Patents by Inventor Robert Rupaner
Robert Rupaner 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: 11879108Abstract: The present invention relates to a middle-pressure polymerization process for the preparation of a liquid ethylene copolymer which comprises in polymerized form 20 to 60 wt % of ethylene; and at least 20 wt % of an acrylate, which is selected from C1-C22 alkyl (meth)acrylate, where a monomer mix comprising the ethylene and the acrylate is polymerized at a pressure of 50 to 400 bar and in the presence of at least 2 wt % of a chain transfer agent. The invention further relates to a liquid ethylene copolymer obtainable by the polymerization process; and to a lubricant comprising the liquid ethylene copolymer obtainable by the polymerization process; and to a method for reducing friction between moving surfaces comprising the step of contacting the surfaces with the lubricant or with the ethylene copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Ivette Garcia Castro, Wolfgang Grabarse, Jan Strittmatter, Rene Koschabek, Robert Rupaner
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Publication number: 20220177799Abstract: The present invention relates to a middle-pressure polymerization process for the preparation of a liquid ethylene copolymer which comprises in polymerized form 20 to 60 wt % of ethylene; and at least 20 wt % of an acrylate, which is selected from C1-C22 alkyl (meth)acrylate, where a monomer mix comprising the ethylene and the acrylate is polymerized at a pressure of 50 to 400 bar and in the presence of at least 2 wt % of a chain transfer agent. The invention further relates to a liquid ethylene copolymer obtainable by the polymerization process; and to a lubricant comprising the liquid ethylene copolymer obtainable by the polymerization process; and to a method for reducing friction between moving surfaces comprising the step of contacting the surfaces with the lubricant or with the ethylene copolymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Ivette GARCIA CASTRO, Wolfgang GRABARSE, Jan STRITTMATTER, Rene KOSCHABEK, Robert RUPANER
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Publication number: 20140083654Abstract: An apparatus for heating or cooling a meltable material in a container, comprising a heating element (10) and a holding device (20), the heating element (10) being of a tubular design, with an inflow opening (11) and an outflow opening (12) for a heat transfer medium to flow through, and being fastened to the holding device (20) movably in at least one spatial direction as the main direction of movement, wherein the apparatus also has a stirrer (30) for mixing liquid material through, which is likewise arranged movably in the main direction of movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Ralf BUCH, Waldemar MUENCH, Robert RUPANER
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Patent number: 8420751Abstract: Provided is a method for performing a polymerization process in a stirred reactor, wherein a critical time window is determined by means of a monitor of at least one polymerization process parameter and an associated process window, and when a critical time window is present, an adaptation of process conditions is made in order to configure the polymerization process to conform to the process window.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2012Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Ilshat Gubaydullin, Karl-Heinz Wassmer, Robert Rupaner, Jochen Kessler, Guillermo Arens, Gerald Wildburg, Christian Magin, Wolfgang Huemmer, Lambertus Manders, Rudolf Schuhmacher, Oliver Birkert
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Publication number: 20120237403Abstract: Provided is a method for performing a polymerization process in a stirred reactor, wherein a critical time window is determined by means of a monitor of at least one polymerization process parameter and an associated process window, and when a critical time window is present, an adaptation of process conditions is made in order to configure the polymerization process to conform to the process window.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Ilshat Gubaydullin, Karl-Heinz Waßmer, Robert Rupaner, Jochen Keßler, Guillermo Arens, Gerald Wildburg, Christian Magin, Wolfgang Hümmer, Lambertus Manders, Rudolf Schuhmacher, Oliver Birkert
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Patent number: 8188197Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for performing a polymerization process in a stirred reactor, wherein a critical time window is determined by means of a monitor of at least one polymerization process parameter and an associated process window, and when a critical time window is present, an adaptation of process conditions is made in order to configure the polymerization process to conform to the process window.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Ilshat Gubaydullin, Karl-Heinz Wassmer, Robert Rupaner, Jochen Kessler, Guillermo Arens, Gerald Wildburg, Christian Magin, Wolfgang Huemmer, Lambertus Manders, Rudolf Schuhmacher, Oliver Birkert
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Publication number: 20120121921Abstract: Use of an aqueous polymer dispersion comprising at least one polymer (P), obtainable by free radical emulsion polymerization of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer (M1) and from 20 to 75% by weight of tert-butyl (meth)acrylate, as a binder in construction chemistry products.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Audrey Cosyns, Sebastian Roller, Alexandre Terrenoire, Roland Baumstark, Ekkehard Jahns, Robert Rupaner
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Publication number: 20100261853Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for performing a polymerization process in a stirred reactor, wherein a critical time window is determined by means of a monitor of at least one polymerization process parameter and an associated process window, and when a critical time window is present, an adaptation of process conditions is made in order to configure the polymerization process to conform to the process window.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2008Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Ilshat Gubaydullin, Karl-Heinz Wassmer, Robert Rupaner, Jochen Kessler, Guillermo Arens, Gerald Wildburg, Christian Magin, Wolfgang Huemmer, Lambertus Manders, Rudolf Schuhmacher, Oliver Birkert
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Patent number: 6596386Abstract: A formaldehyde-free aqueous binder comprising A) a free-radically polymerized polymer containing from 5 to 100% by weight of units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated acid anhydride or from an ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid whose carboxyl groups can form an anhydride group, and B) an alkanolamine having at least two hydroxyl groups, is useful as binder for renewable raw materials in the form of fibers or chips to produce shaped articles.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2000Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernd Reck, Eckehardt Wistuba, Wilhelm Friedrich Beckerle, Axel Kistenmacher, Robert Rupaner, Rainer Hummerich
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Patent number: 6462138Abstract: A process is described for reducing the residual monomer content in a liquid solution, mixture, melt, suspension or dispersion of a polymer by postpolymerization with addition of a redox initiator system at a reaction temperature appropriate to it and with an extremely short mixing time of the liquid system in the production reactor by metering—gradually, in portions or continuously—at least one of the redox initiator components required to initiate polymerization of the residual monomers over a period (metering time) which is from about 10 to 250 times the mixing time of the liquid system in said reactor.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2000Date of Patent: October 8, 2002Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Rupaner, Sven Lawrenz, Johannes Dobbelaar, Gerhard Bauer, Franz-Josef Mueseler, Werner Kirchner, Bradley Ronald Morrison, Jürgen Nahstoll, Martin Meister, Reinhard Bächer, Wolfgang Hübinger, Gerhard Schumacher
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Patent number: 6458230Abstract: A process for preparing recyclable fiber composites, comprising bonding fibers with a polymeric bonding agent applied as an aqueous polymer dispersion to said fibers, the polymeric bonding agent comprising at least one addition polymer which, in the state of an aqueous dispersion, has a film forming capability at the temperature at which the addition polymer is combined with said fibers, and said aqueous polymer dispersion, when subjected to a change in pH, is converted into an aqueous solution of the addition polymer. The aqueous addition polymer of the addition polymer dispersion can contain protic acid groups, and the state of the dispersion can be converted to an aqueous addition polymer solution by raising the pH of the aqueous medium. Alternatively, the addition polymer may contain basic groups, in particular, amino groups, and its state as a dispersion can be converted into an aqueous addition polymer resolution by lowering the pH of the aqueous medium.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1996Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Rupaner, Karl-Heinz Schumacher, Werner Kirchner, Bradley Ronald Morrison, Roland Offner, Hermann Seyffer
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Patent number: 6444760Abstract: A process is described for effectively reducing the residual monomer content of an aqueous polymer dispersion by aftertreatment at atmospheric pressure or above with an initiator system comprising a) a hydroperoxide, hydrogen peroxide or a peracid, and b) an &agr;-hydroxy carboxylic acid, such as tartaric acid, or with a salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Rupaner, Gerhard Bauer, Sven Lawrenz, Claudia Heibel, Johannes Dobbelaar
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Patent number: 6428199Abstract: A reactor for chemical reactions, especially polymerization reactions, and in particular a reactor for emulsion, suspension, solution, bulk and/or precipitation polymerizations, which has a stirring mechanism, incoming and outgoing lines and a removable lid, and where both the stirring mechanism and incoming and outgoing lines are installed on the reactor floor. The novel reactor is quick and easy to open and clean and permits simple and rapid changeover of the installed stirring elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1998Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Rupaner, Sven Lawrenz, Gerhard Bauer
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Patent number: 6380353Abstract: Organic compounds containing —CH2—CHR—O— and/or —CH2—CH(OH)— groupings (R=H, C1-C4-alkyl) produce, under the action of free radicals, small amounts of C1-C2-aldehydes, the content of which can be reduced to <1 ppm according to the novel process by adding compounds which can react with the aldehyde groups. The materials containing said groupings include many emulsifiers and protective colloids used in polymer chemistry, such as polyethylene glycols, polyvinyl alcohols or ethoxylation products of long-chain alcohols, phenols or amines. The process is of particular importance for the treatment of polymer dispersions which have been prepared by free-radical polymerization of monomers in the presence of such emulsifiers or protective colloids, and permits the preparation of aldehyde-free polymer dispersions and their use for sanitary and hygiene articles.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2000Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Rupaner, Martin Scholtissek, Karl-Heinz Schumacher, Maximilian Angel
