Patents by Inventor Ingo Bellin
Ingo Bellin 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).
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Publication number: 20230212368Abstract: The present invention provides a flame-retardant styrene polymer composition comprising an organic bromine compound, zinc stearate and calcium stearate, the use for preparing styrene polymer films or foams and a process for recycling of styrene polymer-containing scrap.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Ingo BELLIN, Franz-Josef DIETZEN, Heinz HERBST
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Publication number: 20230146413Abstract: Expandable styrene polymers comprising polymeric brominated flame-retardant, wherein the polymeric brominated flame-retardant comprises at least one brominated polybutadiene block having a bromination degree between 33 and 75%, based on the double bonds in the polybutadiene block before bromination, a process for producing such expandable styrene polymers by suspension polymerization and particulate foam moldings made therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Ingo BELLIN, Eckhard NEUFELD, Jan HOLOCH
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Patent number: 11248080Abstract: Brominated vinylaromatic-diene block copolymers (Br-SBC) comprising a vinylaromatic polymer block S and a brominated diene polymer block BB, wherein before bromination the weight-average molar mass Mw of the block S is greater than or equal to Mw of the block BB, use thereof as flame retardants, and also polymer compositions comprising these for unfoamed and foamed thermoplastic polymers, for example EPS and XPS.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Konrad Knoll, Ingo Bellin, Jan Holoch, Eckhard Neufeld
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Publication number: 20200165372Abstract: Brominated vinylaromatic-diene block copolymers (Br-SBC) comprising a vinylaromatic polymer block S and a brominated diene polymer block BB, wherein before bromination the weight-average molar mass Mw of the block S is greater than or equal to Mw of the block BB, use thereof as flame retardants, and also polymer compositions comprising these for unfoamed and foamed thermoplastic polymers, for example EPS and XPS.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: Konrad KNOLL, Ingo BELLIN, Jan HOLOCH, Eckhard NEUFELD
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Patent number: 10253150Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing expandable pelletized material which comprises polylactic acid which comprises the following steps: a) melting and incorporation by mixing of polylactic acid, one or more further polymers, a diepoxide or polyepoxide, and one or more additives, b) incorporation by mixing of an organic blowing agent into the polymer melt by means of a static or dynamic mixer at a temperature of at least 140° C., c) discharging through a die plate with holes, the diameter of which at the exit from the die is at most 1.5 mm, and d) pelletizing the melt comprising blowing agent directly downstream of the die plate, and under water, at a pressure in the range from 1 to 20 bar. The invention further relates to expandable pelletized material which comprises polylactic acid and which is obtainable by said process.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Andreas Füssl, Bangaru Dharmapuri Sriramulu Sampath, Maximilian Hofmann, Ingo Bellin, Sameer Nalawade, Klaus Hahn, Andreas Künkel, Robert Loos
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Patent number: 9309365Abstract: The present invention relates to an expandable styrene polymer, comprising at least one flame retardant as component (A), from 0.0001 to 2% by weight, based on component (A), of at least one metal as component (B), and athermanous particles as component (C), to a process for the production of this expandable styrene polymer, to an expanded styrene polymer bead, comprising at least one flame retardant as component (A), from 0.0001 to 2% by weight, based on component (A), of at least one metal as component (B), and athermanous particles as component (C), to a process for the production of this expanded styrene polymer bead, to a foam, capable of production from this expandable styrene polymer, to a process for the production of this foam, and also to the use of this foam for thermal insulation, including that of machines and of household devices, and as packaging material.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2009Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Frank Braun, Ingo Bellin, Klaus Hahn
