Abstract: The application relates to compounds having functional substituents in a specific spatial arrangement, to devices comprising same, and to the preparation and use thereof.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 9, 2021
Date of Patent:
April 16, 2024
Assignee:
Merck Patent GmbH
Inventors:
Amir Hossain Parham, Tobias Grossmann, Anja Jatsch, Thomas Eberle, Jonas Kroeber, Christof Pflumm, Lars Dobelmann-Mara
Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula G as defined in claim 1, to a liquid crystal medium comprising a compound of formula G and to high-frequency components comprising these media, especially microwave components for high-frequency devices, such as devices for shifting the phase of microwaves, tunable filters, tunable metamaterial structures, and electronic beam steering antennas, e.g. phased array antennas.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 25, 2021
Publication date:
April 11, 2024
Applicant:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Constanze BROCKE, Carsten FRITZSCH, Dagmar KLASS
Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid-crystalline (LC) media and to LC displays (LCDs) containing these media, in particular to LCDs of the twisted nematic (TN) mode, preferably to displays of the LCOS (LC on silicon) mode.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 26, 2020
Date of Patent:
April 9, 2024
Assignee:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Nicole (I-Yun) Huang, Eason (Chi-Shun) Huang, Ray (Kuang-Ting) Chou
Abstract: A liquid crystal medium containing a compound of formula I and one or more compounds of the formulae IIA, IIB, IIC and IID, useable in optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 2, 2021
Date of Patent:
April 9, 2024
Assignee:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Sven Christian Laut, Harald Hirschmann, Juergen Radestock
Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly of switching layers for dimming and scattering of light and to window elements comprising the arrangement of switching layers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 17, 2019
Date of Patent:
April 9, 2024
Assignee:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Henriette Bakker, Ties De Jong, Michael Junge, Andreas Beyer, Jasper Van Den Muijsenberg
Abstract: A method for providing a casing (11) for a prefabricated column (1) of chromatography column material in order to manufacture a chromatography column, wherein the casing (11) is generated by additive manufacturing, includes the steps of rotating the column (1) of chromatography column material with respect to a casing material feed in a manner to successively cover a casing surface (8) of the chromatography column material along a contact area path (12), and of arranging an amount of flowable casing material (9) at a current contact area (7) along the contact area path (12) at the casing surface (8) of the column (1) of chromatography column material in order to generate the casing (11) for the chromatography column by successively adding the solidified amount of casing material (9) at the contact area (7).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 17, 2019
Date of Patent:
April 2, 2024
Assignee:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Pedro Buehner, Philipp Knoth, Benjamin Peters, Michael Ukelis
Abstract: Compounds of formula I liquid crystal media containing these compounds, and high-frequency components containing these media, especially microwave components for high-frequency devices, such as devices for shifting the phase of microwaves, tunable filters, tunable metamaterial structures, and electronic beam steering antennas, phased array antennas, and devices containing these components, and furthermore optical components containing these liquid-crystalline media, operable in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Abstract: A vent filter (1), preferably for a pure liquid storage tank, comprising a cylindrical shell (2), at least one compartment (A) for accommodating granular filter material (3), said at least one compartment (A) defined between an inner peripheral surface (4) of the shell (2) and a pair of spaced apart separator plates (5) arranged in the shell (2) such that the spacing of the separator plates (5) in the axial direction of the shell (2) can be changed and fixed so as to apply a pressure on the granular filter material (3) in the at least one compartment (A). An air inlet (6) and an air outlet (7) are respectively arranged to allow a flow of air through the granular filter material (3) in the at least one compartment (A).
