Konica Corporation

Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Konica Minolta Medical and Graphic, Inc.

Konica Minolta & Medical Graphic, Inc.

Hideki Takiguchi

Hiroshi Kashiwagi

Tetsuya Suzuki

Nobuaki Kagawa

Toshihiko Yagi

Tomoyuki Nakayama

Hiroto Ito

Yoshitaka Yamada

Hirofumi Ohtani

Kenji Ohnuma

Yasuo Taima

Toshiyuki Marui

Kazuhito Ihara

Kazuhiko Fujikura

Toshifumi Iijima

Katsura Hirai

Taketoshi Yamada

Norio Miura

Hideki Hoshino

Kenji Kumashiro

Akio Suzuki

Takeo Koitabashi

Yoshiyuki Nonaka

Yoshihiro Haga

Katsuhiko Heki

Nobuaki Tsuji

Shu Nishiwaki

Akihiko Miyamoto

Hitoshi Adachi

Shoji Matsuzaka

Hiroaki Shiozawa

Hakubun Ohashi

Hideki Komatsu

Naoyo Suzuki

Konica Ohashi

H O Socman

A silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material wherein said material has photographic speeds () and () determined based on the predetermined conditions and the photographic speed () is not more than 1/10 of the photographic speed (), and the coefficient of determination value Rof the linear regression line is 0.998-1.000, which is obtained from the predetermined density points having a* and b* arranged in two-dimensional coordinates in which a* is used as the abscicca and b* is used as the coordinate of the CIE 1976 (L*a*b*) color space, b* of the intersection point of the linear regression line with the ordinate is &#x2212;5-5, and gradient (a*/b*) is 0.7-2.5.

Silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material

A silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material wherein said material has photographic speeds (1) and (2) determined based on the predetermined conditions and the photographic speed (2) is not more than 1/10 of the photographic speed (1), and the coefficient of determination value Rof the linear regression line is 0.998&#x2013;1.000, which is obtained from the predetermined density points having a* and b* arranged in two-dimensional coordinates in which a* is used as the abscissa and b* is used as the coordinate of the CIE 1076 (L*a*b*) color space, b* of the intersection point of the linear regression line with the ordinate is &#x2212;5&#x2013;5, and gradient (a*/b*) is 0.7&#x2013;2.5.

A photothermographic imaging material containing a support having thereon light-insensitive organic silver salt grains, photosensitive silver halide grains, a reducing agent for silver ions and a binder, wherein, (i) each of the organic silver salt grains has a structure having different silver ion dissociation constants at a surface portion and at an inner portion of the grain; (ii) each of the silver halide grains produces a larger number of latent images in a surface portion than in an inner portion of the grain by exposure to light; (iii) each of the silver halide grains produces a larger number of latent images in the inner portion than in the surface portion of the grain after being subjected to a thermal development; and (iv) a surface photographic speed of each of the silver halide grains decreases after being subjected to the thermal development.

A photothermographic material disclosed, comprising on a support a light sensitive layer containing an organic silver salt, light sensitive silver halide grains and a solvent, wherein the organic silver salt comprises tabular organic silver salt grains exhibiting an average needle ratio of not less than 1.1 and less than 10.0, the light sensitive silver halide grains having been subjected to chemical sensitization.

Photothermographic material

A method for preparing a photothermographic material comprising an organic silver salt is disclosed, comprising a step of treating the organic silver salt under a gas atmosphere containing an inert gas having a volume fraction of not less than 85% or under a gas atmosphere containing oxygen gas having a volume fraction of not more than 15%. Packaging the photothermographic material under the inert gas atmosphere is also disclosed.

Preparation method of 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 generating a labile species other than a halogen atom upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation or visible radiation to deactivate the reducing agent.

A silver halide photographic laight-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support and a silver halide emulsion layer and a non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloid layer provided on the support, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layer and the non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloid layer contains a compound represented by the following Formula 1, and the silver halide emulsion layer contains tabular silver halide grains having an average aspect ratio of not less than 2.0 account for at least 50 % of total grain projected area of the emulsion, and the tabular grains have an average silver iodide content is not more than 1 mole-%;

Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

A light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion is disclosed, wherein at least 70% of the total projected area of silver halide grains are tabular grains having an average aspect ratio of a diameter to a thickness of 2 or more, an average value of the longest distances between two or more parallel twin planes contained in the respective tabular grains is 0.008 .mu.m or more, and a variation coefficient of the longest distances between parallel twin planes is 35% or less, and wherein the silver halide emulsion is spectrally sensitized with a substantially slightly water-soluble sensitizing dye by adding the dye to the emulsion in the form of a dispersion of solid particles dispersed in an aqueous solution substantially free from an organic solvent or surfactant.

Light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion, silver halide

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, comprising tabular grains having an average aspect ratio of diameter to thickness of 2 or more, having an average overall iodide content of 2 mol % or less, and having a surface phase containing 3 to 20 mol % iodide on the average. The emulsion is spectrally sensitized by adding a sensitizing dye represented by the following formula [I] or [II], ##STR1##

Silver halide photographic emulsion, a silver halide photographic

A silver halide photographic material having photographic constituent layers on a support, which photographic material is characterized in that at least one of said photographic constituent layers is a silver halide emulsion layer, at least 50% in number of the light-sensitive silver halide grains in said silver halide emulsion layer being grains that contain at least 60 mol % of silver bromide, and at least one of said photographic constituent layers containing at least one of the compounds represented by the following general formula (I):

Silver halide photographic material

A method for preparing a silver halide emulsion containing silver halide grains comprising

Silver halide emulsion chemically ripened in the presence of a

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed which has a high speed with a low fog and is improved on the long-term preservability. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a photographic component layer including at least one silver halide emulsion layer, in which the silver halide emulsion layer comprises silver halide grains, each of which are comprised of two or more phases different in the silver iodide content, wherein the average silver iodide content of the grain is higher than the silver iodide content of the external phase of the grain, and to at least one layer included the photographic component layer is added elementary sulfur in a step of manufacturing process of the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material.

High-speed and well-preservable silver halide photographic

A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having silver halide emulsion layers on a support, wherein at least one layer of said silver halide emulsion layers contains surface latent image type mono-dispersed silver halide grains, and 50% or more of the silver halide grains contained in said at least one silver halide emulsion layer are regular surface latent image type mono-dispersed silver halide grains of tetradecahedral crystals whose external surfaces have crystal faces with Miller indices (100) and (111), the area ratio of said (100) face and said (111) face satisfying the relation represented by the correlation formula (I) shown below:

Light-sensitive silver halide photographic material

There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material which has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, the silver halide emulsion layer includes substantially monodispersed core/shell type silver halide grains, and the silver halide grains are those which have been sensitized with a combination of at least one of sensitizing dyes represented by the following formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 to R.sub.8, Y.sub.1 to Y.sub.3, Z.sub.1 to Z.sub.8, X.sub.1.sup..crclbar., X.sub.2.sup..crclbar., m and n have the same meanings as defined in the specification.

Dye sensitized light-sensitive core/shell silver halide photographic

There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material which has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, the silver halide emulsion layer includes substantially monodispersed core/shell type silver halide grains, and the silver halide grains are those which have been sensitized with a combination of at least one of sensitizing dyes represented by the following formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 to R.sub.8, Y.sub.1 to Y.sub.8, X.sub.1.sup..crclbar., X.sub.2.sup..crclbar., m and n have the same meanings as defined in the specification.

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Hideki Takiguchi