Patents by Inventor Constanze Brocke
Constanze Brocke 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).
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Patent number: 11964933Abstract: The present invention relates to aromatic isothiocyanates of formula U as defined in claim 1, to liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of formula U 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: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Constanze Brocke, Dmitry Ushakov, Carsten Fritzsch, Dagmar Klass
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Publication number: 20240124780Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroaromatic isothiocyanates of formula N as defined in claim 1, to liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of formula N 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: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Amir Hossain PARHAM, Constanze BROCKE, Carsten FRITZSCH, Dagmar KLASS
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Publication number: 20240124779Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroaromatic isothiocyanates of formula N as defined in claim 1, to liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of formula N 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: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Constanze BROCKE, Dagmar KLASS, Carsten FRITSCH, Amir Hossain PARHAM
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Publication number: 20240117249Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Constanze BROCKE, Carsten FRITZSCH, Dagmar KLASS
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Publication number: 20240101903Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Amir Hossain PARHAM, Constanze BROCKE, Carsten Fritzsch, Dagmar KLASS, Matthias JOST
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Publication number: 20240072425Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal medium comprising aromatic isothiocyanates of formula C as defined in claim 1, 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: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Constanze BROCKE, Carsten FRITZSCH, Dagmar KLASS
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Publication number: 20230392075Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula T as defined in claim 1, to a liquid crystal medium comprising a compound of formula T 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: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Amir Hossain PARHAM, Constanze BROCKE, Carsten FRITZSCH, Dagmar KLASS
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Publication number: 20230392076Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula UI as defined in claim 1, to a liquid crystal medium comprising a compound of formula UI 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: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Constanze BROCKE, Dagmar KLASS, Carsten FRITSCH
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Patent number: 11834599Abstract: Aromatic isothiocyanates of formula C liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of formula C, and 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: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Constanze Brocke, Dmitry Ushakov, Dagmar Klass, Carsten Fritzsch
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Patent number: 11795398Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium having a nematic phase comprising one or more compounds of formula X wherein the parameters have the meaning given in the text, to the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, to displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type and to the use of the compounds of formula X for improvement of the transmission and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more additional mesogenic compounds, as well as to the compounds of formula X.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Atsutaka Manabe, Constanze Brocke, Brigitte Schuler
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Patent number: 11739265Abstract: The present invention relates to aromatic isothiocyanates of formula U as defined in claim 1, to liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of formula U 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: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Constanze Brocke, Dmitry Ushakov, Katharina Linke, Dagmar Klass, Carsten Fritzsch
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Patent number: 11667841Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of the general formula I in which the occurring groups and parameters have the meanings indicated in claim 1, to the use thereof in liquid-crystalline or mesogenic media and to liquid-crystalline or mesogenic media comprising these derivatives.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Matthias Bremer, Constanze Brocke, Atsutaka Manabe, Sven Laut
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Patent number: 11667840Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of formula DFS in which the groups and parameters occurring have the meanings indicated in claim 1, to high-frequency components comprising same, especially microwave components for high-frequency devices, such as devices for shifting the phase of microwaves, in particular for microwave phased-array antennas. The present invention further relates to novel mesogenic compounds.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Atsutaka Manabe, Christian Jasper, Volker Reiffenrath, Constanze Brocke, Detlef Pauluth, Dagmar Klass, Michael Wittek, Renate Seeger, Dmitry Ushakov, Beate Schneider
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Publication number: 20230104326Abstract: Aromatic isothiocyanates of formula C liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of formula C, and 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: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2020Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Constanze Brocke, Dmitry Ushakov, Dagmar Klass, Carsten Fritzsch
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Publication number: 20230061307Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium having a nematic phase comprising one or more compounds of formula X wherein the parameters have the meaning given in the text, to the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, to displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type and to the use of the compounds of formula X for improvement of the transmission and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more additional mesogenic compounds, as well as to certain compounds of formula X, as specified in the text.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Atsutaka MANABE, Constanze BROCKE, Susan (Min Tzu) CHUANG, Sven Christian LAUT, Sabrina PFEIFFER, Ramin TAVAKOLI
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Publication number: 20230045269Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, preferably having a nematic phase and dielectric anisotropy of 0.5 or more, which comprises one or more compounds of formula D in which the parameters have the meanings given in the text, to the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, to displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type, and to the compounds of formula T and their use for the improvement of the transmission and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more additional mesogenic compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2019Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Achim GOETZ, Constanze BROCKE
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Publication number: 20230025385Abstract: The present invention relates to aromatic isothiocyanates of formula U as defined in claim 1, to liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of formula U 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: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Constanze BROCKE, Dmitry USHAKOV, Carsten FRITZSCH, Dagmar KLASS
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Publication number: 20220306938Abstract: The present invention relates to aromatic isothiocyanates of formula U as defined in claim 1, to liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of formula U 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: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Constanze BROCKE, Dmitry USHAKOV, Katharina LINKE, Dagmar KLASS, Carsten FRITZSCH
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Patent number: 11447701Abstract: A liquid-crystalline medium having a nematic phase containing one or more compounds of formula D the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type and the use of the compounds of formula D for improvement of the contrast and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which contain one or more additional mesogenic compounds, as well as certain compounds of formula D.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Sven Christian Laut, Martina Windhorst, Constanze Brocke
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Patent number: 11447703Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, preferably having a nematic phase and dielectric anisotropy of 0.5 or more, which comprises one or more compounds of formula T in which and the other parameters have the meanings given in the text, to the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, to displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type, and to the compounds of formula T and their use for the improvement of the transmission and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more additional mesogenic compounds.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Atsutaka Manabe, Constanze Brocke, Sven Baran, Sebastian Hofmeyer, Alexander Hahn