Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Yukio Shinagawa

Junichi Yamanouchi

Sumio Ohtani

Shinzi Kataoka

Kiyokazu Hashimoto

Yasuo Mukunoki

Shinji Sakaguchi

Yosuke Nishiura

Masashi Ogawa

Hidefumi Sera

Kyoichi Naruo

Jun Yamaguchi

Itsuo Fujiwara

Kentaro Shiratsuchi

Jun Sasaki

Hideo Kawaguchi

Masafumi Fukugawa

Koichi Suematsu

Toshio Shibata

Atsushi Adachi

Seimi Satake

Shuichi Shindo

Toru Oikawa

Yasumasa Yamaguchi

Shinji Kataoka

Hideo Matsunaga

The present invention relates to a microporous membrane and a process for producing thereof, especially a microporous membrane which can be used for microfiltration, has excellent resistance to chemicals, and a process for producing thereof. The present invention provides a microporous membrane having excellent resistance to chemicals, and a microporous membrane which facilitates waste disposal, and a process for producing thereof. The microporous membrane has a bubble point value measured by the use of ethanol (by the test method of JIS K3832) falling in the range of from 10 kPa to 1000 kPa and comprises a polymer prepared by ring opening polymerization of a compound represented by chemical formula (I) or a polymer which is a ring opening polymer or ring opening copolymer represented by chemical formula (II). An example of the ring opening ring polymer or ring opening copolymer is a norbornene resin. The process for producing the microporous membrane is as follows: A polymer prepared by ring opening polymerization of a compound represented by chemical formula (I) is heated and dissolved in a solvent (a) in which the polymer is soluble, and casted to form a solution membrane, which is rapidly cooled, and extracted with a washing solvent (b) in which the polymer is insoluble to remove the solvent (a), whereby the microporous membrane having a bubble point value measured by the use of ethanol (by the test method of JIS K3832) falling in the range from 10 kPa to 1000 kPa is obtained.

Microporous membrane and process for the production thereof

A silver halide light-sensitive material is described, including an embodiment containing a polyester film support having thereon at least one light-sensitive layer, wherein the polyester film support satisfies the following relationships:

Silver halide photographic material

A photographic material comprising a silver halide photographic material which has a magnetic recording layer having a coercive force of at least 400 Oe and a patrone for silver halide photographic material wherein a leading end of a silver halide photographic material wound around a spool is delivered from a film leading-out port of a main body of the patrone to the outside by rotating said spool in the direction of film delivery, said spool being rotatably provided in the main body of the patrone.

Photographic material

A cellulose ester film contains a phosphoric ester as a plasticizer. The film further contains an aromatic carboxylic ester represented by the formula [I]. ##STR1## in which n is 3, 4, 5 or 6; R is an alkyl group or an alkenyl group, each of which may have one or more substituent groups; the benzene ring may have one or more substituent groups other than the groups represented by --COOR; and the groups represented by --COOR may be different from each other. A process for preparation of the film is also disclosed.

Cellulose ester film containing phosphoric ester plasticizer and

A peel-apart type diffusion transfer unit comprising at least an image receiving layer and a peeling layer on a support wherein the peeling layer essentially consists of (A) a layer containing a copolymer which contains repeating units (monomer units) derived from an ethylenic unsaturated carboxylic acid or a salt thereof, and (B) a layer which contains a cellulose ester.

Diffusion transfer photographic film units

A diffusion transfer photographic film unit comprising a support having thereon outwardly from said support (a) a dye image receiving layer; (b) a first peeling layer containing a copolymer of at least (i) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing at least one hydrocarbon group containing from 7 to 18 carbon atoms, and (ii) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, the homopolymer of which is soluble in water or an aqueous alkaline solution; (c) a second peeling layer containing a cellulose ester; and (d) a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a light-sensitive silver halide and a dye image forming substance. The diffusion transfer photograph produced using the unit of the invention has stable peeling properties, is not sticky, and is excellent in scratch resistance.

