Patents Assigned to BASF
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Publication number: 20160311203Abstract: The present invention relates to a biodegradable polymer mixture comprising: i) from 55 to 90% by weight, based on components i and ii, of a polyglycolic acid (PGA) and ii) from 10 to 45% by weight, based on components i and ii, of at least one bio-degradable polyester formed from aliphatic or from aliphatic and aromatic di-carboxylic acids and from aliphatic diols. The invention further relates to single-or multilayer foils comprising these polymer mixtures, and to the use of the foils for food-or-drink packaging.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Motonori YAMAMOTO, Siomon A. GRUENER, Maximilian LEHENMEIER
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Publication number: 20160314883Abstract: Use of a composition (A) having a pH of at least 8 at 25° C. containing at least 50 wt.-% x of water or a water containing solvent mixture, at least 0.1 mol/m3 of at least one water x soluble silicate, optionally at least one molybdate, optionally at least one phosphonate, optionally at least one azole, optionally at least one additional freezing point depressing salt, optionally at least one phosphate, and optionally at least one nitrate, as heat carrier medium for magnetocaloric materials of formula (I) (AyB1?y)2+uCwDxEz (I) where: A is Mn or Co, B is Fe, Cr or Ni, C is Ge, As or Si, D is different from C and is selected from P, B, Se, Ge, Ga, Si, Sn, N, As and Sb, E may be same or different from C and D and is selected from P, B, Se, Ge, Ga, Si, Sn, N, As and Sb.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Kerstin SCHIERLE-ARNDT, Fabian SEELER, Markus SCHWIND, Jerome FRANCOIS
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Publication number: 20160311739Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing hexane-1,6-diol, in which a) a muconic acid starting material is provided, selected from muconic acid, esters of muconic acid, lactones of muconic acid and mixtures thereof, b) the muconic acid starting material is subjected to a reaction with hydrogen in the presence of at least one hydrogenation catalyst to hexane-1,6-diol, and c) the output from the hydrogenation in step b) is subjected to a distillative separation to obtain hexane-1,6-diol.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Christoph MÜLLER, Martin BOCK, Marion DA SILVA, Rolf-Hartmuth FISCHER, Benoit BLANK, Alois KINDLER, Johann-Peter MELDER, Berhard OTTO, Andreas HENNINGER
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Publication number: 20160312057Abstract: The present invention relates to a solventborne clearcoat material which comprises at least one additive preparable by reacting at least one alpha,omega-hydroxy-functionalized oligoester which has an OH number of 30 to 160 mg KOH/g, a theoretical carbon-carbon double bond content of 1 to 2.5 mmol/g, a number-average molecular weight of 1000 to 3000 g/mol, and a weight-average molecular weight of 2800 to 10 000 g/mol, and at least one alkoxysilane which possesses an OH-reactive functional group, the sum of the weight percentage fractions of all additives of the invention being 0.5 to 10 wt %, based on the total amount of the solventborne clearcoat material. The present invention further relates to a process for producing multicoat paint systems, and to multicoat paint systems producible by means of said process. The invention further relates to the use of the above-identified additive in solventborne clearcoat materials for the purpose of improving adhesion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: BASF COATINGS GmbHInventors: Audree ANDERSEN, Cathrin CORTEN, Fatmir RAKA, Manuela NIEMEIER, Nicole FREITAG, Stefanie BOSHE-PLOIS, Andreas FEIGL, Christian WEIHER
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Patent number: 9478745Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers comprising one or more (repeating) unit(s) of the formula (I) which are characterized in that Ar1 and Ar1? are independently of each other are an annulated (aromatic) heterocyclic ring system, containing at least one thiophene ring, which may be optionally substituted by one, or more groups, and their use as organic semiconductor in organic devices, especially in organic photovoltaics (solar cells) and photodiodes, or in a device containing a diode and/or an organic field effect transistor. The polymers according to the invention have excellent solubility in organic solvents and excellent film-forming properties. In addition, high efficiency of energy conversion, excellent field-effect mobility, good on/off current ratios and/or excellent stability can be observed, when the polymers according to the invention are used in organic field effect transistors, organic photovoltaics (solar cells) and photodiodes.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Pascal Hayoz, Olivier Frédéric Aebischer, Mathias Düggeli, Hans Jürg Kirner, Marta Fonrodona Turon
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Patent number: 9475918Abstract: Suitable stabilizers for organic material are a mixture comprising A. at least one oligomeric compound, comprising repeat units of the formula (I), in which the meanings of the symbols are as follows: R1 is hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl, formyl, C2-C6-alkanoyl, C1-C12-alkoxy, C5-C6-cycloalkoxy, cyanomethyl, 2-hydroxyethyl, benzyl or a radical of the formula —CR??CH—CO—OR?, where R? is hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl or a radical of the formula —CO—OR?, and R? is C1-C18-alkyl, C5-C8-cycloalkyl, C7-C18-aralkyl, phenyl, or tolyl; R2 is a mixture composed of C14-C28-alkyl groups, where two of these alkyl groups whose number of carbon atoms is not permitted to differ by more than two respectively make up at least 30% of this mixture; R3 and R4, independently of one another, are C1-C6-alkyl; and B.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Simon Schambony, Alban Glaser, Hubert Trauth, Manfred Appel, Sylke Haremza
