Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Schrof
Wolfgang Schrof 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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Publication number: 20240053274Abstract: The present invention relates to determining phase information of a fluid sample. At least one image of the fluid sample including the phase information of the fluid sample is provided. Additionally, a data driven model which comprises at least one output channel for the phase information is provided. The at least one output channel includes at least one output channel for classifying a boundary between two phases of the fluid sample, such that the phase information includes information about a property of the boundary between the two phases, such as a height, a volume, a type, or a strength of the boundary. The phase information of the fluid sample is derived based on the data driven model and the at least one image of the fluid sample including the phase information of the fluid sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Jens Meissner, Behrang Shafei, Khushmeen Sakloth, Wolfgang Schrof
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Publication number: 20220041949Abstract: The invention relates to a lubricant comprising a polyalkylene glycol basestock, a phenol selected from an ester of 3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl) propionic acid with a C1-18 aliphatic alcohol, and an aromatic amine of the formula (I) as defined hereinafter. The invention further relates to a method for preparing the lubricant comprising the step of contacting the polyalkylene glycol basestock, the phenol, and the aromatic amine of the formula (I); and to a method for reducing the oxidative degradation of the polyalkylene glycol basestock comprising the step of contacting the polyalkylene glycol basestock, the phenol, and the aromatic amine of the formula (I).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Marcel HARHAUSEN, Frank RITTIG, David LEY, Michael ROIDA, Wolfgang SCHROF
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Publication number: 20220033730Abstract: The invention relates to a lubricant comprising a polyalkylene glycol basestock, an aromatic amine of the formula (I) as defined hereinafter, and a thioether of the formula (II) as defined hereinafter. The invention further relates to a method for preparing the lubricant comprising the step of contacting the polyalkylene glycol basestock, the aromatic amine of the formula (I), and the thioether of the formula (II); and to a method for reducing the oxidative degradation of the lubricant comprising the step of contacting the polyalkylene glycol basestock, the aromatic amine of the formula (I), and the thioether of the formula (II).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Marcel HARHAUSEN, Frank RITTIG, David LEY, Michael ROIDA, Wolfgang SCHROF
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Patent number: 11078362Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyamide composition (PC) which comprises at least one polyamide (P) and at least one additive (A). The present invention further relates to the use of the polyamide composition (PC) in a selective laser sintering process, in an injection molding process, for producing molded articles and in an extrusion process.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Claus Gabriel, Simon Gramlich, Rainer Ostermann, Florian Richter, Raphael Dabbous, Thomas Meier, Wolfgang Schrof
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Publication number: 20190233334Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of a photocurable formulation (F) for the use in an additive manufacturing process. In this method a ceramic dispersion (CD) comprising at least one ceramic material, at least one first acrylate and at least one dispersant is mixed with a solution (S) which comprises at least one second acrylate and at least one photoinitiator to obtain the photocurable formulation (F). The present invention furthermore relates to the photocurable formulation (F) obtainable by the inventive method and to a method for the production of a molding in an additive manufacturing process by curing the photocurable formulation (F). Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of the photocurable formulation (F) in an additive manufacturing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Bjoern STUHRMANN, Wolfgang SCHROF, Kris SCHMIDT
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Publication number: 20190071568Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyamide composition (PC) which comprises at least one polyamide (P) and at least one additive (A). The present invention further relates to the use of the polyamide composition (PC) in a selective laser sintering process, in an injection molding process, for producing molded articles and in an extrusion process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: Claus GABRIEL, Simon GRAMLICH, Rainer OSTERMANN, Florian RICHTER, Raphael DABBOUS, Thomas MEIER, Wolfgang SCHROF
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Patent number: 9339832Abstract: Described is a method and an apparatus for producing cured coating films on a substrate surface. Specifically, a portable spraygun may be used to initiate radiation cure without the operative having to be protected from radiation. The spraygun comprises a supply channel for a radiation-curable coating composition, a needle, a reserve for the radiation-curable coating composition, and, optionally, a supply channel for a gas.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Wolfgang Schrof, Thomas Meier, Christian Michael Jung, Antoine Carroy, Werner-Alfons Jung, Peter Hoffmann, Tobias Hintermann, Caroline Lordelot, Olof Wallquist
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Patent number: 9080129Abstract: The present invention relates to hydrophobically modified cationic polymers obtainable by the polymerization of one or more cationic ethylenically unsaturated monomers with an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having anhydride, imide, lactone, carboxylic acid, isocyanate or blocked isocyanate group and a reactive siloxane and processes for preparing them. These polymers are useful i.a. as a depositioning aid of hydrophobic actives onto fibrous substrates.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Ouidad Benlahmar, Aaron Flores-Figueroa, Volodymyr Boyko, Dieter Boeckh, Markus Brym, Christofer Arisandy, Wolfgang Schrof, Frank Huelskoetter, Yonas Gizaw, Roy Jerome Harrington, Sumanth Narahari Jamadagni, Peter Koenig
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Patent number: 8906399Abstract: The invention relates to preparations, in particular plant-protective preparations which contain a mixture of at least two different active plant-protective substances, wherein a) at least one active substance is selected from a conazole group (active substance 1) and b) another active-plant protective substance (active substance 2) whose water solubility at a temperature of 20° C. is less than 20 g/l., c) at least one type of copolymer CP consisting of M monomers comprising ?) at least one type of monoethylenically unsaturated monomer M1 comprising at least one sulphonic acid group and ?) at least one type of neutral monoethylenically unsaturated monomer M2, wherein the quantitative ratio between the active substance 1 and the other active plant-protective substance 2 ranges from 1:10 to 10:1.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sebastian Koltzenburg, Peter Dombo, Günter Oetter, Christian Krüger, Wolfgang Schrof, Matthias Bratz
