Patents by Inventor Ulrich Muller

Ulrich Muller 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: 10766781
    Abstract: A process for preparing a tin-containing zeolitic material having framework type BEA, comprising providing an aqueous synthesis mixture comprising a boron source, a silicon source, and a BEA structure directing agent; subjecting the synthesis mixture provided in to hydrothermal pre-crystallization conditions; adding the tin source to the obtained mixture; subjecting the obtained aqueous synthesis mixture to hydrothermal crystallization conditions, obtaining a tin-containing zeolitic material having framework type BEA comprised in its mother liquor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Nicolas Vautravers, Ulrich Müller
  • Patent number: 10737944
    Abstract: An incipient wetness impregnation method for preparing a tin-containing zeolitic material having framework type BEA, a novel tin-containing zeolitic material having framework type BEA and its use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Nicolas Vautravers, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Ralf Pelzer, Daniel Schneider, Florian Garlichs, Andreas Keller, Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Ulrich Müller, Sumana Roy
  • Patent number: 10737239
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in form of a homogenous powder, and a process wherein the metal-organic framework is molded into shaped bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Julia Burckhart, Stefan Marx, Lena Arnold, Claus Hofmann, Ulrich Müller
  • Patent number: 10716644
    Abstract: A dental instrument comprising a shaft and a working part adjoined thereto, with the working part having a coating in which abrasive bodies are embedded, is proposed, Firstly, the average proportion of the surface of the abrasive bodies which is covered by the coating can be at least 60%, preferably at least 65%, most preferably at least 70%. Secondly, the coating can, moreover, also consist of a nickel ahoy which additionally contains at least one element selected from the group consisting of titanium, vanadium, niobium, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, manganese, iron and cobalt. In addition, a process for coating a working part, in particular for producing a dental instrument of this type, and also the use of such a dental instrument for cutting machining of solid bodies are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: COLTÈNE/WHALEDENT AG
    Inventors: Ralf Kollefrath, Ulrich Müller, Martin Schlüter
  • Publication number: 20200140354
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the conversion of methanol in p-xylene comprising the use a molding which comprises a zeolitic material, phosphorous, one or more metals M of the groups 3, 6, 10 to 14 of the periodic system of the elements, and a binder material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Robert MCGUIRE, Christiane KURETSCHKA, Sven TITLBACH, Ekkehard SCHWAB, Ulrich MÜLLER
  • Patent number: 10618244
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tube product (1) with a base tube (10) made of a steel alloy with an inner circumference surface and an outer circumference surface, wherein the base tube (10) has a coating system (100) on at least part of the circumference surfaces, which has the following layer structure: zinc layer (11) with a predominant zinc portion; passivation layer (12), which is Cr-VI-free; sealing layer (13) characterized in that the zinc layer (11) comprises at least three tiers (110), the sealing layer (13) has organic compounds which are based on plastics and the sealing layer (13) on the passivation layer (12) has a layer thickness between 0.5 and 15 ?m. Furthermore the invention relates to a method for manufacturing such tube product (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Benteler Steel/Tube GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Müller
  • Publication number: 20200087246
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the conversion of ethylene oxide to 2-aminoethanol and/or ethane-1,2-diamme and/or linear polyethylenimines of the formula H2N—(CH2CH2NH)n—CH2CH2—NH2 wherein n?1 comprising (i) providing a catalyst comprising a zeolitic material comprising YO2 and X2O3, wherein Y is a tetravalent element and X is a trivalent element; (ii) providing a gas stream comprising ethylene oxide and ammonia; (iii) contacting the catalyst provided in (i) with the gas stream provided in (ii) for converting ethylene oxide to 2-aminoethanol and/or ethane-1,2-diamine and/or linear polyethylenimines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Alvaro GORDILLO, Andrei-Nicolae PARVULESCU, Armin LANGE DE OLIVEIRA, Andreas KUSCHEL, Juergen BECHTEL, Johannes LIEBERKNECHT, Ulrich MÜLLER, Johann-Peter MELDER, Christian GRUENANGER
  • Publication number: 20200081601
