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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6524782 | Method for preparing silver halide emulsion and silver halide photographic material by use of preparation Preparation method of a silver halide emulsion is disclosed, in which the silver halide emulsion contains tabular grains having a mean equivalent circle diameter of 0.1 to 10.0 μm, a mean grain thickness of 0.01 to 0.3 μm and an aspect ratio of 1.5 to 3... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6342340 | Silver halide light-sensitive material containing a specific dye A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a dye represented by the following formula (1) or formula (2): ##STR1## ##STR2## wherein A1 and B1 each represent substituents other than a naphthalene group; and ... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6340036 | Powdery-particles supplying method and apparatus, and control method for flowing solid-state substances A control method for discharging particles and an apparatus executing the method are disclosed. The control method includes steps of passing particles through a particles-supplying path connected to a supplying section of the particles at one end of it, a... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6340562 | Silver halide photographic emulsion and silver halide photographic light-sensitive material A silver halide photographic emulsion, wherein silver halide grains are prepared by adding a compound capable of forming cross-linkage with gelatin to said silver halide grains in any of processes before the completion of chemical sensitization after the ... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6338941 | Silver halide light sensitive photographic material and image forming method by the use thereof A silver halide light sensitive photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support and at least one hydrophilic colloid layer including a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the hydrophilic colloid layer comprises a compound represented by the fol... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6339679 | Single use camera with built-in electronic flash A single use camera with a built-in electronic flash includes a main body; a photographic film loaded in the main body previously; an electronic flash unit having an electronic flash light emitting section and an electronic flash circuit; and a photograph... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6339483 | Image reading apparatus In a film scanner, for reading an original image on a photographic film, provided with an optical system for irradiating light to the original image on the photographic film and for focusing light from the photographic film so as to form an image and phot... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6337953 | Strobe device of lens-fitted film unit and production method of the strobe device A strobe device, including: a strobe circuit board; a connecting conductor composed of a wire member; and a strobe emitting portion which includes; a) a light emitting tube, having electrode terminals on its both ends, b) a reflector for reflecting strobe... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6329135 | Silver halide photothermographic material A silver halide photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a light-sensitive layer and light-insensitive layer, wherein the light-sensitive layer or the light-insensitive layer comprises a heteroatom-containing macrocycl... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6322960 | Silver halide emulsion A silver halide emulsion is disclosed, containing silver halide grains having a chloride content of not less than 90 mol %, wherein the silver halide grains each are internally doped with compound (A), compound (B) and compound (C); compounds (A) and (B) ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6319659 | Silver halide emulsion, preparation method thereof and silver halide photographic light sensitive material A method for preparing a silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains is disclosed, comprising: reacting a silver salt solution and a halide salt solution to perform silver halide grain nucleation, followed by silver halide grain growth to form ... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6320607 | Electronic still camera In electronic still camera 30 provided with an image pickup lens constituting optical system 31 which focuses a subject image on a predetermined image-focusing plane; a solid image pickup element CCD which is provided at the position of the image-focusing... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6319657 | Image forming method of photothermographic material An image forming method is disclosed, comprising the steps of processing image data or setting an exposure condition so that an image size is enlarged or reduced, imagewise exposing a photothermographic material to laser to form an image enlarged or reduc... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6311028 | Fixing apparatus with controlled heaters A fixing apparatus for controlling fixing temperature by controlling operations of a plurality of heaters, the apparatus includes: a timer for measuring a period of time for operations of the plurality of heaters; and a controller for controlling operatio... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6308829 | Photographic device set A photographic device set including: a photographic device having a shutter device, a camera lens, a diaphragm and a photographing operation section; a photographic film built in the photographic device in advance; and a packing material with which the ph... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6308039 | Apparatus for fixing toner images on a transfer material In a fixing apparatus for fixing toner images on a transfer material upon which toner images have been placed by applying heat to the transfer material, the fixing apparatus includes: a roll-shaped rotary member for applying heat to the transfer material ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6301022 | Correction method of document inclination angle A correction method of a document inclination angle includes the steps of: first detecting an edge of a document; second detecting an inclination amount of the document corresponding to an inclination angle according to a detected result of the edge of th... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6298885 | Powder accommodating container A powder accommodating container for accommodating powder includes: a flexible bag having an opening, capable of storing the powder; a protecting member for enclosing at least part of the flexible bag, wherein the protecting member is capable of being tra... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6296980 | Toner for developing electrostatic image and image forming method Disclosed is a toner for developing electrostatic image, comprising a resin and colorant. The toner has a variation coefficient of shape coefficient of not more than 16 percent and a number variation coefficient in the number particle size distribution of... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6297001 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent a binder and a cross-linking agent; the photothermographic material further comprising a compound capable of ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6295426 | Toner cartridge Disclosed is a toner cartridge comprising: a container body for storing toner, said container body having an opening through which said toner is discharged, wherein said container body is made of a resin having an Izod impact value of 0.1 to 30, and a mel... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6291147 | Processing method of a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material A method for processing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising the following steps, a step for developing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material in a developing solution, a step for fixing said silver halide photographi... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6287755 | Thermally developable photosensitive material A thermally developable photosensitive material comprising photosensitive silver halide grains, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, characterized in that a dispersibility ((standard deviation of circle equivalent diameter of cell)/(aver... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6287740 | Toner and image forming method A toner for electrophotography is disclosed. The toner comprises a binder resin and a colorant and a wax in amount of 0.5 to 8 percent by weight, and adhesion power index of wax particles to toner particles is between 0.7 and 2.2. The toner improves the d... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6284449 | Silver halide emulsion and silver halide light sensitive photographic material A silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains is disclosed, in which at least 50% of total grain projected area is accounted for by silver halide regular crystal grains exhibiting a proportion of a (100) face per grain of not less than 50% and ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6268097 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor An electrophotographic photoreceptor is disclosed. The photoreceptor comprises pigment particles obtained by incorporating one or more metal atom into polycyclic anhydride-aromatic diamine condensation compound particles.... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6268118 | Photosensitive emulsion, thermally developable photosensitive material containing the same, image recording method and image forming method employing the same Disclosed is a thermally developable photosensitive material having a photosensitive layer comprising a photosensitive silver halide, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder, a thermally developable photosensitive material the organic silve... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6265122 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor and an image forming apparatus and a process cartridge using the same In an electrophotographic photoreceptor which comprises an electrically conductive support having thereon a multilayer composed of a photosensitive layer and a protective surface layer in said order, an electrophotographic photoreceptor characterized in t... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6263186 | Image forming apparatus and conveyance control method thereof An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet feeding member for feeding a recording material; an image recording member for recording an image on the recording material; a conveyance path connecting the sheet feeding member and the image recording member,... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6261748 | Recovering method of support and useful ingredient from image forming material A method for recovering a resin support from an image forming material comprising a resin support having thereon an image forming layer is disclosed, in which the image forming material is immersed into a dipolar aprotic solvent or an alkaline alcohol and... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6258499 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor, an image forming method, an image forming apparatus, and an apparatus unit An electrophotographic photoreceptor is disclosed. The photoreceptor comprises an electrically conductive support having thereon a photosensitive layer in which the glass transition temperature of the surface layer of said photosensitive layer is at least... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6255029 | Process for preparing a color toner for developing an electrostatic image A process for preparing a color toner for developing an electrostatic image comprising a step of polymerizing monomers to obtain resin particles, wherein the color toner comprises primary particles or secondary particles of resin particles, and a metal co... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6248494 | Toner for developing an electrostatic image and a production method thereof, and an image forming method A toner for developing an electrostatic image is disclosed. The toner comprises colored particles containing a resin and a colorant, the volume average particle diameter of said colored particles is 3 to 9 μm, the shape coefficient of said colored partic... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6248512 | Thermally processable photosensitive material, image forming method and antifoggant An image forming method for a thermally processable photosensitive material is disclosed, comprising exposing a thermally processable photosensitive material to light using a laser light source, and subjecting the exposed photosensitive material to therma... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6249664 | Developing apparatus having two rotors for agitating and conveying developer A developing device for developing an electrostatic latent image on a photoreceptor having an A-side and a B-side, the latter being located closer to the photoreceptor than the former. There is a developing cylinder at the B-side in close proximity to the... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6248406 | Light-sensitive material and coating apparatus thereof A coating apparatus for coating a conveyed support with an emulsion for a photographic light-sensitive material by letting the emulsion flow down between a pair of edge guides so as to form a curtain layer of the emulsion. The apparatus includes a slide s... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6245500 | Method for gelling a photographic coating composition and an apparatus of the same A method of cooling a photographic coating composition in a sol state is disclosed. The composition that includes photographic emulsion, an emulsified material or gelatin solution, or comprising combinations thereof is continuously cooled by employing hea... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6242609 | Method for manufacturing a color coupler used in a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material A method for manufacturing a color coupler used in a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material using an ammonium trihalide. Said method for manufacturing the color coupler comprising the following step: a step for halogenating a coupling position of ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6239207 | Active-methylene functionalized latex polymer prepared in the presence of a hydrophilic isoprene sulfuric acid polymer, and sheet material comprising same A latex is prepared by polymerizing a polymerizable monomer having an active methylene group in the presence of a hydrophilic polymer. The hydrophilic polymer comprises an isoprene sulfonic acid or salts thereof as a monomer unit. A sheet material is prep... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6240255 | Strobe device of lens-fitted film unit and production method of strobe device A strobe device, including: a reflector, having a reflection surface which reflects a strobe light forwardly; a light emitting tube, having electrodes on its ends and provided inside the reflector, for emitting the strobe light; and a transmission window ... | 05/29/2001 |
