Patents by Inventor Hans-Tobias Macholdt

Hans-Tobias Macholdt 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: 8182598
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a pigment preparation comprising a) a dioxazine compound of the formula (I) as base pigment and b) a dioxazine compound of the formula (II) as pigment dispersant Q-[Y—X]M ??(II) in which Q is an m-valent radical of the base pigment of the formula (I), Y is a bridging moiety, X is in particular a heterocycle, and m indicates a numerical value between 1 and 4 as a colorant in color filters, ink-jet inks, electrophotographic toners and developers, and electronic inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH
    Inventors: Heino Heckmann, Hans-Tobias Macholdt, Magali Meder
  • Publication number: 20110091804
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pigment preparation, comprising (a) pigmentary copper phthalocyanine of the beta phase, characterized by a mean particle size d50 of 40 to 80 nm and a mean length to width ratio of the pigment particles of less than or equal to 2.0:1, and (b) 1% to 30% by weight, relative to the weight of the pigmentary copper phthalocyanine, of a pigment dispersant of the formula (II) where CPC is a group of a copper phthalocyanine, n is a number from 1 to 4.0, m is a number from 0.5 to 4.0; Kat is a cation from the group of the alkali metals, or H+; o is a number from 0 to 3.5, with n=m+o; R1, R2, R3, R4 are the same or different and are C1-C20 alkyl, C2-C20 alkenyl, C5-C20 cycloalkyl, C5-C20 cycloalkenyl or C1-C4 alkyl-phenyl, wherein the above groups are optionally substituted by hydroxyl and/or halogen. The pigment preparation is characterized by extreme high viscosity stability, which makes it particularly suitable for aqueous, solvent based and UV-curing inkjet inks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: CLARIANT FINANCE (BVI) LIMITED
    Inventors: Josef Geisenberger, Hans-Tobias Macholdt, Thomas Metz, Steffen Schneider, Christian Zeh
  • Patent number: 7621967
    Abstract: A dye base sulfate and method of making are described. The dye base sulphate of formula (I) is produced with a residual amine content of less than 2000 ppm, as determined by HPLC, by precipitation of the dye base, made by Friedel-Crafts alkylation, substitution and hydrolysis, as the dye base sulphate is a) taken up in water and subjected to a first steam distillation then filtered and optionally dried at 50 to 180° C., b) the pressed cake is treated with water or the optionally dried dye base sulphate is moistened with water, c) subjected to a further steam distillation and filtration and d) dried at 50 to 180° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH
    Inventors: Eduard Michel, Ruediger Baur, Hans-Tobias Macholdt, Norbert Kohl
  • Patent number: 7611812
    Abstract: Layered double hydroxide salts as charge control agents in electrophotographic toners and developers, in powder coating materials, electret materials and in electrostatic separation processes of chargeable materials, such as polymers, wherein the double hydroxide salt contains monovalent and/or divalent, and also trivalent, metal cations, and also contains one or more organic anions A of the formula (I) X—R—Y??(1) wherein X is hydroxyl, carboxyl, sulfato or sulfo; Y is carboxyl, sulfato or sulfo, and R is an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, heterocycloaliphatic, olefinic, cycloolefinic. heterocycloolefinic, aromatic, heteroaromatic, araliphatic or heteroaraliphatic radical having a total of at least 8 carbon atoms which can be substituted by one or several substituents from the group hydroxyl, amino, halogen, C1-C22-alkyl, C1-C22-alkoxy, —C1-C22-alkylene-(CO)—O—(CH2CH2O)0-50-alkyl,—C1-C22-alkylene-(CO)—O—(CH2H2O)0-50-haloalkyl, carboxy, sulfo, nitro or cyano.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Clariant Produkte ( Deutschland) GmbH
    Inventors: Eduard Michel, Ruediger Baur, Hans-Tobias Macholdt
  • Patent number: 7569318
    Abstract: A layered double hydroxide salt as a charge control agent in electrophotographic toners and developers, in powder coating materials, electret materials and in electrostatic separation processes of chargeable materials, such as polymers, wherein the double hydroxide salt contains monovalent and/or divalent, and also trivalent, metal cations, and also contains organic anions A of the formulae (I) to (XXX) set forth in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH
    Inventors: Eduard Michel, Ruediger Baur, Hans-Tobias Macholdt
  • Publication number: 20090101874
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pigment composition containing a disazo pigment of formula (I) and at least one phthalocyanine pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Frank Alfter, Hans-Tobias MacHoldt
  • Patent number: 7387670
    Abstract: A pigment preparation comprising at least one copper phthalocyanine pigment from the group of C.I. Pigment Blue 15, 15:0, 15:1,15:2, 15:3, 15:4, and 15:6, and at least one pigment dispersant of the formula (I), in which n is a number 1, 2, 3 or 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Manfred Opravil, Magali Meder, Hans-Tobias Macholdt
  • Patent number: 7311769
    Abstract: A pigment composition containing a disazo pigment of formula (I) and at least one pigment from the group of organic orange, red and violet pigments
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Frank Alfter, Hans-Tobias Macholdt
  • Patent number: 7309558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of salt-like structured silicates, in which the cation is NH4+, H3O+, an alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, earth metal or transition metal ion or a low molecular weight organic cation or a combination thereof and the anion is an island, cyclic, group, chain, ribbon, laminar or matrix silicate or a combination thereof as charge control agents in electrophotographic toners and developers, in powder coatings, electret materials and in electrostatic separation processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH
    Inventors: Eduard Michel, Rüdiger Baur, Hans-Tobias Macholdt
  • Patent number: 7309389
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an electrophotographic toner or developer, powder coating, ink jet ink or an electronic media having an azo colorant prepared by conducting the diazotization of aromatic or hetaromatic amines or the azo coupling reaction or the diazotization and the azo coupling reaction in a microreactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited
    Inventors: Ruediger Baur, Hans-Tobias Macholdt, Uwe Nickel, Leonhard Unverdorben, Christian Wille
  • Patent number: 7285592
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous pigment preparation containing an organic and/or inorganic pigment dispersed in an acrylate resin solution and a dispersion agent. The preparation is characterized in that the acrylate resin is a copolymer consisting essentially of between 50 and 80 mol % of monoalkenyl aromatic compounds and between 20 and 50 mol % of acrylates, and has an average molar mass Mv of between 1,000 and 50,000 g/mol, and in that the dispersion agent is a compound of formula (I): R—O—(CH2-CH2—O)m—CH2—COOM, wherein R is a C10-C20 alkyl radical or a C10-C20 alkenyl radical, m is a number between 1 and 15, and M is a monovalent cation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Harz, Heidemarie Menzel, Hans-Tobias Macholdt, Michael Mueller
  • Publication number: 20070186804
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a pigment preparation comprising a) a dioxazine compound of the formula (I) as base pigment and b) a dioxazine compound of the formula (II) as pigment dispersant Q-[Y—X]M ??(II) in which Q is an m-valent radical of the base pigment of the formula (I), Y is a bridging moiety, X is in particular a heterocycle, and m indicates a numerical value between 1 and 4 as a colorant in color filters, ink-jet inks, electrophotographic toners and developers, and electronic inks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Heino Heckmann, Hans-Tobias Macholdt, Magali Meder
  • Publication number: 20070125263
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pigment composition containing a disazo pigment of formula (I), and at least one pigment from the group of organic orange, red and violet pigments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Frank Alfter, Hans-Tobias Macholdt
  • Patent number: 7135266
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an electrophotographic toner or developer, powder coating, ink jet ink or an electronic media having an azo colorant prepared by conducting the diazotization of aromatic or hetaromatic amines or the azo coupling reaction or the diazotization and the azo coupling reaction in a microreactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited
