Patents by Inventor Hermanus J. W. Nieuwenhuis

Hermanus J. W. Nieuwenhuis 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).

  • Method for the preparation of esters of a non-reducing sugar and one or more fatty acids
    Patent number: 4778881
    Abstract: Method for the preparation of esters of a non-reducing sugar like sucrose and one or more fatty acids by transesterification of a non-reducing sugar with one or more fatty acid esters in at first a worm shaft reactor operating at elevated temperature and pressure and then in a second reactor operating at reduced pressure and elevated temperature. Such esters of a non-reducing sugar and fatty acids, in particular the monoesters and diesters are valuable solid surfactants, which are non-toxic, odorless, tasteless, non-irritating to the skin and hydrolyze in the human and animal tract to normal good products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Cooperatieve Vereniging Suiker Unie U.A.
    Inventors: Hermanus J. W. Nieuwenhuis, Gerardus M. Vianen