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Patent number: 9475220Abstract: The invention relates to an improved process for producing composite elements comprising at least one outer layer and at least one isocyanate-based rigid foam layer by means of a fixed applicator apparatus and in which the flowable starting material comprises the following components: A) at least one polyisocyanate, B) at least one compound which reacts with isocyanate groups to form urethane, C) at least one blowing agent, D) catalysts comprising at least one compound D1) which catalyzes isocyanurate formation and at least one compound D2) which catalyzes polyurethane formation, comprising at least one amino group, and E) optionally auxiliaries and additives, where the manner of use of component A) and of component B) is such that the isocyanate index is at least 180, and where the ratio by weight of the compound D2) to the compound D1) is from 0.75 to 8.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Olaf Jacobmeier, Gunnar Kampf
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Patent number: 9475002Abstract: Catalytic articles, methods and emissions treatment systems for treating an engine exhaust gas stream containing NOx and particulate matter are disclosed and include a particulate filter comprising a first SCR catalyst for NOx conversion disposed downstream of the injector. The particulate filter is a partial filter with a particle filtration efficiency between about 30% and 60% and an SCR catalyst loading in the range of 0.1 g/in3-3.5 g/in3.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2010Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: R. Samuel Boorse, Kenneth E. Voss, Martin Dieterle
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Patent number: 9474277Abstract: The present invention relates to pesticidal mixtures comprising as active compounds 1) at least one pyrazole compound A selected from the compounds of formula I: wherein the variables have the meaning as defined in the description, and 2) at least one further compound B selected from the compounds of the following groups A.1, A.2, A.3, A.4, A.5, A.6, A.7, A.8, A.9, A.10, A.11, A.12, A.13, A.14, A.15, A.16, A.17, F.1, F.2, F.3, F.4, F.5, F.6, F.7, F.8, F.9, F.10 and F.11 as defined in the specification. The present invention also relates to novel pyrazole compounds of the formula I. The present invention also relates to methods and use of these mixtures and novel compounds for combating invertebrate pests such as insects, arachnids or nematodes in and on plants, and for protecting such plants being infested with pests, especially also for protecting plant propagation material as like seeds.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Sebastian Soergel, Daniel Saelinger, Christian Defieber, Juergen Langewald, Birgit Gockel, Egon Haden, Deborah L. Culberston, Koshi Gunjima
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Patent number: 9476539Abstract: The invention relates to the envelopment of a connection of at least two pipes or parts thereof by an open-celled rigid foam, the production of such an envelope and also the use of open-celled rigid foam for protecting connections of two pipes.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Christof Grieser-Schmitz, Peter Huntemann, Annika Halwe-Bommelmann, Wilhelm Lindemann
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Patent number: 9476617Abstract: A thermoelectric generator includes a thermoelectric module and a micro heat exchanger. The thermoelectric module includes p- and n-conducting thermoelectric material pieces which are alternately connected to one another via electrically conductive contacts. The thermoelectric module is thermally conductively connected to a micro heat exchanger. The micro heat exchanger includes a plurality of continuous channels having a diameter of at most 1 mm, through which a fluid heat exchanger medium can flow.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Peter Renze, Jürgen Moors, Georg Degen, Knut Wassermann
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Patent number: 9475037Abstract: The invention relates to a nickel hexaaluminate-comprising catalyst for reforming hydrocarbons, preferably methane, in the presence of carbon dioxide, which comprises hexaaluminate in a proportion in the range from 65 to 95% by weight, preferably from 70 to 90% by weight, and a crystalline, oxidic secondary phase selected from the group consisting of LaAlO3, SrAl2O4 and BaAl2O4 in the range from 5 to 35% by weight, preferably from 10 to 30% by weight. The BET surface area of the catalyst is ?5 m2/g, preferably ?10 m2/g. The molar nickel content of the catalyst is ?3 mol %, preferably ?2.5 mol % and more preferably ?2 mol %. The interlayer cations are preferably Ba and/or Sr. The process for producing the catalyst comprises the steps: (i) production of a mixture of metal salts, preferably nitrate salts of Ni and also Sr and/or La, and a nanoparticulate aluminum source, (ii) molding and (iii) calcination.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Stephan Schunk, Ekkehard Schwab, Andrian Milanov, Guido Wasserschaff, Thomas Roussiere, Gerhard Cox, Bernd Hinrichsen, Ulrich Floerchinger
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Patent number: 9475041Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Mathias Feyen, Ulrich Mueller, Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Bernd Bastian Schaack, Sebastian Ahrens, Dirk Gerhard, Sunghee Son, Gabriele Iffland, Bianca Seelig
