Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Yuichi Wakata

Masayuki Iwasaki

Ken Iwakura

Masato Satomura

Tomizo Namiki

Koji Inoue

Sadao Fujikura

Kan Wakamatsu

Morimasa Sato

Mikio Totsuka

Masanobu Takashima

Ryoichi Nakano

Minoru Maeda

Hirotaka Matsumoto

Tomoko Tashiro

Mizuki Yamamoto

Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi

Fumiaki Shinozaki

Toshiaki Aono

Hideyuki Nakamura

Naoto Yanagihara

Yuuichi Fukushige

Shigetoshi Ono

Sumitaka Tatsuta

Kensuke Ikeda

Takashi Takayanagi

Takafumi Hosokawa

Kazuyuki Koike

Hisao Yamada

Yoshihiro Aburaya

Naoya Imamura

Yasunori Takata

Kimio Ichikawa

Chiyomi Niitsu

A light-sensitive sheet comprises a support, a first light-sensitive layer and a second light-sensitive layer in this order. Each of the first and second light sensitive layers independently contains a binder, a polymerizable compound and a photo-polymerization initiator. The second light-sensitive layer is more sensitive to light than the first light-sensitive layer. A light-sensitive laminate comprises a substrate, the second light-sensitive layer and the first light-sensitive layer in this order.

Light-sensitive sheet comprising support, first light-sensitive layer and second light-sensitive layer

A light-sensitive sheet comprises a support, a first light-sensitive layer, a barrier layer and a second light-sensitive layer in this order. Each of the first and second light sensitive layers independently contains a binder, a polymerizable compound and a photo-polymerization initiator. The second light-sensitive layer is more sensitive to light than the first light-sensitive layer. A light-sensitive laminate comprises a substrate, the second light-sensitive layer, the barrier layer and the first light-sensitive layer in this order.

Light-sensitive sheet comprising support, first and second light-sensitive layers and barrier layer

An inkjet recording sheet has a colorant-receiving layer on a support. The colorant-receiving layer is provided with at least one of compounds represented by the following formulas (1) to (4) and which has either or both of an I/O value of at least 0.5 and a water soluble property. The colorant-receiving layer is also provided with at least one organic mordant selected from polyallylamine, polyvinylamine and derivatives of these. In the formulas, each of Rto Rindependently represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group that may have a substituent, and any of pairs Rand R, Rand R, and Rand Rmay be mutually coupled to form a ringR&#x2014;S&#x2014;R&#x2003;&#x2003;General Formula (1)R&#x2014;S&#x2014;S&#x2014;R&#x2003;&#x2003;General Formula (2)R&#x2014;SH &#x2003;&#x2003;General Formula (3) 

Inkjet recording sheet

The invention provides a colored photosensitive resin composition for forming a colored image on a transparent substrate, the colored photosensitive resin composition comprising: an alkali-soluble binder, one of a monomer and an oligomer having at least two ethylenic unsaturated double bonds, one of a photopolymerization initiator and a photopolymerization initiating system, and a pigment, said alkali-soluble binder comprising a copolymer including a structural unit having a carboxyl group, a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1), and a structural unit comprising a (meth)acrylate having at least one of an aromatic ring and an alicyclic ring: wherein Rrepresents one of a hydrogen atom and a methyl group; and each of Rto Rindependently represents one of a hydrogen atom, a substituted and unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted and unsubstituted aryl group, a halogen atom and a cyano group.

Photosensitive resin composition, transfer material, image forming method, color filter and producing method thereof and photomask and producing method thereof

The present invention provides a method for producing a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter having excellent color pixel resolution. The method features forming a liquid crystal layer which includes a cholesteric liquid crystal composition containing at least a liquid crystal compound, a photoreactive chiral dopant, and a polymerization initiator; and forming partition walls at portions corresponding to a boundary of each of pixels to be formed, by irradiating those portions through a mask with ultraviolet light at a wavelength to which the polymerization initiator is sensitive, either before or after the pixels are formed in the liquid crystal layer.

Method for producing cholesteric liquid crystal color filters

Optical diffusion element comprises a layer of polymer particles self-fused together, each polymer particle having a refractivity varying from the center to the periphery thereof and a component for the periphery having a glass transition temperature that is desirably lower than 100&deg; C. The optical diffusion element is desirably provided with an optical transparent layer in contact with the polymer particle layer.

Optical diffusion element having self-fused polymer particles free of a binder and display device equipped with the optical diffusion element

It is an object of the present invention to provide an ink jet recording sheet which has high glossiness of the recording surface and is free from the bleeding of an image with time even under high temperature and humidity. Also, the recording sheet can avoid the occurrence of cracks, is strong, possesses high ink-absorbing ability, and can form an image with high light resistance and water resistance. The ink jet recording sheet comprises a polymer which contains a quaternary ammonium base in its molecule, of which the ratio of inorganicity/organicity (I/O value) calculated based on an organic conceptual diagram is 1.0 or less and the cation density (meq/g) is 3.0 or less, and which is soluble in at least one of water and an organic solvent.

