Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Steiner

Wolfgang Steiner 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: 20240132471
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds having the general formula Ib wherein R1, R2, R1, R4, R5 and Z are as described herein, composition including the compounds and methods of using the compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Lea Aurelie BOUCHE, Wolfgang GUBA, Georg JAESCHKE, Stefanie Katharina MESCH, Angélique PATINY-ADAM, Christian SCHNIDER, Sandra STEINER, Andreas Michael TOSSTORFF
  • Patent number: 11229232
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for processing fruit or vegetables in order to obtain a flowable mass, such as juice or puree and includes a receptacle, an extraction unit for mechanically extracting juice and pulp from the fruit or vegetables, the unit being located within the receptacle for discharging the juice and pulp into the receptacle, a motor unit, drivingly connected to the extraction unit, an outlet unit for collecting flowable mass from the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NOVIS AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Steiner
  • Publication number: 20200390140
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for processing fruit or vegetables in order to obtain a flowable mass, such as juice or puree and includes a receptacle, an extraction unit for mechanically extracting juice and pulp from the fruit or vegetables, the unit being located within the receptacle for discharging the juice and pulp into the receptacle, a motor unit, drivingly connected to the extraction unit, an outlet unit for collecting flowable mass from the receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: NOVIS AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Steiner
  • Patent number: 9598379
    Abstract: Process for preparing melamine by converting urea in the presence of a solid catalyst in one reactor or in a plurality of reactors connected in series in the temperature range from 370° C. to 430° C., cooling and filtering the gas formed in the urea conversion, removing the melamine by desublimation and recycling a portion of the gas present after the melamine removal (“cycle gas”) into the reactor or the reactors, which comprises performing all of the above stages at a pressure in the range from 4 bar abs. to 10 bar abs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Kern, Hans-Ulrich Pröbstle, Tilo John, Wolfgang Steiner, Heiko Maas
  • Publication number: 20130255511
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for processing fruit or vegetables in order to obtain a flowable mass, such as juice or puree and includes a receptacle, an extraction unit for mechanically extracting juice and pulp from the fruit or vegetables, the unit being located within the receptacle for discharging the juice and pulp into the receptacle, a motor unit, drivingly connected to the extraction unit, an outlet unit for collecting flowable mass from the receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Novissa Haushaltgeråte AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Steiner
  • Patent number: 8415265
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of melamine by decomposition of urea with the use of a catalyst, the catalyst comprising a) 10-90% by weight of zeolite, b) 10-90% by weight of a matrix comprising silica, alumina, silicon aluminum oxides and/or clay minerals, and c) 0-10% by weight of additives and the total content of nickel and vanadium in the catalyst being less than 500 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Kuhrs, Andreas Kern, Tilo John, Wolfgang Steiner, Heiko Maas
  • Publication number: 20100222582
    Abstract: Process for preparing melamine by converting urea in the presence of a solid catalyst in one reactor or in a plurality of reactors connected in series in the temperature range from 370° C. to 430° C., cooling and filtering the gas formed in the urea conversion, removing the melamine by desublimation and recycling a portion of the gas present after the melamine removal (“cycle gas”) into the reactor or the reactors, which comprises performing all of the above stages at a pressure in the range from 4 bar abs. to 10 bar abs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Kern, Hans-Ulrich Pröbstle, Tilo John, Wolfgang Steiner, Heiko Maas
  • Publication number: 20100184976
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of melamine by decomposition of urea with the use of a catalyst, the catalyst comprising a) 10-90% by weight of zeolite, b) 10-90% by weight of a matrix comprising silica, alumina, silicon aluminum oxides and/or clay minerals, and c) 0-10% by weight of additives and the total content of nickel and vanadium in the catalyst being less than 500 ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Kuhrs, Andreas Kern, Tilo John, Wolfgang Steiner, Heiko Maas
