Patents Assigned to BASF
  • USE OF PHOSPHORIC TRIAMIDES IN TOILETS
    Publication number: 20100215611
    Abstract: The present invention describes the use of phosphoric triamides in toilets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Frank Rittig, Volker Braig, Oliver Huttenloch, Patrick Deck, Johan Ebenhoech
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING ISOCYANATES
    Publication number: 20100217035
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing diisocyanates from diamines and phosgene in the gas phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Carsten Knoesche, Andreas Woelfert, Torsten Mattke, Eckhard Stroefer, Heinrich-Josef Blankertz, Bernhard Geissler
  • TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES COMPRISING BRIDGED CARBENE LIGANDS AND USE THEREOF IN OLEDS
    Publication number: 20100213834
    Abstract: Bridged cyclometalated carbene complexes, a process for preparing the bridged cyclometalated carbene complexes, the use of the bridged cyclometalated carbene complexes in organic light-emitting diodes, organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive bridged cyclometalated carbene complex, a light-emitting layer comprising at least one inventive bridged cyclometalated carbene complex, organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive light-emitting layer and devices which comprise at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Christian Lennartz, Evelyn Fuchs, Klaus Kahle, Nicolle Langer, Christian Schildknecht, Jens Rudolph, Gerhard Wagenblast, Soichi Watanabe
  • THERMOPLASTIC NANOPARTICLES, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20100216965
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are thermoplastic nanoparticles with a glass transition temperature of 30 to 120° C. prepared by hydrolysis and condensation of a compound (Ia) (D-K—X—)mA{—X—K[—B(—Y)n]p}q or (Ib) (D-K—X—)mB{—X—K[-A(—Y)n]p}q (Ib) where m is 1 to 5; n is 1 to 3; p is 1 or 2; q is 1 to 5; A is a hardening structural element which; B is a softening, flexibilizing structural element; D is the radical of a blocking agent for isocyanate groups —NCZ, in which Z=oxygen or sulfur atom; X is a group of the general formula (II) —NH—C(Z)—; K is a divalent or trivalent atom or divalent or trivalent linking functional group; Y is a group of the general formula (III) —SiErF3?r, where r is 1 to 3; E is a hydrolyzable atom or radical, and F is a nonhydrolyzable radical; processes for preparing them, and their use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF COATINGS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Poppe, Elke Westhoff, Ralf Nickolaus, Rolf Boysen
  • ANTI-FOAMING AGENT FOR THE PAPER INDUSTRY
    Publication number: 20100212847
    Abstract: Antifoams for the paper industry, based on oil-in-water emulsions in which the oil phase comprises (a) at least one alcohol having at least 12 carbon atoms, fatty acid esters of alcohols having at least 22 carbon atoms and C1- to C36-carboxylic acids, distillation residues which are obtainable in the preparation of alcohols having a carbon number of at least 8 by oxo synthesis or by the Ziegler process and which, if appropriate, are alkoxylated, mixtures of said compounds and/or (b) at least one fatty acid ester of C12- to C22-carboxylic acids with monohydric to trihydric C1- to C18-alcohols and, if appropriate, (c) at least one hydrocarbon having a boiling point above 200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christoph Hamers, Klaus Lorenz
  • Method Of Making An Alkoxylated Polyethylenimine Product
    Publication number: 20100216949
    Abstract: A method of making an alkoxylated polyethyleneimine (APEI) product having reduced discoloration includes treating a composition including a component selected from the group of polyethyleneimine (PEI), alkoxylated polyethyleneimine (APEI) intermediate, and combinations thereof that is used to make the APEI product. The method of treating the composition includes adding water to the composition in an amount of from 2 to 20 parts by weight, based on the total weight of the composition. The water is stripped from the composition within a relatively low temperature range of from 158 to 203° F. until less than or equal to 0.2 parts by weight of water, based on the total weight of the composition, is present in the composition. The aqueous solutions of APEI product thus made have Gardner color values of less than 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Klaus J. Friedrich, Sridhar G. Iyer, Jay Gregory Otten
  • PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF POLYETHER ALCOHOLS FROM UNSATURATED STARTERS HAVING ACTIVE HYDROGEN ATOMS
    Publication number: 20100216968
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of polyether alcohols by reacting at least one alkylene oxide with at least one unsaturated starter having at least one active hydrogen atom per molecule under basic catalysis, that the alkoxylation is carried out in at least two stages, in stage (I) the alkoxylation of the starter or starters being carried out with not more than 10 mol of alkylene oxide per mole of starter with a catalyst concentration of not more than 0.0085 mol of basic catalyst per mole and in stage (II) and the optionally following stages, the alkoxylated starter or starters from stage (I) being reacted with further alkylene oxide at a catalyst concentration of at least 0.01 mol of basic catalyst per mole of starter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Georg Heinrich Grosch, Matthias Zipplies, Thomas Ostrowski, Ulrich Annen, Markus Klumpe
  • Malononitrile Compounds
    Publication number: 20100215777
    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: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Matthias Pohlman, Michael Hofmann, Henricus Maria Martinus Bastiaans, Michael Rack, Deborah L. Culbertson, Hassan Oloumi-Sadeghi, Takeo Hokama, Christopher Palmer
  • UNIVERSAL SPOT BLENDER FOR ONE-COMPONENT AND TWO-COMPONENT CLEARCOATINGS
    Publication number: 20100216945
    Abstract: The invention relates to binder-free spot blender compositions for one- and two-component clearcoat materials comprising at least one isocyanate compound, to processes for producing them, and to their use in automotive refinish.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF COATINGS AG
    Inventors: Egbert Nienhaus, Bernhard Lettman, Klaus-Udo Reize, Josef Rademacher
  • Palladium-Supported Catalyst Composites
    Publication number: 20100212293
    Abstract: Provided are catalyst composites that can be used in methods for treating exhaust gas from internal combustion engines, including diesel and gasoline engines, systems including such catalyst composites and methods of using the catalyst composites to treat internal combustion engine exhaust. The catalyst composites may provide diesel oxidation catalysts and three-way catalysts. A catalyst composite is provided which a catalytic material on a carrier, the catalytic material including a palladium component dispersed on a first support comprising at least 60% by weight of a zirconia component, and one or more rare earth oxides selected from the group consisting of lanthana, neodymia, praseodymia, yttria, the first support optionally containing no more than 15% by weight ceria, and being free of alumina. Layered catalyst composites having one or more washcoats on the carrier are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF Catalysts LLC
    Inventors: Michel Deeba, Tian Luo, Josephine Ramos
  • Aging-Resistant Catalyst Article for Internal Combustion Engines
    Publication number: 20100215557
    Abstract: Catalyst articles comprising palladium and related methods of preparation and use are disclosed. Disclosed is a catalyst article comprising a first catalytic layer formed on a substrate, wherein the first catalytic layer comprises palladium impregnated on a ceria-free oxygen storage component and platinum impregnated on a refractory metal oxide, and a second catalytic layer formed on the first catalytic layer comprising platinum impregnated on an oxygen storage component and rhodium impregnated on a zirconia-coated or yttria-coated alumina. The palladium component of the catalyst article is present in a higher proportion relative to the other platinum group metal components. The catalyst articles provide improved reductions in NOx in exhaust gases, particularly after lean-rich aging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF Catalysts LLC
    Inventors: Xinsheng Liu, Ye Liu, Pascaline Tran, Michael Galligan, Wenyong Lin, Keshavaraja Alive
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING IONIC LIQUIDS BY ANION EXCHANGE
    Publication number: 20100217010
