Patents by Inventor Peter Horlacher

Peter Horlacher 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).

  • Publication number: 20060057187
    Abstract: The disclosed invention relates to emulsions containing, based on the total weight of the emulsion, a) 0.1 to 50% by weight of a conjugated linoleic acid or derivative thereof, b) 0.1 to 30% by weight of a vegetable lecithin mixture, c) 0 to 20% by weight of a co-emulsifier, d) 0 to 70% by weight of a polyol, e) 0 to 70% by weight of a carbohydrate, f) 0 to 1% by weight of an antioxidant, and g) 20 to 99% by weight of an aqueous phase, with the proviso that the emulsion contains no other oils and fats except for the triglycerides of components a), b) and/or c) optionally present. The emulsions may be directly processed in foods, more particularly beverages, and show high stability in storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Rainer Eskuchen, Juergen Gierke, Peter Horlacher
  • Publication number: 20050233427
    Abstract: Processes for the enzyme-catalyzed synthesis of triglycerides containing polyunsaturated fatty acids in which the synthesis is preceded by a pre-hydrolysis in which (a) C1-4 alkyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids are completely or partly hydrolyzed in vacuo with continuous addition of water or are partly hydrolyzed in several stages without vacuum, (b) after the hydrolysis, the water is removed by separation or distillation and (c) the synthesis of the polyunsaturated fatty acids with glycerol in vacuo in the presence of an enzyme to form their triglycerides is carried out under low-water conditions, (d) the enzymes are removed from the triglyceride by separation or filtration and (e) the remaining fatty acids and/or possible residues of C1-4 alkyl esters are removed from the triglyceride by distillation or refining; the pre-hydrolysis and the subsequent synthesis preferably being carried out as a one-pot process in the same reactor and in the presence of the same enzyme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Ulrich Schoerken, Carolin Meyer, Sabine Both, Peter Horlacher
  • Publication number: 20050233426
    Abstract: Processes for the enzyme-catalyzed production of triglycerides using polyunsaturated fatty acids, in which (a) the reaction of polyunsaturated fatty acids and/or C1-4 alkyl esters thereof with glycerol in vacuo in the presence of an immobilized enzyme to form their triglycerides is accelerated by addition of an additive from the group of weakly basic salts, complexing agents and ion exchangers and/or addition of a weakly basic salt and/or addition of an entraining agent in the form of a solvent or a gas and/or addition of glycerol-binding adsorbers and/or heat treatment of the partial glyceride intermediate product, (b) the immobilized enzymes are removed from the triglyceride by separation or filtration and (c) the remaining fatty acids and/or C1-4 alkyl esters thereof are removed from the triglyceride by distillation, refining or extraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Ulrich Schoerken, Sabine Both, Carolin Meyer, Peter Horlacher
  • Publication number: 20050176977
    Abstract: Processes for preparing conjugated fatty acid glycerides comprising: (a) isomerizing a fatty acid lower alkyl ester corresponding to the general formula (I) in the presence of a basic catalyst at a temperature of from 100 to 160° C., to form a conjugated fatty acid lower alkyl ester: R1CO—OR2??(I) wherein R1CO represents an acyl radical having from 16 to 22 carbon atoms and at least two carbon-carbon unsaturations and R2 represents an alkyl radical having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and (b) transesterifying the conjugated fatty acid lower alkyl ester with glycerol to form a conjugated fatty acid glyceride, wherein a lower alkanol corresponding to the general formula R2OH is formed, wherein R2 is as defined above, and the lower alkanol is continuously removed from the transesterification reaction; are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Peter Horlacher, Franz Timmermann, Juergen Gierke, Karl-Heinz Ruf
  • Publication number: 20050171368
    Abstract: Processes for preparing conjugated linoleic acid triglycerides are described which comprise: (a) providing a conjugated linoleic acid alkyl ester, wherein the alkyl group is linear or branched and has from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; and (b) subjecting conjugated linoleic acid alkyl ester to transesterification with triacetin to provide a conjugated linoleic acid triglyceride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Alfred Westfechtel, Stefan Busch, Elke Grundt, Peter Horlacher
  • Patent number: 5208127
    Abstract: Photoconductive recording material which incorporates in an outermost layer a siloxane-copolymer including at least one polysiloxane block that is copolymerized with aromatic ester units or with aromatic carbonate units and aromatic ester units, wherein the polysiloxane block(s) consist(s) of 5 to 200 chemically bonded diorgano siloxy units in which the organic substituents are selected from the group consisting of an alkyl, an aralkyl, an alkaryl and an aryl group and said block(s) is (are) present in an amount by weight in the range 0.3% to 80% with respect to the total weight of said copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: David R. Terrell, Stefaan K. De Meutter, Peter Horlacher, Volker Serini, Ulrich Grigo
  • Patent number: 5208128
