Patents by Inventor Hans Langen

Hans Langen 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: 4749643
    Abstract: Compounds with the structural unit ##STR1## are very valuable UV absorbents, especially in photographic recording materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Ohlschlager, Hans Langen, Johannes Sobel
  • Patent number: 4738919
    Abstract: A photographic recording material containing at least one pyrazolone in at least one non-photosensitive layer I, a compound Sc, which reacts with the oxidation product of a p-phenylene diamine developer to form substantially colorless products and which is contained in a non-photosensitive layer which is not separated from the layer I by a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, shows improved protection against formaldehyde.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1988
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerd Krauss, Gunter Renner, Erich Wolff, Hans Langen, Werner Krafft
  • Patent number: 4710454
    Abstract: Photographic recording materials with improved processing stability are obtained by incorporating at least one phosphonic acid and at least one polyacrylic derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Inventors: Hans Langen, Heinz-Dieter Schutz, Ubbo Wernicke, Wolfgang Himmelmann, Gunter Renner
  • Patent number: 4617255
    Abstract: Cyan couplers of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R=a ballast groupX=H or a leaving group which may be separated during color couplingY=halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, aryl or alkylthion=0 to 2 (if n=2, the radicals Y may be the same or different)have good dark fading stability of the coupled dye, moreover low secondary color densities and a sufficiently long-wave absorption maximum which is density-independent, furthermore they have high coupling activity and good solubility in high-boiling solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1986
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erich Wolff, Hans Langen, Rudolf Braden
  • Patent number: 4576907
    Abstract: Compounds corresponding to the following formula(MS--Het--(Ar).sub.m --NR.sup.1 --CO) .sub.n R.sup.2which are contained in a color-photographic recording material in a silver-free layer between a layer containing colloidal silver and a silver halide emulsion layer, improve the storage stability of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Kampfer, Hans Langen, Erwin Ranz
  • Patent number: 4459130
    Abstract: A dye preparation consists of a water-soluble acid dye and a water-insoluble basic carrier. The carrier consists of crosslinked polymer particles of average particle diameter of less than 1 .mu.m and contains at least 2 mVal/g of quaternary ammonium or phosphonium groups. The dye reacts with the carrier in an ion exchange reaction and forms a dye polymer latex which can easily isolated in solid form, stored indefinitely and redispersed in water whenever required. It forms a so-called self-dispersing dye preparation. The dye preparation is useful for making dyed layers such as in photographic recording materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1984
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunter Helling, Hans hlschlager, Hans Langen
  • Patent number: 4430030
    Abstract: An operating process for the formation of a steady particle stream of particles which are conveyed within a flow conduit through the intermediary of a flow medium, and which are introduced into the medium flow under the effect of gravity through an infeed conduit discharging into the flow conduit. The invention also includes an arrangement for the effectuation of the process. A partial flow of the flow medium from the flow conduit is introduced into the infeed conduit in a direction counter to the flow direction of the particles, and is regulated in the manner so as to set the desired particle flow. The volumetric flow of the flow medium which streams counter to the particles in the infeed conduit can, in an advantageous manner, be regulated externally of the infeed conduit whereby no regulating devices will be located in the flow path of the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Assignee: Kernforschungsanlage Julich GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Langen, Helmut Ringel
  • Patent number: 4418142
    Abstract: The light-sensitive color photographic silver halide recording material contains in at least one of its light-sensitive gelatine-containing layer, color formers for the formation of the image dyes in the three primary colors, a crosslinking agent activating the carboxyl groups of gelatine selected from carbamoylonium salts, carbamoylpyridinium salts and carbamoyloxypyridinium salts and a compound acting as aldehyde-scavenger which corresponds to the general formula ##STR1## wherein Z represents the atoms required for completing a 5-6-membered substituted or unsubstituted carbocyclic ring or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic ring which may contain oxygen, nitrogen or sulfur as hetero-atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1983
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Langen, Erich Wolff, Erwin Ranz
  • Patent number: 4414309
    Abstract: Compounds corresponding to the following general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents hydrogen, an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group or one of the following groups: --CO--alkyl, --CO--aryl, --CO--heterocyclic group, --SO.sub.2 --alkyl, --SO.sub.2 --aryl, --CO--O--alkyl, --CO--NH--NH.sub.2, ##STR2## and R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, alkoxy, aroxy, carboxyl, carbamoyl, alkoxycarbonyl, an alkyl or aryl group attached through a carbonyl group, cyanogen, an amino group optionally substituted by alkyl, aralkyl, aryl or acyl, or a cyclic amino groupmay be used as additives in the layers of color photographic recording materials to improve the stability of color couplers, in particular magenta couplers, against formaldehyde.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1983
    Assignee: Agfa-Gavaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Langen, Lothar Rosenhahn, Erich Wolff
  • Patent number: 4368259
    Abstract: Hydrophilic color-forming compounds such as couplers and color-providing compounds for the dye diffusion transfer process may be emulsified with the aid of oil formers when they are in admixture with aliphatic tertiary hydroxy amino compounds as specified hereinafter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1983
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fritz Nittel, Hans Langen, Erwin Ranz
  • Patent number: 4366221
    Abstract: New merocyanines which have at least one water-solubilizing group are useful in photographic materials in antihalation and filter layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1982
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Ohlschlager, Hans Langen
  • Patent number: 4236299