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Patent number: 9234137Abstract: Use of a phosphorus compound of the formula (I) as flame retardant, where the definitions of the symbols in the formula (I) are as follows: A is one of the following groups: Y is —P(?X2)SR3R4, H, a straight-chain or branched C1-C12-alkyl group, C5-C6-cycloalkyl, C6-C12-aryl, or benzyl, where the four last-mentioned groups are unsubstituted or have substitution by one or more radicals from the group of C1-C4-alkyl or C1-C4-alkenyl; R1, R2, R3, and R4 are identical or different and are hydrogen, OH, C1-C16-alkyl, C1-C16-alkenyl, C1-C16-alkoxy, C1-C16-alkenoxy, C3-C10-cycloalkyl, C3-C10-cycloalkoxy, C6-C10-aryl, C6-C10-aryloxy, C6-C10-aryl-C1-C16-alkyl, C6-C10-aryl-C1-C16-alkoxy, SR9 COR10, COOR11, CONR12R13 or two radicals R1, R2, R3, or R4 form, together with the phosphorus atom to which they are bonded, or the P—O-A-O—P group, a ring system; R5, R6, R7, and R8 are identical or different and are H, C1-C16-alkyl, C1-C16-alkenyl, C1-C16-alkoxy, C1-C16-alkenoxy; R9, R10, R11, R12, R13 are identical orType: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Christoph Fleckenstein, Hartmut Denecke, Ingo Bellin, Olaf Kriha, Patrick Spies, Sabine Fuchs, Klemens Massonne, Klaus Hahn, Peter Deglmann, Maximilian Hofmann, Alois Kindler
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Patent number: 9212270Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing expandable pelletized material which comprises polylactic acid which comprises the following steps: a) melting and incorporation by mixing of the following components: i) from 50 to 99.9% by weight, based on the total weight of components i to iii), of polylactic acid, ii) from 0 to 49.9% by weight, based on the total weight of components i to iii), of one or more further polymers, iii) from 0.1 to 2% by weight, based on the total weight of components i to iii), of a diepoxide or polyepoxide, and iv) from 0 to 10% by weight of one or more additives, b) incorporation by mixing of v) from 3 to 7% by weight, based on the total weight of components i to iv), of an organic blowing agent into the polymer melt by means of a static or dynamic mixer at a temperature of at least 140° C., c) discharging through a die plate with holes, the diameter of which at the exit from the die is at most 1.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Andreas Füβl, Bangaru Sampath, Maximilian Hofmann, Ingo Bellin, Sameer Nalawade, Klaus Hahn, Andreas Künkel, Robert Loos
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Patent number: 9115312Abstract: A flame retardant comprising a) at least one sulfur compound of the formula (I) A1-(Z1)m—(S)n—(Z2)p-A2??(I) where the definitions of the symbols and indices are as follows: A1 and A2 are identical or different, being C6-C12-aryl, cyclohexyl, Si(ORa)3, a saturated, partially unsaturated, or aromatic, mono- or bicyclic ring having from 3 to 12 ring members and comprising one or more heteroatoms from the group of N, O, and S, where the system is unsubstituted or has substitution by one or more substituents of the group of O, OH, S, SH, COORb, CONRcRd, C1-C18-alkyl, C1-C18-alkoxy, C1-C18-thioalkyl, C6-C12-aryl, C6-C12-aryloxy, C2-C18-alkenyl, C2-C18-alkenoxy, C2-C18-alkynyl, and C2-C18-alkinoxy; Z1 and Z2 are identical or different, being —CO— or —CS—; Ra is C1-C18-alkyl; Rb, Rc, and Rd are identical or different, being H, C1-C18-alkyl, C6-C12-aryl, or an aromatic, mono- or bicyclic ring having from 3 to 12 ring members and comprising one or more heteroatoms from the group of N, O, and S; m and p are identicType: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Klaus Hahn, Sabine Fuchs, Ingo Bellin, Patrick Spies, Maximilian Hofmann, Peter Deglmann, Klemens Massonne, Hartmut Denecke, Christoph Fleckenstein, Geert Janssens, Manfred Döring, Michael Ciesielski, Jochen Wagner
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Patent number: 8691896Abstract: Disclosed is a polymer foam with density in the range from 5 to 120 kg/m3 composed of a polymer component including at least one styrene polymer and from 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of a flame retardant mixture including at least one phosphorus compound of the formula PR1R2R3. A process for producing the polymer is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2011Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Klaus Hahn, Olaf Kriha, Ingo Bellin, Patrick Spies, Sabine Fuchs, Peter Deglmann, Klemens Massonne, Hartmut Denecke, Christoph Fleckenstein, Geert Janssens, Maximilian Hofmann, Manfred Döring, Ciesielski Michael, Jochen Wagner
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Patent number: 8641951Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a programmed shape memory polymer, which assumes a first temporary shape and at least two additional stored thermally activatable shapes, namely at least one second temporary shape and a permanent shape, with the steps of: (a) providing a shape memory polymer which has at least two switching segments (A, B), which through phase segregation each form a switching phase having each a corresponding transition temperature (TtransA, TtransB), (b) deforming the shape memory polymer into a shape corresponding to the first temporary shape at a temperature above the upper transition temperature (TtransA), and (c) cooling to a temperature below the lower transition temperature (TtransB) by fixing the first temporary shape. The method of the invention provides a one-step programming method for a triple-shape plastic material.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthact GmbHInventors: Ingo Bellin, Andreas Lendlein
