Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Method for Producing Water-Absorbing Polymer Particles with High Swelling Rate and High Centrifuge Retention Capacity with Simultaneously High Permeability of the Swollen Gel Bed
    Publication number: 20150376318
    Abstract: A process for producing water-absorbing polymer particles having high free swell rate and high centrifuge retention capacity with simultaneously high permeability of the swollen gel bed by polymerization of an aqueous monomer solution in a polymerization reactor having at least two shafts (kneaders) which rotate in an axially parallel manner, subsequent extrusion at high temperatures and thermal surface postcrosslinking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Monica HAAG, Roland KRAUSS, Thomas GIEGER, Volker KLOCK, Matthias WEISMANTEL
  • ACTIVE CATHODE MATERIAL AND ITS USE IN RECHARGEABLE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS
    Publication number: 20150380723
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active cathode material of the general formula (I) MxNiaM1bM2c02 (I) in which the variables are each defined as follows: M is an alkali metal, M1 is V, Cr, Mn, Fe or Co, M2 is Ge, Sn, Ti or Zr, x is in the range from 0.7 to 1.3, a is in the range from 0.15 to 0.4, b is in the range from 0.2 to 0.7, c is in the range from 0.15 to 0.4, wherein a+b+c=1. The present invention further relates to an electrode material comprising said active cathode material, to electrodes produced from or using said electrode material and to a rechargeable electrochemical cell comprising at least one electrode. The present invention further relates to a process for preparing said active cathode material of the general formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Arnd GARSUCH, Shinichi KOMABA, Naoaki YABUUCHI, Hiroaki YOSHIDA
  • 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
  • PRODUCTION OF LEATHER
    Publication number: 20150376726
    Abstract: In a method of producing leather comprising a plurality of steps, methanesulfonic acid is used in at least one step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Walter BERTKAU, Yu MEI, Robert ORTH, Thomas SCHNEIDER
  • RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISM FOR IMPROVED PRODUCTION OF FINE CHEMICALS
    Publication number: 20150376663
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recombinant nucleic acid molecule, a recombinant microorganism, to a method for producing alanine and to the use of the recombinant nucleic acid molecule or the recombinant microorganism for the fermentative production of alanine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hartwig Schroeder, Holger Hartmann, Qingzhao Wang, Shakir Ratani, Zheyuan Guo, Markus Pompejus
  • Method For Producing An Anticorrosion Coating
    Publication number: 20150376420
    Abstract: Described is a method for producing an anticorrosion coating, wherein (1) an anticorrosion primer comprising: (A) at least one organic resin as binder, and (B) at least one synthetic layered double hydroxide comprising organic anions, is applied directly to a metallic substrate; and (2) a polymer film is formed from the anticorrosion primer applied in stage (1), wherein the at least one synthetic layered double hydroxide (B) comprises at least one organic anion of an alpha-amino acid. Also described are coated metallic substrates coated by the method of the invention. Further described is the use of the anticorrosion primer in the method of the invention for improving the corrosion resistance of metallic substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: BASF Coating GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Fabrice Leroux, Thomas Stimpfling, Patrick Keil, Hubert Theil
  • CHEMICAL-MECHANICAL POLISHING COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING ONE OR MORE POLYMERS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF N-VINYL-HOMOPOLYMERS AND N-VINYL COPOLYMERS
    Publication number: 20150380263
    Abstract: Described is a chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) composition comprising the following components: (A) surface modified silica particles having a negative zeta potential of ?15 mV or below at a pH in the range of from 2 to 6 (B) one or more polymers selected from the group consisting of N-vinyl-homopolymers and N-vinyl copolymers (C) water (D) optionally one or more further constituents, wherein the pH of the composition is in the range of from 2 to 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Yongqing LAN, Peter PRZYBYLSKI, Zhenyu BAO, Julian PROELSS
  • Use of acylcyclohexanedione carboxylic acid or salts thereof in combination with acylcyclohexanedione carboxylic acid esters for improving the development of gramineous plants
    Patent number: 9220262
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a combination of acylcyclohexanedionecarboxylic acids or salts thereof and acylcyclohexanedionecarboxylic esters for improving the development of gramineae. The invention also relates to a method for improving the development of gramineae, in which the plants or plant parts thereof are treated with this combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wilhelm Rademacher, Dieter Strobel
  • Isomerization of olefinic compounds
    Patent number: 9221854
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing an olefinically unsaturated phosphonium salt having at least two olefinic double bonds, of which one double bond has a Z or cis conformation and the second or a further double bond an E conformation, from an olefinically unsaturated phosphonium salt having at least two olefinic double bonds of different configuration compared to the target compound, and both especially have an all-E or all-trans conformation. In addition, the invention provides for the use of the compound obtained by the process for provision of terpenoid substances as medicaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bernd Schaefer, Wolfgang Siegel
  • Multicomponent crystals comprising imatinib mesilate and selected co-crystal formers
    Patent number: 9221789
    Abstract: Novel solid forms of imatinib mesilate comprising as active ingredient 4-[(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)methyl]-N-[4-methyl-3-[[4-(3-pyridinyl)-2-pyrimidinyl]amino]-phenyl]-benzamide methanesulfonic acid salt and as co-crystal former benzoic acid, fumaric acid or succinic acid are described. The said multi-component crystalline forms possess improved physical and biological properties with respect to the crystalline forms of the active pharmaceutical ingredient previously known.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Tiziana Chiodo, Rolf Hellmann, Marcus Vossen, Beate Salvador, Andreas Hafner, Tobias Hintermann
  • Copper containing ZSM-34, OFF and/or ERI zeolitic material for selective reduction of NOx
    Patent number: 9221015
    Abstract: Described is a copper containing ZSM-34, OFF and/or ERI zeolitic material having a silica to alumina mole ratio ranging from about 4 to about 50 and a copper content, reported as CuO, ranging from about 1 to about 10 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the calcined zeolitic material, and having an alkali metal content, reported as metal oxide, ranging from about 1.5 to about 12 wt.-%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ivor Bull, Ulrich Müller