Abstract: The invention relates to a polymerisable LC material comprising at least one di- or multireactive mesogenic compound of formula T, RT1-(AT1ZT1)m1-GT1-(ZT2-AT2)m2-RT2??T and at least one compound of formula CO-1, wherein the parameter are RT1, AT1, ZT1, m1, GT1, ZT2, AT2, m2, RT2, L1 to L3, R1 and R2, and n are defined as given in claim 1. Furthermore, the present invention relates also to a method for its preparation, a polymer film with improved thermal durability obtainable from the corresponding polymerisable LC material, to a method of preparation of such polymer film, and to the use of such polymer film and said polymerisable LC material for optical, electro-optical, decorative or security devices.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 13, 2018
Date of Patent:
March 26, 2024
Assignee:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Eduardo Beltran Gracia, Kevin Adlem, Naomi Weare, Hassan Norouzi-Arasi
Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, and to electronic devices which comprise these compounds.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 22, 2018
Date of Patent:
March 26, 2024
Assignee:
Merck Patent GmbH
Inventors:
Rouven Linge, Sebastian Meyer, Aaron Lackner, Holger Heil, Nils Koenen
Abstract: Compounds of the formula I in which X1, X2, X3, X4, R1, R2, R3, Q and Y have the meanings indicated in claim 1, are inhibitors of c-Kit kinase, and can be employed for the treatment of cancer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 12, 2021
Date of Patent:
March 26, 2024
Assignee:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Dieter Dorsch, Mathilde Muzerelle, Lars Burgdorf, Margarita Wucherer-Plietker, Paul Czodrowski, Christina Esdar, Christos Tsaklakidis
Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising a combination of benzothiadiazole and thiadiazoloquinoxaline derivatives, to liquid-crystalline media containing the compositions, and to the use of the compositions and the media in optical, electronic and electro-optical devices, in particular in devices for regulating the passage of energy from an outside space into an inside space, for example in switchable windows.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 21, 2019
Date of Patent:
March 26, 2024
Assignee:
Merck Patent GmbH
Inventors:
Michael Junge, Ewa Ptak, Christoph Wetzel
Abstract: A liquid-crystalline medium which comprises at least one compound selected from the group of compounds of the formulae IA to IH, in which Z1 denotes a single bond, —CH2CH2—, —CH?CH—, —CH2O—, —OCH2—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —COO—, —OCO—, —C2F4—, —(CH2)4—, —CHFCHF—, —CF2CH2—, —CH2CF2—, —C?C—, —CF?CF—, —CH?CHCHO— or —CH2CF2O—, and the use thereof for an active-matrix display, in particular based on the VA, PSA, PS-VA, PALC, FFS, PS-FFS, SA-VA, PS-IPS or IPS effect.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 3, 2021
Date of Patent:
March 26, 2024
Assignee:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Harald Hirschmann, Monika Bauer, Martina Windhorst, Marcus Reuter, Kristin Weiss
Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of formula I, wherein R11, R21, A11, A, Z, X11, X21, Y11, Y12, Sp11, Sp21, o and p have one of the meanings as given in claim 1. The invention further relates to method of production of a compound of formula I, to the use of said compounds in LC media and to LC media comprising one or more compounds of formula I. Further, the invention relates to a method of production of such LC media, to the use of such media in LC devices, and to LC device comprising a LC medium according to the present invention. The present invention further relates to a process for the fabrication such liquid crystal display and to the use of the liquid crystal mixtures according to the invention for the fabrication of such liquid crystal display.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 18, 2019
Date of Patent:
March 26, 2024
Assignee:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Lars Lietzau, Simon Siemianowski, Izumi Saito
Abstract: The present invention relates to coating compositions which comprise a silazane polymer (A), a silane coupling agent (B); and inorganic nanoparticles (C), wherein the components (A), (B) and (C) are present in certain ratios. The coating compositions are particularly suitable for the preparation of hard coatings on surfaces of various base material substrates.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 5, 2022
Publication date:
March 21, 2024
Applicant:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Ralf GROTTENMUELLER, Sergej NELL, Patrizia LACHNIT, Thomas KRASEMANN
Abstract: A liquid-crystalline medium which comprises at least one compound selected from the group of compounds of the formulae IA to IH, in which Z1 denotes a single bond, —CH2CH2—, —CH?CH—, —CH2O—, —OCH2—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —COO—, —OCO—, —C2F4—, —(CH2)4—, —CHFCHF—, —CF2CH2—, —CH2CF2—, —C?C—, —CF?CF—, —CH?CHCHO— or —CH2CF2O—, and the use thereof for an active-matrix display, in particular based on the VA, PSA, PS-VA, PALC, FFS, PS-FFS, SA-VA, PS-IPS or IPS effect.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 29, 2021
Date of Patent:
March 19, 2024
Assignee:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Harald Hirschmann, Monika Bauer, Martina Windhorst, Marcus Reuter, Kristin Weiss
Abstract: The present invention relates to fusion proteins comprising an N-intein polypeptide and an N-intein solubilization partner, and affinity chromatography matrices comprising such fusion proteins, as well as methods of using same.
Abstract: The present invention refers to a crystalline salt comprising 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid L-leucine ethyl ester wherein the molar ratio of 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid and L-leucine ethyl ester is from 1:0.3 to 1:3.0 (in mol/mol) and/or hydrates and/or solvates thereof as well as to a process of obtaining the same.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 2, 2019
Date of Patent:
March 12, 2024
Assignee:
MERCK PATENT GMBH
Inventors:
Rudolf Moser, Viola Groehn, Ruth Boehni Stamm, Fritz Blatter, Martin Szelagiewicz
Abstract: Compositions containing at least one sort of semiconducting nanoparticle, at least one antioxidant, a polymerizable component, a liquid organic compound and an organic additive of formula (II) wherein M is a divalent metal ion; and R1 and R2 are, each independently, a straight chain alkyl group having 1 to 16 carbons atoms, or a straight chain alkenyl group having 2 to 15 carbon atoms or branched chain alkyl or alkenyl group having 3 to 15 carbon atoms, and polymer or composite layers formed therefrom, optical devices containing the layers and their preparation and method of use, as well as a method to improve at least one feature of a quantum material or a quantum material layer.