Patents Assigned to BASF
  • HIGH-TRANSPARENCY POLYCARBONATES WITH SCRATCH-RESISTANT COATING, PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF AND USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20120121845
    Abstract: Disclosed is a coating composition for coating polycarbonate substrates. The coating composition comprises (A) at least one radiation-curing binder, (B) nanoparticles, and (C) optionally at least one reactive diluent and/or optionally a solvent, and wherein the nanoparticles (B) comprise silicon dioxide nanoparticles, the silicon dioxide nanoparticles have a d50 of between 80 and 300 nm, and the silicon dioxide nanoparticles have a particle size distribution wherein less than 15% by weight of the particles have a size in the range of less than 80 nm, 75% to 95% by weight of the particles have a size in the range from 80 to 300 nm, 0% to 5% by weight of the particles have a size in the range from more than 300 to 1000 nm, and 0% to 5% by weight of the particles have a size in the range from more than 1000 nm to 10 000 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventors: Matthijs Groenewolt, Jan-Bernd Kues, Stefanie Schroeder, Pedro Cavaleiro, Hans-Leo Karminski, Gunther Michael
  • PESTICIDAL SUSPO-EMULSION COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20120122682
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulation comprising at least (i) two pesticidal compounds A and B dissolved in a lactic acid ester and wherein a) both A and B have melting points below 900C b) both A and B are selected from the following list: pyraclos-trobin, metalaxyl, mefenoxam, trifloxystrobin, imazalil, pro-chloraz and ipconazole with the proviso that A is different from B (ii) at least one pesticidal compound C present in solid particles, and having a melting point of 900C and above, and to their use as seed treatment formulation as well as their use for plant protection, including seed and crop protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Rafel Israels, Katharine Klamczynski, Marco Kuhns, Ulf Schlotterbeck
  • Plants with Increased Yield
    Publication number: 20120117867
    Abstract: A method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant whereby the method comprises at least the following step: increasing or generating in a plant or a part thereof one or more activities of a polypeptide selected from the group consisting of 26S proteasome-subunit, 50S ribosomal protein L36, Autophagy-related protein, B0050-protein, Branched-chain amino acid permease, Calmodulin, carbon storage regulator, FK506-binding protein, gamma-glutamyl-gamma-aminobutyrate hydrolase, GM02LC38418-protein, Heat stress transcription factor, Mannan polymerase II complex subunit, mitochondrial precursor of Lon protease homolog, MutS protein homolog, phosphate transporter subunit, Protein EFR3, pyruvate kinase, tellurite resistance protein, Xanthine permease, and YAR047C-protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Janneke Hendriks, Oliver Thimm, Philip Groth, Alexandre Prokoudine, Gerhard Ritte, Claudia König, Resham Kulkarni, Krishna Kollipara
  • PROCESS FOR PRODUCING EXPANDABLE THERMOPLASTIC BEADS WITH IMPROVED EXPANDABILITY
    Publication number: 20120121905
    Abstract: A process for producing expandable, thermoplastic polymer beads comprising cavities via extrusion of a polymer melt comprising blowing agent through a die plate and pelletization in a chamber comprising liquid under a pressure in the range from 1.5 to 15 bar, which comprises using a polymer melt comprising blowing agent, where the melt comprises from 0.1 to 5% by weight of a nucleating agent D), from 1 to 10% by weight of a blowing agent E) which in essence remains within the polymer beads, from 0.01 to 5% by weight of a co-blowing agent F) forming the cavities, based in each case on the polymer melt comprising blowing agent, and also the expandable thermoplastic polymer bead material which can be obtained by the process, comprising cavities with an average diameter in the range from 0.1 to 50 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Holger Ruckdäschel, Carsten Schips, Klaus Hahn, Jens Aßmann, Maximilian Hofmann
  • Pyridine Derivatives Compounds for Controlling Invertebrate Pests
    Publication number: 20120122681
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and uses of compounds of formulae I or II and the salts and N-oxides thereof, wherein A is a substituted or unsubstituted 5-membered heterocyclic radical; X1 is S, O or NR1a, wherein R1a is selected from H, C1-C10-alkyl and the like; X2 is OR2a, NR2bR2c, S(O)mR2d; X2 is OR2a, NR2bR2c, S(O)mR2d, wherein m is 0, 1 or 2, R2a is C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl and the like, R2b, R2c are H, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl and the like; X3 is a lone pair or oxygen; R1, R2 and R3 are, inter alia, hydrogen, and R1 is H, C1-C10-alkyl and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ronan Le Vezouet, Sebastian Soergel, Christian Defieber, Steffen Gross, Karsten Koerber, Deborah L. Culbertson, Douglas D. Anspaugh
  • Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits And A Method For Making The Same
    Publication number: 20120124702
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants, in particular for increasing plant yield and/or early vigour, relative to control plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits comprising modifying the expression of a nucleic acid encoding a HAL3 polypeptide, MADS15 polypeptide, PLT transcription factor polypeptide, basic/helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor, or SPL15 transcription factor. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBH
    Inventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Valerie Frankard, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING METHYLENEDI(PHENYL ISOCYANATE)
    Publication number: 20120123151
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing methylenedi(phenyl isocyanate), which comprises (a) the phosgenation of two-ring and/or multiring methylenedi(phenylamine), (b) the fractionation of the crude methylenedi(phenyl isocyanate) obtained to give two-ring and multiring isomers, (c) the purification and/or fractionation of the resulting mixture of two-ring isomers of methylenedi(phenyl isocyanate) and (d) the storage of the mixtures obtained in step (c) or in step (b), wherein part of the stored mixtures is reused by means of recirculation in at least one of steps (b) or (c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael BOCK, Kai THIELE, Heiner SCHELLING
  • AQUEOUS POLYMER DISPERSION AS A BINDING AGENT FOR PLASTERS AND COATING MATERIALS HAVING IMPROVED FIRE BEHAVIOR
    Publication number: 20120121921
    Abstract: Use of an aqueous polymer dispersion comprising at least one polymer (P), obtainable by free radical emulsion polymerization of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer (M1) and from 20 to 75% by weight of tert-butyl (meth)acrylate, as a binder in construction chemistry products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Audrey Cosyns, Sebastian Roller, Alexandre Terrenoire, Roland Baumstark, Ekkehard Jahns, Robert Rupaner
  • COMPOSITE COMPONENT COMPRISING A POLYMER PHASE AND A FOAMED PHASE, AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20120119402
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite component comprising an unfoamed polymer phase and a foamed phase, and to a process for producing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Philippe DESBOIS, Olaf Kriha, Bangaru Sampath, Holger Ruckdäschel, Dietrich Scherzer, Freddy Gruber, Klaus Hahn
  • AQUEOUS METAL QUENCHING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20120118446
    Abstract: Aqueous metal quenching media comprising vinyllactam/acrylamide copolymers
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank FISCHER, Stephan Bauer, Erik Bohrer, Ludger Wegmann, Antonietta Mauri
  • SURFACE PATTERNING WITH FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS
    Publication number: 20120121861
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of preparing a modified halogenated polymer surface, comprising the steps of (a) activating the surface by modification with a polymerisation initiator by (a1) reacting the halogenated polymer surface with sodium azide, subsequent (a2) patterning the azidated surface via photolithographic patterning methods, and subsequent (a3) 1,3 dipolar cycloaddition with an alkine-functionalized initiator; and (b) reacting the activated surface obtained in steps (a1)-(a3) with polymerizable monomeric units A and/or B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Werner Hölzl, Holger Braun
  • PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ACETYLENE AND SYNTHESIS GAS
    Publication number: 20120119149
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing acetylene and synthesis gas by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons with oxygen, by first separately preheating the starting gases comprising a hydrocarbon-containing stream and an oxygen-containing stream and then mixing them in a mixing zone and, after they have flowed through the burner block, reacting them in the firing space and then cooling the products rapidly, wherein the surface on the firing space side of the burner block is covered with a purge gas stream and this purge gas stream is introduced through the burner block by means of several bores, where the averaged ratio of effective surface area of the burner block to number of these bores in the burner block for the purge gas stream is within a range from 5 to 100 cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Michael RUSS, Dirk Grossschmidt, Peter Renze, Maximilian Vicari, Horst Neuhauser, Kai Rainer Ehrhardt, Christian Weichert
  • Heavy Metal Passivator/Trap for FCC Processes
    Publication number: 20120118793
    Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst mixture comprising FCC catalysts and a metal passivator/trap and use thereof in trapping metal contaminants during the catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon feedstocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Bram Willem Hoffer, David Matheson Stockwell
