Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Keiji Mihayashi

Seiji Ichijima

Naoki Saito

Hidetoshi Kobayashi

Atsuhiro Ohkawa

Isamu Itoh

Yoshio Ishii

Masuji Motoki

Morio Yagihara

Masakazu Morigaki

Mitsunori Ono

Yoshihiro Fujita

Takayoshi Kamio

Hisashi Mikoshiba

Akira Abe

Toshio Kawagishi

Junichiro Hosokawa

Hiroo Takizawa

Tsumoru Hirano

Shunji Takada

Mamoru Sakurazawa

Kiyoshi Nakazyo

Koji Tamoto

Hirohiko Kato

Shigeo Hirano

Koki Nakamura

Takashi Ozawa

Kohzaburoh Yamada

Mikio Ihama

Shinji Ueda

Yoshisada Nakamura

Yoshihiko Shibahara

Hiroshi Fukuzawa

Yasushi Nozawa

Masatoshi Goto

Yasuhiro Shimada

Tadashi Ikeda

Kazunobu Katoh

Hisashi Okada

Yasuhiro Yoshioka

Akira Ogawa

Keiichi Adachi

Shigeru Nakamura

Minoru Sato

Nobutaka Fukagawa

Junichi Yamanouchi

Hisashi Okamura

Yoji Ito

Noriyuki Inoue

Nobutaka Ohki

Katsumi Ryoke

Hiroshi Fujimoto

Shinzo Kishimoto

Tadashi Ogawa

Katsuyoshi Yamakawa

Tomokazu Yasuda

Toshiyuki Watanabe

Masayuki Negoro

Nobuo Sakai

Masato Taniguchi

Toshiro Takahashi

Tatsuhiko Obayashi

Yukio Karino

Shigetoshi Ono

Jun Arakawa

Kazuhiro Aikawa

Shunichi Aida

Ken-ichi Kuwabara

Shigeru Shibayama

Yuji Kume

Masatoshi Nakanishi

Akihiro Ikeyama

Tsutomu Saito

Kensuke Morita

Toshio Koshimizu

Masayoshi Toyoda

Mamoru Tashiro

Hiroshi Tamaoki

Hideto Ikoma

Masuzi Motoki

Katsushige Kamada

Yoshihiko Shibara

Makoto Tanaka

Shunishi Aida

The present invention provides a method for producing an optical compensating sheet, comprising a step of simultaneously coating at least two coating solutions on a transparent support, wherein at least one of the coating solutions simultaneously coated in that step contains a liquid crystalline compound and another coating solution contains a surface active agent; an optical compensating sheet obtained by this method; an optical film comprising a support having thereon an optically anisotropic layer formed containing a liquid crystalline compound and a fluoroaliphatic group-containing copolymer containing a repeating unit derived from a fluoroaliphatic group-containing (meth)acrylate monomer and a repeating unit derived from a polyoxyalkylene (meth)acrylate monomer; and a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device each using the optical compensating sheet or optical film.

Optical compensating sheet, production method thereof, optical film, and polarizing plate and liquid crystal display device using the same

A method for producing a silver halide photographic emulsion comprises a step of spectrally sensitizing a silver halide photographic emulsion material that contains tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 3 or more in an amount of 50% or more of the total projected area of all the silver halide grains, and a step of performing the spectral sensitization by the addition of a cyanine dye in an amount of 60% or more of the saturated covering amount of the silver halide grains, and the emulsion is produced in the presence of 400 to 2,500 ppm of calcium ions and/or 50 to 2,500 ppm of magnesium ions.

Method of manufacturing silver halide photographic emulsion, silver halide photographic emulsion manufactured by the method, and method of inhibiting aggregation of the emulsion

A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide photographic material contains a compound by formula (IA), or which contains at least one hydroxamic acid compound having a bicyclo ring as a partial structure and represented by formula (IB).

Silver halide photographic material and hydroxamic acid-base compound for use therein

Silver halide photographic material and hydroxamic acid-based compound

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein at least one of the at least one of light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer in which 50% or more of the entire projected area of all silver halide grains are tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more, at least a part of the tabular silver halide grains contains a desensitizer, and the light-sensitive material contains a compound represented by formula (A-I), (A-II) or (A-III); and a package obtained by housing the light-sensitive material in a specific cartridge.

Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material and package thereof

Silver halide photographic material and hydroxamic acid-base compound

A silver halide photographic material is described, which comprises a support having provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a magnetic recording layer in backing layers on the side of the support opposite to the side on which the silver halide emulsion layer is provided, wherein the layer on the farthest side from the support of the backing layers contains a binder and a sliding agent, and the weight ratio of the sliding agent/binder is from 1 to 1.times.10.sup.4.

Silver halide photographic material

A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; the silver halide photographic material contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (II), the variables of which are defined in the specification: ##STR1##

Silver halide photographic material and hydroxamic acid based compound

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having on one surface thereof at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material contains at least one compound selected from the compounds represented by formulae (A-I), (A-II) and (A-III) and a coupler represented by formula (m).

Silver halide color photographic material and package thereof

A compound represented by the following general formula (I) is added to at least one layer of a silver halide photographic photosensitive material, thereby improving sharpness and graininess or decreasing a variation in photographic performance during storage after photography and before development: ##STR1## where A represents a coupler moiety, each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, each of R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, INH represents a group having a development inhibiting function, and R.sup.5 represents a nonsubstituted phenyl group, a nonsubstituted primary alkyl group, or a primary alkyl group substituted with a group other than an aryl group, at least one of R.sup.1 to R.sup.4 being a substituent other than a hydrogen atom, and an --OC(.dbd.O)-- group combining with one of two nitrogen atoms forming a pyrazole ring.

Silver halide color photographic photosensitive material

A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide light-sensitive layer and at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein the support comprises a poly(alkylene aromatic dicarboxylate) having a glass transition temperature of from 50.degree. C. to 200.degree. C. and is heat-treated at a temperature of not lower than 40.degree. C., but lower than the glass transition temperature for 0.1 to 1500 hours after molding the polymer into the support and before the coating of the silver halide light-sensitive layer, and said at least one light-insensitive layer contains a dispersion of crystallites of at least one dye represented by general formula (I):

Silver halide photographic material and method for processing the same

An abrasive tape for cleaning a magnetic information reading apparatus for photographic use. The tape comprises an abrasive layer including an abrasive and a binder and a support therefor. The support havs a characteristic thickness between 40 .mu.m and 180 .mu.m. An abrasive tape package for the apparatus comprises a cartrigde body, and a spool which is placed inside the cartrigde and rotatably supported by the cartrigde through a shaft. In the package, the spool is wound by the abrasive tape wherein the support has a thickness between 40 .mu.m and 180 .mu.m; the cartrigde has a feed passway for sending out the abrasive tape; and a pair of apparatus abrasive tape retainers are attached to the inside of the both ends of the shaft.

Abrasive tape for magnetic information reading apparatus for

A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide photographic material contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and R.sup.2 represents a branched alkyl group having 20 or more carbon atoms, a straight chain or branched alkenyl group having 17 or more carbon atoms, or a substituted alkyl or substituted alkenyl group substituted with at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of an alkoxycarbonyl group, an alkenoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, an acyl group, an alkoxyl group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, an aryl group and a heterocyclic group, and having 12 or more carbon atoms in total.

A silver halide color light-sensitive material is disclosed which contains a compound capable of reacting with an oxidation product of a developing agent to release a photographically useful group, preferably a development inhibitor. The coupling product of the compound is dissolved into a processing solution when subjected to development processing, and, therefore, forms no substantial color image. The light-sensitive material shows improvements in sharpness, graininess, color reproducibility, and storage stability.

Silver halide color light-sensitive material

A silver halide color photographic material having provided on a support at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said photographic material contains a coupler of formula (I) and at least one coupler selected from the group consisting of couplers represented by formula (II) and (III), wherein the substituents are as defined herein the specification. ##STR1## The material has improved coloring capacity and color image fastness and fluctuation of the properties of the material due to variation of the processing conditions is reduced.

Silver halide color photographic material

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Keiji Mihayashi