Patents Assigned to BASF SE
  • Process for producing electrode materials
    Patent number: 9449729
    Abstract: A process for producing electrode materials, which comprises treating a mixed oxide which comprises lithium and at least one transition metal as cations with at least one oxygen-containing organic compound of sulfur or phosphorus or a corresponding alkali metal or ammonium salt of an oxygen-containing organic compound of sulfur or phosphorus, or a fully alkylated derivative of an oxygen-containing compound of sulfur or phosphorus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Schulz-Dobrick, Bastian Ewald, Jordan Keith Lampert
  • Polyurethane-based expandable polymer particles
    Patent number: 9447249
    Abstract: Expandable-polymer-particle material comprising at least one thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) with Vicat softening point (in accordance with ISO 306/ASO) below 80° C. and from 5 to 95% by weight of at least one polymer obtainable via free-radical polymerization, based on the entirety of TPU and of the polymer obtainable via free-radical polymerization, where the polymer obtainable via free-radical polymerization has been bonded to the TPU in a manner that gives a comb polymer, graft polymer, or copolymer, is suitable for the production of moldings, in particular for use as insulation material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Patrick Spies, Frank Braun, Carsten Schips, Frank Prissok, Peter Gutmann, Klaus Hahn, Bernhard Schmied
  • Process for ion exchange on zeolites
    Patent number: 9446960
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to an improved process for exchanging sodium ions in zeolites comprising sodium ions and rare earth metal ions for ammonium ions. For this exchange, aqueous solutions of ammonium salts, for example ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate or ammonium chloride, are currently being used. The resulting “ammonium zeolites” are calcined to convert them, with release of ammonia, to the H form of the zeolites suitable as a catalyst. The use of ammonium carbonate also minimizes the amount of rare earth metal ions which are leached out of the zeolites comprising rare earth metal ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hermann Luyken, William Todd Owens
  • Composition and method to improve the fuel economy of hydrocarbon fueled internal combustion engines
    Patent number: 9447351
    Abstract: A composition and method of improving the fuel economy of hydrocarbon fuel-powdered internal combustion engines. The composition contains a propoxylated and/or butoxylated reaction product of (a) at least one fatty acid, fatty acid ester, or mixture thereof and (b) a dialkanolamime. The composition is added to a hydrocarbon fuel in an amount of about 5 to about 2,000 ppm, based on the weight of the hydrocarbon fuel, to reduce friction within the engine and achieve an enhanced fuel economy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alfred K. Jung, Ludwig Voelkel, Stefano Crema, Andrea Misske
  • Process for preparing acrylic acid using an aluminum-free zeolitic material
    Patent number: 9446390
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing acrylic acid comprising (i) providing a stream comprising a formaldehyde source and acetic acid and (ii) contacting this stream with an aldol condensation catalyst comprising a zeolitic material, wherein the framework structure of the zeolitic material in (ii) includes Si and O, and has a molar Al:Si ratio of 0:1 to 0.001:1, and wherein the framework structure of the zeolitic material in (ii), in addition to Si and any Al, comprises one or more elements selected from the group consisting of tetravalent elements Y other than Si and trivalent elements X other than Al.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Armin Lange De Oliveira, Michael Lejkowski, Nicolai Tonio Woerz, Marco Hartmann, Kazuhiko Amakawa, Michael Goebel, Ulrich Mueller, Mathias Feyen, Yong Liu
  • Electrode which has been coated with a solid ion conductor which has a garnet-like crystal structure and has the stoichiometric composition LAGZrO
    Patent number: 9450271
    Abstract: The invention id directed to an article which contains a solid ion conductor which has a garnet-like crystal structure and has the stoichiometric composition L7+xAxG3?xZr2O12, where L is in each case independently a monovalent cation, A is in each case independently a divalent cation, G is in each case independently a trivalent cation, 0 ?x?3 and O can be partly or completely replaced by divalent or trivalent anion, wherein the article is a battery, an accumulator, a supercap, a fuel cell, sensor, a thermoelectric converter or an electrochromic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Werner Weppner, Ramaswamy Murugan
