Patents by Inventor Horst Muehlfeld

Horst Muehlfeld 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).

  • Publication number: 20120015574
    Abstract: A method for production of a reactive polyurethane emulsion for use in impregnating and coating a textile fabric includes reacting polyols alone or in combination with at least one of diols and triols with a substoichiometric amount of diisocyanates so as to form medium-viscosity, OH-terminated prepolymers. The prepolymers are mixed with an external emulsifier. At least one of a diisocyanate, a triisocyanate and a polyisocyanate are added so as to bring about a crosslinking of the prepolymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: CARL FREUDENBERG KG
    Inventors: Birgit Severich, Thomas Schauber, Horst Muehlfeld, Robert Groten, Bjoern Hellbach, Ansgar Komp, Christian Waschinski
  • Publication number: 20100234553
    Abstract: The present invention relates to lightfast and hydrolytically resistant molded polyurethane parts with excellent strength properties and a high temperature resistance and colorfastness to light at elevated temperatures for sophisticated applications in the sector of automobile interiors, which products are produced from a reaction mixture of aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic compositions by using a cost-effective reaction injection molding method (RIM) or a casting method that requires only a short mold residence time. To this end, A) a composition composed of A1) an OH-terminated trifunctional prepolymer, A2) a polyol or a polyol combination, A3) at last one di- and/or trifunctional chain-lengthening agent and/or crosslinking agent with amine and/or hydroxyl groups, and A4) a catalyst system, and optionally A5) a stabilizer system, and optionally A6) at least one additive, and B) an isocyanate composition, are reacted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2007
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERIORS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Horst Muehlfeld, Thomas Schauber, Hubert Brueckner, Natalie Bogdanov
  • Publication number: 20050221012
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a synthethic leather includes the steps of obtaining a polyurethane prepolymer from isocyantates and linear hydroxyl-terminated polyols having molecular weights of 500 to 5,000 g/mol, wherien the isocyanates include at least one of aliphatic, cyclophatic, and non-aromatic heterocyclic di- and or tri-isocyanates. A first aqueaous dispersion of the polyurethane prepolymer is provided and mixed with a second aqueous dispersion or solution of a catalyst and at least one cross-linking constituent so as to create a mixture. The method further includes impregnating a textile fabric with the mixture and drying and reacting the prepolymers to completion at a temperature from 80 to 180° C. In addition, a synthetic letter manufactured according to the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Horst Muehlfeld, Frank Jestel, Robert Groten, Ulrich Jahn, Thomas Schauber
  • Publication number: 20030166794
    Abstract: A thermoplastically processable polyurethane molding material which is composed of a blend of at least two thermoplastic polyurethane, with at least 5 percent by weight, as a component A, being composed of a thermoplastic polyurethane which is obtained by reacting one or a plurality of aliphatic polyols which have a molecular weight of 800 to 4000 g/mol and a hydroxyl number of 20 to 235 and which are selected from the group of polyadipates, polycaprolactones, polycarbonates, polytetrahydrofurans and corresponding copolymers or mixtures thereof with 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate and the chain-extending agent 1,6-hexanediol in an equivalent ratio of the 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate to the polyol of 1.5:1 to 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Applicant: Carl Freudenberg KG, Intier Automotive Eybl
    Inventors: Horst Muehlfeld, Thomas Schauber, Erich Christoph
  • Patent number: 6586553
    Abstract: A polyurethane molding mass that can be processed thermoplastically, that is free of by-products capable of migration, and demonstrates a high level of light-fastness. A polyurethane molding mass that can be processed thermoplastically, that is free of cyclic oligourethanes capable of migration, and demonstrates a high level of light-fastness, can be obtained, according to the invention, by reaction of one or more aliphatic polyols with a molecular weight of 450 to 4000 g/mol and an OH number of 20 to 235, selected from the group of polyadipates, polycaprolactones, polycarbonates, polytetrahydrofurane, and corresponding copolymers or mixtures of them, with 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate and a chain lengthening agent selected from the group of 1,5-pentane diol, 1,6-hexane diol, and 1,4-cyclohexane diol, with an equivalence ratio of the 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate to the polyol of 1.5:1 to 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Horst Mühlfeld, Silke Wagener
  • Patent number: 6573341
    Abstract: A molded polyurethane body is obtainable by reacting: a) one or more aliphatic polyols having a molecular weight of 450 to 6000 g/mol and a hydroxyl value of 10 to 235; b) with aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic diisocyanates in an equivalent ratio of diisocyanate to polyol of 1.2:1.0 to 16.0:1.0; c) with diols as chain lengthening agents having a molecular weight of 60 to 450 g/mol, the NCO index formed from the quotient, which is multiplied by 100, of the equivalent ratio of isocyanate groups to the sum of the hydroxyl groups of polyol and chain lengthening agents lying within a range of 90 to 105; and d) with an at least bifunctional reaction component, which is suitable for subsequent cross-linking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignees: Carl Freudenberg KG, Magna Eybl Systemtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Mühlfeld, Thomas Schauber, Silke Wagener