Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Patent number: 9080050
    Abstract: A lactam composition which comprises the following components: from 3 to 25% by weight of a random vinylaromatic-diene copolymer (A), where the random vinylaromatic-diene copolymer is composed of at least one block (S) which forms a hard phase and which is composed of vinylaromatic monomers, and of at least one random block (S/B) which forms a soft phase and which has vinylaromatic monomers and diene monomers, from 75 to 97% by weight of at least one lactam component (B), and also optionally reinforcing materials and/or additives has improved viscosity in the melt and can be used for producing polyamide moldings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Philippe Desbois, Konrad Knoll, Anna Karina Möller
  • Patent number: 9079840
    Abstract: A process for producing geometric shaped catalyst bodies K whose active material is a multielement oxide of stoichiometry [Bi1WbOx]a[Mo12Z1cZ2dFeeZ3fZ4gZ5hOy]1, in which a finely divided oxide Bi1WbOx with the particle size d50A1 and, formed from element sources, a finely divided intimate mixture of stoichiometry Mo12Z1cZ2dFeeZ3fZ4gZ5h with the particle size d90A2 are mixed in a ratio of a:1, this mixture is used to form shaped bodies and these are treated thermally, where (d50A1)0.7·(d90A2)1.5·(a)?1?820. A shaped catalyst body obtained by the process. A catalyst obtained by grinding the shaped catalyst body. A process for heterogeneously catalyzing the partial gas phase oxidation of an alkane, alkanol, alkanal and/or an alkenal of 3 to 6 carbon atoms using the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andreas Raichle, Catharina Horstmann, Frank Rosowski, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel, Holger Borchert, Gerhard Cox, Ulrich Cremer
  • Patent number: 9079847
    Abstract: There is provided a process for purifying a fatty acid, which process comprises reacting a fatty acid with a lithium salt in a first solution and under conditions to allow formation of a precipitate of a lithium salt of the fatty acid; isolating the precipitate; dissolving the precipitate in a second solution followed by separation of the organic and aqueous layers so formed; and evaporating the organic layer to isolate the purified fatty acid. There is also provided a process for increasing the length of a fatty acid, and the use of a lithium salt to purify a fatty acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF PHARMA (CALLANISH) LIMITED
    Inventors: Adam Kelliher, Angus Morrison, Phil Knowles
  • Patent number: 9080259
    Abstract: The novel polyamide fibers with dyeable particles comprise 80% to 99.95% by weight of polyamide, 0.05% to 20% by weight of dyeable particles and 0% to 19.95% by weight of added substances, the % by weight summing to 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Schwiegk, Christof Kujat, Axel Wilms, Alexander Traut, Norbert Wagner
  • Patent number: 9079862
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel process for preparing acetanilides of the formula (I) by reacting a 2-halo-N-halomethylacetanilide of the formula (II) with an azole of the formula (III) H-A??(III) wherein the substituents R, R1, R2, R3, R4, A, X and X1 in the formulae (I), (II) and (III) have the meanings as indicated in the description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Keil, Wolfgang Reichert, Christopher Koradin, Yüksel Battal
  • Patent number: 9079872
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device, especially an electroluminescent devices, comprising a compound of the formula especially as host for phosphorescent compounds. The hosts may function with phosphorescent materials to provide improved efficiency, stability, manufacturability, or spectral characteristics of electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Schaefer, Christian Schildknecht, Peter Murer, Christian Lennartz, Nicolle Langer, Gerhard Wagenblast, Stefan Metz
  • Patent number: 9083045
    Abstract: A composite material comprising a reaction product of (A) at least one organic polymer, (B) sulfur and (C) carbon in a polymorph which comprises at least 60% sp2-hybridized carbon atoms, and additionally particles or domains which comprise carbon (C) filled with sulfur (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventor: Nicole Janssen
  • Patent number: 9080047
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polyol dispersions comprising at least one polyol and at least one polymer particle mixture comprising at least one thermoplastic polymer (P) and at least one block copolymer (B), wherein the block copolymer (B) has at least one block which is compatible with the thermoplastic polymer (P) and at least one block which is compatible with the polyol, a process for producing such polyol dispersions, their use for producing polyurethanes and a process for producing polyurethanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Christoph Schnorpfeil
