Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Konica Corporation

Sankyo Company, Limited

Katsunori Kato

Takashi Sasaki

Ryosuke Sato

Hiroshi Sugita

Yutaka Kaneko

Tawara Komamura

Wataru Ishikawa

Takaya Endo

Fumio Ishii

Tamotsu Kojima

Yasuo Tsuda

Ryosuke Satoh

Tugumoto Usui

Kazuhiko Kimura

Kazuo Kobayashi

Tatsuo Tanaka

Mitsuto Fujiwhara

Noritaka Nakayama

Kiyoshi Yamashita

Tatsuichi Maehashi

Shoji Kikuchi

Hiroshi Watanabe

Yoshiko Kubo

Nobuyoshi Iwata

Mitsuo Nagano

Kenji Yoshimi

Yoriko Nakayama

Junichi Sakai

Masao Kozuka

Koichi Nakatani

Toshiyuki Tonohiro

Takao Hara

A thermal transfer recording material comprises a support and provided thereon, a layer containing a binder and a metal ion providing compound represented by the following Formula ( I ):

Thermal transfer image recording material and image using metal ion

An image forming process of an image forming material comprising a support and provided thereon, a photosensitive layer and a covering layer in that order comprises imagewise exposing the material by laser beam scanning, and peeling the covering film from the exposed material to form an image on the support or on the covering film, wherein said photosensitive layer contains a colorant, an addition-polymerizable or cross-linkable compound and a salt of a cationic dye with a borate anion represented by the following Formula (1): Formula (1) ##STR1##

Method of forming images

Compounds of formula (I): ##STR1## [in which: either (a) the dotted line ( ) is a single bond; A=is oxygen; and B is a group of formula (II): ##STR2## (in which m is 0 and n is 0 or 1) or (b) the dotted line ( ) is a double bond; A=is said group of formula (II) in which m is 1 and n is 0 or 1; and B is absent; and R.sup.1 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, optionally substituted benzyl or optionally substituted phenyl; R.sup.2 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, optionally substituted phenyl or heterocyclic; or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached, are a hydrocarbon ring fused to the isoxazole ring; R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each hydrogen, alkyl, optionally substituted benzyl or optionally substituted phenyl; or R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and the nitrogen atom to which they are attached together represent an alicyclic amino group]; and salts thereof may be used for the treatment of cerebral circulatory problems and for use as centrally acting muscle relaxants.

Isoxazole derivatives for use as cerebro-active drugs and central muscle

There is disclosed a silver halide photosensitive material for color photography which comprises a phenol type cyan coupler having the formula: ##STR1## wherein the substituents X.sup.1, X.sup.2, Y, Z and n are as defined in the specification and claim of this application. The cyan coupler mentioned above is a novel cyan dye image-forming coupler and the photosensitive material containing the same according to the present invention has removed the various drawbacks in the prior art.

Silver halide photosensitive materials for color photography

A silver halide photosensitive material for color photography which comprises a phenol type cyan coupler having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.3 is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, a nitro group, or a monovalent organic group;

There is disclosed a coupler for photography represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a branched alkyl group having 3 to 5 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 represents an aryl group; X represents a divalent linking group; Ar represents an aryl group; and Z is a hydrogen atom or a group eliminable through the coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine type color developing agent, and a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising the same. The coupler mentioned above is not only excellent in solubility in organic solvents, but also can be easily purified, thus being capable of exhibiting excellent characteristics with respect to spectral absorption characteristics, sensitivity, color density, color staining as well as with respect to image storability such as light resistance, heat resistance and humidity resistance.

Coupler for photography

There are disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one kind of cyan dye forming couplers represented by the formula [I] or the formula [II] as defined in the specification provided on a reflective support, and a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material further having a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one kind of magenta couplers represented by the formula [III] as defined in the specification. The light-sensitive silver halide color photographic materials according to this invention have excellent color forming characteristics and form very fast dyes to heat, light and humidity.

Light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material

A method for forming a silver halide color photographic image comprising forming a dye image in the presence of a phenol cyan coupler. The phenol cyan coupler has the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R is an alkyl, an aryl or a heterocyclic group; X is selected from the group consisting of an alkyl, acyloxy, acylamino, succinimide, and sulfoneamide moiety; Z is a hydrogen atom or a group capable of eliminating itself from the coupler during the coupling reaction with the oxidized product of a color developing agent; and n is an integer from 1 to 3, and when n is 2 or 3, X may be the same or different.

Method and material for the formation of silver halide color

A photographic acylacetanilide yellow coupler having at the acyl or anilide portion thereof a moiety represented by --X--Y--Z where X represents --NHCO-- or --CONH-- radical, Y represents a divalent organic radical, Z represents ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl or aryl radical, and a color photographic material containing an acylacetanilide yellow coupler.

Silver halide color photographic material containing yellow coupler

The present invention relates to a method of forming a dye image which involves processing a light-sensitive silver halide photographic image, after its imagewise exposure, in the presence of a novel yellow coupler as depicted in the formula below and an aromatic primary amine color developing agent ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents cyano, alkyl carbonyl, phenylalkyl carbonyl, phenoxy alkyl carbonyl, phenylthio alkyl carbonyl, arylcarbonyl, alkyl phenyl carbonyl, alkoxy phenyl carbonyl, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 independently are hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkylacyloxy, arylacyloxy, acylamino, N-alkyl carbamoyl, N-phenylcarbamoyl, alkylsulfonamido, arylsulfonamido, N-alkyl sulfamoyl, N-phenylsulfamoyl, or imido, R.sub.6 represents cycloalkyl, alkenyl, naphthyl, thienyl, benzothienyl, furyl, or pyranyl, or a group of the formula (II): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.7, R.sub.9 and R.sub.11 are each hydrogen or alkyl, the sum of the carbon atoms in R.sub.7, R.sub.9 and R.sub.11 being 5 to 20, R.sub.8 and R.sub.10 are hydrogen, and Y represents non-metal atoms required for forming 2,5-dioxo-imidazolidine, 2-3,5-trioxo-imidazolidine, 2,5-dioxo-triazolidine, 2,4-oxazolidinedione, 2,4-thiazolidinedione, 2(1H)-pyridone, 2(1H)-pyrazone, 5(1H)-imidazolone, 5(1H)-triazolone, 2(1H)-pyrimidone, 2-pyrazolone (5), 2-isothiazolone(5), 2(1H)-quinaoxazolone, 4(3H)-pyrimidone, 2-benzoxazolone, 4-isooxazolone(5), 3-fluorone(2), 4-imidazolone(2), 3-pyrazolone, 2-tetrazolone(5), 3-tetrazolone(5), and derivatives thereof.

Method of forming dye image

Process for forming yellow dye images in silver halide photographic material using 2-equivalent .alpha.-pivaloyl acetanilide couplers having at the 5-position a ballasting sulfonyl amido group.

Process for forming dye images

A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material containing a new development inhibitor releasing compound. The said compound has no hydrogen atom at the carbon atom which is adjacent to the carbonyl group and capable of coupling to an oxidation product of a color developing agent on the development.

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Hino, Japan

Katsunori Kato