Patents Assigned to Ticona GmbH
  • Patent number: 6316521
    Abstract: A small amount of an absorber mixture comprising activated aluminum oxide and potassium permanganate deodorizes the space within closed, gastight packs, in particular the space within packs of the type in which objects or materials which comprise polyacetal or otherwise release formaldehyde are present. Deodorization here is the removal (i.e. elimination or absorption) of volatile constituents emerging from plastic moldings or from plastic materials, in particular cleavage products, such as formaldehyde. The process is particularly suitable for the packaging of moldings or of assemblies which are to be used in the medical sector, in the food and drink sector or in any other sector affecting health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Disch, Tilo Vaahs
  • Patent number: 6316560
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a cycloolefin copolymer by polymerization of 0.1-99.0 wt %, with respect to the total amount of monomers, of at least one polycyclic, 0-99.9 wt. %, with respect to the total amount of monomers, of at least one moncyclic olefin, and 0.1-99.9 wt. %, with respect to the total amount of monomers, of at least one acyclic 1-olefin, in the presence of a catalyst system consisting of at least one cocatalyst and at least one metallocene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Alexandra Jacobs, Gerhard Fink, Dieter Ruchatz
  • Patent number: 6313323
    Abstract: A process for the gas-phase trimerization of formaldehyde to give trioxane using solid phosphoric acid catalysts. Particularly suitable catalysts for this process are SPA catalysts (solid phosphorous acid), for example “silicon phosphates”. The main advantage of this catalyst system is its simple and inexpensive production and ready availability and also, in particular, its improved long-term stability compared to the few previously described catalysts which are mostly based on supported heteropolyacids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Werner, Elke Schweers, Frank Olschewski, Gerhard Geiss, Elfriede Hufsky, Helmut Tränkler, Heinz Alexander
  • Patent number: 6306940
    Abstract: Colorant concentrates made from free-flowing polyoxymethylene copolymer as carrier, 15-80% by weight of colorant, 2-15% by weight of nitrogen-containing stabilizer and 0-15% by weight of dispersion aid for coloring pellets or molding compositions made from polyoxymethylene (POM) and for producing colored injection moldings or colored POM extrudates. The products produced with this colorant preparation are particularly stable during processing and have very low formaldehyde emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Disch, Peter Eckardt, Michael Hoffmockel, Karl-Friedrich Mück, Gerhard Reuschel
  • Patent number: 6307097
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of aluminum salts of cyclic phosphinic acids is described, which comprises reacting cyclic phosphinic acids, such as 1-hydroxydihydrophosphole oxides or 1-hydroxyphospholane oxides, with aluminum hydroxide in the presence of water and in the absence of polar solvents at elevated temperature for a reaction time of from 1 to 20 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Seitz
  • Patent number: 6301835
    Abstract: The invention relates to a one-piece door module for motor vehicles, encompassing a self-supporting metal carrier panel, which also encompasses, as integral constituents, a multiplicity of plastic functional components which are connected securely and permanently to the metal carrier panel in one operation by the outsert technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Pfeiffer, Ulrich Haack, Frank Reuter
  • Patent number: 6303674
    Abstract: Aluminum salts of alkylhydroxymethylphosphinic acids are prepared by reacting phosphonous acids with aluminum hydroxide or paraformaldehyde or trioxane or mixtures thereof in water at 110 to 250° C. under pressure. The resulting aluminumphosphinates are incorporated into polymers, in particular into polyesters, and have a flame retardant action therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Jerg Kleiner
  • Patent number: 6296797
    Abstract: Process for producing a composite article from a polyacetal (component a) with directly molded-on functional elements made from one or more thermoplastic elastomers (component b), and wherein components a and b have differing hardness, and the material with the greater hardness (component a) is initially premolded in a first step in a mold, and then is either cooled and removed from the mold and then placed into another, larger cavity, or is partially removed from the mold, but remains in a portion of the mold, and is then moved to a larger cavity, or, without removal from the mold, remains in the same mold, which is enlarged by means of a movable device, and in a second step, by overmolding with the material with the lesser hardness (component b), the molding formed from component a is firmly bonded to this material and is then removed from the mold as a composite article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Ursula Ziegler, Klaus Kurz, Frank Reil
  • Publication number: 20010025116
    Abstract: Aluminum salts of phosphinic acid or diphosphinic acids having alkyl and/or aryl substitutes, obtainable by heating an ester of the corresponding phosphinic acids or diphosphinic acids with aluminum hydroxide at a temperature of more than 150° C. under pressure in the presence of water, are distinguished by a particular crystal structure and are suitable as flameproofing agents for plastics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Applicant: Ticona GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-jerg Kleiner
  • Patent number: 6270560
    Abstract: Salt mixtures made from aluminum phosphinates, aluminum hydroxide and/or aluminum phosphonates and/or aluminum phosphates are thermally stable and are suitable as flame retardants for polymeric molding compositions, in particular for polyesters and polyamides. The use of these salt mixtures is more effective and more cost-effective than the use of aluminum phosphinates alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Jerg Kleiner, Winfried Budzinsky
  • Patent number: 6262224