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Patent number: 8636929Abstract: Process for the production of nanoporous foamed active substance-containing preparations, wherein the active substance is present embedded in a pharmaceutically acceptable polymer, wherein, in stage a) loading of a polymeric molding composition or a polymer melt with a propellant is effected at a pressure and at a temperature at which the propellant is in the supercritical state, in stage b) heating of the laden polymer molding compound or melt is carried out under pressure at a temperature which lies in the range from ?40 to +60° C., preferably ?20 to +55° C., and especially preferably 0 to +50° C. around the glass transition temperature of the unladen (prior to loading) polymeric molding compound and in stage c) a depressurization of the polymeric molding compound or melt laden in stage a) and heated under pressure in stage b) is effected out with a depressurization rate in the range from 15,000 to 200,000 MPa/sec.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Basf SEInventors: Jan Kurt Walter Sandler, Ingo Bellin, Dejan Djuric, Karl Kolter, Holger Ruckdäschel
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Publication number: 20130150468Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing expandable pelletized material which comprises polylactic acid which comprises the following steps: a) melting and incorporation by mixing of the following components: i) from 50 to 99.9% by weight, based on the total weight of components i to iii), of polylactic acid, ii) from 0 to 49.9% by weight, based on the total weight of components i to iii), of one or more further polymers, iii) from 0.1 to 2% by weight, based on the total weight of components i to iii), of a diepoxide or polyepoxide, and iv) from 0 to 10% by weight of one or more additives, b) incorporation by mixing of v) from 3 to 7% by weight, based on the total weight of components i to iv), of an organic blowing agent into the polymer melt by means of a static or dynamic mixer at a temperature of at least 140° C., c) discharging through a die plate with holes, the diameter of which at the exit from the die is at most 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Andreas Füssi, Bangaru Sampath, Maximilian Hofmann, Ingo Bellin, Sameer Nalawade, Klaus Hahn, Andreas Künkel, Robert Loos
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Publication number: 20130059933Abstract: A process for producing an expandable pelletized polymeric material which comprises: a) providing a polymer component, consisting of a styrene polymer component having a glass transition temperature of ?130° C., formed from and one or more thermoplastic polymers selected from the group consisting of aromatic polyethers; polyolefins; polyacrylates; polycarbonates; polyesters; polyamides; polyether sulfones; polyether ketones and polyether sulfides, (b) heating the polymer component to form a polymer melt, (c) introducing a blowing agent component into the polymer melt to form a foamable melt, (d) homogenizing the mixture, (f) extruding the blowing agent-containing polymer melt through a die plate, (g) pelletizing the blowing agent-containing melt in a liquid-filled chamber to form a pelletized material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Holger Ruckdäschel, Alexandre Terrenoire, Jan Kurt Walter Sandler, Klaus Hahn, Ingo Bellin, Georg Grässel, Martin Weber
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Publication number: 20130030066Abstract: The invention relates to a polymer composition containing i) styrene polymer(s) and ii) phosphorylated polyether(s) with from 0.5 to 40% by weight phosphorus content, the main chain of which is formed exclusively from carbon atoms and from oxygen atoms, and which has at least three terminal and/or pendant OH groups, where these have been substituted with where ˜ indicates the bond to the polymer skeleton of the polyether; Y is O or S; t is 0 or 1; R1 and R2, being identical or different, are H, C1-C18-alkyl, C2-C18-alkenyl, C2-C18-alkynyl, C3-C10-cycloalkyl, C6-C10-aryl, furyl, C6-C10-aryl-C1-C10-alkyl, OR3, SR3, NR3R4, COR3, COOR3 or CONR3R4, or R1 and R2 form, together with the phosphorus atom P, a 4-8-membered ring system; R3 and R4, being identical or different, are H, C1-C16-alkyl, C2-C16-alkenyl, C3C16-alkynyl, C3-C10-cycloalkyl, C6-C10-aryl or C6-C10-aryl-C1-C10-alkyl, and/or polycarbonates containing phosphorus-containing group(s) of the general formula (I).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Klaus Hahn, Sabine Fuchs, Ingo Bellin, Patrick Spies, Maximilian Hofmann, Peter Deglmann, Klemens Massonne, Hartmut Denecke, Christoph Fleckenstein, Geert Janssens, Anna Müller-Cristadoro, Bernd Bruchmann
