Patents by Inventor Paul Birnbrich
Paul Birnbrich 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).
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Patent number: 9056960Abstract: A method of thermally insulating a transport means or an industrial or plant construction comprises obtaining a nanoporous foam (NP1) by reacting epoxy resin(s) (E) with amphiphilic epoxy resin hardener(s) (H) in water by a phase inversion polymerization wherein the binder content during polymerization is from 15% to 39.9% by weight, and installing the nanoporous polymer foam as a thermal insulation material in transport means or in an industrial or plant construction.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas, Dagmar Stahlhut-Behn
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Publication number: 20150065604Abstract: A paint or lacquer composition including microcapsules, which microcapsules are prepared according to the process including: (a) providing a mixture of an active and a polyvinylether; (b) polymerizing the mixture with maleic anhydride to form a copolymer matrix; and (c) cross-linking the copolymer matrix with a melamine-formalin resin to encapsulate the active in microcapsules with an average diameter of about 0.1 to about 25 ?m for incorporating into a paint or a lacquer composition is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Joaquin Bigorra Llosas, Elisabet Graupera, Bernd Fabry, Raymond Mathis, Paul Birnbrich
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Patent number: 8664285Abstract: The invention relates to composite materials, containing (i) a nanoporous polymer foam, which can be obtained by reacting one or more epoxy resins with one or more amphiphilic epoxy resin hardeners in water in a phase inversion polymerization process, and (ii) one or more inorganic fillers and/or inorganic fibers, with the stipulation that hollow glass balls are excluded as fillers. Said composite materials are suitable as heat-insulating materials.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas, Dagmar Stahlhut-Behn
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Patent number: 8598243Abstract: Polymer foams comprising macropores, the macropores having average cross sections of above 500 nm, are obtainable by reacting one or more epoxy resins with one or more amphiphilic epoxy resin hardeners in water in a phase inversion polymerization, where, during the phase inversion polymerization, but after phase inversion has taken place, a volume increase of the internal voids which form initially, and which are present predominantly as micropores having average cross sections of below 500 nm, is induced such that the fraction of the macropores—relative to the entirety of micropores and macropores present in the polymer foam—at the end of the phase inversion polymerization is above 50% by volume. Polymer foams of the present invention are suitable for use as acoustic insulation materials in means of transport and in industrial and plant construction.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas, Dagmar Stahlhut-Behn, Gilbert Schenker
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Publication number: 20130109784Abstract: The invention relates to aqueous radiation-hardenable epoxy acrylate dispersions comprising (a) an epoxy acrylate resin (P*) with at least two acrylate groups per molecule, wherein at 25 degrees Celsius, said epoxy acrylate resin is not self-disperging in water; and (b) a dispergator (D*) with at least one acrylate group per molecule, wherein said dispersions can be produced by converting, in a first step (i), in the presence of a catalyst if need be, one or several compounds (A) selected from the group of non-ionic compounds having a HLB value of less than 12, and containing at least two oxirane groups per molecule, with one or several compounds (B) selected from the group of non-ionic compounds having a HLB value in the range from 12 to 20, and which contain at least one h-acid group (ZH) per molecule. The compounds (A) and (B) are employed at an equivalence ratio EpO (A):ZH (B) in the range from 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2010Publication date: May 2, 2013Inventors: Juergen Baro, Laurence Druene, Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas
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Publication number: 20130062551Abstract: Nanoporous polymer foams can be obtained by reacting one or more epoxy resins with one or more amphiphilic epoxy resin hardeners in water in a phase inversion polymerization process, with the stipulation that the binder fraction of the polymer foams is within the range of 15 to 39.9 wt %. Said nanoporous polymer foams are suitable as heat-insulating materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Inventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas, Dagmar Stahlhut-Behn
