising on a support a light-sensitive layer comprising a light-sensitive emulsion containing organic silver salt grains and light-sensitive silver halide grains, a reducing agent and a binder and a conductive layer, wherein the conductive layer contains at least one of compounds represented by the following general formulas: 1 (Rf2)—(A2)s LiO3S—(CF2)m—SO3Li MO3S—(CF2)t—SO3M L[O3S—(CF2)u—SO3]Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2003Publication date: January 8, 2004Inventor: Shinji Kudo
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Publication number: 20040002024Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having one or more layers including at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein any of the layers formed on the support contains a compound represented by the following formula (1) and a fluorine-containing surfactant (in the formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group or alkenyl group having 6-25 carbon atoms, ml represents an integer of 0-30, n1 represents an integer of 0-4, a represents 0 or 1, and Z′ represents OSO3M or SO3M, where M represents a cation). There is provided a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material that shows superior antistatic property and can be stably produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2003Publication date: January 1, 2004Inventors: Terukazu Yanagi, Yoshihisa Tsukada, Kouichi Yokota, Shinichi Ichikawa, Katsuhiko Kanazawa
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Patent number: 6664020Abstract: A mass transfer imaging element comprising a substrate having a surface colourant layer containing a pigment to be imagewise transferred, wherein said colourant layer comprises a fluorocarbon additive in an amount to provide a fluorocarbon additive:pigment weight ratio of at least 1:20.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1995Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: David Warner, Ranjan Chhaganbhai Patel
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Publication number: 20030215756Abstract: A photothermographic material comprising a support and having thereon an image forming layer containing an organic silver salt, light-sensitive silver halide grains, binder and a reducing agent, wherein the reducing agent comprises: a reducing agent A containing at least a bisphenol derivative represented by following Formula (A-1); and a reducing agent B containing at least a bisphenol derivative not represented by the Formula (A-1), and the amount of reducing agent A is 5 to 45 weight % of the total weight of the reducing agent A and reducing agent B.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2002Publication date: November 20, 2003Inventors: Kiyokazu Morita, Narito Goto, Ayumu Nishijima
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Patent number: 6645712Abstract: The invention provides oil-in-water emulsions comprising recombinant collagen-like polymer in an amount sufficient to act as stabiliser of the emulsion. The polymer is especially a polypeptide which is free of helix structure, has an isoelectric point at least 0.5 pH units removed from the pH of the oil-in-water emulsion. Furthermore, amphiphilic recombinant collagen-like polymers are provided for use in oil-in-water emulsions.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2000Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: Fuji Photo Film B.V.Inventors: Joseph Hubertus Olijve, Jan Bastiaan Bouwstra, Frederik Anton De Wolf, Marc Willem Theodoor Werten, Hendrik Wouter Wisselink, Richéle Deodata Wind, Tanja Jacoba Van Den Bosch, Yuzo Toda
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Patent number: 6645690Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising a base and hydrophillic colloid layers comprising at least one layer comprising photosensitive silver halide, wherein said hydrophilic colloid imaging layers further comprise a flexibilizer agent and said flexibilizer agent has a logP of greater than −1.2.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2001Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Mridula Nair, Robert P. Bourdelais, Jehuda Greener
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Patent number: 6638708Abstract: The present disclosure relates to dispersions of silver (carboxylate-n-alkyl thiolate). The carboxylates are typically silver salts of long chain fatty acids and the n-alkyl thiolate is preferably 1-dodecanethiol. These silver (carboxylate-n-alkyl thiolate) particles can be used to formulate imaging forming compositions that are useful in aqueous thermographic or photothermographic imaging elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2002Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Peter J. Ghyzel, Mark Lelental, David A. Dickinson, Alan R. Pitt, Trevor J. Wear
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Patent number: 6638704Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains is disclosed, which is obtained through a process including at least one step of forming grains using a dispersion medium having a low viscosity, wherein 50% or more of the entire projected area of all silver halide grains in the emulsion is occupied by silver halide tabular grains having an aspect ratio of 4 or more and a twin plane spacing of 0.012 &mgr;m or less. Further disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material using the emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2002Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Kikuchi, Naohiro Takeda, Yoichi Maruyama, Yuzo Toda, Masaaki Miki