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Publication number: 20120283345Abstract: The invention is directed to extruded foam based on thermoplastic polymers. The foam contains at least one styrene copolymer which contains copolymerized maleic anhydride units or copolymerized maleimide units, and optionally styrene-acrylonitrile copolymers (SAN), and thermoplastic polymers and at least one halogen-containing polymer as flame retardant, and at least one flame retardant synergist selected from antimony trioxide and dicumyl. The invention also relates to a process for producing the foam with introducing carbon dioxide as blowing agent, and acetone as coblowing agent; into the polymer melt in order to form a foamable melt, and extruding the foamable melt into a region of relatively low pressure with foaming to give the extruded foam. The invention also relates to the use of said foam as insulation material and as structural foam.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Holger Ruckdäschel, Ingo Bellin, Christian Däschlein, Klaus Hahn, Peter Merkel, Juan-Manuel Igea-Ruiz, Herbert Schall, Maria-Kristin Sommer, Tobias Höld, Christoph Hahn, Elmar Boy
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Publication number: 20120252911Abstract: Use of a phosphorus compound of the formula (I) as flame retardant, where the definitions of the symbols in the formula (I) are as follows: A is one of the following groups: Y is —P(?X2)SR3R4, H, a straight-chain or branched C1-C12-alkyl group, C5-C6-cycloalkyl, C6-C12-aryl, or benzyl, where the four last-mentioned groups are unsubstituted or have substitution by one or more radicals from the group of C1-C4-alkyl or C1-C4-alkenyl; R1, R2, R3, and R4 are identical or different and are hydrogen, OH, C1-C16-alkyl, C1-C16-alkenyl, C1-C16-alkoxy, C1-C16-alkenoxy, C3-C10-cycloalkyl, C3-C10-cycloalkoxy, C6-C10-aryl, C6-C10-aryloxy, C6-C10-aryl-C1-C16-alkyl, C6-C10-aryl-C1-C16-alkoxy, SR9 COR10, COOR11, CONR12R13 or two radicals R1, R2, R3, or R4 form, together with the phosphorus atom to which they are bonded, or the P—O-A-O—P group, a ring system; R5, R6, R7, and R8 are identical or different and are H, C1-C16-alkyl, C1-C16-alkenyl, C1-C16-alkoxy, C1-C16-alkenoxy; R9, R10, R11, R12, R13 are identical orType: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2010Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Christoph Fleckenstein, Hartmut Denecke, Ingo Bellin, Olaf Kriha, Patrick Spies, Sabine Fuchs, Klemens Massonne, Klaus Hahn, Peter Deglmann, Maximilian Hofmann, Alois Kindler
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Publication number: 20120252914Abstract: Flame-retardant polymer foams which comprise, as flame retardant, at least one halogenated polymer, for example brominated polystyrene or styrene-butadiene block copolymer having bromine content in the range from 40 to 80% by weight, or tetrabromobisphenol A compounds (TBBPA), processes for producing these, and also flame-retardant expandable styrene polymers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2010Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Klaus Hahn, Olaf Kriha, Ingo Bellin, Frank Braun, Patrick Spies, Jan Kurt Walter Sandler, Geert Janssens, Jürgen Fischer, Christoph Fleckenstein, Hartmut Denecke, Sabine Fuchs, Peter Merkel, Manfred Pawlowski, Holger Ruckdäschel, Klemens Massonne
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Publication number: 20120178842Abstract: Halogen-free, flame-retardant polymer foams which comprise, as flame retardant, at least one cyclic or acyclic oligophosphorus compound, and processes for their production. Examples of suitable oligophosphorus compounds are those having the structure Ia, Ib, or Ic: Another group of suitable oligophosphorus compounds is that having one of the following structures IIa, IIb, or IIc: Cyclic oligophosphorus compounds of the following structure III are also suitable: The radicals R1-R5 have been selected independently of one another from the group of C1-C16-alkyl, C1-C16-alkenyl, C1-C16-alkoxy, C1-C16-alkenyloxy, C3-C10-cycloalkyl, C3-C10-cycloalkoxy, C6-C10-aryl, C6-C10-aryloxy, C6-C10-aryl-C1-C16-alkyl, C6-C10-aryl-C1-C16-alkoxy, NR2R3, COR2, COOR2, and CONR2R3 , and the radicals X1 and X2, independently of one another, are O or S.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2010Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Klaus Hahn, Olaf Kriha, Ingo Bellin, Patrick Spies, Sabine Fuchs, Peter Deglmann, Klemens Massonne, Hartmut Denecke, Christoph Fleckenstein, Geert Janssens
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Publication number: 20120172467Abstract: The invention relates to a flame retardant comprising a) at least one sulfur compound of the formula (I) b) at least one halogen-free organophosphorus compound with phosphorus content in the range from 0.5 to 40% by weight, based on the phosphorus compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2011Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Ingo Bellin, Patrick Spies, Sabine Fuchs, Christoph Fleckenstein, Peter Deglmann, Maximilian Hofmann, Rainer Ostermann, Klaus Hahn, Hartmut Denecke, Klemens Massonne, Geert Janssens, Manfred Döring, Ciesielski Michael, Jochen Wagner