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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7422843 | Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material for movie, containing, on a side of a transmission-type support, yellow-, cyan- and magenta-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers and a non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer,... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419774 | Photothermographic material and method for processing the same Disclosed is a photothermographic material comprising a support having disposed on a surface thereof, a non-photosensitive silver source, a photosensitive silver halide, and a reducing agent, and having disposed another surface thereof at least one non-photosensitiv... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7416838 | Photothermographic material The present invention provides a photothermographic material having, on one side of a support, an image forming layer including at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder, and at least one non-ph... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7402380 | Photothermographic material 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 organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder, wherein 1) the binder includes a polymer late... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7368230 | Silver halide photographic material and image-forming method using the same An image-forming method of recording a digital image data in resolution of 2,000 dpi or more, the method comprising: recording a digital image data on a silver halide photographic material with little deterioration. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7335466 | Silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material, image recording method and image forming method for the same A silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material including non-photosensitive aliphatic carboxylic acid silver salts; a photosensitive emulsion containing photosensitive silver halide grains; a silver ion reducing agent; a binder; and a cyan coloring leuco dye.... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332267 | Photothermographic material Disclosed is a photothermographic material comprising an image forming layer containing at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder and a non-image forming layer on at least one surface of a suppor... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7314706 | Photothermographic material and manufacturing method A photothermographic material containing an image forming layer having at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, and a reducing agent for the organic silver salt on one side of a support, and a first non-photosensitive layer ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7291448 | Photothermographic material 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 organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder, and at least one non-photosensitive layer, wh... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291449 | Silver halide photographic material and methine dye Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material which comprises at least one methine dye represented by the following formula (I): wherein Y represents a furan ring or a pyrrole ring, and Y may further be cond... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7267936 | Photographic element The invention provides a photographic element, comprising a support, a photographic emulsion layer and, an antihalation underlayer and/or a pelloid layer, the antihalation underlayer and/or pelloid layer being present in an amount of 1 g/m2 or less and co... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7241562 | Color photographic element having improved speed This invention relates to a color silver halide photographic element comprising gelatin, a support bearing at least one dye image forming unit selected from a dye image forming unit comprising at least one red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241453 | Antimicrobial surfaces These and other objectives will be apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art have been achieved by providing an antimicrobial surface having formula 1: SS—(Ua—V+b1—W)b2dX−eformula 1 ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7235351 | Squalirium compound, thermally developable photographic material containing said compound, and image forming method thereof A thermally developable photographic material containing a support, provided thereon: (i) a photosensitive layer containing photosensitive silver halide particles, and (ii) a layer containing at least one represented by formula below on one or both surfaces of the s... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228004 | Method for sharpening a digital image A method of sharpening a digital image having image pixels values includes the steps of: determining a Dmin value, representing a value corresponding to a minimum possible exposure for a system that produced the digital image; for each pixel value in the ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223528 | Photothermographic material and image forming method The present invention provides a photothermographic material having, on at least one side of a support, at least an image forming layer containing a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, and a reducing agent for the organic silver s... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7163734 | Patterning of electrically conductive layers by ink printing methods An element comprising a support on which is disposed an organic electroconductive polymeric layer containing a conductive polymer such that when a printing solution containing a conductivity enhancing agent contacts said electroconductive layer, the resistivity of t... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7153646 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material having, on at least an image forming layer including at least an organic silver salt and a non-photosensitive layer on the image forming layer, wherein the photothermographic material further has a non-photosensitive intermediate layer ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7147928 | Compositions and methods for imparting stain resistance The invention concerns a stain resist composition comprising: (a) a component selected from the group consisting of (1) a naphthalene condensate, (2) a lignin sulfonate, (3) a phenol sulfonate derivative, a mixture thereof and (4) a (meth)acrylic polymer comprising ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7144689 | Antistatic properties for thermally developable materials The use of metal antimonates at high metal antimonate to binder ratios in buried backside conductive layers of thermographic and photothermographic materials allows the use of thin backside overcoat layers. The combination provides antistatic constructions having ex... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7138224 | Squarylium compound and photothermographic material containing the same A photothermographic material containing a support having on one side of the support a photosensitive layer containing: photosensitive silver halide grains; and a compound represented by Formula (1) or Formula (2): | 11/21/2006 |