  • Microcapsules comprising a fat-soluble active substance
    Patent number: 9445997
    Abstract: The invention relates to microcapsule comprising at least one fat-soluble active substance selected from provitamins, vitamins and esters thereof, monounsaturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA's), carotenoids and benzoquinones embedded in a matrix comprising a hydrocolloid and optionally one or more other matrix components, wherein the content of active substance(s) is from 30 to 60% of total weight of the microcapsule, and wherein the ratio between said fat-soluble active substance(s) and said hydrocolloid is at least 4:1, as well as a process for preparing such microcapsules. The microcapsules of the invention may be used for the preparation of tablets, food products and other products including an active substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Morten Mohr Hansen, Nina Musaeus, Carsten Lynggaard Hansen
  • IMPROVING THE CHEMICAL STABILITY OF FILTRATION MEMBRANES
    Publication number: 20160263529
    Abstract: Polyethers (A), whose main chain essentially consists of repeating units of the formulae (1) and (2) in alternating order, are useful as an additive to a porous polymer membrane, or as the main polymer constituent of a porous polymer membrane, for stabilizing said membrane against detrimental effects of oxidizing agents and/or for improving the stability of a filtration module comprising said membrane against detrimental effects of oxidizing agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Edoardo MENOZZI, Martin HEIJNEN, Martin WEBER, Nicole JANSSEN
  • SILICON DIOXIDE DISPERSIONS
    Publication number: 20160264710
    Abstract: The invention relates to stable silicon dioxide dispersions and also their use for producing polyurethanes. The silicon dioxide dispersions are largely or preferably completely free of water and comprise silicon dioxide particles having an average diameter of 1-150 nm and at least one chain extender. The silicon dioxide particles can be modified by means of a silane (S) which comprises groups which are reactive toward isocyanates. Furthermore, a polyol, in particular a polyesterol and/or an isocyanate-comprising compound can be comprised in the silicon dioxide dispersions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Berend Eling, Marine Boudou, Stefan Auffarth, Oliver Reese
  • ALKOXYLATES OF S-VINYLTHIOALKANOLS
    Publication number: 20160264691
    Abstract: Unsaturated compounds of the general formula (I) where R1, R2, R3 are the same or different and are each independently H, CH3, R4 is a linear or branched C1-C30-alkylene, R5, R6 are the same or different and are each independently, H, C1-C20-alkyl, C3-C15-cycloalkyl, aryl, —CH2—O—C1-C20-alkyl, —CH2—O—C2-C20-alkenyl, where R5 and R6 may together form a C3-C6-alkylene, R7, is the same or different and is independently, H, C1-C4-alkyl, R8 is C1-C22-alkyl, C2-C22-alkenyl, and n is an integer from 2 to 200. Mixtures and polymers comprising compounds of the general formula (I). A method for preparing polymers wherein a free-radical polymerization of monomers comprising unsaturated compounds of the general formula (I) is carried out. A process for preparing polymers comprising polymer-analogous reactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sophie MAITRO-VOGEL, Martin ERNST, Christian SCHADE, Pavel TUZINA, Hoang Trang TRAN-THIEN, Eva-Maria REIS-WALTHER, Natalia SHABELINA, Nina Susanne HILLESHEIM, Christian SCHOLZ
  • USE OF AN ALKOXYLATED POLYTETRAHYDROFURAN TO REDUCE FUEL CONSUMPTION
    Publication number: 20160264899
    Abstract: The use of an alkoxylated polytetrahydrofurane of formula wherein m, m?, n, n?, p, p? and k are integers in the range of ?1, R1 denotes an unsubstituted linear or branched alkyl radical, R2 denotes —CH2—CH3, and R3 denotes a hydrogen atom or —CH3, as an additive in a fuel for reducing fuel consumption in the operation of an internal combustion engine with this fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ludwig VOELKEL, Markus HANSCH, Thomas HAYDEN, Marc WALTER, Nawid KASHANI-SHIRAZI, Thomas WEISS
  • DETECTOR FOR OPTICALLY DETECTING AT LEAST ONE OBJECT
    Publication number: 20160266257
    Abstract: A detector (110) for determining a position of at least one object (112) is proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ingmar BRUDER, Simone Christina SPILLER, Erwin THIEL, Stephan IRLE, Robert SEND, Henrike WONNEBERGER
  • ANTIFOAMING AGENTS FOR THE PAPER INDUSTRY, BASED ON OIL IN WATER EMULSIONS
    Publication number: 20160265162
