Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Process for the preparation of hyperbranched hollow fibers
    Patent number: 9234302
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a hollow filament (F) based on one or several molten or dissolved hyperbranched polymers (P) and potentially one or several further polymers (FP), characterized in that the molten or dissolved hyperbranched polymer (P) or the mixture of the hyperbranched polymer (P) with the further polymer (FP) is passed through one or several spinnerets (S), wherein the ratio between the spinneret die-length (L) and the die-channel (Delta-D) is between 0.1 and 9.5. The process can be applied for the preparation of hyperbranched polyethersulfone (HPES) hollow filaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignees: BASF SE, National University of Singapore
    Inventors: Martin Weber, Volker Warzelhan, Tai-Shung Chung, Natalia Widjojo
  • SYNTHETIC ZINC HECTORITE VIA HYDROTHERMAL PREPARATION
    Publication number: 20160002056
    Abstract: This invention relates to synthetically derived zinc hectorite platelets, of superior platelet diameter, effect pigments comprising such synthetically derived platelets and methods of forming said substrates. More specifically the disclosure describes an improved hydrothermal synthesis of zinc hectorite suitable as a platelet for interference pigments, barrier and flame retardant applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Meaghan Clark Mcguire, Ivor Bull, Geoffrey Mark Johnson
  • Sulfonate Esters To Improve Fluoropolymer Seal Compatibility Of Lubricant Compositions
    Publication number: 20160002560
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a lubricant composition having improved compatibility with fluoropolymer seals. The lubricant composition includes a base oil and a sulfonate ester. The disclosure is also directed to an additive package for a lubricant composition that provides improved compatibility with fluoropolymer seals. The additive package includes the sulfonate ester. The disclosure is also directed to a method of improving compatibility of a lubricant composition with a fluoropolymer seal disposed in an internal combustion engine. The sulfonate ester improves the compatibility with fluoropolymer seals of the resultant lubricant composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Kevin DeSantis, Michael Hoey, Alfred Karl Jung, Stephen Ray Jones, Eugene Scanlon, Philippe Rabbat
  • ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES
    Publication number: 20160006023
    Abstract: Electrode materials comprising (a) at least one component of general formula (I) Li(1+x)[NiaCObMncM1d](1?x)O2 (I) the integers being defined as follows: x is in the range of from 0.01 to 0.05, a is in the range of from 0.3 to 0.6, b is in the range of from zero to 0.35, c is in the range of from 0.2 to 0.6, d is in the range of from zero to 0.05, a+b+c+d=1 M1 is at least one metal selected from Ca, Zn, Fe, Ti, Ba, Al, (b) at least one component of general formula (II) LiFe(1?y)M2yPO4.m lithium phosphate (II) y is in the range of from zero to 0.8 M2 is at least one element selected from Co, Mn, Ni, V, Mg, Nd, Zn, and Y, m is selected from 0.01 to 0.15 (c) carbon in electrically conductive modification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ivana KRKLJUS, Aleksei VOLKOV, Carsten SUELING
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING A BORON CONTAINING ZEOLITIC MATERIAL HAVING MWW FRAMEWORK STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20160002058
    Abstract: A process for preparing an aluminum-free boron containing zeolitic material comprising the framework structure MWW (BMWW), comprising (a) hydrothermally synthesizing the BMWW from a synthesis mixture containing water, a silicon source, a boron source, and an MWW template compound obtaining the BMWW in its mother liquor, the mother liquor having a pH above 9; (b) adjusting the pH of the mother liquor, obtained in (a) and containing the BMWW, to a value in the range of from 6 to 9; (c) separating the BMWW from the pH-adjusted mother liquor obtained in (b) by filtration in a filtration device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae PARVULESCU, Ulrich MUELLER, Hans-Juergen LUETZEL, Georg UHL, Robert BAYER, Regina VOGELSANG, Robert SCHLOSSER, Franky RUSLIM, Pawel CZAJKA
  • IMPROVING THE CHEMICAL STABILITY OF MEMBRANES
    Publication number: 20160002411
