Patents by Inventor Iakovos Vittorias

Iakovos Vittorias 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: 20160237265
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a polyethylene composition with improved swell ratio and mechanical properties, particularly suited for preparing blow-moulded articles, said composition having the following features: 1) a density from 0.952 to 0.960 g/cm3; 2) an MIF/MIP ratio from 17 to 30; and 3) a Shear-Induced Crystallization Index SIC from 2.5 to 5.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Iakovos Vittorias, Jens Wiesecke, Bernd Lothar Marczinke, Gerhardus Meier, Ulf Schüller, Volker Dolle, Johannes-Friedrich Enderle, Dieter Lilge, Barbara Gall
  • Patent number: 9353206
    Abstract: Polyethylene composition with improved swell ratio and mechanical properties, particularly suited for preparing blow-moulded articles, said composition having the following features: 1) density from 0.952 to 0.960 g/cm3; 2) ratio MIF/MIP from 17 to 30; 3) Shear-Induced Crystallization Index SIC from 2.5 to 5.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Bassel Polylefine GmbH
    Inventors: Iakovos Vittorias, Jens Wiesecke, Bernd Lothar Marczinke, Gerhardus Meier, Ulf Schüller, Volker Dolle, Johannes-Friedrich Enderle, Dieter Lilge, Barbara Gall
  • Patent number: 9273168
    Abstract: A novel polyethylene is devised which polyethylene is particularly advantageous for manufacturing rotomoulded articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Mannebach, Heinz Vogt, Fabiana Fantinel, Shahram Mihan, Peter Bisson, Cees Besems, Gerhardus Meier, Ulf Schüller, Barbara Gall, Iakovos Vittorias, Manfred Hecker, Michael Olmscheid
  • Patent number: 9238700
    Abstract: Process for preparing ethylene copolymers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiator at pressures in the range of from 160 MPa to 350 MPa and temperatures in the range of from 100° C. to 350° C. in a tubular reactor by copolymerizing ethylene, a bi- or multifunctional comonomer and optionally further comonomers, wherein the bi- or multifunctional comonomer bears at least two different functional groups, of which at least one is a unsaturated group, which can be incorporated into the growing polymer chain, and at least another functional group can act as chain transfer agent in radical ethylene polymerization, ethylene copolymers obtainable by such a process, the use of the ethylene copolymers for extrusion coating and a process for extrusion coating a substrate selected from the group consisting of paper, paperboard, polymeric film, and metal, with such ethylene copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Littmann, Dieter Lilge, Barbara Gall, Iakovos Vittorias, Gerd Mannebach, Markus Busch, Thomas Herrmann
  • Publication number: 20150274866
    Abstract: Polyethylene composition with improved swell ratio and mechanical properties, particularly suited for preparing blow-moulded articles, said composition having the following features: 1) density from 0.952 to 0.960 g/cm3; 2) ratio MIF/MIP from 17 to 30; 3) Shear-Induced Crystallization Index SIC from 2.5 to 5.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Iakovos Vittorias, Jens Wiesecke, Bernd Lothar Marczinke, Gerhardus Meier, Ulf Schüller, Volker Dolle, Johannes-Friedrich Enderle, Dieter Lilge, Barbara Gall
  • Publication number: 20150274947
    Abstract: Polyethylene composition with improved balance of environmental stress cracking resistance (FNCT) and impact resistance (Charpy), particularly suited for preparing pipes, said composition having the following features: 1) density from 0.945 to 0.955 g/cm3; 2) ratio MIF/MIP from more than 30 to 45; 3) Shear-Induced Crystallization Index SIC from 1.0 to 2.5; 4) Long Chain Branching index equal to or greater than 0.85.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: BASELL POLYOLEFINE GMBH
    Inventors: Iakovos Vittorias, Jens Wiesecke, Bernd Lothar Marczinke, Gerhardus Meier, Ulf Schüller, Volker Dolle, Johannes-Friedrich Enderle, Dieter Lilge, Barbara Gall
  • Publication number: 20150267010
    Abstract: Polyethylene composition with improved swell ratio and mechanical properties, particularly suited for preparing blow-moulded articles, said composition having the following features: 1) density from 0.945 to less than 0.952 g/cm3; 2) ratio MIF/MIP from 15 to 30; 3) Shear-Induced Crystallization Index SIC from 2.5 to 5.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Iakovos Vittorias, Jens Wiesecke, Bernd Lothar Marczinke, Gerhardus Meier, Ulf Schüller, Volker Dolle, Johannes-Friedrich Enderle, Dieter Lilge, Barbara Gall
  • Patent number: 9090719
    Abstract: Novel polyethylenes having defined molecular weight distribution and LCB structure are devised, for films or moldings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Berthold, Bernd Lothar Marczinke, Diana Doetsch, Iakovos Vittorias, Dieter Lilge, Heinz Vogt, Johannes-Gerhard Müller
  • Patent number: 9023945
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of preparing polyethylene compositions comprising polymerizing ethylene in a first gas-phase reactor and polymerizing ethylene in a second gas-phase reactor in the presence of hydrogen; wherein at least one of the first or second gas-phase reactors comprises a first and second polymerization zone; wherein a hydrogen pressure of the first and second polymerization zones are different such that at least a portion of the second ethylene cycles through the first and second polymerization zones and a gas mixture of each polymerization zone is partially or totally prevented from entering the other zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Harilaos Mavridis, Gerhardus Meier, Ulf Schueller, Diana Doetsch, Bernd Marczinke, Iakovos Vittorias
  • Patent number: 8957158
    Abstract: A novel PE material is devised showing excellent mechanical/optical properties and process ability, e.g. for film extrusion. The polyethylene of the invention is produced in one single e.g. gas phase reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Fabiana Fantinel, Gerd Mannebach, Shahram Mihan, Gerhardus Meier, Iakovos Vittorias
  • Patent number: 8846188
