US5230983A
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Silver halide photographic material
Assignee: Fujifilm Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1991-04-12
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Granted: 1993-07-27
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Expires: 2011-04-12
Abstract
Abstract A negative-working type silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a hydrazine derivative, wherein the emulsion layer or another hydrophilic colloidal layer provided on the support contains at least one redox compound capable of releasing a development inhibitor upon oxidation, and the silver halide emulsion comprises of monodispersed silver halide grains comprising 50 mol % or more of silver chloride.
Inventors
- 👤 Inoue Nobuaki
- 👤 Sakai Minoru
- 👤 Yasuda Shoji
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 05:03
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03C; G03C7/00; G03C7/30; G03C7/305; G03C1/00; G03C1/005; G03C1/035; G03C1/06; G03C1/061; G03C1/46; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S430/00; Y10S430/138
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim
301 words
A negative-working type silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a hydrazine derivative, wherein said silver halide emulsion comprises monodispersed silver halide grains comprising 50 mol% or more of silver chloride, and said hydrazine derivative is a compound represented by formula (I): ##STR40## wherein R 1 represents an aliphatic or an aromatic group; R 2 represents a hydrogen atom, alkyl group, aryl group, alkoxy group, aryloxy group, amino group or hydrozino group; G 1 represents ##STR41## thiocarbonyl group or iminomethylene group; and A 1 and A 2 each represents a hydrogen atom or one of A 1 and A 2 represents a hydrogen atom and the other represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylsulfonyl group, substituted or unsubstituted arylsulfonyl group or substituted or unsubstituted acryl group, wherein said emulsion layer or another hydrophilic colloidal layer provided on the support contains at least one redox compound capable of releasing a development inhibitor upon oxidation, said redox compound is represented by formula (II-1), (II-2) or (II-3): ##STR42## wherein R 11 represents an aliphatic group of aromatic group; G 11 represents ##STR43## G 12 represents a mere bond, --O--, --S-- or ##STR44## in which R 12 represents a hydrogen atom or R 11 ); A 11 and A 12 each represents a hydrogen atom, alkylsulfonyl group, arylsulfonyl group or acryl group, all of which may be substituted; at least one of A 11 and A 12 in formula (II-1) is a hydrogen atom; A 13 has the same meaning as A 11 or represents ##STR45## A 14 represents a nitro group, cyano group, carboxyl group, sulfo group or --G 11 --G 12 --R 11 ; Time represents a divalent linking group; t represents an integer 0 or 1; and PUG represents a development inhibitor.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
301 words
A negative-working type silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a hydrazine derivative, wherein said silver halide emulsion comprises monodispersed silver halide grains comprising 50 mol% or more of silver chloride, and said hydrazine derivative is a compound represented by formula (I): ##STR40## wherein R 1 represents an aliphatic or an aromatic group; R 2 represents a hydrogen atom, alkyl group, aryl group, alkoxy group, aryloxy group, amino group or hydrozino group; G 1 represents ##STR41## thiocarbonyl group or iminomethylene group; and A 1 and A 2 each represents a hydrogen atom or one of A 1 and A 2 represents a hydrogen atom and the other represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylsulfonyl group, substituted or unsubstituted arylsulfonyl group or substituted or unsubstituted acryl group, wherein said emulsion layer or another hydrophilic colloidal layer provided on the support contains at least one redox compound capable of releasing a development inhibitor upon oxidation, said redox compound is represented by formula (II-1), (II-2) or (II-3): ##STR42## wherein R 11 represents an aliphatic group of aromatic group; G 11 represents ##STR43## G 12 represents a mere bond, --O--, --S-- or ##STR44## in which R 12 represents a hydrogen atom or R 11 ); A 11 and A 12 each represents a hydrogen atom, alkylsulfonyl group, arylsulfonyl group or acryl group, all of which may be substituted; at least one of A 11 and A 12 in formula (II-1) is a hydrogen atom; A 13 has the same meaning as A 11 or represents ##STR45## A 14 represents a nitro group, cyano group, carboxyl group, sulfo group or --G 11 --G 12 --R 11 ; Time represents a divalent linking group; t represents an integer 0 or 1; and PUG represents a development inhibitor.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
28 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein said silver halide emulsion is a monodispersed emulsion having a coefficient of variation of 20% or less.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
30 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein said silver halide emulsion is obtained by the formation of grains in the presence of a 4-substituted thiourea compound.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
30 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein said silver halide emulsion is obtained by the formation of grains in the presence of an iridium complex salt.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
33 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein said redox compound contains a redox group selected from the group consisting of hydroquinones, catechols, naphthoquinones, aminophenols, pyrazolidones, hydrazines, hydroxylamines and reductones.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
17 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 5, wherein said redox group is a hydrazine.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
101 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of said emulsion layer and other hydrophilic colloidal layers contains a compound of formula (III): ##STR46## wherein Z 1 and Z 2 each represents a nonmetallic atom group required to form benzoxazole nucleus, benzothiazole nucleus, benzoselenazole nucleus, naphthoxazole nucleus, naphthothiazole nucleus, naphthoselenazole nucleus, thiazole nucleus, thiazoline nucleus, oxazole nucleus, selenazole nucleus, selenazoline nucleus, pyridine nucleus, benzimidazole nucleus or quinoline nucleus; R 21 and R 22 each represents an alkyl group or aralkyl group; X represents a charge-balanced paired ion; and n represents an integer 0 or 1.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
54 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a second light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on the same side of the support as the layer containing the hydrazine derivative, wherein the side of the material having said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers exhibits a percent swelling of 100 to 200%.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
42 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim, 1, wherein said hydrazine derivative is present in an amount of about 1×10 -6 mol to about 5×10 -2 mol per mol of silver halide contained in said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
25 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 9, wherein the amount of said hydrazine derivative is 1×10 -5 mol to 2×10 -2 mol.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
49 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein said redox compound is present in an amount of about 1×10 -6 mol to about 5×10 -2 mol per mol of silver halide contained in the layer containing said redox compound and a layer or layers adjacent thereto.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
23 words
The silver halide photographic material as claim 11, wherein the amount of said redox compound is 1×10 -5 mol to 1×10 -2 mol.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
30 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the layer containing the redox compound is provided on or under the light-sensitive emulsion layer containing the hydrazine derivative.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
23 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the layer containing the redox compound is a silver halide emulsion layer.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
24 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein said monodispersed grains have an average size of about 0.7 μm or less.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
24 words
The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein said emulsion has a silver iodide content of 3 mol % or less.
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