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Patent number: 6638707Abstract: A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon an image forming layer containing an organic silver salt, further thereon a protective layer and optionally an interlayer between the support and the image forming layer, wherein at least one of the image forming layer and the interlayer contains an alkoxy-silane compound having at least two primary or secondary amino groups or a salt thereof or a Schiff base formed through dehydration condensation of an alkoxy-silane compound having at least one primary amino group and a ketone compound.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2002Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Toshihisa Takeyama
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Publication number: 20030198904Abstract: The invention is directed to a photographic material, comprising a photographic support and color sensitive recording layers on top of said support, said recording layers being separated from each other by interlayers, wherein the interlayers are characterized by the interlayer design parameter {[SC]*d2} (wherein [SC] is the concentration scavenger moieties bound to the water soluble polymer applied in the interlayer per gram total interlayer polymer and the dry thickness of the interlayer) having a value larger than 2.0*10−15 mmol m2/g and a maximum concentration [SC] of 0.5 mmol/g.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2002Publication date: October 23, 2003Inventors: Sebastianus Gerardus J. M. Kluijtmans, Ian Bastiaan Bouwstra, Yuzo Toda
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Publication number: 20030194660Abstract: The present invention provides a heat developable light sensitive material comprising a support and a constituent layer disposed on one surface of the support and including a light sensitive layer, wherein the constituent layer includes a binder, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ion, light sensitive silver halide grains, and at least one polymer binder selected from a group consisting of polyvinyl butyral, cellulose acetate, cellulose butyrate and derivatives thereof, and a mercury content of the constituent layer is no more than 1 mg/m2, and a logarithmic value of the cross sectional resistance value (&OHgr;) of the light sensitive material is no more than 12, and a coated amount of silver is no more than 1.9 g/m2, and image forming methods using the above-described heat developable light sensitive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2003Publication date: October 16, 2003Inventor: Senzou Sasaoka
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Patent number: 6630293Abstract: A method for producing a silver salt of an organic acid, which comprises steps of reacting (1) a solution containing silver ions in water or in a mixture of an organic solvent and water, with (2) a solution or suspension containing an alkali metal salt of an organic acid in water, in a mixture of an organic solvent and water, or in an organic solvent to prepare a silver salt of an organic acid, and removing a byproduct salt by a desalting operation, wherein a dispersing agent having a molecular weight of 3000 or less is added and dispersed during a time period of from before the reaction to before the desalting operation. There is provided a method for producing a silver salt of an organic acid, which can provides low fog, high sensitivity and high concentration of blackening when it is used for photothermographic materials, and is suitable for the production of photothermographic materials having low haze and less image degradation after storage.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2000Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Kuno, Naoyuki Kawanishi, Yoichi Nagai
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Publication number: 20030180672Abstract: A solid dispersion of a compound for use in photography, the dispersion comprising a dispersoid including an organic compound and a dispersion medium, wherein the average settling velocity (v25) of the dispersoid at 25° C., which velocity is represented by the following equation (1), is no more than 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2002Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventors: Satoru Toda, Minoru Sakai
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Patent number: 6613503Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising a reflection support and an overcoat layer wherein said overcoat layer comprises hydrophilic binder and lubricant, said lubricant has a particle mean diameter of greater than 1 &mgr;m and the volume of particles of lubricant below 1 &mgr;m is less than 5% of said total volume of lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1996Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Walter Harold Isaac, James Stephen Honan, Edgar Erick Riecke
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Publication number: 20030162122Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising a base and hydrophillic colloid layers comprising at least one layer comprising photosensitive silver halide, wherein said hydrophilic colloid imaging layers further comprise a flexibilizer agent and said flexibilizer agent has a logP of greater than −1.2.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: August 28, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Mridula Nair, Robert P. Bourdelais, Jehuda Greener
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Patent number: 6610466Abstract: A silver halide photographic lightsensitive material comprising at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer containing a silver halide photographic emulsion prepared by mixing a dispersion of silver halide grains, the silver halide grains exhibiting such spectral absorption maximum wavelength and light absorption intensity that, when the spectral absorption maximum wavelength is less than 500 nm, the light absorption intensity is 60 or more, while when the spectral absorption maximum wavelength is 500 nm or more, the light absorption intensity is 100 or more, with an emulsified dispersion, wherein the silver halide photographic emulsion, when agitated at 40° C. for 30 min, exhibits a variation of absorption spectrum integrated intensity ranging from 400 nm to 700 nm of 10% or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2001Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masami Sakurada, Kiyoshi Morimoto, Fumitaka Ueda, Toru Yamada