    Abstract: Photoconductive recording material which incorporates in an outermost layer a siloxane-copolymer including at least one polysiloxane block that is copolymerized with aromatic carbonate units, wherein the polysiloxane block(s) consist(s) of 5 to 200 chemically bonded diorgano siloxy units in which the organic substituents are selected from the group consisting of an alkyl, an aralkyl, an alkaryl and an aryl group, and said block(s) is (are) present in an amount by weight in the range of 0.3% to 6% with respect to the total weight of said copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: David R. Terrell, Stefaan K. De Meutter, Peter Horlacher, Volker Serini, Ulrich Grigo
  • Patent number: 5137971
    Abstract: A process for producing a graft copolymer is disclosed. The graft copolymer, based on a rubber which contains phenolic OH groups and grafted with polycarbonate chains is produced under the conditions of the two-phase interfacial polycondensation. Also disclosed are gasoline resistant thermoplastic polycarbonate compositions containing the graft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Dujardin, Richard Weider, Peter Horlacher, Werner Nouvertne
  • Patent number: 5112925
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of polydiorganosiloxane block copolycarbonates having special bridging members between the siloxane blocks and the carbonate blocks, and the polydiorganosiloxane block copolycarbonates which are obtainable by the process according to the invention and with which optionally further customary additives can be mixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Horlacher, Heinrich Hahnsen, Ulrich Grigo, William C. Bushong, Ottfried Schlak
  • Patent number: 5109076
    Abstract: Thermoplastic polydiorganosiloxane/polycarbonate block copolymers based on dihydroxydiphenylcycloalkanes corresponding to the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represent hydrogen, halogen, preferably chlorine or bromine, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl, C.sub.5 or C.sub.6 cycloalkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.10 aryl or C.sub.7 -C.sub.12 aralkyl, preferably phenyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, in particular benzyl: m represents an integer of from 4 to 7, preferably 4 or 5;R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may be chosen individually for each X and independently represent hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl; andX represents carbon; with the proviso that R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 both represent alkyl on at least one atom X,having an average molecular weight M.sub.w (weight average) of 10 000 to 300 000, a content of aromatic polycarbonate of 21 to 99.5% by weight and a content of polyorganosiloxane of 79 to 0.5% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Freitag, Uwe Westeppe, Alfred Jung, Peter Horlacher, Gunther Weymans, Ulrich Grigo, Leo Morbitzer, Karsten-Josef Idel
  • Patent number: 5100960
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermoplastic molding composition comprising(A) from 10 to 98 parts by weight of a polydiorganosiloxane-polycarbonate block copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 10,000 to 200,000 and containing from 75 to 97.5 wt. % of aromatic carbonate structural units and from 25 to 2.5 wt. % of polydiorganosiloxane structural units;(B) from 2 to 90 parts by weight of a thermoplastic, aromatic polycarbonate having a weight average molecular weight of at least 10,000, andcontaining bifunctional carbonate structural units corresponding to ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represent hydrogen, halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.6 cycloalkyl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 aryl or C.sub.7 -C.sub.12 aralkyl;m represents an integer of from 4 to 7,R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be selected individually for each X, independently represent hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl; andx represents carbon,with the proviso that, on at least one atom X, R.sup.3 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Grigo, Peter Horlacher, Dieter Freitag, Karsten-Josef Idel, Uwe Westeppe, Wolfgang Beer, Werner Nouvertne
  • Patent number: 5068302
    Abstract: Polydiorganosiloxane-polycarbonate block copolymers based on dihydrodiphenylcycloalkanes corresponding to formula (I) ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2 independently of one another represent hydrogen, halogen, preferably chlorine or bromine, C.sub.1-8 alkyl, C.sub.5-6 cycloalkyl, C.sub.6-10 aryl and C.sub.7-12 aralkyl, preferably phenyl-C.sub.1-4 -alkyl, more especially benzyl,n=2 or 3 andthe substituents R.sup.5 independently of one another are hydrogen or C.sub.1-12 alkyl, with the proviso that at least one of the substituents R.sup.5 is not hydrogen,having an average molecular weight M.sub.w (weight average) in the range from 10,000 to 300,000 (as measured by ultracentrifugation or scattered light measurement) and a content of carbonate containing dihydroxydiphenylcycloalkanes of formula I and, optionally, other diphenols in co-condensed form of from 75% by weight of 99.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Horlacher, Volker Serini, Dieter Freitag, Ulrich Grigo, Karsten-Josef Idel, Uwe Westeppe
  • Patent number: 5026758
    Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compositions of polycarbonate, polyalkylene terephthalate, special barium sulfate and, optionally, elastomers are distinguished from known molding compositions of polycarbonate, polyalkylene terephthalate and elastomers by improved heat resistance and toughness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Grigo, Jurgen Kirsch, Dieter Wittmann, Karsten-Josef Idel, Peter Horlacher