Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Patent number: 10047231
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to novel tris(hydroxyphenyl)triazines coating compositions, for instance automotive coating compositions, and to novel tris(hydroxyphenyl) triazines UV-absorbers having a long wavelength sifted absorption spectrum with significant absorbance up to 420 nm. Further aspects of the invention are a UV stabilized composition containing the novel UV-absorbers, a process for the stabilization of organic materials and coatings and the use of the compounds as UV-light stabilizers for organic materials and coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Vogel, Adalbert Braig, Vien Van Toan
  • Patent number: 10047314
    Abstract: The use is described of polymers which contain, in copolymerized form, an ?-olefin, a vinyl ester and an ester of an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid as an additive for fuel oils and lubricants and in particular as a cold flow improver in fuel oils. In addition, the fuel oils and lubricants additized with these polymers; and also additive packages comprising such polymers are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ahlers, Andreas Fechtenkoetter, Frank-Olaf Maehling, Irene Troetsch-Schaller, Ansgar Eisenbeis
  • Patent number: 10047035
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for continuously preparing di-C1-3-alkyl succinates by reacting succinic acid with an C1-3-alkanol in the presence of a fixed-bed heterogeneous acidic esterification catalyst in a tubular reactor at a temperature in the range of from 60 to 100° C., wherein a mixture, comprising succinic acid, C1-3-alkanol, mono-C1-3-alkyl succinate, di-C1-3-alkyl succinate and water, is formed in a mixing stage and fed to the entrance of the tubular reactor, and wherein 5 to 75% of the outlet flow rate of the tubular reactor are recycled directly to the mixing stage as a recycle stream, and the molar ratio of C1-3-alkanol to succinic acid added to the mixing zone, and not including the C1-3-alkanol and succinic acid at the recycle stream, being in the range of from 2.0 to 9.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefanie Demming, Suman Thotla, Jens Wittenberg, Gabriele Iffland, Till Christian Brueggemann, Yvonne Hoelzl, Wolfgang Siegel, Stephan Freyer
  • Patent number: 10047350
    Abstract: The invention relates to alpha amylases and to polynucleotides encoding the alpha amylases. In addition methods of designing new alpha amylases and methods of use thereof are also provided. The alpha amylases have increased activity and stability at acidic, neutral and alkaline pH and increased temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BASF Enzymes LLC
    Inventors: Walter Callen, Toby Richardson, Gerhard Frey, Jay M. Short, Eric J. Mathur, Kevin A. Gray, Janne S. Kerovuo, Malgorzata Slupska
  • Patent number: 10047214
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising at least one thermoplastic polyurethane TPU-1 based on an aliphatic diisocyanate, at least one metal hydroxide and at least one phosphorus-containing flame retardant, especially those compositions which further comprise at least one thermoplastic polyurethane TPU-2 based on an aromatic diisocyanate. The present invention further relates to the use of such compositions for production of cable sheaths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Steffen Henze, Oliver Muehren, Hans Rudolph, Dirk Rosenbohm
  • Publication number: 20180221811
    Abstract: An absorbent for selective removal of hydrogen sulfide from a fluid stream comprises an aqueous solution of a) a tertiary amine, b) a sterically hindered secondary amine of the general formula (I) in which R1 and R2 are each independently selected from C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl; R3, R4, R5 and R6 are each independently selected from hydrogen, C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl, with the proviso that at least one R4 and/or R5 radical on the carbon atom bonded directly to the nitrogen atom is C1-4-alkyl or C1-4-hydroxyalkyl when R3 is hydrogen; x and y are integers from 2 to 4 and z is an integer from 1 to 4; where the molar ratio of b) to a) is in the range from 0.05 to 1.0, and c) an acid in an amount, calculated as neutralization equivalent relative to the protonatable nitrogen atoms in a) and b), of 0.05 to 15.0%. One preferred amine of the formula I is 2-(2-tert-butylaminoethoxy)ethanol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Gerald VORBERG, Ralf NOTZ, Thomas INGRAM, Georg SIEDER, Torsten KATZ
  • Publication number: 20180221898
