Patents Assigned to BASF
  • OPEN VESSELS AND THEIR USE
    Publication number: 20190119169
    Abstract: Vessels such as crucibles, pans, open cups and saggars, containing a monolithic ceramic material, and a ceramic matrix composite, wherein the monolithic ceramic material is an inner tart. A method for making oxide materials that can be utilized in the contact with corrosive materials and that allows for higher conversions in a given heating process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventor: Benedikt KALO
  • POWDERS AND GRANULES AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SUCH POWDERS AND GRANULES
    Publication number: 20190119611
    Abstract: Process for making a powder or granule containing at least one chelating agent selected from alkali metal salts of methyl glycine diacetic acid (MGDA) and glutamic acid diacetate (GLDA) and iminodisuccinic acid (IDS), said process comprising the steps of (a) introducing an aqueous solution or aqueous slurry of the respective chelating agent (A) into a spray-dryer or spray-granulator, and removing most of said water by spray-drying or spray granulation using a gas with an inlet temperature of 125 to 250° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Klemens MUELLER, Armin STAMM, Frank JAEKEL, Carsten SUELING
  • METHOD FOR CLEANING HARD SURFACES, AND FORMULATIONS USEFUL FOR SAID METHOD
    Publication number: 20190119606
    Abstract: Process for cleaning hard surfaces, characterized in that said process is carried out using a foam based on a formulation comprising: (A) at least one complexing agent selected from the alkali metal salts of aminocarboxylic acids and from alkali metal salts of citric acid, gluconic acid, tartaric acid and lactic acid, (B) at least one non-ionic surfactant of general formula (I): (G)x-OR1, (C) at least one anionic surfactant, (D) at least one zwitterionic surfactant, wherein: R1 is selected from C8-C18-alkyl, straight chain or branched, x is in the range of from 1.1 to 4, G selected from monosaccharides with 4 to 6 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frederic BAUER, Juergen TROPSCH, Juergen FRANKE, Nikolai DENKOV, Krastanka G. MARINOVA, Kristina T. NAYDENOVA
  • HYDRATION CONTROL MIXTURE FOR MORTAR AND CEMENT COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20190119163
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixture comprising at least one compound comprising an ?-hydroxy-carboxylic unit, ?-hydroxy-sulfonic acid unit or ?-carbonyl-carboxylic unit and at least one water-soluble organic carbonate. The mixture is useful as a hydration control agent in construction chemical compositions comprising an inorganic binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Joachim DENGLER, Christoph HESSE, Sebastian SEUFERT
  • 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
  • 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
  • Enzymes having pullulanase activity
    Patent number: 10266864
    Abstract: The present invention relates to thermostable pullulanases useful for industrial and scientific purposes. The present invention provides methods for producing the modified pullulanase, enzymatic compositions comprising the modified pullulanase, and methods for use of the enzymatic compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Enzymes LLC
    Inventors: Adrienne Huston Davenport, Hugo D. Urbina, Kenneth E. Barrett, Danielle Cusumano
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Method for producing diesters of terephthalic acid with enrichment of recirculated alcohol
    Patent number: 10266477
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a terephthalic diester by reacting terephthalic acid with at least one alcohol, wherein terephthalic acid is suspended in the alcohol in a dispersing tank, the preliminary suspension is passed from the dispersing tank into a reactor and converted in the presence of an esterification catalyst, and water of reaction is distilled off together with the vapor as alcohol-water azeotrope, the vapor is at least partly condensed, the condensate is separated into an aqueous phase and an organic phase and the organic phase is conducted through a column in which the organic phase is run counter to at least a portion of the vapor, and the organic phase is collected in the lower region of the column and at least partly passed into the dispersing tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Armin Schraut, Martin Kaller, Rob Bronneberg, Jasmin Stammer, Martin Das, Gerrit Harnischmacher
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tube bundle device and use thereof
    Patent number: 10267577
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shell-and-tube apparatus comprising a housing (3) having a bundle (9) of tubes accommodated therein, where the tubes (15) are joined on one side to a first tube plate (11) and on the side opposite the first tube plate (11) to a second tube plate (13), with the first and second tube plates (11, 13) being fastened detachably in the housing (3). The side of the first tube plate (11) opposite the tubes (15) rests against a stop (31) on the housing (3) and is fixed on the stop (31) and the second tube plate (13) is installed with a sealing element (41) in the housing (3). The invention further relates to the use of the shell-and-tube apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wolfgang Gunkel, Frank-Friedrich Pape, Klaus Fouquet
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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