    Abstract: Process for preparing salts of the formula I (B+)nxAy? where B is a cation comprising at least one nitrogen atom, A is an anion and n is an integer from 1 to 3, x and y are each an integer from 1 to 3 and the product of x and y is equal to n, by reacting salts of the formula II (B+)nxAy? where B and n, x and y are as defined above and C is a compound which has one or more carboxylate groups (referred to as carboxylate for short) and is different from A, with the ammonium salt of the anion A or with the protic acid of the anion A in the presence of ammonia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Klemens Massonne, Michael Siemer, Werner Mormann, Wei Leng
  • USE OF HIGH-FUNCTIONALITY HIGHLY BRANCHED POLYETHERAMINE POLYOLS TO COAT SURFACES
    Publication number: 20100216361
    Abstract: The use of high-functionality highly branched polyetheramine polyols to coat substrates such as metal surfaces or components made of plastic permits improved adhesion of further coatings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bernd Bruchmann, Daniel Schönfelder, Frank Dietsche, Eva Wagner, Reinhold Schwalm, Jürgen Kaczun
  • METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A MEMBRANE ELECTRODE UNIT
    Publication number: 20100216048
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a membrane-electrode assembly comprising an anode catalyst layer (13), a polymer electrolyte membrane (1) and a cathode catalyst layer (14) and to a fuel cell comprising such a membrane-electrode assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sigmar Braeuninger, Gunter Bechtloff, Werner Urban
  • NOVEL SURFACTANTS WITH A POLYETHERSULFONATE STRUCTURE METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF AND USE THEREOF FOR TERTIARY CRUDE OIL PRODUCTION
    Publication number: 20100213409
    Abstract: Surfactants with polyether sulfonate structure, which have a propanonylsulfonic acid group as a head group, a process for preparing such surfactants and their use for tertiary mineral oil extraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Bittner, Günter Oetter, Ulrich Steinbrenner, Jürgen Huff, Marcus Guzmann
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING AN AQUEOUS COMPOSITE-PARTICLE DISPERSION
    Publication number: 20100216942
    Abstract: A process for preparing aqueous dispersions of composite particles using nonpolymerizable silane compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bas Lohmeijer, Arno Tuchbreiter, Harm Wiese
  • SYNTHETIC REPETITIVE PROTEINS, THE PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20100216189
    Abstract: A repetitive protein having repetition units comprising the consensus sequence (I) X1?X2?X3?X4?S?X5?X6?Y?G wherein X1 is G, Y, A or N X2 is G, L, Q X3 is R, K, T or P X4 is P, A, T or S X5 is D, T or S X6 is S, Q or T, and the consensus sequence (II) Z1?Z2?(Z3A)nZ4?Z5?Z6 wherein Z1 is S, Q, N, T or G Z2 is not an amino acid or A Z3 is A or G Z4 is not an amino acid, A or S Z5 is G, S, Q, N or T Z6 is G, P, S, Q, N or T n is a natural whole number, wherein 2?n?12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Burghard Liebmann, Marcus Fehr, Daniel Hümmerich
  • Production of 3-pentenenitrile from 1,3-butadiene
    Patent number: 7781608
    Abstract: A process is described for preparing 3-pentenenitrile by hydrocyanating 1,3-butadiene, wherein 1,3-butadiene is reacted with hydrogen cyanide in the presence of at least one catalyst and the stream resulting therefrom is purified distillatively, the bottom temperature during the distillation not exceeding 140° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens Scheidel, Tim Jungkamp, Michael Bartsch, Gerd Haderlein, Robert Baumann, Hermann Luyken
  • Adsorption composition and method of removing CO from streams
    Patent number: 7781368
    Abstract: Carbon monoxide is removed from streams by adsorption on an adsorption composition which comprises copper, zinc and zirconium oxides and whose copper-comprising component has a degree of reduction, expressed as weight ratio of metallic copper to the sum of metallic copper and copper oxides, calculated as CuO, of at least 45% and not more than 75%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stephan Schlitter, Stephan Hatscher, Michael Hesse, Heiko Urtel
  • Method for producing D-pantothenic acid and/or a salt thereof via purification by cation exchange as additive for animal food
    Patent number: 7781192
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved method for producing D-pantothenic acid and/or the salts thereof and the use of said substance as an additive for animal food.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Kai-Uwe Baldenius, Christine Beck, Hans-Peter Harz, Markus Lohscheidt, Daniela Klein