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Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material
Assignee: Fujifilm Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1983-11-09
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Granted: 1985-04-16
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Expires: 2003-11-09
Abstract
Abstract A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. Their material is comprised of a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex. This latex is comprised of a recurring unit of a cyan coupler monomer capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent represented by the general formula (I) and a recurring unit of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing an acid component represented by the general formula (II) and a recurring unit of methyl acrylate. ##STR1## The cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex has excellent color forming properties and photographic material containing the coupler latex provides a cyan image having good fastness to heat and the combination of heat and humidity. A method for forming a color image utilizing the disclosed photographic material containing the novel couple of latex is also disclosed.
Inventors
- 👤 Tsumoru Hirano
- 👤 Morio Yagihara
- 👤 Makoto Umemoto
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-31 18:11
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03C; G03C7/00; G03C7/30; G03C7/32; G03C7/34; G03C7/327; G03C7/3275
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 29
Claim 1
Independent Claim
256 words
A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex which comprises at least one reducing unit of a cyan coupler monomer capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent represented by the general formula (I) described below, at least one recurring unit of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing an acid component represented by the general formula (II) described below and at least one recurring unit of methyl acrylate ##STR10## wherein R 1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; and Q represents a cyan coupler residue capable of forming a cyan dye upon coupling with an oxidized aromatic primary amine developing agent, ##STR11## wherein R 2 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; A represents --COO-- or --CONH--; B represents an alkylene group containing from 1 to 10 carbon atoms which may be a straight chain, a branched chain or a cyclic, an aralkylene group containing from 7 to 18 carbon atoms or a phenylene group containing from 6 to 10 carbon atoms (inclusive of carbon atoms of substituents for the phenylene group); C represents --COOM or --SO 3 M; M represents a hydrogen atom ion, an alkali metal ion, an alkaline earth metal ion or an ammonium ion; and m represents 0 or 1.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
256 words
A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex which comprises at least one reducing unit of a cyan coupler monomer capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent represented by the general formula (I) described below, at least one recurring unit of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing an acid component represented by the general formula (II) described below and at least one recurring unit of methyl acrylate ##STR10## wherein R 1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; and Q represents a cyan coupler residue capable of forming a cyan dye upon coupling with an oxidized aromatic primary amine developing agent, ##STR11## wherein R 2 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; A represents --COO-- or --CONH--; B represents an alkylene group containing from 1 to 10 carbon atoms which may be a straight chain, a branched chain or a cyclic, an aralkylene group containing from 7 to 18 carbon atoms or a phenylene group containing from 6 to 10 carbon atoms (inclusive of carbon atoms of substituents for the phenylene group); C represents --COOM or --SO 3 M; M represents a hydrogen atom ion, an alkali metal ion, an alkaline earth metal ion or an ammonium ion; and m represents 0 or 1.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
32 words
A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cyan coupler residue represented by Q is a cyan color forming phenol type or naphthol type coupler residue.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cyan coupler residue represented by Q is a phenol type residue represented by the following general formula (III), a phenol type residue represented by the following general formula (IV) or a naphthol type residue represented by the following general formula (V): ##STR12## wherein R 3 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; D bonds to the NH group in the general formula (I) and represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkylene group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms which may be a straight chain or a branched chain, an unsubstituted or substituted aralkylene group having from 7 to 18 carbon atoms or an unsubstituted or substituted phenylene group having from 6 to 18 carbon atomes; R 4 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; R 5 represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group or an unsubstituted or substituted phenylamino group; X represents a halogen atom; Y represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a substituted alkoxy group; k represents 0 or 1; and l represents 0 or 1.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
82 words
A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 3, wherein the substituent for the substituted alkylene group, the substituted aralkylene group or the substituted phenylene group represented by D is an aryl group, a nitro group, a hydroxy group, a cyano group, a sulfo group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an acyloxy group, an acylamino group, a sulfonamido group, a sulfamoyl group, a halogen atom, a carboxy group, a carbamoyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group or a sulfonyl group.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 3, wherein the substituent for the substituted alkoxy group represented by Y is an aryl group, a nitro group, a hydroxy group, a cyano group, a sulfo group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an acyloxy group, an acylamino group, an alkylsulfonamido group, an alkylsulfamoyl group, a halogen atom, a carboxy group, an alkylcarbamoyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group or an alkylthio group.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 3, wherein the substituent for the substituted alkyl group or the substituted phenyl group represented by R 5 is a fluorine atom.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 3, wherein the substituent for the substituted phenylamino group represented by R 5 is a nitro group, a cyano group, a sulfonamido group, a sulfamoyl group, a halogen atom, a carbamoyl group or a sulfonyl group.