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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7410745 | Photothermographic material and image forming method using same The invention provides a photothermographic material including: a support and an image-forming layer including a non-photosensitive silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide, a binder, and a reduction agent disposed on the support, wherein a silver iodide content ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7384731 | Method for forming color image and silver halide color photosensitive material used for the same A method for forming color images comprising subjecting a silver halide color photosensitive material to a development processing in the presence of a compound (A) defined below, wherein the silver halide color photosensitive material having a blue-sensitive unit, a... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7354701 | Photographic element with speed-enhancing compound The invention provides a color photographic element comprising at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or a non silver-containing light-insensitive layer, in which at least one of these layers contains a colorless heterocyclic compound having eithe... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7267935 | Thermally developable materials stabilized with crown ethers Incorporating a crown ether-alkali metal complex cation of an enolate anion of an aldehyde having at least one electron withdrawing group in the alpha (α) position, provides thermally developable materials with imaging properties that have little change with change... | 09/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7255982 | Photothermographic materials incorporating arylboronic acids Incorporation of certain arylboronic acid compounds into photothermographic materials provides materials with reduced initial image Dmin and improved hot-dark Dmin print stability without unacceptable loss in sensitometric properties. ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7232652 | Photothermographic material and image forming method A photothermographic material including, on at least one side of a support, an image forming layer including at least a photosensitive silver halide, a first organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder, and at least one non-photosensitive layer which is disp... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7189502 | Radiographic materials with antifoggant precursors A radiographic material containing tabular silver halide grains also includes an amido compound as an antifoggant precursor that can slowly release an antifoggant over time. These compounds are present in reactive association with the silver halide in tabular silver... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7175977 | Stabilizers for use in thermographic recording materials A black and white monosheet thermographic recording material comprising a support and a thermosensitive element, the thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relat... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7172960 | Multi-layer film stack for extinction of substrate reflections during patterning A method including introducing a dielectric layer over a substrate between an interconnection line and the substrate, the dielectric layer comprising a plurality of alternating material layers; and patterning an interconnection to the substrate. An apparatus compris... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7166421 | Aqueous-based photothermographic materials containing tetrafluoroborate salts Black-and-white, aqueous-based, silver halide-containing photothermographic materials have increased stability both prior to use and after imaging with the incorporation of at least 0.005 g/m2 of a tetrafluoroborate salt. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7163785 | Silver halide photosensitive material and image forming method therefor A silver halide photographic material, including a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer, the silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide particles having a silver chloride content of more than or equal to 90 mol %, wherein a compound repre... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7153638 | Silver halide color photosensitive material A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, a blue-sensitive layer unit, a green-sensitive layer unit and a red-sensitive layer unit, each of these light-sensitive layer units composed of at least one silver halide e... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7150963 | Silver halide emulsion, silver halide photosensitive material, and photothermographic material A silver halide emulsion containing a compound represented by the following formula (1) or (2): wherein R1 represents an OH group, ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7144691 | Color photographic recording material A color photographic material which contains on a support at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one yellow coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one magenta coupler, at least one... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7138222 | Silver halide color photographic photosensitive material The present invention provides a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material that includes coupler-containing sensitive emulsion layer units on a support. Each of the photosensitive emulsion layer units are constituted of at least two photosensitive emu... | 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 |
| 7125657 | Photothermographic material The present invention provides a photothermographic material including a support having disposed thereon an image-forming layer that contains at least a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent and a binder, and furthe... | 10/24/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7097963 | Halogen substituted tetraazaindene compounds in photothermographic materials Black-and-white, aqueous-based, silver halide-containing photothermographic materials have increased stability after imaging with the incorporation of at least 0.0002 mol/m2 of a halogen-substituted tetraazaindene compound. ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7094524 | Thermally development imaging materials having backside stabilizers Thermally developable photothermographic materials comprise a backside layer that includes a backside stabilizer to reduce fog formation in high humidity conditions, thereby providing improved shelf stability. Useful backside stabilizers include an amine organic bas... | 08/22/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7074550 | Silver halide color photosensitive material A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7067243 | Method for preparation of a photothermographic material with increased photosensitivity A process for preparing a photothermographic material with increased photosensitivity, the photothermographic material comprising a support and a photo-addressable thermally developable element, exclusive of a compound R—S(M)n wherein R is an aliphatic ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7029834 | Thermally developable imaging materials having backside stabilizers Thermally developable photothermographic materials comprise a backside layer that includes a backside stabilizer to reduce fog formation in high humidity conditions, thereby providing improved shelf stability. Useful backside stabilizers are nitrogen-containing arom... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7026104 | Heat-developable photosensitive material and method of forming images A heat-developable photosensitive material comprising on a support light-sensitive silver halide, a light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein at least 30 mole % of the total light-sensitive silver halide is silver halide of high s... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7026109 | Photothermographic material The present invention provides a photothermographic material, comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic solvent salt, a reducing agent for a silver ion, and a binder on one face of a support, for being applied by using an organic solven... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7014989 | Photothermographic materials containing 4-substituted urazoles Black-and-white, aqueous-based, silver halide-containing photothermographic materials have increased stability after imaging with the incorporation of at least 0.00005 mol/m2 of a 4-substituted urazole. ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6964842 | Black-and-white aqueous photothermographic materials Aqueous-based photothermographic materials comprise a hydrophilic binder, preformed silver halides, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent composition, and one or more benzothiazolium, benzoselenazolium, or benzotellurazolium salts as antifoggants. These photother... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6951711 | Silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material containing at least one compound capable of increasing photographic speed, the compound having at least three heteroatoms in its molecule, and wherein at least one layer of the silver halide emulsion layers ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6949334 | Method for forming images and silver halide color photographic photosensitive material A method for forming images on a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material having a substrate and photographic structural layers thereon, including, at least three silver halide color photosensitive layers having different photosensitive regions, resp... | 09/27/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6921631 | Silver halide color photographic material and method of forming color image A silver halide color photographic material, which can provide photographs reduced in unevenness of finished image density with high productivity and at low prices even when it undergoes exposure and photographic processing operations under high-speed transport in t... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6919171 | Silver-(carboxylate-azine toner) particles for photothermographic and thermographic imaging The present disclosure relates to aqueous dispersions of silver (carboxylate-azine toner) particles wherein the azine content of the particles is from about 0.01 to 10% by weight relative to silver carboxylate. The carboxylates are typically silver salts of long cha... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6916599 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material comprising: a support; and a photosensitive silver halide, a nonphotosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein the photosensitive silver halide comprises 90% by mole or more of a silver iodide and has a silve... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6887656 | Color photographic element containing improved heterocyclic speed enhancing compound Disclosed is a color photographic element comprising at least one light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a compound that does not react with oxidized developer, has a Log Kow high enough to improve speed, compared to the same layer without the compo... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6818390 | Deformable color photographic silver halide material A deformable color photographic silver halide material, said color photographic silver halide material comprising on a deformable plastic support at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one yellow coupler, at least one green-sens... | 11/16/2004 |