Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Sugar and lipid metabolism regulators in plants
    Publication number: 20080076179
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel nucleic acid and amino acid sequences associated with the metabolism of seed storage compounds in plants. More particularly novel lipid metabolism protein (LMP) sequences are provided herein. Preferably, the seed storage compounds are lipids, fatty acids, starches or seed storage proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko Hartel, Volker Mittendorf, Ruoying Chen, Karin Shank
  • COATING COMPOSITION AND FILM SYSTEM THEREFROM
    Publication number: 20080076868
    Abstract: A coating composition is used to form a clearcoat layer of a film system including a basecoat layer and the clearcoat layer. The coating composition includes a carbamate functional polymer, a cross-linking agent reactive with the carbamate functional polymer, and an acid functional polymer substantially non-reactive with the carbamate functional polymer and the cross-linking agent. The acid functional polymer has an acid value of at least 50 mg KOH/g and contributes to an increased resistance to acid etch of the clearcoat layer. The acid functional polymer also contributes to an increased intercoat adhesion of the basecoat layer and the clearcoat layer thereby decreasing a possibility of separation/delamination of the basecoat layer and the clearcoat layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: MARVIN L. GREEN, DONALD H. CAMPBELL, JOHN E. BOISSEAU, BRUCE OERMANN
  • COATING COMPOSITIONS FOR ADHESION TO OLEFINIC SUBSTRATES
    Publication number: 20080076876
    Abstract: An aqueous composition contains an olefinic polymer having an olefin portion that is substantially saturated and anionic functionality imparting water dispersibility. The olefinic polymer can be prepared by reacting a saturated or substantially saturated olefin polymer with a reactant that provides the water-dispersing functionality. The composition can be an adhesion promoter that provides excellent adhesion of subsequent coating layers to olefinic substrates like TPO or an additive in a different coating composition, which may be a curable coating composition, especially a primer composition, to provide excellent adhesion to olefinic substrates like TPO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: GREGORY G. MENOVCIK, WALTER H. OHRBOM, PAUL J. HARRIS, DAVID E. LINDOW
  • Method For Producing Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids In Transgenic Organisms
    Publication number: 20080076166
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids in an organism by introducing, into the organism, nucleic acids which encode polypeptides with ?5-elongase, ?6-desaturase, ?5-desaturase, ?4-desaturase, ?12-desaturase and/or ?6-elongase activity. These desaturases and elongases are advantageously derived from Ostreococcus. The invention furthermore relates to a process for the production of oils and/or triacylglycerides with an elevated content of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. The invention furthermore relates to the nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs, vectors and organisms comprising the nucleic acid sequences according to the invention, to vectors comprising the nucleic acid sequences and/or the nucleic acid constructs and to transgenic organisms comprising the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs and/or vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBH
    Inventors: Petra Cirpus, Jorg Bauer, Ernst Heinz, Frederic Domergue
  • PROCESS FOR MIXING A LIQUID OR MIXTURE OF A LIQUID AND A FINE SOLID PRESENT IN AN ESSENTIALLY SELF-CONTAINING VESSEL
    Publication number: 20080074944
    Abstract: A process for mixing a liquid stored in a vessel, in which gas is sucked in from the gas phase present above the liquid interface with a suction apparatus present in the liquid, and released into it again for the gas-induced mixing of the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Blechschmitt, Ulrich Hammon, Friedrich-Georg Martin, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel, Peter Zehner
  • PROCESS FOR MIXING A LIQUID OR MIXTURE OF A LIQUID AND A FINE SOLID PRESENT IN AN ESSENTIALLY SELF-CONTAINING VESSEL
    Publication number: 20080073444
    Abstract: A process for mixing a liquid or mixture of a liquid and a fine solid present in a vessel, in which the vessel is supplied with the same liquid or the same mixture as a motive jet of a jet nozzle which is present in the vessel and has a motive jet and a momentum exchange chamber, the suction region between motive nozzle and momentum exchange chamber being provided with a sheath which has a suction orifice below the central jet leading from the motive nozzle into the momentum exchange chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael BLECHSCHMITT, Ulrich Hammon, Friedrich-George Martin, Klaus Mueller-Engel, Peter Zehner
