Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Publication number: 20140357485
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling pests and/or increasing the health of a plant as compared to a corresponding control plant by treating the cultivated plant, parts of a plant, seed, or their locus of growth with a carboxamide compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus GEWEHR, Dirk VOESTE, Juergen LOGEMANN, Maarten Hendrik STUIVER, Pilar PUENTE, Robert John GLADWIN
  • Publication number: 20140357489
    Abstract: Subject matter of the present invention is an emulsifiable concentrate comprising a water-insoluble pesticide, benzyl alcohol, alkyl lactate and not more than 40% by weight of dimethyl sulfoxide. A further subject matter is an emulsion obtainable by mixing water with the emulsifiable concentrate; a process for the preparation of the emulsifiable concentrate; and a method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired vegetation and/or undesired attack by insects or mites and/or for regulating the growth of plants, where the concentrate or the emulsion is allowed to act on the respective pests, their environment or on the crop plants to be protected from the respective pests, on the soil and/or on undesired plants and/or on the crop plants and/or their environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Cedric Dieleman, Winfried Mayer, Thomas Ottillinger, Ralph Steinbacher, Siegfried Strathmann
  • Patent number: 8901344
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing carboxylic acid esters by reacting a reaction mixture, comprising a carboxylic acid and/or a carboxylic acid anhydride, and an alcohol in a reaction system having one or more reactors, wherein reaction water is distilled off as an alcohol/water azeotrope with the exhaust vapor. In addition, the reaction mixture is treated with superheated alcohol vapor. The method allows the production of esters having a low acid number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jarren Peters, Walter Disteldorf, Katrin Friese, Thomas Schäfer, Oliver Bey
  • Patent number: 8901060
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an acidic, aqueous composition which comprises a thiodiglycol alkoxylate for treating metallic surfaces. The invention furthermore relates to the use of one or more compound(s) of the general formula (I) as a corrosion inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Faβbender, Peter Kolb
  • Patent number: 8901186
    Abstract: Process for producing silica-comprising dispersions comprising a polyetherol or a polyether amine, which comprises the steps of (i) admixing an aqueous silica sol (K) having an average particle diameter of from 1 to 150 nm and a silica content, calculated as SiO2, of from 1 to 60% by weight and a pH of from 1 to 6 with at least one polyetherol (b1) and/or polyether amine (b2) based on ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide and having an average OH or amine functionality of from 2 to 6 and a number average molecular weight of from 62 to 6000 g/mol, (ii) distilling off at least part of the water, (iii) admixing the dispersion with at least one compound (S) having at least one at least monoalkoxylated silyl group and at least one alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl substituent, where this substituent may have groups which are reactive toward an alcohol, an amine or an isocyanate in an amount of from 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Berend Eling, Zeljko Tomovic, Stefan Auffarth
  • Patent number: 8901320
    Abstract: In a process for controlling a gas phase oxidation reactor for preparation of phthalic anhydride, by passing a gas stream which comprises an aromatic hydrocarbon and molecular oxygen through a multitude of reaction tubes arranged in the gas phase oxidation reactor, each of which comprises a bed of at least one catalyst and the temperature of which can be controlled by means of a heat transfer medium, at least one control parameter is measured and correcting interventions for control of the control parameter are determined, the at least one control parameter comprising the phthalic anhydride yield and the correcting parameter used being the temperature of the heat carrier medium. Over at least 90% of the lifetime of the catalyst, the change in the correcting parameter is limited to a maximum of 0.5 K within a period of 30 days. In this way, the cumulated phthalic anhydride yield over the lifetime of the catalyst is maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Altwasser, Jürgen Zühlke, Hao Chen, Cornelia Katharina Dobner, Frank Rosowski
  • Patent number: 8901350
