Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Hideki Naito

Kozo Sato

Hiroshi Hara

Toshiaki Aono

Shinsaku Fujita

Masakazu Yoneyama

Yoshiharu Yabuki

Keisuke Shiba

Hiroshi Kitaguchi

Hiroyuki Hirai

Yasuo Mukunoki

Jiro Tsukahara

Nobuo Yamamoto

Kozo Inouye

Hiroyuki Ozaki

Morio Yagihara

Osamu Takahashi

Shigeo Hirano

Ken Kawata

Hiroo Takizawa

Hidetoshi Kobayashi

Hideaki Naruse

Noriyuki Inoue

Koichi Nakamura

Mitsugu Tanaka

Akihiro Matsufuji

Takeshi Hirose

Hiroki Sasaki

Shigeki Yokoyama

Seiiti Kubodera

Seiji Yamashita

Shunji Takada

Yukio Maekawa

Tomokazu Yasuda

Shoichiro Yasunami

Akio Mitsui

Tsutomu Miyasaka

Yasuo Aotsuka

Satoru Sawada

Yuichi Ohashi

Shigeru Shibayama

Koichi Koyama

Kensuke Goda

Jun Sasaki

Yukihiko Sakaguchi

Jiro Yamaguchi

Chuzo Kobayashi

Yoshikatsu Kagawa

Hideotoshi Kobayashi

Toshiharu Nagamachi

The present invention provides a non-aqueous secondary battery having an improved charge and discharge cycle property and high discharge voltage, high energy density, high capacity and increased stability as well as an excellent high electric current atitude by using a lithium-containing transition metal oxide as a positive electrode material and at least one of the specfified composite oxides as a negative electrode material. Accordingly, the feature of the present invention consists in that the negative electrode material mainly consists of at least one member selected from the group consisting of amorphous chalcogen compounds and amorphous oxides containing at least three atoms selected from the group consisting of Group 13, 14, 15 and 2 atoms of Periodic Table.

Non-aqueous secondary battery

A color diffusion transfer film unit containing an alkali processing element as one of elements constituting the film unit, wherein at least one of the elements contains at least one oligomer or polymer having surface activity. The film unit can contain a small amount of a photographically useful substance in a stable state. The film unit forms a clear image at a high rate of image formation.

Color diffusion transfer film unit

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.

There is disclosed a cyan dye-forming coupler represented by the following formula (I) and a silver halide color photographic material containing the same: formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, Y represents a group capable of substitution onto a benzene ring, Z represents a group capable of substitution onto a naphthalene ring, X represents a hydrogen atom or a coupling-off group, m is an integer of 0 to 4, and n is an integer of 0 to 4.

Cyan dye-forming coupler and a silver halide color photographic material

There is disclosed a method for forming a color image which comprises developing a silver halide color photographic material having a layer containing a cyan coupler represented by formula (I) with a color developer containing a color-developing agent represented by formula (D) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, or a cycloalkyl group, R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group, alkenyl group, or cycloalkyl group having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in total, R.sup.3 represents an aryl group, and Z represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon a coupling reaction, with a color developer containing a color-developing agent represented by the following formula (D): ##STR2## wherein R.sup.4 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a methyl group, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 each represent a methyl group or an ethyl group, L represents a methylene group or an ethylene group, and n is 1 or 2.

Method for forming color image

The invention discloses an improved method for processing a silver halide color photographic material wherein said material is imagewise exposed and then processed. The improvement comprises the use of a particular naphthol amido coupler together with a bleaching bath containing (diaminopropanetetraacetatoiron) (III) complex salt at a particular pH.

Method for processing silver halide color photographic material

A silver halide emulsion manufactured by performing reduction sensitization and addition of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulas [I], [II], and [III] during the silver halide grain formation in a process of manufacturing silver halide emulsions:

Silver halide emulsion, method of manufacturing the same, and color

In a photographic element amenable to heat development or mobile dye heat transfer, an electroconductive layer is formed from a composition containing an electroconductive substance, typically carbon black, a hydrophilic binder, typically gelatin, and a water-insoluble compound having a melting point of up to 120.degree. C. and a boiling point of at least 175.degree. C., for example, trinonyl phosphate, such that the conductive layer undergoes a minimized change in electric resistance when folded.