  • Fungicidal Mixtures
    Publication number: 20080076747
    Abstract: Fungicidal mixtures, comprising as active components 1) the strobilurin derivative of the formula I, and 2) at least one active compound II selected from the group of the carbamates in a synergistically effective amount, methods for controlling harmful fungi using mixtures of the compound I with active compounds II, the use of the compound I with active compounds II for preparing such mixtures and compositions comprising these mixtures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Markus Gewehr, Reinhard Stierl, Matthias Niedenbruck, Udo Hunger
  • Purification of Phosphorus Chelate Ligands
    Publication number: 20080076944
    Abstract: A process for purifying phosphorus chelate ligands by extraction, by using polar extractants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Michael Bartsch, Robert Baumann, Gerd Haderlein, Tobias Aechtner, Jens Scheidel, Hermann Luyken, Peter Pfab, Wolfgang Siegel, Verena Weiskopf
  • Aqueous Preparations Comprising at Least One Water-Soluble or Water-Dispersible Copolymer with Cationgenic Groups
    Publication number: 20080075689
    Abstract: The present invention relates to aqueous preparations comprising at least one water-soluble or water-dispersible copolymer with cationogenic groups which comprises at least one monomer with at least one protonatable nitrogen atom and at least one further monomer copolymerizable therewith in copolymerized form, and at least one cosmetically acceptable carrier, where the pH of the aqueous preparation has a value in the range from pH 4 to pH 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marianna Pierobon, Son Kim, Peter Hossel
  • Flowable Polyester Molding Compositions With Asa/Abs And San
    Publication number: 20080076859
    Abstract: Thermoplastic molding compositions, comprising A) from 10 to 98.99% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polyester, B) from 0.01 to 50% by weight of B1) at least one highly branched or hyperbranched polycarbonate having an OH number of from 1 to 600 mg KOH/g of polycarbonate (to DIN 53240, Part 2), or B2) at least one highly branched or hyperbranched polyester of AxBy type, where x is at least 1.1 and y is at least 2.1, or a mixture of these, C) from 1 to 60% by weight of at least one graft polymer, composed of c1) from 20 to 80% by weight of a graft base composed of an elastomeric polymer based on alkyl acrylates having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety and having a glass transition temperature below 10° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Eipper, Bernd Bruchmann, Carsten Weiss, Jean-Francois Stumbe
  • Keratin-Binding Polypeptides
    Publication number: 20080075684
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel keratin-binding protein active substances, and also to the production and use thereof. Particularly suitable keratin-binding polypeptides are sequences which are contained in human desmoplakin or are derived therefrom by altering the human desmoplakin polypeptide sequences such as amino acid insertions, substitutions or deletions. The polypeptide sequences of the human desmoplakin is represented in SEQ ID NO: 1. A suitable keratin-binding domain (domain B) is the polypeptide sequence SEQ ID NO: 1, position 2193 2481, in addition to functional equivalents thereof. An additional keratin-binding domain (domain C) is the polypeptide sequence SEQ ID NO: 1, position 2606 2871 and the functional equivalents thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heiko Barg, Thomas Subkowski, Hans-Georg Lemaire, Claus Bollschweiler, Arne Ptock
  • AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS COMPRISING PULVERIZED RUBBER
    Publication number: 20080075952
    Abstract: A coating composition is disclosed, comprising a binder component having hydroxyl-functional groups; a curing agent having functional groups, wherein the functional groups of the curing agent are reactive with the hydroxyl-functional groups of the binder component; and pulverized rubber, the pulverized rubber having particles with a size suitable for spraying the coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF CORPORATION
    Inventors: ZENON PAUL CZORNIJ, DAN WALDON
  • Selective Splitting of Substituted Bisbenzylamides and Bisbenzylamines
    Publication number: 20080073221
    Abstract: A process for the regioselective cleavage of secondary amines or amides is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Zeynep Yilmaz, Ulrich Griesbach, Klaus Ditrich
  • Tray column and method for mass transfer in a tray column
