Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Patent number: 10219990
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of the compounds (A) corresponding to formula wherein R1 is hydrogen; a linear or branched C1-C30 aliphatic hydrocarbon residue comprising 0, 1, 2 or 3 double bonds; R2 independently from each other are hydrogen; methyl; ethyl; —OH; —COOR4; —CH2—OH; and —CH2—COOR4; R4 is hydrogen; or a linear or branched C1-C30 aliphatic hydrocarbon residue comprising 0, 1, 2 or 3 double bonds; R3 independently from each other are hydrogen; methyl; ethyl; —OH; —COOR5; —CH2—OH; and —CH2—COOR5; R5 is hydrogen; or a linear or branched C1-C30 aliphatic hydrocarbon residue comprising 0, 1, 2 or 3 double bonds; n is at least 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Laurence Pottie, Ansgar Behler, Stanislaw Krus, Jochen Giesinger
  • Publication number: 20190062778
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutated protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: BASF AGRO B.V.
    Inventors: Jens Lerchl, Stefan Tresch, Dario Massa, Tobias Seiser, Matthias Witschel, Raphael Aponte, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
  • Publication number: 20190062472
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing high-reactivity isobutene homo- or copolymers with a content of terminal vinylidene double bonds per homo- or copolymer chain end of at least 70 mol % which comprises polymerizing isobutene or an isobutene-comprising monomer mixture in the presence of an aluminum trihalide-donor complex effective as a polymerization catalyst or of an alkylaluminum halide-donor complex, said complex comprising, as the donor, a mixture of at least two organic compounds with at least one ether function each.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Rosa CORBERAN ROC, Klaus MUEHLBACH, Thomas WETTLING, Sergei V. KOSTJUK, Irina VASILENKO, Dmitryi SHIMAN
  • Publication number: 20190062224
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat-permeable tube which has a double-walled construction. The material of the interior wall contains fiber composite ceramic. The material of the exterior wall contains metal. The present invention further relates to the use of this tube in a rotary tube furnace and the use of the rotary tube furnace for thermal treatment of materials. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of a single-walled tube containing fiber composite ceramic as rotary tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventor: Benedikt KALO
  • Patent number: 10214606
    Abstract: The present invention relates to random copolymers obtainable by polymerization, the use of said random copolymers as soil release agents in laundry processes. Further aspects of the invention are a method for easier releasing soil from textiles in laundry processes and detergents containing said random copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank O. Pirrung, Huiguang Kou, Miriam Langendörfer, Roland Ettl, Bernhard Ulrich Von Vacano, Paula Barreleiro, Christa Junkes, Johannes Zipfel, Brigitte Giesen, Cornelius Bessler, Martina Hutmacher
  • Patent number: 10214676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of modified fibers in oilfield applications, particularly in borehole cementing. Said fibers have crystallization seeds attached to their surfaces thereby improving the mechanical strength and ductility of borehole cements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Peter Leidinger, Radoslaw Kierat, Bernhard Feichtenschlager, Kristina Brandt
  • Patent number: 10214663
    Abstract: Described are a chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) composition comprising abrasive particles in the form of organic/inorganic composite particles as well as the use of said composite particles as abrasive particles in a CMP composition and processes for the manufacture of a semiconductor device comprising chemical mechanical polishing of a substrate in the presence said CMP composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: ST. LAWRENCE NANOTECHNOLOGY, BASF TAIWAN LTD., BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yongqing Lan, Bastian Marten Noller, Yuzhuo Li, Liang Jiang, Daniel Kwo-Hung Shen, Reza Golzarian
  • Patent number: 10214475
    Abstract: The present invention provides a chromatographic separation process for recovering a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) product from a feed mixture, which comprises: (a) purifying the feed mixture in a first chromatographic separation step using an eluent a mixture of water and a first organic solvent, to obtain an intermediate product; and (b) purifying the intermediate product in a second chromatographic separation step using as eluent a mixture of water and a second organic solvent, to obtain the PUFA product, wherein the second organic solvent is different from the first organic solvent and has a polarity index which differs from the polarity index of the first organic solvent by between 0.1 and 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Pharma (Callanish) Limited
