Patents by Inventor Heinrich Hartmann

Heinrich Hartmann 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: 6586534
    Abstract: Agglomerated polymer particles of finely divided, water-soluble or water-swellable polymers containing ammonium carboxylate groups are prepared by azeotropic removal of water from water-in-oil emulsions of the water-soluble or water-swellable polymers which contain ammonium carboxylate groups in the presence of from 0.1 to 40% by weight, based on the polymers, of polyalkylene glycols which have an agglomerating effect and which are obtainable by an addition reaction of C2-C4-alkylene oxides with alcohols, phenols, amines or carboxylic acids and contain at least two polymerized alkylene oxide units and additionally of from 0.1 to 20% by weight, based on the polymers, of protective colloids which are obtainable by free radical copolymerization of C8-C40-monoolefins with monoethylenically unsaturated C4-C6-dicarboxylic anhydrides by a mass polymerization method at from 80 to 300° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Rübenacker, Reinhard Schneider, Jürgen Nieberle, Heinrich Hartmann, Walter Denzinger, Axel Kistenmacher
  • Publication number: 20030073797
    Abstract: Agglomerated polymer particles of finely divided, water-soluble or water-swellable polymers containing ammonium carboxylate groups are prepared by azeotropic removal of water from water-in-oil emulsions of the water-soluble or water-swellable polymers which contain ammonium carboxylate groups in the presence of from 0:1 to 40% by weight, based on the polymers, of polyalkylene glycols which have an agglomerating effect and which are obtainable by an addition reaction of C2-C4-alkylene-oxides with alcohols, phenols, amines or carboxylic acids and contain at least two polymerized alkylene oxide units and additionally of from 0.1 to 20% by weight, based on the polymers, of protective colloids which are obtainable by free radical copolymerization of C8-C40-monoolefins with monoethylenically unsaturated C4-C6-dicarboxylic anhydrides by a mass polymerization method at from 80 to 300° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Applicant: BASF Akiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Rubenacker, Reinhard Schneider, Jurgen Nieberle, Heinrich Hartmann, Walter Denzinger, Axel Kistenmacher
  • Patent number: 6512055
    Abstract: Copolymers I carrying functional groups and comprising a) 20-60 mol % of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated C4-C6-dicarboxylic acid or an anhydride thereof, b) 10-70 mol % of at least one oligomer of propene or of a branched 1-olefin of 4 to 10 carbon atoms, having an average molecular weight Mw of from 300 to 5000, and c) 1-50 mol % of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated compound which is copolymerizable with the monomers a) and b), a process for their preparation, oil-soluble reaction products obtainable therefrom by reaction with an amine and the use of said reaction products as additives for lubricants and fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Günther, Knut Oppenländer, Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann, Helmut Mach, Harald Schwahn, Hans Peter Rath
  • Publication number: 20010025094
    Abstract: Copolymers I carrying functional groups and comprising
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Applicant: BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Wolfgang Gunther, Knut Oppenlander, Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann, Helmut Mach, Harald Schwahn, Hans Peter Rath
  • Patent number: 6284716
    Abstract: Copolymers I carrying functional groups and comprising a) 20-60 mol % of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated C4-C6-dicarboxylic acid or an anhydride thereof, b) 10-70 mol % of at least one oligomer of propene or of a branched 1-olefin of 4 to 10 carbon atoms, having an average molecular weight Mw of from 300 to 5000, and c) 1-50 mol % of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated compound which is copolymerizable with the monomers a) and b), a process for their preparation, oil-soluble reaction products obtainable therefrom by reaction with an amine and the use of said reaction products as additives for lubricants and fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Günther, Knut Oppenländer, Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann, Helmut Mach, Harald Schwahn, Hans Peter Rath
  • Patent number: 6264839