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Publication number: 20030148233Abstract: A radiation sensitive imaging element is described comprising a support bearing one or more hydrophilic colloid layers, wherein a photographically useful compound is incorporated into at least one hydrophilic colloid layer in the form of a self-assembled composition comprising a substantially homogeneous and ordered array of the photographically useful compound and silver and halide atoms, wherein the average minimum distance from each Ag atom in the composition to an atom of the photographically useful compound in the composition is less than 50 Å.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joseph F. Bringley, Manju Rajeswaran
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Publication number: 20030138745Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having one or more layers including a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein any of the layers contains the specific fluorine compound. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material can be stably produced and is imparted with antistatic property.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Terukazu Yanagi, Akira Ikeda, Nobuo Hamamoto, Takahiro Ishizuka
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Patent number: 6596470Abstract: A heat-developable light-sensitive material, which at least contains: (a) a photosensitive silver halide; (b) a reducible silver salt; (c) a dispersion of fine crystalline particles of a color-developing agent; (d) a dispersion of fine crystalline particles of a coupler capable of reacting with an oxidized product of the color-developing agent, to form a dye; (e) a dispersion of fine crystalline particles of a thermal solvent; and (f) a binder, each of which is contained on the same side of a support. An image-forming method, which utilizes the heat-developable light-sensitive material.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2001Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Toshio Kawagishi
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Patent number: 6582896Abstract: A photothermographic material includes on a support a non-photosensitive sliver salt, a photosensitive sliver halide, a nucleation agent, and a binder, and a layer containing specific compounds is formed on an outer side of the image forming layer. Thus, there are obtained such images optimal for photomechanical processes as having a high Dmax (maximum density), a low fog, a good coated surface condition, and less surface defects such as repellency, coating lines or the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2000Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Ito, Yasuo Mukunoki
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Patent number: 6582898Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising on a support a light-sensitive layer comprising an organic silver salt, light-sensitive silver halide grains, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein after the photothermographic material having been developed at a temperature of not less than 100° C. is subjected to exposure to light of an illumination intensity of 300 lux at 45° C. for 24 hrs., the rate of variation in fog density between before and after exposure is not more than 30%, based on the fog density of the photothermographic material before exposure.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Kiyokazu Morita
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Publication number: 20030113675Abstract: The invention is directed to a paper support for photographic printing paper having a topside and a backside, at least said topside being provided with a pigmented coating based on clay and/or other pigment, said coating having a clay content of less than 3.3 g/m2, which topside of the pigmented coating has an average surface roughness RA of 1.0 &mgr;m or less, and is provided with at least one pigmented polymer resin layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2002Publication date: June 19, 2003Applicant: Fuji Photo Film B.V.Inventors: Rene Nicolaas Govers, Ieke Gerke De Vries
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Patent number: 6579671Abstract: A recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element containing one or more of silver behenate, silver palmitate, and silver stearate, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the silver behenate, palmitate, or stearate is not associated with mercury and/or lead ions, production processes for particles of substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt primarily comprising silver behenate, silver palmitate, or stearate, with described X-ray characteristics in the substantial absence of organic solvent.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2001Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: AGFA-GevaertInventors: Sabine Emmers, Bartholomeus Horsten, Ingrid Geuens, Yvan Gilliams, Dirk Bollen, Ivan Hoogmartens, Andre Bellens