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Patent number: 9476078Abstract: The present invention provides a novel method of producing a plurality of modified polynucleotides having different combinations of various mutations at multiple sites by a tailored multi-site combinatorial assembly, comprising adding at least two or at least three primers to a double stranded template polynucleotide in a single reaction mixture, wherein the primers are not overlapping, and wherein each of the primers comprise at least one mutation different from the other primers, wherein at least one primer is a forward primer that can anneal to a minus strand of the template and at least one primer is a reverse primer that can anneal to a plus strand of the template, and subjecting the reaction mixture to a polymerase extension reaction to yield a plurality of extended modified polynucleotides from the at least three primers. The method can be performed without employing a ligation step prior to transforming the extended modified polynucleotides into a cell.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF Enzymes LLCInventor: Xuqiu Tan
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Patent number: 9475978Abstract: The present invention relates to a surfactant mixture comprising at least three ionic surfactants which differ in terms of the hydrocarbyl moiety (R1)(R2)—CH—CH2— and are of the general formula (I) where R1, R2, A0, k, X, o, Y, a, b, M are each as defined in the description and the claims. The invention further relates to the use and preparation thereof, and to aqueous surfactant formulations comprising the mixtures, and to processes for producing mineral oil by means of Winsor type III microemulsion flooding, in which the aqueous surfactant formulation is injected into a mineral oil deposit through injection wells and crude oil is withdrawn from the deposit through production wells.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Christian Bittner, Günter Oetter, Jack Tinsley, Christian Spindler, Gabriela Alvarez-Juergenson, Sophie Maitro-Vogel
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Patent number: 9475977Abstract: The present invention relates to a surfactant mixture comprising at least three ionic surfactants which differ in terms of the hydrocarbyl moiety (R1)(R2)—CH—CH2— and are of the general formula (I) where R1, R2, A0, k, X, o, Y, a, b, M are each as defined in the description and the claims. The invention further relates to the use and preparation thereof, and to aqueous surfactant formulations comprising the mixtures, and to processes for producing mineral oil by means of Winsor type III microemulsion flooding, in which the aqueous surfactant formulation is injected into a mineral oil deposit through injection wells and crude oil is withdrawn from the deposit through production wells.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Christian Bittner, Günter Oetter, Jack Tinsley, Christian Spindler, Gabriela Alvarez-Juergenson, Sophie Maitro-Vogel
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Patent number: 9475979Abstract: The present invention relates to a surfactant mixture comprising at least three ionic surfactants which differ in terms of the hydrocarbyl moiety (R1)(R2)—CH—CH2— and are of the general formula (I) where R1, R2, A0, k, X, o, Y, a, b, M are each as defined in the description and the claims. The invention further relates to the use and preparation thereof, and to aqueous surfactant formulations comprising the mixtures, and to processes for producing mineral oil by means of Winsor type III microemulsion flooding, in which the aqueous surfactant formulation is injected into a mineral oil deposit through injection wells and crude oil is withdrawn from the deposit through production wells.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Christian Bittner, Günter Oetter, Jack Tinsley, Christian Spindler, Gabriela Alvarez-Juergenson, Sophie Maitro-Vogel
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Publication number: 20160304686Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of polyurethanes where (a) polyisocyanate, (b) polymeric compounds having groups reactive toward isocyanates, (c) catalysts, (d) a CH-acidic compound of the general formula R1—CH2—R2, where R1 and R2 independently of one another are an electron-withdrawing moiety of the general formula —C(O)—R3 or —CN, where the moiety R3 is selected from the group consisting of —NH2, —NH—R4—NR5R6, OR7 or R8, where R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8 are independently selected from the group consisting of aliphatic, araliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons, which may have substitution, and optionally (e) blowing agent, (f) chain extender and/or crosslinking agent, and (g) auxiliaries and/or additives are mixed to give a reaction mixture, and the reaction mixture is allowed to complete a reaction to give the polyurethane. The present invention further relates to polyurethanes produced by this process and to the use of these polyurethanes in the interior of means of transport.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2014Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Iran OTERO MARTINEZ, Georg PARTUSCH, Christian HAGEN
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Publication number: 20160304917Abstract: The present invention relates to a modified microorganism having, compared to its wildtype, an increased activity of the enzyme that is encoded by the alaD-gene. The present invention also relates to a method for producing an alanine and to the use of modified microorganisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Joanna Martyna Krawczyk, Stefan Haefner, Hartwig Schröder, Oskar Zelder, Jonathan Thomas Fabarius
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Publication number: 20160303143Abstract: Combinations of (3?)-17-(pyridin-3-yl)androsta-5,16-dien-3-yl acetate (Abiraterone acetate) with acidic substances such as citric acid, ascorbic acid, methyl-4-hydroxy benzoate, saccharin, vanillic acid, adipic acid, maleic acid, malic acid, tartaric acidare useful as pharmaceutical preparations and show improved properties such as aqueous solubility and dissolution kinetics, especially in the form of cocrystals or their combination with a suitable acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2014Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Tiziana CHIODO, Beate SALVADOR, Marcus VOSSEN, Andreas HAFNER, Tobias HINTERMANN, Martin SZELAGIEWICZ, Fritz BLATTER, Martin VIERTELHAUS, Walter WEISHAAR