Patents by Inventor Fabrice Leroux

Fabrice Leroux 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: 10745536
    Abstract: Layered double hydroxides organo-modified by 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propionic acid (HPPA), by 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethylsulfonic acid or by a hydroxyphenylpropenoic acid, and to composite polymer materials having same. The composite materials are advantageously made of biosourced polymers such as poly(butylene succinate). These composite materials have improved properties over the polymers that make up the composition thereof, and over the composites of the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITÉBLAISE PASCAL- CLERMONT II, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM- UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DE CHIMIE DE CLERMONT FERRAND
    Inventors: Fabrice Leroux, Vincent Verney, Laura Sisti, Annamaria Celli, Grazia Totaro
  • Patent number: 10125269
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising (A) at least one carboxy-functional polyester having an acid number in the range from 20 to 250 mg KOH/g, prepared using at least one difunctional monomer (a1) with aliphatic groups having 12 to 70 carbon atoms between the functional groups, and also (B) at least one synthetic layered hydroxide, where the at least one layered hydroxide (B) is prepared in the presence of the polyester (A). The present invention further relates to the preparation of the composition and also to the use of the composition as coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: BASF Coatings GmbH, Universite Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Bruening, Elke Austrup, Fabrice LeRoux, Thomas Stimpfling, Claudia Swanson, Arthur Langry, Andrej Koenig
  • Publication number: 20180208739
    Abstract: Layered double hydroxides organo-modified by 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propionic acid (HPPA), by 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethylsulfonic acid or by a hydroxyphenylpropenoic acid, and to composite polymer materials having same. The composite materials are advantageously made of biosourced polymers such as poly(butylene succinate). These composite materials have improved properties over the polymers that make up the composition thereof, and over the composites of the prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL- CLERMONT II, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM- UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DE CHIMIE DE CLERMONT FERRAND
    Inventors: Fabrice LEROUX, Vincent VERNEY, Laura SISTI, Annamaria CELLI, Grazia TOTARO
  • Publication number: 20170051158
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising (A) at least one carboxy-functional polyester having an acid number in the range from 20 to 250 mg KOH/g, prepared using at least one difunctional monomer (a1) with aliphatic groups having 12 to 70 carbon atoms between the functional groups, and also (B) at least one synthetic layered hydroxide, where the at least one layered hydroxide (B) is prepared in the presence of the polyester (A). The present invention further relates to the preparation of the composition and also to the use of the composition as coating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicants: BASF Coatings GmbH, Universite Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II
    Inventors: Horst HINTZE-BRUENING, Elke AUSTRUP, Fabrice LEROUX, Thomas STIMPFLING, Claudia SWANSON, Arthur LANGRY, Andrej KOENIG
  • Patent number: 9556339
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an anticorrosion coating, wherein (1) an anticorrosion primer comprising (A) at least one organic resin as binder and (B) at least one synthetic layered double hydroxide comprising organic anions is applied directly to a metallic substrate and (2) a polymer film is formed from the anticorrosion primer applied in stage (1), the method being characterized in that the at least one synthetic layered double hydroxide (B) comprises at least one organic anion of the following formula (I): where R1?COO?, SO3?, R2/R3?NH2, OH, H. The present invention relates, furthermore, to coated metallic substrates coated by the method of the invention. The present invention relates not least to the use of the anticorrosion primer for use in the method of the invention for improving the corrosion resistance of metallic substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignees: BASF Coatings GmbH, UNIVERSITE BLAISE PASCAL—Clermont II
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Jan-Bernd Kues, Sebastian Sinnwell, Kristof Wapner, Fabrice Leroux, Thomas Stimpfling
  • Patent number: 9492843
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of increasing the stonechip resistance of OEM coat systems composed of an anticorrosion coat, a surfacer coat, and a concluding topcoat, in which 0.1% to 30% by weight, based on the nonvolatile fractions of the coating material, of electrically charged inorganic particles AT whose ratio D/d, the ratio of the average particle diameter (D) to the average particle thickness (d), is >50 and whose charge is at least partly compensated by singly charged organic counterions OG, are incorporated into the coating material that is used to produce at least one of said coats and that comprises at least one polymer P, and the coating material is applied and, lastly, is cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignees: BASF Coatings GmbH, UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Hans-Peter Steiner, Fabrice Leroux, Anne-Lise Troutier
  • Patent number: 9493706
    Abstract: Disclosed is an aqueous effect basecoat material comprising at least one liquid-crystalline aqueous preparation (WZ) in fractions of 1% to 99% by weight, based on the aqueous basecoat material, at least one film-forming polymer (FP), and at least one effect pigment (EP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignees: BASF Coatings GmbH, UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Hans-Peter Steiner, Fabrice Leroux, Anne-Lise Troutier-Thuilliez, Thomas Stimpfling
  • Publication number: 20150376420
    Abstract: Described is a method for producing an anticorrosion coating, wherein (1) an anticorrosion primer comprising: (A) at least one organic resin as binder, and (B) at least one synthetic layered double hydroxide comprising organic anions, is applied directly to a metallic substrate; and (2) a polymer film is formed from the anticorrosion primer applied in stage (1), wherein the at least one synthetic layered double hydroxide (B) comprises at least one organic anion of an alpha-amino acid. Also described are coated metallic substrates coated by the method of the invention. Further described is the use of the anticorrosion primer in the method of the invention for improving the corrosion resistance of metallic substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: BASF Coating GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Fabrice Leroux, Thomas Stimpfling, Patrick Keil, Hubert Theil
  • Publication number: 20140302334
