Patents by Inventor Günter Scholz
Günter Scholz 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: 20230145157Abstract: An artificial turf contains a damping layer made of a particle foam, a fiber backing, and an artificial grass layer made of single or multiple fibers. The fibers are tied to the fiber backing, forming an artificial carpet of grass. The particle foam and the single or multiple fibers forming the artificial grass layer are each made of a thermoplastic elastomer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicants: BASF SE, Dr. Karl Wetekam & Co. KG Kunststoff-Faeden, Baender, Innovationsmanufaktur GmbH, TROFIL Sportbodensysteme GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Guenter SCHOLZ, Martin Vallo, Kai Bruening, Frank Thielbeer, Eckehard Fozzy Moritz, Eike Wedell, Karl Wetekam
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Publication number: 20220258158Abstract: A peristaltic pump and an analyzer for testing a biological sample, wherein the pump includes a pump head that is constructed as a screwless assembly, wherein the pump includes a bayonet and/or a beam coupling, and/or wherein rollers of the pump are configured to be pivoted about corresponding pivot axes that intersect with the roller axes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM VETMEDICA GMBHInventors: Axel NIEMEYER, Hannah SCHMOLKE, Guenter BRUCKMANN, Harald PAULS, Ursula AMBERG, Guenter SCHOLZ, Rene WIRT
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Patent number: 11338288Abstract: A peristaltic pump and an analyzer for testing a biological sample, wherein the pump includes a pump head that is constructed as a screwless assembly, wherein the pump includes a bayonet and/or a beam coupling, and/or wherein rollers of the pump are configured to be pivoted about corresponding pivot axes that intersect with the roller axes.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM VETMEDICA GMBHInventors: Axel Niemeyer, Hannah Schmolke, Guenter Bruckmann, Harald Pauls, Ursula Amberg, Guenter Scholz, Rene Wirt
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Publication number: 20200407526Abstract: A thermoplastic polyurethane foamed article has a density ranging from 0.3 to 0.8 g/cm3 measured at 25° C. and is self sealable in accordance with Section 7.9 of ASTM D1970/D1970M-11. The thermoplastic polyurethane foamed article is formed by melting and foaming a thermoplastic polyurethane composition having a durometer hardness ranging from 30A to 75D in the presence of a blowing agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Mark KUJAWSKI, Daniel A. ADAMS, Samer KAFFARANI, Mihai MANITIU, Brad MARTIN, Guenter SCHOLZ, Hung Manh PHAM
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Patent number: 10744502Abstract: An analysis device and a method for testing a biological sample uses a cartridge that is received in the analysis device and valves of the cartridge being opened automatically.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM VETMEDICA GMBHInventors: Guenter Bruckmann, Axel Niemeyer, Hannah Schmolke, Guenter Scholz, Rene Wirt
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Publication number: 20200101457Abstract: A peristaltic pump and an analyzer for testing a biological sample, wherein the pump includes a pump head that is constructed as a screwless assembly, wherein the pump includes a bayonet and/or a beam coupling, and/or wherein rollers of the pump are configured to be pivoted about corresponding pivot axes that intersect with the roller axes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM VETMEDICA GMBHInventors: Axel NIEMEYER, Hannah SCHMOLKE, Guenter BRUCKMANN, Harald PAULS, Ursula AMBERG, Guenter SCHOLZ, Rene WIRT
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Publication number: 20200016590Abstract: An analysis device, a cartridge and a method for analysing a sample are provided, including a rotatable pump head having contact elements that are resiliently biased in the axial direction acting on an elastically deformable pump chamber in order to pump or convey a fluid, such as the sample, a reagent or a gas, when the pump head rotates, in particular in a defined and/or efficient manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2017Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM VETMEDICA GMBHInventors: Guenter BRUCKMANN, Erol MEYDA, Jakob MUSTAFA, Axel NIEMEYER, Harald PAULS, Hannah SCHMOLKE, Guenter SCHOLZ
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Publication number: 20180099279Abstract: An analysis device and a method for testing a biological sample are proposed, a cartridge being received in the analysis device and valves of the cartridge being opened automatically.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica GmbHInventors: Guenter Bruckmann, Axel Niemeyer, Hannah Schmolke, Guenter Scholz, Rene Wirt
