Dye Mordant Patents (Class 430/941)
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Patent number: 11643497Abstract: Here are described polymers comprising monomeric units from vinylimidazole derivatives and their use in electrode materials and/or electrolyte compositions, as well as their methods of preparation. Also described are electrode materials, electrodes, and electrochemical cells comprising the polymers and their use.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignees: HYDRO-QUEBEC, MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Jean-Christophe Daigle, Charlotte Mallet, Yuichiro Asakawa, Melanie Beaupre, Shinichi Uesaka, Karim Zaghib
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Patent number: 10676628Abstract: A surface treatment liquid composition for a substrate is provided. The surface treatment liquid composition includes a water-soluble salt, water, and a resin particle including a resin having a structural unit represented by the following formula (1): where R1 represents —COO—; each of R2 and R3 independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and n represents an integer of from 5 to 100.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Saiga, Satoyuki Sekiguchi, Ryo Miyakoshi, Daisuke Asahina
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Patent number: 7485402Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet comprising at least one receiving layer containing a polymer latex and at least one heat insulating layer containing a hollow polymer on a support, wherein the polymer latex contained in the receiving layer comprises two or more dyable polymers having different glass transition temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2007Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takuya Arai, Yoshio Ishii, Yoshihisa Tsukada, Toshihide Yoshitani
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Patent number: 6692879Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which has dyeability high enough to realize high-speed printing and low-energy printing, permits a protective layer to be thermally transferred onto an image formed on the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, is free from heat fusing to a thermal transfer sheet at the time of image formation on the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, and has satisfactory separability from the thermal transfer sheet.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shino Suzuki, Masahiro Yuki, Takenori Omata, Munenori Ieshige, Hidemasa Kaida
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Publication number: 20030203293Abstract: There is provided a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet which has dyeability high enough to realize high-speed printing and low-energy printing, permits a protective layer to be thermally transferred onto an image formed on the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, is free from heat fusing to a thermal transfer sheet at the time of image formation on the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, and has satisfactory separability from the thermal transfer sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2002Publication date: October 30, 2003Inventors: Shino Suzuki, Masahiro Yuki, Takenori Omata, Munenori Ieshige, Hidemasa Kaida
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Publication number: 20030031963Abstract: The invention provides an opaque reflective photographic material eg paper whose non image side is coated with a mordant in an amount to absorb during washing of the photographic material dyes that would contribute to staining of the final image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2002Publication date: February 13, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Henry H. Adam
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Publication number: 20010010889Abstract: A developing paper having an image receiving dye layer containing a plasticizing agent on a substrate, the plasticizing agent including a solid plasticizing agent which is solid in the application temperature and a liquid plasticizing agent which is liquid in the application temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: AKihiro Horii, Akihiko Konno, Masanobu Hida, Satoru Shinohara
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Patent number: 6268105Abstract: There is disclosed a dye-fixing element utilizable to form an image by releasing or producing an image-forming dye or a precursor thereof in proportion or contraproportion to developed silver formed by development after imagewise exposing of a photosensitive silver halide and thereafter by diffusion or diffusive-transfer of the dye, which element comprises a polymeric dye mordant containing a recurring unit of the formula (A) and/or (B): wherein R12 and R22 each are H or an alkyl group, Y1 and Y2 each are ←CONR4—, ←COO— or ←CH(OH)CH2O—, X is Cl, Br, I or OH, Z is an atomic group necessary to form a 5- to 7-membered heteroring together with the N, R13 and R23 each are H, CH3, C2H5, or a halogen atom, and R4 is H or an alkyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms, and the symbol ← is a bond on the side of the main chain of the polymer. There is also disclosed a method for forming a color image excellent in fastness to light without causing any color-mixing.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2000Date of Patent: July 31, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Arakatsu, Nobuo Seto, Toshiki Taguchi
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Patent number: 6207344Abstract: A resin composition having laser marking properties comprising a polycarbonate resin, an effective amount of a copper chromite having a spinel structure and up to 0.05% by weight of the total composition of carbon black, wherein said polycarbonate resin foams in laser struck areas to form light colored markings in the laser struck areas on a dark background.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1999Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Anne Ramlow, Terence John Lillie, Theodorus Lambertus Hoeks
