Patents Represented by Law Firm Connolly and Hutz
  • Patent number: 7482450
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing highly pure tris-ortho-metallated organoiridium compounds and such pure organometallic compounds which may find use as coloring components in the near future as functional components (=functional materials) in a series of different types of applications which can be classed within the electronics industry in the widest sense.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Ingrid Bach, Philipp Stössel, Hubert Spreitzer
  • Patent number: 6110505
    Abstract: The invention provides an essentially translucent liquid antacid composition with dihydroxyaluminum sodium carbonate (DASC) as the active ingredient. The DASC is prepared by co-drying DASC with a polyol, and the resulting co-dried DASC/polyol is mixed with water to form the liquid composition. The antacid composition preferably contains additional polyol to further improve the translucency of the liquid composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: McNeil PPC Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce P. Smith, John J. Dubek, Gerard P. McNally
  • Patent number: 5994284
    Abstract: Imidoperoxycarboxylic acids, processes for their preparation and their useImidopercarboxylic acids or salts thereof of the formula ##STR1## in which A denotes a group of the formula ##STR2## n denotes the number 0, 1 or 2, R.sup.1 denotes hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.20 -alkenyl, aryl, or alkylaryl,R.sup.2 denotes hydrogen, chlorine, bromine or a group of the formula --SO.sub.3 M, --CO.sub.2 M, CO.sub.3 M or OSO.sub.3 M,M denotes hydrogen, an alkali metal or ammonium ion or the equivalent of an alkaline earth metal ion andX denotes C.sub.3 -C.sub.19 -alkylene or arylene, preferably phenylene.These compounds are suitable as stable peroxide compounds in bleaching, oxidizing and cleaning agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Hanspeter Gethoffer, Gerd Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 5985784
    Abstract: A highly effective catalyst system for the polymerization or copolymerization of olefins comprises at least one metallocene as transition-metal compound and at least one aluminum compound of the formula II ##STR1## and/or of the formula (III) ##STR2## where, in the formulae (II) and (III), the radicals R.sup.14 may be identical or different and are an alkyl group, an aryl group, benzyl or hydrogen, and p is an integer from 2 to 50, and at least one aluminum compound of the formula IV ##STR3## where R.sup.15, R.sup.16 and R.sup.17 are identical or different and are a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkylsilyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an alkenyl group, an arylalkyl group, an alkylaryl group, an arylalkenyl group, a halogen atom or a radical of the formula --OSiR.sup.15 R.sup.16 R.sup.17 where R.sup.15, R.sup.16 and R.sup.17 are as defined in the description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Targor GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Winter, Volker Dolle, Walter Spaleck
  • Patent number: 5962359
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multinuclear metallocene compound of the formula I, ##STR1## where M.sup.1 is a tetravalent metal, L.sup.1 are, independently of one another, identical or different and are each a substituted cyclopentadienyl group, L.sup.2 and L.sup.3 are, independently of one another, identical or different and are each a .pi. ligand, B are, independently of one another, identical or different and are each a divalent bridging unit, X are, independently of one another, identical or different and are each a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -fluorocarbon radical or a hydrocarbon-containing radical having 1-40 carbon atoms, and k is an integer from 0 to 10. The metallocene compound of the present invention is suitable as a catalyst component for preparing olefin polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Targor GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Aulbach, Cornelia Fritze, Hans-Friedrich Herrmann, Frank Kuber, Walter Spaleck, Roland Zenk
  • Patent number: 5944854
    Abstract: According to the invention, a process for the preparation of triphendioxazines systemetrically or asymmetrically amidated on both sides comprises reducing a triphendioxazine chromophore, which is optionally already amidated on one side, to give the leuco form end amidating and re-oxidizing the leuco form. Products amidated on both sides are obtained in this manner with a high yield and product quality. Novel triphendioxazine dyestuffs are furthermore prepared in this manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Dystar Textilfarben GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Christian Schumacher, Karl-Josef Herd
  • Patent number: 5931974
