Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Patent number: 9464158
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polyols and the preparation and use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sebastian Koch, Christian Koenig
  • Patent number: 9462804
    Abstract: The present invention comprises the use of formulations comprising at least one pesticide and at least one co-polymer comprising (a) at least one comonomer (a) selected from the group consisting of olefins, vinylethers, vinyl pyrrolidone and styrene; and (b) at least one comonomer (b) selected from the group consisting of ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic mono and diesters, wherein the alcohol moiety of the mono- or diester has the structure of formula I wherein R1 is 1,2-propylene or 2,3 propylene R2 is ethylene; R3 is hydrogen, branched or linear C1-C40, preferably C1-C24 alkyl, phenyl, phenyl substituted with C1-C20 alkyl, benzyl, benzyl substituted with C1-C20 alkyl; n corresponds to a value from 0 to 140, preferably 0-50, more preferably 0-20. p corresponds to a value from 0 to 100 wherein the sum of n and p is at least 1, preferably 1-60, most preferably 5-40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Yvonne Dieckmann, Michael Ishaque, Ingo Münster, Laurent Picard, Wolfgang Kerl, Jürgen Langewald, Klaus Kreuz, Harald Köhle, Felix Christian Görth
  • Patent number: 9464070
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oxygen-substituted sterically hindered amines of the formulae I or II: (II), wherein, for example, F2, R3, R5, R6, R8, R9, R11, R12, R13, R14 are n-butyl: Z1 to Z10 are propoxy and R1, R4, R7, R10, R13 are 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-propoxy-piperidin-4-yl. Compositions comprising compounds of formulae I or II and an organic material, which is susceptible to oxidative, thermal or light-induced degradation, are further disclosed. Optionally, further additives are contained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Edoardo Menozzi, Massimiliano Sala, Anna Bassi, Holger Hoppe, Björn Ludolph, Gérard Lips
  • Patent number: 9465040
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for profiling phytohormone levels in plant tissue or tissue of other plastid containing organisms, i.e. a method for the simultaneous determination of a multitude of phytohormone levels in plant tissue or tissue of other plastid containing organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Regine Fuchs, Martin Dostler, Maria Wahl, Benjamin Hentschel, Ralf Looser
  • Patent number: 9464003
    Abstract: A method produces a composite material using a mixing system. The composite material comprises at least one aggregate, e.g. rock and/or glass, and the reaction product of a two-component polymeric binder composition comprising a first component, e.g. an isocyanate component, and a second component, e.g. an isocyanate-reactive component. The mixing system includes a mixing apparatus. The method includes the step of providing the aggregate, the first component and the second component into the mixing apparatus. The method further includes the step of mixing the first and second components to produce the reaction product of the two-component polymeric binder composition, and the step of applying the reaction product of the two-component polymeric binder composition to the aggregate within the mixing apparatus to produce the composite material. The composite material can be used for forming a paved structure, such as a sidewalk or a roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignees: BASF SE, LARIAT HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Hicks, David Kenneth Bower, William G. Handlos, Joe Kaul, Brian T. Arnott
  • Patent number: 9464029
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing nitroalkanes by reaction of at least one alkane with at least one nitrating agent in the gas phase, wherein the nitration is carried out in a microstructured reaction zone having parallel channels having hydraulic diameters of less than 2.5 mm and a total specific internal surface area of more than 1600 m2/m3 and the alkane and the nitrating agent are conveyed under a pressure of from 1 bar to 20 bar through the reaction zone and reacted at a temperature of from 150° C. to 650° C. and the reaction products are cooled downstream of the reaction zone and discharged and the at least one nitrating agent is introduced over from two to ten introduction points along the reaction zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ralf Boehling, Michael Hayer, Alwin Rehfinger, Michael Schelper, Johann-Peter Melder, Martin Ernst, Joaquim Henrique Teles
  • Patent number: 9464456
    Abstract: A system for protecting stored goods in a storage room, having one or more storage constructions formed by one or more pesticide treated nets (30, 31), capable of enclosing the stored goods, where the storage construction further includes a support frame, means for suspending the support frame, means for opening and closing at least one section of the storage construction while the support frame is in a suspended state, and means for avoiding an overall structural collapse if a net gets entangled. The system is particularly useful for the storage of tobacco, coffee, dried fruits, cocoa, nuts, tea, cereals and spices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jürgen Weiser, Daniel Bihlmeyer, Claus Kaiser, Michael Faber, Agustin Izquierdo, Stefan Schaffert, Nils Stello, Torsten Gröschl, Udo Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9464722
