Patents by Inventor Adalbert Braig

Adalbert Braig has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20060052491
    Abstract: A stabilizer composition comprising (A) a compound of the formula (I) wherein R is (CH2—CH2—O—)n, —R2; —CH2—CH(OH)—CH2—O—R2; or —CH(R3)—CO—O—R4; n is 0 or 1; R2 is C1-C13alkyl or C2C20alkenyl or C6-C12aryl or CO—C1-C18alkyl; R3 is H or C1-C8 alkyl; R4 is C1-C12alkyl or C2-C12alkenyl or C5C6cycloalkyl; and (B) one or more compounds selected from benzotriazoles of the formula (IIa), 2-hydroxybenzophenones of the formula (IIb), oxalanilides of the formula (IIc), 2-hydroxyphenyltriazines of formula (IId), cinnamates of formula (IIe), and benzoates of formula (IIf) as defined in claim 1, is especially effective towards stabilizing organic materials against degradation induced by light, heat or oxidation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Adalbert Braig, David Leppard, Frederique Wendeborn
  • Patent number: 7002010
    Abstract: The instant invention discloses a process for the preparation of compounds of the formula I: wherein the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, which process comprises reacting a compound of formula II: wherein the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, with a compound of the formula III: wherein R5 is as defined in claim 1. The compounds of the formula II are new and useful as stabilizers for protecting organic materials, in particular synthetic polymers, reprographic materials or coating materials against oxidative, thermal or light-induced degradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Dario Lazzari, Mirko Rossi, Giuseppe Veronesi, Nazzareno Ruggeri, Katharina Fritzsche, Adalbert Braig
  • Patent number: 6960667
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to maleimides and preparation of compounds of the formula I wherein R1 and R2 independently from each other stand for variously substituted, and R3 stands for allyl, variously substituted, with the proviso, that R1 and R2 not simultaneously stand for phenyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kunimoto, Junji Otani, Kunihiko Kodama, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Patrick Verhoustraeten, Sonia Megert, Adalbert Braig
  • Publication number: 20040024252
    Abstract: The instant invention discloses a process for preparation of compounds of the formula (I), wherein the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, which process comprises reacting a compound of formula (II), wherein the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, with a compound of the formula (III), wherein R5 is as defined in slaim 1. The compounds of the formula (II) are new and useful as stabilizers for protecting organic materials, in particular synthetic polymers, reprographic materials or coating materials against oxidative, thermal or light-induced degradation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Dario Lazzari, Mirko Rossi, Giuseppe Veronesi, Nazzareno Ruggeri, Katharina Fritzsche, Adalbert Braig
  • Publication number: 20030189191
    Abstract: Fluorescent maleimides of the formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kunimoto, Junji Otani, Kunihiko Kodama, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Patrick Verhoustraeten, Sonia Megert, Adalbert Braig
  • Patent number: 6508957
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for using a maleimide of formula (I) with the proviso that R1 and R2 do not simultaneously stand for phenyl or a maleimide of formula Ia as UV fluorescent material for void detection and for the preparation of scintillators films, luminescent solar energy collectors, organic electroluminescent devices, printing inks, non-impact printing inks, electrophotographic toners, color filters, and colored high molecular organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kunimoto, Junji Otani, Kunihiko Kodama, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Patrick Verhoustraeten, Sonia Megert, Adalbert Braig
  • Patent number: 6403826
    Abstract: A description is given of compounds of the formula in which the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, and of their zirconium, bismuth and calcium salts, and of the salts with the compounds of the formula II in which the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, as corrosion inhibitors in coating compositions for protecting metallic surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Adalbert Braig, Andreas Kramer, Jean-Pierre Wolf, Markus Frey
  • Publication number: 20020065422
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for using a maleimide of formula (I) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kunimoto, Junji Otani, Kunihiko Kodama, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Patrick Verhoustraeten, Sonia Megert, Adalbert Braig
  • Patent number: 6258954
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula I provided that R1 and R2 not simultaneously stand for phenyl, the use thereof in, for example, electroluminescent devices and as void detection compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Kunimoto, Junji Otani, Kunihiko Kodama, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Patrick Verhoustraeten, Sonia Megert, Adalbert Braig
  • Patent number: 6160164
    Abstract: A description is given of compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, and of their zirconium, bismuth and calcium salts, and of the salts with the compounds of the formula II ##STR2## in which the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, as corrosion inhibitors in coating compositions for protecting metallic surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Adalbert Braig, Andreas Kramer, Jean-Pierre Wolf, Markus Frey
  • Patent number: 5980619
    Abstract: A description is given of compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, and of their zirconium, bismuth and calcium salts, and of the salts with the compounds of the formula II ##STR2## in which the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, as corrosion inhibitors in coating compositions for protecting metallic surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Adalbert Braig, Andreas Kramer, Jean-Pierre Wolf, Markus Frey
  • Patent number: 5879436
    Abstract: A description is given of salts and amides derived from (i) a polyacrylic acid, an acrylic acid-maleic acid copolymer or a carboxylic acid of formula (I), and (ii) an aminosilane of formula (V) which are useful as corrosion inhibitors in coating compositions for protecting metallic surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Kramer, Markus Frey, Adalbert Braig
  • Patent number: 5726225