  • Copper-Zirconia Catalyst and Method of Use and Manufacture
    Publication number: 20120123150
    Abstract: Catalysts and methods for their manufacture and use for the dehydrogenation of alcohols are disclosed. The catalysts and methods utilize a highly dispersible alumina, for example, boehmite or pseudoboehmite, to form catalysts that exhibit high dehydrogenation activities. Specifically, the catalysts include Cu that is highly dispersed by reaction of an alumina formed by peptizing of boehmite or pseudoboehmite and precursors of ZrO2, ZnO and CuO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Rostam Jal Madon, Peter Nagel, Deepak S. Thakur
  • NOVEL FATTY ACID DESATURASES AND ELONGASES AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20120124705
    Abstract: The invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules which encode novel fatty acid desaturases and elongases from the organism Emiliana huxleyi. The invention also provides recombinant expression vectors containing desaturase or elongase 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. arachidonic acid (ARA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) or docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GMBH
    Inventors: Jörg Bauer, Johnathan A. Napier, Olga Sayanova
  • PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ACETYLENE AND SYNTHESIS GAS
    Publication number: 20120119150
    Abstract: A process for preparing acetylene and synthesis gas by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons with oxygen, by first separately preheating the hydrocarbon gas and oxygen gas, and then reacting the gases and cooling the products rapidly. The reactor wall is blanketed with a purge gas stream, introduced through a plurality of feed lines. These feed lines deliver purge gas in a vector direction within a 10° angle of the main flow direction of the reactive gas stream. The purge gas is delivered at multiple stages relative to the main flow direction of the reactive gas stream, and the free cross section of the firing space available to the reactive gas stream, at the height of the feed lines of the purge gas stream, is approximately constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Dirk GROßSCHMIDT, Michael Russ, Peter Renze, Maximilian Vicari, Christian Weichert, Kai Rainer Ehrhardt, Horst Neuhauser, Hans Zapf, Michael L. Hayes
  • PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF 2-OXO-[1,3] DIOXOLANE-4-CARBOXYLIC ACID ESTERS
    Publication number: 20120123136
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of 2-oxo-[1,3] dioxolane-4-carboxylic acid esters of formula I with R being an organic group comprising 1 to 10 carbon atoms, wherein an oxirane-2-carboxylic acid ester of formula II is reacted with carbon dioxide (CO2) at a pressure of at least 35 bars and a temperature of 60 to 80° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jeremie Miller, Joaquim Henrique Teles, Rainer Klopsch, Bianca Seelig
  • DETERGENT FORMULATIONS FOR MACHINE DISHWASHING COMPRISING HYDROPHILICALLY MODIFIED POLYCARBOXYLATES
    Publication number: 20120122748
    Abstract: A mixed powder or mixed granule for use in detergent formulations for machine dishwashing contains the following components: a) from 10 to 95% by weight of a copolymer of al) from 50 to 93 mol % of acrylic acid and/or of a water-soluble salt of acrylic acid, a2) from 5 to 30 mol % of methacrylic acid and/or of a water-soluble salt of methacrylic acid, and a3) from 2 to 20 mol % of at least one nonionic monomer, wherein monomers a1) to a3) are copolymerized in a random or block manner, b) from 5 to 80% by weight of a complexing agent selected from the group consisting of a glycine-N,N-diacetic acid derivative and glutamic acid N,N-diacetic acid and salts thereof, c) from 0 to 20% by weight of a polyethylene glycol, of a nonionic surfactant or of a mixture thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Tanja Seebeck, Jürgen Tropsch, Lars Kissau
  • POLYAMIDES THAT RESIST HEAT-AGING
    Publication number: 20120123044
    Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compositions comprising A) from 10 to 99% by weight of a polyamide, B) from 0.1 to 20% by weight of B1) a polyacrylamide or B2) a polyvinylamide, or a mixture of these, C) from 0 to 70% by weight of further additives, where the total of the percentages by weight of components A) to C) is 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Manoranjan Prusty, Martin Baumert, Hans-Joachim Hähnle
  • BIOCATALYST FOR CATALYTIC HYDROAMINATION
    Publication number: 20120123155
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the enzymatic hydroamination of C—C double bonds catalyzed by enzymes structurally and/or functionally related to phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) isolated from microorganisms of Petroselinum crispum, Rhodoturula glutinis and/or functional active derivatives thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bernhard Hauer, Nina Schneider, Dejana Drew, Klaus Ditrich, Nick Turner, Bettina M. Nestl