US5677121A
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Heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material
Assignee: Fujifilm Corp
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Filing: 1996-05-22
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Granted: 1997-10-14
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Expires: 2016-05-22
Abstract
Abstract A silver halide photographic material which is useful for photography and diagnostic imaging and exhibits excellent storability to ordinary aging, excellent image storability, high sensitivity and low Dmin is disclosed. The heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material comprises a support having on one side of the support an emulsion layer containing a binder, a nonsensitive silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ion and silver halide grains spectrally sensitized at a wavelength within the region of from 750 to 1,400 nm, wherein the nonsensitive silver salt comprises a mixture of silver salts of at least three kinds of acids, one of the acids is behenic acid, and the content of the behenic acid in the acids is from not less than 35 to less than 90 mol %.
Inventors
- 👤 Hirohiko Tsuzuki
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 03:36
CPC Classifications
G; G03; G03C; G03C1/00; G03C1/494; G03C1/498; G03C1/49809; G03C1/005; G03C1/06; G03C1/08; G03C1/10; G03C1/12; G03C1/127; G03C1/26; G03C1/76; G03C1/7614; G03C5/00; G03C5/16; G03C5/164; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S430/00; Y10S430/145
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
98 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material comprising a support having on one side of the support an emulsion layer containing a binder, a nonsensitive silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ion and silver halide grains spectrally sensitized at a wavelength within the region of from 750 to 1,400 nm, wherein the nonsensitive silver salt comprises a mixture of silver salts of at least three organic carboxylic acids, one of the acids is behenic acid, and the content of the behenic acid in the acids is from not less than 35 to less than 90 mol %.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
98 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material comprising a support having on one side of the support an emulsion layer containing a binder, a nonsensitive silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ion and silver halide grains spectrally sensitized at a wavelength within the region of from 750 to 1,400 nm, wherein the nonsensitive silver salt comprises a mixture of silver salts of at least three organic carboxylic acids, one of the acids is behenic acid, and the content of the behenic acid in the acids is from not less than 35 to less than 90 mol %.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
33 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least three kinds of acids comprises stearic acid and arachic acid as acids other than the behenic acid.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
77 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an antihalation layer provided on the side of the support opposite the emulsion layer, the antihalation layer having an optical density of from not less than 0.3 to not more than 2 at maximum absorption in the wavelength region of from 750 to 1,400 nm and an optical density of from not less than 0.001 to less than 0.5 in the visible region.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
77 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material as claimed in claim 2, further comprising an antihalation layer provided on the side of the support opposite the emulsion layer, the antihalation layer having an optical density of from not less than 0.3 to not more than 2 at maximum absorption in the wavelength region of from 750 to 1,400 nm and an optical density of from not less than 0.001 to less than 0.5 in the visible region.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
34 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the content of the behenic acid in the acids is from not less than 40 to less than 80 mol %.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
34 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the content of the behenic acid in the acids is from not less than 40 to less than 70 mol %.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
25 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the acids comprises an aliphatic carboxylic acid or an aromatic carboxylic acid.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
50 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the acids comprise acids selected from the group consisting of oleic acid, lauric acid, caproic acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid, arachic acid, maleic acid, fumaric acid, tartaric acid, linoleic acid, butyric acid and camphoric acid.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
38 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material as claimed in claim 2, wherein the total content of the stearic acid and arachic acid is 10 to 200 mol % based on the molar amount of the behenic acid.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
35 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the content of the nonsensitive emulsion layer in the emulsion layer is from 0.5 to 5 g/m 2 in weight of silver.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
45 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the silver halide grains are spectrally sensitized with the use of a spectrally sensitizing dye in an amount of from about 10 -5 to about 1 mol per mol of silver halide.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
21 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reducing agent comprises a hindered phenol compound.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
34 words
A heat-developable silver halide infrared ray-sensitive material as claimed in claim 1, wherein the content of the reducing agent is from 1 to 10% by weight based on the weight of the emulsion layer.
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