  • Patent number: 9079822
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of mononitroaromatics and dinitroaromatics, in which a hydrate melt of at least one metal nitrate M(NO3)3 is used as a nitrating medium, it being possible for M to be the metals Fe, Cr, Y, La, Ce, Al, Bi and In, and the metal nitrate having a water content of from 4 to 9 mol of water per M(NO3)3, leads to simplifications of the process and improved yields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wolfgang Mackenroth, Johannes Buettner, Eckhard Stroefer, Wolfgang Voigt, Frank Bok
  • Patent number: 9080129
    Abstract: The present invention relates to hydrophobically modified cationic polymers obtainable by the polymerization of one or more cationic ethylenically unsaturated monomers with an ethylenically unsaturated monomer having anhydride, imide, lactone, carboxylic acid, isocyanate or blocked isocyanate group and a reactive siloxane and processes for preparing them. These polymers are useful i.a. as a depositioning aid of hydrophobic actives onto fibrous substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ouidad Benlahmar, Aaron Flores-Figueroa, Volodymyr Boyko, Dieter Boeckh, Markus Brym, Christofer Arisandy, Wolfgang Schrof, Frank Huelskoetter, Yonas Gizaw, Roy Jerome Harrington, Sumanth Narahari Jamadagni, Peter Koenig
  • Patent number: 9080191
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel methods for biocatalytic production of nitriles from oximes using oxime dehydratases and novel mutants with oxime dehydratase activity and use thereof in a process for biocatalytic production of nitriles, such as in particular for the production of citral nitrile, neral nitrile, geranial nitrile or citronellyl nitrile from citral oxime, neral oxime, geranial oxime or citronellal oxime; and oxime dehydratases usable therefor, nucleotide sequences therefor and expression constructs or microorganisms comprising these.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrea Piatesi, Wolfgang Siegel, Kai-Uwe Baldenius
  • Patent number: 9081048
    Abstract: A method and device for quality control of superconducting bands includes: cooling a section of the superconducting band to a temperature at which said band section becomes superconducting, generating an electrical transport current in the superconducting band section in the longitudinal direction of the band by contacting with a contact assembly, contacting the cooled band section with electrical contacts of the contact assembly, which are spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the band, in order to form a measurement section over a partial length of the band section, continuously moving at least one part of the band through the contact section and/or measurement section to generate the transport current, detecting a physical measured variable using measurement contacts, wherein the physical measured variable is a measure of the superconducting electrical transport properties of the band section or a part of the band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Bäcker, Jan Wiezoreck
  • Patent number: 9079154
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst for preparing alkylene oxides, which is a supported silver catalyst having a novel promoter combination. The present invention further relates to a process for producing the catalyst and the use of the catalyst for the oxidation of alkylenes to alkylene oxides. In addition, the present invention relates to a process for preparing ethylene oxide from ethylene, which comprises the oxidation of ethylene in the presence of the stated catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Tobias Rosendahl, Torsten Mäurer, Dirk Hensel, Andreas Lehr
  • Patent number: 9080002
    Abstract: The abstract concerns a coating composition comprising 25-55% by weight of one or more film formers, 2.5-55% by weight of one or more fillers, 0-10% by weight of one or more additives, and 0-30% by weight of a solvent, based on the total weight of the coating composition. As the filler or a filler the composition comprises calcium hydrogen phosphate in a mass fraction of 2.5-20%, preferably 5-15%, more preferably 7.5-11% by weight based on the total weight of the coating composition. The invention further concerns processes for preparing this coating composition, its use as a coating material in the vehicle sector, and substrates produced therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Coatings GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Rademacher, Gisela Laumann, Heinz-Peter Rink
