Patents by Inventor Knut Oppenlander

Knut Oppenlander 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: 7250065
    Abstract: Fuel compositions for internal combustion engines, comprising a principle amount of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel and an amount, which has a cleaning effect, of at least one propoxylate additive of the formula I where n is an integer from 10 to 20 and R1 is straight-chain or branched C8-C18-alkyl or C8-C18-alkenyl, if required in combination with at least one detergent additive, e.g. a polyalkylamine additive of the formula II R2—NH2 ??(II) where R2 is a straight-chain or branched polyalkyl radical having a number average molecular weight of from about 500 to about 5000, and fuel additive compositions which contain propoxylates of the formula I and, if required, further additives, such as the aforementioned polyalkylamines of the formula II, as intake valve cleaners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Günther, Knut Oppenländer, Harald Schwahn, Irene Trötsch-Schaller
  • Patent number: 6909018
    Abstract: Polyalkeneamines of the formula (I) where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 may have different meanings, are prepared by a process in which a polyalkene epoxide is reacted with an amine and the amino alcohol is dehydrated and reduced to give the compound of the formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johann-Peter Melder, Gerhard Blum, Wolfgang Günther, Dietmar Posselt, Knut Oppenländer
  • Patent number: 6783693
    Abstract: Hydraulic fluids, in particular brake fluids for motor vehicles, comprising from 0.01 to 50 wt % of one or more cyclic carboxylates, or cyclic carboxamides, which can carry a linear or branched C1-bis C20 alkyl group on the nitrogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bayram Aydin, Uwe Fidorra, Arthur Höhn, Ladislaus Meszaros, Jan Nouwen, Knut Oppenländer, Michael Roida, Michael Stösser, Bernd Wenderoth
  • Patent number: 6604598
    Abstract: A fuel tank for motor vehicles which is connected to a supplementary tank containing a flame-coloring additive, where a data recorder causes, in the event of a fault signal, the flame-coloring additive to be added to the fuel tank from the supplementary tank, and a process for adding a flame-coloring additive to the fuel in a fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignees: Basell Polyolefine GmbH, BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Rohde, Knut Oppenländer, Markus Hölzle, Eckhard Sausen
  • Publication number: 20030141482
    Abstract: Hydraulic fluids, in particular brake fluids for motor vehicles, contain from 0.005 to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Bernd Wenderoth, Michael Roida, Knut Oppenlander, Ralf Strauss
  • Patent number: 6579846
    Abstract: The present invention relates to acylated polymeric polyamines, to processes for their preparation, to their use, and to aqueous compositions which comprise these polyamines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Zirnstein, Günter Oetter, Kristin Tiefensee, Knut Oppenländer, Jürgen Decker, Michael Ehle
  • Patent number: 6548461
    Abstract: The invention relates to polyalkene alcohol polyetheramines of formula R1—(CH2)n—O—A)m—NR2R3, wherein R1 represents a polyalkene radical derived from C2- to C30-alkenes with a number average molecular weight of 300 to 5000, R2 and R3 each mean, independently of each other, hydrogen or organic radicals with a total of 400 carbon atoms. A denotes alkylene groups with 2 to 8 C atoms, m is a number from 1 to 200 and n denotes the number 0 or 1. The inventive polyalkene alcohol polyetheramines are suitable for use as carrier oils, detergents and dispersing agents in fuel and lubricant compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Basf Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Knut Oppenländer, Wolfgang Günther, Dietmar Posselt, Klemens Massonne, Hans Peter Rath
  • Patent number: 6545067
    Abstract: Mixtures of at least one polycarboxylate-based plasticizer for cement-comprising mineral building materials, and butoxylated polyalkylenepolyamines or their salts as air detrainers, and the use of such mixtures as additives for mineral building materials comprising cement, are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Büchner, Michael Ehle, Johannes Perner, Knut Oppenländer, Markus Hartmann, Wolfgang Günther, Matthias Kroner
  • Patent number: 6533830
    Abstract: Polyalkene alcohol polyalkoxylates R—(CH2)n—(O—A)m—OH, where R is a polyalkene radical derived from C2- to C30-alkenes and having a number average molecular weight from 300 to 5000, A is an alkylene group of 2 to 8 carbon atoms, m is a number up to 200, with the proviso that the oxygen in the oxyalkylate radical accounts for at least 16.5% by weight of the number average molecular weight of the total molecule I, and n is 0 or 1, are suitable as carrier oils in fuel and lubricant compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Knut Oppenländer, Wolfgang Günther, Hans Peter Rath, Irene Trötsch-Schaller
  • Patent number: 6512055
    Abstract: Copolymers I carrying functional groups and comprising a) 20-60 mol % of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated C4-C6-dicarboxylic acid or an anhydride thereof, b) 10-70 mol % of at least one oligomer of propene or of a branched 1-olefin of 4 to 10 carbon atoms, having an average molecular weight Mw of from 300 to 5000, and c) 1-50 mol % of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated compound which is copolymerizable with the monomers a) and b), a process for their preparation, oil-soluble reaction products obtainable therefrom by reaction with an amine and the use of said reaction products as additives for lubricants and fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Günther, Knut Oppenländer, Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann, Helmut Mach, Harald Schwahn, Hans Peter Rath