    Abstract: A metering and mixing device contains a multichamber cartridge and a cartridge holder having a reception container for the multichamber cartridge and a compressed air connection and a connection for an application device. The reception container has an internal tube arranged coaxially to the walls of the cartridge holder and equipped with static mixing elements. The multichamber cartridge contains an upper portion having a directional valve, a middle portion configured as a tubular empty space surrounded by at least two chambers arranged tubularly in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the cartridge, and a lower portion having a piston for each chamber. The multichamber cartridge is arranged in the cartridge holder such that the inner wall of the inner tube of the multichamber cartridge bears, leak-tight, against the outer wall of the tube of the cartridge holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: BASF Coatings GmbH
    Inventors: Sibylle SCHOEPS, Thomas KRUEGER, Joachim VOSSKUHL, Roland Andreas MEISNER, Ernst SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20180223121
    Abstract: Subject matter are aqueous, low-VOC/SVOC universal pigment preparations comprising a pigment component, a water-soluble, anionic, surface-active additive from the group of the homo- and copolymers of ethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic or dicarboxylic acids, which may further comprise, in copolymerized form, vinyl monomers containing no acid function, and of the salts of these homo- and copolymers, the homo- and copolymers being at least partly esterified with a polyether alcohol or a derivative thereof, and comprising a phosphoric or phosphonic ester, and optionally customary additives. The aqueous pigment preparations are suitable for the coloring of inks, paints, and renders, especially in metering systems at the point of sale or in in-plant tinting systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hansulrich REISACHER, Uwe MAUTHE, Steffen ONCLIN
  • Publication number: 20180222847
    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: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas INGRAM, Marion DA SILVA, Georg SIEDER
  • Patent number: 10039281
    Abstract: In a tape for controlling crawling pests, on the first side (S1) is a carrier layer having a multitude of vertically extending structures, and on the opposite side (S2) is a means for attaching the tape to a surface. At least the first side (S1) is impregnated with a composition of A) 0.1 to 45% by weight (based on the total of A plus B) of one or more insecticides and B) 99.9 to 55% by weight (based on the total of A plus B) of an (meth)acrylate binder of one or more homo- or copolymer having units derived from one or more acrylates and/or methacrylates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Peter Jurecka, Eylem Cicek, Mark Nicolay, Jan Metzner
  • Patent number: 10041083
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing seed-specific and/or seed-preferential promoters and the production of plants with enhanced seed-specific and/or seed-preferential expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to the promoters and/or introduced into plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Josef Martin Kuhn, Linda Patricia Loyall, Malte Siebert, Elke Duwenig
  • Patent number: 10041081
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing seed-specific and/or seed-preferential promoters and the production of plants with enhanced seed-specific and/or seed-preferential expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to the promoters and/or introduced into plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Josef Martin Kuhn, Linda Patricia Loyall, Malte Siebert, Elke Duwenig
  • Patent number: 10040962
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pigment paste comprising at least one aqueous dispersion comprising at least one copolymer, said copolymer being preparable by (i) initially charging an aqueous dispersion of at least one polyurethane, and then (ii) polymerizing a mixture of olefinically unsaturated monomers in the presence of the polyurethane from (i), in which (a) a water-soluble initiator is used, (b) the olefinically unsaturated monomers are metered in such that a concentration of 6.0% by weight, based on the total amount of olefinically unsaturated monomers used for polymerization, in the reaction solution is not exceeded over the entire reaction time, and (c) the mixture of the olefinically unsaturated monomers comprises at least one polyolefinically unsaturated monomer, and further comprising a pigment, where the weight ratio of pigment to copolymer is at least 1.5. The invention further relates to the use of the copolymer for dispersion of pigments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BASF Coatings GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Steinmetz, Nadia Luhmann, Peggy Jankowski, Michael Matura, Hardy Reuter, Stephan Schwarte