    Abstract: Phosphonomethylated poly-vinylamines which contain as characteristic structural elements units of the formula where R1 is hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl or and X is hydrogen, an alkali metal, ammonium or one equivalent of an alkaline earth metal, are obtainable by phosphonomethylation of polymers which contain N-vinyl-amide or vinylamine groups and are useful as detergent additives and water treatment agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Juergen Mohr, Knut Oppenlaender, Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann, Richard Baur, Charalampos Gousetis, Alexander Kud
  • Patent number: 6174946
    Abstract: Agglomerated particles of water-swellable addition polymers, the agglomerated particles having an average particle diameter of from 20 to 5000 &mgr;m and consisting of primary particles having an average particle diameter of from 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin R{umlaut over (u)}benacker, Reinhard Schneider, J{umlaut over (u)}rgen Nieberle, Harald Meyer, Heinrich Hartmann
  • Patent number: 6089069
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for influencing the frictional conditions between an upper roll and a lower roll of a roll stand of a hot-rolling train for wide strip or a cold-rolling train for strip. The apparatus includes a spraying device arranged at the entry side of the roll stand for spraying a defined quantity of liquid in the direction of the roll gap and a control device for determining the quantity and discharge of this liquid, wherein used as a control variable is a predetermined or also computed variable in connection with the actual roll torque of the lower roll or/and the upper roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jurgen Seidel, Hans-Heinrich Hartmann
  • Patent number: 5914442
    Abstract: Aqueous solution or aqueous dispersion of copolymers suitable for the fatliquoring and filling of leather and fur skins are obtained by free-radical copolymerization ofA.sup.1) C.sub.6 -C.sub.40 -monoolefins or C.sub.6 -C.sub.40 -alkyl vinyl ethers or mixtures thereof withB.sup.1) monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.4 -C.sub.8 -dicarboxylic anhydrides or by free-radical copolymerization ofA.sup.2) C.sub.6 -C.sub.40 -alkyl acrylates or methacrylates or vinyl esters of C.sub.6 -C.sub.40 -carboxylic acids or mixtures thereof withB.sup.2) monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.3 -C.sub.12 -carboxylic acids, monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.4 -C.sub.12 -dicarboxylic anhydrides, monoesters or monoamides of monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.4 -C.sub.12 -dicarboxylic acids, amides of monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.3 -C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hermann Birkhofer, Michael Kneip, Peter Danisch, Walter Denzinger, Axel Kistenmacher, Heinrich Hartmann
  • Patent number: 5880236
    Abstract: Water-thickening copolymers are obtainable by copolymerization of(A) one or more monomers of the formula IR.sup.1 HC.dbd.CR.sup.2 R.sup.3 IwhereR.sup.1 and R.sup.2 can be identical or different and each is H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 -alkyl, andR.sup.3 is ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 can be identical or different and each is H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 -alkyl,R.sup.4 is H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 -alkyl,R.sup.5 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylene,R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 can be identical or different and each is H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 -alkyl, andM is hydrogen or an alkali metal, 1/2 alkaline earth metal or ammonium ion, and(B) one or more monomers of the formula IIa or IIb ##STR2## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 can be identical or different and each is H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 -alkyl,R.sup.4 is H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 -alkyl,X is --COOM where M is hydrogen or alkali metal, 1/2 alkaline earth metal or ammonium ion,Y is ##STR3## where R.sup.8 is C.sub.6 -C.sub.30 -alkyl, alkylaryl or aryl and R.sup.9 is H, C.sub.1 -C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Inventors: Gerd Konrad, Heinrich Hartmann
  • Patent number: 5851300
    Abstract: In a cationic modification process for starch, starch is reacted with polymers that contain amino and/or ammonium groups in an aqueous medium at temperatures from 115.degree. C. to 180.degree. C. under an increased pressure and in the absence of oxidizers, polymerization initiators and alkali. The reaction is conducted so that maximum 10% by weight starch has its molar weight reduced. Also disclosed is the use of the thus obtained reaction products as dry strength agents for paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Friedrich Linhart, Andreas Stange, Rudolf Schuhmacher, Heinrich Hartmann, Walter Denzinger, Manfred Niessner, Claudia Nilz, Wolfgang Reuther, Hubert Meixner