    Patent number: 7347413
    Abstract: A tray column is proposed which includes column trays, two or more supports which are arranged on the underside of the column trays and support them and a bearing ring for the column trays on the inner wall of the tray column, wherein three-way joints of inner column wall, bearing ring and support are prevented by cutouts in the bearing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Armin Diefenbacher, Ulrich Hammon, Thomas Walter, Bruno Seider, Wolfgang Schneider, Bernd Gerber, Volker Schliephake, Michael Blechschmitt
  • Use of hydrophobically modified copolymers based on N-vinyl monomers for the production of membranes
    Patent number: 7347938
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of copolymers A containing a) from 50 to 99% by weight of at least one N-vinyllactam or N-vinylamine selected from the group consisting of N-vinylpyrrolidone, N-vinylpiperidone, N-vinylcaprolactam, N-vinylimidazole, methylated N-vinylimidazole, and N-vinylformamide, and b) from 1 to 50% by weight of at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of b1) C8-C30-alkyl esters of monoethylenically unsaturated C3-C8 carboxylic acids; b2) N—C8-C30-alkyl-substituted amides of monoethylenically unsaturated C3-C8 carboxylic acids; b3) N,N—C8-C30-dialkyl-substituted amides of monoethylenically unsaturated C3-C8 carboxylic acids; b4) vinyl esters of aliphatic C8-C30 carboxylic acids; and b5) C8-C30-alkyl vinyl ethers to produce membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tanja Schneider, Frank Dietsche, Axel Sanner, Stefan Stein, Karin Neubecker
  • Method for producing alkanol alkoxylates at optimal reaction temperatures
    Patent number: 7348460
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing at least one alkoxylate, which comprises bringing at least one alkylene oxide selected from the group consisting of ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, butylene oxide, pentylene oxide and decene oxide into contact with at least one starter compound in the presence of at least one double metal cyanide compound, with the reaction being carried out at a temperature of from 130° C. to 155° C., to the alkoxylates, in particular ethoxylates, themselves and to the use of such ethoxylates as emulsifier, foam regulator or as wetting agents for hard surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Wulff, Michael Stoesser, Georg Heinrich Grosch, Kai-Uwe Baldenius, Edward Bohres
  • Method for producing partial oxidation products and/or partial ammoxidation products of at least one olefinic hydrocarbon
    Patent number: 7348443
    Abstract: Partial oxidation products and/or ammoxidation products of an olefinic hydrocarbon A? are prepared by a process in which said olefinic hydrocarbon is produced during normal operation by partial dehydrogenation and/or oxydehydrogenation of hydrocarbon A and fed in from another source during partial or complete nonoperation of the dehydrogenation and/or oxydehydrogenation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Theo Proll, Otto Machhammer, Goetz-Peter Schindler, Klaus Joachim Mueller-Engel
  • Catalyst and Method for Hydrogenation of Carbonyl Compounds
    Publication number: 20080071120
    Abstract: A process for the hydrogenation of an organic compound containing at least one carbonyl group comprises bringing the organic compound in the presence of hydrogen into contact with a shaped body which can be produced by a process in which (i) an oxidic material comprising copper oxide, aluminum oxide and aluminum oxide is made available (ii) pulverulent metallic copper, copper flakes, pulverulent cement, graphite or a mixture thereof is added to the oxidic material, and (iii) the mixture resulting from (ii) is shaped to form a shaped body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christophe Houssin, Henrik Junicke, Andrea Haunert
  • Disintegrating Buccal Tablets
    Publication number: 20080069875
    Abstract: Disintegrating buccal tablets comprising a physiologically active material and a polyvinyl alcohol/polyethylene glycol graft copolymer are disclosed along with methods of making the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2005
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Yoshitomi Kakiguchi, Kunihiko Yokota, Mitsunori Tanabe, Tomoyoshi Kajiura, Tadaaki Tanaka
  • Transcription factor stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants
    Publication number: 20080072347
    Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Transcription Factor Stress-Related Protein (TFSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated TFSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding TFSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans Bohnert, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen