Patents by Inventor Frank Würthner

Frank Würthner 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: 20260034893
    Abstract: A linear transport system includes a movable unit, a guide rail for guiding the movable unit, and a linear motor for driving the movable unit along the guide rail. The linear transport system also includes at least one switch having at least one static retraction element with a retraction motor module and a retraction rail element, and at least two static extension elements, each with an extension motor module and an extension rail element. The switch includes an exchange device having at least two exchange elements, each with an exchange motor module and an exchange rail element. In a first position of the exchange device, the retraction element is connected to a first extension element via a first exchange element. In a second position, the retraction element is connected to a second extension element via a second exchange element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2025
    Publication date: February 5, 2026
    Inventors: Uwe Prüssmeier, Armin Pehlivan, Frank Würthner, Thomas Morscher-Unger, Ray Böhnke, Peter Kastler
  • Patent number: 9583719
    Abstract: The present invention relates to carbazolocarbazol-bis(dicarboximides), a method for their preparation and their use as semiconductors, in particular as semiconductors in organic electronics and organic photovoltaics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sabin-Lucian Suraru, Frank Würthner, Thomas Geβner
  • Patent number: 9444058
    Abstract: The present invention provides the compounds of formulae and electronic devices comprising these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Geβner, Sabin-Lucian Suraru, Frank Würthner
  • Publication number: 20160104846
    Abstract: The present invention provides the compounds of formulae and electronic devices comprising these compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas GEßNER, Sabin-Lucian SURARU, Frank WÜRTHNER
  • Patent number: 8946376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 1,4-diketopyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole (DPP) derivatives of the below formula to their manufacture; to their use as organic semiconductors, e.g. in semiconductor devices, especially a sensor, a diode, a photodiode, an organic field effect transistor, a transistor for flexible displays, and/or a solar cell (photovoltaic cell); to such semiconductor devices comprising diketopyrrolopyrrol derivatives of the formula I as a semiconducting effective means, and to devices containing said semiconductor devices. The compounds of the formula I have excellent solubility in organic solvents. High efficiency of energy conversion, excellent field-effect mobility, good on/off current ratios and/or excellent stability can be observed, when said compounds are used in semiconductor devices or organic photovoltaic (PV) devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank Würthner, Sabin-Lucian Suraru, Pascal Hayoz
  • Publication number: 20120074393
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 1,4-diketopyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole (DPP) derivatives of the below formula to their manufacture; to their use as organic semiconductors, e.g. in semiconductor devices, especially a sensor, a diode, a photodiode, an organic field effect transistor, a transistor for flexible displays, and/or a solar cell (photovoltaic cell); to such semiconductor devices comprising diketopyrrolopyrrol derivatives of the formula I as a semiconducting effective means, and to devices containing said semiconductor devices. The compounds of the formula I have excellent solubility in organic solvents. High efficiency of energy conversion, excellent field-effect mobility, good on/off current ratios and/or excellent stability can be observed, when said compounds are used in semiconductor devices or organic photovoltaic (PV) devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank WÜRTHNER, Sabin-Lucian SURARU, Pascal Hayoz
  • Publication number: 20090166614
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fluorinated rylenetetracarboxylic acid derivatives, to a process for their preparation and to their use, especially as n-type semiconductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Könemann, Peter Osswald, Rüdiger Schmidt, Frank Würthner
  • Patent number: 6806368
    Abstract: Perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboxylic diimides of the general formula I where R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently hydrogen, chlorine, bromine or substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy, arylthio, arylamino, hetaryloxy or hetarylthio; R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 are independently hydrogen or long-chain alkyl, alkoxy or alkylthio whose carbon chain may in each case contain up to four double bonds, with the proviso that at least four of these radicals are not hydrogen are prepared and used as liquid-crystalline materials for electronic, optoelectronic and photonic applications, for coloration of macromolecular organic and of inorganic materials, as fluorescent dyes and as laser dyes and also as organic materials for solar collectors and electroluminescence applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Würthner, Christoph Thalacker
  • Patent number: 6221114
    Abstract: Dye salts which are free from fiber-reactive radicals and have the formula where Chr is an (m+n)-valent radical of a chromophore from the series of the metal-free or metal-containing phthalocyanines, of the quinacridones, of the mono-, dis- or polyazo dyes, of the anthraquinones or copper formazans, Ar is phenyl or naphthyl each of which is unsubstituted or substituted, x⊕ is a metal cation or ammonium ion, y⊕ is a proton, metal cation or ammonium ion, m is 1 to 6 and n is 1 to 6, the sum of m and n being not more than 7, are used in methods of dyeing or printing polymeric material and in dye preparations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Würthner, Rüdiger Sens, Günther Seybold, Karl-Heinz Etzbach