Patents by Inventor Carmen Flosbach

Carmen Flosbach 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: 20030113444
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for repairing coated substrate surfaces comprising the following successive steps:
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Carmen Flosbach, Karl-Friedrich Doessel, Werner Lenhard, Oliver Reis, Thomas Fey
  • Publication number: 20030087029
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a powder coating composition that produces a low gloss coating upon cure. The powder coating composition includes one or more crosslinkable base polymer, a crosslinkable acrylic polymer and one or more free radical initiators. By adding spheroidal particles to the powder coating composition further reduction in gloss can be obtained while improving smoothness. These compositions are well suited to produce coatings on metallic substrates, such as automotive bodies and non-metallic substrates, such as reconstituted wood substrates, used for desk or table tops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventors: Owen Hugh Decker, Frederick Lloyd Bailey, Rajendra Kumar Polu, Carmen Flosbach
  • Patent number: 6555176
    Abstract: Coating composition containing a binder/crosslinking agent system, organic solvents, optionally together with pigments and/or extenders and conventional lacquer additives, wherein the binder/crosslinking agent system contains A) 20 to 80 wt. % of carboxy-functional (meth)acrylic copolymers and/or polyesters which are dissolved in the continuous phase of the coating composition, with an acid value of 15 to 300 mg of KOH/g, B) 80 to 20 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Ralf Dahm, Carmen Flosbach, Hans-Jürgen Gawin, Hermann Kerber, Apostolos Manassis, Volker Paschmann, Walter Schubert
  • Publication number: 20030045653
    Abstract: Coating agents with resin solids of
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Carmen Flosbach, Kerstin Karpinski, Stefanie Matten, Walter Schubert
  • Publication number: 20030026895
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for repairing coated substrate surfaces comprising the following successive steps:
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Carmen Flosbach, Karl-Friedrich Doessel, Werner Lenhard, Oliver Reis, Thomas Fey
  • Patent number: 6506825
    Abstract: Use of solid, finely divided urea compounds to prevent edge migration when stoving electrophoretically deposited electrodeposition lacquers, and electrodeposition lacquers with a content of 0.1 to 5 wt. % of urea compound, related to resin solids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Carmen Flosbach, Hermann Kerber, Klaus-Günter Kerlin, Klausjörg Klein, Bettina Vogt-Birnbrich
  • Publication number: 20020182330
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for multilayer coating of substrates which comprises
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Morenike Awokola, Carmen Flosbach, Helmut Loffler
  • Publication number: 20020147294
    Abstract: Aminoazole-blocked isocyanate components can be used as self crosslinking binders in heat-curable compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Carmen Flosbach, Micheal Herm, Helmut Ritter, Patrick Gloeckner
  • Publication number: 20020143078
    Abstract: Coating compounds curable by means of high-energy radiation, comprising as binder
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Morenike Awokola, Carmen Flosbach, Helmut Loeffler, Volker Paschmann
  • Patent number: 6437056
    Abstract: Coating composition suitable for multilayer lacquering, containing, in addition to organic solvent, anti-sagging agents, optionally pigments, extenders and additives, a binder/crosslinkin agent system containing A) from 20 to 80 wt. % of carboxyl-functional (meth)acrylic copolymers and/or carboxyl-functional polyesters having an acid number of from 20 to 300, B) from 20 to 80 wt. % of epoxy-functional crosslinking agents, the percentages by weight of A) and B) adding up to 100 wt. %. C) from 0 to 30 wt. % of polymer polyol C), based on the sum of the weights of A) and B), E) from 0 to 20 wt. % of further crosslinking agents, based on the sum of the weights of A, B, and C), F) from 0 to 10 wt. % of monoepoxides, based on the sum of the weights of A) and B), and D) as anti-sagging agents, from 0.1 to 3 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nmeours and Company
    Inventors: Ralf Dahm, Carmen Flosbach, Hermann Kerber, Walter Schubert, Astrid Tückmantel
  • Patent number: 6332291
    Abstract: This invention relates to radiation-curable coating compositions which contain A) compounds having one or more free-radically polymerisable double bonds which additionally contain at least one further functional group reactive for the purposes of an addition and/or condensation reaction, B) compounds having one or more free-radically polymerisable double bonds, which additionally contain at least one further functional group reactive for the purposes of an addition and/or condensation reaction, wherein the additional reactive functional group is complementary to or reactive towards the additional reactive functional groups of component A), C) optionally at least one monomeric, oligomeric and/or polymeric compound having at least one functional group reactive towards the functional groups from component A) or component B) D) one or more photoinitiators as well as E) optionally solvents, water, pigments and/or extenders as well as conventional lacquer additives, wherein component A) and component B) diffe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Herberts GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Carmen Flosbach, Helmut Löffler, Karin Maag