    Inventors: Adam Kelliher, Angus Morrison
  • Patent number: 10214485
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of reprocessing alkanesulfonic acid employed in a chemical process as an agent, catalyst or solvent and comprising the steps of: (a) removing an alkanesulfonic acid-comprising stream from a reaction mixture generated in the chemical process, (b) feeding the alkanesulfonic acid-comprising stream into a melt crystallization as the starting melt to form crystals of the alkanesulfonic acid, of hydrates of the alkanesulfonic acid or of a mixture of both suspended in mother liquor, (c) performing a solid-liquid separation to remove the crystals from the mother liquor, (d) optionally washing the crystals to remove mother liquor adhering to the crystals, (e) recycling the washed or unwashed crystals removed from the mother liquor into the chemical process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jan Spielmann, Michael Koch, Juergen Wortmann, Sabine Weiguny, Feelly Ruether, Robert Sengpiel
  • Patent number: 10214525
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chlorinated naphthalenetetracarboxylic acid derivatives, preparation thereof and use thereof as charge transport materials, exciton transport materials or emitter materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Koenemann, Gabriele Mattern, Frank Wuerthner, Cornelia Goepfert, Ruediger Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10213774
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are ZSM-5 zeolite microspheres. Disclosed in certain embodiments is a method of forming ZSM-5 zeolite microspheres including: 1) shaping a mixture into microspheres where the mixture includes a silica material and of particulates selected from at least one high-density material with an absolute bulk density of at least 0.3 g/cc, ZSM-5 zeolite crystals, and combinations thereof; 2) calcining the microspheres; and 3) reacting and subsequently heating the microspheres with at least one alkali solution to form ZSM-5 zeolite in-situ on the microspheres, where the ZSM-5 zeolite microspheres contain substantially no clay or calcined clay material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Xingtao Gao, Christopher R. Castellano, Brendan Patrick Dowd
  • Patent number: 10214482
    Abstract: A compound of the general formula (I) in which R1, R2 and R3 are independently selected from C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl; each R4 is independently selected from hydrogen, C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl; each R5 is independently selected from hydrogen, C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl; m is 2, 3, 4 or 5; n is 2, 3, 4 or 5; and o is an integer from 0 to 10. A preferred compound of the formula (I) is 2-(2-tert-butylaminoethoxy)ethylamine. Absorbents comprising a compound of the formula (I) have rapid absorption of carbon dioxide from fluid streams and are also suitable for processes for the simultaneous removal of H2S and CO2, where given H2S limits have to be observed but complete removal of CO2 is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Ingram, Marion Da Silva, Georg Sieder
  • Patent number: 10213773
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for converting oxygenates to olefins, comprising (1) providing a gas stream comprising one or more ethers; (2) contacting the gas stream provided in (1) with a catalyst, the catalyst comprising a support substrate and a layer applied to the substrate, the layer comprising one or more zeolites of the MFI, MEL and/or MWW structure type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Kirsten Spannhoff, Florina Corina Patcas, Ekkehard Schwab, Alexander Weck, Kerem Bay
  • Patent number: 10214660
    Abstract: A two-component coating composition contains (1) a paint base component comprising (A) at least one polycarbonate diol, (B) at least one hydroxyl-containing acrylate resin, polyester resin and/or polyester acrylate resin having a hydroxyl number of 75 to 500 mg KOH/g, and (C) at least one filler modified with at least one organosilane, and (2) a hardener component comprising (D) at least one organic polyisocyanate, where the coating composition has a viscosity of 50 to 2000 mPa·s at a shear stress of 1000 l/s and a temperature of 23° C. and a proportion of organic solvents of 100 to 350 g/L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Coatings GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Seeger, Harald Mueller, Andreas Meyerjuergens, Martin Kaune
  • Patent number: 10212934
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising a triazole compound as component I and as a component II a compound selected from (II-1) to (II-8) and to the agrochemical compositions and the uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Agro B.V.
