Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

National Patent Development Corporation

Jun Arakawa

Yoshisada Nakamura

Tomoko Tashiro

Hisahiro Mori

Yasuhiro Shimada

Takatoshi Ishikawa

Keiji Mihayashi

Seiji Ichijima

Keisuke Shiba

Kentaro Nakamura

Akira Abe

Takahiro Ishizuka

Yoshio Ishii

Toshio Kawagishi

Nobuo Tsuji

Keiichi Suzuki

Shinichiro Serizawa

Masakazu Yoneyama

Seiiti Kubodera

Shinji Sakaguchi

Tadashi Ogawa

Toshiyuki Watanabe

Toshiaki Kubo

Mamoru Sakurazawa

Nobuhito Masuda

Koji Tamoto

Manabu Ogawa

Satoshi Nagaoka

Masahiro Okada

Yasushi Nozawa

Yuichi Ohashi

Mikinaga Mori

Sugihiko Tada

Hideharu Nagasawa

Shigeki Kageyama

Hideo Fushimi

Manabu Katsumura

Hiroshi Ota

Kazuhiko Yanagihara

Tomohide Ueyama

Kozo Nagata

Tooru Matama

Takahiro Hiratsuka

Ai Okamura

Hiroyuki Kitaoka

Momotoshi Tsuda

Katsuhiko Kanazawa

Masami Naemura

Toshiyuki Honma

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a gelatin formed body having a minimized content of a component harmful to a living body and high biocompatibility with high shaping accuracy, and a gelatin formed body produced by the method. According to the present invention, provided is a method for producing a gelatin formed body, the method including: a step a of forming, on a substrate, a layer containing a powder which is obtained by air-drying an aqueous gelatin solution and has an average particle diameter of 25 to 200 &#x3bc;m; and a step b of jetting liquid droplets of an aqueous solution containing alcohols having a boiling point of 120&#xb0; C. or lower toward the layer formed in the step a from a nozzle and flying the jetted liquid droplets so that the liquid droplets are landed on the layer formed in the step a, thereby forming a gelatin formed body.

Method for producing gelatin formed body and gelatin formed body

A water-based cosmetic that includes: (A) ceramidic compound-containing particles that include a ceramidic compound and that are dispersed as an oil phase in an aqueous phase; (B) a fatty acid component composed of at least one selected from the group consisting of fatty acids and fatty acid salts; and (C) a polyhydric alcohol component that includes a first polyhydric alcohol having an IOB of 2.2 or more and a total content in the composition of from 3% by mass to 20% by mass, and a second polyhydric alcohol having an IOB of 2.0 or less and a total content in the composition of 0% by mass or not more than 3% by mass, wherein a total content of surfactant in the composition is 0% by mass or not more than 1% by mass, and a total mass of ceramidic compound in the composition is at least 3.0 times a total mass of the fatty acid component in the composition.

Water-based cosmetic and manufacturing method thereof

The present invention provides a ceramide dispersion which includes (1) ceramide-containing particles which contains a ceramide, which are dispersed in an aqueous phase as an oil-phase component, and which have a volume average particle diameter from 1 nm to 100 nm; and (2) a fatty acid component which is at least one of a fatty acid having a melting temperature not higher than 30&#xb0; C. or a fatty acid salt; the amount of nonionic surfactant being 0 or not more than 0.1 times the total mass of the ceramide; the amount of an ionic surfactant other than the fatty acid component being 0 or less than 0.05 times the total mass of the ceramide; and the pH being from 6 to 8.

Ceramide dispersion and method for producing same

A powder composition of a functional oil material is obtained by drying an emulsion composition comprising at least one functional oil component and (i) at least one water-soluble encapsulating agent selected from saccharide containing at least two sugar units including a fructose unit or (ii) at least one water-soluble encapsulating agent selected from saccharides containing at least one galactose unit and one fructose unit. Food compositions, cosmetic compositions and pharmaceutical compositions are provided which contain the powder composition described above.

Powder composition, method for producing the same, and food composition, cosmetic composition and pharmaceutical composition containing the same

The present invention provides a method for producing a dry analytical element for measurement of pancreatic lipase contained in a body fluid which contains triglyceride of long chain alkyl fatty acid having 12 to 22 carbon atoms, monoglyceride lipase, and a glycerine measurement reagent, and comprises a water-impermeable support and at least one spreading or reagent layer, said method comprising the step of coating an emulsion/dispersion solution of triglyceride with an average particle size of 1 &#x3bc;m or less.