    Abstract: A dye mixture comprising one or more disazo dyes composed of 1-amino-3,6-disulfo-8-naphthol as the coupling component and of two diazo components of the aniline series containing each a fiber-reactive group of the vinylsulfone series, one or more monoazo dyes composed of a carboxy-substituted benzoylamino-sulfo-naphthol coupling component and a diazo component of the aniline series, containing a fiber-reactive group of the vinylsulfone series and optionally one or two monoazo dyes with 1-amino-3,6-disulfo-8-naphthol as a coupling component to which is coupled in the ortho-position to the amino group a diazo component of the aniline series substituted by a fiber-reactive group of the vinylsulfone series. The dye mixtures yield on hydroxy- and/or carboxamido-containing fiber materials, such as cellulose fibers, in particular cotton, or on, for example, wool and synthetic polyamide fibers, deep black dyeings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Dystar Textilfarben GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Ronald P. Pedemonte
  • Patent number: 5932768
    Abstract: 4-aminodiphenylamines are prepared by hydrogenating nitrosobenzene or mixtures of nitrosobenzene and nitrobenzene with hydrogen in the presence of bases containing hydroxide, oxide and/or alkoxide groups and heterogeneous catalysts in inert aprotic solvents at temperatures of from 0 to 200.degree. C. and at pressures of from 0.1 to 150 bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Bayer AG
    Inventors: Pieter Ooms, Ulrich Notheis, Christian Laue
  • Patent number: 5925785
    Abstract: The invention relates to secondary and tertiary phosphines of the formula ##STR1## in which R is hydrogen, an aryl or benzyl group or a straight-chain or branched alkyl group, n is 1 or 2 and M is potassium or sodium.These phosphines are prepared by reacting either alkali metal salts of fluorobenzene-2,4-disulfonic acid with phosphine or with primary or secondary phosphines, or secondary phosphines of the type HP?C.sub.6 H.sub.3 -2,4-(SO.sub.3 M).sub.2 !.sub.2 with a compound RX in which R is an alkyl, aryl or benzyl group and X is a halogen, in an aprotic solvent in the presence of at least stoichiometric quantities of a solid, powdered alkali metal hydroxide at temperatures of from 0 to 100.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Celanese GmbH
    Inventors: Othmar Stelzer, Oliver Herd, Norbert Weferling
  • Patent number: 5925791
    Abstract: 4-aminodiphenylamines are produced by hydrogenating nitrobenzene with hydrogen in the presence of bases containing hydroxide and/or oxide groups and heterogeneous catalysts and in the presence of inert aprotic solvents at temperatures of 0 to 200.degree. C. and pressures of 0.1 to 150 bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Bayer AG
    Inventors: Hans-Josef Buysch, Christian Laue, Heinrich Konigshofen, Ulrich Notheis, Pieter Ooms, Ursula Pentling
  • Patent number: 5914369
    Abstract: The reaction of polyvinyl acetate in methanolic solution with methanolic sodium hydroxide at a temperature between 10.degree. C. and 65.degree. C. with stirring at a stirring speed of from 5 to 200 rpm with a stirrer which has a ratio of stirrer diameter (d) to container diameter (D) in the range of 0.6<d/D<0.999 leads to a homogeneously hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Fuss, Hans-Karl Mueller
  • Patent number: 5910534
    Abstract: Stable, aqueous dispersions of copolymers based on conjugated, aliphatic dienes and vinyl aromatic compounds are prepared by carrying out the emulsion polymerisation in the presence of water and emulsifiers and in the presence of water-soluble initiators, with 15 to 85 wt. % of the total of the emulsifiers used being added within the time in which up to 40% of the overall conversion of the components used is attained, and with 1 to 50% of the carboxylic acid groups contained in the additionally used ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids being neutralized by the addition of bases during the emulsion polymerisation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Ostrowicki, Joachim Waldi, Dennis-Wayne Jones
  • Patent number: 5905128
    Abstract: This invention relates to (co)polymers which contain at least one repeat chain unit of the general formula (1) or (2) and optionally repeat units of the general formula (3), ##STR1## in which L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 denote a photoluminescent residue,wherein the proportion of structural units of the formulae (1) and/or (2) is in each case 0.5 to 100 mol. % and of (3) is 0 to 99.5 mol. % and the molar percentages add up to 100,to the use thereof for the production of electroluminescent arrangements and to the electroluminescent arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Bayer AG
    Inventors: Yun Chen, Rolf Wehrmann, Andreas Elschner, Ralf Dujardin
  • Patent number: 5905133
