Patents by Inventor Frank OLIVER
Frank OLIVER 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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Publication number: 20120172498Abstract: Described is a pigment dispersion which is useful for electrophoretic displays comprising ?) a bis-oxodihydro-indolylene-benzodifuranone colorant of the Formula (I) wherein the substituents are defined as in claim 1, ? a specific polymeric dispersant, and ?) a solvent which is suitable for dispersions used in electrophoretic displays. Also described are novel colourants and dispersants.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Margherita Fontana, Marian Lanz, Frank Oliver Heinrich Pirrung, Andreas Gernandt, Dario Perera, Thomas Ruch, Christoph Krebs, Thomas Eichenberger, Bernd Lamatsch, Achim Lamatsch (Heir)
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Publication number: 20120129995Abstract: The present invention pertains to a concentrated aqueous polymer dispersion with an average particle size of less than 1000 nm comprising a polymer carrier, a non-polar organic phenolic antioxidant and a surfactant. The present invention also pertains to a process for the preparation of said concentrated aqueous polymer dispersion, to a polymer powder obtainable from said concentrated aqueous polymer dispersion, to a composition comprising an organic material and said concentrated aqueous polymer dispersion or said polymer powder and to the use of said concentrated aqueous polymer dispersion or said polymer powder as stabiliser for organic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Frank Oliver Heinrich Pirrung, Clemens Auschra, Christof Hasler
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Publication number: 20120102171Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes displaying virtualization level options for a business network to a user, the virtualization level options including at least: a first virtualization level option that includes externalizing interaction logic in the business network, a second virtualization level option that includes virtualizing content in the business network, and a third virtualization level option that includes virtualizing components in the business network. The method includes receiving a selection by the user of at least one of the virtualization level options. The method includes initiating a virtualization process in the business network according to the selected virtualization level option.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: SAP AGInventors: Ankur Bhatt, Christoph Liebig, Frank Oliver Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20120089685Abstract: A computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer readable storage device includes a business network meta model comprising entity objects configured to generate interactive representations of a business network, including at least a business application representation and an information technology representation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2010Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: SAP AGInventors: Frank Oliver Hoffmann, Joerg Ackermann, Christoph Liebig, Till Westmann, Ankur Bhatt, Christian Illenberger, Gunther Rothermel, Daniel Ritter
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Publication number: 20120089534Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: receiving metadata about a business network, the metadata gathered by computer-based entities performing automated discovery of the business network; generating a business network model based on the metadata, the business network model comprising objects and associations between them, the objects representing aspects of the business network found by the automated discovery, including at least: participants, systems, relationships, applications, interfaces, middleware, process steps, and documents; and modifying the business network model based on at least one input.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2010Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: SAP AGInventors: Christoph Liebig, Ankur Bhatt, Gunther Rothermel, Joerg Ackermann, Daniel Ritter, Frank Beunings, Frank Oliver Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20120035292Abstract: The present invention relates to a homogenous liquid blend comprising a photoinitiator and an alkoxylate surfactant for incorporation into aqueous based and solvent based radiation curable systems. In particular the invention relates to a homogenous liquid blend which is liquid at room temperature comprising at least 30% by weight with regard to the whole blend of a solid photoinitiator of the radical type and 1-70% by weight of at least one alkoxylated liquid surface active agent and optionally an organic diluent.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2010Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Steffen Onclin, Svetozar Lucic, Karin Powell, Wolfgang Peter, Frank Oliver Heinrich Pirrung, Clemens Auschra
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Publication number: 20110174182Abstract: An activation unit (1, 10) for munitions-free decoys, active masses or active bodies (3) is characterized by an ejector tube (2) and a high-powered heater element (4) arranged around the ejector tube (2, 12), wherein the heater element is made up of at least one heating wire (6), provided with electrical current by a regulator unit. Each heating wire (6) is enclosed in a sleeve (7) and embedded in at least one heat-loss minimizing material. The active body (3) passing through the activation unit (1,10) directly or indirectly contacts with the individual elements (4) of the activation unit (1, 10). Thermal energy is transmitted to the active body (3) from the heating wires (6), which ignites at the touching or contact point.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBHInventors: Sven GUTH, Heribert EGLAUER, Frank OLIVER, Florian HUBER, Nenad PRELIC
