Patents by Inventor Erwin Dietz

Erwin Dietz 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: 7102014
    Abstract: The invention provides novel pigment dispersants of the formula (I): in which Q is a radical of the formula (Ia): s is a number from 0.1 to 4.0 and n is a number from 0 to 2.0; and provides pigment preparations comprising an organic base pigment and a pigment dispersant of the formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Felix Wendelin Grimm, Erwin Dietz
  • Publication number: 20060135774
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing pigment transparent preparations based on perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic acid diimine of (XXX) formula, wherein u is a number between 0 and 8, when u>0; E is a chlorine or bromine atom and if u>1, possibly the combination of said atoms. The inventive method consists in wet grinding a perylimide raw pigment of the (xxx) formula in an aqueous liquid medium in the presence of at least one pigment dispersing agent of a perylene dispersing agent group and P.V. derived dispersing agents with the aid of a ball grinding mill operating at a maximum volume power of 1.0 kW per litre by the action of a grinder whose diameter is equal to or less than 5 mm, at a temperature equal to or higher than 50° C., and in isolating the such obtained pigment preparation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2004
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Manfred Opravil, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 7056378
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing vattable organic pigments. The invention is characterized in that an agueous or an aqueous-organic suspension of a coarse crystalline raw mineral is vatted and re-oxidised, and the pigment suspension is ground to a diameter equal to or less than 0.9 mm during vatting and/or during oxidation by means of an agitator ball mill, which is operated at a power density of more than 1.0 KW per litre per grinding chamber and at an agitator peripheral speed of more than 12 m/s, using grinding bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Manfred Urban, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 7045637
    Abstract: The invention provides novel pigment dispersants of the formula (I) in which Q is a radical of the formula (Ia) s is a number from 0.1 to 4.0 and n is a number from 0 to 2.0; and provides pigment preparations comprising an organic base pigment and a pigment dispersant of the formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Felix Wendelin Grimm, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 7045638
    Abstract: The invention provides novel pigment dispersants of the formula (I) in which is a radical of the formula (Ia) s is a number from 0.1 to 4.0 and n is a number from 0 to 2.0; and provides pigment preparations comprising an organic base pigment and a pigment dispersant of the formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Felix Wendelin Grimm, Erwin Dietz
  • Publication number: 20050229817
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing vattable organic pigments. The invention is characterised in that an aqueous or an aqueous-organic suspension of a coarse crystalline raw mineral is vatted and re-oxidised, and the pigment suspension is ground to a diameter equal to or less than 0.9 mm during vatting and/or during oxidation by means of an agitator ball mill, which is operated at a power density of more than 1.0 KW per litre per grinding chamber and at an agitator peripheral speed of more than 12 m/s, using grinding bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Manfred Urban, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 6918958
    Abstract: The invention relates to pigment dispersants of the formula (I), and to pigment preparations including at least one organic pigment and at least one pigment disperant of the formula (I): wherein Q1, R1, R2, E+, G+, s and n are defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Klaus Brychcy, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 6835242
    Abstract: Organic pigments are conditioned by introducing a liquid prepigment suspension into a miniaturized continuous reactor and thermally treating therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited
    Inventors: Uwe Nickel, Klaus Kund, Erwin Dietz, Joachim Weber, Olaf Schupp
  • Publication number: 20040177790
    Abstract: The invention provides novel pigment dispersants of the formula (I) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Felix Wendelin Grimm, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 6723138
    Abstract: A process for preparing diketopyrrolopyrrole pigments comprises conducting the elementary steps of pigment synthesis (reaction and hydrolysis) in a miniaturized continuous reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Clariant International Ltd.