  • Patent number: 5795926
    Abstract: A process is described for the preparation of finely divided polymer powders by polymerizing water-soluble monomers in the aqueous phase of a water-in-oil emulsion in the presence of water-in-oil emulsifiers and polymerization initiators, removing the water from the resultant water-in-oil polymer suspension by azeotropic distillation, and isolating the suspended, finely divided polymer powder, either the polymerization of the water-soluble monomers being carried out in the presence of from 0.1 to 10% by weight, based on the monomers employed in the polymerization, of protective colloids, or the protective colloids being added to the water-in-oil polymer suspension after the polymerization is complete. The polymerization is preferably carried out in the presence of surfactant. The finely divided pulverulent polymers are used as flocculants or thickeners for aqueous systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Niessner, Norbert Grund, Wilfried Heide, Heinrich Hartmann
  • Patent number: 5767202
    Abstract: Modified copolymers which are suitable as paraffin dispersants and are obtainable by reacting a copolymer of an ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and/or a dicarboxylic acid derivative and a diketene of the general formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, independently of one another, are each hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.30 -alkyl,with an amine of the general formula II ##STR2## where m may be from 0 to 100, n from 0 to 5 and x from 0 to 5,R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, independently of one another, are each hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 -alkyl andA is NR.sup.6 R.sup.7 or C.sub.2 -C.sub.30 -alkoxy,and at least one of the substituents R.sup.6 or R.sup.7 is not hydrogen and is C.sub.1 -C.sub.30 -alkyl or alkenyl or a polyether radical ##STR3## where R.sup.8 and R.sup.9 are each hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 -alkyl and p is from 1 to 100,with the proviso that, when n is 0, A is NR.sup.6 R.sup.7,their preparation and use, and mineral oil middle distillates which contain these modified copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gabriele Dralle-Voss, Knut Oppenlander, Dieter Faul, Joachim Roser, Heinrich Hartmann, Bernd Wenderoth
  • Patent number: 5753759
    Abstract: Graft polymers which contain N-vinyl units and in which the grafting base is a polymer which contains in each case at least 5% by weight of units of the formulae ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl, monoethylenically unsaturated monomers are grafted onto the grafting base in a weight ratio of from 100:1 to 1:100, and which have K values of at least 7 (determined according to H. Fikentscher in 5% strength by weight aqueous solution at 25.degree. C. and pH 7), are prepared by polymerization of monoethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of polymers which in each case contain at least 5% by weight of units of the formulae I and/or II as the grafting base in a weight ratio of from 100:1 to 1:100, and are used as dispersants for pigments, as additives for detergents and cleaning agents, and strength agents for paper and as soil stabilizers and for fertilizer compaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Basf Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinrich Hartmann, Walter Denzinger, Claudia Nilz
  • Patent number: 5747635
    Abstract: Modified polyaspartic acids useful as detergent and cleaner additives, as water treatment agents and as scale inhibitors in the evaporation of sugar juice are obtainable by polycondensation of(a) from 1 to 99.9 mol % of aspartic acid with(b) from 99 to 0.1 mol % of fatty acids, polybasic carboxylic acids, anhydrides of polybasic carboxylic acids, polybasic hydroxycarboxylic acids, monobasic polyhydroxycarboxylic acids, alcohols, amines, alkoxylated alcohols and amines, amino sugars, carbohydrates, sugarcarboxylic acids and/or non-proteinogenic aminocarboxylic acidsor by polymerizing monoethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of polyaspartic acids in the manner of a free-radically initiated graft polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Kroner, Heinrich Hartmann, Dieter Boeckh, Angelika Funhoff, Richard Baur, Alexander Kud, Volker Schwendemann, Birgit Potthoff-Karl, Karl-Heinz Buechner
  • Patent number: 5747619