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Publication number: 20110166284Abstract: The invention relates to a silicone free defoamer for solvent based coatings, especially clear wood coatings preferably based on a graft copolymer of poly alkyl vinyl ether.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2009Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Weiqiu Hu, Frank Oliver Heinrich Pirrung, Petrus Johannes Harbers, Chuanjin Zhu, Min Zhu
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Publication number: 20110062027Abstract: A process for the anticorrosive treatment of metal components that have been heat-treated at a temperature of at least 100° C. and at least partially comprise zinc surfaces, wherein the surfaces of the component that consist of zinc already partially have a crystalline zinc phosphate layer, wherein the cleaned component is given an activating pretreatment with an acidic aqueous dispersion of insoluble phosphates having a pH of not less than 4 and the component is subsequently subjected to a phosphating conversion treatment before electrocoating is applied. The invention also comprises the use of metal components that have been treated in such a process, for the application of multilayer systems and in particular for the manufacture of bodies in automobile production.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Jan-Willem Brouwer, Matthias Hamacher, Frank-Oliver Pilarek, Marc Balzer, Jens Kroemer, Roland Popp
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Patent number: 7902297Abstract: The invention relates to a slip- and leveling agent characterized in that it comprises a copolymer which is obtained by copolymerizing A. at least one unit of a mono- or di perfluoroester of an unsaturated dicarboxylic-acid; B. at least one terminal reactive polysiloxane unit; C. at least one alkyl(meth)acrylate unit or cycloalkyl(meth)acrylate unit and/or (meth)acrylic acid and/or other units originating from vinylic compounds that can form radicals.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2006Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Lothar Alexander Engelbrecht, Frank Oliver Heinrich Pirrung, Petrus Johannes Harbers, Arend Noordam, Martin Philipoom
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Patent number: 7895349Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products implementing a messaging protocol. The messaging protocol may be a messaging protocol for transporting a message across a messaging landscape in a collaborative network. Techniques include sending a message that is defined to include a structured message header with information related to at least one component from a set of components defined by a protocol, including protocol version information in a message such that a component of a messaging landscape can interpret the message based on the version information, defining a message as one of a class of messages, end-to-end acknowledgement for messages, and security for headers and payloads of messages.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: SAP AktiengesellschaftInventors: Frank Oliver Hoffmann, Juergen Frank, Steven T. Winkler, Christoph Hofmann
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Publication number: 20100234484Abstract: The invention relates to a concentrated aqueous polymer dispersion with an average particle size of less than 1000 nm comprising a) a polymer carrier prepared by heterophase radical polymerization of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer in the presence of b) a photoinitiator and/or photolatent catalyst and c) optionally a non-ionic, cationic or anionic surfactant, wherein the weight ratio of the photoinitiator and/or photolatent catalyst to the polymer carrier is greater than 20 parts of photoinitiator and/or photolatent catalyst per 100 parts of polymer carrier, preferably equal or greater than 35 parts of photoinitiator and/or photolatent catalyst per 100 parts of polymer carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2007Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventors: Carsten Schellenberg, Clemens Auschra, Wolfgang Peter, Frank Oliver Heinrich Pirrung, Junichi Tanabe
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Publication number: 20100184886Abstract: The invention relates to a polysaccharide-g-polyether dispersant represented as a compound of Formula 1 or a mixture of compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II) wherein, T is the backbone polymer and is a residue of a modified cellulose or chitosan, with a molecular weight of 500-1000,000 g/mol; A and B are each, independently, —O— or —NH—; R is linear or branched —(C1-C50alkylene)-, arylene, cyclo-C5-C8-alkylene, isophoronediyl, or linear or branched —(C2-C10alkylene)- which is interrupted by phenylene or cyclohexanediyl; P is the residue of a polyether and/or polyester chain with molecular weight between 100 and 10,000 g/mol, n is a number of 1-5000.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Huiguang Kou, Frank Oliver Heinrich Pirrung, Haiyang Yu, Yinzhi Ma, Petrus Johannes Harbers
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Publication number: 20100174046Abstract: This invention refers to a novel process for the synthesis of polyethylene imine (PEI)-based pigment dispersants characterized by a “grafting from” approach, allowing the manufacture of solvent based dispersant systems. The polyethylene imine (PEI)-based pigment dispersant can be presented by the formula (I) X-(T)m-P-(T)n-H wherein P is a polyethyleneimine (PEI) back-bone; T is a residue —CO-A-O— wherein A is C2-C12 alkylene optionally substituted with C1-C6 alkyl with the proviso that each linkage between P and T is an amide bond and each linkage between X and T is an ester bond, X is a modifier or terminator residue R—CO— wherein R is a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated alkanecarboxylic acids having from 1 to 22 carbon atoms or an unsaturated fatty acid residue or a hydroxycarboxylic residue or a polyester residue obtained from polycondensation of hydroxycarboxylic acids, or an acid terminated polyether, n, m independently are a number from 1 to 100.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2007Publication date: July 8, 2010Inventors: Yanfei Liu, Frank Oliver Heinrich Pirrung, Haiyang Yu, Huiguang Kou
