Patents by Inventor Helge Willner

Helge Willner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9518068
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds containing hydrido-tricyano-borate anions, their preparation and their use, in particular as part of electrolyte formulations for electrochemical or optoelectronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Kentaro Kawata, Tomohisa Goto, Eduard Bernhardt, Vera Bernhardt-Pitchougina, Helge Willner
  • Patent number: 9409925
    Abstract: The present invention relates to intermediate compounds for the preparation of hydrido-tricyano-borate anions, their preparation and their uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Kentaro Kawata, Tomohisa Goto, Eduard Bernhardt, Vera Bernhardt-Pitchougina, Helge Willner
  • Publication number: 20160167972
    Abstract: The present invention relates to intermediate compounds for the preparation of hydrido-tricyano-borate anions, their preparation and their uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) IGNATYEV, Michael SCHULTE, Kentaro KAWATA, Tomohisa GOTO, Eduard BERNHARDT, Vera BERNHARDT-PITCHOUGINA, Helge WILLNER
  • Publication number: 20150302995
    Abstract: The present invention relates to Cobaltcomplex salts and their use as redox active species or dopant for hole transport materials in electrochemical and/or optoelectronic devices. The present invention relates additionally to electrochemical and/or optoelectronic devices comprising said salts and electrolyte formulations comprising said salts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) IGNATYEV, Michael SCHULTE, Kentaro KAWATA, Eduard BERNHARDT, Vera BERNHARDT-PITCHOUGINA, Helge WILLNER
  • Patent number: 9163039
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of bis(perfluoroalkyl)phosphinic acid anhydrides by reaction of a bis(perfluoroalkyl)phosphinic acid with phosphorus pentoxide, to novel bis(perfluoroalkyl)phosphinic acid anhydrides and to uses of bis(perfluoroalkyl)phosphinic acid anhydrides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Waldemar Wiebe, Helge Willner
  • Patent number: 8962892
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of tris(perfluoroalkyl)phosphine oxides by reaction of tris(perfluoroalkyl)difluorophosphorane with alkaline-earth metal oxides, alkaline-earth metal carbonates, zinc oxide, copper(I) oxide, copper(II) oxide, silver oxide, mercury(II) oxide, cadmium oxide or cadmium carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolai Mykola Ignatyev, Waldemar Wiebe, Helge Willner
  • Patent number: 8927714
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of alkali-metal salts with dihydridodicyanoborate anions by reaction of alkali-metal tetrahydridoborates or trihydridocyanoborates with trialkylsilyl cyanide and further reaction thereof in metathesis reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Eduard Bernhardt, Vera Bernhardt-Pitchougina, Helge Willner
  • Patent number: 8859813
    Abstract: The present invention relates to salts having uronium cations and to a process for preparing same comprising alkylating urea C(O)(NR2)2 using an ester ARo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Myloka) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, German Bissky, Helge Willner, Andriy Kucheryna
  • Patent number: 8846922
    Abstract: The present invention relates to functionalized fluoroalkylfluorophosphate salts, in particular as ionic liquids, to the preparation thereof and to the use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Berthold Theo Hoge, Anne Julia Bader, Nikolai Mykola Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Wolfgang Hierse, Waldemar Wiebe, Helge Willner
  • Publication number: 20140182680
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electrolyte formulations comprising at least one compound comprising a dihydridodicyanoborate anion and their use in an eletrochemical and/or optoelectronic device such as a photovoltaic cell, a light emitting device, an electrochromic or photo-electrochromic device, an electrochemical sensor and/or biosensor, preferably their use in a dye or quantum dot sensitized solar cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Kentaro KAWATA, Tomohisa GOTO, Nikolai (Mykola) IGNATYEV, Michael SCHULTE, Hiroki YOSHIZAKI, Eduard BERNHARDT, Vera BERNHARDT-PITCHOUGINA, Helge WILLNER
  • Publication number: 20140155649
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of bis(perfluoroalkyl)phosphinic acid anhydrides by reaction of a bis(perfluoroalkyl)phosphinic acid with phosphorus pentoxide, to novel bis(perfluoroalkyl)phosphinic acid anhydrides and to uses of bis(perfluoroalkyl)phosphinic acid anhydrides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Waldemar Wiebe, Helge Willner