    Abstract: A device for producing finned heat transfer tubing of oval cross section by winding one or more continuous metal strips around the tubing in the form of spiral fins, the contact edge of the metal strip being shaped prior to winding to present a hook-shaped ledge with an acute enclosed angle, and the neutral axis for on-edge bending being shifted to the vicinity of the contact edge by applying to the strip a tensile stress and to its upper half additional transverse compression stress, using a stretch roller and a cooperating winding guide. A lathe-like machine semi-automatically winds two metal strips onto successive lengths of oval tubing, using a carriage with two pivotable winding arms and two strip reels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Assignee: Balke-Durr Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alfred Joekel, Hans Langen, Peter Denner
  • Patent number: 4224258
    Abstract: A vibrating nozzle produces a stream of drops of a nitrate solution that attain spherical drop shape before entering an ammonia gas phase where gas supply nozzles direct streams of ammonia gas obliquely against the drop stream with a component of motion in the direction of movement of the droplet stream, the incidence of the gas streams on the droplet stream being offset a few millimeters from each other along the path of the droplet stream. The flow of gas is at a speed 10 to 20 times that of the velocity of the drops of solution that are uniformly hardened on the surface in their spherical shape so that there is no deformation upon entering the aqueous solution of ammonia in the lower part of the container that confines the ammonia gas phase. The ammonia solution completes the conversion of the nitrate to the corresponding oxide, producing highly uniform spheres such are required for subsequent sintering in the production of nuclear fuel or breeder elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1980
    Assignee: Kernforschungsanlage Julich Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Hans Langen, Paul Naefe, Helmut Ringel
  • Patent number: 4218159
    Abstract: The body of a gear hob consists of a plurality of adjacent disc-shaped segments. A helix of successive cutting teeth extends around the body and is formed by the adjoining peripheries of the segments. First and second metal cutter plates are replaceably mounted on the teeth flanks. The first cutter plate is mounted at the top of a respective tooth flank and the second cutter plate is mounted on the opposite flank. The first and second cutters alternate along the helix at each side of the teeth and their cutting paths overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1980
    Assignee: Sack GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Langen
  • Patent number: 4193953
    Abstract: A hydrosol containing, in nitrate form, a fuel or fuel-and-breeder material which is projected horizontally in the form of droplets into a gas phase containing gaseous ammonia and allowed to fall in a drip-casting column into a precipitation bath containing ammonium hydroxide. In the gas phase, the droplets are hardened just enough to prevent their deformation upon penetrating into the precipitation bath where the hardening is completed. A falling height of 5 cm is suitable. The granules are washed free of ammonium nitrate, then dried, and then sintered. The heavy metal content in the hydrosol is between 1.5 and 3 moles per liter, and the pH value of the precipitation bath is between 8 and 9. The hydrosol contains the heavy metal in oxide form and the process can be used with a thorium oxide hydrosol or a hydrosol that, in addition to thorium oxide, contains the oxide of hexavalent uranium, in the latter case the hexavalent uranium being present in a proportion up to 25% by weight of the total heavy metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1980
    Assignee: Kernforschungsanlage Julich Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Hans Langen, Helmut Ringel, Erich Zimmer
  • Patent number: 4107832
    Abstract: A method and device for producing finned heat transfer tubing of oval cross section by winding one or more continuous metal strips around the tubing in the form of spiral fins, the contact edge of the metal strip being shaped prior to winding to present a hook-shaped ledge with an acute enclosed angle, and the neutral axis for on-edge bending being shifted to the vicinity of the contact edge by applying to the strip a tensile stress and to its upper half additional transverse compression stress, using a stretch roller and a cooperating winding guide. A lathe-like machine semi-automatically winds two metal strips onto successive lengths of oval tubing, using a carriage with two pivotable winding arms and two strip reels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1978
    Assignee: Balke-Durr Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alfred Joekel, Hans Langen, Peter Denner
  • Patent number: 4106940
    Abstract: A light-sensitive material containing in emulsified form photographic additives and a process for introducing these photographic additives in emulsified form into photographic hydrophilic colloid layers with at least one N-alkylphtalimide derivative of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined hereinafter; the material having improved stability properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, A.G.
    Inventors: Hans Langen, Erwin Ranz, Johannes Eibl, Walther Wolf
  • Patent number: 4035450
    Abstract: A device for making ball-shaped metal oxide and metal carbide particles, ecially particles of fuel or breeder substances for nuclear reactors such as oxidic or carbide cores of uranium or the like. The device comprises a container for the ammonia and organic phase, and an injection tube leading into the top of the container. The injection tube is surrounded by a mantle passage of which the cross section is widened in the region of the mouth of the injection tube. The injection tube leads into the container at a distance of from 0.5 to 2 mm. ahead of the end of the mantle passage. The injection tube has an outward diameter which steadily decreases toward the mouth of the injection tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1977
    Assignee: Kernforschungsanlage Julich Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Hans Langen, Paul Naefe
  • Patent number: 4003748
    Abstract: A photographic silver halide material with at least one halide emulsion layer and at least one substance in heterogeneous contribution emulsified in oilformer compounds and a process of preparing the said photographic silver halide materials. The substances are introduced into photographic emulsions prior to coating by way of adding a hydrophilic phase containing in emulsified form the substances which are emulsified in the hydrophilic phase in form of a solution containing at least one substantially diffusion-resistant, substantially water-insoluble, substantially non-coupling dispersible .beta.-diketo compound with at least 9 carbon atoms, .beta.-keto carboxylic acid ester, .beta.-keto carboxylic acid amide, cyanoacetyl compound or .beta.-dicarboxylic acid ester with at least 13 carbon atoms as oilformer. The photographic material shows advantageous results i.a. with respect of stability of the emulsified substances in the layers and excellent sensitometric results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1977
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, A.G.
    Inventors: Hans Langen, Erwin Ranz, Rudolf Meyer, Johannes Sobel