Heat-developable photosensitive materials

Claim 2

A heat-developable photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon one or more layers with at least one of the layers containing at least one of (a) an organic silver salt, (b) a catalytic amount of a photosensitive silver halide or a component capable of forming a photosensitive silver halide and (c) a reducing agent, and (d) at least one of an inorganic peroxide and a peroxodisulfate wherein the amount of said inorganic peroxide is about 0.001 to 50 moles per mole of said organic silver salt of component (a) and wherein the amount of said peroxodisulfate is about 10 - 6 to 10 - 2 moles per mole of said organic silver salt of component (a).

Claim 3

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 1, wherein said inorganic peroxide is represented by the formula M.sup.I.sub.2 O.sub.2 wherein M I is a hydrogen atom, a lithium atom, a sodium atom, a potassium atom, a rubidium atom, a cesium atom or an ammonium group or by the formula M.sup.II O.sub.2 wherein M II is a magnesium atom, a calcium atom, a strontium atom, a barium atom, a zinc atom, a cadmium atom or a mercury atom.

Claim 4

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 1, wherein said peroxodisulfate is represented by the formula M'.sup.I.sub.2 S.sub.2 O.sub.8 wherein M' I is a hydrogen atom, a lithium atom, a potassium atom, a rubidium atom or an ammonium group or is barium peroxodisulfate or lead peroxodisulfate.

Claim 5

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 1, wherein said inorganic peroxide is hydrogen peroxide.

Claim 6

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 3, wherein M' I is a hydrogen atom, a sodium atom, a potassium atom, or an ammonium group.

Claim 7

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 1, wherein said organic silver salt of component (a) is a silver salt of an organic compound containing an imino group, a mercapto group, a hydroxyl group, or a carboxyl group.

Claim 8

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 6, wherein said organic silver salt of component (a) is a silver carboxylate.

Claim 9

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 1, wherein said photosensitive silver halide is silver chloride, silver bromide, silver bromochloride, silver iodobromide, silver iodobromochloride or silver iodide.

Claim 10

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 1, wherein said component capable of forming a photosensitive silver halide is an inorganic compound represented by the formula MX.sub.n wherein M represents a hydrogen atom, an ammonium group, or a metal atom, X represents a halogen atom, and n is 1 where M is a hydrogen atom or an ammonium group, or n is the valency of the metal when M is a metal atom, or an organic halogen compound selected from the group consisting of triphenylmethyl chloride, triphenylmethyl bromide, 2-bromo-2-methyl-propane, 2-bromobutyric acid, 2-bromoethanol, dichlorobenzophenone, iodoform, bromoform, carbon tetrabromide, an N-halosuccinimide, an N-haloacetamide, 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylthiohydantoin, 1,3-dichloro-5,5-dimethylthiohydantoin or an ammonium halide.

Claim 11

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 1, wherein said reducing agent is a monohydroxybenzene, a dihydroxybiphenyl, a di- or polyhydroxybenzene, a naphthol, a naphthylamine, an aminonaphthol, a hydroxybinaphthyl, an aminophenol, a p-phenylenediamine, an alkylene-bisphenol, ascorbic acid or a derivative thereof, or a pyrazolidone.

Claim 12

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 1, wherein said material comprises a support having thereon at least one layer containing said components (a) to (d).

Claim 13

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 1 wherein said component (d) is an inorganic peroxide.

Claim 14

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 1 wherein said component (d) is a peroxodisulfate.

Claim 15

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 1, including a spectral sensitizing dye.

Claim 16

The heat-developable photosensitive material of claim 14, wherein said spectral sensitizing dye is a rhodacyanine dye, a styryl dye, a merocyanine dye, or an acid dye.