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the recurring unit represented by the general formula (II) is derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing an acid component which does not have an ability of oxidative coupling with an aromatic primary amine developing agent.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 8, wherein the ethylenically unsaturated monomer is acrylic acid, an α-chloroacrylic acid or an α-alkylacrylic acid.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 8, wherein the ethylenically unsaturated monomer is an ester derived from acrylic acid, an α-chloroacrylic acid or an α-alkylacrylic acid which contains an acid component.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 8, wherein the ethylenically unsaturated monomer is an amide derived from acrylic acid, an α-chloroacrylic acid or an α-alkylacrylic acid which contains an acid component.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex is a latex prepared by emulsion polymerization of monomers comprising a monomer corresponding to the recurring unit represented by the general formula (I), a monomer corresponding to the recurring unit represented by the general formula (II) and methyl acrylate.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex is a latex prepared by dissolving an oleophilic polymer coupler obtained by polymerization of monomers comprising a monomer corresponding to the recurring unit represented by the general formula (I), a monomer corresponding to the recurring unit represented by the general formula (II) and methyl acrylate in an organic solvent and then emulsion dispersing the solution in a latex form in an aqueous gelatin solution.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the proportion of the color forming portion corresponding to the general formula (I) in the polymer coupler is from 5% to 80% by weight.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the proportion of the color forming portion corresponding to the general formula (I) in the polymer coupler is from 20% to 70% by weight.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the proportion of the non-color forming portion corresponding to the general formula (II) in the polymer coupler is from 1% to 30% by weight.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the proportion of the non-color forming portion corresponding to the general formula (II) in the polymer coupler is from 5% to 20% by weight.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the proportion of methyl acrylate in the polymer coupler is from 20% to 95% by weight.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the proportion of methyl acrylate in the polymer coupler is from 30% to 70% by weight.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gram number of the polymer coupler containing 1 mol of coupler monomer is from 250 to 4,000.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex is a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 21, wherein the photographic light-sensitive material further comprises a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow color image forming coupler and a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta color image forming coupler.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex is used in an amount such that the amount of the color forming portion corresponding to the general formula (I) is from 2×10 -3 to 5×10 -1 mol per mol of silver.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the polymer coupler latex is present in an amount such that the amount of the portion corresponding to the coupler monomer is from 1×10 -2 to 5×10 -1 mol per mol of silver.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the polymer coupler latex is comprised of a plurality of different monomers represented by the general formula (I).
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
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A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the polymer coupler latex is comprised of a plurality of different monomer of the general formula (II).
Claim 28
Independent Claim
282 words
A method of forming a color image comprising imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex which comprises at least one recurring unit of a cyan coupler monomer capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent represented by the general formula (I) described below, at least one recurring unit of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing an acid component represented by the general formula (II) described below and at least one recurring unit of methyl acrylate ##STR13## wherein R 1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; and Q represents a cyan coupler residue capable of forming a cyan dye upon coupling with an oxidized aromatic primary amine developing agent ##STR14## wherein R 2 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; A represents --COO-- or --CONH--; B represents an alkylene group containing from 1 to 10 carbon atoms which may be a straight chain, a branched chain or a cyclic, an aralkylene group containing from 7 to 18 carbon atoms or a phenylene group containing from 6 to 10 carbon atoms (inclusive of carbon atoms of substituents for the phenylene group); C represents --COOM or --SO 3 M: M represents a hydrogen atom ion, an alkali metal ion, an alkaline earth metal ion or an ammonium ion; and m represents 0 or 1 developing the exposed material using an alkaline aqueous solution containing an aromatic primary amine developing agent.
Claim 29
Independent Claim
282 words
A method of forming a color image comprising imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color image forming polymer coupler latex which comprises at least one recurring unit of a cyan coupler monomer capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent represented by the general formula (I) described below, at least one recurring unit of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing an acid component represented by the general formula (II) described below and at least one recurring unit of methyl acrylate ##STR13## wherein R 1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; and Q represents a cyan coupler residue capable of forming a cyan dye upon coupling with an oxidized aromatic primary amine developing agent ##STR14## wherein R 2 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a chlorine atom; A represents --COO-- or --CONH--; B represents an alkylene group containing from 1 to 10 carbon atoms which may be a straight chain, a branched chain or a cyclic, an aralkylene group containing from 7 to 18 carbon atoms or a phenylene group containing from 6 to 10 carbon atoms (inclusive of carbon atoms of substituents for the phenylene group); C represents --COOM or --SO 3 M: M represents a hydrogen atom ion, an alkali metal ion, an alkaline earth metal ion or an ammonium ion; and m represents 0 or 1 developing the exposed material using an alkaline aqueous solution containing an aromatic primary amine developing agent.
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