Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Polyarylene ether sulfone-polymers for membrane applications
    Patent number: 10265663
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming a polyarylene ether sulfone polymer by converting a reaction mixture (RG) comprising a dihalogen component (A1), a dihydroxy component (B1) and potassium carbonate (C1) having a volume-average particle size of <25 ?m. The present invention further relates to the polyarylene ether sulfone polymers obtainable by said method, to products obtainable from said polyarylene ether sulfone polymer and to membranes formed from said polyarylene ether sulfone polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Weber, Christian Maletzko, Joerg Erbes, Tobias Kortekamp, Bastiaan Bram Pieter Staal, Thomas Heil
  • Zeolitic materials and methods for their preparation using alkenyltrialkylammonium compounds
    Patent number: 10266417
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a zeolitic material comprising the steps of: (1) providing a mixture comprising one or more sources for YO2 and one or more alkenyltrialkylammonium cation R1R2R3R4N+-containing compounds as structure directing agent; and (2) crystallizing the mixture obtained in step (1) to obtain a zeolitic material; wherein Y is a tetravalent element, and wherein R1, R2, and R3 independently from one another stand for alkyl; and R4 stands for alkenyl, as well as to zeolitic materials which may be obtained according to the inventive process and to their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Mathias Feyen, Ulrich Müller, Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Bernd Bastian Schaack, Sebastian Ahrens, Dirk Gerhard, Sunghee Son, Gabriele Iffland, Bianca Seelig
  • Rapidly suspendable pulverulent composition
    Patent number: 10266700
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pulverulent composition preparable by contacting a powder with 0.01 to 50 wt %, based on the overall mass of the composition, of a liquid component comprising at least one copolymer obtainable by polymerizing a mixture of monomers comprising (I) at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer which comprises at least one radical from the series carboxylic acid, carboxylic salt, carboxylic ester, carboxylic amide, carboxylic anhydride, and carboxylic imide and (II) at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer having a polyalkylene oxide radical, the liquid component comprising at least 1 wt % of the at least one copolymer and at least 30 wt % of an organic solvent, and the powder which is contacted with the liquid component comprising no inorganic binder. Further disclosed is a binder composition which comprises a pulverulent composition of the invention and an inorganic binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Manfred Bichler, Michael Schinabeck, Torben Gädt, Oliver Mazanec
  • Polyurethane foams comprising phosphorus compounds
    Patent number: 10266635
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polyurethanes obtained by mixing to give a reaction mixture of (a) polyisocyanate, (b) polymeric compounds having groups reactive toward isocyanates, (c) catalysts comprising incorporable amine catalysts, (d) phosphoric esters, polyphosphates, phosphonic esters, and/or phosphorous esters, and optionally (e) blowing agents, (f) chain extenders and/or crosslinking agents, and (h) auxiliaries and/or additives, and completing the reaction of the reaction mixture to give the polyurethane. The invention further relates to a process for producing these polyurethanes and to their use in automobile interiors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Iran Otero Martinez, Udo Hadick, Andre Meyer
  • Production of shaped articles
    Patent number: 10266662
    Abstract: Disclosed are electrically conducting shaped articles and also a process for producing same from granular and/or fibrous substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Lucia Jimenez Garcia, Kathrin Michl, Ingolf Hennig, Kitty Chih-Pei Cha, Matthias Georg Schwab
  • Method of mineral oil production
    Patent number: 10266751
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing mineral oil from underground mineral oil deposits, in which an aqueous formulation comprising at least a mixture of alkyl ether carboxylate and corresponding alkyl ether alcohol, where the alkyl ether carboxylate has been prepared from the alkyl ether alcohol and the molar ratio in the mixture of alkyl ether carboxylate:alkyl ether alcohol is from 51:49 to 92:8, is injected through at least one injection well into a mineral oil deposit, where the deposit has a deposit temperature of 55° C. to 150° C., a crude oil having more than 20° API and a deposit water having more than 100 ppm of divalent cations, and crude oil is withdrawn through at least one production well from the deposit. The invention further relates to the preparation of the mixture and to a concentrate comprising the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Bittner, Günter Oetter, Sebastian Alexander Weiβe, Hans-Christian Raths, Jack Tinsley, Marcel Kienle
  • Process for preparing terpinene-4-ol
    Patent number: 10266469
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing terpinene-4-ol from limonene-4-ol via a hydrogenation reaction in the presence of a nickel catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Agro B.V.