  • High molecular weight polycarbodiimide and method of producing same
    Patent number: 9221073
    Abstract: A method of producing the high molecular weight polycarbodiimide comprises the steps of providing an isocyanate component comprising toluene diisocyanate (TDI), a carbodiimidization catalyst, and a first solvent. The method further comprises the step of polymerizing the isocyanate component in the first solvent and in the presence of the carbodiimidization catalyst to produce a reaction mixture including at least one carbodiimide compound and the first solvent. In addition, the method comprises the step of combining a second solvent and the reaction mixture. Finally, the method comprises the step of polymerizing the at least one carbodiimide compound for a second period of time in the first and second solvents and in the presence of the carbodiimidization catalyst to produce the high molecular weight polycarbodiimide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventor: Mohamed Bouguettaya
  • Polymerized films with line texture or fingerprint texture
    Patent number: 9222024
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing polymerized films with line texture or fingerprint texture or for producing substrates coated with polymerized films with line texture or fingerprint texture, to polymerized films, obtainable by this process, with line texture or fingerprint texture or substrates coated with polymerized films with line texture or fingerprint texture, to pigments obtainable by comminuting such films, to the use of such films, substrates or pigments as or in optical filter(s), polarizers, decorative media, forgeryproof markers, reflective media or for focusing light (in solar cells), to the use of such films as an antibacterial coating, to a forgeryproof marker which comprises such a film, and to a process for detecting forgeryproof markings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jochen Brill, Ulrich Schalkowsky, Thomas Musiol, Claus Hoffmann, Olivier Enger, Oliver Seeger
  • Herbicidal benzoxazinones
    Patent number: 9220268
    Abstract: The present invention relates to benzoxazinones of the general formula (I) wherein the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the benzoxazinones of the formula (I), compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, i.e. for controlling harmful plants, and also a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises allowing a herbicidal effective amount of at least one benzoxazinones of the formula (I) to act on plants, their seed and/or their habitat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Witschel, Trevor William Newton, Thomas Seitz, Helmut Walter, Bernd Sievernich, Anja Simon, Ricarda Niggeweg, Klaus Groβmann, Liliana Parra Rapado, Richard Roger Evans
  • Semiconductor materials prepared from dithienylvinylene copolymers
    Patent number: 9221944
    Abstract: Disclosed are new semiconductor materials prepared from dithienylvinylene copolymers with aromatic or heteroaromatic ?-conjugated systems. Such copolymers, with little or no post-deposition heat treatment, can exhibit high charge carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics. In addition, the polymers of the present teachings can possess certain processing advantages such as improved solution-processability and low annealing temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignees: BASF SE, Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Ashok Kumar Mishra, Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Hiroyoshi Noguchi, Florian Doetz, Silke Koehler, Marcel Kastler
  • Process for preparing a heteroatom-comprising silicate
    Patent number: 9221692
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing at least one sheet silicate comprising Ga and/or Zn, and based thereon, a framework silicate, preferably of the RRO structure type, to the sheet silicate and framework silicate themselves and to the uses of the silicates, especially of the framework silicate, preferably as catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignees: BASF SE, RUBITEC-GESELLSCHAFT FUER INNOVATION UND TECHNOLOGIE DER RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM MBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Mueller, Natalia Trukhan, Hermann Gies, Bart Tijsebaert, Csaba Varszegi, Dirk De Vos
  • Dyketopyrrolopyrrole polymers for use in organic semiconductor devices
    Patent number: 9221943
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers comprising one or more (repeating) unit(s) of the formula or a polymer of formula 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: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Pascal Hayoz, Mathias Düggeli, Natalia Chebotareva, Olivier Frédéric Aebischer
  • Erosion-resistant coating compositions
    Patent number: 9221997
    Abstract: Disclosed is a composition comprising at least one polyol component (a) having an OH group content of 3% to 15% by weight relative to the total weight of the polyol component, and at least one isocyanate component (b) having an isocyanate group content of 5% to 15% by weight relative to the total weight of the isocyanate component. The polyol component (a) comprises at least one OH group-containing polyurethane prepolymer that is the product of a reaction between at least one compound a1. of the general formula (I) HO—R1—X—R2—OH??(I) and at least one di- or polyisocyanate a2. The isocyanate component (b) comprises at least one di- or polyisocyanate-terminated polylactone prepolymer. The composition can be used as erosion-resistant coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Coatings GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Kaune, Bianca Holters
  • Erosion-resistant coating compositions
    Patent number: 9221998
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition which comprises at least one polyol component having a hydroxyl group content of 9% to 15% by weight relative to the total weight of the polyol component, and at least one isocyanate component having a free isocyanate group content of 10% to 15% by weight relative to the total weight of the isocyanate component. The polyol component comprises at least one polyol which is selected from the group of the polyether polyols, polyester polyols, and polyether polyester polyols. The isocyanate component comprises at least one di- or polyisocyanate-terminated polylactone prepolymer. The composition can be used as erosion-resistant coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Coatings GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Kaune, Bianca Holters, Dieter Hohnholz
  • Photoresist stripping and cleaning composition, method of its preparation and its use
    Patent number: 9223221
    Abstract: A photoresist stripping and cleaning composition free from N-alkylpyrrolidones and added quaternary ammonium hydroxides comprising a component (A) which comprises the polar organic solvents N-methylimidazole, dimethylsulfoxide and 1-aminopropane-2-ol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Simon Braun, Christian Bittner, Andreas Klipp