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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1998

Filed:

Jan. 05, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Takeshi Funakubo, Minami-Ashigara, JP;

Yoichi Maruyama, Minami-Ashigara, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03C / ; G03C / ; G03C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430567 ; 430569 ;
Abstract

A silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains. In them, 60 or more percent of the total area of all silver halide grains are occupied by tabular silver halide grains having a circle equivalent diameter of 0.6 .mu.m or less, an aspect ratio of 1.5 or more, and having dislocation lines substantially localized only in the fringe portions thereof. Also, 50 or more percent of the number of all silver halide grains are occupied by tabular silver halide grains having 10 or more dislocation lines per grain. In addition, the surface silver iodide content of all silver halide grains is 3 mol % or less when analyzed by X-ray photoelectric spectroscopy (XPS).


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