    Inventors: Bernd Wolf, Michael Rack, Stefan Benson, Roland Goetz, Helmut Kraus
  • Process for preparing a mixture of terpene alcohols
    Patent number: 10266468
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a mixture of terpene alcohols comprising limonene-4-ol and terpinene-4-ol from terpinolene epoxide via an isomerization and/or hydrogenation reaction in the presence of a copper catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Agro B.V.
    Inventors: Bernd Wolf, Michael Rack, Stefan Benson, Roland Goetz, Helmut Kraus
  • Plasticizer composition comprising polymeric dicarboxylic esters
    Patent number: 10266672
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plasticizer composition which comprises at least one polymeric dicarboxylic ester, to molding compositions which comprise a thermoplastic polymer or an elastomer and such a plasticizer composition, and to the use of these plasticizer compositions and molding compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Pfeiffer, Boris Breitscheidel, Axel Grimm, Herbert Morgenstern
  • Polyetheramines with low melting point
    Patent number: 10266649
    Abstract: Described herein are substituted polyetheramines with a low melting point which are obtainable by condensation of at least two N-(hydroxyalkyl)amines to obtain a polyetheramine and subsequent reaction of at least one remaining hydroxy group and/or, if present, at least one secondary amino group of said polyetheramine with ethylene oxide and at least one further alkylene oxide to obtain a substituted polyetheramine. Uses of such substituted polyetheramines in fields of cosmetic formulations, as crude oil emulsion brakers, in pigment dispersions of ink jets, in electro paintings, or in cementitious compositions as well as methods wherein said substituted polyetheramines are used in said fields are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sophia Ebert, Bjoern Ludolph, Brian J. Loughnane
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING AN UNSATURATED CARBOXYLIC ACID SALT
    Publication number: 20190112251
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalytic process for preparing an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid salt, comprising contacting an alkene and carbon dioxide with a carboxylation catalyst being a transition metal complex, an alkoxide, and an organic solvent, to obtain an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid salt, the organic solvent being incompletely miscible with water at a pressure of 1 bar at at least one temperature T and selected from amides and ureas, T being a temperature in the range from 10° C. to 90° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas SCHAUB, Rocco PACIELLO, Nuria HUGUET SUBIELA, Oliver TRAPP, Simone MANZINI
  • ELECTROLYTE COMPRISING CYCLIC DINITRILES AND FLUOROETHERS
    Publication number: 20190115624
    Abstract: The invention is aimed at combining dinitrile heterocyclic additives with fluoroethers additives for electrolyte compositions, electrolyte compositions containing the additives and electrochemical devices containing the additives. The electrolyte compositions are suitable for use in electrochemical devices such as lithium ion batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Mei Mei WU, Jacky YANG, Itamar Michael MALKOWSKY
  • SPRING ELEMENT FOR A VEHICLE SHOCK ABSORBER, AND VEHICLE SHOCK ABSORBER AND VEHICLE HAVING SAME
    Publication number: 20190113097
    Abstract: A spring element for a vehicle shock absorber. The spring element includes a longitudinal axis and a basic body that extends along the longitudinal axis and is deformable resiliently between an uncompressed basic state and a state compressed in the direction of a longitudinal axis, and which includes an end side with a stop surface configured for contact against a damper cap of the vehicle shock absorber. The stop surface is at least partially structured. A passenger motor vehicle car can include such a spring element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventor: Frank THYE-MOORMANN
  • POROUS THERMOPLASTIC MEMBRANES
    Publication number: 20190112474
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a membrane, comprising a polyurethane (PU1), wherein the polyurethane (PU1) is based on 80 to 100% by weight of a mixture of at least one diol (D1) and at least one polyisocyanate (I1), and 0 to 20% by weight of at least one compound (C1) with at least two functional groups which are reactive towards isocyanate groups. Furthermore, the present invention is directed to a process for preparing a membrane, comprising providing a solution (L1) at least comprising a polyurethane (PU1) and preparing a membrane from solution (L1) using phase inversion; as well as the use of a membrane according to the present invention for coating a woven article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver GRONWALD, Martin WEBER, Juergen AHLERS, Frank PRISSOK
  • RADIATION CURABLE COATING COMPOSITION BASED ON CHAIN-EXTENDED AND CROSS-LINKED POLYURETHANES
    Publication number: 20190112500
    Abstract: The invention relates to aqueous polyurethane dispersions that are curable with UV radiation. The polyurethanes are chain-extended with aromatic, cycloaliphatic or aliphatic diamine compound and cross-linked with aliphatic triamine compound. The polyurethanes are useful dispersions for coating various substrates. The use of the invented dispersions results in high hardness, very good flexibility and good chemical resistance in both clear coats and pigmented coatings before and after UV curing combined with very good adhesion to different substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sebastian BERGER, Peter Thuery, Susanne Neumann, Christine Roesch, Uwe Burkhardt, Katharina Andes, Stefan Wahl, Manfred Biehler, Sebastian Roller
  • PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A POLYACRYLAMIDE SOLUTION WITH INCREASED VISCOSITY
    Publication number: 20190112399
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a polyacrylamide solution having increased viscosity. In particular, the present invention is related to the separation of a biocatalyst from an aqueous acrylamide solution prepared utilizing the biocatalyst prior to polymerization of the aqueous acrylamide solution to polyacrylamide. A polyacrylamide solution having in creased viscosity is well suited to be used in tertiary oil recovery. Accordingly, the present application provides means and methods to crucially improve the quality of polyacrylamide solutions for use in tertiary oil recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bjoern LANGLOTZ, Linda GARELLA, Michael Guenter BRAUN, Juergen DAEUWEL
  • Nitrous oxide removal catalysts for exhaust systems
    Patent number: 10260395
    Abstract: A nitrous oxide (N2O) removal catalyst composite is described, which includes: a N2O removal catalytic material on a carrier, wherein the catalytic material comprises a platinum group metal (PGM) component on a ceria-containing support having a single phase, cubic fluorite crystal structure. The catalytic material is effective to decompose nitrous oxide (N2O) to nitrogen (N2) and oxygen (O2) and/or to reduce N2O to N2 and water (H2O) and/or (CO2) under conditions of an exhaust stream of an internal combustion engine operating under conditions that are stoichiometric or lean with periodic rich transient excursions. Methods of making and using the same are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Yuejin Li, Xiaolai Zheng, Stanley A. Roth, Olga Gerlach, Andreas Sundermann
  • PT and/or PD egg-shell catalyst and use thereof
    Patent number: 10258967
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of catalysis. More particularly, the present invention is directed to supported precious metal catalysts, preferably palladium and/or platinum metal catalysts, having a high metal loading, a high degree of dispersion and a high degree of edge-coating. The present invention is further directed to a process for producing these catalysts, as well as to the use of these catalysts in chemical reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Witte, Lei Zhang, Robert Terorde
  • 3-phenyl-benzofuran-2-one derivatives containing phosphorus as stabilizers
    Patent number: 10259931
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising an organic material susceptible to oxidative, thermal or light-induced degradation and a compound of formula I-P, I-O or I-M Further embodiments are a compound of formula I-P, I-O or I-M, a process for protection of the organic material by the compound, the use of the compound for stabilizing the organic material, an additive composition comprising the compound, a process for manufacturing the compound and intermediates involved therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Werner Hoelzl, Bruno Rotzinger, Kai-Uwe Schoening, Roswell Easton King
  • Process for preparing a mixture comprising 5-(hydroxymethyl) furfural and specific HMF esters
    Patent number: 10259797
    Abstract: Provided herein is a process for preparing a mixture including 5-(hydroxy-methyl)furfural (HMF) and one or more HMF esters of formula (I), the process including the following steps: (A-1) preparing or providing a starting mixture which includes one, two or more carbohydrate compounds and as the solvent or as a co-solvent for the carbohydrate compounds an amount of one or more carboxylic acid esters of formula (II); (A-2) subjecting the starting mixture to reaction conditions so that at least one of the one, two or more carbohydrate compounds reacts, and a fraction of the amount of one or more carboxylic acid esters of formula (II) is hydrolyzed, so that a mixture results that includes 5-(hydroxy-methyl)furfural and/or the one or more HMF esters of formula (I), one or more carboxylic acids of formula (III) and a remaining fraction of the amount of one or more carboxylic acid esters of formula (II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alvaro Gordillo, Martin Alexander Bohn, Stephan A Schunk, Ivana Jevtovikj, Holger Werhan, Svenia Duefert, Markus Piepenbrink, Rene Backes, Richard Dehn