Patents by Inventor Hartmut Behringer

Hartmut Behringer 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: 5531075
    Abstract: In a process to transport acetylene which is dissolved in a solvent in a pressurized, insulated tank, the acetylene-to-solvent mass ratio of the solution is 0.30 at the maximum, whereby the solution has a temperature of up to -55.degree. C. [-67.degree. F.]. The surface of the solution in the tank is covered by a multilayer configuration consisting of pieces of floating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: Messer Griesheim GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmut Behringer, Siegfried Pottkamper, Hans-Werner Stephan, Gerrit Marcks
  • Patent number: 4920205
    Abstract: Azo pigments are made by subjecting a diazo component to an azo coupling reaction with the equivalent quantity of a coupling component difficultly soluble at less than 65.degree. C. in the aqueous/acid and aqueous/netural pH-ranges. More specifically, an aqueous/alkaline solution of the coupling component is continuously mixed in a first reaction step with an aqueous solution of acetic acid, boric acid, phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid at a temperature lower than 65.degree. C. within a period of less than 1 minute, during which the coupling component commenences precipitating at least partially as reactive matter; next, the suspension obtained is continuously mixed, in a second reaction step immediately following the first reaction step, with an aqueous/acid solution of the diazo component at a temperature of less than 65.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinrich Rehberg, Hartmut Behringer
  • Patent number: 4920206
    Abstract: Azo Pigments are made by subjecting a diazo component to an azo coupling reaction with the equivalent quantity of a coupling component difficultly soluble at less than 65.degree. C. in the aqueous/acid and aqueous/neutral pH-ranges. More specifically, an aqueous/acid-solution of the diazo component is continuously mixed at a temperature of less than 65.degree. C. within a period of less than 1 minute with the aqueous/alkaline solution of the coupling component and a predetermined pH between 2 and 9 is established by controlling the flow of the mass streams of diazo component and coupling component; in this way a portion of the coupling component is caused to undergo immediate reaction to the azo pigment to be made whereas the balance portion of the coupling component simultaneously commences precipitating as finely crystalline reactive matter, which is reacted in a post-reaction phase with unreacted diazo component to give the azo pigment to be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut Behringer, Heinrich Rehberg
  • Patent number: 4454067
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the continuous manufacture of azo pigments, wherein a coupling component is reacted, inside a reaction zone filled with a previously produced suspension of the azo pigment to be made, with an aqueous solution of a diazo component at 10.degree. to 60.degree. C. and over periods of 0.2 to 4 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1984
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut Behringer, Kurt Karrenbauer, Heinrich Rehberg
  • Patent number: 4439361
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for controlling diazotization reactions. To this end, a reaction batch containing an aromatic amine and nitrous acid is vigorously agitated so as to continuously renew the surface area of the batch. The air above said surface area is exhausted at a constant rate and tested for its content of nitrous gases originating from partially decomposed nitrous acid. Nitrous acid or dissolved matter forming it under the reaction conditions is supplied to the feed amine in the proportions necessary to provide for a content between 5 and 300 ppm nitrous gases in the exhausted air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kurt Karrenbauer, Hartmut Behringer, Heinrich Rehberg
  • Patent number: 4268437
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for the continuous diazotization of primary aromatic amines by reacting an aqueous solution or suspension of the amine in a mineral acid with an aqueous sodium nitrite solution. To this end, the lower portion of a cylindrical diazotization vessel placed in upright position is fed continuously with an aqueous mineral acid solution or suspension of a diazotizable primary aromatic amine. At the same time, the vessel is fed, via one or more inlets arranged one above the other so as to open laterally thereinto, with an aqueous sodium nitrite solution, the amine and nitrite being used in stoichiometric proportions, or the nitrite being used in a stoichiometric deficiency and the acid being used in an excess of about 1 to 3 equivalents per amine equivalent in the mineral acid solution. The resulting mixture is reacted while producing a laminar flow of liquid matter at temperatures of about 5.degree. to 30.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1981
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hartmut Behringer, Kurt Karrenbauer