  • Patent number: 6268021
    Abstract: A binder vehicle composition which is suitable for coating media, containing: A) 20 to 77% by weight of one or more binder vehicles based on oligomeric or polymeric polyol compounds with a hydroxyl number of 80 to 300, an acid number of 0 to 30, a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 500 to 10,000, and a glass transition temperature of −20 to +70° C.; B) 77 to 20% by weight of crosslinking agents based on aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic polyisocyanates; C) 3 to 20% by weight of oligo- or polyesters, which contain carboxyl groups, as catalyst resins, which have an acid number of 210 to 300 mg KOH/g and a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 420 to 3000; and one or more organic solvents and/or water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Herberts GmbH
    Inventors: Carmen Flosbach, Friedrich Herrmann, Walter Schubert, Dirk Schild
  • Patent number: 6200639
    Abstract: Coating composition suitable for multi-layer lacquerings, with a binder composition which comprises: A) 25 to 75 wt. % of carboxyl-functional (meth)acrylic copolymers and/or carboxyl-functional polyesters, the carboxyl functionality of which corresponds to an acid number of 15 to 300 mg KOH/g, B) 25 to 75 wt. % of epoxide-functionalized crosslinker resins, at least one of which is a (meth)acrylic copolymer which has been prepared co-using tert-butyl (meth)acrylate, C) 0 to 50 wt. % of polyols which have at least two hydroxyl functions in the molecule, D) 0 to 40 wt. % of components which crosslink with hydroxyl groups to form ethers, and/or of a crosslinking agent based on triazine, E) 0 to 40 wt. % of polyisocyanates, F) 0 to 50 wt. % of at least one organic polyanhydride with at least two cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride groups per molecule, G) 0 to 20 wt. % of reactive thinners with an epoxide function, H) 0 to 10 wt. % of one or more catalysts for the reaction of carboxyl and epoxide groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Herberts GmbH., KG
    Inventors: Volker Duecoffre, Walter Schubert, Friedrich Herrmann, Carmen Flosbach, Claudia Leckebusch
  • Patent number: 6150486
    Abstract: Process for the production of glycidyl (meth)acrylate copolymers with a number-average molar mass (Mn) of 1000 to 6000 g/mol by solvent-free, continuous copolymerisation of glycidyl (meth)acrylate with ethylenically unsaturated monomers, in a reaction vessel with feed and discharge means in the presence of a polyester oligomer, wherein polyester oligomer or a mixture of glycidyl (meth)acrylate copolymer and polyester oligomer is initially introduced in a weight ratio of from 95:5 to 50:50 and the glycidyl (meth)acrylates, further monomers, further polyester oligomer and, optionally, free-radical initiators are added, the addition together with discharge of the copolymers formed being effected in such a way that the residence time required for formation of the desired composition is achieved, and wherein, in the event of the initial introduction of the mixture of glycidyl (meth)acrylate copolymer and polyester oligomer, addition is effected in such a way that the ratio between copolymer and oligomer is maintai
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Herberts GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Schwede, Walter Schubert, Carmen Flosbach, Friedhelm Bandermann, Aurel Wolf
  • Patent number: 6063954
    Abstract: This invention relates to non-ionic emulsifiers based on fatty acid esters of polyalkoxylated polyhydric alcohols as fundamental constituents. At least two fundamental constituents are linked to each other by the reaction of hydroxyl groups with a polyisocyanate, with the formation of urethane bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Herberts Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Wolfgang Diener, Volker Duecoffre, Carmen Flosbach, Gerhard Hey, Walter Schubert
  • Patent number: 6063448
    Abstract: A coating medium suitable for multilayer coatings, containing, as a binder vehicle:______________________________________ A) 10 to 90% by weight of one or more hydroxy-functional (meth)acrylic copolymers, obtained from a1) 20 to 40% by weight of hydroxyalkyl esters of (meth)acrylic acid a2) 10 to 30% by weight of non-functionalised (meth) acrylates a3) 0 to 5% by weight of unsaturated carboyxlic acids a4) 10 to 60% by weight of non-functionalised monomers a5) 0 to 15% by weight of amino-functional monomers, and a6) 0 to 5% by weight of multiply-unsaturated monomers B) 90 to 10% by weight of hydroxy-functional polyesters, C) 0 to 40% by weight of hydroxy-functional binder vehicles D) 5 to 50% by weight of blocked polyisocyanates, E) 5 to 40% by weight of components based on triazine which crosslink with the hydroxyl groups of components A), B) and C) with the formation of ether and/or ester groups, ______________________________________wherein at least 50% by weight of the (meth)acrylic copolymers, with respec