  • Patent number: 6509012
    Abstract: The disclosure sets forth aqueous cationic surfactant formulations and a process for their preparation. The formulations contains in solution a) from 10 to 50% by weight of a quaternary ammonium compound of the formula I: where: the substituents have the meanings set forth in the description, and b) from 0.01 to 15% by weight of an amine of the formula III: and c) from 0.1 to 5.0% by weight of a buffer which maintains a pH in a range from 4 to 9. The surfactant formulation is prepared by reacting an amine of the formula III in aqueous solution with a dialkyl sulfate of the formula IV where R1 to R5 are in a molar ratio range from 85 to 99.99 mol %, based on the amine and at from 20 to 100 degrees C. and then adding to the reaction solution from 0.1 to 5.0% by weight of a buffer which maintains a pH in a range from 4 to 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Hössel, Michael Zirnstein, Walter Schunter, Friedrich Wirsing, Wolfgang Kasel, Knut Oppenländer
  • Publication number: 20020189501
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellshaft
    Inventors: Knut Oppenlander, Joachim Pakusch
  • Patent number: 6413445
    Abstract: A description is given of antifreeze concentrates which comprise a) at least one water-miscible alcohol which lowers the freezing point; b) at least one corrosion inhibitor; and c) as reserve alkalinity donor, at least one mono- or polycyclic aromatic compound which has at least one hydroxyl group and a high buffer capacity in the pH range from about 6 to 10 and of coolant compositions which comprise said concentrates and are intended for the cooling circuits in internal combustion engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Knut Oppenländer, Wolfgang Günther, Klaus Pfitzner, Michael Gillich, Ladislaus Meszaros
  • Patent number: 6365637
    Abstract: The use of esters or amides of hydroxylated carboxylic acids as solubilizers, particularly for pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food preparations, is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Zirnstein, Folker Ruchatz, Karl Kolter, Knut Oppenländer
  • Patent number: 6303832
    Abstract: Alkanols are oxyalkylated by a process in which the reaction is carried out using a heterogeneous basic catalyst which is selected from basic aluminates, and the compounds prepared thereby are used as carrier oils in fuel additives or as nonionic surfactants in detergents or cleaning agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Irene Trötsch-Schaller, Günter Oetter, Knut Oppenländer, Michael Stösser
  • Publication number: 20010025094
    Abstract: Copolymers I carrying functional groups and comprising
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Wolfgang Gunther, Knut Oppenlander, Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann, Helmut Mach, Harald Schwahn, Hans Peter Rath
  • Patent number: 6284716
    Abstract: Copolymers I carrying functional groups and comprising a) 20-60 mol % of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated C4-C6-dicarboxylic acid or an anhydride thereof, b) 10-70 mol % of at least one oligomer of propene or of a branched 1-olefin of 4 to 10 carbon atoms, having an average molecular weight Mw of from 300 to 5000, and c) 1-50 mol % of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated compound which is copolymerizable with the monomers a) and b), a process for their preparation, oil-soluble reaction products obtainable therefrom by reaction with an amine and the use of said reaction products as additives for lubricants and fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Günther, Knut Oppenländer, Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann, Helmut Mach, Harald Schwahn, Hans Peter Rath
  • Patent number: 6267936
    Abstract: Solvent extraction of one or more metal ions from an aqueous solution in the presence of hydrocarbon-soluble aminomethylenephosphonic acid derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Instituto National de Engenharia e Tecnologia
    Inventors: Francisco Delmas, Carlos Nogueira, Michael Ehle, Knut Oppenländer
  • Patent number: 6225507
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of aldehydes or aldehydes and alcohols by hydroformylation of olefins containing more than 3 carbon atoms, comprising a hydroformylation stage, in which the olefin is hydroformylated under a pressure of form 50 to 1000 bar and at a temperature of from 50° to 180° C. by means of a rhodium catalyst dissolved in a homogenous reaction medium and a catalyst recovery stage comprising extraction of the rhodium catalyst with an aqueous solution of chelating agent, isolation of alcohols and/or aldehyde from the extracted hydroformylation product steam, precarbonylation of the aqueous rhodium-containing extract in the presence of carbon monoxide, synthesis gas as, or a gas mixture containing carbon monoxide under a pressure of from 50 to 1000 bar and at a temperature of from 50° to 180° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Giessler, Heinz-Josef Kneuper, Michael Röper, Rocco Paciello, Knut Oppenländer, Wolfgang Günther
  • Patent number: 6165971
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of amides of polymerized fatty acids as thickeners.Moreover, the invention relates to aqueous compositions comprising these amides as thickeners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Knut Oppenlander, Michael Zirnstein, Kristin Tiefensee, Gunter Oetter