    Abstract: Polymer membranes, especially as used for water filtration processes, are effectively stabilized against detrimental effects of acids, bases and/or oxidizing agents commonly used for chemically enhanced backwash by incorporation of an oligo- or polyurethane of the formula (I) wherein k and n independently are numbers from 1 to 100, m is from the range 0-100, (X) is a block of formula (II) and (Y) is a block of the formula (III), (A) is a residue of an aliphatic or aromatic diisocyanate linker, (B) is a residue of a linear oligo- or polysiloxane containing alkanol end groups, and optionally further containing one or more aliphatic ether moieties, and (C) is an aromatic oligo- or polysulfone block; or a mixture of such oligo- or polyurethanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Edoardo MENOZZI, Martin WEBER, Martin HEIJNEN
  • WATER-BASED PAINT COMPOSITION FOR AEROSOL CANS
    Publication number: 20160002475
    Abstract: The invention relates to a water-based paint composition for aerosol cans containing A) 55 to 75% w/w of a paint component which contains 40 to 75% w/w, with respect to the paint component of an acrylate-based film-forming formulation in an aqueous medium, up to 10% w/w of a water-miscible polar solvent, up to 30% w/w of customary pigments, up to 15% w/w of matting agents, 2 to 15% w/w of additives, and up to 40% w/w of added water, and B) 25 to 45% w/w of a propellant gas component which, based on the propellant gas component, contains at least 75% w/w of dimethyl ether.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicants: Peter Kwasny GmbH, BASF SE
    Inventors: Holger Potthoff, Inge Kramer, Manfred Dargatz, Michaela Muller-Halanke
  • USE OF ALKOXYLATED POLYPROPYLENIMINE FOR LAUNDRY CARE AND COMPOSITIONS THEREFORE
    Publication number: 20160002572
    Abstract: Use of alkoxylated polypropylenimine for laundry care and compositions therefore Use of alkoxylated polypropylenimines (A) for laundry care.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sophia EBERT, Bjoern LUDOLPH, Christoph MUELLER, Stephan HUEFFER, Alejandra GARCIA MARCOS
  • SUBSTITUTED IMIDAZOLE AND (1,2,4)TRIAZOLE COMPOUNDS AS FUNGICIDES
    Publication number: 20160002179
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula I wherein the variables are as defined in the claims and description, their preparation and the uses of compounds I.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wassilios GRAMMENOS, Ian Robert CRAIG, Nadege BOUDET, Bernd MUELLER, Jochen DIETZ, Erica May Wilson LAUTERWASSER, Jan Klaas LOHMANN, Thomas GROTE, Egon HADEN, Ana ESCRIBANO CUESTA
  • USE OF A POLYMER DISPERSION FOR COLD SEALING
    Publication number: 20160002486
    Abstract: A description is given of the use of a polymer dispersion for cold sealing, the polymer dispersion comprising a polymer in dispersion in water and having a glass transition temperature in the range from ?20 to +10° C., said polymer being preparable by emulsion polymerization of radically polymerizable monomers in the presence of at least one polymeric protective colloid, and the polymer being formed to an extent of 0.05 to less than 1 wt % of a monomer M, selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylate monomers having a substituent of the formula where X is CH2, O, NH or NR, and R is a C1 to C4 alkyl group. Descriptions are also given of a method for producing cold-sealed packaging, and of the packaging obtainable by said method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrea KUNTZ, Karl-Heinz SCHUMACHER, Christoph KIENER
  • PE wax dispersions in the coating of plastics
    Patent number: 9228106
    Abstract: An aqueous paint formulation having an aqueous basecoat and an aqueous dispersion having an at least partially neutralized ethylene copolymer wax, wherein the ethylene copolymer wax contains as comonomers in copolymerized form (A) 12-40 wt % of an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid of formula (I), (B) 60-88 wt % of ethylene, and (C) 0-10 wt % of a further comonomer; or the ethylene copolymer was contains as comonomers in copolymerized form (A?) 5-50 wt % of a comonomer of formula (II), (B?) 50-95 wt % of ethylene, and (C?) 0-20 wt % of a further comonomer; wherein the ethylene copolymer wax comprising the comonomers (A), (B), and optionally (C) has a molecular weight Mw of 10000 to 150000 g/mol, and the ethylene copolymer wax comprising the comonomers (A?), (B?), and optionally (C?) has a molecular weight Mw of 5000 to 40000 g/mol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Szilard Csihony, Ivette Garcia Castro, Heike Pfistner, Eva Wagner, Pia Baum, Christian Hubert Weidl
  • Catalyst to increase propylene yields from a fluid catalytic cracking unit
    Patent number: 9227181
    Abstract: A catalyst composition resulting in increased propylene yields during fluid catalytic cracking processes comprises (i) Y zeolite, (ii) ZSM-5 zeolite, and (iii) Beta zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventor: David H. Harris
