Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Masatoshi Kato

Hiroshi Kitaguchi

Kozo Sato

Masaaki Tsukase

Masashi Takeuchi

Hiroshi Hara

Mutsuo Akao

Toshiaki Aono

Masakazu Yoneyama

Yasuo Aotsuka

Hiroyuki Osanai

Yasushi Murakami

Yukio Ishii

Masasi Takeuchi

A cowl structure for a vehicle, which includes: a box-section cross member under a windshield of the vehicle; an extension member extending frontward from a base wall of the cross member; and a wiper bracket attached to a front wall of the cross member and the extension member. Either the base wall of the cross member or the extension member is provided with a rigidity changing part.

Cowl structure for a vehicle

A packaged roll-shaped silver halide photosensitive material comprising a winding core, a roll-shaped silver halide photosensitive material wound on the winding core and a packaging material covering the periphery and the both two lateral sides of the roll-shaped silver halide photosensitive material, wherein at least one surface of the three surfaces in the periphery and the both two lateral sides of the roll-shaped silver halide photosensitive material is packaged with a packaging material comprising a combination of a paper material with a pored film, and the water vapor permeability of such packaging material is not less than 5.1 g/m.sup.2 .multidot.24 hours. It is possible to prevent deterioration of a roll-shaped silver halide photosensitive material through abnormal sensitization of photographic performance.

Packaged roll-shaped silver halide photosensitive material

A novel heat developable light-sensitive material is disclosed, comprising light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers on a paper support, wherein at least one subbing layer capable of inhibiting fog is provided interposed between the undermost layer among said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers and said paper support. In a preferred embodiment, the subbing layer comprises a binder and at least one material capable of inhibiting fog.

Heat developable light-sensitive material with paper support

An image is formed in a photographic element by a process comprising a step of heating a heat-developable photosensitive material in the presence of a specific compound which typically releases a phenylmercaptotetrazole having a substituted benzene ring and serving as a development retarder.

Image forming process including heating step

A heat-developable photographic element containing a light-sensitive silver halide and a binder on a support, and in addition, a base precursor and a photographic reagent capable of releasing a compound represented by the general formula (I) by reaction with a base in a light-sensitive layer and/or an image receiving layer. ##STR1## wherein Y is an atomic group necessary for forming a 5-, 6- or 9-membered heterocyclic ring. The photographic material has excellent temperature compensation capability and low fog.

Heat developable photographic element

A color image is formed by imagewise exposing a photosensitive material comprising at least (a) a photosensitive silver halide, (b) a binder, (c) a dye-providing substance which forms or releases a diffusible dye in response or counter-response to the reduction of the silver halide into silver at elevated temperatures, and (d) a specific-surface-active agent on a support, and heat developing the photosensitive material to form an image.

Heat development dye image forming method with surface active agents

An image-forming process involving a heating step is disclosed, which comprises conducting the heating in the presence of a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a group selected from an aryl group, a substituted aryl group, a heterocyclic group, and a substituted heterocyclic group;

Image-forming process involving heating step

A method for forming an image, which comprises heating a light-sensitive material in the presence of a compound capable of forming a 2-mercaptobenzazole ring by a ring closing reaction when heated. In accordance with the method of the present invention, development is stopped at an appropriate time of development whereby an image having a high maximum density and low fog is obtained. A heat-developable light-sensitive material containing the compound is also disclosed.

Method for forming an image

A method for the formation of a photographic image including a heating step, comprising heating a photographic material in the presence of at least one compound selected from those represented by formulae (I) and(II) ##STR1## wherein A represents a non-metallic atomic group forming a carbocyclic aromatic ring or a heterocyclic aromatic ring;

Method for the formation of photographic images including heating step

A heat-developable light-sensitive material is described, comprising a support having provided thereon at least

Heat-developable light-sensitive material

An image forming process including a heating step is disclosed. The process comprises conducting said heating step in the presence of at least one compound represented by formula (I), (II), or (III). ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents ##STR2## wherein R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyloxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkylthio group, a substituted or unsubstituted arylthio group or a substituted or unsubstituted amino group; R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 together form a 5-membered or 6-membered ring; Q represents a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or Q represents a group linked to the pyrazole ring, TIME or PUG either directly or through another atom to form a ring; TIME represents a timing group; PUG represents a photographically useful group; and n represents 0 or a positive integer. The image forming process provides for little variation in photographic characteristics even when there is a substantial variation in the heat-processing temperature.

Image forming process including a heating step

A novel method for formation of an image comprising a heating step, comprising the heating carried out in the presence of a compound of general formula (I):

Method for formation of an image comprising a heating step

A process of forming images by heat developing a heat developable light-sensitive material after imagewise exposure is described, comprising heating a heat developable light-sensitive material in the presence of a compound represented by general formula (I) ##STR1##

Image forming process

A heat developable light-sensitive material containing a compound represented by general formula (I) described below in a light-sensitive layer or an image receiving layer thereof: ##STR1## wherein X represents an atomic group necessary to complete a benzene ring or a naphthalene ring; R represents a group convertible to a hydroxy group or a dissociation form thereof at the time of heat development; Y represents an atomic group necessary to complete a 5-membered or 6-membered heterocyclic group containing at least one nitrogen atom; Q represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an aryl group, or a substituted aryl group; TIME represents a timing group; and n represents 0 or a positive integer. The heat developable light-sensitive material containing the compound represented by general formula (I), which is stable at room temperature and releases a development inhibitor to stop the development at the time of heat development, can provide a color image having a high S/N ratio and a high density.

Heat developable light-sensitive material with development inhibitor

A method for forming an image which has a step of heating an image-forming material in the presence of a compound represented by formula (I), whereby unevenness of image density and increase in fog due to fluctuation of development temperature, which have so far been caused in heat-developable photosensitive materials, can be prevented from occurring: ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, or a group selected from a class consisting of groups represented by formulae (A) to (C) ##STR2## wherein R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group, an aralkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkyloxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, or a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, or R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 combine with each other to form a 5- or 6-membered ring;

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masatoshi Kato