    Inventors: Ruediger Baur, Hans-Tobias Macholdt, Uwe Nickel, Leonhard Unverdorben, Christian Wille
  • Publication number: 20060228640
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an electrophotographic toner or developer, powder coating, ink jet ink or an electronic media having an azo colorant prepared by conducting the diazotization of aromatic or hetaromatic amines or the azo coupling reaction or the diazotization and the azo coupling reaction in a microreactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Ruediger Baur, Hans-Tobias Macholdt, Uwe Nickel, Leonhard Unverdorben, Christian Wille
  • Patent number: 7097699
    Abstract: A composition for printing recording materials comprising a) at least one temporarily water-soluble dye with one SO2CH2COOM group being present in the molecule; b) water or a medium including a mixture of water and an organic solvent, an anhydrous organic solvent or a solid having a low melting point, and c) optionally further additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited
    Inventors: Robert Egli, Oliver Eich, Hans-Tobias Macholdt, Reinhard Pedrazzi
  • Publication number: 20060105265
    Abstract: The dye base sulphate of formula (I) is produced with a residual amine content of less than 2000 ppm, as determined by HPLC, by precipitation of the dye base, made by Friedel-Crafts alkylation, substitution and hydrolysis, as the dye base sulphate and a) taken up in water and subjecting to a first steam distillation then filtered and optionally dried at 50 to 180° C., b) the pressed cake is treated with water or the optionally dried dye base sulphate is moistened with water, c) subjected to a further steam distillation and filtration and d) dried at 50 to 180° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Eduard Michel, Ruediger Baur, Hans-Tobias Macholdt, Norbert Kohl
  • Patent number: 7008475
    Abstract: The invention relates to aqueous colorant preparations containing A) between 0.1 and 50 wt. % of at least one organic and/or inorganic pigment and/or at least one organic colorant. B) between 0.01 and 80 wt. % of at least one naphthol-oxyalkylate sulfopropyl ether, one alkanol-oxyalkylate sulfopropyl ether or one alkylphenol-oxyalkylate sulfopropyl ether. C) between 0 and 30 wt. % of at least one organic solvent. D) between 0 and 20 wt. % of other standard derivatives and E) between 10 and 90 wt % of water, respectively in relation to the total weight (100%) of the colorant preparation. The colorant preparation is used, for example, in printing inks, especially ink jet printing inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Rudolf Randler, Ulrike Rohr, Josef Geisenberger, Ruediger Baur, Hans-Tobias Macholdt, Heidemarie Menzel
  • Publication number: 20060020069
    Abstract: A layered double hydroxide salt as a charge control agent in electrophotographic toners and developers, in powder coating materials, electret materials and in electrostatic separation processes of chargeable materials, such as polymers, wherein the double hydroxide salt contains monovalent and/or divalent, and also trivalent, metal cations, and also contains organic anions A of the formulae (I) to (XXX) set forth in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventors: Eduard Michel, Ruediger Baur, Hans-Tobias Macholdt
  • Publication number: 20050277040
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of layered double hydroxide salts as charge control agents in electrophotographic toners and developers, in coating powders, electret materials and in electrostatic separation processes, characterized in that the double hydroxide salt contains monovalent and/or bivalent and even trivalent metal cations, in addition to one or several organic anions of formula X—R—Y (I), wherein X=hydroxy, carboxy, sulphato or sulpho; Y=carboxy, sulphato or sulpho, and R=a bivalent aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, heterocycloaliphatic, olefinic, cycloolefinic, heterocycloolefinic, aromatic, heteroaromatic, araliphatic or heteroaraliphatic radical having at least 8 C atoms which can be substituted by one or several substituents from the group of hydroxy, amino, halogen, C1-C22-alkyl, C1-C22-alkoxy, carboxy, sulpho, nitro or cyano.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Inventors: Eduard Michel, Ruediger Baur, Hans-Tobias Macholdt