Patents by Inventor Volker Schwendemann
Volker Schwendemann 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: 9029310Abstract: The present invention relates to an enzyme composition comprising enzyme containing polymer particles, which is useful for detergent compositions, in particular for liquid detergent compositions. In these enzyme containing particles, the particles comprise i) at least one enzyme, and ii) at least one polymer P, which is selected from homo- and copolymers having a C—C-backbone, wherein the C—C-backbone carries carboxylgroups, which may be present in the acidic form or in the neutralized form, and wherein the C—C-backbone comprises hydrophobic repeating units.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2009Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignees: Basf Se, Novozymes A/SInventors: Steffen Maas, Volker Schwendemann, Lidcay Herrera Taboada, Heike Pfistner, Dieter Boeckh, Ole Simonsen
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Patent number: 8277935Abstract: A cleaning implement comprises a modified open-cell foam with a density in the range from about 5 to about 1,000 kg/m3 and with an average pore diameter in the range from about 1 ?m to about 1 mm, comprising an amount in the range from about 1 to about 2,500% by weight, based on the weight of the unmodified open-cell foam, of at least about one water-insoluble polymer (b), selected from polystyrene, styrene copolymers, polybutadiene, butadiene copolymers, polyvinylesters, polyvinylethers, copolymers from (meth)acrylic acid with at least one (meth)acrylate, and polyurethanes, with the proviso that styrene-acrylonitrile-C1-C10-alkyl (meth)acrylate terpolymers, styrene-butadiene-n-butyl acrylate terpolymers, and styrene-maleic anhydride copolymers are excluded.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2006Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Denis Alfred Gonzales, Iris Bogaerts, Karl Häberle, Wolfgang Schrof, Volker Schwendemann, Stefan Frenzel
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Publication number: 20110130318Abstract: The present invention relates to an enzyme composition comprising enzyme containing polymer particles, which is useful for detergent compositions, in particular for liquid detergent compositions. In these enzyme containing particles, the particles comprise i) at least one enzyme, and ii) at least one polymer P, which is selected from homo- and copolymers having a backbone, wherein the C—C-backbone carries carboxylgroups, which may be present in the acidic form or in the neutralized form, and wherein the C—C-backbone comprises hydrophobic repeating units.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicants: BASF SE, Novozymes A/SInventors: Steffen Maas, Volker Schwendemann, Lidcay Herrera Taboada, Heike Pfistner, Dieter Boeckh, Ole Simonsen
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Publication number: 20100273907Abstract: Modified open-cell aminoplastic foams with a density in the range from 5 to 1,000 kg/m3 and with an average pore diameter in the range from 1 ?m to 1 mm, comprising an amount in the range from 1 to 2,500% by weight, based on the weight of the un-modified open-cell foam, of at least one water-insoluble polymer (b), selected from polystyrene, styrene copolymers, polybutadiene, butadiene copolymers, polyvinylesters, polyvinylethers, copolymers from (meth)acrylic acid with at least one (meth)acrylate, and polyurethanes with the proviso that styrene-acrylonitrile-C1-C10-alkyl (meth)acrylate terpolymers, styrene-butadiene-n-butyl acrylate terpolymers, and styrene-maleic anhydride copolymers are excludedType: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2007Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: BASF SE Carl-Bosch-Strasse; GVX -C006Inventors: Stefan Frenzel, Denis Alfred Gonzales, Iris Bogaerts, Karl Häberle, Wolfgang Schrof, Volker Schwendemann
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Publication number: 20090117796Abstract: Fibrous substrates selected from textile substrates and leather are coated using at least one hydrophobin.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thorsten Montag, Ulf Baus, Marvin Karos, Thomas Subkowski, Volker Schwendemann, Richard Baur, Christine Mendera, Claus Bollschweiler, Hans-Georg Lemaire, Gregor Brodt
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Publication number: 20090101167Abstract: The use of interface-active non-enzymatic proteins for textile washing. Washing compositions for textile washing which comprise interface-active non-enzymatic proteins, and processes for washing using such proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2006Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Dieter Boeckh, Volker Schwendemann, Ulf Baus, Thorsten Montag, Marvin Karos, Thomas Subkowski, Claus Bollschweiler, Hans-Georg Lemaire
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Publication number: 20080194706Abstract: Modified open-cell foams and method for the production thereof Process for production of modified open-cell foams, which comprises bringing the following materials into contact (a) open-cell foams with density in the range from 5 to 500 kg/m3 and average pore diameter in the range from 1 ?m to 1 mm, and (b) aqueous formulation of at least one compound having at least one hemiaminal or aminal group per molecule, or at least one copolymer comprising at least one copolymerized OH-containing or ?-dicarbonyl-containing or epoxy-containing comonomer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2005Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ulrich Karl, Stefan Frenzel, Volker Schwendemann, Ulrich Steinbrenner, Hartmut Leininger
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Patent number: 7316994Abstract: Perfume polymeric particles, polymeric particles having affinities for certain perfume raw materials, compositions containing them and methods for making the same are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2003Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Glenn Thomas Jordan, IV, Bernard William Kluesener, Mark Robert Sivik, Vicente Santamarina, Robert Richard Dykstra, Nathalia Lebedev, Lois Sara Gallon, Ellen Schmidt Baker, Patrick Amrhein, Dieter Boeckh, Stefan Frenzel, Ekkehard Jahns, Volker Schwendemann