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Publication number: 20100138508Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products implementing a messaging protocol. The messaging protocol may be a messaging protocol for transporting a message across a messaging landscape in a collaborative network. Techniques include sending a message that is defined to include a structured message header with information related to at least one component from a set of components defined by a protocol, including protocol version information in a message such that a component of a messaging landscape can interpret the message based on the version information, defining a message as one of a class of messages, end-to-end acknowledgement for messages, and security for headers and payloads of messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2009Publication date: June 3, 2010Inventors: Frank Oliver Hoffmann, Juergen Frank, Steven T. Winkler, Christoph Hofmann
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Patent number: 7686877Abstract: The invention relates to pigmented tinting concentrates comprising a) stabilized pigments; b) humectant compounds obtainable by effecting a Diels Alder reaction at a temperature of 150-260° C. between a polyunsaturated compound and a co-reactant having the formula R1XOC—CH?CH—COXR2 or CH2?CH—COXR3 or CH2?CH(CH3)—COXR3 wherein X is oxygen or —NH— and wherein at least one of R1 and R2 is a polyether moiety and any other of R1 and R2 is a polyether moiety or hydrogen and R3 is a polyether moiety.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2006Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Ciba CorporationInventors: Lothar Alexander Engelbrecht, Roedolph Van Bohemen, Frank Oliver Heinrich Pirrung
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Patent number: 7680945Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products implementing a messaging protocol. The messaging protocol may be a messaging protocol for transporting a message across a messaging landscape in a collaborative network. Techniques include sending a message that is defined to include a structured message header with information related to at least one component from a set of components defined by a protocol, including protocol version information in a message such that a component of a messaging landscape can interpret the message based on the version information, defining a message as one of a class of messages, end-to-end acknowledgement for messages, and security for headers and payloads of messages.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2004Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Frank Oliver Hoffmann, Juergen Frank, Steven T. Winkler, Christoph Hofmann
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Publication number: 20090255608Abstract: The present invention relates to an aqueous composition and to a method for the anticorrosion conversion treatment of metallic surfaces, particularly metallic materials which are assembled into composite structures, comprising steel or galvanized or alloy-galvanized steel and any combinations of these materials, the composite structure being composed at least in part of aluminum or the alloys thereof. The aqueous composition according to the invention is based on a phosphating solution and contains, in addition to water-soluble compounds of zirconium and titanium, a quantity of free fluoride in a ratio that both permits phosphating of the steel and galvanized and/or alloy-galvanized steel surfaces and determines low pickling rates with regard to the aluminum substrate with simultaneous passivation of the aluminum.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Jan-Willem Brouwer, Jens Kromer, Matthias Hamacher, Stephan Winkels, Frank-Oliver Pilarek, Marc Balzer
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Patent number: 7595416Abstract: The invention relates to a phosphoric acid ester and salts thereof of the general formula (I), wherein A is a monohydroxyl residue derived from C1-C20-alkyl-(AO)x-OH or Acyl-(AO)x-OH; or C1-C20-alkyl-(AO)x-(HA)y-OH or Acyl-(AO)x-(HA)y-OH; or C1-C20-alkyl-(AO)x-(AA-AO)y-OH or Acyl-(AO)x-(AA-AO)y-OH; or MO-(HA)y-OH or MO-(AA-AO)y-OH; wherein Acyl is an aromatic carboxylic acid residue or a saturated or unsaturated fatty acid residue; AO is a polyC2-C4alkyleneglycol residue, HA is a hydroxycarboxylic acid or a lactone thereof, AA is a dicarboxylic acid, MO is a monoalcohol, x is 1 to 250, y is 1 to 250, B is a mono-, di-, or tri- or polyhydroxy di-, tri or multi-carboxylic acid residue which is linked via the hydroxy group to the phosphoric acid and via one of the carboxylic acid groups to the monohydroxyl residue [A], the remaining carboxyl acid group(s) is/are free or is/are esterified with a further monohydroxyl residue [A], resulting in branched esters; n is 1-2; m is 1-4.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2005Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals CorporationInventors: Frank Oliver Heinrich Pirrung, Arend Noordam, Petrus Johannes Harbers, Elizabeth Maaike Loen, Arona Eliane Munneke
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Publication number: 20090186979Abstract: The invention relates to a slip- and leveling agent characterized in that it comprises a copolymer which is obtained by copolymerizing A. at least one unit of a mono- or di perfluoroester of an unsaturated dicarboxylic-acid; B. at least one terminal reactive polysiloxane unit; C. at least one alkyl(meth)acrylate unit or cycloalkyl(meth)acrylate unit and/or (meth)acrylic acid and/or other units originating from vinylic compounds that can form radicals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2006Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventors: Lothar Alexander Engelbrecht, Frank Oliver Heinrich Pirrung, Petrus Johannes Harbers, Arend Noordam, Martin Philipoom