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Patent number: 6337131Abstract: Disclosed are core-shell particles, whose core and shell materials are capable of forming a two-phase system, the shell material being filmable, the core being essentially form-stable under shell-filming conditions and being only very minimally swellable by the shell material, if at all, the cores having a monodisperse size distribution, and there being a difference between the refractive indices of the core material and of the shell material of at least 0.001. Also disclosed are the preparation of the core-shell particles and their use for preparing effect colorants.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 1999Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Rupaner, Reinhold J Leyrer, Peter Schuhmacher
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Patent number: 6252018Abstract: At least one single-stage or multistage stirrer which produces not only a tangential flow component but also an axial flow field is used in a stirred-vessel reactor in connection with the preparation of polymers by liquid phase polymerization.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1998Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Robert Rupaner, Sven Lawrenz, Gerhard Bauer, Johannes Dobbelaar, Jürgen Nahstoll, Franz-Josef Mueseler, Axel Ferber, Jürgen Hartmann, Peter Keller, Martin Meister, Josef Neutzner, Gerd Rehmer
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Patent number: 6146746Abstract: The use of a formaldehyde-free aqueous binder comprisingA) a polymer obtained by free-radical polymerization comprising 5-100% by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated acid anhydride or of an ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid whose carboxyl groups may form an anhydride group, andB) an alkanolamine having at least two hydroxyl groupsas a coating composition for shaped articles.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1998Date of Patent: November 14, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernd Reck, Eckehardt Wistuba, Wilhelm Friedrich Beckerle, Axel Kistenmacher, Robert Rupaner, Rainer Hummerich
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Patent number: 6099773Abstract: A method for forming shaped products by mixing a formaldehyde-free aqueous binder comprising A) a free-radically polymerized polymer containing from 5 to 100% by weight of units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated acid anhydride or from an ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid whose carboxyl group can form an anhydride group, and B) an alkanolamine having at least two hydroxyl groups, with fibers or chips to form a shaped article, wherein said binder has a property of drying at 50.degree. C. in 72 hours to a film from 0.3 to 1 mm in thickness and, following a subsequent 15 minute cure at 130.degree. C. in air, has a gel content of above 50% by weight, wherein the binder includes less than 0.1% by weight, based on A)+B), of a phosphorus-containing reaction accelerant with fibers or chips.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 1998Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernd Reck, Eckehardt Wistuba, Wilhelm Friedrich Beckerle, Axel Kistenmacher, Robert Rupaner, Rainer Hummerich
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Patent number: 6086723Abstract: A process for deodorizing and subsequently cooling dispersions or liquids comprisinga) passing steam through the dispersion or liquid to be cooled and held in a vessel (1), said dispersion or liquid being caused to foam up as a result,b) discharging the foam from the top section of the vessel via a nozzle (5) into an evacuated separation vessel (4), the foam being broken in the process,c) condensing the water vapor formed from the foam in a heat exchanger (8) and removing volatile organic components at the same time, andd) returning the broken foam to the vessel (1),in which the steps a) to d) are performed until the dispersion or liquid has been deodorized to the desired extent, wherein, after completion of the deodorization (in accordance with steps a) to d)), the hot dispersion or liquid is discharged from the bottom section of the vessel (1) through the nozzle (5) into the evacuated separation vessel (4), so that the dispersion or the liquid is cooled, the nozzle (5) and the evacuated separation vessel (4Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1998Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Wolfgang Hubinger, Rainer Wunder, Gerhard Bauer, Johannes Dobbelaar, Sven Lawrenz, Franz-Josef Mueseler, Jurgen Nahstoll, Robert Rupaner, Christian-Ulrich Schmidt
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Patent number: 5756574Abstract: A process for the preparation of an aqueous polymer emulsion, in which an aqueous emulsion of a polymer which contains at least one chemically bonded monomer having at least one ethylenically unsaturated group is produced in a manner known per se so that the total content of free monomers having at least one ethylenically unsaturated double bond, ie. monomers of this type which are not chemically bonded, in the aqueous polymer emulsion is from >0 to .ltoreq.1% by weight, based on the polymer content of the aqueous polymer emulsion, and this residual monomer content is then reduced by the action of a free radical redox initiator system comprising at least one oxidizing agent and at least one reducing agent, wherein the redox initiator system comprises, as the reducing agent, one which is present, in aqueous solution, in at least two tautomeric forms in equilibrium with one another (for example aminoiminomethanesulfinic acid and/or the salts thereof).Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1997Date of Patent: May 26, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Roland Baumstark, Robert Rupaner