Patents Assigned to BASF
  • ?-olefin/isobutene diblock copolymers
    Patent number: 8357829
    Abstract: The present invention relates to diblock copolymers of the formula A-B which are formed from a polymer block A which is formed essentially from ?-olefin units having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms, and a polymer block B which is formed essentially from isobutene units, to a process for their preparation, to their use in lubricant compositions and to lubricant compositions which comprise such diblock copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Phillip Hanefeld, Hans Peter Rath, Helmut Mach, Rainer Urban
  • Hydrates of 2-chloro-5-[3,6-dihydro-3-methyl-2,6-dioxo-4-(trifluoromethyl)-1-(2H)-pyrimidinyl]-4-fluoro-N-[[methyl(1-methylethyl)amino]sulfonyl]benzamide
    Patent number: 8357695
    Abstract: The present invention relates to hydrates of 2-chloro-5-[3,6-dihydro-3-methyl-2,6-dioxo-4-(trifluoromethyl)-1-(2H)pyrimidinyl]-4-fluoro-N-[[methyl(1-methylethyl)amino]-sulfonyl]benzamide. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of these hydrates and to plant protection formulations which comprise hydrates of the phenyluracil I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Schmidt, Joachim Gebhardt, Sandra Löhr, Michael Keil, Jan Hendrik Wevers, Peter Erk, Heidi Emilia Saxell, Gerhard Hamprecht, Guido Mayer, Bernd Wolf, Gerhard Cox, Alfred Michel, Werner Seitz, Cyrill Zagar, Robert Reinhard, Bernd Sievernich
  • Rotomolding process for polyethylene articles
    Patent number: 8357324
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of polyethylene hollow articles, which process comprises charging the polyethylene with one or more NO-acyl hindered amine additives containing one or more groups of formula (I), filling this mixture into a mold, heating this mold in an oven to above 280° C., such that the additized polyethylene melts, rotating the mold around at least 2 axes, the additized polyethylene spreading to the walls, cooling the mold while still rotating, opening it, and taking the resultant hollow article out, where the group of formula (I) is where Ra is a monoacyl or diacyl radical; R1-R4 are each C1-C6alkyl; and R5 and R6 are each, independently of one another, hydrogen, C1-C6alkyl or C6-C10aryl; or R5 and R6 are together oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jiong Yu, John Sigler, Eric Wallis
  • Process for Producing Water-Absorbing Polymer Particles with High Free Swell Rate
    Publication number: 20130017945
    Abstract: A process for producing water-absorbing polymer particles with high free swell rate by polymerizing a monomer solution or suspension comprising an ethylenically unsaturated monomer bearing acid groups, a crosslinker, an initiator and an ethylenically unsaturated ionic surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus Braun, Matthias Weismantel
  • PLANTS HAVING ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20130019346
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Protein Of Interest (POI) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a POI polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. The invention also provides novel POI-encoding nucleic acids and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the method of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GMbH
    Inventor: Yves Hatzfeld
  • PLANTS HAVING ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND A METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20130019347
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Protein of Interest (POI) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a POI polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits as compared with control plants. The invention also provides novel POI-encoding nucleic acids and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the method of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventor: Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero
  • ELECTRODE MATERIAL COMPRISING METAL SULFIDE
    Publication number: 20130017418
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electrode material for an electrical cell comprising as component (A) at least one ion- and electron-conductive metal chalcogenide, as component (B) carbon in a polymorph comprising at least 60% sp2-hybridized carbon atoms, as component (C) at least one sulfur-containing component selected from the group consisting of elemental sulfur, a composite produced from elemental sulfur and at least one polymer, a polymer comprising divalent di- or polysulfide bridges and mixtures thereof, and as component (D) optionally at least one binder. The invention further relates to a rechargeable electrical cell comprising at least one electrode which has been produced from or using the inventive electrode material, to the use of the rechargeable electrical cell and to the use of an ion- and electron-conductive metal chalcogenide for production of an inventive rechargeable electrical cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Arnd GARSUCH, Stefan Herzog, Lucas Montag, Andrea Krebs
  • Expression Cassettes for Seed-Preferential Expression in Plants
    Publication number: 20130019343
    Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating nucleotide sequences with seed-preferential or seed-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from the Arabidopsis thaliana gene described by the locus At1g48130 or its orthologs from other plant species (such as Linum usitatissimum). The transcription regulating nucleotide sequences preferably exhibit strong expression activity especially in seeds and seed tissues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Elke Duwenig, Linda Patricia Loyall
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INDICATING A PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PHENOMENON
    Publication number: 20130017609
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (200), which comprises a first substance (220) in a microchannel (210) of the apparatus configured to react to a physical phenomenon or chemical phenomenon directed to the apparatus for providing an indication, which originates from the physical phenomenon or chemical phenomenon directed to the apparatus and indicates an occurrence of the physical phenomenon or chemical phenomenon directed to the apparatus. The invention also relates to a method, which is performed by means of the apparatus and a device, which comprises the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markku Känsäkoski, Eero Hurme, Leena Hakalahti, Raimo Korhonen, Antti Kemppainen
  • METHOD OF IN-VITRO IMMUNOASSAY
    Publication number: 20130017537
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method of in-vitro assay of the molecules of the extracellular matrix synthesized by cells in culture and uses thereof in the form of a kit for in-vitro measurement and/or for a method of screening of cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical ingredients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF Beauty Care Solutions France S.A.S.