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive control device for a motor vehicle, with a control surface; a detection unit which is configured to detect a space-resolved deflection of the control surface; a control unit which is configured to distinguish a characteristic of a deflection of the control surface due to a force exerted on the control surface purely with at least one finger from a characteristic of a deflection of the control surface due to an acceleration acting on the entire control surface. On the basis of this, the force exerted on the control surface purely with the finger, as well as to trigger a function as a function of the determined force exerted purely with the finger is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ulrich MÜLLER, Michael STÜTZEL
  • Patent number: 10545659
    Abstract: A number of objects simultaneously touching a touch-sensitive operator control unit of an operator control apparatus are detected and a trigger position at which one of the number of objects detected touches the touch-sensitive operator control unit is determined. When more than one object touches the touch-sensitive operator control unit, a touch pressure with which the touch-sensitive operator control unit is acted on overall by the number of objects detected is compared to a predefined pressure threshold value. A function of the motor vehicle, assigned to the trigger position, is triggered if the touch pressure is higher than the predefined pressure threshold value. The predefined pressure threshold value is defined in a manner dependent on the number of objects detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Müller, Michael Wachinger, Tim Krämer
  • Publication number: 20190389794
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the conversion of 2-aminoethanol to ethane-1,2-diamine and/or linear polyethylenimines of the formula H2N—[CH2CH2NH]n—CH2CH2NH2 wherein n?1 comprising: (i) providing a catalyst comprising a zeolitic material having the MOR framework structure comprising YO2 and X2O3, wherein Y is a tetravalent element and X is a trivalent element, said zeolitic material containing copper as extra-framework ions; (ii) providing a gas stream comprising 2-aminoethanol and ammonia; (iii) contacting the catalyst provided in (i) with the gas stream provided in (ii) for converting 2-aminoethanol to ethane-1,2-diamine and/or linear polyethylenimines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae PARVULESCU, Alvaro GORDILLO, Marie Katrin SCHROETER, Johann-Peter MELDER, Juergen BECHTEL, Thomas HEIDEMANN, Stephan A. SCHUNK, Ulrich MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20190308929
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the conversion of ethane-1,2-diol to ethane-1,2-diamine and/or linear polyethylenimines of the formula H2N—[CH2CH2NH]n—CH2CH2NH2 wherein n?1 comprising (i) providing a catalyst comprising a zeolitic material comprising YO2 and X2O3, wherein Y is a tetravalent element and X is a trivalent element, wherein the zeolitic material is selected from the group consisting of zeolitic materials having the MOR, FAU, CHA and/or GME framework structure, including combinations of two or more thereof; (ii) providing a gas stream comprising ethane-1,2-diol and ammonia; (iii) contacting the catalyst provided in (i) with the gas stream provided in (ii) for converting ethane-1,2-diol to ethane-1,2-diamine and/or linear polyethylenimines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae PARVULESCU, Alvaro GORDILLO, Marie Katrin SCHROETER, Johann-Peter MELDER, Juergen BECHTEL, Thomas HEIDEMANN, Stephan A. SCHUNK, Ulrich MÜLLER
  • Patent number: 10422480
    Abstract: The invention is related to a storage vessel (1) comprising a shaped body (3) of a porous solid, wherein the storage vessel (1) comprises a wall (5) with a section (7) comprising at least one inlet (9), wherein the storage vessel (1) has a central axis (11) and the central axis (11) is a longitudinal axis of the storage vessel (1) and/or perpendicular to a cross-sectional area of the at least one inlet (9), wherein the shaped body (3) covers at least 85% of an inner volume (13) of the storage vessel (1) and the shaped body (3) comprises an opening (19) in an axial direction (17), axial referring to the central axis (11) of the storage vessel (1), wherein the opening (19) extends from a first end (21) of the shaped body (3) to an opposing second end (23) of the shaped body (3) and wherein the storage vessel (1) comprises exactly one shaped body (3), which is formed in one piece. The invention is further related to a shaped body and use of the shaped body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Weickert, Stefan Marx, Ulrich Müller, Lena Arnold, Adam Lack, Joseph Lynch, William Dolan, Michael Santamaria
  • Patent number: 10331213
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive surface is provided on an operator control device that includes a way to detect a force applied by a user to at least one area of the touch-sensitive surface. An actuator generates haptic feedback to the user when the force applied exceeds a threshold value. An evaluation unit of the operator control device determines a time-related gradient of the force and changes the threshold value of the force according to the time-related gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Müller, Manuel Kühner