    Abstract: A novel PE material is devised showing excellent mechanical/optical properties and process ability, e.g. for film extrusion. The polyethylene of the invention is produced in one single e.g. gas phase reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Fabiana Fantinel, Gerd Mannebach, Shahram Mihan, Gerhardus Meier, Iakovos Vittorias
  • Publication number: 20140243475
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of preparing polyethylene compositions comprising polymerizing ethylene in a first gas-phase reactor and polymerizing ethylene in a second gas-phase reactor in the presence of hydrogen; wherein at least one of the first or second gas-phase reactors comprises a first and second polymerization zone; wherein a hydrogen pressure of the first and second polymerization zones are different such that at least a portion of the second ethylene cycles through the first and second polymerization zones and a gas mixture of each polymerization zone is partially or totally prevented from entering the other zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicants: Basell Polyolefine GmbH, Equistar Chemicals, LP
    Inventors: Harilaos Mavridis, Gerhardus Meier, Ulf Schueller, Diana Doetsch, Bernd Marczinke, Iakovos Vittorias
  • Patent number: 8802803
    Abstract: A novel polyethylene is devised which polyethylene is particularly advantageous for manufacturing rotomoulded articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Mannebach, Heinz Vogt, Fabiana Fantinel, Shahram Mihan, Peter Bisson, Cees Besems, Gerhardus Meier, Ulf Schüller, Barbara Gall, Iakovos Vittorias, Manfred Hecker, Michael Olmscheid
  • Patent number: 8759460
    Abstract: New ethylene polymers having broad molecular weight distribution and long-chain branching, above all at high molecular weight fractions; the polymers have strain hardening equal or higher than 1.4 (at constant elongational rate of 0.5 s?1, at 150° C.), branching index g? equal or lower than 0.9 (at Mw of 2·106 g/mol). The polymers are prepared by using a mixed catalyst system comprising a polymerization catalyst based on a late transition metal component having a tridentate ligand, and a Ziegler polymerization catalyst annealed at a temperature higher than 100° C., for a time of at least 10 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Bassell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Eleonora Ciaccia, Iakovos Vittorias, Shahram Mihan, Lenka Lukesova, Dieter Lilge, Maclovio Herrera Salinas, Gerhardus Meier, Gerd Mannebach
  • Patent number: 8716423
    Abstract: A novel polyethylene is devised which polyethylene is particularly advantageous for manufacturing rotomoulded articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Mannebach, Heinz Vogt, Fabiana Fantinel, Shahram Mihan, Peter Bisson, Cees Besems, Gerhardus Meier, Ulf Schüller, Barbara Gall, Iakovos Vittorias, Manfred Hecker, Michael Olmscheid
  • Publication number: 20130333832
    Abstract: Process for preparing ethylene homopolymers or copolymers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiator and at least one chain transfer agent at pressures in the range of from 110 MPa to 350 MPa and temperatures in the range of from 100° C. to 350° C. in a tubular reactor with at least two reaction zones having different concentrations of the chain transfer agent, wherein the concentration of the chain transfer agent in the first reaction zone is less than 70% of the concentration of the chain transfer agent in the reaction zone with the highest concentration of the chain transfer agent, ethylene homopolymers or copolymers obtainable by such a process, the use of the ethylene homopolymers or copolymers for extrusion coating and a process for extrusion coating a substrate selected from the group consisting of paper, paperboard, polymeric film, and metal, with such ethylene homopolymers or copolymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Iakovos Vittorias, Barbara Gall, Sebastian Weiand, Andrei Gonioukh, Stephan Schmitz, Klaus Berhalter, Gerd Mannebach, Markus Busch, Thomas Herrmann
  • Publication number: 20130295289
    Abstract: Process for preparing ethylene copolymers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiator at pressures in the range of from 160 MPa to 350 MPa and temperatures in the range of from 100° C. to 350° C. in a tubular reactor by copolymerizing ethylene, a bi- or multifunctional comonomer and optionally further comonomers, wherein the bi- or multifunctional comonomer bears at least two different functional groups, of which at least one is a unsaturated group, which can be incorporated into the growing polymer chain, and at least another functional group can act as chain transfer agent in radical ethylene polymerization, ethylene copolymers obtainable by such a process, the use of the ethylene copolymers for extrusion coating and a process for extrusion coating a substrate selected from the group consisting of paper, paperboard, polymeric film, and metal, with such ethylene copolymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: BASELL POLYOLEFINE GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Littmann, Dieter Lilge, Barbara Gall, Iakovos Vittorias, Gerd Mannebach, Markus Busch, Thomas Herrmann
  • Publication number: 20130243990
    Abstract: A novel polyethylene formed by Ziegler catalyst is devised, for use in blow moulding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Berthold, Bernd Lothar Marczinke, Diana Doetsch, Rainer Sattel, Iakovos Vittorias, Peter Bisson
  • Publication number: 20120214926
    Abstract: A novel polyethylene formed by Ziegler catalyst is devised, for use in blow moulding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BASELL POLYOLEFINE GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Berthold, Bernd Lothar Marczinke, Diana Dötsch, Rainer Sattel, Iakovos Vittorias, Peter Bisson
  • Publication number: 20120148777
    Abstract: A novel polyethylene is devised which polyethylene is particularyl advantageous for manufacturing rotomoulded articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: BASELL POLYOLEFINE GMBH
    Inventors: Gerd Mannebach, Heinz Vogt, Fabiana Fantinel, Shahram Mihan, Peter Bisson, Cees Besems, Gerhardus Meier, Ulf Schüller, Barbara Gall, Iakovos Vittorias, Manfred Hecker, Michael Olmscheid