    Inventors: Sébastien Bonnet, Delphine Rival
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING CYCLOHEPTENE
    Publication number: 20130018205
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing cycloheptene and derivatives thereof by ring-closing metathesis of unsymmetric 1,8-dienes whose C—C double bond at the 8 position is nonterminal. Cycloheptene and the cycloheptanone, cycloheptylamine, cycloheptanecarbaldehyde, cycloheptanecarboxylic acid and cycloheptanecarbonyl chloride conversion products thereof, and the derivatives thereof, are important synthesis units for active ingredient compounds. The ring-closing metathesis is preferably performed as a reactive distillation. The unsymmetric 1,8-dienes for the ring-closing metathesis can be obtained by catalytic decarbonylation or oxidative decarboxylation from the corresponding unsaturated carboxylic acids or carboxylic acid derivatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Joaquim Henrique TELES, Michael Limbach, Richard Dehn, Stephan Deuerlein, Manuel Danz
  • Encapsulated Chlorine Dioxide Generator
    Publication number: 20130017241
    Abstract: An encapsulated chlorine dioxide generator is provided. The encapsulated generator includes a core particle that includes a metal chlorite and a solid acid. The encapsulated generator also includes a protective layer that is disposed about at least a portion of the core particle. The protective layer includes a copolymer of polyvinyl alcohol and a polyalkylene glycol. The encapsulated generator is formed in a method including the steps of forming the core particle and disposing the protective layer about the core particle. The encapsulated generator is also used in a method of cleaning an environment. The method of cleaning the environment includes the steps of providing the encapsulated generator and forming chlorine dioxide from the encapsulated chlorine dioxide generator to clean the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Kim Andrews, Shaukat Ali, Jesse Jefferis, James S. Dailey, Charles O. Onyiuke, Keith A. Hirsch
  • COATED STENTS AND PROCESS FOR COATING WITH PROTEIN
    Publication number: 20130018481
    Abstract: A process for coating of implantable structures, such as stents, by using a composition which comprises at least one hydrophobin derivative (H), water and further components leads to long time usable implants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Subkowski, Uwe Weickert
  • Fungicidal Compositions Comprising a Phosphate Solubilizing Microorganism and a Fungicidally Active Compound
    Publication number: 20130017949
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition, comprising a microorganism as defined in the description and at least one compound (II) selected from groups A) to F) as defined in the description in a synergistically effective amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thorsten Jabs, Paul Cavell, Sarah Dunker, Alexander Wissemeier, Egon Haden, Tom Wetjen
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING PAPER, PAPERBOARD AND CARDBOARD
    Publication number: 20130014908
    Abstract: A process for the production of paper, board and cardboard by draining a paper stock containing interfering substances in the presence of polymers which contain vinylamine units and which have an average molar mass Mw of at least 1 million, a high-consistency stock first being prepared, at least one polymer containing vinylamine units and having an average molar mass Mw of at least 1 million and a degree of hydrolysis of from 1 to 20 mol % being metered into the high-consistency stock, the high-consistency stock being diluted to a low-consistency stock by adding water, and the low-consistency stock being drained, the polymers being hydrolyzed homo- or copolymers of N-vinylcarboxamides additives for reducing deposits in the wire part, press section and drying section of paper machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Anton Esser, Ranier Blum, Joachim Kuhn, Marc Leduc, Ralf Hemel
  • DMC catalysts, method for the production thereof and use thereof
    Patent number: 8354356
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing DMC catalysts by reaction of cyanometalate compounds with metal salts, wherein the reaction is carried out in ionic liquids as solvents or suspension media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael Triller, Matthias Schopohl, Veit Stegmann, Thomas Ostrowski
  • Method for producing and purifying trifluoromethanesulfinic acid
    Patent number: 8354007
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for purifying trifluoromethanesulfinic acid by azeotropic distillation with an aromatic solvent, to processes for preparing purified trifluoromethanesulfinic acid and to the use of the purified trifluoronnethanesulfinic acid for preparing trifluoromethylsulfinylated pyrazole derivatives, especially fipronil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Sukopp, Alexander Korte, Stefan Fülster, Michael Keil, Michael Rack
  • Acrylic electrocoat composition and process replacing phosphate pretreatment
    Patent number: 8354471
    Abstract: A coating composition, such as an electrodepositable electrocoat primer coating composition, comprises a phosphorylated acrylic polymer, The coating provides excellent corrosion protection even without a conventional phosphate pretreatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: BASF Coatings GmbH
    Inventors: Abdellatif Chouai, Timothy S. December, Cynthia A. Stants, Jennifer M. Lear, Robert D. Schiller, Charles L. Tazzia, Gregory G. Menovcik
  • Process for diastereoselective conversion of chiral imines
    Patent number: 8354558
    Abstract: Diastereoselective conversion of chiral imines of the formula I to amines of the formula II where the R1 to R4 radicals are each as defined in the description and R1 and R2 are different than one another, by converting the imine of the formula I in the presence of hydrogen and a heterogeneous copper-containing catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wolfgang Siegel, Thilo Hahn, Tobias Staeb
  • Polyamine derivative and polyol derivative
    Patent number: 8354529
    Abstract: A novel polyamine derivative, or polyol derivative, having a piperidylaminotriazine skeleton; salts of such compounds; a process for producing them; an organic material stabilizer comprising any of such compounds; a method of stabilizing an organic material; and a stabilized organinc material. Compounds of the general formula: (1) (wherein X is N(R4) or an oxygen atom; R1 is an n-valent hydrocarbon group; R2 is an hydrogen atom or an alkyl; R3 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl, an alkoxy or an acyl; R4 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl; and n is an integer of 3 to 16) are effective in the stabilization of an organic material against deterioration by light, heat, oxygen, ozone and electromagnetic waves, such as X-rays and ?-rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Naruyoshi Mita, Mitsuaki Chida, Masaru Kawaguchi, Kengo Otsuka, Naoshi Nagai, Takaaki Yamazaki, Tetsuya Ichihashi