| 7129031 | Radiographic silver halide photographic material having a good developing speed, an excellent image tone and low residual color after processing A green-sensitized black-and-white silver halide negative working photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing tabular silver halide grains, further comprising in said emulsion layer o... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7108918 | Optical filter having filter layer containing infrared absorbing dye and ultraviolet absorbing agent An optical filter comprises a transparent support and a filter layer. The filter layer contains a dye and a binder polymer. The dye is in an aggregated form exhibiting an absorption maximum in the wavelength region of 750 to 1,100 nm. The support, the filter layer o... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7087364 | Antistatic properties for thermally developable materials The use of metal antimonates at high metal antimonate to binder ratios in buried backside conductive layers of thermographic and photothermographic materials allows the use of thin backside overcoat layers. The combination provides antistatic constructions having ex... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7084097 | Cleaning solution for substrates of electronic materials The present invention relates to a cleaning solution capable of removing efficiently at the same time particles and metallic impurities from a substrate surface without corroding metallic materials. The cleaning solution for cleaning substrates of electronic ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7083906 | Heat-developable photosensitive material A heat-developable photosensitive material having on a support at least one light-sensitive layer comprising an organic silver salt, a light-sensitive silver halide and a reducing agent and at least one light-insensitive layer, which comprises an antihalation dye ca... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7056652 | Silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material A silver salt photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising on a support a light-insensitive silver salt of an aliphatic carboxylic agent, light-sensitive silver halide grains, a reducing agent for silver ions and a binding agent, wherein the silver halide gr... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7029835 | Photothermographic element comprising improved base precursors and methods for their use Photothermographic elements employing improved base precursors that undergo thermal decomposition are disclosed. Thermal-dye-bleach agents, and in particular, a novel class of salts of arylsulfonylacetic acids as bleaching agents for photothermographic use are discl... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7026108 | Method of preparing co-precipitated microcrystalline dye dispersions and layers coated therewith in materials A method has been disclosed for preparing a co-precipitated microcrystalline dye dispersion, the absorption spectrum of which exceeds the summoned spectra of individually dispersed dyes, which comprises, as consecutive preparation steps: adding to one vessel, an amo... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6977385 | Storage phosphor screen having binderless colored layers A layer arrangement comprising, at least in a binderless layer thereof, one or more vapor deposited pigments like the preferred nanocrystalline β-Cu-phthalocyanine nanocrystalline dye compound has been disclosed, wherein said layer arrangement is, in a preferred em... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6974662 | Thermal base precursors Improved compounds and base precursors that undergo thermal decomposition are disclosed. Thermal base precursors, and in particular, a novel class of salts of arylsulfonylacetic acids as bleaching agents or promoting for photothermographic use are disclosed. Composi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6927404 | Radiation image storage panel having a particular layer arrangement A radiation image storage panel. The panel has a supported layer of storage phosphor particles dispersed in a binding medium, and adjacent thereto, between the layer and a support having reflective properties, a layer arrangement of intermediate layers inbetween the... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6893810 | Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material for movie A photographic material, comprising a support having thereon at least one yellow, cyan, and magenta color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one light-insensitive non-color forming hydrophilic colloid layer. At least one cyan emulsion... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6875512 | Optical filter having filter layer containing infrared absorbing dye and ultraviolet absorbing agent An optical filter comprises a transparent support and a filter layer. The filter layer contains a dye and a binder polymer. The dye is in an aggregated form exhibiting an absorption maximum in the wavelength region of 750 to 1,100 nm. The support, the filter layer o... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6852478 | Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material and image-forming method A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material with a magenta emulsion layer containing a pyrazolotriazole magenta dye-forming coupler and containing an emulsion whose silver chloride content is 98 mol % or more, with a light-insensitive hydrophilic col... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6830879 | Photothermographic material Disclosed is a photothermographic material having a support, at least one photosensitive layer containing a silver halide and a reducing agent and a non-photosensitive layer containing aggregates of a dye, wherein a transmission absorption spectrum of the aggregates... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6828070 | Photosensitive material comprising reversibly decolorable colored layer and image-forming method using same A photosensitive material comprising a substrate and a reversibly decolorable colored layer disposed thereon, wherein the reversibly decolorable colored layer is reversibly colored and decolored, the reversibly decolorable colored layer is in a colored state at 25 Â... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6824967 | Method of preparing dye solution, and methods of producing silver halide emulsion and silver halide photographic material A method of preparing a dye solution having a high concentration and high stability, wherein a counter ion-free dye and a base having a pKa value of from 6.6 to 9.0 are dissolved in a solvent having a relative dielectric constant of at least 10 at 20° C., and a sil... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6826001 | Color filter The present invention provides a color filter which is more durable than a dye-type color filter and also has green pixel portions which exhibit a bright green color having a strong yellowish tinge when used in a liquid crystal display device using a three-band lamp... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6787295 | Photographic solid fine-grain dispersion, method for preparing the same, and silver halide photographic light-sensitive material There is disclosed a method of preparing a photographic solid fine-grain dispersion, the method comprising the steps of: successively bringing a slurry of a water-insoluble photographically useful compound in a grinding chamber of a dispersing machine, which chamber... | 09/07/2004 |
