Patents by Inventor Knut Oppenlaender

Knut Oppenlaender 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: 5026494
    Abstract: An amino group containing graft polymer comprising a main chain polymer having allyl amine grafted onto it whereby the main chain polymer is a hydrogenated olefin/diene copolymer and the total nitrogen content of the graft copolymer is from 0.001 to 0.05 weight percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: BASF
    Inventors: Walter Denzinger, Helmut Mach, Juergen Mohr, Knut Oppenlaender, Roland Schwen, Hans-Henning Vogel
  • Patent number: 5009670
    Abstract: Fuels for gasoline engines contain small amounts of copolymers of alkyl (meth)-acrylates where the alkyl radical is of 8 to 40 carbon atoms and/or vinyl esters of carboxylic acids of 8 to 40 carbon atoms and monoethylenically unsaturated mono- and/or dicarboxylic acids of 3 to 12 carbon atoms and/or monoethylenically unsaturated compounds having sulfo and/or phosphonic acid groups, having a total molecular weight of from 500 to 20,000 g per mole, some or all of the carboxyl, sulfo and phosphonic acid groups of the copolymers having been reacted with an alkali or alkaline earth with formation of the alkali metla salts or alkaline earth metal salts and the remainder of the acid groups having been reacted with ammonia and/or amines of not more than 50 carbon atoms to give the corresponding amide groups and/or ammonium salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz-Dieter Martischius, Hans-Henning Vogel, Norbert Greif, Knut Oppenlaender, Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann
  • Patent number: 5004478
    Abstract: A motor fuel for internal combustion engines contains a small amount of an additive comprising(a) a conventional amino- or amido-containing detergent for cleaning, or keeping clean, the intake system and(b) as base oil a mixture of(ba) a polyether based on propylene oxide or butylene oxide and having a molecular weight of not less than 500 and(bb) an ester of a monocarboxylic or polycarboxylic acid and an alkanol or polyol, this ester having a minimum viscosity of 2 mm.sup.2 /s at 100.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Henning Vogel, Hans P. Rath, Claus P. Jakob, Knut Oppenlaender
  • Patent number: 4978780
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of ether sulfonates or polyglycol ether sulfonates by reacting an organic alcoholic or phenolic compound or the corresponding alkoxylate in aqueous solution with vinyl sulfonate in the presence of from 0.1 to 3.0% by weight of an alkaline catalyst and, if required, additionally in the presence of a phase-transfer catalyst, and ether sulfonates or polyglycol ether sulfonates prepared by this process and of the general formulaR--O(C.sub.n H.sub.2n O).sub.z --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 SO.sub.3 Xwhere R is H or an aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon radical (which may contain nitrogen as a heteroatom) of 1 to 30 carbon atoms, n is from 2 to 30, z is from 0 to 300 and X is an alkali metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rolf Fikentscher, Norbert Greif, Knut Oppenlaender, Karl Stork
  • Patent number: 4959077
    Abstract: A fuel for gasoline engines contains a small amount of a copolymer of an olefin of from 2 to 40 carbon atoms and/or a cycloolefin of from 3 to 10 carbon atoms with maleic anhydride and/or a copolymer of an alkyl vinyl ether of from 1 to 30 carbon atoms in the alkyl group and/or a cycloalkyl vinyl ether of from 3 to 10 carbon atoms in the alkyl group with maleic anhydride and/or a copolymer of an alkyl vinyl ether of from 1 to 30 carbon atoms in the alkyl group and/or a cycloalkyl vinyl ether of from 3 to 10 carbon atoms in the alkyl group and an olefin of from 2 to 40 carbon atoms and/or a cycloolefin of from 3 to 10 carbon atoms with maleic anhydride having a total molecular weight of from 500 to 20,000 g per mole, the carboxyl groups on the copolymer having been wholly or partly converted with an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal to form an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt and the remaining carboxyl groups having been converted with an alcohol and/or an amine of up to 50 carbon atom into the cor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz-Dieter Martischius, Hans P. Rath, Hans-Henning Vogel, Norbert Greif, Knut Oppenlaender, Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann
  • Patent number: 4935162
