Patents Assigned to BASF SE
  • Patent number: 12319802
    Abstract: Described herein are polyamide foam particles including a polymer mixture including: (A) from 25 to 95 wt.-% of at least one polyamide, which is different from a copolyamide (B); and (B) from 5 to 75 wt.-% of at least one copolyamide prepared by polymerizing the following components: (B1) from 15 to 84 wt.-% of at least one lactam; and (B2) from 16 to 85 wt.-% of monomer mixture (M) including; (M1) at least one C32-C40 dimer acid; and (M2) at least one C4-C12 diamine; where the sum of the components (B1) and (B2) are 100 wt.-%. Also described herein is a process for preparing such polyamide foam particles and polyamide particle foam moldings obtainable by steam-chest molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Daniela Longo-Schedel, Isa Alexandra Queiroz Da Fonseca, Patrick Spies, Rene Holschuh, Rainer Birli, Angelika Keller
  • Patent number: 12319777
    Abstract: Described herein is a process for preparing a polyurethane-polyisocyanurate compound by mixing a) at least one polyisocyanate; b) a mixture (M); c) at least one compound including one or more epoxide groups; d) at least one aliphatic polyol (P1) having a high weight average molecular weight; e) at least one polyol (P2) having a low weight average molecular weight; f) at least one compatibilizer; and, optionally, g) fillers and further additives to form a reaction mixture (RM); and reacting the mixture (RM) to give the polyurethane-polyisocyanurate compound. Also described herein are a polyurethane-polyisocyanurate compound obtainable by the process and a method of using the polyurethane-polyisocyanurate compound for producing bodywork components for vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Julia Liese, Stefan Bokern
  • Publication number: 20250170564
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process preparing a zeolitic material having an AEI-type framework structure, wherein the framework structure comprises SiO2 and X2O3 and X is a trivalent element, and wherein the process comprises: (1) preparing a mixture comprising one or more cationic structure directing agents comprising a heterocyclic amine ring, seed crystals, and a first zeolitic material comprising SiO2 and X2O3 in its framework structure and having an FAU-type framework structure; and (2) heating the mixture to obtain a second zeolitic material comprising SiO2 and X2O3 in its framework structure and having an AEI-type framework structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2025
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Yu Dai, Stefan Maurer, Ulrich Mueller, Indre Thiel
  • Publication number: 20250172928
    Abstract: An automation system controls an automated production process of an industrial plant. The system includes an augmented reality system, including augmented reality glasses and executable program logic coupled to the augmented reality glasses. The executable program logic is configured to receive an up-to-date spatial position of a user wearing the augmented reality glasses from a positioning system, determine coordinates of a bounding space proximate to the user wearing the AR-glasses, display one or more virtual objects to the wearer of the AR glasses via the AR glasses if and only if coordinates of the virtual objects are within the bounding space, and continuously update the coordinates of the three-dimensional bounding space and the virtual objects displayed therein as a function of the up-to-date spatial position of the user wearing the AR glasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Hartmann, Hans Rudolph
  • Patent number: 12315925
    Abstract: Particulate electrode active material with an average particle diameter in the range of from 2 to 20 ?m (D50) having a general formula Li1+xTM1?xO2 wherein TM is a combination of Ni, Co and Al, and, optionally, at least one more metal selected from Mg, Ti, Zr, Nb, Ta, Mo, Mn, and W, with at least 80 mole-% of TM being Ni, and wherein x is in the range of from zero to 0.2, wherein the Co content at the outer surface of the secondary particles is higher than at the center of the secondary particles by a factor of at most 5 or by at most 30 mol-%, referring to TM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignees: BASF SE, IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
    Inventors: Benjamin Johannes Herbert Bergner, Yang-Kook Sun, Geon-Tae Park, Ji Yong Shin
  • Patent number: 12312654
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for the recovery of one or more transition metals and lithium from waste lithium ion batteries or parts thereof. The process includes the steps of (a) providing a particulate material containing a transition metal compound and/or transition metal; (b) treating the material provided in step (a) with a polar solvent and optionally an alkaline earth hydroxide, (c) separating the solids from the liquid, optionally followed by a solid-solid separation step; and (d) treating the solids containing the transition metal in a way to dissolve at least part of the Ni and/or Co. The process provides good separation of lithium in high purity and of transition metal useful for the production of battery cathode active materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wolfgang Rohde, Birgit Gerke, Regina Vogelsang, Matthias Voges, Kerstin Schierle-Arndt, Fabian Seeler, Torben Adermann
  • Publication number: 20250163613