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Patent number: 6576412Abstract: A hydrophilic colloid composition having hydrophobic material dispersed therein and comprising an anionic surface active agent further comprises a cationic surface active agent in an amount sufficient to reduce the viscosity of the composition, the cationic surface active agent comprising a hydrophobic moiety, a non-ionic hydrophilic moiety and a cationic hydrophilic moiety.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2001Date of Patent: June 10, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Alan R. Pitt, David D. Miller, Andrew Howe
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Patent number: 6576415Abstract: A process for producing an aqueous dispersion comprising: preparing a dispersion of photosensitive silver halide and a binder or a surfactant in an aqueous medium; and subsequently either (a) adding a first silver salt to the silver halide dispersion and then adding a second silver salt; or (b) adding the second silver salt to the silver halide dispersion and then adding the first silver salt, wherein the aqueous dispersion is substantially free of a water-soluble metal or ammonium salt of an aliphatic carboxylic acid with greater than 12 carbon atoms, the first silver salt is a substantially light-insensitive and substantially water-insoluble silver salt of an organic carboxylic acid, and the second silver salt has a water-solubility greater than 0.1 g in 1 L of water at 20° C.; an aqueous dispersion obtainable therewith; a photothermographic recording material prepared with the aqueous dispersion; and a process for preparing the photothermographic recording material.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2001Date of Patent: June 10, 2003Assignee: AGFA-GevaertInventors: Herman Uytterhoeven, Johan Loccufier, Yvan Gilliams
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Publication number: 20030104327Abstract: A photothermographic material of the present invention comprises: a support; a photosensitive silver halide; a non-photosensitive organic silver salt; a heat developer; a binder; and a fluorine compound containing a specific structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2002Publication date: June 5, 2003Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Takahiro Ishizuka, Terukazu Yanagi
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Patent number: 6573036Abstract: A single-side coated light-sensitive silver halide photographic film material has been disclosed, having on one side of a subbed support, one or more light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer(s) overcoated with an outermost protective layer; and, at the other side of said support, a backing layer, covered with a protective outermost layer, characterized in that at least said backing layer is provided with a layer wherein, besides a cross-linked or cross-linkable first binder an organic component free from cross-linking upon reaction with a hardener is present as a second binder having a low molecular weight.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2001Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignee: Afga-GevaertInventors: Mark Van den Zegel, Francis Vanhoudt, Frank Ruttens, Guy Damen
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Patent number: 6558886Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide direct view multicolor photographic element comprising a green record containing a green light sensitized silver halide emulsion and comprising either (a) a magenta dye-forming coupler and a cyan dye-forming coupler in an amount of at least 0.1 mole % of the couplers present in the green record, or (b) a green record having a coupler or couplers sufficient to provide upon development a Status A red density greater than 0.23 as measured using a green light separation exposure at a Status A green density of 1.0.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2002Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Walter H. Isaac, Jess B. Hendricks, Vincent J. Flow, Patrick W. Webber, Glenn M. Brown, Cynthia A Fitzgerald, Carolyn R. Ellinger
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Patent number: 6555304Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide direct view multicolor photographic element comprising a red record containing (1) a red light sensitized silver halide emulsion, (2) a cyan dye-forming NB first coupler, and (3) a second coupler selected from (a) a magenta dye forming coupler in an amount of 2-30 mole % of the total coupler in the red record and (b) a cyan dye-forming coupler having a greater absorption in the green spectra than the first coupler in an amount sufficient to provide a Status A green density in the range of 0.27 to 0.40 using a red light separation exposure at a Status A red density of 1.0. Such an element exhibits improved flesh tone reproduction and good dye dark stability.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2002Date of Patent: April 29, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Walter H. Isaac, Vincent J. Flow, James S. Honan, Jeffrey C. Smitley, Patrick W. Webber, Glenn M. Brown, Cynthia A. Fitzgerald, Jess B. Hendricks, Thomas A. Rosiek, John H. Harder, Carolyn H. Ellinger
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Patent number: 6551770Abstract: A heat developable photosensitive material comprising at least two layers is disclosed. The first layer is formed by coating a first coating composition containing the organic silver salt, the photosensitive silver halide, the reducing agent, polymer latex in an amount of at least 30 percent by weight of the first layer at dried state and a solvent, the solvent comprising water in an amount of at least 50 percent by weight of the solvent, and the second layer is formed by coating a second coating composition comprising a polymer latex in an amount of at least 50 percent of the second layer at dried state and a solvent, the solvent comprising water in an amount of at least 60 percent by weight of the solvent, and the second coating composition having a viscosity of from 50 to 1,000 cP at 25 ° C., and the viscosity at 5° C being at least 1.5 times higher than that at 25° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2001Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Kazuhiko Hirabayashi