    Abstract: The present invention which provides antifoaming agents for the paper industry, based on oil-in-water emulsions, in which the oil phase accounts for from 5 to 50% by weight of the emulsion if the oil phase of the emulsions contains (a) an alcohol of not less than 12 carbon atoms, fatty esters of alcohols of not less than 22 carbon atoms and C1-C36-carboxylic acids, distillation residues which are obtainable in the preparation of alcohols having a relatively large number of carbon atoms by the oxo synthesis or by the Ziegler method and which may furthermore be alkoxylated, a mixture of the stated compounds and (b) optionally a fatty ester of a C12-C22-carboxylic acid with a monohydric to trihydric C1-C18-alcohol and, (c) optionally a hydrocarbon having a boiling point above 200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Holger KERN, Christoph HAMERS, Klaus MÖLLER, Uwe ALBRECHT
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBOXYLIC ACID ESTERS AND THE USE THEREOF AS PLASTICIZERS
    Publication number: 20160264509
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of carboxylic esters by reaction of carboxylic acids and/or carboxylic anhydrides with at least one alcohol selected from alkanols having at least 5 carbon atoms, cycloalkanols, and alkoxy-alkanols, in the presence of an acidic esterification catalyst. The invention further relates to the use of the resultant carboxylic esters as plasticizers or in a plasticizer composition for thermoplastic polymers and elastomers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin KALLER, Michael KOCH, Boris BREITSCHEIDEL
  • USE OF A COMPLEX ESTER TO REDUCE FUEL CONSUMPTION
    Publication number: 20160264898
    Abstract: The use of a complex ester obtainable by esterification reaction between aliphatic linear or branched C2- to C12-dicarboxylic acids, aliphatic linear or branched polyhydroxy alcohols with 3 to 6 hydroxyl groups, and, as chain stopping agents, aliphatic linear or branched C1- to C30-monocarboxylic acids or aliphatic linear or branched monobasic Ci- to C30-alcohols, as an additive in a fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Marc WALTER, Dirk RETTEMEYER, Markus HANSCH, Ludwig VOELKEL, Bjoern Thomas HAHN, Muriel ECORMIER, Thomas HAYDEN
  • Process for the manufacture of semiconductor devices comprising the chemical mechanical polishing of elemental germanium and/or SiGematerial in the presence of a CMP composition comprising a specific organic compound
    Patent number: 9443739
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of semiconductor devices comprising the chemical mechanical polishing of elemental germanium and/or Si1-xGex material with 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bastian Marten Noller, Bettina Drescher, Christophe Gillot, Yuzhuo Li, Ning Gao
  • Preparation of pi-extended naphthalene diimides and their use as semiconductor
    Patent number: 9444058
    Abstract: The present invention provides the compounds of formulae and electronic devices comprising these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Geβner, Sabin-Lucian Suraru, Frank Würthner
  • Pesticidal pyrazole compounds
    Patent number: 9439427
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel pyrazoles of formula I wherein the variables are as defined in the description, a method for controlling invertebrate pests, a method for protecting plant propagation material and/or the plants which grow therefrom, to plant propagation material, comprising at least one compound according to the present invention, and to an agricultural composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Defieber, Sebastian Soergel, Daniel Saelinger, Ronan Le Vezouet, Karsten Koerber, Steffen Gross, Deborah L. Culbertson, Koshi Gunjima
  • Use of photosensitive molecules and metal complexes as oxygen scavenger elements
    Patent number: 9441066
    Abstract: An oxygen scavenger composition for food packaging application comprising (I) a polymeric resin, (II) one or more oligomeric photosensitizers, (III) a metal salt, preferably Cu stearate or Mn stearate; (IV) a sacrificial oxidizable substrate, and optionally (V) additional components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Edoardo Menozzi, Enrico Galfré
  • Use of polyether-based and vinyl monomer-based copolymers as binders for dosing forms comprising solid active ingredients
    Patent number: 9439971
    Abstract: The use of water-soluble or water-dispersible copolymers which are obtained by free radical-initiated polymerization of a mixture of i) 30 to 80% by weight N-vinyllactam, ii) 10 to 50% by weight vinylacetate and iii) 10 to 50% by weight of a polyether, with the proviso that the total of i), ii) and iii) is equal to 100% by weight, as binders for producing solid active ingredient-containing dosage forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Kathrin Meyer-Böhm, Rainer Dobrawa, Angelika Maschke, Karl Kolter