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Patent number: 6146733Abstract: A phase change type optical recording medium comprises a dielectric layer 1a, a dielectric layer 1b, a phase change type recording layer and a second dielectric layer in the described order. The recording layer satisfies Ac/Aa.gtoreq.0.8 where Ac is an absorption coefficient of the recording layer in a crystalline region and Aa is an absorption coefficient of the recording layer in an amorphous region. The dielectric layer 1a comprises ZnS--SiO.sub.2 as main components and the dielectric layer 1b comprises a metal nitride or ZnS--SiO.sub.2 having an SiO.sub.2 content of 40 to 80 mol % as main components. At least an area of the second dielectric layer that is in contact with the recording layer comprises a metal nitride, a rare earth oxide, silicon oxide or ZnS--SiO.sub.2 having an SiO.sub.2 content of at least 40 mol% as main components. However, an optical recording medium comprising a dielectric layer 1a having an SiO.sub.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1998Date of Patent: November 14, 2000Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Hiroyasu Inoue, Tatsuya Kato, Hajime Utsunomiya
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Patent number: 5871880Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least one photographic constitutional layer coated on a support, wherein at least one of the photographic constitutional layers contains at least one reducing agent for color formation represented by formula (I), at least one coupler for forming a diffusive dye, and at least one mordant. The material is capable of reducing the amount of developer and to be replenished or discharged after processing, and of reducing the occurrence of stain after development during storage of the material. There is also disclosed an image-forming method using the material. ##STR1## wherein C.alpha. represents a carbon atom; Z represents a carbamoyl, acyl, alkoxycarbonyl, or aryloxycarbonyl group; and Q represents a group of atoms to form, together with C.alpha., an unsaturated ring.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 1996Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Makuta, Koki Nakamura
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Patent number: 5861230Abstract: There is described a novel process of polymerizing 4-vinyl pyridine monomer in an aqueous polymerization system which comprises preparing an aqueous solution of polyvinyl alcohol, and contacting said aqueous solution of a polyvinyl alcohol with less than about 10% by weight of 4-vinyl pyridine monomer and a water-soluble initiator capable of decomposing to give free radicals.The resultant dispersion of the novel polymerization process comprises a homogeneous, i.e., weight average molecular weight and particle size, poly-4-vinylpyridine, with no appreciable residual 4-vinyl pyridine monomer.The resultant dispersion may be used to coat image- and ink-receiving layers of image-recording materials and ink jet recording sheets, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1997Date of Patent: January 19, 1999Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Shawn P. Lambert, Xiaojia Z. Wang
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Patent number: 5834154Abstract: A thermal transfer image-receiving sheet comprising a substrate sheet, a dye-receptive layer provided on at least one surface of the substrate sheet, and a backing layer provided on the other surface of the substrate sheet, wherein the dye-receptive layer contains polycaprolactone.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1996Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayasu Yamazaki, Satoru Kawai, Kenichiro Suto
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Patent number: 5709971Abstract: Dye imbibition printing blanks are disclosed comprising a support bearing on one side thereof a dye-receiving layer comprising a cationic mordant, and further comprising an antistatic layer substantially free of cationic polymers. The antistatic layer is preferably provided on the opposite side of the support relative to the dye-receiving layer. Such antistatic layer provides improved antistatic properties which enable high manufacturing and processing speeds without adversely affecting printed image qualities.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1996Date of Patent: January 20, 1998Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Wayne Arthur Bowman, Charles Peter Hagmaier, Frank Dean Manioci
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Patent number: 5643709Abstract: A thermal transfer recording material capable of giving a color image having an excellent color reproducibility as well as good light fastness and free from fading, bleeding and contamination of an article contacted is provided. The thermal transfer recording material comprises a thermal transfer dye donating material containing the specified thermally migratable, dissociative heteryl azo dye of phenol or naphthol type and an image receiving material for thermal transfer printing, containing at least one of basic materials and mordants as a dye receiving compound.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 1996Date of Patent: July 1, 1997Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayoshi Kamio, Yasuhiro Ishiwata, Tomomi Tateishi