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Publication number: 20130062552Abstract: The invention relates to composite materials, containing (i) a nanoporous polymer foam, which can be obtained by reacting one or more epoxy resins with one or more amphiphilic epoxy resin hardeners in water in a phase inversion polymerization process, and (ii) one or more inorganic fillers and/or inorganic fibers, with the stipulation that hollow glass balls are excluded as fillers. Said composite materials are suitable as heat-insulating materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas, Dagmar Stahlhut-Behn
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Publication number: 20120291669Abstract: The invention relates to sulfosuccinates of the general formula (1), where M is hydrogen or a cation and the groups R4 and R5—independently of each other—are hydrogen or a cation or an alkyl group, wherein no more than one of the groups R4 or R5 is hydrogen or a cation, wherein said sulfosuccinates contain at least one alcohol building block that is assigned to the mono-alcohols with 8 to 36 carbon atoms in total, on the condition that said mono-alcohols are Guerbet alcohols (GA) containing at least two branches per molecule. Said sulfosuccinates are suitable as surfactants having improved dynamic surface tension.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2011Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: Congnis IP Management GmbHInventors: Stefan Busch, Paul Birnbrich, Eike Ulf Mahnke, Anja Wick
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Patent number: 8273853Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of emulsifiers E1 which are obtained by (a) reacting a polyol with propylene oxide or a mixture of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, to give an intermediate Z1, (b) reacting the intermediate Z1 with epichlorohydrin, forming an intermediate Z2, (c) reacting the intermediate Z2 with an adduct of ethylene oxide or a mixture of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, with a C1-C22 monoalcohol, provided that on average at least one epoxide function of the intermediate Z2 is reacted and on average at least one epoxide function originating from the intermediate Z2 is retained. Compounds E1 are suitable as emulsifiers for preparing aqueous emulsions or dispersions of epoxy resins.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2009Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas, Giorgio Sabbadini, Ulrich Nagorny, Georg Bourscheidt
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Patent number: 8217088Abstract: By reaction of one or more epoxy resins with an amphiphilic epoxy resin hardener in water in a phase inversion polymerization, nanoporous polymer foams are obtained. These foams are suitable as thermal insulation materials.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas, Martina Balser
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Patent number: 8207237Abstract: By reaction of one or more epoxy resins with an amphiphilic epoxy resin hardener in water in a phase inversion polymerization, nanoporous polymer foams are obtained. These foams are suitable as filter materials.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2009Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas, Martina Balser
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Publication number: 20120010310Abstract: Polymer foams comprising macropores, the macropores having average cross sections of above 500 nm, are obtainable by reacting one or more epoxy resins with one or more amphiphilic epoxy resin hardeners in water in a phase inversion polymerization, where, during the phase inversion polymerization, but after phase inversion has taken place, a volume increase of the internal voids which form initially, and which are present predominantly as micropores having average cross sections of below 500 nm, is induced such that the fraction of the macropores—relative to the entirety of micropores and macropores present in the polymer foam—at the end of the phase inversion polymerization is above 50% by volume. Polymer foams of the present invention are suitable for use as acoustic insulation materials in means of transport and in industrial and plant construction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas, Dagmar Stahlhut-Behn, Gilbert Schenker
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Publication number: 20110284160Abstract: The invention relates to 2-component adhesives comprising one or more epoxy resins as a first component (E) and one or more amphiphilic epoxy resin hardeners as a second component (H), wherein the first component (E) and the second component (H) are reacted in water in a phase inversion polymerization.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: COGNIS IP MANAGEMENT GMBHInventors: PAUL BIRNBRICH, HANS-JOSEF THOMAS, DAGMAR STAHLHUT-BEHN
