Radiation imagery chemistry: process – composition – or product th – Imaged product – Nonsilver image
Reexamination Certificate
2000-01-28
2001-07-24
Schilling, Richard L. (Department: 1752)
Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product th
Imaged product
Nonsilver image
C430S203000, C430S216000, C430S218000, C430S238000, C430S371000, C430S380000, C430S545000, C430S551000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06265118
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a color diffusion transfer image element and an image formation method.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
It is known that a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is subjected to heat-development to form an image, which is described, for example, in “Shashin Kogaku no Kiso,” Hi-ginen Shashin-hen, (1982, published by Korona-sha), pages 242 to 255, and in U.S. Pat. No. 4,500,626.
Further, heat-developable light-sensitive materials wherein use is made of silver halides are a conventionally widely practiced photographic means, because they are excellent in photographic properties, such as sensitivity and gradation, in comparison with the electrophotographic technique, the diazo photographic technique, and the like. For the method of obtaining a color image by subjecting to heat-development a silver halide light-sensitive material, many proposals are made, one of which is a color-development system of forming a dye image by the coupling reaction of the oxidized product of a developing agent and a coupler. With respect to the developing agent and the coupler that can be used in this color-development system, for example, a combination of a p-phenylenediamine-series reducing agent with a phenol or with an active methylene coupler is proposed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,531,256, a p-aminophenol-series reducing agent is proposed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,761,270, and a combination of a sulfonamidophenol-series reducing agent with a four-equivalent coupler is proposed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,021,240.
This method is, however, accompanied by such defects as that color formation at the undeveloped part of undeveloped silver halides remaining after the processing occurs at the time of printing out or with the lapse of time, and that color contamination occurs due to the simultaneous presence of reduced silver and a dye image at the exposed part. To solve these defects, a dye transfer system is proposed, wherein a diffusion dye is formed by heat development and is transferred to an image-receiving layer.
In such a diffusion transfer-type heat-developable light-sensitive material, there are a case wherein an image-receiving layer capable of receiving a dye is formed on the base of the light-sensitive material, and a case wherein an image-receiving layer is formed on a base different from that of the light-sensitive material.
Particularly when use is made of a heat-developable color light-sensitive material, for the purpose of obtaining a dye image high in color purity, it is desirable to use an image-receiving material having a dye image-receiving layer formed on a separate base, to cause the dye to be diffused and transferred, either simultaneously with the formation of the diffusion dye by the color development, or after the formation of the diffusion dye.
The method wherein a diffusible dye is released or formed imagewise by heat development and the resultant diffusible dye is transferred to a dye-fixing element is proposed. In this method, by changing the type of the dye-providing compound to be used or the type of the silver halide to be used, a negative dye image, as well as a positive dye image, can be obtained. More details are described, for example, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,500,625, 4,483,914, 4,503,137, 4,559,290, JP-A-58-149046 (“JP-A” means unexamined published Japanese patent application), JP-A-60-133449, JP-A-59-218443, JP-A-61-238056, EP-A-220 746 (A2), Kokai-giho No. 87-6199, EP-A-210 660 (A2), and the like. These are accompanied by the problem that the sensitivity of the light-sensitive material is lowered, because a color-formed dye has previously been fixed in a dye-providing substance, and it therefore is preferable to realize a system wherein an originally colorless coupler and a developing agent are reacted, to allow the intended dye to diffuse.
As means of forming an image by the above coupling system, heat-developable light-sensitive materials containing a coupler and a color-developing agent precursor capable of releasing a p-phenylenediamine are disclosed, for example, in JP-B-63-36487 (“JP-B” means examined Japanese patent publication), JP-A-5-224381, and JP-A-6-83005; a combination of a ureidoanilin-series reducing agent with an active methylene-type coupler is disclosed in JP-A-59-111148; and a light-sensitive material, wherein use is made of a coupler that has a coupling split-off group with a polymer chain and that can release a diffusion dye by color development, is disclosed in JP-A-58-149047.
However, color-developing agents or color-developing agent precursors, used in these literatures, had such problems that the fastness to light of images during the storage was poor, as well as insufficient density of dye images after the transfer. In these meanings, there has been a need for technology that enables to attain excellent fastness and transfer density of image, compatibly.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide a color diffusion transfer image element. In particular, an object of the present invention is to provide a method of forming image, in which dyes are formed or released by coupling reaction and a dye image is obtained by diffusion transfer, and to provide thereby obtainable image element that is excellent in fastness to light of image.
Other and further objects, features, and advantages of the invention will appear more fully from the following description.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
After earnest study, the inventor of the present invention found that the object mentioned above could be attained by the methods indicated in the following.
(1) An image element wherein a dye, formed or released by reaction with an oxidized product of a compound represented by the following formula (I), and a fixed compound represented by the following formula (II), coexist in a binder on a support:
wherein, Z represents a carbamoyl group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a sulfonyl group, or a sulfamoyl group, and Q represents a group of atoms that, together with the C, form an unsaturated ring;
wherein the ring structure containing the N represents a nitrogen-containing nonaromatic ring having at least three ring members, X represents a hydrogen atom, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an oxy radical group, a hydroxyl group, or a group capable of forming an imino group or a hydroxyimino group by hydrolysis, and Y represents a group that is capable of causing chemical reaction with a reactive group contained in the binder, to form a covalent bond;
(2) The image element as described in the above (1), wherein the compound represented by formula (I) is a compound represented by the following formula (Ia):
wherein X
1
represents a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, a heterocyclic thio group, an alkylsulfinyl group, an arylsulfinyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group or a sulfamoyl group and Z has the same meanings as defined in the formula (I);
(3) The image element as described in the above (1), wherein the binder comprises at least one mordant polymer;
(4) The image element as described in the above (3), wherein the reactive group which can react with Y, to fix the compound represented by the formula (II), is contained in the mordant polymer;
(5) The image element as described in the above (3) or (4), wherein the mordant polymer comprises tertiary nitrogen atoms;
(6) The image element as described in the above (1), (2), (3), (4), or (5), wherein the ring structure containing the N in the formula (II) is a pyrrolidine ring or a piperidine ring; and
(7) A method of forming a color diffusion transfer image, in which a light-sensitive material having a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, a compound represented by the following formula (I), and a compound which reacts with an oxidized product of a compound represented by the formula (I) to form or release a diffusion dye, on a support, is developed after exposure, and the formed or released diffusion dye is transf
Fuji Photo Film Co. , Ltd.
Schilling Richard L.
Sughrue Mion Zinn Macpeak & Seas, PLLC
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