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Patent number: 9879125Abstract: A thermoplastic polyurethane foamed article has a plurality of bubbles distributed throughout the thermoplastic polyurethane foamed article and comprises a thermoplastic polyurethane composition and an epoxy-functional styrene acrylic copolymer which are foamed in the presence of a blowing agent. The epoxy-functional styrene acrylic copolymer is present in an amount ranging from 0.1 to 5% of the total combined weight of the thermoplastic polyurethane composition and the epoxy-functional styrene acrylic copolymer. The thermoplastic polyurethane foamed article has an average diameter of the plurality of bubbles ranging from 50 to 120 ?m with at least 75% of the plurality of bubbles having a diameter of less than 200 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Mihai Manitiu, Guenter Scholz, Brad Martin, Guido Bilges, DianJun Chen
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Patent number: 9670428Abstract: The invention relates to a method for starting up a gasifying reactor comprising a plurality of burners. Each burner is thereby charged with combustible dust from a metering vessel (1) via a dense flow conveyor line (51, 52, 53, 54), which is assigned thereto, and with fuel gas via a gas conveyor line (62, 63), wherein a fuel mixture of combustible dust and combustible gas is provided prior to a moment of ignition of a burner, wherein a first composition of combustible dust and combustible gas, with which a first burner is charged for ignition, is regulated as a function of the fuel quantity, which was supplied to the second burner for ignition, after the ignition of a second burner, which is charged with a second composition of combustible dust and combustible gas for ignition, following the ignition of the first burner, so that the starting up of each of the plurality of burners of the gasifying reactor takes place under a regulated supply of the fuel load.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Olaf Schulze, Anton Althapp, Michael Gätke, Burkhard Möller, Reinhold Grunwald, Wolfgang Rabe, Günter Scholz
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Patent number: 9481641Abstract: A process for purifying a polycarbodiimide comprising (a) providing a mixture comprising a polycarbodiimide and a carbodiimidization catalyst; (b) separating carbodiimidization catalyst from the polycarbodiimide by subjecting the mixture according to (a) to a first distillation, (c) adding an entrainer to the first bottom product obtained from (b) to obtain a mixture; (d) further separating carbodiimidization catalyst from the polycarbodiimide by subjecting the mixture obtained from (c) to a second distillation.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Karl Haeberle, Maria Teresa Hechavarria Fonseca, Lars Rehling, Frank Schaefer, Fatemeh Ahmadnian, Heinrich Bollmann, Markus Bubolz, Carsten Buschmann, Guenter Scholz, Maria Thomas
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Publication number: 20160289409Abstract: A thermoplastic polyurethane foamed article has a density ranging from 0.3 to 0.8 g/cm3 measured at 25° C. and is self sealable in accordance with Section 7.9 of ASTM D1970/D1970M-11. The thermoplastic polyurethane foamed article is formed by melting and foaming a thermoplastic polyurethane composition having a durometer hardness ranging from 30A to 75D in the presence of a blowing agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Mark KUJAWSKI, Daniel A. ADAMS, Samer KAFFARANI, Mihai MANITIU, Brad MARTIN, Guenter SCHOLZ, Hung Manh PHAM
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Publication number: 20160280875Abstract: A thermoplastic polyurethane foamed article has a plurality of bubbles distributed throughout the thermoplastic polyurethane foamed article and comprises a thermoplastic polyurethane composition and an epoxy-functional styrene acrylic copolymer which are foamed in the presence of a blowing agent. The epoxy-functional styrene acrylic copolymer is present in an amount ranging from 0.1 to 5% of the total combined weight of the thermoplastic polyurethane composition and the epoxy-functional styrene acrylic copolymer. The thermoplastic polyurethane foamed article has an average diameter of the plurality of bubbles ranging from 50 to 120 ?m with at least 75% of the plurality of bubbles having a diameter of less than 200 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Mihai Manitiu, Guenter Scholz, Brad Martin, Guido Bilges, DianJun Chen
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Patent number: 9290395Abstract: A method for stabilising or raising the pH of bodies of water and/or neutralising bodies of water is illustrated and described. According to the invention a feed material containing an unburnt lime product, the unburnt lime product having a granularity with a fraction <about 10 ?m of ?50%, is used to stabilise or raise the pH and/or neutralise bodies of water. With the aid of the proposed method the pH of bodies of water can be stabilised, raised and/or bodies of water can be neutralised effectively and in an ecologically harmless manner, and at low cost.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Rheinkalk GmbHInventors: Wolfgang König, Wolfgang Rabe, Günter Scholz