    Abstract: A process produces a multi-filament by melt-spinning a composition containing a thermoplastic polyurethane. The process includes (a) passing the composition in a molten state through a spinneret, to obtain an extruded filament; (b) passing the extruded filament through a set of godet rollers; and (c) winding the extruded filament from (b) onto a bobbin through a winder with a winding speed of 2000-5000 m/min. The thermoplastic polyurethane has a Shore hardness measured according to DIN ISO 7619-1 of 68D-90D. A multi-filament is obtained from the process of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: De Hui Yin, Hui Zhi Yan, Qing Huai Tang, Dian Jun Chen
  • Patent number: 12297167
    Abstract: A process for preparing methanol from carbon dioxide and hydrogen in a methanol synthesis unit and working up the reaction mixture obtained stepwise to isolate the methanol, wherein the carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, dimethyl ether and methane components of value from the streams separated off in the isolation of the methanol from the methanol reaction stream are combusted with an oxygenous gas, and the carbon dioxide in the resultant flue gas is separated off in a carbon dioxide recovery unit and recycled to the methanol synthesis unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Maximilian Vicari, Susanne Britzius, Sven Reining, Torsten Katz, Thomas Geiger, Gerald Meyer
  • Patent number: 12298743
    Abstract: A system (10) for monitoring and/or controlling one or more chemical plant(s) (12) including at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34), wherein the at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34) is associated with a secure network (20) and communicatively coupled to an interface (26) for providing process or asset specific data or process applications to an external processing layer (30), wherein the at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34) is configured to add a transfer tag to the process or asset specific data or to the process application and to provide the process or asset specific data or the process application based on the transfer tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jan De Caigny, Bart Van Loon, Sebastian Gau, Daniel Engel
  • Patent number: 12298753
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for monitoring and/or controlling a chemical plant (12) with multiple assets via a distributed computing system (10) with more than two deployment layers (14, 16, 30, 32, 34), wherein the deployment layers (14, 16, 30, 32, 34) comprise at least two of a first processing layer (14), a second processing layer (16, 32, 34) and an external processing layer (30), the method comprising the steps of: providing (60) a containerized application (48, 50) including an asset or plant template specifying input data, output data and an asset or plant model, deploying (62) the containerized application (48, 50) to execute on at least one of the deployment layers (14, 16, 30, 32, 34), wherein the deployment layer (14, 16, 30, 32, 34) is assigned based on the input data, a load indicator, or a system layer tag, and executing the containerized application (46, 52, 54) on the assigned deployment layer(s) (14, 16, 30, 32, 34) to generate output data for controlling and/or monitoring the chemical plant (12),
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alexander Walzenbach, Marco Klaus Jaeger, Jan Buck
  • Patent number: 12296391
    Abstract: The present invention relates to security elements, comprising (a) a substrate, (b) on at least part of the substrate surface a metal layer, (c) optionally on at least part of the metal layer a dielectric layer, (d) on at least part of the metal layer, or the dielectric layer, a layer obtained by overcoating the metal layer, or the dielectric layer with a composition, comprising (i) silver nanoparticles, (ii) a solvent, (iii) (surface) stabilizing agent(s) and (iv) optionally a binder, and (e) a protective layer on top of layer (d). The maximum absorption wavelength of the silver nanoparticles in layer (d) is controlled by the amount of (surface) stabilizing agent(s) and optionally binder relative to the amount of silver nanoparticles to be preferably in the range of 700 to 1600 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Nikolay A. Grigorenko, Michelle Richert
  • Patent number: 12297174
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidone particularly comprising (i) providing a reactor containing a catalyst comprising a zeolitic material having a framework structure of FAU, wherein the zeolitic material comprises YO2 and X2O3 in its framework structure, wherein Y is a tetravalent element and X is a trivalent element, wherein the zeolitic material has an YO2 to X2O3 molar ratio of 16 to 175; (ii) preparing a reaction mixture comprising acetone and ammonia; (iii) contacting the catalyst in the reactor with the reaction mixture prepared in (ii) at a temperature in the range of from 40 to 250° C. for obtaining a reaction product comprising 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidone; wherein the mixture prepared in (ii) and contacted with the catalyst in (iii) contains less than 10 weight-% of water based on 100 weight-% of the reaction mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Heydt, Michael Schmitt, Alvaro Gordillo Bolonio, Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Ulrich Mueller, Michael Kuebler
  • Patent number: 12297440
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing promoters and the production of plants with enhanced expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to said promoters and/or introduced into plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank Meulewaeter, Shirong Zhang, Christophe Liseron-Monfils
  • Patent number: 12297396
