Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Gunther

Wolfgang Gunther 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: 6413445
    Abstract: A description is given of antifreeze concentrates which comprise a) at least one water-miscible alcohol which lowers the freezing point; b) at least one corrosion inhibitor; and c) as reserve alkalinity donor, at least one mono- or polycyclic aromatic compound which has at least one hydroxyl group and a high buffer capacity in the pH range from about 6 to 10 and of coolant compositions which comprise said concentrates and are intended for the cooling circuits in internal combustion engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Knut Oppenländer, Wolfgang Günther, Klaus Pfitzner, Michael Gillich, Ladislaus Meszaros
  • Patent number: 6335098
    Abstract: An ink duct for use with a screen roller which comprises a working doctor blade and a closing doctor blade, wherein the working doctor blade has one or both sides partially or completely coated with an unreleasable coating of a low surface energy substance having a surface energy of 10 to 60 mN/m. This coating prevents disruptive ink deposits from forming on the side of the working doctor blade opposite to the ink retaining portion of the ink duct and reaching the doctored surface of the ink metering roller in an uncontrolled or random manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Willi Albert Peter Kutzner, Wolfgang Günther Ruckmann, Karl Robert Schäfer, Georg Schneider
  • Publication number: 20010025094
    Abstract: Copolymers I carrying functional groups and comprising
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Wolfgang Gunther, Knut Oppenlander, Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann, Helmut Mach, Harald Schwahn, Hans Peter Rath
  • Patent number: 6289807
    Abstract: An ink duct for a rotary printing press wherein all or some of the surfaces of the ink duct are permanently coated with a substance which has a low surface energy of between 10 and 60 mN/m. As well as enabling the ink duct to be cleaned easily, the blending of the printing ink is improved owing to the reduced frictional resistance of the coated parts, which in turn leads to more uniform use of the ink-metering roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Willi Albert Peter Kutzner, Wolfgang Günther Ruckmann, Karl Robert Schäfer, Georg Schneider
  • Patent number: 6284716
    Abstract: Copolymers I carrying functional groups and comprising a) 20-60 mol % of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated C4-C6-dicarboxylic acid or an anhydride thereof, b) 10-70 mol % of at least one oligomer of propene or of a branched 1-olefin of 4 to 10 carbon atoms, having an average molecular weight Mw of from 300 to 5000, and c) 1-50 mol % of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated compound which is copolymerizable with the monomers a) and b), a process for their preparation, oil-soluble reaction products obtainable therefrom by reaction with an amine and the use of said reaction products as additives for lubricants and fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Günther, Knut Oppenländer, Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann, Helmut Mach, Harald Schwahn, Hans Peter Rath
  • Patent number: 6225507
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of aldehydes or aldehydes and alcohols by hydroformylation of olefins containing more than 3 carbon atoms, comprising a hydroformylation stage, in which the olefin is hydroformylated under a pressure of form 50 to 1000 bar and at a temperature of from 50° to 180° C. by means of a rhodium catalyst dissolved in a homogenous reaction medium and a catalyst recovery stage comprising extraction of the rhodium catalyst with an aqueous solution of chelating agent, isolation of alcohols and/or aldehyde from the extracted hydroformylation product steam, precarbonylation of the aqueous rhodium-containing extract in the presence of carbon monoxide, synthesis gas as, or a gas mixture containing carbon monoxide under a pressure of from 50 to 1000 bar and at a temperature of from 50° to 180° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Giessler, Heinz-Josef Kneuper, Michael Röper, Rocco Paciello, Knut Oppenländer, Wolfgang Günther
  • Patent number: 6216181
    Abstract: In a data processing unit, in particular a switching computer that forwards message cells according to the ATM transmission method, a sequence program is supplemented by a program module that supplies items of information relating to internal sequences to an evaluation unit formed by a personal computer for display screen representation in real time, the supplying taking place via a serial interface and circumventing the operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Elmar Dünsser, Wolfgang Günther
  • Patent number: 6165237