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Publication number: 20070157948Abstract: A cleaning implement comprises a modified open-cell foam with a density in the range from about 5 to about 1,000 kg/m3 and with an average pore diameter in the range from about 1 ?m to about 1 mm, comprising an amount in the range from about 1 to about 2,500% by weight, based on the weight of the unmodified open-cell foam, of at least about one water-insoluble polymer (b), selected from polystyrene, styrene copolymers, polybutadiene, butadiene copolymers, polyvinylesters, polyvinylethers, copolymers from (meth)acrylic acid with at least one (meth)acrylate, and polyurethanes, with the proviso that styrene-acrylonitrile-C1-C10-alkyl (meth)acrylate terpolymers, styrene-butadiene-n-butyl acrylate terpolymers, and styrene-maleic anhydride copolymers are excluded.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2006Publication date: July 12, 2007Inventors: Denis Alfred Gonzales, Iris Bogaerts, Karl Haberle, Wolfgang Schrof, Volker Schwendemann, Stefan Frenzel
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Publication number: 20040110648Abstract: Perfume polymeric particles, polymeric particles having affinities for certain perfume raw materials, compositions containing them and methods for making the same are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2003Publication date: June 10, 2004Inventors: Glenn Thomas Jordan, Bernard William Kluesener, Mark Robert Sivik, Vicente Santamarina, Robert Richard Dykstra, Natalia N.L. Lebedev, Lois Sara Gallon, Ellen Schmidt Baker, Patrick Amrhein, Dieter Boeckh, Stefan Frenzel, Ekkehard Jahns, Volker Schwendemann
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Patent number: 5886137Abstract: A process for preparing salts of polyaspartic acid by treating polycondensates in aqueous medium with bases, employing at least 0.7 equivalent of an alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal base per mole of the aspartimide, aspartic acid and/or aspartamide units present in the polycondensates, and the bases being added within from 30 min to 20 hours to an aqueous suspension of polycondensates of aspartic acid which has been heated to 40.degree.-140.degree. C., and the reaction mixture being allowed to react further where appropriate, and the use of alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal salts of polyaspartic acids obtainable by treating polycondensates of aspartic acid in aqueous medium with more than 1 equivalent of an alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal base, with the molecular weight of the polycondensates being reduced, as additive to detergents and cleaners.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1997Date of Patent: March 23, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Matthias Kroner, Gunnar Schornick, Uwe Strotmann, Volker Schwendemann, Thomas Meyer, Alfons Ludwig
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Patent number: 5773541Abstract: A process for preparing copolymers of vinyl esters and monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids by free-radical copolymerization of(a) 20 to 80 mol % of vinyl esters of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids having at least 2 carbon atoms and(b) 80-20 mol % of monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, with or without(c) 0-30 mol % of other copolymerizable monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and/or(d) 0-10 mol % of monomers which contain at least two non-conjugated ethylenic double bonds in the molecule,in the presence of at least one sulfur, phosphorus and/or nitrogen compound with a reducing action and of 0.05-30% by weight, based on the monomers, of at least one surface-active agent in aqueous medium in the presence of initiators and in the presence or absence of regulators, and the use of the copolymers or of the copolymers which are obtainable therefrom by hydrolysis and/or oxidation and have vinyl alcohol units as additive to detergents and cleaners.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 1996Date of Patent: June 30, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dieter Boeckh, Axel Kistenmacher, Walter Denzinger, Iris Rau, Angelika Funhoff, Richard Baur, Alexander Kud, Volker Schwendemann
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Patent number: 5770553Abstract: The use of polyaspartic acid prepared by polycondensation of aspartic acid in the presence of phosphoric acid in a molar ratio of from 1:0.05 to 1:10 at temperatures of at least 120.degree. C. to give polysuccinimide, and subsequent hydrolysis of the polysuccinimide with bases to give at least partially neutralized polyaspartic acid, as additive to detergents and cleaners in amounts of from 0.1 to 10% by weight, and detergents and cleaners which contain polyaspartic acids prepared in the presence of phosphoric acid.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1996Date of Patent: June 23, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Matthias Kroner, Gunnar Schornick, Richard Baur, Alexander Kud, Volker Schwendemann
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Patent number: 5766612Abstract: The use of endgroup-capped fatty amide alkoxylates IR.sup.1 --CO--NH--(CH.sub.2).sub.n --O--(AO).sub.x --R.sup.2(I)whereR.sup.1 is C.sub.5 -C.sub.21 -alkyl or -alkenyl,R.sup.2 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl,A is C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkylene,n is 2 or 3, andx has a value from 1 to 6,as nonionic surfactants or emulsifiers in detergents, cleaners or body care compositions, as surface-active substances for industrial applications in electroplating, in the photographic industry, in petroleum production, in the pharmaceutical industry, in plant feeding and in crop protection formulations, and as surface-active substances in the production of emulsions and pigment and plastic dispersions.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1996Date of Patent: June 16, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Beate Strecker, Gunter Oetter, Alfred Oftring, Johannes Perner, Richard Baur, Volker Schwendemann, Martin aus dem Kahmen, Wolfgang Reif
