Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Hisashi Okamura

Kazunobu Katoh

Hiroshi Kawamoto

Morio Yagihara

Makoto Kikuchi

Kazumi Nii

Nobuaki Inoue

Hisashi Okada

Minoru Sakai

Toshihide Ezoe

Masaki Noro

Yukio Maekawa

Kazuhiko Matsumoto

Takashi Hoshimiya

Yoshiharu Yabuki

Tadashi Ikeda

Hidetoshi Kobayashi

Shinji Sakaguchi

Katsuyuki Watanabe

Mitsuo Saitou

Hirohiko Tsuzuki

Toshihiro Nishikawa

Yukio Karino

Koji Tamoto

Itsuo Fujiwara

Masaru Takasaki

Shoji Yasuda

Tetsuo Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Kawasaki

Yoshio Sakakibara

Shigeru Ohno

Osamu Takahashi

Keiji Mihayashi

Toshiki Taguchi

Hiroshi Hayashi

Tetsuro Kojima

Shigeru Nakamura

Yasuo Mukunoki

Shigeki Yokoyama

Takahiro Goto

Shunji Takada

Shinpei Ikenoue

Yoichi Maruyama

Ichiro Amimori

Toshiro Takahashi

Tsutomu Miyasaka

Hisashi Shiraishi

Takashi Katoh

Takashi Naoi

Shun-ichi Ishikawa

Ashita Murai

Masaki Satake

Shigetoshi Ono

Tatsuya Ishizaka

Yoichi Suga

Naoki Asanuma

Tetunori Matushita

Takefumi Hara

Hideki Takaki

Hidetoshi Tomita

Takashi Fujioka

Seimi Satake

Kazonobu Katoh

A laminated structure comprising, at least one optically anisotropic layer formed of a liquid crystalline composition comprising a compound having two or more types of reactive groups, and at least one photosensitive polymer layer. The laminated structure is useful for forming an optically anisotropic layer inside of a liquid crystal cell. The laminated structure is also useful for forming a liquid crystal cell substrate with an optically anisotropic layer having an optically compensating ability, inside of a liquid crystal cell.

Laminated structure, process of producing a liquid crystal cell substrate using the same, liquid crystal cell substrate, and liquid crystal display device

A liquid crystal composition comprising at least one liquid crystal compound and at least one anthraquinone compound represented by formula (1) below: Formula (1) (wherein Rto Reach independently represents a hydrogen or substituent; Het is a sulfur or oxygen; Band Beach independently represents an optionally substituted arylene, heteroarylene, cycloalkan-diyl or cycloalken-diyl; Qis a bivalent linking group; Cis an optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkoxy, alkokycarbonyl or acyloxy; p, q and r each represents a number from 0 to 5 and n is a number from 1 to 3 satisfying 3&#x2266;(p+r)&#xd7;n&#x2266;10; when plural {(B)-(Q)-(B)} are present, these may be the same or different) was disclosed 

Anthraquinone compound, liquid crystal composition, cell and display device employing the same

Polyhalogenomethylsulfonyl compound

The object of the present invention is to provides a novel polyhalogenomethylsulfonyl compound which can be used for providing a thermally processed image recording material which has a high sensitivity, gives less fog, and has a good stock stability and a good image storage stability of dark and high temperature or light storage. According to the present invention, there is provided a polyhalogenomethylsulfonyl compound represented by the following formula (1), or salts thereof, or hydrates or solvates thereof:

A photothermographic recording element having improved image tone and improved tone stability during storage is provided wherein at least one of constituent layers comprises (a) polymeric microparticulates containing a dyestuff, (b) microcapsules containing a dyestuff, and/or (c) an organic or inorganic pigment.

Photothermographic recording elements

Thermographic or photothermographic image recording elements comprising (a) a reducible silver salt, (b) a reducing agent, (c) a binder, (d) a specific phthalazine derivative and (e) an organic acid compound experience a minimized drop of image density when stored under warm humid conditions.

Thermographic or photothermographic image recording elements

An imaging material is provided in the form of a photothermographic or thermographic image forming layer containing an organic silver salt on one surface of a support and further comprising a polyvalent metal ion and a phthalic acid compound on the image forming layer-bearing surface of the support. The imaging material has improved shelf stability before and after image formation and the ease of handling and produces high-quality blue black tone images.

Imaging materials

A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide hydrophilic colloid emulsion layer, at least one light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer interposed between the support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one hydrazine derivative selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the general formula (1) and (2) contained in the at least one of hydrophilic colloid layers provided in the same side of the support as that coated with the light-sensitive silver halide hydrophilic colloid emulsion layer: ##STR1## wherein their substituents are defined in the specification.

Silver halide photographic material

There is disclosed a silver halide photosensitive material and a method for forming an image, by the use of a color-developing agent of the type of carbonylhydrazone. The color-developing agent has satisfactory storage stability and capability for forming an image.

Method for forming an image and silver halide photographic

A dry type image formation process which comprises imagewise exposing a heat-developable photosensitive material to light, and then heat-developing the heat-developable photosensitive material, wherein the heat-developable photosensitive material further comprises a component isolated by microcapsules and the heat-developable photosensitive material is pressed before or after heat development so that the microcapsules are ruptured to release the internal phase and cause the component to be diffused into the photosensitive layer, allowing its function to be fulfilled, and an image formation process which comprises heat-developing a heat-developable photosensitive material after or simultaneously with imagewise exposing, the heat-developable photosensitive material comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a basic precursor, a dye-providing substance which undergoes heat development to release or produce a dye, and a silver halide fixing agent which is a compound capable of fixing and stabilizing the silver halide, which comprises isolating the silver halide fixing agent from the silver halide before heat-developing so as not to affect the silver halide and bring the silver halide fixing agent in contact with the silver halide after or simultaneously with heat-developing to fix undeveloped silver halide.

Dry type image formation process

A silver halide color reversal photographic light-sensitive material includes at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, formed on a support. At least one light sensitive emulsion layer contains silver halide grains having a silver halide phase formed in the presence of an iodide ion-releasing agent, under controlled release of iodide ions from the releasing agent. At least one hydrophilic colloid layer contains a certain heterocyclic compound or a certain DIR compound.

Silver halide color reversal photographic light-sensitive material

A silver halide photographic emulsion, a method of preparing the same, and a light-sensitive material containing this emulsion, wherein silver halide grains are formed while rapidly producing iodide ions from an iodide ion-releasing agent represented by Formula (I) below:

Method of preparing silver halide photographic emulsion, emulsion, and

A silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains which are formed while iodide ions are rapidly being generated from an iodide ion-releasing agent represented by Formula (I) below, and which are chemically sensitized with a selenium sensitizer. Formula (I)

Silver halide photographic emulsion and light-sensitive material using

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having a silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein said silver halide emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion in which silver halide tabular grains (fringe-dislocation tabular grains), which have an aspect ratio of 2 to 40 and in which dislocation lines are localized essentially to only fringe portions, occupy 100% to 80% of a total projected area of all grains.

Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

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Hisashi Okamura