  • Publication number: 20140114074
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of alkali-metal salts with dihydridodicyanoborate anions by reaction of alkali-metal tetrahydridoborates or trihydridocyanoborates with trialkylsilyl cyanide and further reaction thereof in metathesis reactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Eduard Bernhardt, Vera Bernhardt-Pitchougina, Helge Willner
  • Patent number: 8702815
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dyes of the general formula CAT+ Y? (I), where Y? is an anion selected from the group of the cyanoborates, fluoroalkylphosphates, fluoroalkylborates or imidates and CAT+ is a cation selected from the group of the azine, xanthene, polymethine, styryl, azo, tetrazolium, pyrylium, benzopyrylium, thiopyrylium, benzothiopyrylium, thiazine, oxazine, triarylmethane, diarylmethane, methine, acridine, quinoline, isoquinoline or quaternary azafluorenone dyes, for coloring plastics and plastic fibers, for the preparation of flexographic printing inks, as ball-point pen pastes, as stamp ink, for coloring leather and paper, for use in data acquisition systems, reprography, in ink microfilters, in photogalvanics, laser technology and the photo industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, Helge Willner, Maik Finze, Eduard Bernhardt, Andriy Kucheryna
  • Publication number: 20140107341
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds containing hydrido-tricyano-borate anions, their preparation and their use, in particular as part of electrolyte formulations for electrochemical or optoelectronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Kentaro Kawata, Tomohisa Goto, Eduard Bernhardt, Vera Bernhardt-pitchougina, Helge Willner
  • Publication number: 20130197228
    Abstract: The present invention relates to functionalised fluoroalkylfluorophosphate salts, in particular as ionic liquids, to the preparation thereof and to the use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Berthold Theo Hoge, Anne Julia Bader, Nikolai Mykola Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Wolfgang Hierse, Waldemar Wiebe, Helge Willner
  • Patent number: 8436199
    Abstract: The invention relates to boron-containing acids of the general formula (I) [B(RF)4-x-y(CN)xFy]?H+ (I), where x=0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, y=0, 1, 2 or 3 x+y?4, and in which the ligands RF may be identical or different and RF stands for a perfluorinated or partially fluorinated C1-12-alkyl group and where the CN group is bonded to the B atom via the C atom, and complexes thereof with a solvent, to salts comprising a cation and the anion of a selection of the acids according to the invention, and to processes for the preparation of the salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Maik Finze, Eduard Bernhardt, Helge Willner, Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann
  • Patent number: 8378157
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of bis(fluoroalkyl)phosphinyl chlorides or fluoroalkylphosphonyl dichlorides by reaction of the corresponding bis(fluoroalkyl)phosphinic acid or fluoroalkylphosphonic acid with aryltetrachlorophosphorane as chlorinating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit Beschränkter Haftung
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Dana Bejan, Helge Willner, Emil Aust
  • Publication number: 20120330063
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of tris(perfluoroalkyl)phosphine oxides by reaction of tris(perfluoroalkyl)difluorophosphorane with alkaline-earth metal oxides, alkaline-earth metal carbonates, zinc oxide, copper(I) oxide, copper(II) oxide, silver oxide, mercury(II) oxide, cadmium oxide or cadmium carbonate
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Nikolai Mykola Ignatyev, Waldemar Wiebe, Helge Willner
  • Publication number: 20120316058
    Abstract: The present invention relates to salts having thiouronium or uronium cations, to processes for the preparation thereof, and to the use thereof as ionic liquids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Myloka) IGNATYEV, Urs WELZ-BIERMANN, German BISSKY, Helge WILLNER, Andriy KUCHERYNA
  • Patent number: 8269041
    Abstract: The present invention relates to salts having thiouronium or uronium cations, to processes for the preparation thereof, and to the use thereof as ionic liquids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Merl Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolai (Myloka) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, German Bissky, Helge Willner, Andriy Kucheryna