    Abstract: Compounds of the general formula IZ--CH.sub.2 --NY.sub.2-n H.sub.n (I)wheren is 0 or 1,z is a straight-chain or branched polyalkyl radical having a number average molecular weight of from about 150 to 40,000, andY is a radical of the formula IIa or IIb ##STR1## where the radicals R, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently of one another, are each hydrogen, an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl radical or an unsubstituted or substituted cycloalkyl, aryl or arylalkyl radical, which may carry one or more heteroatoms, andA is an alkyleneimine radical; or, ifn is 0, one of the radicals Y may be a polyoxyalkylene radical, and processes for their preparation and fuel and lubricant compositions, and mixtures of additives, which contain the novel compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Julius, Roland Ettl, Wolfgang Gunther, Thomas Greindl
  • Patent number: 6140541
    Abstract: Polyalkeneamines of the formula (I) ##STR1## where R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 may have different meanings, are prepared by a process in which a polyalkene epoxide is reacted with an amine and the amino alcohol is dehydrated and reduced to give the compound of the formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johann-Peter Melder, Gerhard Blum, Wolfgang Gunther, Dietmar Posselt, Knut Oppenlander
  • Patent number: 6045719
    Abstract: Quaternized imidazoles I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.3 independently of one another are saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon radicals of 1-12 carbon atoms which can be substituted by oxygen-functional groups or interrupted by nonadjacent oxygens,R.sup.2, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 independently of one another are hydrogen or saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon radicals of 1-12 carbon atoms which can be substituted by oxygen-functional groups or interrupted by nonadjacent oxygens, it being possible for R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, together with the corresponding imidazole carbons, to form a five- or six-membered ring, andX.sup..crclbar. is an anion,are used as corrosion inhibitors in the corrosion protection of nonferrous metals, especially for car radiator protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ladislaus Meszaros, Michael Gillich, Klaus Pfitzner, Knut Oppenlander, Wolfgang Gunther
  • Patent number: 6005144
    Abstract: Reaction products of polyisobutenes having an average degree of polymerization P of from 10 to 100 and a content E of from 60 to 90% of double bonds which can react with maleic anhydride, E=100% corresponding to the theoretical value for the case where each molecule of the polyisobutene has such a reactive double bond, with oxides of nitrogen or mixtures of oxides of nitrogen and oxygen, are suitable as additives for fuels, in particular for gasoline engines, and for lubricants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudolf Kropp, Eckhard Hickmann, Klaus Ebel, Wolfgang Gunther, Hans Peter Rath, Harald Schwahn
  • Patent number: 5980594
    Abstract: Reaction products of polymers of C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 -olefins having an average degree of polymerization P of from 5 to 100 and oxides of nitrogen or mixtures of oxides of nitrogen and oxygen are used as additives for fuels, in particular for fuels for gasoline engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudolf Kropp, Eckhard Hickmann, Klaus Ebel, Wolfgang Gunther, Hans Peter Rath, Harald Schwahn
  • Patent number: 5972856
    Abstract: Reaction products of polyisobutenes having an average degree of polymerization P of from 10 to 100 and a content E of from 60 to 90% of double bonds which can react with maleic anhydride, E=100% corresponding to the theoretical value for the case where each molecule of the polyisobutene has such a reactive double bond, with oxides of nitrogen or mixtures of oxides of nitrogen and oxygen, are suitable as additives for fuels, in particular for gasoline engines, and for lubricants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudolf Kropp, Eckhard Hickmann, Klaus Ebel, Wolfgang Gunther, Hans Peter Rath, Harald Schwahn
  • Patent number: 5919275
    Abstract: Fuel or lubricant additives based on reaction products of an ethylenically unsaturated poly-1-alkene derived from one or more 1-alkenes of 3 to 24 carbon atoms and from 0 to 50% by weight of ethene, processes for their preparation and fuel or lubricant compositions containing these additives are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Knut Oppenlander, Jurgen Mohr, Hans-Joachim Muller, Dietmar Posselt, Wolfgang Gunther
  • Patent number: 5879420
    Abstract: Reaction products of polyisobutenes having an average degree of polymerization P of from 10 to 100 and a content E of from 60 to 90% of double bonds which can react with maleic anhydride, E=100% corresponding to the theoretical value for the case where each molecule of the polyisobutene has such a reactive double bond, with oxides of nitrogen or mixtures of oxides of nitrogen and oxygen, are suitable as additives for fuels, in particular for gasoline engines, and for lubricants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudolf Kropp, Eckhard Hickmann, Klaus Ebel, Wolfgang Gunther, Hans Peter Rath, Harald Schwahn
