| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5640644 |
Image forming apparatus having toner replenishment device |
June 17, 1997 |
| An image forming apparatus includes a toner replenishment device which replenishes a specified monocolor toner to a developing unit arranged around a surface of an image carrier, and which is connected to the developing unit. The apparatus further includes a toner amount detector pro |
| 5640642 |
Processing apparatus for light-sensitive material |
June 17, 1997 |
| A processing apparatus for a light-sensitive material includes a plurality of processing tanks for processing light-sensitive material; a kit including a container for accommodating a number of solid processing agents used for each processing tank; and solid processing agent replenis |
| 5635340 |
Image forming method |
June 3, 1997 |
| A method of image formation using mask for exposure to form an image on photographic paper is disclosed. The mask is composed of transferred images of the dyes of yellow, cyan and magenta. The spectral absorption peak wavelength of the dye is set in a range close to the wavelength at |
| 5635328 |
Light-sensitive lithographic printing plate utilizing o-quinone diazide light-sensitive layer co |
June 3, 1997 |
| Disclosed are a light-sensitive lithographic printing plate which comprises a support subjected to graining treatment and anodization treatment and a layer of a positive light-sensitive composition containing a o-quinonediazide compound, an alkali-soluble resin and a clathrate compou |
| 5634976 |
Coating apparatus |
June 3, 1997 |
| A coating apparatus having an extrusion type coating head to form a coating on the surface of a support by extruding a coating liquid continuously or successively from a slit, wherein the slit is tapered so as to expand or become wider gradually from its inlet end so as to allow the coat |
| 5631777 |
Photographing lens for lens-fitted film unit or fixed focus lens camera |
May 20, 1997 |
| A photographic lens includes a first meniscus lens having a positive refracting power, a convex face of which is directed to a photographic object side, and includes a second meniscus lens having a positive refracting power, a concave face of which is directed to the photographic obj |
| 5631116 |
Carrier for electrophotographic use |
May 20, 1997 |
| A carrier for electrophotographic use is disclosed. The carrier has a resin-coated layer on the surface of the core member. The resin forming the coated layer contains a polymer prepared by copolymerizing an alicyclic methacrylate monomer and a chain-type methacrylate monomer. A high |
| 5629754 |
Photographic printing apparatus and a roll magazine holder therefor |
May 13, 1997 |
| A photographic printing apparatus includes a first and second magazines for storing a roll-shaped photographic light-sensitive material therein respectively, a first and second draw-out members each for drawing out the material from the first or second magazine at a first or second draw- |
| 5627018 |
Silver halide photographic emulsion |
May 6, 1997 |
| A silver halide photographic emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver halide grains containing a heavy metal ion and reduction sensitization nucleus within the grains, the grains having an overall average iodide content (I.sub.2) of 2 to 30 mol % and satisfying the following requirem |
| 5624786 |
Photographic image forming method |
April 29, 1997 |
| An image forming method is disclosed, comprising exposing a silver halide photographic material through a transparent, high definition-screening original and developing the photographic material with a developer to form a halftone dot image, wherein:the photographic material forms a half |
| 5624497 |
Coating apparatus |
April 29, 1997 |
| In a coating apparatus having an extrusion coating head, the working value H of a back end edge which corresponds to an end portion at the downstream side of a support feeding direction of a back edge of the extrusion coating head is set to 25 .mu.m or less, and the straightness of said |
| 5619745 |
Processing apparatus for a silver halide light-sensitive material |
April 8, 1997 |
| In an apparatus for processing a light-sensitive material, a plurality of processing tanks are serially arranged along a conveyance passage on which the light-sensitive material is conveyed in a conveying direction. The apparatus comprises a device for replenishing compensation water int |
| 5619242 |
Image forming apparatus with edge point detector based on image density charge |
April 8, 1997 |
| An image forming apparatus for forming an image on an image forming body by scanning a plurality of modulated laser beams is disclosed. The apparatus is provided with a generator to generate a plurality of reference signals each with a differrent phase from other reference signals, a det |
| 5617954 |
Container of solid processing agent used for silver halide photosensitive material |
April 8, 1997 |
| A container for holding a solid processing agent used for a silver halide photosensitive material. The container includes a body for accommodating the plural solid processing agents, which are formed as tablets, in alignment. The body has a height (H) in a range from 1.03 to 1.50 times |
| 5617487 |
Image cutout apparatus |
April 1, 1997 |
| An apparatus for searching a contour line of an image to be cut out, has a displaying device to display an image obtained when an original image is subjected to photographic conversion scanning, a belt-shaped region setting device to set a belt-shaped region at a designated position |
| 5616453 |
Silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material |
April 1, 1997 |
| A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a red-sensitive layer, a green-sensitive layer and a yellow dye-forming blue-sensitive layer, wherein the photographic material satisfies a specified relation, which is conce |
| 5616446 |
Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material |
April 1, 1997 |
| Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having on one side thereof hydrophilic colloid layers including a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of the hydrophilic colloid layers contains a redox compound having at least one |
