Patents by Inventor Bernd Kluepfel

Bernd Kluepfel 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).

  • Patent number: 8648149
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of chemistry and relates to radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds that can be used, for example, as tribo materials, and a method for the production thereof. The object of the invention is to disclose radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds which exhibit improved wear resistances with comparable gliding properties, and furthermore a simple and efficient method for the production of such compounds. The object is attained through radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds comprising radiation-chemically and/or plasma-chemically modified PTFE powders, on the particle surface of which olefinically unsaturated polymers are chemically radically coupled by a reactive conversion into a melt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Leibniz-Institut fuer Polymerforschung Dresden E.V.
    Inventors: Dieter Lehmann, Bernd Kluepfel
  • Patent number: 8030367
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of chemistry and relates to radically coupled PTFE polymer powders that can be used, for example, as tribomaterials, and a method for the production thereof. There is disclosed radically coupled PTFE polymer powders which, when incorporated into a matrix as PTFE polymer compound, exhibit improved wear resistance, and furthermore a simple and efficient method for the production thereof. There is provided radically coupled PTFE polymer powders comprising radiation-chemically and/or plasma-chemically modified PTFE powders, onto the particle surface of which homopolymers, copolymers or terpolymers are radically coupled via a reaction in dispersion or in solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Leibniz-Institut Fuer Polymerforschung Dresden E.V.
    Inventors: Dieter Lehmann, Bernd Kluepfel
  • Publication number: 20100298461
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of chemistry and relates to radically coupled PTFE polymer powders that can be used, for example, as tribomaterials, and a method for the production thereof. The object of the invention is to disclose radically coupled PTFE polymer powders which, when incorporated into a matrix as PTFE polymer compound, exhibit improved wear resistances, and furthermore a simple and efficient method for the production thereof. The object is attained through radically coupled PTFE polymer powders comprising radiation-chemically and/or plasma-chemically modified PTFE powders, onto the particle surface of which homopolymers, copolymers or terpolymers are radically coupled via a reaction in dispersion or in substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER POLYMERFORSCHUNG DRESEDEN E. V.
    Inventors: Dieter LEHMANN, Bernd KLUEPFEL
  • Publication number: 20100249333
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of chemistry and relates to radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds that can be used, for example, as tribo materials, and a method for the production thereof. The object of the invention is to disclose radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds which exhibit improved wear resistances with comparable gliding properties, and furthermore a simple and efficient method for the production of such compounds. The object is attained through radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds comprising radiation-chemically and/or plasma-chemically modified PTFE powders, on the particle surface of which olefinically unsaturated polymers are chemically radically coupled by a reactive conversion into a melt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER POLYMERFORSCHUNG DRESDEN E.V.
    Inventors: Dieter LEHMANN, Bernd KLUEPFEL
  • Patent number: 7790780
    Abstract: Radically coupled PTFE polymer powders useful, for example, as tribomaterials, and a method for production thereof. Radically coupled PTFE polymer powders are provided which, when incorporated into a matrix as PTFE polymer compound, exhibit improved wear resistances, and furthermore there is provided a simple and efficient method for the production thereof. Radically coupled PTFE polymer powders are provided comprising radiation-chemically and/or plasma-chemically modified PTFE powders, onto the particle surface of which homopolymers, copolymers or terpolymers are radically coupled via a reaction in dispersion or in substance. A method is provided in which PTFE powders with reactive perfluoroalkyl-(peroxy) radical centers after a radiation-chemical and/or plasma-chemical modification are reacted in dispersion or in substance with the addition of polymerizable, olefinically unsaturated monomers, whereby during the reaction a polymer-forming reaction is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Leibniz-Institut fuer Polymerforschung Dresden E.V.
    Inventors: Dieter Lehmann, Bernd Kluepfel
  • Patent number: 7759441
    Abstract: Radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds useful, for example, as tribo materials, and a method for the production thereof. Radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds are provided which exhibit improved wear resistances with comparable gliding properties, and furthermore there is provided a simple and efficient method for the production of such compounds. Radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds are provided comprising radiation-chemically and/or plasma-chemically modified PTFE powders, on the particle surface of which olefinically unsaturated polymers are chemically radically coupled by a reactive conversion into a melt. There is also provided a method for producing radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds, in which PTFE powders are reactively converted with reactive perfluoroalkyl-(peroxy) radical centers after a radiation-chemical and/or plasma-chemical modification into a melt with the addition of olefinically unsaturated polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Leibniz-Institut Fuer Polymerforschung Dresden E.V.
    Inventors: Dieter Lehmann, Bernd Klüpfel
  • Publication number: 20090105436
    Abstract: Radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds useful, for example, as tribo materials, and a method for the production thereof. Radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds are provided which exhibit improved wear resistances with comparable gliding properties, and furthermore there is provided a simple and efficient method for the production of such compounds. Radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds are provided comprising radiation-chemically and/or plasma-chemically modified PTFE powders, on the particle surface of which olefinically unsaturated polymers are chemically radically coupled by a reactive conversion into a melt. There is also provided a method for producing radically coupled PTFE polymer compounds, in which PTFE powders are reactively converted with reactive perfluoroalkyl-(peroxy) radical centers after a radiation-chemical and/or plasma-chemical modification into a melt with the addition of olefinically unsaturated polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Dieter Lehmann, Bernd Kluepfel
  • Publication number: 20070282031
    Abstract: Radically coupled PTFE polymer powders useful, for example, as tribomaterials, and a method for production thereof. Radically coupled PTFE polymer powders are provided which, when incorporated into a matrix as PTFE polymer compound, exhibit improved wear resistances, and furthermore there is provided a simple and efficient method for the production thereof. Radically coupled PTFE polymer powders are provided comprising radiation-chemically and/or plasma-chemically modified PTFE powders, onto the particle surface of which homopolymers, copolymers or terpolymers are radically coupled via a reaction in dispersion or in substance. A method is provided in which PTFE powders with reactive perfluoroalkyl-(peroxy) radical centers after a radiation-chemical and/or plasma-chemical modification are reacted in dispersion or in substance with the addition of polymerizable, olefinically unsaturated monomers, whereby during the reaction a polymer-forming reaction is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Dieter Lehmann, Bernd Kluepfel