Diffusion transfer photographic film unit

A polyester film containing 20% or less by weight of a mixture comprising a white pigment and a pearlescent pigment is disclosed. The polyester film has a pearly luster and a high degree of whiteness.

Polyester film for recording materials

A fine porous membrane having a pore size distribution in the thickness direction and having a layer having a minimum pore size in the interior thereof, wherein the ratio of maximum pore size to the average pore size, each as determined according to ASTM-316-80, is not more than 1.8. The fine porous membrane is produced by a process comprising casting a film-forming solution, comprising a polymer in a solvent having incorporated therein a swelling agent and a non-solvent, on a casting carrier while being in a solution state, directing air having a temperature of from 15.degree. to 60.degree. C. and a relative humidity of from 10 to 80% onto the surface of the cast film at a velocity of from 0.2 to 4 m/sec for a period of from 2 to 17 seconds to cause coacervation of the cast film while controlling the evaporation loss of the solvent from the cast film and the absorption of non-solvent vapors in the air, dipping the case film in a coagulating bath to cause phase separation and coagulation to form a fine porous membrane, and stripping off the membrane from the casting carrier. The fine porous membranes has a low filtration resistance, a great filtration flow rate, a high efficiency in trapping fine particles and bacteria, and a long life.

Fine porous membrane and process for producing the same

An element for electrophoresis suitably employable for analysis of biopolymers such as proteins, as well as for determination of base sequence of DNA, RNA, their fragments, and their derivatives, which comprises a plastic material support, an adhesive layer containing an inorganic oxide and a binder, a medium layer for electrophoresis comprising an aqueous polyacrylamide gel formed by crosslinking polymerization of an acrylamide compound and a crosslinking agent in the presence of water, and a plastic material covering film. The electrophoresis medium layer may contain a water-soluble polymer and agarose. The medium layer may contain a modifier such as an anionic surfactant, formamide or urea.

Improvement of electrophoretic element using polyacrylamide gel

A retouchable mat film comprising a hydrophobic support which has formed thereon a mat layer containing silicon dioxide as a matting agent is disclosed. The mat layer further includes a mixture of poly(methyl methacrylate) or a copolymer containing at least 80 wt % of methyl methacrylate and a hydrophilic polymer as a binder. This mat film withstands several retouching operations in ink.

Retouchable mat film

A photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one light-sensitive photographic emulsion layer on a support and a back layer provided on the reverse side of the support, wherein the uppermost surface layer of the back layer comprises a hydrophobic polymer binder and a hydrophilic polymer binder.

Photographic light-sensitive element with backing layer

A drafting film comprising a hydrophobic support and a matte layer formed thereon, said matte layer comprising silicon dioxide as a matting agent and a mixture of polymethyl methacrylate or a copolymer thereof and nitrocellulose. The drafting film show excellent adaptability for writing or drawing and revising or erasing. A wash-off type photographic film is also provided by forming a wash-off silver halide photosensitive emulsion layer on the drafting film.

Polyester base drafting film with nitrocellulose and

A polyester film, typically a support for photographic material is coated, prior to coating a hydrophilic organic colloid layer, with a subbing composition containing at least one compound represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein a and d each represent 1 or 2; b and c each represent 0, 1, or 2 but b and c must not be 0 at the same time, A represents a divalent group; and n represents 0 or 1.

Method for subbing polyester films

An anti-halation layer for photographic materials comprising at least one first binder which is swollen by an aqueous alkaline solution and comprises about 10 to about 25% by weight of alkyl acrylate units, 52 to 65% by weight of alkyl methacrylate units and about 18 to about 30% by weight of suitable acid monomer units, and at least a second binder agent which is soluble in an alkaline aqueous solution but which can withstand a strongly alkaline preliminary bath and is readily stripped away only at a successive rinsing operation.

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Yukio Shinagawa