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Patent number: 5622808Abstract: Dye imbibition printing blanks are disclosed comprising a support bearing a layer comprising a cationic mordant, a hydrophilic colloid and a plasticizer polymer, wherein the plasticizer polymer is a latex polymer having a glass transition temperature below about 30.degree. C. comprising from about 2 to 20 wt % of units having a quaternary ammonium group. In a preferred embodiment, the latex polymer comprises a vinyl co-polymer addition product of from about 50 to 98 weight percent of acrylic or methacrylic ester units, 0 to 48 weight percent of vinyl benzene units and 2 to 20 weight percent of the quaternary ammonium group containing unit. This latex provides a dye imbibition printing blank substantially free of haze and brittleness.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1996Date of Patent: April 22, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Wayne A. Bowman, Charles P. Hagmaier, Frank D. Manioci
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Patent number: 5614345Abstract: A paper for thermal image transfer to flat porous surfaces is characterized by a paper support and a layer applied thereto which contains an ethylene copolymer or an ethylene copolymer mixture and a dye-receiving layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1996Date of Patent: March 25, 1997Assignee: Felix Schoeller Jr. Foto-Und Spezialpapiere GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Rainer Gumbiowski, Rolf Ebisch, Hartmut Schulz
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Patent number: 5607809Abstract: Disclosed is image receiving sheet having a support sheet, a first image receiving layer thereon and a second image receiving layer provided on the first image receiving layer; wherein the second image receiving layer comprises butyral resin and polymer having at least one of recurring units represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and Q represents a group having amide bond, a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group, or a phenyl group substituted with residue of ammonium salt. Further, a thermal transfer recording methods by area gradation using a heat sensitive ink sheet and the image receiving sheet are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1995Date of Patent: March 4, 1997Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki Nakamura, Akihiko Takeda, Tomizo Namiki
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Patent number: 5576140Abstract: An image-receiving sheet material for forming a transfer image by heat-transferring an ink layer from a transfer material having a heat-transferable ink layer onto an image-receiving sheet material, and re-transferring the ink layer onto a permanent support. The image-receiving sheet material comprises a support having thereon at least two image-receiving layers, at least one of the image-receiving layers is transferred onto the permanent support, and at least the image-receiving layer onto which the ink layer is transferred contains a modified resin prepared from a polyvinyl acetal resin containing hydroxyl groups in which from 0.1 to 1 equivalent of the hydroxyl groups of the polyvinyl acetal resin have been converted to a group represented by formula (I). In a preferred embodiment, the image-receiving layer onto which the ink layer is transferred further contains a high molecular weight compound having at least a repeating unit represented by formula (II) and/or formula (III).Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1996Date of Patent: November 19, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Wakata, Hideyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 5554483Abstract: There is disclosed a photographic image including an ink-acceptable surface thereon. The photographic image may be formed by known conventional or diffusion transfer techniques. The ink-acceptable surface is formed by applying an aqueous mixture of a polymeric mordant material over the photograph and forming a relatively clear dry coating thereon. The subject coating provides an ink-acceptable surface upon the photograph which accepts and retains ink applied thereto and resist the remove of such ink therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1995Date of Patent: September 10, 1996Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Thomas G. DeNoto, Paul E. Nangeroni, David F. Oberhauser
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Patent number: 5518877Abstract: Improved photographic properties are obtained if the photographic silver halide material contains a copolymer with polypeptide segments, wherein the polypeptide segments are derived from polypeptides with an average molecular weight M.sub.w of 2000 to 40000.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1995Date of Patent: May 21, 1996Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AGInventors: Gunter Helling, Klaus Wagner
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Patent number: 5498505Abstract: A dye fixing element comprising a polymer mordant, said polymer mordant containing at least one monomeric unit including at least one group derived from the class of tertiary amines, thioethers, aromatic 5-membered heterocyclic rings, hydrazides, hydrazones and polyarylphenols, and at least one quaternary ammonium group.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1994Date of Patent: March 12, 1996Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiro Tsukahara, Hiroshi Arakatsu
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Patent number: 5447818Abstract: A color diffusion transfer film unit and an image formation method using the same are disclosed, in which a light-sensitive material containing a specific sulfonamide compound of formula (I) and a specific tertiary amine compound of formula (II) is processed with an alkali processing composition containing a specific tertiary amine polymer. The film provides a transferred color image having a high density with reduced dependency on processing time, and suppresses changes in density of the resulting image with time after processing.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1994Date of Patent: September 5, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Naruse, Hideki Naito, Jiro Tsukahara, Tomokazu Yasuda