    Abstract: Process for obtaining formic acid by thermal separation of a stream comprising formic acid and a tertiary amine (I), in which a liquid stream comprising formic acid and a tertiary amine (I) in a molar ratio of from 0.5 to 5 is produced by combining tertiary amine (I) and a formic acid source, from 10 to 100% by weight of the secondary components present therein are separated off and formic acid is removed by distillation in a distillation apparatus at a bottom temperature of from 100 to 300° C. and a pressure of from 30 to 3000 hPa abs from the liquid stream obtained, the bottom discharge from the distillation apparatus being separated into two liquid phases and the upper liquid phase being recycled to the formic acid source and the lower liquid phase being recycled for separating off the secondary components and/or to the distillation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Daniel Schneider, Klaus-Dieter Mohl, Martin Schäfer, Karin Pickenäcker, Stefan Rittinger, Thomas Schaub, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Rocco Paciello, Gerd Kaibel
  • Patent number: 8901237
    Abstract: The invention also relates to a method to increase stain resistance and penetration resistance of aqueous coating compositions which method comprises providing a coating composition which contain at least one pigment, at least one film-forming polymer in the form of an aqueous polymer dispersion and at least one anionic surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant comprises at least 85% by weight, preferably at least 90% by weight, more preferably at least 95% by weight, based on the total weight of anionic surfactant in the coating composition, of at least one anionic surfactant S, which is selected from semi-esters of sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid with an alcohol, which alcohol carries at least one alkyl radical having from 8 to 30 carbon atoms or an alkyl substituted phenyl radical wherein alkyl has from 4 to 30 carbon atoms and which alcohol may carry an oligo-C2-C3-alkylene-ether group provided that the number of repeating units in the oligo-C2-C3-alkylene-ether group is at most 15, or a salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mubarik Mahmood Chowdhry, Hideki Yamashita, Cheeseng Yong, Gregory John Catterall, Jonathon Shane Allen, Roger Jan Van Sonsbeek, David Redfern, Bernhard Schuler, Oliver Wagner, David Christie
  • Patent number: 8901220
    Abstract: Styrene-butadiene-based aqueous dispersions and methods for their preparation are described herein. The aqueous dispersions include water and a binder comprising a styrene-butadiene-based copolymer and an epoxysilane. Further described herein are binder formulations and methods for their preparation and use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Kostas S. Avramidis, Mark Gordon
  • Patent number: 8901300
    Abstract: Provided are tetraazapyrene compounds of formula (I) and their use as n-type semiconductors. In formula (I), R1, R2, R3, R4, at each occurrence, independently are selected from H, a C1-30 alkyl group, a C1-30 alkoxy group, a C1-30 alkylthio group, a C6-14 aryl group, a C6-14 aryloxy group, a C6-14 arylthio group, a C7-20 arylalkyl group, CI and Br; R5, R6, at each occurrence, independently are selected from H, a C1-30 alkyl group, a Cy1-30 haloalkyl group, a C6-14 aryl group and a C7-20 arylalkyl group, wherein aryl and arylalkyl can be optionally substituted with one or more halogen, C1-4 haloalkyl, —CN, —NO2, —CHO, —COOH, —CONH2, —CO(C1-14 alkyl), —COO(C1-14 alkyl), CONHC(C1-14 alkyl) and —CON(C1-14 alkyl)2 groups, with the proviso that at least one of R1, R2, R3, R4 is a C6-14 aryloxy, a C6-14 arylthio I group, CI or Br. (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Nicolle Langer, Sonja Geib, Susanne Martens, Lutz Gade
  • Patent number: 8901227
    Abstract: A finely divided, cationic, aqueous polymer dispersion, obtained by (I) solution polymerizing a first mixture containing (a) 15-40% by weight of a mixture of (a1) a (meth)acrylate and (a2) a (meth)acrylamide, (b) 40-85% by weight of styrene, (c) 0.5-5% by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and (d) 0-20% by weight of a nonionic, ethylenically unsaturated monomer differing from (b); (II) adding water; and (III) emulsion polymerizing a second monomer mixture containing (i) 0-29% by weight of styrene, (ii) 50-100% by weight of a C1- to C18-(meth)acrylate, (iii) 0-30% by weight of a vinyl ester of a C1-C30-carboxylic acid, and (iv) 0-30% by weight of a nonionic ethylenically unsaturated monomer differing from (i), (ii), and (iii), wherein at least one of the solution and emulsion polymerizing are performed in the presence of 0-10% by weight of a regulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Anja Song, Holger Kern
  • Patent number: 8901374
    Abstract: The invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules which encode novel fatty acid dehydratase family members. The invention also provides recombinant expression vectors containing dehydratase nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and methods for large-scale production of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs), e.g., SDA, EPA and DHA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: BASF Plant Science GmbH, Bioriginal Food & Science Corp.