    Inventors: Frederik Menges, Martin Semar, Lutz Brahm, Annette Schuster, Florent Mazuir
  • Patent number: 10215073
    Abstract: The present invention relates to catalyzed soot filter comprising a porous wall flow substrate, a catalyst for selective catalytic reduction (SCR), a palladium component, and a platinum component, the wall flow substrate comprising an inlet end, an outlet end, a substrate axial length extending between the inlet end and the outlet end, and a plurality of channels defined by internal walls of the wall flow substrate, wherein the plurality of channels comprise inlet channels having an open inlet end and a closed outlet end, and outlet channels having a closed inlet end and an open outlet end, and the SCR catalyst is provided on the entire surface of the inlet channel walls and on at least a portion of the surface of the pores within the channel walls underneath the surface of the channel walls coated with the SCR catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Alfred Punke, Gerd Grubert, Marcus Hilgendorff, Torsten Neubauer, Matthew Caudle, Yuejin Li
  • Publication number: 20190055341
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a diblock copolymer comprising the reaction of at least one aromatic polyester having a melting point in the range from 160° C. to 350° C. and at least one polymer diol having a melting point of less than 100° C. at a temperature of greater than 200° C. to obtain a mixture (G-a); and the reaction of the mixture (G-a) with at least one diisocyanate, wherein the diisocyanate is employed in a molar amount of at least 0.9 based on the alcohol groups of the polymer diols. The present invention further relates to diblock copolymers obtained or obtainable according to such a process and to the use of such diblock copolymers for producing extruded, injection molded and pressed articles and also foams, cable sheaths, hoses, profiles, drive belts, fibers, nonwovens, films, moldings, plugs, housings, damping elements for the electricals industry, automotive industry, mechanical engineering, 3-D printing, medicine and consumer goods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank PRISSOK, Elmar POESELT, Dirk KEMPFERT, Florian PUCH, Martina SCHOEMER
  • Publication number: 20190054669
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of composite elements comprising a first and a second outer layer, a vacuum insulation panel between the two outer layers, rigid polyurethane foam in contact with the first outer layer and the underside of the vacuum insulation panel, and also rigid polyurethane foam in contact with the second outer layer and the upper side of the vacuum insulation panel, comprising application of a reaction mixture (R1) for the production of a rigid polyurethane foam onto the first outer layer, bringing the lower side of a vacuum insulation panel into contact with the unhardened reaction mixture (R1), application of a reaction mixture (R2) for the production of a rigid polyurethane foam to the upper side of the vacuum insulation panel, bringing the second outer layer into contact with the layer of the unhardened reaction mixture (R2), and finally hardening of the two rigid polyurethane foam systems (R1) and (R2) to give the composite element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Nils MOHMEYER, Marc Fricke, Joerg Krogmann, Mark Elbing, Johann Klassen, Juergen Boos
  • Patent number: 10207217
    Abstract: A process for removing hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide from a fluid stream comprises a) an absorption step in which the fluid stream is contacted with an absorbent comprising an aqueous solution (i) of an amine of the general formula (I) in which R1, R2 and R3 are each independently selected from C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl; each R4 is independently selected from hydrogen, C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl; each R5 is independently selected from hydrogen, C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl; X is OH or NH(CR1R2R3); m is 2, 3, 4 or 5; n is 2, 3, 4 or 5; and o is 0 or 1; and optionally (ii) at least one tertiary amine, where the molar ratio of (i) to (ii) is greater than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Ingram, Ralf Notz, Gerald Vorberg, Georg Sieder
  • Patent number: 10208149
    Abstract: A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer beads with high permeability by polymerizing droplets of a monomer solution, comprising monomers bearing acid groups, in a gas phase surrounding the droplets, wherein the monomer solution comprises polyvalent cations and the polymer beads have a mean diameter of at least 150 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Uwe Stueven, Matthias Weismantel, Wilfried Heide, Marco Krüger, Volker Seidl, Stefan Blei, Dennis Loesch, Rüdiger Funk, Annemarie Hillebrecht