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Publication number: 20110130471Abstract: Polyurethanes, suitable as thickeners for aqueous systems, are obtained by reacting (i) one or more hydrophilic polyols containing at least two OH groups and at least two functional groups selected from ether and ester groups, having a molecular weight of at least 300 Daltons; (ii) one or more C8 to C36 Guerbet alcohols, which are produced from monoalcohols having 4 to 18 carbon atoms selected from the group of primary and/or secondary monoalcohols of formula (MA), where (a) the total number of carbon atoms in compounds (MA) is 4 to 18; (b) R1, R2 and R3 are independently hydrogen, or linear, branched or alicyclic, saturated or unsaturated alkyl; (c) optionally, R1 and R2, and/or R1 and R3, and/or R2 and R3 are linked together to form an alicyclic substructure; and (d) compounds (MA) have at least one branch; and (iii) one or more at least difunctional isocyanates.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Cindy Münzenberg, Oliver Pietsch, Anja Wick, Eike Ulf Mahnke, Paul Birnbrich
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Publication number: 20110083805Abstract: Compositions obtained by reacting the cardanol-containing raw material cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL) with (a) ammonia, or an amine which comprises at least one primary or at least two secondary amino groups, and (b) formaldehyde, are disclosed as adhesives.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: COGNIS IP MANAGEMENT GMBHInventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas
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Publication number: 20100204074Abstract: Disclosed are ionic liquids that have a low melting point. Said liquids are provided in the form of compounds that are selected among the group comprising tetraalkyl ammonium salts, benzyl trialkyl ammonium salts, tetraalkyl phosphonium salts, and benzyl trialkyl phosphonium salts, provided that at last two alkyl groups represent aliphatic radicals with chain lengths ranging from 8 to 10 C atoms, and provided that not all alkyl radicals are identical.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2007Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: COGNIS IP MANAGEMENT GMBHInventors: Hendrik Huesken, Paul Birnbrich, Gilbert Schenker
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Publication number: 20100179260Abstract: Ionic N-containing compounds of formula (I), wherein the index n is the number 0 or 1 and R1 to R5 independently are hydrogen, C1-C25 alkyl, C3-C25 cycloalkyl or C6-C25 aryl, wherein the alkyl groups can be saturated or unsaturated, straight-chained or branched, and the cycloalkyl groups can be saturated or unsaturated, with the following stipulations: (1) when n=1, at least one of R1 to R5 must contain 8 to 25 carbon atoms, (2) when n=0, at least one of R1, R2, R3 and R5 must contain 8 to 25 carbon atoms, (3) the carbon atoms carrying R2 and R3 are linked via a C—C single bond or a C?C double bond, (4) when R1 to R5 are alkyl or cycloalkyl, a hydrogen atom linked to a carbon atom can be replaced with OH or NH2, or an —O—, —COO— or —NH— group can be inserted between two neighboring carbon atoms linked via a C—C single bond, (5) when R1 to R5 are aryl, a hydrogen atom linked to a carbon atom can be optionally replaced with C1-C12 alkyl or C3-C12 cycloalkyl, with the stipulation that the following applies to thType: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2008Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: COGNIS IP MANAGEMENT GMBHInventors: Stefan Busch, Paul Birnbrich, Joachim Meyer, Ronald Klagge
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Publication number: 20100127204Abstract: By reaction of one or more epoxy resins with an amphiphilic epoxy resin hardener in water in a phase inversion polymerization, nanoporous polymer foams are obtained. These foams are suitable as thermal insulation materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas, Martina Balser
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Publication number: 20100125109Abstract: By reaction of one or more epoxy resins with an amphiphilic epoxy resin hardener in water in a phase inversion polymerization, nanoporous polymer foams are obtained. These foams are suitable as filter materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2009Publication date: May 20, 2010Applicant: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Paul Birnbrich, Hans-Josef Thomas, Martina Balser
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Patent number: 7601679Abstract: A process for producing a detergent portion, comprising the steps of forming one or more dimensionally stable hollow bodies comprising at least one compartment by injection moulding, providing one or more means for compartmentalizing the dimensionally stable hollow bodies, filling the compartment with at least one detersive formulation, and closing the compartment to form a partial or whole enclosure around the detersive formulation.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2008Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Henriette Weber, Sandra Hoffmann, Wilfried Raehse, Dieter Jung, Frank Meier, Christian Block, Rolf Bayersdoerfer, Markus Semrau, Karl-Martin Faeser, Paul Birnbrich, Dieter Nickel