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Publication number: 20160060146Abstract: The invention relates to a self-propelled water vehicle for introducing alkaline materials into bodies of water. The invention is characterized in that the water vehicle has at least one supply container for alkaline materials, at least one intake device for water from the body of water, at least one metering device for producing a suspension, and at least one delivery pump and at least one distributor nozzle, connected to the least one delivery pump, for spraying the suspension onto the water surface, the water vehicle being dimensioned with regard to dimensions and empty weight such that it can be transported overland to the respective usage location thereof using a transport vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Günter Scholz, Wolfgang Rabe, Christopher Pust, Heiko Saure
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Publication number: 20150266275Abstract: The invention relates to an interception device for moving articles or persons based on thermoplastic polyurethane which is obtained via the reaction in each case of at least one of the following starting materials: (a) diisocyanate, (b) compound which is reactive toward isocyanate and which has a number-average molar mass (Mw) of from 0.500×103 g/mol to 10×103 g/mol, (c) chain extender which has a molar mass of from 50 g/mol to 499 g/mol, and also optionally (d) with use of catalyst, of conventional auxiliaries and/or (f) of additives, where the interception device comprises a foil or a network made of the thermoplastic polyurethane and retention devices between which the foil or the network has been stretched flat, and the thermoplastic polyurethane is transparent. The invention further relates to the use of thermoplastic urethane for producing interception devices, and to a production process for an interception device made of thermoplastic polyurethane.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2013Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Dietrich Scherzer, Guenter Scholz, Eckehard Moritz
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Publication number: 20150225336Abstract: A process for purifying a polycarbodiimide comprising (a) providing a mixture comprising a polycarbodiimide and a carbodiimidization catalyst; (b) separating carbodiimidization catalyst from the polycarbodiimide by subjecting the mixture according to (a) to a first distillation, (c) adding an entrainer to the first bottom product obtained from (b) to obtain a mixture; (d) further separating carbodiimidization catalyst from the polycarbodiimide by subjecting the mixture obtained from (c) to a second distillation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2013Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Karl Haeberle, Maria Teresa Hechavarria Fonseca, Lars Rehling, Frank Schaefer, Fatemeh Ahmadnian, Heinrich Bollmann, Markus Bubolz, Carsten Buschmann, Guenter Scholz, Maria Thomas
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Publication number: 20150183283Abstract: Valve for an inflatable flexible tube section comprising a tubular shaft, and also a valve base, connected adhesively and around the entire periphery to an end of the shaft, wherein the valve base has been manufactured from a thermoplastic polyurethane.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Sascha Mattfeld, Guenter Scholz, Guido Bilges, Hendrik Kohake
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Publication number: 20150133610Abstract: The invention refers to a thermoplastic polyurethane produced from at least an organic diisocyanate and a compound which is reactive toward isocyanates, wherein the polyurethane comprises the ester of a tricarboxylic acid with at least one alcohol and wherein all acid groups of the tricarboxylic acid are esterified with an alcohol. The invention further refers to a process for producing the respective polyurethane, products comprising this thermoplastic polyurethane and the use of the ester of a tricarboxylic acid as plasticizer in thermoplastic polyurethanes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2015Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Bin-Eric CHEN, Frank Schaefer, Dirk Kempfert, Christoph Bahr, Guenter Scholz, Teruya Ohkuwa, Martin Vallo, Carsten Guenther, Harald Schulz, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Tien Kuan Lim
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Patent number: 8993690Abstract: The invention refers to a thermoplastic polyurethane produced from at least an organic diisocyanate and a compound which is reactive toward isocyanates, wherein the polyurethane comprises the ester of a tricarboxylic acid with at least one alcohol and wherein all acid groups of the tricarboxylic acid are esterified with an alcohol. The invention further refers to a process for producing the respective polyurethane, products comprising this thermoplastic polyurethane and the use of the ester of a tricarboxylic acid as plasticizer in thermoplastic polyurethanes.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Bin-Eric Chen, Frank Schaefer, Dirk Kempfert, Christoph Bahr, Guenter Scholz, Teruya Ohkuwa, Martin Vallo, Carsten Guenther, Harald Schulz, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Tien Kuan Lim