Patents by Inventor Ulrich Wietelmann

Ulrich Wietelmann 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: 20150010826
    Abstract: The invention relates to particulate lithium metal composite materials, stabilized by alloy-forming elements of the third and fourth primary group of the PSE and method for production thereof by reaction of lithium metal with film-forming element precursors of the general formulas (I) or (II): [AR1R2R3R4]Lix (I), or R1R2R3A-O-AR4R5R6 (II), wherein: R1R2R3R4R5R6=alkyl (C1-C12), aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy-, or halogen (F, Cl, Br, I), independently of each other; or two groups R represent together a 1,2-diolate (1,2-ethandiolate, for example), a 1,2- or 1,3-dicarboxylate (oxalate or malonate, for example) or a 2-hydroxycarboxylate dianion (lactate or salicylate, for example); the groups R1 to R6 can comprise additional functional groups, such as alkoxy groups; A=boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, thallium, silicon, germanium, tin, lead; x=0 or 1 for B, Al, Ga, In, Tl; x=0 for Si, Ge, Sn, Pb; in the case that x=0 and A=B, Al, Ga, In, Tl, R4 is omitted, or with polymers comprising one or more of the elements B, Al, Ga,
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Christoph Hartnig, Ute Emmel
  • Publication number: 20140322612
    Abstract: A particulate lithium metal/lithium sulfide composite material, to a method for producing a Li2S@C-coated lithium metal product, and to the use of said lithium metal product. The particulate lithium metal/lithium sulfide composite material has a core-shell morphology, the shell of which is made of a lithium sulfide containing C and the core of which is made of metal lithium. According to the method, the particulate lithium metal/lithium sulfide composite material is produced by reacting melted, drop-shaped lithium metal in a hydrocarbon solvent with a sulfur source selected from the group CS2, S8, H2S, COS, SO, SO2 or mixtures thereof. The method products according to the invention are used to produce lithium battery electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Ute Emmel, Christoph Hartnig, Sebastian Lang
  • Patent number: 8846879
    Abstract: The present invention relates to lithium salt-containing rare earth halide solutions in aprotic solvents, processes for production thereof and also use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Chemetall GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Wietelmann
  • Publication number: 20140288331
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing metal difluorochelatoborates, in which a metal bis(chelato)borate of the formula M[BL2] is reacted with boron trifluoride and a metal fluoride (MF) and/or a metal salt of the chelating ligand (M2L) where M+ is a monovalent cation selected from the group consisting of lithium, sodium, potassium and ammonium NR4+, where R?H, alkyl (C1 to C8) and L is a chelating agent having two terminal oxygen atoms and having the general formula (II), where: when m=1 and Y1 and Y2 together with C1 form a carbonyl group, n=0 or 1 and o=0 or 1 and R1 and R2 are each, independently of one another, H or alkyl having from one to eight carbon atoms (C1-C8) and Y3, Y4 are each, independently of one another, OR3 (R3?C1-C8-alkyl), then n or o?1: p=0 or 1 and when n and o=0, p=1; or Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4 are each, independently of one another, OR3 (R3?C1-C8-alkyl), m=1, n=0 or 1, o=1 and p=0; or C2 and C3 are members of a 5- or 6-membered aromatic or heteroaromatic ring (with N, O or S as heter
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Peter Rittmeyer, Ute Emmel
  • Patent number: 8840805
    Abstract: The invention relates to a solution of lithium aluminum hydride in 2-methyltetrahydrofuran or a solvent mixture containing 2-methyltetrahydrofuran, a method for producing said solution and use of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Chemetall GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Lischka, Alexander Murso, Ulrich Wietelmann
  • Publication number: 20140194626
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing amido-zinc halides as adducts with alkali-metal halides (R1R2N—ZnY*LiY) in aprotic organic solvents, in which a) a primary or secondary amine dissolved in an aprotic organic solvent is provided, b) a lithium base (RxLi) is added in a metered manner, and c) a ZnY2 is subsequently added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: ROCKWOOD LITHIUM GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Peter Rittmeyer, Uwe Lischka, Alexander Murso, Florian Kiefer
  • Publication number: 20140124708
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel method for producing a carbon-doped lithium sulfide powder, according to which elementary lithium is reacted with elementary sulfur and/or a sulfur-containing compound selected from the group containing CS2, COS, SO2 and SO, in a liquid state, in a hydrocarbon solvent except naphthalene. The products of the method according to the invention are used to produce lithium battery electrodes or a lithium-ion-conducting solid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Chemetall GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Wietelmann
  • Publication number: 20140110635
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel method for producing a carbon-doped lithium sulfide powder, according to which elementary lithium is reacted with elementary sulfur and/or a sulfur-containing compound selected from the group containing CS2, COS, SO2 and SO, in a liquid state, in an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon solvent. The products of the method according to the invention are used to produce lithium battery electrodes or a lithium-ion-conducting solid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventor: Ulrich Wietelmann
  • Publication number: 20140084224
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel process for preparing lithium sulfide and to the use thereof, wherein a reaction of lithium-containing strong bases with hydrogen sulfide is undertaken in an aprotic organic solvent within the temperature range from ?20 to 120° C. under inert conditions. The lithium sulfide obtained by the process is used as a positive material in a galvanic element or for the synthesis of Li ion-conductive solids, especially for the synthesis of glasses, glass ceramics or crystalline products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: CHEMETALL GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Rittmeyer, Ulrich Wietelmann, Uwe Lischka, Dieter Hauk, Bernhard Füger, Armin Stoll, Dirk Dawidowski