  • Patent number: 9080093
    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: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Harald Dietl, Uwe Nitzschke, Gerhard Weiss
  • Patent number: 9079149
    Abstract: The proposal is made for a process for the preparation of a minisuspoemulsion of submicron core/shell particles, wherein the starting material is a suspoemulsion of a first disperse liquid phase I in a second continuous liquid phase II, which comprises, in the first disperse liquid phase I, submicron particles of a solid C forming the core, and a precursor substance PS for the shell dissolved in molecularly disperse form and, if appropriate, a reactant R, and wherein the submicron core/shell particles CS are prepared in the first disperse liquid phase I of the suspoemulsion by chemical or physical conversion of the precursor substance PS for the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Danner, Bernd Sachweh, Sonja Viereck
  • Patent number: 9080086
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing melamine-urea-formaldehyde resins with up to 0.9% of melamine by reacting a) urea which comprises from 0 to 10% by weight of one or more compounds A, formaldehyde, and melamine in the presence of a base at a pH of from 7.5 to 11, at a temperature of from 20 to 120° C., and at a pressure of from 0.1 to 10 bar, b) and then carrying out reaction in the presence of an acid which optionally comprises urea with from 0 to 10% by weight of one or more compounds A, at a temperature of from 60 to 180° C., and at a pressure of from 0.1 to 10 bar, and c) and then adding urea which comprises from 0 to 10% by weight of one or more compounds A, which comprises carrying out b) at a pH of from 4 to 5.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Finkenauer, Konrad Roschmann, Ralph Lunkwitz, Stephan Weinkötz
  • Publication number: 20150194704
    Abstract: A lithium ion battery comprising (i) at least one anode, (ii) at least one cathode containing a cathode active material selected from lithium ion containing transition metal compounds having a content of Manganese of from 50 to 100% wt. based on the total weight of transition metal in the lithium ion containing transition metal compound, and (iii) at least one electrolyte composition containing •(A) at least one aprotic organic solvent, •(B) 0.01 up to less than 5% wt. based on the total weight of the electrolyte composition of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of lithium bis(oxalato)borate, lithium difluoro(oxalato)borate, lithium tetrafluoro(oxalato)phosphate, lithium oxalate, lithium (malonato oxalato)borate, lithium (salicylato oxalato)borate, lithium tris(oxalato)phosphate and vinylene carbonate compounds of formula (I), •(C) 0.01 up to less than 5% wt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicants: BASF SE, UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
    Inventors: Arnd Garsuch, Frederick Francois Chesneau, Itamar Michael Malkowsky, Brett Lucht, Mengqing Xu, Dongsheng Lu
  • Publication number: 20150191875
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for production of paper, card and board comprising draining a filler-containing paper stock comprising at least one water-soluble polymer with sheet formation in the wire section and then pressing the paper in the press section, wherein a paper stock having a fibrous concentration in the range from 20 to 40 g/l has the at least one water-soluble polymer added to it, then the paper stock is diluted to a fibrous concentration in the range from 5 to 15 g/l, the diluted paper stock is drained to form a sheet and the sheet is pressed in the press section to a solids content G(x) wt % or greater and G(x) computes according to G(x)=48+(x?15)·0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Anton ESSER, Hans-Joachim HAEHNLE
  • Publication number: 20150191377
    Abstract: A process of concentrating an aqueous suspension of solid particles, whereby an aqueous suspension of solid particles is introduced into a vessel, an organic polymeric flocculant is added to the aqueous suspension of solid particles thereby forming flocculated solids, the flocculated solids are allowed to settle to form a bed of solids in suspension at the lower end of the vessel, and the bed of solids are flowed from the vessel as an underflow, in which a portion of the bed of solids or underflow is transferred as a recycle stream to the vessel into or above the bed of solids. Furthermore, an active agent is added to the solids in the recycle stream. The active agent is selected from free radical agents, oxidising agents and reducing agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alexsandro Berger, Stephen Adkins