Photographic element

In a photographic element amenable to heat development or mobile dye heat transfer, an electroconductive layer is formed from a composition containing an electroconductive substance, typically carbon black and a high molecular weight compound having a glass transition temperature of not higher than 40.degree. C. at a relative humidity of 20% or a melting point of not higher than 180.degree. C., for example, polyethylene glycol, such that the conductive layer undergoes a minimized change in electric resistance when folded.

Heat developable photographic element with conductive layer

A method for forming an image comprising heating in the presence of at least one of a base and a base generating agent, a heat-developable color light-sensitive material which comprises a support having thereon at least: (1) a light-sensitive silver halide, (2) a coupler capable of coupling with an oxidation product of a developing agent, (3) a hydrophilic binder, and (4) at least one compound represented by formula (Z) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, a hydroxy group, an amino group, a substituted amino group, an alkoxy group, an acylamino group, an alkylsulfonylamino group, an arylsulfonylamino group, an aryl group, a carbamoyl group, a substituted carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a substituted sulfamoyl group, an acyl group, an acyloxy group, or an alkoxycarbonyl group, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are connected together to form a ring structure; A represents a hydroxy group, a group capable of providing a hydroxy group upon reaction with a nucleophilic reagent, or the group ##STR2## wherein R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, or R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 are connected together to form a heterocyclic group, or when A represents the group ##STR3## at least one combination of R.sub.1 and R.sub.6, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.7 is connected together to form a heterocyclic group; and R.sub.5 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.

Method for forming an image

A method for forming an image comprising heating a light-sensitive element in the presence of water and at least one of a base and a base precursor after or simultaneously with imagewise exposure to light thereof, said light-sensitive element comprising a support having provided thereon a light-sensitive layer comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a binder, and a dye providing substance which forms or releases a diffusible dye upon heating, and transferring said diffusible dye thus formed or released to a dye fixing layer of a dye fixing element, wherein at least one of said light-sensitive element and said dye fixing element contains an amphoteric surface active agent.

Method for forming dye transfer image using amphoteric surface active

A photographic element comprising photosensitive and image-receiving layers on a support further includes a primary exothermic electroconductive layer serving as a heating element and an auxiliary exothermic electroconductive layer thereon, wherein the primary conductive layer containing conductive substance like carbon black so that it is heated upon electric conduction, contributing to heat development.

Photographic element comprising at least two exothermic

A method of forming an image comprising heating a light-sensitive material having at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder and a dye releasing redox compound which is capable of reducing the light-sensitive silver halide and is capable of reacting with the light-sensitive silver halide by heating to release a hydrophilic diffusible dye on a support after or simultaneously with imagewise exposure in the presence of water and a base and/or a base precursor to form a mobile dye and transferring the mobile dye to a dye fixing layer at the time of heating for development. In accordance with the method of the present invention, a clear color image having a high density and low fog can be obtained in a short time by a simple procedure.

Heat development in presence of water

A heat developable light-sensitive material having both (a) a light-sensitive element which contains at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one image forming substance capable of forming a diffusible dye and (b) a dye fixing element capable of fixing the formed diffusible dye on the same side of one support, in such relation that a diffusible dye may permeate the dye fixing element (b) by diffusing from the light-sensitive element (a). The light-sensitive material of the present invention has a simple structure and does not require complicated procedures for its use or excess structural elements. Photographic images can be formed using the light-sensitive material in a short period of time by means of a simple photographic treatment.

Heat developable light-sensitive materials with high boiling point

A heat-developable light-sensitive material is described, comprising a support having thereon a heat-developable silver halide emulsion layer capable of being developed by heating and further comprising said same support or the other support having thereon an electrically conductive layer, wherein the electrically conductive layer comprises at least (1) a compound imparting electrical conductivity, (2) a compound having a melting point of 100.degree. C. or more, and (3) a hydrophilic binder.

Heat-developable light-sensitive material with electrically conductive

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