  • Publication number: 20130303785
    Abstract: A crystalline, completely soluble lithium bis(oxalato)horate (LiBOB), to a method for producing the same and to the use of the lithium bis(oxalato)borate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Rainer Dietz, Ulrich Wietelmann, Uwe Lischka, Thorsten Buhrmester, Klaus Schade
  • Publication number: 20130296161
    Abstract: This invention relates to low-viscosity, concentrated complex solutions containing magnesium, which are produced by reacting a magnesium alkoside with a carboxylic acid halogenide in a hydrocarbon-based solvent, and to a method for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: ROCKWOOD LITHIUM GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Jens Röder, Ute Emmel
  • Publication number: 20130181160
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stabilized lithium metal powder and to a method for producing the same, the stabilized, pure lithium metal powder having been passivated in an organic inert solvent under dispersal conditions with fatty acids or fatty acid esters according to the general formula (I) R—COOR?, in which R stands for C10-C29 groups and R? for H or C1-C8 groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: Chemetall GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Wietelmann
  • Publication number: 20130142721
    Abstract: The invention relates to solutions of Lewis acids selected from the halogen-containing Lewis acids of the elements of groups 12 and 13 from the periodic table of elements, or mixtures of said Lewis acids, in aprotic, asymmetrically substituted ethers or in solvent mixtures that contain asymmetrically substituted ethers and hydrocarbons, to the production of the solutions according to the invention, and to the use in inorganic, organic and organometallic syntheses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: Chemetall GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Alexander Murso, Sebastian Lang
  • Publication number: 20130122318
    Abstract: A surface-passivated lithium metal, which has a composite top layer containing or consisting of at least two poorly soluble components containing lithium. Production of the surface-passivated lithium metal such that lithium metal below 180° C., thus in the solid state, is transformed into an inert, aprotic solvent with a passivating agent of the general formula Li[P(C2O4)?x/2 Fx] where x=0, 2, or 4 is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: Chemetall GMBH
    Inventor: Ulrich Wietelmann
  • Publication number: 20130062575
    Abstract: Metal imide compounds as anode materials for lithium batteries and galvanic elements with a high storage capacity. Metal imide compounds as highly capacitive anode materials for lithium batteries. The invention relates to a galvanic element, an anode material for use in a galvanic element and method for producing an active electrode material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: CHEMETALL GMBH
    Inventor: Ulrich Wietelmann
  • Patent number: 8318987
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of lithium alcoholates solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Chemetall GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Dawidowski, Ulrich Wietelmann, Peter Rittmeyer
  • Publication number: 20120288753
    Abstract: A hydride anode containing aluminium of the formula (M1)m(M2)3-mAlH6, where M1 and M2 are an alkali element selected independently from one another from Li, Na and K; m is a number between 1 and 3; n is a number ?3, and galvanic elements, such as lithium batteries, containing as anodes said hydride anodes containing aluminum. Methods for the production of galvanic elements having hydride anodes containing aluminium is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventor: Ulrich Wietelmann
  • Publication number: 20120225356
    Abstract: A galvanic element containing a substantially transition metal-free oxygen-containing conversion electrode, a transition metal-containing cathode, and an aprotic lithium electrolyte. The substantially transition metal-free oxygen-containing conversion. electrode materials contain lithium hydroxide and/or lithium peroxide and/or lithium oxide, and in the charged state additionally contain lithium hydride, and are contained in a galvanic element, for example a lithium battery, as the anode. Methods for producing substantially transition metal-free oxygen-containing conversion electrode materials and galvanic elements made of substantially transition metal-free oxygen-containing conversion electrode materials are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventor: Ulrich Wietelmann
  • Publication number: 20120214057
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention are transition-metal-free nitrogen-containing hydride anodes of the general formula LioNH3-o, where o=1, 2 or 3, and wherein said transition-metal-free nitrogen-containing hydride anodes, in the charged state, are mixed with lithium hydride, and electrochemical elements, for example lithium batteries, which contain said transition-metal-free nitrogen-containing hydride anodes as the anode. The invention also describes methods for producing transition-metal-free nitrogen-containing hydride anode materials and electrochemical elements comprising transition-metal-free nitrogen-containing hydride anodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventor: Ulrich Wietelmann
  • Patent number: 8222457
    Abstract: A coordination compound of an element of the boron group, the production of the compound and methods of using the compound as an additive, stabilizer, catalyst, co-catalyst, activator for catalyst systems, conductivity improver, and electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Chemetall GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfram Lerner, Jens Röder, Hannes Vitze, Matthias Wagner, Ulrich Wietelmann