    Abstract: A fuel emulsion for powering a diesel engine contains water, a fuel, and an emulsifier package containing a quaternary ammonium surfactant. A method for powering a diesel engine with the fuel emulsion involves preparing the fuel emulsion by emulsifying a fuel and water in the presence of the emulsifier package. An emulsifier package for emulsifying a fuel and water contains a quaternary ammonium surfactant and at least one nonionic surfactant, which is an alkoxylate. The quaternary ammonium surfactant is obtainable by reacting a quaternizable nitrogen compound containing at least one quaternizable, especially tertiary, amino group with a quaternizing agent, which converts the at least one quaternizable, especially tertiary, amino group to a quaternary ammonium group, where the quaternizing agent is a hydrocarbyl epoxide in combination with a free hydrocarbyl-substituted polycarboxylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Marcel Harhausen, Thorsten Schoeppe
  • Patent number: 12297534
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of processes for preparing inorganic metal- or semimetal-containing films. The process for preparing inorganic metal- or semimetal-containing films comprising (a) depositing a metal- or semimetal-containing compound from the gaseous state onto a solid substrate and (b) bringing the solid substrate with the deposited metal- or semimetal-containing compound in contact with a compound of general formula (I) or (II) wherein Z is NR2, PR2, OR, SR, CR2, SiR2, X is H, R? or NR?2, wherein at least one X is H, n is 1 or 2, and R and R? is an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, or a silyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignees: BASF SE, Wayne State University
    Inventors: Sinja Verena Klenk, Alexander Georg Hufnagel, Hagen Wilmer, Daniel Löffler, Sabine Weiguny, Kerstin Schierle-Arndt, Charles Hartger Winter, Nilanka Weerathunga Sirikkathuge
  • Patent number: 12296328
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reactor comprising a moving bed of solid particles that move in the direction of gravitation, and to a method for heating a reactor that comprises a moving bed, for the purpose of pyrolysis reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Heinz Posselt, Otto Machhammer, Markus Weikl, Nicolai Antweiler, Karsten Büker
  • Publication number: 20250146102
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for leaching a material comprising copper in a zero oxidation state, wherein the method comprises contacting the material with an acidic aqueous solution having a pH less than 6 to form a leaching mixture, and oxidizing the copper with an oxidizing agent of formula LipMqM?rOs. M comprises one or more metals chosen from nickel, manganese, and cobalt, M? comprises one or more metals chosen from Mg, Ca, Ba, Al, Ti, Zr, Zn, Fe, V, Mo, and W; p ranges from 1 to 1.4; q ranges from 0.6 to 2; r ranges from 0 to 1; s ranges from 2 to 4; and a total amount of copper present in the material before leaching in moles divided by a total amount of the oxidizing agent in moles, mols(Cu)/moIs(OA), ranges from n(eM)/8 to 2 n(eM); n(eM)_=2(s-q)-p-r?oxm? and OxM? is the average oxidation number of M? determined by calculating the molar average of the most stable oxidation number for each metal, as an oxide, comprised by M?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wolfgang Rohde, Nils-Olof Joachim Born, Marc Duchardt, Vincent Smith, Fabian Seeler, Anne-Marie Caroline Zieschang
  • Publication number: 20250144812
    Abstract: An automation system controls an automated production process of an industrial plant including a plurality of equipment for performing the production process. The system includes an augmented reality system, including a database system configured to store data and spatial coordinates associated with respective equipment of the plurality of equipment, augmented reality glasses configured to display the data, and executable program logic coupled to the augmented reality glasses. The executable program logic receives an up-to-date spatial position of a user from a positioning system and the data of equipment that are located in a proximity of the up-to-date spatial position of the user from the database system and control the augmented reality glasses for display of at least some of the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Hartmann, Hans Rudolph
  • Publication number: 20250145742
    Abstract: A medium molecular polyisobutene composition has a number-average molecular weight Mn of more than 10000 and up to 100000 g/mol with a high content of tetra-substituted double bond isomers from 20% to 75% in sum. The polyisobutene composition shows a high reactivity in thermal and/or photoreactions and/or radical backbone functionalisation and/or chlorine-based functionalisation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Svenja Wesp, Markus Brym, Paul Lederhose
  • Patent number: 12291690
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an ether or an ester of a tertiary alkanol or of mixtures of two or more ethers or esters of tertiary alkanols or of a stereoisomer thereof or of a mixture of two or more stereoisomers thereof as aromachemicals; to the use thereof for modifying the scent character of a fragranced composition; to an aroma chemical composition containing an ether or an ester of tertiary alkanol or of mixtures of two or more ethers or esters of tertiary alkanols or of a stereoisomer thereof or of a mixture of two or more stereoisomers thereof; and to a method of preparing a fragranced composition or for modifying the scent character of a fragranced composition. The invention further relates to specific ethers or esters of tertiary alkanols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christoph Stock, Miriam Bru Roig, Ralf Pelzer, Florian Garlichs, Manuel Danz