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Patent number: 5756594Abstract: Polymers which contain polyacetal blocks are obtainable by polymerizing carboxylates containing aldehyde groups in the presence of initiators and reacting the polymers with at least bifunctional crosslinking agents in the presence of acids or Lewis acids and, if required hydrolyzing the ester groups present as polymerized units, process for the preparation of the polymers containing polyacetal blocks by polymerizing carboxylates containing aldehyde groups in the presence of initiators and reacting the resulting polyacetals containing terminal hydroxyl groups with at least bifunctional crosslinking agents in the presence of acids or Lewis acids, and the use of the resulting polymers as additives in phosphate-free and reduced phosphate detergents and cleaning agents, as scale inhibitors and as dispersants for pigments.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1997Date of Patent: May 26, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Angelika Funhoff, Dieter Boeckh, Matthias Kroner, Richard Baur, Alexander Kud, Gunnar Schornick, Volker Schwendemann
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Patent number: 5747635Abstract: Modified polyaspartic acids useful as detergent and cleaner additives, as water treatment agents and as scale inhibitors in the evaporation of sugar juice are obtainable by polycondensation of(a) from 1 to 99.9 mol % of aspartic acid with(b) from 99 to 0.1 mol % of fatty acids, polybasic carboxylic acids, anhydrides of polybasic carboxylic acids, polybasic hydroxycarboxylic acids, monobasic polyhydroxycarboxylic acids, alcohols, amines, alkoxylated alcohols and amines, amino sugars, carbohydrates, sugarcarboxylic acids and/or non-proteinogenic aminocarboxylic acidsor by polymerizing monoethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of polyaspartic acids in the manner of a free-radically initiated graft polymerization.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 1995Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Matthias Kroner, Heinrich Hartmann, Dieter Boeckh, Angelika Funhoff, Richard Baur, Alexander Kud, Volker Schwendemann, Birgit Potthoff-Karl, Karl-Heinz Buechner
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Patent number: 5739241Abstract: Copolymers containing(a) from 5 to 90 mol % of vinyl formate units,(b) from 10 to 95 mol % of units of monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids,(c) from 0 to 70 mol % of units of monoethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids, and(d) from 0 to 30 mol % of units of other monoethylenically unsaturated monomersin copolymerized form and having K values of at least 8 (determined by the method of H. Fikentscher in 1% strength by weight aqueous solution on the sodium salt of the copolymers at pH 7 and 25.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1996Date of Patent: April 14, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Dieter Boeckh, Axel Kistenmacher, Walter Denzinger, Thomas Ruhl, Angelika Funhoff, Richard Baur, Alexander Kud, Volker Schwendemann
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Patent number: 5733342Abstract: Hydroxamic acids and hydroxamic acid ethers I and II ##STR1## where Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 are --NH --OY, --NR.sup.1 --OY or --OX, where in the case of (I) at least one of Z.sup.1 or Z.sup.2, and in the case of (II) Z.sup.1 is --NH --OY or --NR.sup.1 --OY, andR.sup.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 -alkyl,X is hydrogen, alkali metal, ammonium or substituted ammonium, andY is hydrogen, alkali metal, ammonium, substituted ammonium or C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 -alkyl, andL is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.100 linker which can also carry oxygen and nitrogen functional groups,with the exception of N,N-bis(carboxymethyl)-2-aminoacetohydroxamic acid.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1995Date of Patent: March 31, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Greindl, Alexander Kud, Volker Schwendemann, Michael Kneip, Elisabeth Kappes, Richard Baur, Juergen Schneider, Birgit Potthoff-Karl, Alfred Oftring
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Patent number: 5677384Abstract: Grafted polyamidoamines and grafted polyethyleneimines obtainable by free-radically initiated polymerization of(a) 1-vinylpyrrolidone, 1-vinyltriazole, 1-vinylimidazoles, mixtures of said monomers or mixtures of at least one of said monomers with up to 20% by weight of other monoethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of(b) water-soluble or -dispersible polyamidoamines, polyethyleneimines or mixtures thereof in a weight ratio of (a):(b) from 5:95 to 95:5, are useful as dye transfer inhibitors in surfactant-based detergents when included therein in an amount from 0.05 to 10% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 1995Date of Patent: October 14, 1997Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Juergen Detering, Christian Schade, Knut Oppenlaender, Michael Zirnstein, Guenter Scherr, Wolfgang Trieselt, Volker Schwendemann
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Patent number: 5665693Abstract: Use of carboxyl-containing reaction products of(a) maleic anhydride, maleic acid and/or fumaric acid, and(b) proteins or protein hydrolyzateshaving an acid number of at least 1.5 mmol of NaOH/g of reaction product, as ingredient of reduced-phosphate and phosphate-free detergents and cleaners.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1995Date of Patent: September 9, 1997Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Matthias Kroner, Gunnar Schornick, Richard Baur, Alexander Kud, Volker Schwendemann