# US 5,700,630 A · Silver halide photographic material and method for processing the same > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 5,700,630 A - Document ID: US5700630A - Status: Granted - Kind: A - Application number: 08/609,282 - Filed: 1996-03-01 - Granted: 1997-12-23 - Earliest claimed: 1995-03-03 - Assignees: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Rikio Inoue; Sumito Yamada - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5700630A ## CPC - G03C 1/95: rendered opaque or writable, e.g. with inert particulate additives (G03C1/775 takes precedence) - G03C 1/0051: {Tabular grain emulsions} - G03C 1/346: {Organic derivatives of bivalent sulfur, selenium or tellurium} - G03C 1/832: {Methine or polymethine dyes} - G03C 5/30: Developers - G03C 1/09: Noble metals or mercury; Salts or compounds thereof; Sulfur, selenium or tellurium, or compounds thereof, e.g. for chemical sensitising (G03C1/34, G03C1/35 take precedence) - G03C 1/30: Hardeners - G03C 1/85: characterised by antistatic additives or coatings - G03C 5/31: Regeneration; Replenishers - G03C 2001/0055: {Aspect ratio of tabular grains in general; High aspect ratio; Intermediate aspect ratio; Low aspect ratio} - G03C 2001/0476: {Swelling of gelatine} - G03C 2001/097: {Selenium} - G03C 2007/3025: {Silver content} - Y10S 430/145: Infrared - Y10S 430/151: Matting or other surface reflectivity altering material - Y10S 430/164: Rapid access processing - Y10S 430/167: X-ray - G03C: PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES (for photomechanical purposes G03F); PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY (photographic processes characterised by the use or manipulation of apparatus classifiable per se in subclass G03B, see G03B; photomechanical production of textured or patterned surfaces G03F; electrophotography, magnetography G03G) - Y10S: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS ## Abstract A silver halide photographic material is disclosed which comprises a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains, a surface protective layer as an uppermost layer, and a hydrophilic colloid layer other than said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and said surface protective layer, wherein the sum of the silver amount contained in each of said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is from 0.8 g/m.sup.2 to 1.5 g/m.sup.2 on one side of said support; said hydrophilic colloid layer other than said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and said surface protective layer contains a non-elusive solid fine grain dispersion dye represented by formula (I); and a mercapto compound represented by formula (II) is contained in at least one of any hydrophilic colloid layer: ##STR1## ## Claims ### Claim 1 A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains, a surface protective layer as an uppermost layer, and a hydrophilic colloid layer other than said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and said surface protective layer, wherein the sum of the silver amount contained in each of said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is from 0.8 g/m.sup.2 to 1.5 g/m.sup.2 on one side of said support; said hydrophilic colloid layer other than said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and said surface protective layer contains a non-elusive solid fine grain dispersion dye represented by formula (I); and a mercapto compound represented by formula (II) is contained in at least one hydrophilic colloid layer: ##STR71## wherein R.sup.10 and R.sup.11 each represents an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or an alkenyl group; R.sup.12 and R.sup.14 each represents a hydrogen atom or an atomic group necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered ring by linking with each other; R.sup.13 represents an aryl group, --N(R.sup.19)(R.sup.20), --SR.sup.21 or --OR.sup.22 ; R.sup.19 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sup.20 represents an aryl group, a sulfonyl group or an acyl group; R.sup.19 and R.sup.20 may be linked with each other to form a ring; R.sup.21 and R.sup.22 each represents an aryl group; and R.sup.15, R.sup.16, R.sup.17 and R.sup.18 each represents an alkyl group, and R.sup.15 and R.sup.16, and R.sup.17 and R.sup.18 may be linked with each other to form a ring; ##STR72## wherein Z represents a heterocyclic ring having at least one of --SO.sub.3 M, --COOR.sub.1, --OH and --NHR.sub.2 bonded directly or indirectly to said heterocyclic ring; M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, or a quaternary ammonium group or a quaternary phosphonium group; R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, --COR.sub.3, --COOR.sub.3 or --SO.sub.2 R.sub.3 ; and R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group or an aromatic group. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein said surface protective layer contains alkali-insoluble synthetic polymer particles represented by formula (III); ##STR73## wherein R.sup.1 represents a methyl group or a halogen atom; R.sup.2 represents a methyl group or an ethyl group; R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; L represents a divalent linking group; A represents an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, provided that two or more double bonds are not contained in one monomer; p represents 0, 1 or 2; q represents 0 or 1; w represents from 3 to 60 mol %; x represents from 30 to 96.5 mol %; y represents from 0.5 to 25 mol %; z represents from 0 to 30 mol %; and w+x+y+z=100 mol %. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is sensitized with a selenium compound, and the entire hydrophilic colloid layer present on the same side of said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on said support has a ratio of swelling of 130% to 200%. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 3, wherein 50% to 100% of the total projected area of said silver halide grains is accounter for by for tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ration of 3 to 30. ### Claim 5 The silver halide photographic material as claimed in 3, wherein the average grain size corresponding to a circle of the projected area of each of said silver halide grains is from 0.1 .mu.m to 0.8 .mu.m. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 3, wherein the silver halide photographic material has a layer containing a non-elusive electrically conductive component. ### Claim 7 A method for processing a silver halide photographic material with an automatic processor, which comprises imagewise exposing said silver halide photographic material to light and then developing said exposed silver halide photographic material with a developing solution containing (i) a developing agent represented by formula (I') and (ii) no hydroquinones, for 5 to 30 seconds: ##STR74## wherein R1 and R2 each represents a hydroxyl group, an amino group, a mercapto group or an alkylthio group; P and Q each represents a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group, an alkoxyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group, a carboxyalkyl group, a sulfo group, a sulfoalkyl group, an amino group, an alkyl group or an aryl group, or P and Q each represents an atomic group necessary to form a 5- to 8-membered ring by connecting with each other together with two vinyl carbon atoms substituted with R1 and R2 and the carbon atom substituted with Y; Y represents .dbd.O or .dbd.N--R3; and R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group, an acyl group, a sulfoalkyl group or a carboxyalkyl group; wherein said silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains, a surface protective layer as an uppermost layer, and a hydrophilic colloid layer other than said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and said surface protective layer, wherein the sum of the silver amount contained in each of said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is from 0.8 g/m.sup.2 to 1.5 g/m.sup.2 on one side of said support; said hydrophilic colloid layer other than said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and said surface protective layer contains a non-elusive solid fine grain dispersion dye represented by formula (I); and a mercapto compound represented by formula (II) is contained in at least one of any hydrophilic colloid layer: ##STR75## wherein R.sup.10 and R.sup.11 each represents an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or an alkenyl group; R.sup.12 and R.sup.14 each represents a hydrogen atom or an atomic group necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered ring by linking with each other; R.sup.13 represents an aryl group, --N(R.sup.19)(R.sup.20), --SR.sup.21 or --OR.sup.22 ; R.sup.19 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sup.20 represents an aryl group, a sulfonyl group or an acyl group; R.sup.19 and R.sup.20 may be linked with each other to form a ring; R.sup.21 and R.sup.22 each represents an aryl group; and R.sup.15, R.sup.16, R.sup.17 and R.sup.18 each represents an alkyl group, and R.sup.15 and R.sup.16, and R.sup.17 and R.sup.18 may be linked with each other to form a ring; ##STR76## wherein Z represents a heterocyclic ring having at least one of --SO.sub.3 M, --COOR.sub.1, --OH and --NHR.sub.2 bonded directly or indirectly to said heterocyclic ring; M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, or a quaternary ammonium group or a quaternary phosphonium group; R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, --COR.sub.3, --COOR.sub.3 or --SO.sub.2 R.sub.3 ; R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group or an aromatic group. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method for processing a silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 7, wherein a replenishment amount of said developing solution is from 25 ml to 200 ml per m.sup.2 of said silver halide photographic material. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein R.sup.10 represents an alkyl group. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein R.sup.11 represents an alkyl group. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein R.sup.12 and R.sup.14 form a five- or six-membered ring. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein R.sup.13 represents --N(R.sup.19)(R.sup.20). ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein R.sup.13 represents --SR.sup.21. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein R.sup.13 represents --OR.sup.22. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein R.sup.19 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group. ### Claim 16 (depends on 12) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 12, wherein R.sup.19 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group. ### Claim 17 (depends on 12) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 12, wherein R.sup.19 represents an aryl group. ### Claim 18 (depends on 12) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 12, wherein R.sup.19 represents a phenyl group. ### Claim 19 (depends on 12) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 12, wherein both R.sup.19 and R.sup.20 represent a phenyl group. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The silver halide photographic material as claimed in claim 1, wherein both R.sup.10 and R.sup.11 represent an alkyl group; R.sup.13 represents --N(R.sup.19)(R.sup.20), --SR.sup.21 or --OR.sup.22 ; and both R.sup.19 and R.sup.20 represent an aryl group.