  • Patent number: 10315924
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a zeolitic material having a CHA-type framework structure comprising YO2 and X2O3, wherein said process comprises the steps of: (1) providing a mixture comprising one or more sources for YO2, one or more sources for X2O3, one or more tetraalkylammonium cation R1R2R3R4N+-containing compounds, and one or more tetraalkylammonium cation R5R6R7R8N+-containing compounds as structure directing agent; (2) crystallizing the mixture obtained in step (1) for obtaining a zeolitic material having a CHA-type framework structure; wherein Y is a tetravalent element and X is a trivalent element, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and R7 independently from one another stand for alkyl, and wherein R8 stands for cycloalkyl, as well as to zeolitic materials which may be obtained according to the inventive process and to their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Mathias Feyen, Jeff Yang, Roger Ruetz, Ulrich Müller
  • Patent number: 10301185
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a zeolitic material comprising YO2 in its framework structure, wherein Y stands for a tetravalent element, wherein said process comprises the steps of: (1) providing a mixture comprising one or more sources for YO2, one or more fluoride containing compounds, and one or more structure directing agents; (2) crystallizing the mixture obtained in step (1) for obtaining a zeolitic material comprising YO2 in its framework structure; wherein the mixture provided in step (1) and crystallized in step (2) contains 35 wt.-% or less of H2O based on 100 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Maurer, Ulrich Müller, Feng-Shou Xiao, Xiangju Meng, Qinming Wu
  • Patent number: 10266417
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a zeolitic material comprising the steps of: (1) providing a mixture comprising one or more sources for YO2 and one or more alkenyltrialkylammonium cation R1R2R3R4N+-containing compounds as structure directing agent; and (2) crystallizing the mixture obtained in step (1) to obtain a zeolitic material; wherein Y is a tetravalent element, and wherein R1, R2, and R3 independently from one another stand for alkyl; and R4 stands for alkenyl, as well as to zeolitic materials which may be obtained according to the inventive process and to their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Mathias Feyen, Ulrich Müller, Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Bernd Bastian Schaack, Sebastian Ahrens, Dirk Gerhard, Sunghee Son, Gabriele Iffland, Bianca Seelig
  • Patent number: 10202324
    Abstract: A process for preparing 2,6-dimethyl-5-heptenal, comprising oxidizing citral of which more than 50% are present as geranial with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a catalyst comprising a Baeyer-Villiger oxidation catalyst, preferably a tin-containing molecular sieve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Nicolas Vautravers, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Ralf Pelzer, Daniel Schneider, Florian Garlichs, Andreas Keller, Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Ulrich Müller
  • Patent number: 10202323
    Abstract: A process for preparing an arylpropene from a diarylpropane by gas phase thermolysis in the presence of boron containing zeolitic material comprising a membered ring (MR) pore system greater than 10 MR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Ulrich Müller, Thomas Fenlon, Sumana Chaturvedula, Stefan Rüdenauer, Andreas Lanver, Ralf Pelzer, Klaus Ebel
  • Publication number: 20190002326
    Abstract: A glass element is manufactured by a deep-drawing process with a plurality of surface regions marked by corresponding structure elements in the glass element such that they can be haptically sensed. A respective operator control input can be made by touching the surface regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Manuel KÜHNER, Michael WACHINGER, Ulrich MÜLLER
  • Patent number: 10160656
    Abstract: Described is a preparation method for zeolite molecular sieves by means of solid-state reactions without the usage of organic templates. The method comprises the following steps: grinding and mixing the solid raw materials comprising the silicon source, the aluminum source and the alkali source, transferring the obtained mixture into an autoclave, conducting the crystallization for a period of 5 hours-20 days at a temperature of 50-200° C. After filtering and drying the crystallized products, molecular sieves in a powder form can be obtained. The method provides different molecular sieves, including ZSM-5 zeolite, Beta zeolite, FAU zeolite, MOR zeolite, LTA zeolite, and GIS zeolite, with a high crystallinity and an adjustable Si/Al ratio within a certain range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Maurer, Ulrich Müller, Feng-Shou Xiao, Xiangju Meng, Qinming Wu