  • Patent number: 10040705
    Abstract: The invention relates to a element (12) for filtering fluids comprising an element housing (14), wherein at least one membrane arrangement (22) and at least one permeate collecting tube (18, 19) are arranged within the element housing (14) and wherein the at least one permeate collecting tube (18, 19) is arranged in an outer part (44) of the filtration element (12). The invention further relates to a filtration module (10) and a filtration system (11) comprising such a filtration element (12) as well as uses of such a filtration element (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Panglisch, Peter Berg, Georg Roeder
  • Patent number: 10040762
    Abstract: An intermediate of the formula (I) wherein the radicals R1 are independently of one another methyl, ethyl or n-propyl, is suitable for preparing a compound of the formula (A) wherein X is a group of the formula (A-I) or (A-II), Y is C11-C17alkyl, and Z is a direct bond, —(CH2)8— or —CH2—S—CH2—. The compounds of the formula (A) are useful for stabilizing an organic material against thermal, oxidative or light induced degradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hans-Rudolf Meier, Kai-Uwe Schoning, Shrirang Bhikaji Hindalekar
  • Patent number: 10040774
    Abstract: Processes for the preparation of furfural from a xylose containing feedstock and more particularly to an elevated temperature conversion of a xylose containing feedstock to furfural in acidic conditions are described. The described process uses a mixture of two solvents in which the humins are formed and solubilized. The described process is operated in continuous mode with no significant amounts of solid by-products formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sunil Sadashiv Divekar, Pramod Shankar Kumbhar, Rahul Vasantrao Bagal, Amit Madanlal Katariya
  • Patent number: 10041087
    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 benzoxazinone-derivative 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: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.
    Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
  • Patent number: 10041088
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal pathogens of the order Pucciniales, preferably the family Phacopsoraceae, in plants and/or plant cells. This is achieved by increasing the expression of a CASAR protein or fragment thereof in a plant, plant part and/or plant cell in comparison to wild type plants, wild type plant parts and/or wild type plant cells. Furthermore, the invention relates to transgenic plants, plant parts, and/or plant cells having an increased resistance against fungal pathogens, in particular, pathogens of the order Pucciniales, preferably the family Phacopsoraceae, and to recombinant expression vectors comprising a sequence that is identical or homologous to a sequence encoding a CASAR protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Schultheiss, Nadine Tresch, Ralf Flachmann
  • Patent number: 10040810
    Abstract: Bisacylphosphine oxide or bisacylphosphine sulfide compounds of formula (I) or (II) wherein R1, R2, R3, R1a, R2a and R3a independently of each other are C1-C4alkyl, C1-C4alkoxy or halogen; X is O, NR5 or S; or, if R4 is Cl, F or Br, X is a direct bond; Y is O or S; n is 1 or 2; R4, if n is 1, for example is hydrogen, (CO)R6, (CO)OR6, (CO)NR5R6, (SO2)—R6, C1-C28alkyl, R4, if n=2, is for example C1-C18alkylene; R5 is for example hydrogen, or C1-C12alkyl; R6 is for example C1-C12alkyl; R7, R8 and R9 independently of each other for example are C1-C4alkyl; R10 is for example C2-C18alkylene; X1, is O or S; m is 1, 2 or 3; Q represents one or two inorganic or organic cations with a charge of m+; are suitable photoinitiators, available by a claimed process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Georgina Müller, Hansjörg Grützmacher, Kurt Dietliker
  • Patent number: 10041082
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing seed-specific and/or seed-preferential promoters and the production of plants with enhanced seed-specific and/or seed-preferential expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to the promoters and/or introduced into plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Josef Martin Kuhn, Linda Patricia Loyall, Malte Siebert, Elke Duwenig