    Inventors: Jörg Bauer, Xiao Qiu, Patricia Vrinten
  • Patent number: 8901170
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) wherein the symbols have the meaning given in the specification, as well as processes for preparing the compounds (I), pesticidal compositions and synergistic mixtures comprising compounds (I), methods for the control of insects, acarids or nematodes by contacting the pests or their food supply, habitat or breeding grounds with a pesticidally effective amount of compounds formula (I), and a method for treating, controlling, preventing or protecting animals against infestation or infection by parasites which comprises orally, topically or parenterally administering or applying to the animals a parasiticidally effective amount of compounds of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Pohlman, Michael Hofmann, Henricus Maria Martinus Bastiaans, Michael Rack, Deborah L. Culbertson, Hassan Oloumi-Sadeghi, Takeo Hokama, Christopher Palmer
  • Patent number: 8899023
    Abstract: Provided is an emission treatment system and method for simultaneously remediating the nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter, and gaseous hydrocarbons present in diesel engine exhaust streams. The emission treatment system has an oxidation catalyst upstream of a soot filter coated with a material effective in the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) of NOx by a reductant, e.g., ammonia. Also provided is a method for disposing an SCR catalyst composition on a wall flow monolith that provides adequate catalyst loading, but does not result in unsuitable back pressures in the exhaust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Patchett, Joseph C. Dettling, Elizabeth A. Przybylski
  • Patent number: 8901000
    Abstract: An aqueous acidic solution and an aqueous acidic etching solution suitable for texturizing the surface of single crystal and polycrystal silicon substrates, hydrofluoric acid; nitric acid; and at least one anionic polyether, which is surface active; a method for texturizing the surface of single crystal and polycrystal silicon substrates comprising the step of (1) contacting at least one major surface of a substrate with the said aqueous acidic etching solution; (2) etching the at least one major surface of the substrate for a time and at a temperature sufficient to obtain a surface texturization consisting of recesses and protrusions; and (3) removing the at least one major surface of the substrate from the contact with the aqueous acidic etching solution; and a method for manufacturing photovoltaic cells and solar cells using the said solution and the said texturizing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Simon Braun, Andreas Klipp, Cornelia Roeger-Goepfert, Christian Bittner, MeiChin Shen, Chengwei Lin
  • Patent number: 8900333
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the use of alkyl(meth)acrylate polymers or copolymers of the formula (I) In-Poly-(E)y??(I) as cold flow improvers in biodiesel fuel (or bio-fuel) and biodiesel compositions incorporating said polymers or copolymers, obtained by nitroxyl mediated controlled free radical polymerization, wherein In is the initiator fragment starting the polymerization reaction; E is an end group bearing at least one stable free nitroxyl radical, which is bound via an oxygen atom to the polymer or copolymer; or a group which results from a substitution or elimination reaction of the attached stable free nitroxyl radical; Poly is any polymer or copolymer formed from ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s); and y is a number 1 or greater than 1 indicating the average number of end groups E attached to Poly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Eugene Scanlon, Kevin DeSantis, Clemens Auschra, Andreas Möck
  • Patent number: 8901343
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing carboxylic esters by converting a carboxylic acid or a carboxylic acid anhydride or a mixture thereof with an alcohol in a reaction system comprising one or more reactors, wherein reaction water is distilled as alcohol-water-azeotrope with the vapors, the vapors are at least partially condensed, the condensate is separated into an aqueous phase and an organic phase and said organic phase is supplied at least partially back into said reaction system. Components boiling lower than the alcohol are at least partially removed from said returned organic phase such as wherein components boiling lower than alcohol are evaporated and/or distilled off. An enrichment in the reaction system of by-products boiling lower than alcohol is avoided. Alcohol losses can be minimized by discharge currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Walter Disteldorf, Jarren Peters, Thomas Schäfer, Katrin Friese, Christoph Übler
  • Patent number: 8901066
    Abstract: Branched polyesters with sulfonate groups can be obtained by reacting components A, B, optionally C, and optionally D to yield branched polyesters, then reacting these branched polyesters with hydrogen sulfite. Component A is at least one ?,?-olefinically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid, component B is at least one di- or higher-functional alcohol, optional component C is at least one di- or higher-functional carboxylic acid or hydroxycarboxylic acid without an ?,?-olefinically unsaturated bond, and optional component D is at least one compound of formula CH3(—O—CH2—CH2)n—OH. In reacting the branched polyesters with hydrogen sulfite, a molar amount of hydrogen sulfite is at most 95 mol %, based on an amount of ?,?-olefinically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Monika Haberecht, Juergen Detering, Bernd Bruchmann, Helmut Witteler, Heike Weber, Karl Kolter
  • Publication number: 20140349121
    Abstract: To provide a chromium-free paint composition which can provide paint films which are excellent in terms of corrosion resistance on the edge surfaces, scratched surfaces and worked parts of a pre-coated steel sheet, and the paint films which can be obtained by coating this chromium-free paint composition. A chromium-free paint composition which includes paint film-forming resin (A), anti-rust pigment (B), comprising at least one type of amorphous MgO—V2O5-based compound, and crosslinking agent (C) which is characterized in that the mass content proportion of the aforementioned anti-rust pigment (B) is from 10 to 80 mass % with respect to the sum of the resin solid fraction mass of the aforementioned paint film-forming resin (A) and the aforementioned crosslinking agent (C), and the overall eluted ion content in a 10% aqueous solution of the aforementioned anti-rust pigment (B) is from 10 ppm to 100 ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Coating GmbH
    Inventors: Takahiro Tsujita, Nobuhiro Nishida, Yoshitomo Takeuchi, Katsuhiko Ohsawa
  • Publication number: 20140352003
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for increasing various plant yield-related traits by increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a zinc finger (Znf) domain-containing A20/AN1 (Znf A20/AN1) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having increased expression of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a Znf A20/AN1 polypeptide, which plants have increased yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides nucleic acid sequence, polypeptide sequence, and constructs useful in the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Yves Hatzfeld, Valerie Frankard, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero