Patents by Inventor Frank Wurthner

Frank Wurthner 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: 20180175305
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (1) and an electronic device comprising the compounds as semiconducting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Frank WURTHNER, Frank Wurthner, Wan Yue, Thomas Gerner
  • 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
  • Patent number: 7605263
    Abstract: Naphthalene-1,4,5,8-tetracarboxylic bisimides of the general formula I where the variables are defined as follows: R1 and R2 independently of one another are hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or substituted or unsubstituted aryl; X and Y independently of one another are halogen, amino or a radical with the formula —NHR3, —OR3, where R3 has the formula —CH2R4, —CHR4R5, or —CR4R5R6, where R4, R5, and R6 independently of one another are hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, alkylthio, aryloxy or arylthio, and at least one of the two substituents X and Y is other than halogen, their preparation and use as fluorescent dyes, for coloring high molecular mass organic materials and inorganic materials, as laser dyes, and also for fluorescence marking and as fluorescent labels for biomolecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Gunter Schmid, Christoph Thalacker, Frank Wurthner
  • Publication number: 20090236591
    Abstract: The present invention relates to N,N?-bis(fluorophenylalkyl)-substituted perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboximides, their preparation and their use as charge transport materials, exciton transport materials or emitter materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicants: BASF SE, The Board of Trust. of the Lelnd Stanf. Jun. Univ.
    Inventors: Martin Konemann, Rudiger Schmidt, Frank Wurthner, Zhenan Bao, Joon Hak Oh
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20030153005
    Abstract: Naphthalene-1,4,5,8-tetracarboxylic bisimides of the general formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Gunter Schmid, Christoph Thalacker, Frank Wurthner
  • 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
  • Patent number: 6086637
    Abstract: Indoleninemethine dyes of the formula ##STR1## where the ring A is substituted or unsubstituted, R.sup.1 is hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.13 -alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 -alkenyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 -cycloalkyl or substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, andR.sup.2 is substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.13 -alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 -alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted phenyl or substituted or unsubstituted amino,are useful for dyeing or printing synthetic materials and can be thermally transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Clemens Grund, Helmut Reichelt, Andreas Johann Schmidt, Frank Wurthner, Rudiger Sens, Stefan Beckmann