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Herberts GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Duecoffre, Carmen Flosbach, Hermann Kerber, Walter Schubert, Friedrich Herrmann, Heinz-Walter Reifferscheid, Dirk Schild
  • Patent number: 6037404
    Abstract: This invention relates to a composition, and to the preparation and use of thereof said composition being suitable as a rheology influencer for coating media and comprising the reaction product formed by reaction of a mixture of components A, B and C with components D, E and F. Components A, B and C form a mixture wherein component A is one or more (meth)acrylic copolymers and/or one or more polyesters which contain hydroxyl groups. Component B is a copolymer of ethylhexyl (meth)acrylate and one or more hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylates, as well as .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated monomers which are different therefrom. Component C is a hydroxy--functional microdispersion which is produced by polymerizing hydroxylalkyl (meth)acrylates in combination with unsaturated monomers in a mixture of polyesters or polyacrylates containing carboxyl and/or hydroxyl groups. Component D is one or more aliphatic polyisocyantes and component E is .epsilon.-caprolactam. The caprolactam partially blocks the polyisocyanate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Herberts Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Ralf Dahm, Carmen Flosbach, Hermann Kerber, Sandra Kirchgassler, Dieter Lerch, Frank Schnodewind, Walter Schubert
  • Patent number: 6013326
    Abstract: Coating compositions suitable for stoved multi-layer coatings containing as binder:A) 20 to 40 wt. % of hydroxy-functional (meth)acrylic copolymer obtainable from styrene and/or styrene derivatives; hydroxyethyl, hydroxypropyl and/or hydroxybutyl (meth)acrylate; non-functionalised (cyclo)alkyl (meth)acrylates having 8 to less than 18 C atoms in the (cyclo)alkyl residue; (meth)acrylic acid and optionally non-functionalised (cyclo)alkyl (meth)acrylates having up to 7 C atoms in the (cyclo)alkyl residue;B) 20 to 40 wt. % of hydroxy-functional (meth)acrylic copolymer obtainable from hydroxyethyl, hydroxypropyl and/or hydroxybutyl (meth)acrylate; non-functionalised (cyclo)alkyl (meth)acrylates having 8 to less than 18 C atoms in the (cyclo)alkyl residue; non-functionalised (cyclo)alkyl (meth)acrylates having up to 7 C atoms in the (cyclo)alkyl residue and (meth)acrylic acid;C) 0 to 40 wt. % of hydroxy-functional binders other than A) and B),D) 10 to 50 wt. % of free or blocked polyisocyanates, andE) 0 to 40 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Herberts GmbH
    Inventors: Carmen Flosbach, Friedrich Herrmann, Hermann Kerber, Heinz-Walter Reifferscheidt, Carmen Schloesser, Walter Schubert
  • Patent number: 5739216
    Abstract: Binder composition, coating compositions produced therefrom and use thereof, in particular for multi-layer lacquer coatings. The binder composition contains:A) 25 to 75 wt. % of the reaction product of one or more carboxy-functionalised (meth) acrylic copolymers containing urethane groups and/or of one or more carboxy-functionalised polyesters containing urethane groups, each having an acid value of 30 to 200 mg of KOH/g, with one or more lactones,B) 25 to 75 wt. % of one or more epoxy-functionalised crosslinking agents having at least two epoxy functions per molecule with a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 200 to 10000 g/mol,C) 0 to 60 wt. % of one or more polyols having at least two hydroxyl functions per molecule,D.sub.1) 0 to 20 wt. % of one or more melamine resins,D.sub.2) 0 to 40 wt. % of one or more free or capped polyisocyanates, wherein the sum of the weight percentages of components A), B), C), D.sub.1) and D.sub.2) amounts to 100 wt. %, together withE) 0 to 10 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Herberts Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Volker Duecoffre, Carmen Flosbach, Friedrich Herrmann, Heinz-Walter Reifferscheidt, Walter Schubert
  • Patent number: 5710208
    Abstract: A binder composition, a coating composition containing this binder, a process for its production and use to produce single or multi-layer lacquer coatings, particularly in the automotive sector, are described. The binder composition containsA) 25 to 75 wt. % of one of more resins containing carboxyl groups, which may contain .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated groups, with a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 500 to 10000 g/mol and an acid value of 15 to 200 mg KOH/g,B) 25 to 75 wt. % of one or more polyethers, polyesters, polyether/polyesters and/or (meth)acrylic copolymers with at least one .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated group and at least one epoxy group per molecule, wherein the .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated groups and epoxy groups are present in a numerical ratio of 20:80 to 80:20, with a number average molecular weight (Mn) of up to 10000 g/mol,C) 0 to 60 wt. % of one or more polyols with at least two hydroxyl functional groups per molecule,D.sub.1) 0 to 20 wt. % of one or more melamine resins,D.sub.2) 0 to 40 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Herberts GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Bederke, Carmen Flosbach, Eva Frigge, Walter Schubert