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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7429447 | Photothermographic material and image forming method A photothermographic material having, on at least one side of a support, an image forming layer including at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive silver salt of a fatty acid, a reducing agent, and a binder, wherein 1) the photosensitive silver ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7396638 | Photothermographic material and image forming method The present invention relates to a photothermographic material including, on a same surface of a support, a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein the photosensitive silver halide has a silver i... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7358038 | Black and white photothermographic material and image forming method The present invention provides a black and white photothermographic material having, on at least one side of a support, an image forming layer containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver i... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354733 | Method for sorting and separating living cells We disclose methods of sorting or separating mixtures of living cells (e.g., eukaryotic, prokaryotic, mammalian, pathogenic, bacterial, viral, etc.). We perform our methods by activating cell-selective photophoric labels, which photosensitize and chemically reduce a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7303851 | Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material wherein a silver halide emulsion layer and/or a hydrophilic colloid layer contains at least one hydrazine derivative, and a silver halide emulsion is spectrally sensitized with a particular dye, and ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7277146 | Vertical alignment mode LCD with larger dielectric protrusions in transmissive region than in reflection region The invention provides a liquid crystal display device having a wide viewing angle for transmissive display and reflective display. The liquid crystal display device according to the invention can include a homeotropic liquid crystal layer interposed between a pair ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7264920 | Photothermographic material and image forming method A photothermographic material having, on both sides of a support, an image forming layer including at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ions, and a binder, and an image forming method utilizin... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258970 | Photothermographic material 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. ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7247417 | Optical recording medium and optical recording/reproducing method The present invention provides an optical recording medium that includes a recording layer composed mainly of an organic compound and can utilize blue-violet semiconductor laser light (390 to 420 nm in wavelength) as recording/reproducing laser light. The present in... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244550 | Silver halide color photographic photosensitive material A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material having, on a support, at least one layer of a blue sensitive emulsion layer unit containing a yellow color forming coupler, a green sensitive emulsion layer unit containing a magenta color forming coupler, a... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241725 | Barrier polishing fluid The polishing fluid is useful for polishing tantalum-containing barrier materials of a semiconductor substrate. The polishing fluid includes a nitrogen-containing compound having at least two nitrogen atoms comprising imine compounds and hydrazine compounds. The nit... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241561 | Photothermographic reducing agents with bicyclic or tricyclic substitution Bis phenol reducing agents incorporating bicyclic and tricyclic substituents ortho to the hydroxyl groups on the aromatic rings have been found to provide photothermographic materials with improved silver efficiency and stability without significant loss in sensitom... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7229753 | Photothermographic material and method for forming images A photothermographic material comprising at least (a) a photosensitive silver halide, (b) a reducible silver salt, (c) a reducing compound represented by the following general formula (1), and (d) a binder: Q1—NHNH—R1: Formu... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7229738 | Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, which contains a fluorine compound having two or more fluorinated alkyl groups having two or more carbon atoms and 11 or less fluori... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7211373 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for a silver ion and a binder on one surface of a support, wherein a silver behenate-content of the non-photosensitive organic silver ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7205265 | Cleaning compositions and methods of use thereof A remover composition and method for removing resists from substrates containing nucleophilic amine and at least one solvent is described. Optionally, a chelating agent can also be included in the remover composition. The remover composition is especially suitable f... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7189500 | Photothermographic image-recording material A photothermographic image-recording material with improved storability before image formation and improved coating characteristics, which has a support having provided thereon an image-forming layer, the layer having at least one light-insensitive organic silver sa... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7169543 | Blocked aliphatic thiol stabilizers for photothermographic materials Photothermographic materials contain one or more blocked aliphatic thiol compounds in an amount of at least 1 mg/m2 as stabilizers. These compounds have a calculated octanol-water partition coefficient (c log P value) of 2.0 or greater, and an N value equ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166408 | Image forming method using photothermographic material Provided is an image forming method including providing a photothermographic material having image forming layers containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder on both surfaces of a suppo... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7144688 | Photothermographic material and image forming method The present invention provides a photothermographic material having an image forming layer including at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, on one surface of a support, and having at least on... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145464 | Data collection device In one aspect of the invention a data collection device is provided for use with a medium said medium being usable when exposed to electromagnetic radiation that is characteristic of such use. The data collection device has a sensor capable of sensing when the mediu... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7141352 | Basic compound, resist composition and patterning process Resist compositions comprising basic compounds having a benzimidazole skeleton and a polar functional group have an excellent resolution and an excellent focus margin and are useful in microfabrication using electron beams or deep-UV light. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7115359 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material having a support provided on at least one side of the support light-sensitive silver halide particles, an organic silver salt and a reducing agent, as well as a leuco dye of a specific structure and a compound of a specific structure. | 10/03/2006 |
| 7087366 | Method for chemical sensitization of silver halide for photothermographic use A photothermographic emulsion is prepared by chemically sensitizing silver halide grains formed by oxidative decomposition of a diphenylphosphine sulfide compound on or around the silver halide grains. This procedure uses a unique sequence of steps and provides incr... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7083908 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material including a substrate carrying on one surface thereof an image forming layer containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for a silver ion, and a binder, wherein the phot... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7078146 | Planographic printing plate material, printing plate and printing method Disclosed are a planographic printing plate material comprising a plastic sheet support, and provided thereon, a hydrophilic layer, a silver halide emulsion layer, a physical developing nucleus-containing layer, and a backing layer, wherein the hydrophilic layer, th... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079286 | Method of graphics imaging The printer's page description contains a contone layer and a black layer. The black layer is conceptually above the black layer and is composited over the contone layer by the printer. The print driver therefore maintains a page buffer which correspondingly contain... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7045512 | Fungicidal phenoxyphenylhydrazine derivatives A fungicidally active compound of the formula: a) wherein Q is —NY—NH—, —N═N—, or X is oxygen... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7032517 | Method for the reproduction of spot colors with primary printing inks and secondary printing inks Spot colors are reproduced with a combination of the primary printing inks cyan, magenta, yellow, black and at least one secondary printing ink red, green, blue. A first test form is printed with the primary printing inks and measured calorimetrically. Further test ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7000608 | Solar energy system A solar plant with at least two solar units (10xx) where each of the solar units (10xx) comprises a securing device (12) and a swivel-located supporting structure (14) mounted on it, on which solar modules and/or solar collectors (16 | 02/21/2006 |
| 6958209 | Photothermographic material and image forming method 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 ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6949670 | Fluorocompound, silver halide photographic light-sensitive material, surfactant, and water-based coating composition employing same A fluorocompound denoted by general formula (1) below (wherein R1 denotes a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having a total of at least six carbon atoms, with R1 not being an alkyl group s... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6936404 | Radiation-sensitive recording material having a structured back The invention relates to a recording material for the production of offset printing plates, having a web- or plate-form support, a radiation-sensitive layer on the front of the support and a continuous, pigment particle-free layer on the back of the support. The bac... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6929906 | Silver halide color photosensitive material A silver halide color photosensitive material comprises at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one nonlight-sensitive layer. At least one of the nonlight-sensitive layers contains colloidal silver. The colloidal silver-containing nonl... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6927021 | Photographic developing composition and use thereof in the development of a photographic element A photographic developer composition for use in the development of a black and white silver halide photographic element said composition comprises at least one developing agent and, in an amount sufficient to inhibit sludge deposition, one or more compounds selected... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6924089 | Heat-developable photosensitive material and image forming method An object of the present invention is to provide a novel heat-developable photosensitive material which hardly exerts an influence on the image color tone and exhibits high sensitivity. Disclosed is a heat-developable photosensitive material comprises, on the... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6913876 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support, an organic silver salt, a light-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent and a contrast-increasing agent, wherein the photothermographic material further comprises a secondary or tertiary amino group... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6828088 | Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein 40 mol % or more of silver halide contained in the silver halide emulsion layer is silver bromide and the silver halide cont... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6821721 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material comprising: a substrate; and a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, in a same region defined by the substrate, wherein the photothermographic material further comprises a... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6818374 | Silver halide photographic light-sensitive materials and method for development of the same Disclosed are a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising silver halide containing a metal complex having a cyanide ligand in a silver halide emulsion layer and comprising a hydrazine compound having an onium group in the molecule, and a method ... | 11/16/2004 |