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Patent number: 5419996Abstract: Disclosed is a color diffusion transfer photosensitive material containing a compound represented by a color diffusion transfer photosensitive material containing at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group or an aryl group; and R.sub.3 represents an aliphatic group or a group represented by the following general formula (Ab): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.4 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group or an aryl group and R.sub.5 represents an aliphatic group, an aryl group or an amino group; and further, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, R.sub.1 and R.sub.3, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, or R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 may combine with each other to form a 5- to 7-membered ring, or R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may combine with one another to form a bicyclo ring; wherein the total number of carbon atoms contained in R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is not smaller than 10, at least either R.sub.1 or R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1994Date of Patent: May 30, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Naruse, Nobuo Seto, Masakazu Morigaki, Masayuki Negoro
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Patent number: 5419990Abstract: A color filter array is made by a method which uses a dye solution having a charge opposite to that of a mordant and an ionic component of the same charge as the dye solution.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1993Date of Patent: May 30, 1995Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Ronald W. Wake, Sibylle L. Reithel
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Patent number: 5403955Abstract: Novel mordants based upon a polyethyleneimine backbone and either pendant phosphonium or quaternized-nitrogen compounds are disclosed. The mordants find use in stopping or controlling ink-bleeding into ink-jet receptors and photographic films.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1994Date of Patent: April 4, 1995Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Omar Farooq
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Patent number: 5395731Abstract: Copolymeric mordant materials containing recurring units according to the following formula are disclosed: ##STR1## In such copolymers, each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 can independently be alkyl; substituted-alkyl; cycloalkyl; aryl; aralkyl; alkaryl; or at least two of R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, together with the quaternary nitrogen atom to which they are bonded, can complete a saturated or unsaturated, substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring; X is an anion; R.sup.4 is hydrogen or alkyl (e.g. methyl). The pendent "b" group contain hydrogen-bonding sites for promotion of self-associated aggregation and ring unsaturation for photocyclization and control of physical properties (e.g., water insensitivity) of the image-receiving layer. The copolymeric mordant materials can be utilized as image-receiving layers in photographic products and processes of the diffusion transfer type.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1994Date of Patent: March 7, 1995Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: J. Michael Grasshoff, Lloyd D. Taylor, John C. Warner
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Patent number: 5395720Abstract: A dye transfer receptor sheet suitable, for thermal dye transfer imaging is described. The receptor sheet comprises a substrate having a receptor layer comprising a vinyl resin mixed or blended with a linear saturated thermoplastic polyester having aliphatic and aromatic groups.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1994Date of Patent: March 7, 1995Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Susan K. Jongewaard, Robert A. Braun
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Patent number: 5395719Abstract: A dye transfer receptor sheet suitable for thermal dye transfer imaging is described which can provide a metal background to the transfered image. The receptor sheet comprises an organic polymeric substrate having a vapor deposited metal layer, a primer layer comprising a linear saturated thermoplastic polyester and a thermoset alkyd polyester, and a receiving layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1994Date of Patent: March 7, 1995Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Susan K. Jongewaard, Robert A. Braun
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Patent number: 5380619Abstract: Phosphonium mordanting polymer comprising randomly distributed recurring units corresponding to the general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein: A represents a unit that is derived from a copolymerizable monomer having a hydrophobic character e.g. acrylonitrile,n represents an integer of from 1 to about 12;each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 (same or different) represents a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an aryl group;X.sup.-- represents an acid anion e.g. a halogen anion, or an anion derived from an inorganic acid;x+y+z represents from about 2 mole % to about 70 mole % with y+z maximum 15 mole % andw represents from about 30 mole % to about 98 mole %.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 1994Date of Patent: January 10, 1995Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Daniel, M. Timmerman, Daniel A. Claeys, Wilhelmus Janssens