| 5615002 |
Electrophotographic color image forming apparatus with a plurality of image exposing devices arr |
March 25, 1997 |
| A color image forming apparatus provided with plural charging devices, plural image exposure devices, and plural developing devices which are arranged around the outer circumference of a photoreceptor so that a color image is formed during a single rotation of the photoreceptor. The |
| 5614289 |
ID card |
March 25, 1997 |
| Disclosed is an ID card comprising a support and provided thereon, at least two layers of an image-receiving layer and a protective layer hardened by ultraviolet rays, wherein the ID card comprises a layer adhered to the protective layer, the layer's surface adhered to the protective lay |
| 5612282 |
Dye and heat sensitive transfer material comprising the same |
March 18, 1997 |
| An image forming dye and a heat sensitive transfer material comprising the same are disclosed, the dye being represented by the following Formula (1): ##STR1## |
| 5609985 |
Color image-formable material and process for preparing the same |
March 11, 1997 |
| Disclosed are a color image-formable material which comprises a support, a cushion layer provided on the support and a color light-sensitive layer containing a light-sensitive composition and a coloring agent provided on the cushion layer and gives a transferred image by forming a color |
| 5608498 |
Image forming apparatus in which at least an image carrying member and plural exposure means are |
March 4, 1997 |
| In a color image forming apparatus in which each of charging devices, image exposure devices and developing devices is provided in plural sets corresponding in number to plural different color components and placed in such an arrangement that the plural different color component toner im |
| 5608497 |
Electrophotographic color image forming apparatus |
March 4, 1997 |
| In an apparatus in which a yellow, magenta, and cyan toner images are superimposed on a photoreceptor drum made of a transparent material, an image exposure device is provided in the photoreceptor drum and emits exposure lights whose wavelength has a spectral reflective ratio lower t |
| 5608058 |
Processing for purifying crown compounds |
March 4, 1997 |
| A process of preparing a purified crown compound is disclosed which comprises the steps of (a) dissolving a crown compound and a salt in an organic solvent to form a solution of a complex salt of a crown compound; (b) filtering the solution to obtain a filtrate; (c) adding water to the |
| 5607822 |
Photographic color-developing chemicals in the form of granules |
March 4, 1997 |
| Color developing chemicals in the form of granules for a silver halide color photographic material containing a p-phenylenediamine compound, wherein the color developing chemicals further contain a compound represented by the following formula, the chemicals imparting a pH of 5.0 or |
| 5606842 |
Manufacturing method for photosensitive film magazines and manufacturing method for photosensiti |
March 4, 1997 |
| A manufacturing method for a photo-sensitive film magazine packed in a container is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of (a) assembling a photosensitive film magazine in a photosensitive film magazine assembly section (b) feeding successively the photosensitive film magazine to a |
| 5604780 |
Method for processing a radiation image |
February 18, 1997 |
| A method for processing a radiographic image to obtain a processed image signal Sproc based on an original image signal Sorg. The method including the steps of: obtaining the original image signal Sorg representing the radiographic image based on radiographic image information transmitte |
| 5604574 |
Electrophotographic image-forming method |
February 18, 1997 |
| An electrophotographic image-forming method is disclosed. The image forming method comprises the steps of (1) forming an electrostatic latent image on a rotating electrophotographic photoreceptor having an organic photoconductive layer, (2) developing the electrostatic latent image with |
| 5604573 |
Developing unit with a smoothing plate |
February 18, 1997 |
| A developing apparatus for developing an electrostatic latent image on an image retainer with two-component developer has a rotatable sleeve having a closest position on which the sleeve comes closest to the image retainer, a first magnet fixed in the sleeve in close proximity to the |
| 5604566 |
Photographic printing apparatus and an image forming method |
February 18, 1997 |
| In a method of printing an original image on a photographic paper with an exposure device, the exposure device has an reference exposure light, an image corresponding to the original image is formed on a mask sheet and the photographic paper is printed by exposure lights passing through |
| 5604559 |
Photosensitive material processing apparatus |
February 18, 1997 |
| A photosensitive material processing apparatus includes plural processing tanks each to process a photosensitive material; plural cartridges each to fill solid processing agents for replenishment used in each of the plural processing tanks. The apparatus further includes plural replenish |
| 5602629 |
Image forming apparatus with a purge control means |
February 11, 1997 |
| An image forming apparatus such as a printer or copier includes a photoreceptor for holding a latent image; a charger for charging the photoreceptor; an exposure unit such as an LED array for exposing the photoreceptor with light so as to form a latent image on the photoreceptor; and |
| 5601923 |
Mono-dispersed irregular-shaped fine polymer particles |
February 11, 1997 |
| A mono-dispersed fine polymer particle having an irregular shape manufactured by processing a polymer particle dispersing solution in which at least one kind of hydrophilic-hydrophobic amphoteric organic solvent is added to the polymer particle dispersing solution so that particles can b |
| 5600408 |
Electrophotographic color image forming apparatus provided with a plurality of image exposing de |
February 4, 1997 |
| A color image forming apparatus includes a controller to control an image carrier, plural chargers, plural image exposing devices, plural developing devices so that plural color toner images are formed one after another and superimposed on the image carrier, and a regulator to regulate a |
| 5596381 |
Camera for use with photographic film in a cartridge |
January 21, 1997 |
| A camera in use with a photographic film in a cartridge. The camera includes: a cartridge chamber for accommodating the cartridge, in which the cartridge includes a spool and a bar code disk; a regulation member for regulating a location of the spool in the cartridge chamber; a regul |
| 5591266 |
Extrusion type coating head |
January 7, 1997 |
| In an extrusion type coating head according to the present invention, a center line average roughness (Ra) of an inner wall surface of a pocket is made in a predetermined range of 3.5 .mu.m or less and preferably a curvature part is provided, in the part where a surface of a slit joins t |
| 5589309 |
Electrophotographic photoreceptor containing perylenes |
December 31, 1996 |
| Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a conductive support and provided thereon an intermediate layer, a carrier generation layer containing a carrier generation material and a carrier transportation layer containing a carrier transportation material, wherein s |
| 5587760 |
Automatic developing apparatus used for silver halide photosensitive material |
December 24, 1996 |
| An apparatus for processing a silver halide photographic material with a processing solution comprises a guide passage constructing member provided between a solid agent replenishing device and a processing solution in a tank. The guide passage constructing member forms a guide passage e |
| 5587759 |
Automatic developing apparatus for silver halide photosensitive materials |
December 24, 1996 |
| In an apparatus for processing a silver halide photographic material with a processing solution, a processing agent supply section is movable between a first position and a second position. On the first position, the supply section is brought in connection with a dissolving section in wh |
| 5587277 |
Solid processing composition for silver halide light-sensitive photographic material and method |
December 24, 1996 |
| A solid photographic processing composition in tablet form for a silver halide photographic light sensitive material is provided, wherein at least a part of the surface of said solid processing composition is covere-coated with a compound selected from (i) a polyalkylene glycol havin |
| 5587266 |
Manufacturing method for an electrophotographic photoreceptor |
December 24, 1996 |
| A method of manufacturing an electrophotographic receptor drum, has the following steps. Cylinder shafts of a plurality of cylindrical drums are aligned with each other; and circular ends of the drums are contacted with each other and the drums are stacked on each other. Photoreceptor ma |
| 5585898 |
Developing unit driving mechanism in use with a color image forming apparatus |
December 17, 1996 |
| A developing unit driving mechanism in use with a color image forming apparatus. The mechanism includes: a photoreceptor drum for holding plural color toner images which are developed from a latent image; plural developing units, disposed around the photoreceptor, each for developing |
| 5585880 |
Solid processing agent replenishing apparatus for processing photosensitive material |
December 17, 1996 |
| In a device for supplying a solid processing agent from a container to a processing tank, when the solid processing agent is not supplied to the processing tank, the supply device blocks the solid processing agent at an inlet opening so as not to receive therein, and when the solid proce |
| 5583557 |
Image forming apparatus which corrects a deviation in a distance between plural light beams |
December 10, 1996 |
| In an image forming apparatus for simultaneously recording plural image lines on a recording medium by scanning simultaneously with plural light beams along parallel scanning lines in a primary scanning direction, two light beam detectors each having a starting-side are arranged in such |
| 5580711 |
Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material |
December 3, 1996 |
| Disclosed is silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one layer of said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide grains spectrally sensitized |
| 5580709 |
Polyester layer support for photographic material |
December 3, 1996 |
| Disclosed is a film constituted of a polyester, said film having a degree of roll set curl of not higher than 135 m.sup.-1 after being subjected to heat treatment, and having a degree of recovery curl of not higher than 45 m.sup.-1 after being subjected to hot water bath treatment. |
| 5580705 |
Method of bleaching silver halide color photographic light-sensitive materials using particular |
December 3, 1996 |
| A method for processing silver halide color photographic light-sensitive materials is disclosed. The process comprises regeneration of a bleaching-capable processing solution by addition of a regenerant, and use of a bleaching agent, which is a ferric complex salt of a compound of the |
| 5578438 |
Silver halide photographic emulsion and silver halide photographic light-sensitive material |
November 26, 1996 |
| A silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising a dispersion medium and tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of grain diameter to grain thickness of not less than 1.4, wherein the tabular grains each have a grain structure meeting the following requirement regarding iodi |
| 5576852 |
Synchronization signal generating unit of an image forming apparatus |
November 19, 1996 |
| In an image forming apparatus for simultaneously recording plural image lines on a recording medium by scannintg simultaneously with plural light beams along parallel scanning lines in a primary scanning direction, before a deviation detector detects a deviation among the plural light |
| 5576795 |
Automatic processing apparatus for silver halide photographic light-sensitive material |
November 19, 1996 |
| An automatic developer for developing a light-sensitive material such as a photographic material. The developer includes: a processor tank for accommodating a processing solution so that the processing solution processes the light-sensitive material; a throughput detector for detecti |