    Abstract: A pipe switch having a setting system, a housing and a closure element. The housing includes an inner wall in which a feed opening and at least two discharge openings are provided. The position of the closure element is rotatably changeable relative to the discharge openings. The setting system including a control and a drive controls the closure element such that a plurality of positions of the closure element relative to the discharge openings are realized accordingly. The closure element may be in the form of a slide or a two-part element having flaps. The setting system in cooperation with the closure system provides the plurality of positions of the closure element relative to the discharge openings, in each of which the sum of the cross-sectional areas of a first and of a second discharge opening not covered by the closure element is substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Torben Kaminsky, Horst Papenfuss, Christoph Bahr, Hartmut Giesker, Ulrich Stich
  • Publication number: 20160289159
    Abstract: A process for continuously preparing the tert-butyl ester of an aliphatic C1-C4 carboxylic acid comprises: a) the reaction of an aliphatic C1-C4 carboxylic acid with isobutene in the presence of an acidic catalyst to give an esterification mixture (G1); b) the partial evaporation of the esterification mixture (G1), giving a liquid first high boiler phase (SPh1) comprising the acidic catalyst, and a first vapor (B1) comprising tert-butyl ester; c) the fractional condensation of the first vapor (B1) by partially condensing the first vapor (B1) at a first pressure and a first temperature and obtaining a first condensate (K1), partially condensing the uncondensed second vapor (B2) at a second pressure and a second temperature and obtaining a second condensate (K2), the first temperature being 0 to 45° C. below the condensation temperature of the tert-butyl ester at the first pressure and the second temperature being 45 to 80° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Catharina HORSTMANN, Claus Hechler, Gregor Grackiewicz, Bernd Schall
  • Publication number: 20160288056
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to polymer compositions comprising a bulk material (P1) and an amphiphilic polyethersulfone block copolymer (P2) and to membranes prepared thereof. Furthermore, the present invention is directed to the use of amphiphilic polyethersulfone block copolymers as antifouling agents and/or pore size control agents in filtration membranes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hermann BERGMANN, Xiao FU, Xi DOU, Manivannan RAMANUJACHARY
  • Publication number: 20160289466
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous coating composition (A) having a pH in a range from 4.0 to 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicants: BASF COATINGS GMBH, HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Kristof WAPNER, Florian GASPAR, Christian HAMMER
  • Publication number: 20160289465
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous coating composition (A) comprising at least one cathodically depositable binder (A1) and optionally at least one crosslinking agent (A2), for at least partly coating an electrically conductive substrate with an electrocoat material, where the coating composition (A) has a pH in a range from 4.0 to 6.5 and comprises a total amount of at least 30 ppm of bismuth, based on the total weight of the coating composition (A), and where (A) is produced using at least 0.005% by weight of magnesium oxide particles (B), based on the total weight of the coating composition (A), to the use of (A) for at least partly coating an electrically conductive substrate with an electrocoat material, to a corresponding coating method, and to an at least partly coated substrate obtainable by this method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventors: Dominik STOLL, Sabine HOLTSCHULTE, Andreas NIEGEMEIER
  • Publication number: 20160289141
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for carrying out endothermic reactions comprising the method steps of: a) externally heating at least two reaction tubes (5), wherein the reaction tubes (5) have been arranged vertically in a heating chamber (3) and each of the reaction tubes (5) has been at least partially packed with a fluidizable material, b) introducing at least one gaseous reactant (R) into the reaction tubes (5), c) forming a fluidized bed (7) in the reaction tubes (5), d) carrying out the endothermic reaction in the reaction tubes (5) at a first temperature (T1) and a first pressure (P1), wherein the reaction volume has been distributed over at least two of the reaction tubes (5), and e) discharging the reaction product (P) from the reaction tubes (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Kati BACHMANN, Friedrich GLENK, Grigorios KOLIOS
  • Patent number: 9458380
    Abstract: A composition, which comprises a) an organic material susceptible to oxidative, thermal or light-induced degradation; and b) a compound of formula I (Formula I) (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 are independently from each other H, C1-C8-alkyl, C4-C8-cycloalkyl, phenyl, C1-C4-alkoxy or halogen; n is 1, 2, 3, or 4; and when n is 1 A is —C(=0)-OR?1, —C(=0)-N(R?2)(R?3), —CN, phenyl, which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or more C1-C8-alkyl, C4-C8-alkoxy, C5-C7-cycloalkyl or halogen, —H or —S02-phenyl; when n is 2 A is —C(=0)-O—Z1—O—C(=0)-, —C(=0)-N(R?1)—Z2—N(R?2)—C(=0)- or piperazine-N,N?-biscarbonyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Walter Fischer, Abdel-Ilah Basbas, Kai-Uwe Schoning, Cinzia Tartarini, Werner Holzl, Bruno Rotzinger
  • Patent number: 9458182
    Abstract: The present invention relates to silyl- and heteroatom-substituted compounds selected from carbazoles, dibenzofurans, dibenzothiophenes and disilylbenzophospholes of the formula (I) or (I*), to the use of the compounds of the formula (I) or (I*) in organic electronics applications, preferably in organic light-emitting diodes, to an organic light-emitting diode comprising at least one compound of the formula (I) or (I*), to a light-emitting layer comprising at least one compound of the formula (I) or (I*), to a blocking layer for holes/excitons comprising at least one compound of the formula (I) or (I*), and to an apparatus selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visual display units, illumination units, keyboards, items of clothing, furniture and wallpaper, comprising at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: BASF SE, OLEDWORKS GmbH, OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GmbH
    Inventors: Nicolle Langer, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Evelyn Fuchs, Gerhard Wagenblast, Christian Lennartz, Oliver Molt, Korinna Dormann, Chuanjie Loh, Arvid Hunze, Ralf Krause, Guenter Schmid, Karsten Heuser, Volker van Elsbergen, Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Stefan Kirsch
  • Patent number: 9458369
    Abstract: Antifreeze concentrate with corrosion protection which is suitable for coolants and heat transfer fluids and comprises freezing point-lowering liquids and also particular sulfur-comprising organic compounds, inorganic molybdate salts, inorganic phosphate salts and aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic monocarboxylic, dicarboxylic or tricarboxylic acids as corrosion inhibitors. Aqueous coolant compositions which are suitable for cooling an internal combustion engine whose cooling apparatus has been made of aluminum using a soldering process using a fluoroaluminate flux can be obtained therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Harald Dietl, Uwe Nitzschke, Gerhard Weiss
  • Patent number: 9458401
    Abstract: The use of substituted diureas, polyureas, bisurethanes or polyurethanes of the formula R1X—CO—NR3R4 in which X is R2N or O and R1 to R4 are each independently hydrogen, alkyl radicals, alkenyl radicals, cycloalkyl radicals, aryl radicals or arylalkyl radicals, where at least one variable must be a radical having at least 4 carbon atoms and where the urea or urethane functionality must be replicated via bridging members, for improvement of the use properties of mineral and synthetic nonaqueous industrial fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jan Strittmatter, Karl Haeberle, Wolfgang Grabarse, Ivette Garcia Castro, Markus Hansch, Irene Troetsch-Schaller, Stephan Schenk, Michael Schroers, Bernhard Lange
  • Patent number: 9457340
    Abstract: Methods of applying a sorbent coating on a substrate, a support, and/or a substrate coated with a support are described. One of the methods comprises: (i) optionally, preparing the substrate coated with the support by pre-treating the substrate with a slurry, wherein the slurry comprises: a. solvent, b. a binder, c. the support, and d. optional dispersant; and (ii) treating the substrate, the support, and/or the substrate coated with the support, with a sorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Buelow, Michael Durilla, John Kauffman, Pascaline Harrison Tran
  • Patent number: 9458262
    Abstract: Preparation of isobutene homopolymers or copolymers having a number average molecular weight of from 500 to 5 000 000 by polymerization of isobutene or an isobutene-comprising monomer mixture in the presence of a Lewis acid or a complex comprising a Lewis acid as polymerization catalyst, wherein the polymerization is carried out in the presence of at least one hemiacetal or full acetal which can be obtained by protic acid-catalyzed reaction of at least one C1-C12-hydrocarbyl alcohol with at least one aldehyde or ketone having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hannah Maria Koenig, Rainer Urban, Klaus Muehlbach, Thomas Wettling, Uwe Rachwalsky, Stefan Hirsch, Anne Berg, Helmut Mach
  • Patent number: 9458436
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the seed of transgenic plants by introducing, into the organism, nucleic acids which encode polypeptides with a ?3-desaturase, ?12-desaturase, ?6-desaturase, ?6-elongase, ?5-desaturase, ?5-elongase and/or ?4-desaturase activity. The invention furthermore relates to recombinant nucleic acid molecules comprising the nucleic acid sequences which encode the aforementioned polypeptides, either jointly or individually, and transgenic plants which comprise the aforementioned recombinant nucleic acid molecules. Furthermore, the invention relates to the generation of a transgenic plant and to oils, lipids and/or fatty acids with an elevated content of polyunsaturated fatty acids, in particular arachidonic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid, as the result of the expression of the elongases and desaturases used in the process according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Petra Cirpus, Jörg Bauer, Xiao Qiu, Guohai Wu, Nagamani Datla