Patents Assigned to BASF
  • Method for continuous hydrogenation of citronellal to form citronellol
    Patent number: 7005554
    Abstract: A process is described for selectively hydrogenating citronellal to citronellol in which a liquid phase, in which the citronellal is dissolved and particles of a catalyst are suspended which is capable of preferentially hydrogenating carbon-oxygen double bonds over carbon—carbon double bonds, is conducted through a device which inhibits the transport of the catalyst particles in the presence of a hydrogen-containing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Göbbel, Till Gerlach, Günter Wegner, Hartwig Fuchs, Signe Unverricht, Axel Salden
  • Method for removal of acid gases from a gas flow
    Patent number: 7004997
    Abstract: A process is described for removing acid gases from a gas stream in which an acid-gas-containing gas stream in which the sum of the partial pressures of the acid gases does not exceed 1,500 mbar is brought into contact with an aqueous absorbent in an absorption step and an absorbent is used which contains methyldiethanolamine and piperazine at a concentration of at least 8% by weight of the absorbent, an acid-gas-depleted gas stream and an acid-gas-loaded absorbent being obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Norbert Asprion, Christoph Grossmann
  • Aqueous composition and use thereof for paper production
    Publication number: 20060037725
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous composition comprising at least one finely divided filler and at least one water-soluble amphoteric copolymer, a process for the preparation of such a composition and its use as an additive in the production of paper, cardboard and board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Hahnle, Anton Esser, Volker Braig, Rainer Blum, Peter Baumann, Jacques Dupuis, Josef Neutzner
  • Method, computer system and computer program product for executing a network supported business transaction
    Publication number: 20060041670
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for executing a network supported customer business transaction and a method for providing access to an access protected area of a server, in which in each case access to the access protected area in the server by the client terminal is granted when an access authorization is electronically activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Musseleck, Jurgen Ahlers, Hermann Eichert, Kerim Wewer, Reinhard Katz
  • Method for the production of isobutene polymers
    Patent number: 7001966
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing an isobutene polymer using a cyclopentene derivative as initiator and to the isobutene polymer obtainable by means of the process and to particular functionalization products thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gabriele Lang, Arno Lange, Hans Peter Rath, Helmut Mach
  • Polyurethane and polyurethane-based mixed graft polymers and their use for producing coating materials, adhesives and sealing compounds
    Patent number: 7001975
    Abstract: A hydrophilic or hydrophobic polyurethane containing on average per molecule at least one olefinically unsaturated structural unit selected from the group consisting of pendant, internal, and terminal, acyclic and cyclic terpene units; graft copolymers of the polyurethane with olefinically unsaturated monomers, processes for preparing the polyurethane and the graft copolymers, and their use for preparing coating materials, adhesives, and sealing compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Coatings AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bremser, Thomas Krüger, Wilma Löcken, Peter-Heinz Rink, Stephan Schwarte
  • Use of aqueous binders in producing filter materials
    Patent number: 7001528
    Abstract: The use of an aqueous polymer dispersion comprising dispersed particles of at least one polymer A1 obtainable by free-radical emulsion polymerization in the presence of a polymer A2 synthesized from from 50 to 99.5% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic and/or dicarboxylic acid, from 0.5 to 50% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated compound selected from the esters of ethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acids and the monoesters and diesters of ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids with an amine containing at least one hydroxyl group, up to 20% by weight of at least one further monomer as a binder for producing filter materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Laubender, Matthias Gerst
  • Purification of ammonia by distillation
    Patent number: 7001490
    Abstract: Crude ammonia is separated into a low boiler fraction, a high boiler fraction and an intermediate-boiling pure fraction by continuous fractional distillation in a distillation apparatus configured either as a dividing wall column or as a system of thermally coupled distillation columns. In the process of the present invention, the low boiler fraction is taken off at the top of the distillation apparatus. The intermediate-boiling pure fraction is obtained at a side offtake which is preferably provided with droplet precipitators. In addition, the gas loading of the distillation column is restricted so that the operating pressure is in the range from 2 to 30 bar and the F factor does not exceed 2.0 Pa0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Wostbrock, Gerd Kaibel, Christian Tragut, Gabriele Anken
  • Blends of crystalline and amorphous compounds which can be activated by actinic radiation, method for the production and use thereof
    Patent number: 7001931
    Abstract: A blend activatable with actinic radiation and solid at room temperature, comprising (A) at least one crystalline compound containing on average per molecule at least one reactive functional group having at least one bond which can be activated with actinic radiation, and (B) at least one amorphous compound containing on average per molecule at least one reactive functional group having at least one bond which can be activated with actinic radiation; process for its preparation, and its use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Coatings AG
    Inventors: Christopher Hilger, Rainer Blum
  • Method for producing 1 substituted 5-chloro-4 methly pyrazoles
    Patent number: 7002023
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing 1-substituted 5-chloro-4-methylpyrazoles of the general formula I with the meaning for R stated in claim 1, in which a 4-methylpyrazole of the formula II is reacted with chlorine, the resulting mixture of monochlorinated and dichlorinated product is fractionated by distillation, and subsequently the dichlorinated compound is dehalogenated to compound II and returned to the reaction with chlorine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Rupert Merkle, Erich Fretschner