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Patent number: 6548240Abstract: Disclosed is a photothermographic material containing a non-photosensitive silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide and a binder on a support, which comprises a nucleating agent and a surfactant represented by the following formula (F): [Rf-(Rc)n]m-Z Formula (F): wherein Rf represents a perfluoroalkyl group, Rc represents an alkylene group, and Z represents a group having an anionic group, cationic group, betaine group or nonionic group required for imparting surface activity, n is 0 or 1 and m is 1, 2 or 3. According to the present invention, there is provided a photothermographic material, in particular, for photomechanical processes, more specifically, for scanners and image setters, which shows low fog and high Dmax (maximum density), and exhibits little increase of fog even after the photosensitive material after development is stored for a long period of time.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2001Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tetsuo Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20030068590Abstract: A silver halide photographic lightsensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one lightsensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the lightsensitive material contains at least one compound represented by general formula (I) and at least one photographically useful group-releasing compound represented by general formula (II) or (III) that is capable of forming a compound having substantially no contribution to a dye after its coupling with an oxidized form of a developing agent:Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2002Publication date: April 10, 2003Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoichi Hosoya, Kiyoshi Morimoto, Tadashi Inaba
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Patent number: 6531273Abstract: This invention involves dispersions comprising ionic liquids and a non-ionic surfactant, optionally further comprising a photographically useful compound such as a dye-forming coupler. Such dispersions form coatings that are relatively free of physical defects, and show reduced problems such as crystallization of components like the couplers or ion pairs.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2001Date of Patent: March 11, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Leif P. Olson, John W. Boettcher, James H. Reynolds
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Patent number: 6531270Abstract: This invention involves the use of ionic liquids as coupler solvents in a color or monochrome photothermographic system. The presence of an ionic liquid can increase the amount of density or dye formed. The ionic liquid may be combined with other coupler solvents.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2001Date of Patent: March 11, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Leif P. Olson, James H. Reynolds
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Patent number: 6521399Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising at least one biaxially oriented sheet wherein said biaxially oriented sheet when viewed from a surface of said element emits light in the visible spectrum when exposed to ultraviolet radiation.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1998Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Robert P. Bourdelais, Peter T. Aylward, Thaddeus S. Gula
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Patent number: 6506546Abstract: This invention comprises an imaging element comprising an imaging layer having associated therewith a compound of Structure I: wherein PUG is a photographically useful group; LINK 1 and LINK 2 are linking groups; TIME is a timing group; T represents t independently selected substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl groups, t is 0, 1, or 2 and if t is 2, the T groups can form a ring; HET is a heterocyclic group which optionally can form a ring with a T group; R12 is hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or R12 can form a ring with a T group or with HET; 1 is 0 or 1; m is 0, 1, or 2; and n is 0 or 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1999Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Zbyslaw R. Owozarczyk, Xiqiang Yang, David T. Southby
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Patent number: 6472136Abstract: A method for forming a dispersion of an oil-soluble photographically useful compound in water or a hydrophilic colloid composition is disclosed, comprising dispersing the compound in the presence of a water-soluble anionic group containing polymeric surfactant, wherein the polymeric surfactant comprises a copolymer obtained from the copolymerization of a maleic anhydride monomer and a copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer and the anionic groups of the polymeric surfactant comprise primarily carboxy groups obtained upon base hydrolysis of the anhydride groups of the copolymer. The use of hydrolyzed maleic anhydride derived copolymers in place of conventional small-molecule surfactants as a dispersing agent to stabilize photographically active water-insoluble dye couplers or other organic oil-soluble photographically useful compounds enables a dramatic reduction of crystallization of such organic molecules on long-term keeping.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2001Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Julia S. Tan, Kurt M. Schroeder, Delaina A. Amos
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Patent number: 6472139Abstract: A hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide or pyrrolidone is employed as a coating aid in coating compositions, especially such compositions useful in the manufacture of photographic products. Preferred coating aids are surfactants having the general formula in which R, R1 and R2 are each independently selected from aliphatic hydrocarbyl, aryl-(aliphatic hydrocarbyl) and (aliphatic hydrocarbyl)-aryl groups, which groups may be unsubstituted, partially fluorinated or fully fluorinated, L is a sulphur atom or a linking group that contains a sulphur atom attached to the T group and T is a hydrophilic oligomeric group obtainable by the oligomerisation of one or more vinyl monomers having an amido function.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2001Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Alan R. Pitt, Trevor J. Wear, Elizabeth A. Simister, Alice G. Moon
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Publication number: 20020155402Abstract: A hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide or pyrrolidone is employed as a coating aid in coating compositions, especially such compositions useful in the manufacture of photographic products.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2001Publication date: October 24, 2002Inventors: Alan R. Pitt, Trevor J. Wear, Elizabeth A. Simister, Alice G. Moon
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Patent number: 6468727Abstract: A hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide or pyrrolidone is employed as a dispersant for hydrophobic materials in an aqueous medium containing a hydrophilic colloid, e.g. gelatin. The hydrophobic materials include photographic addenda such as color couplers or solid particle dyes. Preferred dispersants have the general formula R—L—T (1) or in which R, R1 and R2 are each independently selected from aliphatic hydrocarbyl, aryl-(aliphatic hydrocarbyl) and (aliphatic hydrocarbyl)-aryl groups, L is a sulphur atom or a linking group that contains a sulphur atom attached to the T group, and T is a hydrophilic oligomeric group obtained by the oligomerisation of one or more vinyl monomers having an amido function.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2001Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Alan R. Pitt, Trevor J. Wear, Danuta Gibson, Ian M. Newington, Mary C. Brick, John W. Boettcher, Gary N. Barber
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Patent number: 6468710Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material that has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, the light-sensitive material containing a surfactant represented by the following formula (F), and having the characteristic curve that a gamma in the range of an optical density from 0.3 to 3.0 is 5.0 or more, on the characteristic curve shown in a rectangular coordinate where a logarithmic exposure amount (the x axis) and an optical density (the y axis) are indicated according to the same unit length; [Rf—(Rc)n]m—Z formula (F) wherein Rf represents a perfluoroalkyl group, Rc represents an alkylene group, Z represents a group having an anionic group, cationic group, amphoteric ionic group, or nonionic polar group, n is an integer of 0 or 1, and m is an integer of 1 to 3.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2001Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shoji Yasuda
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Publication number: 20020150849Abstract: A recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element containing one or more of silver behenate, silver palmitate, and silver stearate, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, wherein the silver behenate, palmitate, or stearate is not associated with mercury and/or lead ions, production processes for particles of substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt primarily comprising silver behenate, silver palmitate, or stearate, with described X-ray characteristics in the substantial absence of organic solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2001Publication date: October 17, 2002Applicant: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Sabine Emmers, Bartholomeus Horsten, Ingrid Geuens, Yvan Gilliams, Dirk Bollen, Ivan Hoogmartens, Andre Bellens
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Patent number: 6461805Abstract: A photothermograpahic material is disclosed having light-sensitive silver halide grains, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein the photothermographic material comprises a silane compound represented by formula (1) or (2): formula (1) (R1O)m—Si—[ (L1)xR2]n formula (2) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 represent each an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; L1, L2, L3 and L4 represent each a bivalent linkage group; m and n are each an integer of 1 to 3, provided that m+n is 4; p1 and p2 are each an integer of 1 to 3 and q1 and q2 are each 0, 1 or 2, provided that p1+q1 and p2+q2 are each 3; r1 and t are each 0 or an integer of 1 to 1000; and x is 0 or 1. The photothermographic material is used on a support.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2001Date of Patent: October 8, 2002Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Takeshi Habu, Shu Nishiwaki, Tsuyoshi Mitsuhashi, Toshihisa Takeyama, Takuji Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20020119406Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising on a support a light-sensitive layer comprising an organic silver salt, light-sensitive silver halide grains, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein after the photothermographic material having been developed at a temperature of not less than 100° C. is subjected to exposure to light of an illumination intensity of 300 lux at 45° C. for 24 hrs., the rate of variation in fog density between before and after exposure is not more than 30%, based on the fog density of the photothermographic material before exposure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2001Publication date: August 29, 2002Inventor: Kiyokazu Morita