    Abstract: Water-soluble copolymerizates are disclosed containing carboxyl groups, and also containing the following components incorporated by polymerization: (a) 30 to 80 mol % monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 carboxylic acids, anhydrides thereof and/or water-soluble salts thereof; (b) 10 to 50 mol % C.sub.2 -C.sub.8 olefines, styrene, alkyl styrene, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl vinyl ethers and/or vinyl esters of saturated C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 monocarboxylic acids; and (c) 0.01 to 20 mol % vinyl ethers and/or allyl ethers of alkoxylated C.sub.1 -C.sub.30 alcohols. The copolymerizates in question have a K-value of at least 8 (determined after H. Fikentscher). Also disclosed are methods of producing the water-soluble copolymerizates by copolymerization of the monomers in the presence of radical-forming polymerization initiators, and the use of the polymerizates as scale inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann, Birgit Potthoff-Karl, Karl-Heinz Buechner, Marc Heider, Hans-Juergen Raubenheimer
  • Patent number: 5739190
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a stable water-in-oil emulsion of a hydrolyzed polymer of an N-vinyl amide of the formula ##STR1## in which R and R.sup.1 denote H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, by the polymerization of a compound of the formula I alone or in admixture with another ethylenically unsaturated monomer in the presence of a polymerization initiator and emulsifier in the form of a water-in-oil emulsion, to form a water-in-oil polymeric emulsion, followed by hydrolysis of the polymer in the form of the water-in-oil polymeric emulsion in the presence of an acid or base and from 1 to 30 wt %, based on the polymer, of an emulsifier, the emulsifier used being a mixture of(a) from 5 to 95 wt % of a block or graft copolymer of the structure (A-B)m, (A)-B or (B)-A, in which in each case(a) from 5 to 95 wt % of a block or graft copolymer of the structure (A-B).sub.m, (A).sub.n B or (B).sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinrich Hartmann, Karl-Heinrich Schneider, Walter Denzinger, Claudia Nilz, Dietmar Monch
  • Patent number: 5726266
    Abstract: Copolymers comprisea) from 1 to 65 mol % of at least one diketene of the general formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, independently of one another, are each hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.30 -alkyl,b) from 30 to 70 mol % of at least one ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or one dicarboxylic acid derivative,c) from 0.5 to 60 mol % of at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon andd) up to 20 mol % of at least one further ethylenically unsaturated monomer,modified copolymers are obtainable by reacting these copolymers with NH-, SH- and/or OH-functional compounds, and the unmodified or modified copolymers are used as additives for mineral oil middle distillates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Faul, Joachim Roser, Heinrich Hartmann, Gabriele Dralle-Voss, Knut Oppenlander, Bernd Wenderoth
  • Patent number: 5714560
    Abstract: Water-soluble or water-dispersible graft polymers which are obtainable by free-radical-initiated polymerization of(A) a monomer or monomer mixture comprising(a) from 20 to 100% by weight of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid or a mixture thereof or alkali metal, alkaline earth metal or ammonium salts thereof,(b) from 0 to 80% by weight of other monoethylenically unsaturated monomers which can be copolymerized with the monomers (a), and(c) from 0 to 5% by weight of monomers containing at least 2 ethylenically unsaturated, non-conjugated double bonds in the molecule,in the presence of proteins (B)in an A:B weight ratio of from (95 to 10):(5 to 90), are used as tanning agents for self-tanning, pretanning and assist tanning of pelts and skin pelts and for the retanning of leather and skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Denzinger, Axel Kistenmacher, Heinrich Hartmann, Gunter Bernhardt, Gerhard Wolf
  • Patent number: 5684107
    Abstract: Agglomerated polymer particles of finely divided, water-soluble or water-swellable polymers are prepared by azeotropic dewatering of water-in-oil emulsions of water-soluble or water-swellable polymers in the presence of from 1 to 40% by weight, based on the polymers, of polyalkylene glycols which(a) are obtainable by an addition reaction of C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkylene oxides with alcohols, phenols, amines or carboxylic acids and(b) contain not less than 2 polymerized alkylene oxide unitsand isolation of the agglomerated polymer particles. The water-soluble agglomerated polymer particles are used as flocculants and retention and drainage aids, while the water-swellable polymer powders are employed as thickeners for aqueous systems, in particular as thickeners for textile print pastes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhard Schneider, Norbert Grund, Heinrich Hartmann