  • Random propylene copolymers
    Patent number: 7001965
    Abstract: Random copolymers of propylene with other 1-alkenes having up to carbon atoms, whose content of comonomers is in the range from 0.7 to 1.4% by weight if the only comonomer present in the propylene copolymers is ethylene, or whose content of comonomers is in the range from 0.7 to 3.0% by weight if at least one C4–C10-1-alkene is present as comonomer, and whose cold-xylene-soluble fraction is from 1.0 to 2.5% by weight if ethylene is present as a comonomer in the propylene copolymers, or whose cold-xylene-soluble fraction is from 0.75 to 2.0% by weight if the only comonomers present are C4–C10-1-alkenes, and a process for preparing the random copolymers of propylene is described, as is their use for producing films, fibers or moldings, and also the films, fibers and moldings themselves and biaxially stretched films made from random propylene copolymers of this type and processes for their production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: David Appleyard, Franz Langhauser, Murray Horton, Roland Hingmann, Günther Schweier, Volker Rauschenberger, Ingolf Hennig, Dieter Lilge, Werner Schöne, Meinolf Kersting
  • Use of hyperbranched polymers comprising urethane and or urea groups for modifying Surfaces
    Publication number: 20060035091
    Abstract: The present invention relates to substrates whose surface comprises a hyperbranched polymer which has urethane groups and/or urea groups, its amount being appropriate for modifying the properties on the surface. The invention further relates to a process for modifying the surface properties of substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Bruchmann, Helmut Meffert
  • Coolant comprising azole derivatives for cooling systems in fuel-cell drives
    Publication number: 20060033074
    Abstract: An antifreeze concentrate for cooling systems in fuel-cell drives which gives ready-to-use aqueous coolant compositions having a conductivity of at most 50 ?S/cm, based on alkylene glycols or derivatives thereof and containing one or more five-membered heterocyclic compounds (azole derivatives) having 2 or 3 hetero atoms from the group consisting of nitrogen and sulfur, which contain no or at most one sulfur atom and which may carry a fused aromatic or saturated six-membered ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Wenderoth, Stefan Dambach, Ladislaus Meszaros, Uwe Fidorra
  • Catalyzed preparation of (meth)acrylates of N-hydroxyalkylated amides
    Publication number: 20060036063
    Abstract: Process for catalytically preparing (meth)acrylates of N-hydroxyalkylated amides and use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Hofer, Dietmar Haring
  • COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS USING RNA INTERFERENCE FOR CONTROL OF NEMATODES
    Publication number: 20060037101
    Abstract: The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of essential genes in parasitic nematodes, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target essential parasitic nematode gene, which is a parasitic nematode pas-5 gene, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased resistance to parasitic nematodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBH
    Inventors: Peifeng Ren, Xiang HUANG, Sumita CHAUDHURI, Lawrence TALTON, John MCMILLAN
  • Pulverulent phytosterol formulations
    Publication number: 20060035871
    Abstract: A pulverulent phytosterol formulation comprising at least one phytosterol having a mean particle size ranging from 0.01 to 100 ?m, a process for producing the pulverulent phytosterol formulation, and a food supplement, an animal feed, food or pharmaceutical or cosmetic preparation comprising the phytosterol formulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2003
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Auweter, Heribert Bohn, Oliver Hasselwander, Frank Runge
  • Sugar and lipid metabolism regulators in plants IV
    Publication number: 20060037102
    Abstract: Isolated nucleic acids and proteins associated with lipid and sugar metabolism regulation are provided. In particular, lipid metabolism proteins (LMP) and encoding nucleic acids originating from Arabidopsis thaliana, Brassica napus, and Physcomitrella patens are provided. The nucleic acids and proteins are used in methods of producing trangenic plants and modulating levels of seed storage compounds. Preferably, the seed storage compounds are lipids, fatty acids, starches, or seed storage proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GMBH
    Inventors: Volker Mittendorf, Heiko Haertel, Joerg Bauer, Oliver Oswald
  • Device for extruding thermoplasts
    Publication number: 20060034962
    Abstract: An apparatus intended for extruding thermoplastics and having at least one devolatilization orifice and, if desired, also at least one dewatering orifice, which has been equipped with a metal-wire-mesh composite sheet, with a finely perforated metal sheet, or with a slit diaphragm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Norbert Guntherberg, Bernhard Czauderna, Michael Sauer, Rainer Bardon, YoHwan An
  • Method for regenerating a hydrogenation catalyst
    Publication number: 20060035779
    Abstract: A process for regenerating a hydrogenation catalyst which has been used in a gas-phase hydrogenation, which comprises stripping at from 50 to 300° C. with a substance or a substance mixture which under the process conditions has no oxidizing action and is present in the gaseous state is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Thomas Hill, Mathias Haake, Harald Dialer
  • Saccarose-6-phosphate phosphatase as a target for herbicides
    Publication number: 20060035786
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a polypeptide with the biological activity of a sucrose-6-phosphate phosphatase which, if not present, brings about growth retardation symptoms and chlorotic leaves and which is encoded by the nucleic acid sequences SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:3, SEQ ID NO:5 or by a functional equivalent of SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:3 or SEQ ID NO:5 as target for herbicides. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of the abovementioned polypeptides in a method for identifying herbicidal or growth-regulatory compounds which inhibit sucrose-6-phosphate phosphatase. Moreover, the invention relates to the use of these compounds which have been identified via the method as herbicides or growth regulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Ehrhardt, Uwe Sonnewald, Frederik Bornke, Shuai Chen