    Abstract: Alkoxylated amido-containing polyamines which are suitable as oil demulsifiers are obtainable by condensing a dicarboxylic acid of 3 to 20 carbon atoms or one of its functional derivatives with a polyalkylenepolyamine having 2 or more carbon atoms and 2 or more amino groups and reacting the product with a total of from 1 to 200 moles/mole of ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide and/or 1,2-butylene oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Barthold, Richard Baur, Rolf Fikentscher, Juergen Lasowski, Knut Oppenlaender
  • Patent number: 4871375
    Abstract: The invention relates to fuels for Otto engines containing small proportions of the alkali-metal or alkaline-earth-metal salts of amic acids of the general formulaR.sup.1 R.sup.2 N--CO--A--COOHor of analogous partial amides of tricarboxylic or tetracarboxylic acids whose carbamoyl groups have the general formulaR.sup.1 R.sup.2 N--CO--,where A is the bivalent radical vinylene, ethylene, trimethylene, or tetramethylene and either R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are identical or different, substituted or unsubstituted alkyls or alkenyls of from 5 to 75 carbon atoms or R.sup.1 is hydrogen and R.sup.2 is the group of the general formulaR.sup.3 R.sup.4 N--[C.sub.n H.sub.2n O].sub.x --C.sub.n H.sub.2n --,where R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are identical or different hydrocarbon radicals of from 1 to 18--preferably from 4 to 13--carbon atoms, n is 3 or 4 (or 3 and 4), and x is from 4 to 99.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: BASF Aktiensellschaft
    Inventors: Franz-Dieter Martischius, Knut Oppenlaender, Hans-Henning Vogel
  • Patent number: 4844714
    Abstract: Fuels for gasoline engines and diesel engines contain small amounts(A) of an alkoxylate which is obtained by reacting ethylene oxide, propylene oxide or butylene oxide with a mono- or polyhydroxy compound and has a number average molecular weight (molecular mass) of from 500 to 6,000 and(B) of an imide or amidoimide, or a mixture of these, obtained from nitrilotriacetic acid and/or ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and an amine of 7 to 18 carbon atoms, or a mixture of such amines, of the formula I ##STR1## where the radicals X are identical or different --HN--R radicals or adjacent radicals X are the radical >N--R and form a ring ##STR2## m is 0 or 1 and R is a straight-chain or branched aliphatic radical of 7 to 18 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Henning Vogel, Hans P. Rath, Knut Oppenlaender, Charalampos Gousetis
  • Patent number: 4827008
    Abstract: Alkoxysilanes containing low levels of chlorine compounds are prepared by stepwise etherification of chlorosilanes with alcohols in liquid phase and removal of the resulting hydrogen chloride by reacting the alkoxysilane obtained, which still contains a small amount of chlorine compound, with a metal alkoxide in an amount which corresponds to a small stoichiometric excess based on the proportion of chlorine compound, and freeing the reaction product from the resulting salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Charalampos Gousetis, Knut Oppenlaender, Gert Liebold, Guenter Frey
  • Patent number: 4814394
    Abstract: Polyethers with are suitable as oil demulsifiers are obtainable by reacting(A) a polyalkylene oxide obtained from ethylene oxide and propylene oxide and containing in total from 5 to 200 alkylene oxide units with(B) an alkylolation product of a low molecular weight aldehyde and a bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-methane of the general formula II ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be identical or different and are each hydrogen, low molecular weight alkyl, phenyl, carboxyl or low molecular weight alkoxycarbonyl, the molar reaction ratio of the compound of the formula II to the alkylolating aldehyde being from 1:1 to 1:4, at from 100.degree. to 180.degree. C. in the presence of an acidic catalyst with removal of the water of reaction, the weight ratio of A to B being from 5:1 to 1:3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Barthold, Knut Oppenlaender, Juergen Lasowski, Richard Baur
  • Patent number: 4810404
    Abstract: Glycol-based coolant mixtures which are free of nitrites and phosphates contain alkali metal salts of bis(carboxyalkyloxyphenyl)-2,2-propane and stabilized silicate and also further corrosion-inhibiting additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Charalampos Gousetis, Knut Oppenlaender, Gert Liebold, Guenter Frey
  • Patent number: 4784843
    Abstract: Dicyclohexylalkanes, their preparation, cosmetic and pharmaceutical formulations containing these compounds, and their use in these formulations as oil components for cosmetic and pharmaceutical purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Adolph Segnitz, Knut Oppenlaender, Paul Naegele
  • Patent number: 4734535
    Abstract: Aliphatic chlorine compounds of the formulaX--R.sup.1 --Cl Iwhere R.sup.1 is alkylene which may be interrupted by one or more oxygen atoms and which may be substituted by halogen, alkyl or aryl, and X is hydrogen, chlorine or OR.sup.2, where R.sup.2 is alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or aralkyl, are prepared by decarboxylating chloroformic acid esters or diesters at elevated temperatures by decarboxylating in the presence of a quaternary ammonium or phosphonium salt as catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Norbert Greif, Knut Oppenlaender
  • Patent number: 4705834
    Abstract: Crosslinked oxyalkylated polyalkylenepolyamines which can be obtained by reacting polyalkylenepolyamines, which are completely oxyalkylated at the nitrogen atoms, in each case by from 10 to 300 groups, and possess from 50 to 2,000 repeating alkyleneimine units in the molecule, with from 0.5 to 10% by weight, based on the oxyalkylated polyalkylenepolyamines, of a crosslinking compound which possesses two or more functional groups which are capable of reacting with the terminal alcohol groups of the oxyalkylated polyalkylenepolyamines, and a process for breaking water-in-oil emulsions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Richard Baur, Knut Oppenlaender, Klaus Barthold
  • Patent number: 4675025
    Abstract: Pumpable free-flowing aqueous coal dispersions containing a special non-ionic dispersant which is a polyalkylene oxide bisphenol A derivative, and the use of the said dispersant in coal/water dispersions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Knut Oppenlaender, Karl Stork, Friedrich Hovemann, Erich Schwartz
  • Patent number: 4657560
    Abstract: Aqueous, pumpable, free-flowing coal dispersions which may contain methanol and contain a special, oxyethylated, straight-chain, saturated fatty alcohol mixture as a nonionic dispersant, and the use of this dispersant in coal/water dispersions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Knut Oppenlaender, Karl Stork, Friedrich Hovemann, Erich Schwartz
  • Patent number: 4629602
    Abstract: Organosilane/silicate copolymers obtainable by reacting an organic phosphosilicon compound of the formula I ##STR1## where n, X, Y, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 have the meanings stated in the description, with an alkali metal silicate, radiator antifreezes containing these compounds, their use as corrosion inhibitors in radiator antifreezes based on glycol, a method of inhibiting corrosion of aluminum by aqueous cooling media, containing radiator antifreeze based on glycol, during the cooling of internal combustion engines, and the use of organic phosphosilicon compounds for stabilizing silicates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Charalampos Gousetis, Knut Oppenlaender, Gert Liebold, Klaus Pfitzner
  • Patent number: 4537701
    Abstract: Petroleum demulsifiers which contain, as the active ingredients, oxyalkylated isoalkylphenol-formaldehyde resins and oxyalkylated polyalkylenepolyamines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Knut Oppenlaender, Rolf Fikentscher, Egon Buettner, Wilhelmus Slotman, Erich Schwartz, Rudolf Mohr
  • Patent number: 4517114
    Abstract: The subject invention relates to compositions which inhibit the corrosion caused by CO.sub.2 and H.sub.2 S in the transport and storage of crude oils, which are generally water-in-oil, in particular salt-water-in-oil emulsions. The corrosion inhibitors are mixtures of certain imidazoline or tetrahydropyrimidine derivatives, precursors thereof, or their complexes with sulfur and certain maleinamidic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1985
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Knut Oppenlaender, Karl Stork, Klaus Barthold
  • Patent number: 4496439
    Abstract: In an aqueous acidic plating bath for the electrolytic deposition of zinc, which contains conventional conductive salts, brighteners and surfactants, one of the surfactants is a surfactant of the formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is C.sub.4 -C.sub.20 -alkyl, R.sup.2 is identical to R.sup.1 or is hydrogen, X and Y are each a radical --SO.sub.3 H, where the hydrogen atom can be replaced by an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal atom or by one equivalent of zinc and n is an integer from 5 to 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1985
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Norbert Greif, Knut Oppenlaender, Albert Hettche, Christos Vamvakaris