Dry analytical element for lipase measurement

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having a silver halide emulsion layer, and

Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material

An ink-jet ink which comprises a dye dispersed product, an oil-soluble dye being dissolved in a high boiling point organic solvent which has a boiling point of 150&deg; C. or more and has a specific inductive capacity at 25&deg; C. of 3 to 12, the oil-soluble dye is emulsified and dispersed in a water-based medium, and the dye dispersed product is formed. Further, a method of manufacturing an ink-jet ink, in which an oil-soluble dye is dissolved in a high boiling point organic solvent which has a boiling point of 150&deg; C. or more and has a specific inductive capacity at 25&deg; C. of 3 to 12, and the oil soluble dye is emulsified and dispersed at a pressure of 50 MPa or more using a high-pressure emulsifying and dispersing device.

Ink-jet ink, method of manufacturing the same, and ink jet recording method

A silver halide photosensitive material having a substrate, a heat-responsive-discolorable coloring layer and a photosensitive layer coated thereon and having a silver halide, dye-providing compound and a binder, the heat-responsive-discolorable coloring layer containing a heat-responsive-discolorable coloring composition, which is colored at a temperature lower than its discoloration initiation temperature (T) of 60 to 200&deg; C.; which is substantially discolored at a temperature equal to or higher than T; and which does not recover its color once discolored, even when its temperature is lowered to a temperature lower than T again, and the heat-responsive-discolorable coloring composition containing a polymer having a glass transition temperature of 60 to 200&deg; C.

Silver halide photosensitive material and image-forming method using heat-responsive-discolorable coloring composition

Disclosed are a silver halide color photographic material having on a support a photographic element in which silver halide grains, a developing agent and a coupler capable of forming a dye by reaction with an oxidation product of the developing agent are incorporated, the photographic element further comprising at least one color stain inhibitive compound represented by the following formula (SC-1) or (SC-2) and at least one photographically useful group-releasing compound represented by the following formula (II); and a method of forming color images by the use of the foregoing material:

Silver halide color photographic material and image forming method using the same

Color image formation method using silver halide photographic material

The present invention provides a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which has a high sensitivity and a high image quality, and a method and apparatus for forming an image by use of the light-sensitive material. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having provided thereon three light-sensitive units each having a different color-sensitivity, wherein one of the light-sensitive units is a white-sensitive unit having a spectral sensitivity distribution satisfying the following conditions. The method and apparatus for forming images using the material, in which the material is imagewise-exposed and subject to processing, thereby forming an image, the image is read out by an image pick-up means, then subjected to digital image processing, and three or more color output signals are obtained. 0.05.ltoreq.S.sub.450 /S.sub.550 .ltoreq.1.2 and 0.05.ltoreq.S.sub.600 /S.sub.550 .ltoreq.1.2 wherein S.sub.450, S.sub.550 and S.sub.600 represent sensitivities at 450 nm, 550 nm and 600 nm, respectively.

Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material and method and

Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support and containing, in the silver halide emulsion layer or in any other hydrophilic colloid layer, a coating aid of a general formula (I):

Silver halide photographic element containing a coating aid

A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic material contains an uncolored magenta coupler and at least one compound capable of reacting with and fixing formaldehyde vapor, and at least 30 mol % based on the total amount of the uncolored magenta coupler present in the silver halide color photographic material is an uncolored 5-pyrazolone 2-equivalent magenta coupler. The silver halide color photographic material has good latent image stability and a reduced layer thickness and thus improved sharpness. It is further possible thereby to avoid a decrease in color density and the formation of fog normally present when the silver halide color photographic material is brought into contact with formaldehyde vapor during storage prior to color development processing.

Silver halide color photographic material comprising a magenta coupler

A silver halide photographic material is described comprising a support having coated thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layer and other hydrophilic colloid layer contains a nondiffusible photographically useful compound having a sulfo group and a group represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents an aliphatic group having at least 2 carbon atoms and r represents 0 or 1. The compounds represented by the general formula (I) are photographically useful compounds which impart excellent photographic properties to silver halide photographic materials, including improved dispersibility.

Silver halide photographic materials comprising non-diffusible

A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, wherein a washing bath is replenished with water in an amount of from 2 to 50 times the volume of the preceding bath which is carried over with the photographic material into the washing bath per unit area of the photographic material to be processed, and washing in the washing bath is carried out in the presence of at least one compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents a n-valent aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic linking group, wherein when n is 1, A represents a monovalent aliphatic, aromatic, or heterocyclic group, or a hydrogen atom; X represents --O--, --S--, or ##STR2## R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl group; R.sup.3 represents a lower alkylene group; R.sup.4 represents a lower alkyl group; or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, R.sup.1 and A, R.sup.1 and R.sup.3, R.sup.2 and A, or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 may be connected to each other to form a ring; Y represents an anion; l represents 0 or 1; m represents 0 or 1; n represents 1, 2, or 3; p represents 0 or 1; and q represents 0, 1, 2, or 3, and is a value which renders the molecule electrically neutral. The processing method can achieve a great saving of water for washing while protecting the processed color photographic material from mold, the formation of stains, and undergoing accelerated discoloration.

Processing of silver halide color photographic material with

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