  • Patent number: 5876467
    Abstract: Carboxylic esters of the formula IR.sup.1 --CO--O--R.sup.2 I,whereR.sup.1 is an aliphatic, straight-chain or branched hydrocarbon radical having alkyl side chains and a number average molecular weight of from 250 to 5000 andR.sup.2 is a straight-chain or branched hydrocarbon radical of 1 to 30 carbon atoms or a radical of the formula II ##STR1## where R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6, independently of one another, are each hyrogen, branched or straight-chain alkyl, an aromatic radical or an araliphatic radical which may also contain heteroatoms,R.sup.7 and R.sup.8, independently of one another, are each branched or straight-chain alkyl or an aromatic or araliphatic radical which may also contain heteroatoms,X is O, S, NR.sup.9 or PR.sup.9, where R.sup.9 is an aliphatic or aromatic radical,n and m, independently of one another, are each from 2 to 20, andx is from 0 to 30,are used as fuel additives or lubricant additives, and fuel compositions or lubricant compositions contain these additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Arthur Hohn, Hans Funke, Knut Oppenlander, Wolfgang Gunther, Harald Schwahn
  • Patent number: 5863519
    Abstract: There is provided a contrast medium composition comprising: (a) a first contrast agent comprising a physiologically tolerable manganese compound together with an uptake promoter, having a manganese concentration of at least 0.3 mM or being in a dosage unit form containing at least 300 .mu.mol manganese, wherein the uptake promoter comprises a physiologically tolerable reducing compound containing an .alpha.-hydroxy ketone group or a physiologically tolerable acid containing .alpha.- and/or .beta.- hydroxy or amino groups, or a salt thereof, and/or vitamin D; together with (b) a second contrast agent.Such compositions are particularly suitable for imaging of the liver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Nycomed Imaging AS
    Inventors: Klaes Golman, Goran Pettersson, Arne Berg, Jo Klaveness, P.ang.l Rongved, Peter Leander, Ib Leunbach, Wolfgang Gunther
  • Patent number: 5863879
    Abstract: The use of polymers which are preparable by reaction of(a) polymers that contain vinylamine units, with(b) compounds that contain aldehyde or keto groups, and optionally(c) NH- and/or OH-containing compoundsand which contain aminal, hemiaminal and/or aminal-acetal structures with or without unconverted vinylamine units, as detergent additive for inhibiting dye transfer during the wash, and polymers containing aminal, hemiaminal and/or aminal-acetal structures, obtainable by reaction of(a) polymers that contain vinylamine units, with(b) compounds that contain aldehyde or keto groups, and(c) NH- and/or OH-containing compounds,and detergents which contain the abovementioned polymers in amounts from 0.05 to 10% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Zirnstein, Wolfgang Trieselt, Knut Oppenlander, Claudia Nilz, Michael Kroner, Wolfgang Gunther
  • Patent number: 5660601
    Abstract: Fuels for gasoline engines contain small amounts of polyetheramines IR.sup.1 --(OBu).sub.n --NR.sup.2 R.sup.3 (I)whereR.sup.1 is C.sub.2 -C.sub.30 -alkyl,R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, independently of one another, are each hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl, aminoalkylene of the general formula II--R.sup.4 --NR.sup.5 R.sup.6 (II)or polyaminoalkylene of the general formula III--(R.sup.4 --NR.sup.5).sub.m --R.sup.6 (III)whereR.sup.4 is C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alkylene, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6, independently of one another, are each hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl and m is from 2 to 8,Bu is a butylene radical derived from butylene oxide andn is from 12 to 28.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Knut Oppenlander, Wolfgang Gunther, Andreas Henne, Volkmar Menger, Rainer Becker, Wolfgang Reif, Jurgen Thomas, Harald Schwahn, Erhard Henkes
  • Patent number: 5602840
    Abstract: In an ISDN switching system, a program module is set up in accordance with the principles of object-oriented programming for the handling of switched connections. The protocol modules used in protocol architectures (for example CCITT recommendations) for the standardization of functional switching procedures are represented as object-oriented structural elements. During the implementation of the system program module in the switching system, objects are instantiated for connections and/or for calls and/or for signaling operations. A copy of the data area belonging to the structural element concerned is in each case set up in the data store as a kind of pattern. The data individual to the connection or call or signaling are entered into this pattern. The data areas remain in existence only for the duration of the connection or the call or the signaling operation concerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Gunther, Gerhard Magerl