Ink jet recording sheet

A heat sensitive recording material comprising a substrate having sequentially thereon a heat sensitive recording layer and a protective layer, 1) wherein the protective layer contains an aqueous silicone modified polymer. It is desirable this aqueous silicone modified polymer is used together with an aqueous binder, and a crosslinking agent which can cause a crosslinking reaction with them is desirably used. 2) The protective layer contains a silicone modified polymer having a Tg (glass transition point) of 60.degree. C. or more. In the heat sensitive recording materials of 1) and 2), the silicone modified polymer is desirably a silicone graft polymer, silicone block polymer, silicone modified acrylic polymer and the like, and particularly, the silicone graft polymer is desirably a silicone graft acrylic polymer and the like.

Heat-sensitive recording material

A thermo-responsive microcapsule containing a diazo compound or an electron donative dye precursor, wherein the capsule wall of the microcapsule is composed of at least one polymer obtained by polymerization of an isocyanate compound containing an adduct of (A) a compound having one active hydrogen in the molecule and having an average molecular weight from 500 to 20000 and (B) a multifunctional isocyanate having two or more isocyanate groups in the molecule, and a heat-sensitive recording material and a multicolor heat-sensitive recording material comprising a heat-sensitive recording layer containing the microcapsule are disclosed.

Thermoresponsive microcapsule, heat sensitive recording material and

A light-sensitive resin composition which can be developed in an alkaline aqueous solution and has an excellent image-forming performance and a sufficient UV absorbance after an image formation is disclosed. The light-sensitive resin composition includes (1) a photopolymerization initiator or a photopolymerization initiator system, (2) an addition-polymerizable monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, (3) a high molecular binder which is soluble in an alkaline aqueous solution and insoluble in water, and (4) at least one of the compounds which substantially do not absorb light in a specified UV region and which, when subjected to treatment with an aqueous alkali solution and/or to heating, are capable of absorbing light in that region and have substantially no absorption in the visible region.

Light-sensitive resin composition

An alkali-developable photopolymerizable composition is disclosed, comprising (1) a photopolymerization initiator or a photopolymerization initiator system, (2) an addition polymerizable monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, and (3) a resin obtained by reacting a copolymer comprising at least a repeating unit represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Ar.sup.1 represents a phenyl group or a phenyl group substituted with an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an aryl group having from 6 to 10 carbon atoms, an aralkyl group having from 8 to 12 carbon atoms, a halogen atom, or a combination of two or more of these substituents; and x represents a molar content of the repeating unit in the copolymer, ranging from 0.85 to 0.55, and a repeating unit represented by formula (II): ##STR2## wherein y represents a molar content of the repeating unit in the copolymer, ranging from 0.15 to 0.45, and wherein the copolymer has a number average molecular weight of from 500 to 30,000, with a primary amine represented by formula (III):

Photopolymerizable composition, color filter, and production of color

An image-receiving sheet material for forming a transfer image by heat-transferring an ink layer from a transfer material having a heat-transferable ink layer onto an image-receiving sheet material, and re-transferring the ink layer onto a permanent support. The image-receiving sheet material comprises a support having thereon at least two image-receiving layers, at least one of the image-receiving layers is transferred onto the permanent support, and at least the image-receiving layer onto which the ink layer is transferred contains a modified resin prepared from a polyvinyl acetal resin containing hydroxyl groups in which from 0.1 to 1 equivalent of the hydroxyl groups of the polyvinyl acetal resin have been converted to a group represented by formula (I). In a preferred embodiment, the image-receiving layer onto which the ink layer is transferred further contains a high molecular weight compound having at least a repeating unit represented by formula (II) and/or formula (III). In image forming method using the image-receiving sheet material, and a laminate comprising an image-receiving sheet layer and a heat transferable ink layer are also disclosed.

Image-receiving sheet material, method for forming transfer image and

A photosensitive resin composition which comprises a resin containing at least one repeating unit represented by the following general formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## The photosensitive resin composition is soluble in an aqueous alkaline solution and the cured product thereof has good alkali resistance. Furthermore, the resin composition not only has excellent solubility and production suitability, but also has high chemical resistance.

Photosensitive resin composition, color filter using the same, and

A 2-diazo-1,2-quinone compound having a substituent group containing an alkyl group which is substituted by at least one fluorine atom is described. This compound has a capacity to change its polarity when exposed to light. The invention also provides an image forming material in which the invention compound is added to at least one of laminated layers. When these laminated layers are exposed to light, the adhesiveness of the compound-containing layer to its adjoining layer is reduced effectively due to the polarity-changing ability of the compound, thus making the easy delamination of the layers possible. This compound is applicable to many instances in which image receiving sheets are used, such as the formation of a multi-color image by a transfer method (a color proof, for example) and the preparation of a printing plate of the delamination development type.

Method of improving delamination in an image forming material utilizing

An alkali-developable photopolymerizable composition is comprises (1) a photopolymerization initiator or a photopolymerization initiator system, (2) an addition polymerizable monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, and (3) a resin obtained by reacting a copolymer comprising at least a repeating unit represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Ar.sup.1 is described in the body of the specification; and x represents a molar content of the repeating unit in the copolymer, ranging from 0.85 to 0.55, and a repeating unit represented by formula (II): ##STR2## wherein y represents a molar content of the repeating unit in the copolymer, ranging from 0.15 to 0.45, with a primary amine represented by formula (III):

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Yuichi Wakata