    Inventors: Uwe Nickel, Leonhard Unverdorben, Joachim Weber, Erwin Dietz, Juergen Patzlaff
  • Publication number: 20040060478
    Abstract: The invention relates to the novel pigment dispersants of the formula (I), wherein Q1 is a group of an organic pigment selected from the group of the perinone, quinacridone, quinacridonequinone, anthanthrone, indanthrone, dioxazine, diketopyrrolopyrrole, indigo, thioindigo, thiazine indigo, isoindoline, isoindolinone, pyranthrone, isoviolanthrone, flavanthrone or anthrapyrimidine pigments; s is a number of from 1 to 5; n is a number of from 0 to 4; the sum of s and n being 1 to 5, and to pigment preparations. Said pigment preparations are characterized by a content of at least one organic pigment and one pigment dispersant of the formula ((I), wherein Q1 is a group of an organic pigment selected from the group of phthalocyanine, azo, benzimidazolone, disazocondensation, perinone, quinacridone, quinacridonequinone, anthanthrone, indanthrone, dioxazine, diketopyrrolopyrrole, indigo, thioindigo, thiazine indigo, isoindoline, isoindolinone, pyranthrone, isoviolanthrone, flavanthrone or anthrapyrimidine pigments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Klaus Brychcy, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 6646126
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing transparent perylimide pigments of the formula (I): in which u is a number from 0 to 8 and, if u>0, E is a chlorine or bromine atom and, where u>1, may be a combination thereof, which comprises wet-grinding a crude perylimide pigment in a liquid medium in a stirred ballmill operated at a power density of from 1.0 kW per liter of milling space and at a stirrer tip speed of more than 12 m/s under the action of grinding media having a diameter of less than or equal to 0.9 mm, and isolating the resulting pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Manfred Urban, Martin Böhmer, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 6616859
    Abstract: A process for preparing alcoholic solutions of alkali metal alkoxides. The process includes reacting an alkali metal with an alcohol in a microreactor wherein the microreactor provides laminer flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant International Ltd.
    Inventors: Uwe Nickel, Leonhard Unverdorben, Joachim Weber, Erwin Dietz, Juergen Patzlaff
  • Publication number: 20030164118
    Abstract: Organic pigments are conditioned by introducing a liquid prepigment suspension into a miniaturized continuous reactor and thermally treating therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Applicant: Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited
    Inventors: Uwe Nickel, Klaus Kund, Erwin Dietz, Joachim Webber, Olaf Schupp
  • Publication number: 20030162976
    Abstract: The invention provides novel pigment dispersants of the formula (I) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Felix Wendelin Grimm, Erwin Dietz
  • Publication number: 20030162977
    Abstract: The invention provides novel pigment dispersants of the formula (I) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Felix Wendelin Grimm, Erwin Dietz
  • Publication number: 20030158410
    Abstract: A process for preparing diketopyrrolopyrrole pigments comprises conducting the elementary steps of pigment synthesis (reaction and hydrolysis) in a miniaturized continuous reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Uwe Nickel, Leonhard Unverdorben, Joachim Weber, Erwin Dietz, Juergen Patzlaff
  • Patent number: 6582508
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for the fine division of pigments which comprises spraying a coarsely crystalline crude pigment and/or a poorly dispersible prepigment in suspension form through nozzles to a point of conjoint collision in a reactor chamber enclosed by a housing in a microjet reactor, a gas or an evaporating liquid being passed into the reactor chamber through an opening in the housing for the purpose of maintaining a gas atmosphere in the reactor chamber, and the resulting pigment suspension and the gas or the evaporated liquid being removed from the reactor through a further opening in the housing by means of overpressure on the gas entry side or underpressure on the product and gas exit side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Dietz, Joachim Weber, Dieter Schnaitmann, Christian Wille, Leonhard Unverdorben
  • Publication number: 20030105325
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing transparent perylimide pigments of the formula (I) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Applicant: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Manfred Urban, Martin Bohmer, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 6566519
    Abstract: A process for preparing diketopyrrolopyrrole pigments comprises conducting the elementary steps of pigment synthesis (reaction and hydrolysis) in a miniaturized continuous reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant International Ltd.
    Inventors: Uwe Nickel, Leonhard Unverdorben, Joachim Weber, Erwin Dietz, Juergen Patzlaff