    Abstract: Polyaryiene sulfone fiber material, especially web, is obtained by oxidizing polyarylene sulfide fiber material with a peracid/acid mixture of an organic acid at 60 to 100° C. for 10 seconds to 45 minutes. Since this process provides a substantative degree of oxidation within a very short reaction time, one advantage of the process is that the rapidity of the oxidation renders continuous processes for oxidizing polyarylene sulfide fibers economical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Zierer, Martin Brück, Helmut Scheckenbach
  • Patent number: 6252108
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing aluminum salts of cyclic phopshinic acid. According to the invention, cyclic phosphinic acids, such as 1-hydroxydihydrophosphole oxide or 1-hydroxyphospholane oxide, are reacted with a basic aluminum acetate, such as hydroxyaluminum diacetate, in the presence of water and in the absence of polar solvents with heat for a reaction time of 1 to 20 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Seitz
  • Patent number: 6239187
    Abstract: The present invention relates to foams comprising cycloolefin copolymers. The foam of the invention comprises at least one cycloolefin copolymer which comprises from 0.1 to 100% by weight, based on the total mass of the cycloolefin copolymer, of polymerized units derived from one or more polycyclic olefins having one or more norbornene units and from 0 to 99% by weight, based on the total mass of the cycloolefin copolymer, of polymerized units derived from one or more acyclic olefins of the formula  where Ri, Rii, Riii and Riv are identical or different and are each a hydrogen atom, a linear, branched, saturated or unsaturated C1-C20-hydrocarbon radical or a C6-C18-aryl radical and from 0 to 99% by weight, based on the total mass of the cycloolefin copolymer, of polymerized units of one or more monocyclic olefins of the formula VIII  where n is a number from 2 to 10, and voids which can contain one or more gaseous substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Hatke, Freddy Helmer-Metzmann, Alexandra Jacobs
  • Patent number: 6232507
    Abstract: Process for the nonoxidative preparation of formaldehyde from methanol The invention relates to a process for preparing formaldehyde from methanol by dehydrogenation in a reactor at temperatures in the range from 300 to 1000° C. in the presence of a catalyst which is introduced into the reactor with the aid of a carrier gas to give a product gas mixture, wherein the formaldehyde is separated from the product gas mixture and at least part of the remaining product gas mixture is recirculated to the reactor in a circulating gas stream and the carrier gas used is a carbon-free gas or gas mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Kaiser, Elke Schweers, Christine Meister
  • Patent number: 6229053
    Abstract: Abstract A process for purifying formaldehyde in which the formaldehyde is scrubbed with alcohol in an absorption unit and in the course of this reacted virtually completely to form the hemiformal and is simultaneously separated off from gaseous impurities in a first purification step. In a desorption unit, the residual impurities are then converted into a gaseous state and separated off from the liquid hemiformal, whereupon the purified hemiformal is thermally cleaved into alcohol and formaldehyde in a pyrolysis unit. The formaldehyde thus prepared is suitable, for example, for preparing oligomers, polymers, dyestuffs and fertilizers, as well as for the treatment of seeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Sievers, Elke Schweers, Christine Meister
  • Patent number: 6229044
    Abstract: Aluminum salts of alky-(1-alkoxyethyl)phosphinic acids are prepared by reacting alky-(1-alkoxyethyl)phospihnic acids with aluminum hydroxide in a molar ratio of 3:1. The resulting aluminum phosphinates are used as flame retardants in thermoplastics, particularly in polyesters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH Deutschland KG
    Inventors: Hans-Jerg Kleiner, Elke Jenewein, Wolfgang Wanzke
  • Patent number: 6225407
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer blend comprising one or more cycloolefin copolymers and one or more types of core-shell particles or one or more copolymers which are composed to some extent of rubbers with low glass transition temperatures, or a combination of one or more types of core-shell particles and of one or more copolymers which are composed to some extent of rubbers with low glass transition temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Alexandra Jacobs, Klaus Berger, Wilfried Hatke
  • Patent number: 6210852
    Abstract: A toner for development of an electrostatically charged image including a binder resin, a function imparting agent, a colorant and a charge control agent, wherein said binder resin contains an olefin polymer having a cyclic structure, and a combination of two or more waxes having different melting points in the range of 80 to 140° C. is used as said function imparting agent. A toner for electrostatically charged image developing copiers and printers which has a broad offset-free temperature range and can attain a satisfactory fixability even in the high-speed copying can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventor: Toru Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6211402
    Abstract: Aluminum salts of phosphinic acid or diphosphinic acids having alkyl and/or aryl substitutes, obtainable by heating an ester of the corresponding phosphinic acids or diphosphinic acids with aluminum hydroxide at a temperature of more than 150° C. under pressure in the presence of water, are distinguished by a particular crystal structure and are suitable as flameproofing agents for plastics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Jerg Kleiner
  • Patent number: 6201098
    Abstract: The invention concerns a process for preparing linear or branched sulphurous polymers such as polyarylene sulphides, in particular polyphenylene sulphide, from an aromatic dihalide compound and a sulphide in a solvent, wherein a) the aromatic dihalide compound and the sulphide are partially reacted; b) the resultant salt which is not dissolved in the reaction medium is separated off; and c) the reaction mixture largely freed of the salt is further polymerized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Haubs, Stephan Wagner, Olaf Besser