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Silver halide photographic emulsions

Assignee: Fujifilm Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1974-07-16
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Granted: 1976-04-27
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Expires: 1994-07-16
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Abstract

Abstract A silver halide photographic emulsion containing in a supersensitizing amount the combination of at least one sensitizing dye represented by the general formula (I) ##SPC1## wherein, A 1 , A 2 , A 3 and A 4 each represents a member selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an aryl group, a carboxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a cyano group, a trifluoromethyl group, an amino group, an acylamide group, an acyloxyl group, an alkoxycarbonylamino group, and a carbalkoxy group; and A 1 and A 2 and A 3 and A 4 can combine to form a naphthoxazole nucleus; R o represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or an aryl group; R 1 and R 2 each represents an alkyl group, provided that at least one of R 1 or R 2 represents a sulfoalkyl group; X 1 represents an anion; and n is equal to 1 or 2 with n being equal to 1 when the sensitizing dye forms an intromolecular salt, and at least one sensitizing dye represented by the general formula (II) ##SPC2## wherein, Z 1 and Z 2 each represents the non-metallic atoms necessary to form a nucleus selected from the group consisting of a thiazole nucleus, a thiazoline nucleus, an oxazole necleus, a selenazole nucleus, a 3,3-dialkylindolenine nucleus, and an imidazole nucleus; R 3 and R 4 each represents an alkyl group; X 2 represents an anion; m is equal to 1 or 2 with m being equal to 1 when the sensitizing dye forms an intramolecular salt.

Inventors

  • 👤 Masanao Hinata
  • 👤 Haruo Takei
  • 👤 Akira Sato
  • 👤 Masao Takano
  • 👤 Nobuaki Miyasaka

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03C; G03C1/00; G03C1/005; G03C1/06; G03C1/08; G03C1/28; G03C1/29; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S430/00; Y10S430/167; Y10S430/168

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim 268 words
A silver halide photographic emulsion containing in a supersensitizing amount the combination of at least one sensitizing dye represented by the general formula (I) ##SPC7## wherein, A.sub. 1, A 2 , A 3 and A 4 each represents a member selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an aryl group, a carboxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a cyano group, a trifluoromethyl group, an amino group, an acylamido group, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonylamino group, and a carbalkoxy group; and A 1 and A 2 and A 3 and A 4 can combine to form a naphthoxazole nucleus; R o represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or an aryl group; R 1 and R 2 each represents an alkyl group, provided that at least one of R 1 or R 2 represents a sulfoalkyl group; X 1 represents an anion; and n is equal to 1 or 2 with n being equal to 1 when the sensitizing dye forms an intramolecular salt, and at least one sensitizing dye represented by the general formula (II) ##SPC8## wherein Z 1 and Z 2 each represents the non-metallic atoms necessary to form a nucleus selected from the group consisting of a thiazole nucleus, a thiazoline nucleus, an oxazole nucleus, a selenazole nucleus, a 3,3-dialkylindolenine nucleus and an imidazole nucleus; R 3 and R 4 each represents an alkyl group; X 2 represents an anion; m is equal to 1 or 2 with m being equal to 1 when the sensitizing dye forms an intramolecular salt.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 268 words
A silver halide photographic emulsion containing in a supersensitizing amount the combination of at least one sensitizing dye represented by the general formula (I) ##SPC7## wherein, A.sub. 1, A 2 , A 3 and A 4 each represents a member selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an aryl group, a carboxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a cyano group, a trifluoromethyl group, an amino group, an acylamido group, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonylamino group, and a carbalkoxy group; and A 1 and A 2 and A 3 and A 4 can combine to form a naphthoxazole nucleus; R o represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or an aryl group; R 1 and R 2 each represents an alkyl group, provided that at least one of R 1 or R 2 represents a sulfoalkyl group; X 1 represents an anion; and n is equal to 1 or 2 with n being equal to 1 when the sensitizing dye forms an intramolecular salt, and at least one sensitizing dye represented by the general formula (II) ##SPC8## wherein Z 1 and Z 2 each represents the non-metallic atoms necessary to form a nucleus selected from the group consisting of a thiazole nucleus, a thiazoline nucleus, an oxazole nucleus, a selenazole nucleus, a 3,3-dialkylindolenine nucleus and an imidazole nucleus; R 3 and R 4 each represents an alkyl group; X 2 represents an anion; m is equal to 1 or 2 with m being equal to 1 when the sensitizing dye forms an intramolecular salt.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 287 words
The silver halide photographic emulsion of claim 1, wherein said lower alkyl group for A 1 to A 4 has from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, wherein said alkoxy group for A 1 to A 4 has from 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety thereof, wherein said aryl group for A 1 to A 4 is a mono-aryl group, wherein said alkoxycarbonyl group for A 1 to A 4 has from 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety thereof, wherein said amino group for A 1 to A 4 is an amino group or a lower alkyl amino group, wherein said alkoxycarbonyl amino group for A 1 to A 4 has 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety thereof, and wherein said carbalkoxy group for A 1 to A 4 has from 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety thereof, wherein the naphthoxazole nucleus formed by A 1 and A 2 and by A 3 and A 4 is a naphthol (2,1-d)oxazole nucleus, a naphtho(1,2-d)oxazole nucleus, or a naphtho(2,3-d)oxazole nucleus, wherein the lower alkyl group for R o has from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and wherein said aryl group for R o is a mono-aryl group, wherein the alkyl group for R 1 and R 2 is an unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or a substituted alkyl group, in which the alkyl moiety has from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and the substituents are selected from the group consisting of hydroxy, acetoxy, alkoxyalkyl, carboxyalkyl, sulfoalkyl, and aralkyl; and wherein the alkyl groups for R 3 and R 4 have the same meaning as the alkyl groups for R 1 and R 2 .
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 29 words
The silver halide photographic emulsion of claim 1, wheren at least one of A 1 , A 2 , A 3 , and A 4 is a halogen atom.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 30 words
The photographic emulsion of claim 1, wherein at least one of Z 1 and Z 2 is a nucleus selected from the group consisting of benzothiazole, benzimidazole, naphthothiazole and benzoxazole.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 22 words
The silver halide photographic emulsion of claim 1, wherein said sensitizing dye represented by the General Formula (I) is an anhydro-9-ethyl-5,5'-dichloro-3,3'-disulfopropyl-oxacarbocyanine hydroxide.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 26 words
The silver halide photographic emulsion of claim 1, wherein said silver halide is silver chloride, silver bromide, silver iodide, silver chlorobromide, silver chloroiodide or silver chlorobromoiodide.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 54 words
The silver halide photographic emulsion of claim 1, wherein the emulsion comprises a hydrophilic binder and the amount of each of the sensitizing dyes of the General Formula (I) and the General Formula (II) ranges from about 1 × 10 - 6 to 1 × 10 - 3 mol per 1 mol of silver.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 36 words
The silver halide photographic emulsion of claim 7, wherein the weight ratio of the sensitizing dye of the General Formula (I) to the sensitizing dye of the General Formula (II) ranges from about 10:1 to 1:10.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 20 words
A photosensitive photographic material comprising a support having thereon a layer of the silver halide photographic emulsion of claim 1.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim 32 words
The photosensitive photographic material of claim 9, wherein said material is an X-ray recording photographic material comprising a silver iodobromide emulsion containing iodine at a content not higher than 4 mol %.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim 47 words
A method of recording X-rays comprising image-wise exposing the photographic material of claim 10 to the radiation emitted from a fluorescent screen comprising the oxysulfide of yttrium or a lanthanide element activated with a rare earth metal element as the fluorescent material and developing said photographic material.

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