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an anticorrosion coating, wherein (1) an anticorrosion primer comprising (A) at least one organic resin as binder and (B) at least one synthetic layered double hydroxide comprising organic anions is applied directly to a metallic substrate and (2) a polymer film is formed from the anticorrosion primer applied in stage (1), the method being characterized in that the at least one synthetic layered double hydroxide (B) comprises at least one organic anion of the following formula (I): where R1?COO?, SO3?, R2/R3?NH2, OH, H. The present invention relates, furthermore, to coated metallic substrates coated by the method of the invention. The present invention relates not least to the use of the anticorrosion primer for use in the method of the invention for improving the corrosion resistance of metallic substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Jan-Bernd Kues, Sebastian Sinnwell, Kristof Wapner, Fabrice Leroux, Thomas Stimpfling
  • Publication number: 20120269978
    Abstract: Disclosed are aqueous coating materials comprising at least one water-dispersible polymer (WP), having at least one functional group (a), preferably at least one crosslinking agent (V) having at least two functional groups (b), which react with the functional groups (a) of the water-dispersible polymer (WP) when the coating material cures, to form a covalent bond, and positively charged inorganic particles whose ratio D/d, the ratio of the average particle diameter (D) to the average particle thickness (d), is >50, the charge of the inorganic particles being at least partly compensated by singly charged organic anions (OA). The invention further relates to a process for producing stonechip-resistant OEM coat systems consisting of an anticorrosion coat applied directly to the substrate, a surfacer coat, and a concluding topcoat, preferably consisting of a basecoat and a concluding clearcoat, where at least one coat is formed from the above-identified aqueous coating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicants: UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL, BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Hans-Peter Steiner, Fabrice Leroux, Anne-Lise Troutier
  • Publication number: 20120264858
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous coating composition comprising at least one liquid-crystalline aqueous preparation (WZ) in fractions of 1% to 99% by weight, based on the aqueous basecoat material, at least one film-forming polymer (FP), and a crosslinking agent (V).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicants: UNIVERSITE BLAISE PASCAL, BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Hans-Peter Steiner, Fabrice Leroux, Anne-Lise Troutier-Thuilliez, Thomas Stimpfling
  • Publication number: 20120135246
    Abstract: Disclosed is an aqueous effect basecoat material comprising at least one liquid-crystalline aqueous preparation (WZ) in fractions of 1% to 99% by weight, based on the aqueous basecoat material, at least one film-forming polymer (FP), and at least one effect pigment (EP).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicants: UNIVERSITE BLAISE PASCAL, BASF COATINGS GMBH
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Hans-Peter Steiner, Fabrice Leroux, Anne-Lise Troutier-Thuilliez, Thomas Stimpfling
  • Publication number: 20110045178
    Abstract: A method of establishing defined morphologies of separated phases in thin coats, in which anisotropic particles (T) whose average particle diameter (D) is <1 ?m and whose D/d ratio of the average particle diameter (D) to the average particle thickness (d) is >50 are introduced into the coating material used to produce said coats and comprises at least one polymer (P1), at least one polymer (P2) which is incompatible with the polymer (P1) in the solid phase and/or a crosslinking agent (V) which is incompatible with the polymer (P1) in the solid phase, where the polymers (P1) and/or (P2) have at least one functional group (a) which reacts during curing of the coating material to form covalent bonds. The disclosed coating material is applied to an uncoated substrate and/or to a precoated substrate and then cured and can be used in producing antistonechip OEM coat systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicants: BASF COATINGS GMBH, UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Hans-Peter Steiner, Fabrice Leroux, Anne-Lise Troutier
  • Publication number: 20100323103
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of increasing the stonechip resistance of OEM coat systems composed of an anticorrosion coat, a surfacer coat, and a concluding topcoat, in which 0.1% to 30% by weight, based on the nonvolatile fractions of the coating material, of electrically charged inorganic particles AT whose ratio D/d, the ratio of the average particle diameter (D) to the average particle thickness (d), is >50 and whose charge is at least partly compensated by singly charged organic counterions OG, are incorporated into the coating material that is used to produce at least one of said coats and that comprises at least one polymer P, and the coating material is applied and, lastly, is cured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicants: BASF COATINGS GMBH, UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Hans-Peter Steiner, Fabrice Leroux, Anne-Lise Troutier
  • Publication number: 20100323114
    Abstract: Coating materials that comprise at least one polymer (P1), at least one polymer (P2) which is incompatible with polymer (P1) in the solid phase and/or a crosslinking agent (V) which is incompatible with the polymer (P1) in the solid phase, where the polymers (P1) and/or (P2) have at least one functional group (a) which reacts in the course of curing of the coating material to form covalent bonds, wherein the coating material comprises 0.1 to 30% by weight, based on the nonvolatile constituents of the coating material, of electrically charged inorganic particles (AT) whose average particle diameter (D) is <1 ?m and whose average D/d ratio of the average particle diameter (D) to the average particle thickness (d) is >50. Also disclosed is a method for producing antistonechip OEM coat systems using the disclosed coating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicants: BASF COATINGS GMBH, UNIVERSITE BLAISE PASCAL
    Inventors: Horst Hintze-Brüning, Hans-Peter Steiner, Fabrice Leroux, Anne-Lise Troutier
  • Patent number: 7622422
    Abstract: A method of preparing an ionic conducting gel in solid form, known as ionogel. The method includes a step of mixing an ionic liquid with at least one molecular precursor containing at least one hydrolyzable group, if necessary in the presence of an acid, such as a carboxylic acid. The mixture is subsequently left to stand for one or more days until a gel is formed by polycondensation of the molecular precursor(s). The gel contains the aforementioned ionic liquid and can be set, in particular in transparent monolithic solid form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite Montpellier II, Universite Blaise Pascal Clermont II
    Inventors: André Vioux, Jean Le Bideau, Marie-Alexandra Neouze, Fabrice Leroux