  • Patent number: 7253280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the catalytic preparation of melamine by decomposition of urea over particular solid catalysts using a main reactor and an after-reactor. A catalyst having a low Lewis acidity is used in the main reactor and a catalyst having an equal or preferably higher Lewis acidity is used in the after-reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Kuhrs, Eckehard Danz, Wolfgang Steiner, Ralf-Thomas Rahn, Thomas Grassler, Reiner Geier, Klaus Harth, Markus Hölzle
  • Publication number: 20060167250
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the catalytic preparation of melamine by decomposition of urea over particular solid catalysts using a main reactor and an after-reactor. A catalyst having a low Lewis acidity is used in the main reactor and a catalyst having an equal or preferably higher Lewis acidity is used in the after-reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Christian Kuhrs, Eckehard Danz, Wolfgang Steiner, Ralf-Thomas Rahn, Thomas Grabler, Reiner Geter, Klaus Harth, Markus Holzle
  • Patent number: 5899393
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for recycling diaphragms, in particular a process for recycling used asbestos-free diaphragms from alkali metal chloride electrolysis, the diaphragm material being comminuted, the diaphragm material being washed with a wash substrate and a reusable material being obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudi Kroner, Bernd Leutner, Dieter Schlafer, Wolfgang Steiner, Holger Friedrich
  • Patent number: 5876785
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for recycling diaphragms, in particular a process for recycling used asbestos-free diaphragms from alkali metal chloride electrolysis, the diaphragm material being comminuted, the diaphragm material being washed with a wash substrate and a reusable material being obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudi Kroner, Bernd Leutner, Dieter Schlafer, Wolfgang Steiner, Holger Friedrich
  • Patent number: 5765763
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for recycling diaphragms, in particular a process for recycling used asbestos-free diaphragms from alkali metal chloride electrolysis, the diaphragm material being comminuted, the diaphragm material being washed with a wash substrate and a reusable material being obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudi Kroner, Bernd Leutner, Dieter Schlafer, Wolfgang Steiner, Holger Friedrich
  • Patent number: 5755951
    Abstract: A process for the regeneration of plastic diaphragms is described, in which a mineral acid solution is mixed with a suitable corrosion inhibitor, this mixture is temperature controlled at from approximately 0.degree. to 100.degree. C., preferably 40.degree. to 80.degree. C., in particular 50.degree. to 70.degree. C., and passed through the diaphragm for from approximately 0.1 to 84 hours, preferably 1 to 72 hours, in particular 2 to 24 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudi Kroner, Bernd Leutner, Hans-Michael Schneider, Holger Friedrich, Kurt Hecky, Dieter Schlafer, Wolfgang Steiner
  • Patent number: 5106479
    Abstract: A metal/metal oxide electrode for determining chlorine in aqueous solutions comprises a metallic tantalum core on which there is non-porous tantalum suboxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Habermann, Axel Anderlohr, Wolfgang Steiner
  • Patent number: 4994603
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of methyl formate by reacting methanol and carbon monoxide in the presence of an alkali metal alcoholate or alkaline earth metal alcoholate at from 30.degree. to 150.degree. C. and from 50 to 300 bar, wherein a nonionic complexing agent is used to bind the alkali metal cations or alkaline earth metal cations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Mueller, Wolfgang Steiner, Karl-Heinz Ross, Otto Kratzer
  • Patent number: 4517391
    Abstract: Ethanol is prepared by hydrogenating acetic acid under superatmospheric pressure and at elevated temperatures by a process wherein a predominantly cobalt-containing catalyst is used and acetic acid and hydrogen are passed through the reactor, at from 210.degree. to 330.degree. C. and under from 10 to 350 bar, under conditions such that a liquid phase in not formed during this procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1985
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Schuster, Ludwig, Franz-Josef Mueller, Axel Anderlohr, Peter Blei, Gerhart Eigenberger, Bernd Hoppner, Gerd Kaibel, Wolfgang Steiner
  • Patent number: D734646
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Novissa Haushaltgeräte AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Steiner, Jörg Teufel