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the continuous production of thermoplastically processable polyurethanes having improved processing behaviour, wherein in a multistep reactionA) one or more linear hydroxyl-terminated polyols a) having a molecular weight of from 500 to 5000 are mixed continuously with a proportion of an organic diisocyanate b) in an NCO:OH ratio of from 2.0:1 to 5.0:1, in a mixing unit at high shear energy,B) the mixture prepared in step A) is reacted continuously to form an isocyanate-terminated prepolymer in a reactor at temperatures of >120.degree. C., until a conversion of >90%, referred to component a), is achieved,C) the prepolymer prepared in step B) is mixed with the remainder of component b), an NCO:OH ratio of from 2.05:1 to 6:1 being established overall in steps A) to C) and an NCO:OH ratio of 0.9 to 1.1 being established when all the components of steps A) to F) are included,D) the mixture prepared in step C) is cooled to a temperature of <190.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Friedemann Muller, Wolfgang Brauer, Herbert Heidingsfeld, Wolfgang Rohrig, Hans-Georg Hoppe, Jurgen Winkler
  • Patent number: 5902903
    Abstract: In the process described, purification and improvement in odor of, in particular, fatty alkyldimethylamines is achieved by exposing, in the liquid phase, the tertiary amine to be treated to a vacuum or an inert gas stream. By means of the process according to the invention, in a relatively short time and in a simple and economical manner, a tertiary fatty alkylmethylamine is obtained which is essentially trimethylamine-free and improved in odor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Papenfuhs, Hubert Seitz, Andreas Gallas
  • Patent number: 5891293
    Abstract: In a method for bonding a foam-fabric composite to a molded foam core, particularly suitable for use as an automotive cushion assembly, specific advantageous polymeric MDI-based foams are used to achieve consistently excellent bond strength. In the method, a foam layer is flame laminated to a fabric layer. Then the foam-fabric laminate and an air impervious adhesive film are placed over a mold surface, and the adhesive is drawn against the foam of the foam-fabric laminate and the fabric layer is urged against the mold surface by applied vacuum. The foam core pad is placed adjacent to the adhesive film. The film is heated and diffused into the foam pad and into the foam of the foam-fabric laminate, respectively, and allowed to cure. The foam layer laminated to the fabric is formed as the reaction product of a polyether polyol or a graft polyether polyol with from about 30 to about 60 parts by weight of an MDI or a polymeric MDI/TDI blended isocyanate or mixtures thereof, from about 1.5 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Foamex L.P.
    Inventors: David J. Kelly, Paul Haslanger
  • Patent number: 5891975
    Abstract: The present invention relates to (co)polymers which contain at least one repeat chain unit of the general formula (1) or (2) and optionally repeat units of the general formula (3), ##STR1## in which L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 mutually independently mean a photoluminescent residue, to a process for the production thereof, to the use thereof in electroluminescent devices and to the electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Yun Chen, Burkhard Kohler, Rolf Wehrmann, Andreas Elschner, Ralf Dujardin
  • Patent number: 5886240
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing aromatic acetylenes of the formula (I): Ar--C.tbd.C--R.sup.8a, where Ar is: ##STR1## by reacting haloaromatics or aryl sulfonates of the formula (II): Ar--X, with monosubstituted acetylenes of the formula (III): Ar--C.tbd.C--R.sup.8a, where Ar is defined above and X is bromine, chlorine or OSO.sub.2 R, in the presence of a palladium compound catalyst of the formula (IV): ##STR2## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6 are, independently of one another, hydrogen (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4)-alkyl, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4)-alkoxy, fluorine, NH.sub.2, NH-alkyl-(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4), N(alkyl).sub.2 -(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4), CO.sub.2 -alkyl-(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4), OCO-alkyl-(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4), or phenyl, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6, together form an aliphatic or aromatic ring, and R.sup.7, R.sup.8 are (C.sub.1 -C.sub.8)-alkyl, (C.sub.3 -C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Beller, Claus Peter Reisinger, Wolfgang Anton Herrmann
  • Patent number: RE36449
    Abstract: Chimeric gene for conferring to plants an increased tolerance to a herbicide having as its target EPSPS comprises, in the direction of transcription, a promoter region, a transit peptide region, a coding sequence for glyphosate tolerance and a polyadenylation signal region, wherein the transit peptide region comprises, in the direction of translation, at least one transit peptide of a plant gene encoding a plastid-localised enzyme, a partial sequence of the N-terminal mature part of a plant gene encoding a plastid-localised enzyme and then a second transit peptide of a plant gene encoding a plastid-localised enzyme. Production of glyphosate-tolerant plants is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Agro
    Inventors: Michel Lebrun, Bernard Leroux, Alain Sailland
  • Patent number: D420403
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: William T. Wilkinson
    Inventors: Philip D. Bart, William T. Wilkinson