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Publication number: 20140288309Abstract: This invention relates to a process of producing compounds, which are useful as bleach boosters, as well as to the compounds, which are obtainable using said process, and to their use.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Karin Schein, Arno Kochner, Ludwig Völkel, Christian Bittner, Ingo Münster, Frank Dietsche, Wolfgang Schrof, Hansgeorg Ernst, Karl Beck, Andrea Misske, Martin Scholtissek
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Patent number: 8717440Abstract: In a method for evaluating mechanical tests of a coating on a substrate, in a first step a mechanical stress is applied onto the coating, in a second step the substrate having the coating is isothermally clamped, in a third step an infrared photograph is generated of the region in which the mechanical stress is applied onto the coating in the first step, and in a fourth step the infrared photograph is evaluated. A device is arranged for carrying out the method.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, BASF AGInventors: Eva Wagner, Thomas Brinz, Thomas Geiger, Jane Lewis, Markus Tiefenbacher, Tobias Burk, Sebastian Koltzenburg, Wolfgang Schrof
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Publication number: 20140024780Abstract: The present invention relates to hydrophobically modified cationic polymers obtainable by the polymerization of one or more cationic ethylenically unsaturated monomers with an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having anhydride, imide, lactone, carboxylic acid, isocyanate or blocked isocyanate group and a reactive siloxane and processes for preparing them. These polymers are useful i.a. as a depositioning aid of hydrophobic actives onto fibrous substrates.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Ouidad Benlahmar, Aaron Flores-Figueroa, Volodymyr Boyko, Dieter Boeckh, Markus Brym, Christofer Arisandy, Wolfgang Schrof, Frank Huelskoetter, Yonas Gizaw, Roy Jerome Harrington, Sumanth Narahari Jamadagni, Peter Koenig
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Patent number: 8574520Abstract: Described is a metal oxide support material containing nanoscaled iron-platinum group metal particles having a particle size in the range of 0.5 to 10 nm. At least 70% of the nanoscaled iron-platinum group metal particles are located on an outside surface layer of the metal oxide support material. The outside surface layer has an average volume of less than 50% based on the total volume of the metal oxide support material. Additionally, described is a process for preparation of metal oxide support materials containing nanoscaled iron-platinum group metal particles. Furthermore, described is the use of metal oxides containing nanoscaled iron-platinum group metal particles as catalysts, for example as a diesel oxidation catalyst for the treatment of exhaust gas emissions from a diesel engine.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: BASF SE LudwigshafenInventors: Tobias Joachim Koplin, Imme Domke, Christopher R. Castellano, Gerald Stephen Koermer, Wolfgang Schrof, Robert Feuerhake, Gunnar Schornick, Anna Cristadoro, Daniel Schönfelder, Hartmut Hibst, Mattijs Gregor Jurriaan Ten Cate
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Publication number: 20130251911Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing cured coating films on a substrate surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Wolfgang SCHROF, Thomas Meier, Christian Michael Jung, Antoine Carroy, Werner-Alfons Jung, Peter Hoffmann, Tobias Hintermann, Caroline Lordelot, Olof Wallquist
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Patent number: 8426596Abstract: This invention relates to a process of producing compounds, which are useful as bleach boosters, as well as to the compounds, which are obtainable using said process, and to their use.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ludwig Voelkel, Christian Bittner, Ingo Muenster, Frank Dietsche, Wolfgang Schrof
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Patent number: 8363213Abstract: A method is provided for detecting not fully set coatings and liquid or smearing impurities on a surface, in which in a first step a film is pressed onto a surface of a coating using a predefined press-on pressure, the film having a relative motion with respect to the surface of the coating, thereafter the film is pulled off the surface of the coating and finally it is determined whether impurities are adhering to the film. A device is also provided for performing the method, including at least one film, which may be pressed against a surface to be tested, at least one press-on roller having a surface by which the film is pressed against the coating, and at least one device for determining whether there are impurities adhering to the film.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, BASF AGInventors: Eva Wagner, Thomas Brinz, Thomas Geiger, Jane Lewis, Markus Tiefenbacher, Tobias Burk, Sebastian Koltzenburg, Wolfgang Schrof
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Publication number: 20120263633Abstract: Described is a metal oxide support material nanoscaled iron-platinum group metal particles having a particle size in the range of 0.5 to 10 nm, wherein at least 70% of all nanoscaled iron-platinum group metal particles are located on an outside surface layer of the metal oxide support material, and wherein the outside surface layer has an average volume of less than 50% based on the total volume of the metal oxide support material. Additionally, described is a process for the preparation of such metal oxide support material comprising nanoscaled iron-platinum group metal particles. Furthermore, described is the use of metal oxides containing nanoscaled iron-platinum group metal particles as catalysts, for example as a diesel oxidation catalyst for the treatment of exhaust gas emissions from a diesel engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2010Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Tobias Joachim Koplin, Imme Domke, Christopher R. Castellano, Gerald Stephen Koermer, Wolfgang Schrof, Robert Feuerhake, Gunnar Schornick, Anna Cristadoro, Daniel Schönfelder, Hartmut Hibst, Mattijs Gregor Jurriaan Ten Cate
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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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Patent number: 8129531Abstract: This invention relates to a process of producing compounds, which are useful as bleach boosters, as well as to the compounds, which are obtainable using said process, and to their use.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2006Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ludwig Voelkel, Christian Bittner, Ingo Muenster, Frank Dietsche, Wolfgang Schrof
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Publication number: 20110319622Abstract: This invention relates to a process of producing compounds, which are useful as bleach boosters, as well as to the compounds, which are obtainable using said process, and to their use.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Ludwig Völkel, Christian Bittner, Ingo Münster, Frank Dietsche, Wolfgang Schrof