Patents by Inventor Heinrich Becker

Heinrich Becker 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: 11005049
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes, to compositions and formulations comprising these complexes, and to devices comprising the complexes or compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Becker, Frank Voges
  • Patent number: 9997714
    Abstract: The invention relates to 2,2?,7,7?-tetrakis-(N,N?-di-4-methoxy-3-methylphenylamine)-9,9?-spirofluorene, to a process for its preparation, and to its use as hole transport material for electronic or optoelectronic devices, especially for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Hiromi Shinohara, Atsushi Sawada, Elvira Montenegro, Heinrich Becker
  • Patent number: 9972782
    Abstract: The invention relates to formulations containing doped conductive polymers, which due to outstanding hole injection characteristics and high conductivity are very suitable for use in organic electronic devices, preferably in organic electroluminescent devices, in particular in the buffer layers thereof. Thus the invention further relates to the use of the formulations according to the invention in organic electronic devices, preferably in electroluminescent devices, in particular in the buffer layers thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Becker, Susanne Heun
  • Patent number: 9593087
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, and to electronic devices which comprise these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Esther Breuning, Heinrich Becker, Junyou Pan, Herwig Buchholz, Teresa Mujica-Fernaud, Irina Martynova
  • Patent number: 9517977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I), to mixtures of the said compounds with emitter compounds, to the use of compounds of the formula (I) and the said mixtures in electronic devices, and to electronic devices containing one or more compounds of the formula (I) and/or mixtures of compounds of the formula (I) with emitter compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Spreitzer, Jochen Schwaiger, Heinrich Becker
  • Publication number: 20160254449
    Abstract: The invention relates to 2,2?,7,7?-tetrakis-(N,N?-di-4-methoxy-3-methylphenylamine)-9,9?-spirofluorene, to a process for its preparation, and to its use as hole transport material for electronic or optoelectronic devices, especially for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Hiromi SHINOHARA, Atsushi SAWADA, Elvira MONTENEGRO, Heinrich BECKER
  • Patent number: 9425409
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the to the use of the compounds in electronic devices, to processes for the preparation of the compounds, and to electronic devices comprising the compounds, preferably as electron-transport materials, as hole-blocking materials, as matrix materials and/or as emitter materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Schwaiger, Heinrich Becker
  • Publication number: 20160211468
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes, to compositions and formulations comprising these complexes, and to devices comprising the complexes or compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Becker, Frank Voges
  • Patent number: 9379323
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compositions comprising light emitting materials and/or charge transporting materials and one or more organic solvents having a viscosity at 25° C. of at least 10 mPas and a boiling point of at most 400° C., to their use as inks for the preparation of organic light emitting diode (OLED) devices, to methods for preparing OLED devices using the novel formulations, and to OLED devices prepared from such methods and formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Mark James, Magda Goncalves-Miskiewicz, Philip Edward May, Ruth Effenberger, Edgar Kluge, Heinrich Becker
  • Publication number: 20160155959
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic electroluminescent devices which comprise a mixture of an iridium complex and a triazine or pyrimidine compound in the emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Kaiser, Christof Pflumm, Amir Hossain Parham, Thomas Eberle, Philipp Stoessel, Jonas Valentin Kroeber, Anja Jatsch, Heinrich Becker, Rouven Linge
  • Patent number: 9343683
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds having a spirobifluorene skeleton of the formula (I) for use as functional materials in electronic devices, in particular for use in the charge-transport layer and/or emission layer of organic electroluminescent devices. The invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of the compounds according to the invention and to mixtures comprising the compounds according to the invention. The invention furthermore relates to the use of the compounds of the formula (I) in electronic devices and to electronic devices comprising the compounds of the formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Becker, Jochen Schwaiger, Hubert Spreitzer, Frank Voges, Holger Heil
  • Publication number: 20150228902
    Abstract: The invention relates to formulations containing doped conductive polymers, which due to outstanding hole injection characteristics and high conductivity are very suitable for use in organic electronic devices, preferably in organic electroluminescent devices, in particular in the buffer layers thereof. Thus the invention further relates to the use of the formulations according to the invention in organic electronic devices, preferably in electroluminescent devices, in particular in the buffer layers thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Becker, Susanne Heun
  • Patent number: 9089261
    Abstract: A clip or flexible handles extension facilitate simultaneous retention and operation of a bronchoscope and associated bronchoscopic tools held in one hand to allow operation by a single practitioner. Also provided is an adapter for the connection port of the working channel of a bronchoscope which performs both sealing and tool-locking functions. Also disclosed is a guide sheath arrangement with a reduced flexibility proximal portion to facilitate insertion of tools into the guide sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Benny Greenburg, Danny Belcher, Gil Griefner, Heinrich Becker
  • Patent number: 9000166
    Abstract: The present invention describes novel ionic metal complexes. Compounds of this type can be employed as functional materials in a number of different applications which can be ascribed to the electronics industry in the broadest sense. The compounds according to the invention are described by the formulae (1) and (1a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Heinrich Becker, Amir H. Parham, Esther Breuning
  • Publication number: 20140091295
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new types of material mixtures composed of at least two substances, one serving as a matrix material and the other being an emission material capable of emission and containing at least one element of atomic number greater than 20, and for their use in organic electronic components such as electroluminescent elements and displays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Becker, Anja Gerhard, Philipp Stoessel, Horst Vestweber
  • Patent number: 8679644
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers which contain certain triarylamine units of the Formula (1) The materials according to the invention exhibit a longer lifetime than materials in accordance with the prior art and therefore more suitable for use in polymeric organic light-emitting diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Amir Parham, Susanne Heun, Aurélie Ludemann, Arne Buesing, Junyou Pan, Heinrich Becker
  • Patent number: 8663088
    Abstract: A clip or flexible handles extension facilitate simultaneous retention and operation of a bronchoscope and associated bronchoscopic tools held in one hand to allow operation by a single practitioner. Also provided is an adapter for the connection port of the working channel of a bronchoscope which performs both sealing and tool-locking functions. Also disclosed is a guide sheath arrangement with a reduced flexibility proximal portion to facilitate insertion of tools into the guide sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Benny Greenburg, Danny Belcher, Gil Griefner, Heinrich Becker
  • Patent number: 8592614
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new types of material mixtures composed of at least two substances, one serving as a matrix material and the other being an emission material capable of emission and containing at least one element of atomic number greater than 20, and for their use in organic electronic components such as electroluminescent elements and displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Heinrich Becker, Anja Gerhard, Philipp Stössel, Horst Vestweber
  • Publication number: 20130207048
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I), to the use of the compounds in electronic devices, to processes for the preparation of the compounds, and to electronic devices comprising the compounds, preferably as electron-transport materials, as hole-blocking materials, as matrix materials and/or as emitter materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH Patents & Scientific Information
    Inventors: Jochen Schwaiger, Heinrich Becker
  • Patent number: 8494612
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for navigation during medical interventions on tubular organ structures, characterized in that, before the intervention, static image data of the tubular organ structures are recorded and stored, the tubular organ structures are extracted from the image data and their course is converted into a geometric description used during the medical intervention for instrument/organ recording, and the instrument that is spatially localized by a tracking system is successively corrected in relation to the static data, by a transformation that is preferably defined by an optimization method, taking into account the geometric description and information on the previous distance covered by the instrument, or, conversely, the static data are successively corrected in relation to the instrument position, and thus the position of the instrument is associated with the anatomical structures in the static image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignees: Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Thoraxlinik Heidelberg GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Vetter, Ivo Wolf, Ingmar Wegner, Hans-Peter Meinzer, Heinrich Becker