Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Kao Corporation

Masaaki Tsukase

Kozo Sato

Hiroshi Kitaguchi

Masatoshi Kato

Masashi Takeuchi

Tomoaki Yoshioka

Hideaki Naruse

Hideyuki Nishikawa

Makoto Takahashi

Masuji Motoki

Daigo Sawaki

Ryo Hamasaki

Takahiko Ichiki

Takashi Miyahara

Koki Nakamura

Toshio Kawagishi

Atsuhiro Ohkawa

Yasuhiro Ishiwata

Osamu Takiguchi

Hiroshi Hara

Takayuki Ito

Hiroyuki Hirai

Toshiki Taguchi

Hisashi Mikoshiba

Yuki Mizukawa

Katsuyuki Watanabe

Osamu Uchida

Naoyuki Hanaki

Yosuke Yamamoto

Takeshi Shibata

Kazuhiko Matsumoto

Akihiro Kaneko

Hiroshi Fukuzawa

Hiroshi Iwanaga

Masakazu Yamaguchi

Masataka Satou

Yoshimasa Tate

Masasi Takeuchi

Miyuki Hayama

The present invention provides a photoelectric conversion element having a photoelectric conversion film which exhibits excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency and responsiveness, an imaging device, an optical sensor, and a method of using a photoelectric conversion element. In the photoelectric conversion element of the invention, a photoelectric conversion material contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by General formula (1), a compound represented by General formula (2), and a compound represented by General formula (3). 

Photoelectric conversion element, imaging device, optical sensor, and method of using photoelectric conversion element

An object of the invention is to provide: a photoelectric conversion material which has excellent deposition stability such that when the photoelectric conversion material is used in a photoelectric conversion element, the change in the performance of the element due to variations in the concentration of the photoelectric conversion material is small; a photoelectric conversion element using the photoelectric conversion material; and an optical sensor and an imaging element including the photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion material of the invention is a compound (A) expressed by the following Formula (1). 

Photoelectric conversion material, photoelectric conversion element, optical sensor, and imaging element

There is provided an organic nonlinear optical material including a polymer binder and a compound represented by the following Formula (I): 

Nonlinear optical materials and nonlinear optical device using the same

An optical film including at least one compound represented by formula (1) is disclosed. In the formula, Y, Yand Yeach independently represent methine or a nitrogen atom; R, Rand Reach independently represent formula (A), (B) or (C) or a hydrogen atom, provided that at least two of R, Rand Reach independently represent formula (A), (B) or (C). In the formulae, L, L, and Leach represent a 5-membered heterocyclic group. 

Optical film, retardation plate, elliptica polarizing plate, liquid crystal display device and compound

An optical film comprising at least one compound represented by formula (1) is disclosed. In the formula, Y, Yand Yeach independently represent methine or a nitrogen atom; R, Rand Reach independently represent formula (A), (B) or (C) or a hydrogen atom, provided that at least two of R, Rand Reach independently represent formula (A), (B) or (C). In the formulae, L, L, and Leach represent a 5-membered heterocyclic group. 

The present invention relates to a hair dye composition containing a dissociative azo dye which has high dyeing power, is capable of imparting a vivid color to the hair firmly, has excellent fastness to light, shampooing, sweat, friction, and heat, and fades less with the passage of time because the dye is stable against an alkali agent or an oxidizing agent and does not decompose during hair dyeing; and a hair dyeing method using the hair dye composition.

Hair dye composition

A hair dye composition containing a triazene dissociative direct dye represented by general formula (1): A-N&#x2550;N&#x2014;NH-B (1) wherein A and B are each a monocyclic or a bicyclic aromatic heterocyclic group that may have a substituent or a monocyclic or a bicyclic aryl group that may have a substituent and contain none of a carboxy group, a sulfo group and a quaternary ammonium group; and A and B each bind to a triazene-1,3-diyl group represented by &#x2014;N&#x2550;N&#x2014;NH&#x2014; via a carbon atom within A and B each. A and B may be the same or different.

Silver halide color photosensitive material

Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

A color diffusion transfer photographic material is described, which comprises at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be linked to form a ring directly or via an oxygen atom or a nitrogen atom; R.sup.3 represents an --NHSO.sub.2 R.sub.10 group, an --SO.sub.2 NHCOR.sub.10 group, an --SO.sub.2 NHSO.sub.2 R.sub.10 group, an --NHCOR.sub.10 group or an --OH group; R.sub.10 represents an alkyl group; R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each represents a substituent and when there are a plurality of R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, they may be the same or different; CAR represents a group which releases a dye different from the compound represented by formula (I) in diffusibility by oxidation; x and y each represents 0 or an integer of 1, 2, 3 or 4; and z represents 0 or 1.

Color diffusion transfer photographic material

There is disclosed a color diffusion transfer light-sensitive material in which a transferred density is increased and a processing temperature dependency of the transferred density is improved to a large extent. The above light-sensitive material comprises a color diffusion transfer light-sensitive element containing at least one of the compounds represented by the following Formula (I), and an alkali processing composition: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group; X represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an acylamino group, a sulfonylamino group, a ureido group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a sulfonyl group, an alkoxycarbonylamino group, an amino group, a sulfamoylamino group, a cyano group, a hydroxyl group, or a halogen atom; n represents an integer of 1 to 4; and when n is 2 or more, a plurality of X may be the same or different.

Color diffusion transfer element with benzenesulfonamide

Disclosed is a color diffusion transfer photographic material improved in transfer density (Dmax) and treating temperature dependency thereof on color diffusion transfer, comprising a color diffusion transfer light-sensitive element containing at least one compound represented by the following formula (I) and an alkali treating composition: ##STR1## wherein X represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxyl group, an acylamino group, a sulfonylamino group, a ureido group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a sulfonyl group, an acyl group, a urethane group, an amino group, a sulfamoylamino groups, a cyano group, a hydroxyl group, a phosphonic acid ester group or a heterocyclic group; n represents an integer of 1 to 5; Xs may be the same or different, when n is 2, 3, 4 or 5; two Xs may be combined with each other to form a saturated ring or an unsaturated ring, when n is 2, 3, 4 or 5; and the substituents may further be substituted by other substituents.

Color diffusion transfer photographic material with sulfamoyl phenyl

A color light-sensitive material comprising a support provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver salt layer combined with an image forming compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Dye represents a cyan dye group or a precursor thereof represented by formula (II) defined in the specification;

Color photographic light-sensitive material containing a naphthyl azo

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