    Abstract: A description is given of powder coating compositions comprisinga) an organic film-forming binder, andb) as corrosion inhibitor i) at least one compound of the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl or C.sub.5 -C.sub.8 cycloalkyl,X is oxygen, sulfur or --NH--,Y is a direct bond, methylene, ##STR2## and Z is oxygen or ##STR3## and ii) at least one calcium-modified silicate pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Adalbert Braig, Hugh Stephen Laver
  • Patent number: 5612093
    Abstract: Titanium and zirconium complexes of compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, are described as corrosion inhibitors in coating compositions for protecting metallic surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Adalbert Braig, Markus Frey, Andreas Kramer
  • Patent number: 5519074
    Abstract: The invention relates to crystalline complex compounds of formula I ##STR1## wherein the general symbols are as defined in claim 1, as corrosion inhibitors in coating compositions for protecting metallic surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Kramer, Adalbert Braig
  • Patent number: 5489447
    Abstract: A description is given of carrier-bound compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 independently of one another are hydrogen, halogen, nitro, cyano, CF.sub.3, C.sub.1 -C.sub.15 alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.12 cycloalkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.15 alkenyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 haloalkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkylthio, C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 aryl, C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 aryloxy, C.sub.7 -C.sub.12 arylalkyl, --CO.sub.2 R.sub.6, --COR.sub.6 or ##STR2## in which at least one of the radicals R.sub.1 to R.sub.5 is hydrogen, halogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.15 alkyl, and, in addition, the radicals R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 or R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached form a benzo or cyclohexenyl ring,R.sub.6 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.20 alkyl which is interrupted by oxygen, sulfur or >N--R.sub.9 ; or is C.sub.7 -C.sub.12 arylalkyl,R.sub.7 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Kramer, Adalbert Braig
  • Patent number: 5458678
    Abstract: There are described novel alkaline earth metal salts, transition metal salts and transition metal complexes of compounds of the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are, independently of one another, hydrogen, halogen, nitro, cyano, CF.sub.3, C.sub.1 -C.sub.15 alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.12 cycloalkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.15 alkenyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 haloalkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkylthio, C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 aryl which is unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl; C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 aryloxy which is unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl; C.sub.7 -C.sub.12 arylalkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted on the aryl radical by from 1 to 3 C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl groups; --CO.sub.2 R.sub.6, --COR.sub.6 or ##STR2## where at least one of the radicals R.sub.1 to R.sub.5 is hydrogen, halogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.15 alkyl, in addition the radicals R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, R2 and R.sub.3, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 or R.sub.4 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: William P. Armstrong, Adalbert Braig, Markus Frey, Andreas Kramer
  • Patent number: 5288315
    Abstract: An aqueous coating composition comprising a) an aqueous film-forming binder; and b) as corrosion inhibitor, a corrosion inhibiting amount of a product produced by reacting i) a mono- or di-aldehyde having the formula I:R--(CHO).sub.1 or 2 Iin which R is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkyl or alkylene group, optionally interrupted by one or more O- and/or N-atoms, or substituted by one or more hydroxy or cyano groups, or a C.sub.6 or C.sub.10 aryl or arylene group optionally substituted by one or more C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl groups, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkoxy groups, hydroxy or nitro groups, or halogen atoms, with ii) a mono- or di-amine having the formula II:R.sub.1 --(NH.sub.2).sub.1 or 2 IIin which R.sub.1 is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkyl or alkylene group which is optionally interrupted by one or more O- and/or N-atoms, or substituted by one or more hydroxy or cyano groups, a C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 cycloalkyl or cycloalkylene group, a C.sub.6 or C.sub.10 aryl or arylene group or a C.sub.7 -C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Adalbert Braig, Emry Phillips
  • Patent number: 5198482
    Abstract: The present invention provides a corrosion-inhibiting coating composition comprising:a) an acid-sensitive film former; andb) as a corrosion inhibitor, an effective amount of a salt ofi) an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic mono-, di tri- or tetra-carboxylic acid which is substituted in its aliphatic or cycloaliphatic radical by at least one group of the formula ##STR1## in which each R independently of the others is hydrogen, alkyl, halogenoalkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkylsulfonyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl, alkylphenyl, phenylalkyl, halogen, --CN, --NO.sub.2, --COOH, COOalkyl, --OH or a primary, secondary or tertiary amino or carbamoyl group; with ii) n molar equivalents of an amine of the formula ##STR2## in which X, Y and Z are the same or different and each it hydrogen, alkyl optionally interrupted by one or more oxygen atoms, or alkyl substituted by hydroxy, or is phenyl, phenyl alkyl or alkylphenyl; and n is 1, 2, 3 or 4 depending upon the number of carboxyl groups in the carboxylic acid b i).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Emyr Phillips, Adalbert Braig
  • Patent number: 5169950
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I ##STR1## wherein R, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.5 have the meaning given in claim 1 are formed by thermal rearrangement of the isomers of formula V ##STR2## especially in the presence of basic catalysts. The compounds are corrosion inhibitors for organic materials, in particular coating materials and lubricants. In these substrates they also act as antioxidants and light-stabilizers and are very stable to heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Adalbert Braig, Hans-Rudolf Meier, David G. Leppard, Robert C. Wasson, Emyr Phillips