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Patent number: 5370984Abstract: In a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers contains a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, in which tabular grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more occupy 50% or more of a total projected area of silver halide grains, and a polymer represented by Formula (1) below in an amount of 10.sup.-3 to 10 g per mole of the silver halide. In Formula (1), A represents a repeating unit derived from an ethylenic unsaturated monomer having at least one basic nitrogen atom, and B represents a repeating unit, other than A, derived from an ethylenic unsaturated monomer. x and y each represents a percentage by weight. x represents 0.1 to 100, and y represents 0 to 99.9.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1993Date of Patent: December 6, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunji Takada, Junichi Yamanouchi
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Patent number: 5362613Abstract: A cationic high-molecular weight compound is represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom or C.sub.1-6 lower alkyl group; L.sup.1 represents --COO-- or --CONH-- and L.sup.2 represents a divalent group; J represents a C.sub.1-20 alkylene group or C.sub.7-20 aralkylene group; R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 may be the same or different and each represents a C.sub.1-20 alkyl group or C.sub.7-20 aralkyl group; X.sup.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1993Date of Patent: November 8, 1994Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Shiratsuchi, Fumio Kawamoto
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Patent number: 5262272Abstract: Vinyl stearate-vinyl chloride copolymers and blends of polyvinyl stearate and polyvinyl chloride have been found to have good dye permeability. They have been incorporated into photothermographic constructions as barrier interlayers and dye receiving layers.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1992Date of Patent: November 16, 1993Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Gilbert L. Eian, Alan M. Miller, Takuzo Ishida
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Patent number: 5242781Abstract: A process of forming images with a heat-developable color light-sensitive material is disclosed. The process of forming images comprises steps of exposing imagewise a heat-developable color light-sensitive material which comprises a support having thereon a light-sensitive layer containing a binder, light-sensitive silver halide emulsion and dye donating substance capable of forming or releasing a diffusible dye upon heat development and superposing a dye image receiving material which comprises a support having thereon a dye receiving layer, over the light-sensitive material during, or after completion of, heat development to transfer dye images to said dye image receiving layer; wherein the dye image receiving layer contains a hydrophilic binder and polymer particles; a weight ration of the hydrophilic binder to the polymer particles is from 1:05 to 1:20; and the heat development and transfer of dye images to the dye image receiving layer are carried out in the substantial absence of water.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1991Date of Patent: September 7, 1993Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Keiji Ohbayashi, Masaru Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 5194361Abstract: A diffusion transfer color photosensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least light-sensitive silver halides, binders and nondiffusible dye-providing compounds capable of releasing or forming a diffusible dye, corresponding to or counter-corresponding to the progress of conversion of the siliver halide into silver through reductive reaction, which contains as a trapping agent at least one compound represented by the following formula (I) to prevent the generation and/or the transfer of dyes in the white area without causing the lowering of image density:--(A).sub.p --(B).sub.q-- (I)[wherein A represents at least one vinyl monomer unit containing a quaternary ammonium ion associated therewith a counter ion at least 50 mol % of which is constituted by an anion represented by the following formula (II):R--X.sup.- (II)(wherein X.sup.- represents SO.sub.3.sup.- and/or COO.sup.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1991Date of Patent: March 16, 1993Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshiki Taguchi
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Patent number: 5104778Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide photosensitive layer and at least one layer containing an acidic dye, a cationic polymer mordant and gelatin, wherein said mordant containing layer further contains a dispersion of an anionic polymer thickener represented by formula (I):--A.sub.x --B).sub.y --E).sub.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1990Date of Patent: April 14, 1992Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Yamanouchi, Kazuhiko Takeuchi
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Patent number: 5085980Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed comprising a support having provided thereon a highly water-absorbing high molecular weight compound having degree of swelling of 5 or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1991Date of Patent: February 4, 1992Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Aono, Koichi Nakamura, Takeshi Shibata
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Patent number: 5075197Abstract: A diffusion transfer photographic element wherein there is included at least one layer which contains a water based polymer dispersion obtained by adding at least one ethylenic unsaturated monomer which contains a sulfinic acid group to a polymer dispersion which contains repeating units which have at least one quaternary ammonium salt and carrying out a polymerization.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1990Date of Patent: December 24, 1991Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Yamanouchi, Yukio Karino
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Patent number: 5023162Abstract: A photographic element comprising a polymer mordant containing a repeating unit containing a tertiary amino group or a quaternary ammonium salt and at least one reprating unit represented by the formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, which may be the same or different, each represent an alkyl group or substituted alkyl group; R.sup.6, R.sup.7, and R.sup.8, which may be the same or different, each represent hydrogen, an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group; R.sup.11 represents an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a substituted alkoxy group, an acylamino group or a halogen atom; R.sup.12 and R.sup.13, which may be the same or different, each represent an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group; L.sup.1 and L.sup.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1989Date of Patent: June 11, 1991Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junichi Yamanouchi, Kentaro Shiratsuchi, Yukio Karino, Takeshi Shibata
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Patent number: 5004659Abstract: An image receiving material suitable for image production by dye diffusion transfer processing controlled by the development of (an) image-wise exposed silver halide emulsion layer(s), wherein said image receiving material comprises a supported image receiving layer free from gelatin and containing (1) a cationic polymeric mordant, and (2) colloidal silica applied from an aqueous acidic colloidal sol having a pH of not more than 4, and containing hydrated silica in combination with a smaller amount of colloidal alumina, the amount of said colloidal material to said mordant in the image-receiving layer being in a weight ratio range from 1/5 to 1/2, and silica (SiO.sub.2) being present at a coverage of at least 0.5 g per m2.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1990Date of Patent: April 2, 1991Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Leon L. Vermeulen, Robert S. Pauwels, Willy P. De Smedt, Ludovicus H. Vervloet
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Patent number: 4981933Abstract: Azlactone copolymers having at least two different reactive groups and useful as intermediates for the production of a variety of useful polymeric materials contain repeating units according to the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or alkyl (e.g., methyl); each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is hydrogen, alkyl (e.g., methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl); aryl (e.g., phenyl, naphthyl), alkaryl (e.g., tolyl), aralkyl (e.g., benzyl), cycloalkyl (e.g., cyclohexyl, adamantyl), or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 together with the carbon atom to which they are bonded constitute a carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring; each of R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 is hydrogen or alkyl (e.g., methyl, ethyl); Z is halogen, such as chlorine and each of a and b represents a mole proportion of each of the respective units.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1989Date of Patent: January 1, 1991Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Robert C. Fazio, Lloyd D. Taylor
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Patent number: 4965180Abstract: A silver halide photographic material which comprises a support having a subbing layer containing an aqueous polymer latex represented by the following formula (I), which has a cross linked structure: ##STR1## wherein A represents an ethylenic unsaturated monomer unit; R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; L represents a divalent group having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms; R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or a hydrogen atom; Q represents nitrogen or phosphorus; X-represents an anion other than iodine ion; and B represents a structural unit in which copolymerizable monomers having at least two ethylenic unsaturated groups have been copolymerized: x is selected to constituted from 0 to 90 mol%; y is selected to constitute from 10 to 99.9 mol%; z is selected to constitute from 0.1 to 50 mol%; and R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1988Date of Patent: October 23, 1990Assignee: Fujii Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Suematsu, Sumito Yamada, Tomokazu Yasuda, Junichi Yamanouchi, Yasuo Mukunoki
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Patent number: 4957856Abstract: A silver halide photographic material which comprises a support having provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one subbing layer, wherein the at least one subbing layer comprises a binder, a polymer represented by formula (I), a dye represented by formula (II) and a nonionic surface active agent, all described hereinbelow, which has improved sharpness by virtue of the decoloring capable anti-halation function provided by the subbing layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1989Date of Patent: September 18, 1990Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Suematsu, Sumito Yamada, Shigeru Ohno, Tadashi Ito
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Patent number: 4943514Abstract: A negative-working dyeable photoresist composition comprising in admixture(a) a poly(vinyl alcohol) binder,(b) a radiation-sensitive dichromate, and(c) a polymeric mordant comprising recurring units derived from a quaternized N-vinylimidazole is useful in the preparation of continuous tone dyed imaging elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1988Date of Patent: July 24, 1990Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Raymond F. Reithel, Richard C. Sutton
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Patent number: 4942103Abstract: A solid state color image sensing device comprising a semiconductive support having a surface comprising an array of light sensing pixels and superimposed thereon in microregistration a color filter array having at least three sets of dyed filter elements is characterized in that at least one set of the filter elements is formed from a negative-working dyeable photoresist composition comprising, in admixture,(a) a poly(vinyl alcohol) binder,(b) a radiation-sensitive dichromate, and(c) a polymeric mordant comprising recurring units derived from a quaternized N-vinylimidazole.Color filter elements prepared from the dyeable photoresist composition have high resolution, excellent clarity and dye uptake, and low absorbance of blue light and thus are particularly useful in high quality high resolution solid state color imaging sensors having excellent thermal and light stability. A method of making the above-described device is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1988Date of Patent: July 17, 1990Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Raymond F. Reithel, Richard C. Sutton
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Patent number: 4933268Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one hydrophilic colloid layer containing at least one dye represented by formula (I), ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a substituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, each group being substituted by at least one carboxylic acid group or sulfonic acid group; R.sub.2 represents --CONR.sub.3 R.sub.4 or --NR.sub.3 COR.sub.4, wherein R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group and R.sub.4 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group having a hydrophobic substituent constant .pi. in the range of about 1.60.ltoreq..pi..ltoreq.about 3.90; L.sub.1, L.sub.2, and L.sub.3 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted methine group; and n represents 0, 1, or 2.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1988Date of Patent: June 12, 1990Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Ohno, Tadashi Ito, Sumito Yamada, Tomokazu Yasuda, Keiichi Adachi
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Patent number: 4882616Abstract: A color filter, particularly a color filter for a solid state imaging device, comprising a dyeable resin layer, a plurality of variously colored dyed-areas formed in the dyeable resin layer, a plurality of non-dyed areas separating the dyed area from each other in the dyeable resin layer, and a plurality of photo-interception areas formed on the non-dyed areas is disclosed. The dyed areas are generally separated from each other by a distance greater than the diffusion length generated during dyeing or heat treatment. The dyed areas can also be spread under the photo-interception areas by a distance substantially equal to the diffusion length generated during dyeing or heat treatment.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1988Date of Patent: November 21, 1989Assignee: Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Daisuke Manabe
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Patent number: 4876167Abstract: A color filter array is disclosed containing interlaid sets of laterally displaced filters comprised of a polymeric matrix and at least one dye. At least one of the sets of filters is comprised of an anionic dye and a cationic polymeric mordant having crosslinking repeating units containing two quaternary ammonium mordanting moieties and a photogenerated ethylenic crosslinking moiety.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1987Date of Patent: October 24, 1989Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Robert A. Snow, Hugh G. McGuckin, Ignazio S. Ponticello, Robert C. Daly, Laurel J. Pace, Sandra K. Fischer, Michael J. Hanrahan
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Patent number: 4876166Abstract: A color filter array suitable for use in an image sensor is formed with a first layer having a mordant of one polarity and a first dye of the opposite polarity, and a second layer having a second mordant of a polarity opposite to the first mordant and a second dye of a polarity opposite to the second mordant.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1988Date of Patent: October 24, 1989Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Ronald W. Wake, Sibylle L. Reithel, Hugh G. McGuckin
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Patent number: 4855211Abstract: Phosphonium mordanting polymer, that is capable of fixing acid dyes and that comprises randomly distributed recurring units corresponding to the general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein: A represents a unit that is derived from a copolymerizable monomer capable of quenching singlet oxygen e.g. N-vinylimidazole or 2-methyl-1-vinylimidazole;B represents a unit that is derived from a copolymerizable monomer having a hydrophobic character e.g. acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile;n represents an integer of from 1 to about 12;each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 (same or different) represents a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl group e.g. n-butyl, a substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl group e.g. a methylol group, a cyanoethyl group or an aralkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group e.g. phenyl, or a substituted aryl group;X.sup.- represents an acid anion e.g. a halogen anion e.g. Cl.sup.-, Br.sup.- or I.sup.-, or an anion derived from an inorganic acid e.g. NO.sub.3.sup.-, HSO.sub.4.sup.-, SO.sub.4.sup.--, H.sub.2 PO.sub.4.sup.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1988Date of Patent: August 8, 1989Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.Inventors: Wilhelmus Janssens, Daniel M. Timmerman, Daniel A. Claeys