  • Thermoplastic article for mounting to a support structure
    Patent number: 9227376
    Abstract: A thermoplastic article can be mounted to a support structure by a fastener. The article includes a molded body having a length. The molded body also has an attachment surface configured to face the support structure and a show surface opposite the attachment surface. The molded body defines an interior channel separating the attachment surface and the show surface. The article also includes a attachment boss coupled to and extending from the attachment surface for receiving the fastener to mount the article to the support structure. The attachment boss extends through the attachment surface and into the interior channel of the molded body for reinforcing the attachment boss at the attachment surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: William J. McMaster, Randy E. Fleck, Stephen P. Serna, Edward C. Caughey
  • Process for the preparation of a crystalline L-MGDA trialkali metal salt
    Patent number: 9227915
    Abstract: A process is proposed for the preparation of a crystalline L-MGDA trialkali metal salt by crystallization from an aqueous solution thereof which has been obtained by Strecker synthesis, starting from L-?-alanine, by reaction with formaldehyde and hydrocyanic acid to give L-?-alanine-N,N-diacetonitrile and subsequent alkaline saponification of the L-?-alanine-N,N-diacetonitrile to give the L-MGDA trialkali metal salt, wherein a temperature of 150° C. is not exceeded during the alkaline saponification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alfred Oftring, Maxim Weber, Gerold Braun, Arnulf Lauterbach
  • Colored charged silsesquioxanes
    Patent number: 9228063
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula wherein is wherein is and electrophoretic devices comprising the compounds of formula (1A) or (1B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Reinhold Oehrlein, Gabriele Baisch
  • Phenacene compounds for organic electronics
    Patent number: 9231215
    Abstract: Phenacene compounds of formula (I) are disclosed. All the variables in the formula are the same as defined in the description. A thin film semiconductor comprising the above compounds, and a field effect transistor device, a photovoltaic device, an organic light emitting diode device and a unipolar or complementary circuit device comprising the thin film are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Florian Doetz, Thomas Weitz, Jiao Chongjun, Hiroyoshi Noguchi, Ang Sweemeng, Mi Zhou, Doi Iori, Ashok Kumar Mishra
  • Vapor space anticorrosive composition
    Patent number: 9228127
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a vapor space anticorrosive composition comprising corrosion inhibitors, surfactants and possibly thickeners, wherein one surfactant is selected from alkylamine ethoxylates, and being useful as an engine run-in composition and as a coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Harald Dietl, Uwe Nitzschke
  • METHOD FOR COAGULATING POLYMER DISPERSIONS USING EXPANDABLE MICROSPHERES
    Publication number: 20150376471
    Abstract: Method for coagulating an aqueous polymer dispersion, where the aqueous polymer dispersion comprises at least one polymer in dispersion in aqueous phase, and also comprises thermally expandable, thermoplastic microspheres, the polymer dispersion is coagulated by energy input, and the coagulated composition is delivered via an outlet aperture, preferably in the form of a nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ines PIETSCH, Lars HECKHOFF, Meik RANFT, Peter SCHULER, Andrea KUNTZ
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING NITROALKANES IN A MICROSTRUCTURED REACTOR
    Publication number: 20150376111
    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: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ralf BOEHLING, Michael HAYER, Alwin REHFINGER, Michael SCHELPER, Johann-Peter MELDER, Martin ERNST, Joaquim Henrique TELES
  • NOVEL HETEROCYCLIC FLUORESCENT DYES AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION THEREOF
    Publication number: 20150380660
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds of formula (III) that can be used as heterocyclic dyes of unique structure and properties. These compounds can be obtained in a three-step synthesis from simple substrates. The compounds 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 compounds according to the invention are used in organic field effect transistors, organic photovoltaics (solar cells) and photodiodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Daniel T. Gryko, Marek Grzybowski