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Publication number: 20020098452Abstract: A photographic film comprising a base layer and at least one emulsion layer, the emulsion layer having a melting temperature that is within 4 degrees centigrade of the incubation temperature used in an accelerated core-set test.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2000Publication date: July 25, 2002Inventors: Jehuda Greener, Yongcai Wang, Gary W. Visconte
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Patent number: 6423487Abstract: The present invention provides a thermally processed image recording material having, on a support, an image-forming layer containing at least (a) a silver salt of an organic acid, (b) a reducing agent and (c) a photosensitive silver halide and at least one protective layer provided on the image-forming layer and comprising polymer latex as binders of the image-forming layer and the protective layer, wherein at least one of the image-forming layer and the protective layer contains a viscosity enhancer that increases viscosity of its aqueous solution when the solution is heated and temperature of the solution exceeds a certain transition temperature, and the viscosity enhancer is a polymer selected from the group consisting of polymers containing a (meth)acrylamide derivative represented by the following formula (1) or (2) in an amount of 50 weight % or more as constituent units: (wherein R1 represents H or CH3, R2 represents an alkylene group, R3 to R6 represent H or CH3, and X represents &mType: GrantFiled: April 13, 2001Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Naoi
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Patent number: 6416942Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which comprises a support and provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer comprising a solid particle dispersion of a water-insoluble photographically useful compound, said solid particle dispersion being a dispersion comprising both a water-insoluble photographically useful compound of the formula 1 and a specific polymer having a carboxyl group and an alkoxycarbonyl group: wherein A is an acidic nucleus, L1, L2 and L3 each are a methine group which may be substituted, R1 and R3 each are a hydrogen atom or a substituent (including an atom), R2 is a substituent (including an atom), n is 0 or 1, m is an integer of 0 to 4, when m is an integer of 2 to 4, R2 may be the same or different, X is an electron-withdrawing group having Hammett's substitution constant &sgr;m of 0.3 to 1.5.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2000Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Sasaki, Masatoshi Nakanishi
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Patent number: 6413706Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing an aqueous dispersion of a water-insoluble photographically useful compound, by mixing a composition containing at least one water-insoluble photographically useful organic compound with an aqueous medium, and finely dividing the mixture into particulates by a super-high-pressure homogenizer at 180 MPa (1800 bar) or higher. According to the method, the aqueous dispersion of the water-insoluble photographically useful compound can be produced without using a low-boiling solvent, with excellent energy efficiency and in a simple step. Further, there is also disclosed a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material utilizing the dispersion.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2000Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Nakanishi, Hirokazu Saito
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Patent number: 6413707Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed comprising a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith an acetanilide based yellow dye forming coupler and a compound of the following Formula I: wherein R1, R2 and R3 are each independently aromatic, cyclic, linear, or branched chained hydrocarbon groups. The invention provides photographic elements which exhibit exceptional yellow dye light stability, and which retain desirable properties derived from the use of acetanilide based yellow dye-forming couplers, particularly when used in combination with substituted phenolic and/or thiomorpholine dioxide stabilizers. In addition to stabilizing properties, compounds of Formula I have organic solvent properties, and accordingly may be advantageously used partly or totally in place of conventional high boiling permanent and/or auxiliary organic coupler solvents to disperse the acetanilide-based couplers.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2001Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Kurt M. Schroeder, James S. Honan, Brian Thomas, Thomas A. Rosiek, Paul D. Yacobucci
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Publication number: 20020068246Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support provided thereon at least one light-sensitive layer containing an organic silver salt, light-sensitive silver halide grains and a reducing agent, wherein the surface of at least one side of the photothermographic material exhibits a coefficients of dynamic friction of 0.1 to 0.4 when being in contact with a stainless steel plate heated at a temperature of 100° C. The photothermographic material also contains solid lubricant particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2001Publication date: June 6, 2002Inventor: Kiyokazu Morita