Patents by Inventor Joachim Fiebig

Joachim Fiebig 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: 10414135
    Abstract: A multi-layer polymer film comprising a core layer and a sealing layer, said sealing layer comprises a propylene copolymer composition, said propylene copolymer composition has a comonomer content in the range of 3.0 to 8.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins, comprises a polypropylene (A) and a polypropylene (B) in the weight ratio [(A)/(B)] of 20/80 to 80/20, wherein said polypropylene (A) has a comonomer content of equal or below 4.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins, and said propylene copolymer (B) has a comonomer content of 4.0 to 20.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Joachim Fiebig, Kristin Reichelt
  • Patent number: 10239291
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-layered polymer film, comprising a sealing layer and a base layer, wherein the sealing layer comprises a polypropylene (SL-PP), and wherein the sealing layer polypropylene SL-PP comprises comonomer units derived from ethylene in an amount of from 0.5 wt % to 25 wt % and from at least one C5-12 alpha-olefin in an amount of from 0.5 mol % to 4.0 mol %, and has an amount of xylene solubles XS of at least 20 wt %, and the xylene solubles have an amount of ethylene-derived comonomer units of from 4 wt % to 50 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Joachim Fiebig, Kristin Reichelt
  • Patent number: 10189979
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a new polypropylene composition comprising a propylene homopolymer and a polymeric nucleating agent, to melt-blown fibers comprising the polypropylene composition, to a melt-blown web comprising the melt-blown fibers and/or the polypropylene composition, to an article comprising the melt-blown fibers and/or the melt-blown web as well as to the use of the polypropylene composition for improving the relation between pressure drop and hydrohead of a melt-blown web and for improving the thermo-mechanical properties of a melt-blown web in machine direction (MD) and transverse direction (TD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Wilhelmus Henricus Adolf Sars, Joachim Fiebig, Henk Van Paridon, Markus Gahleitner
  • Patent number: 10087575
    Abstract: Coated nonwoven fabric comprising a nonwoven fabric layer and a coating, said coating comprises a polymer having a branching index g? of equal or below 0.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Antti Tynys, Philippe Gilles, Joachim Fiebig, Henk Van Paridon, Bert Broeders, Wilhelmus Henricus Adolf Sars, Nina Ackermans
  • Patent number: 10065398
    Abstract: A multi-layer biaxially oriented polymer film comprising a core layer (CL) and at least one sealing layer (SL), said sealing layer(s) (SL) comprise(s) a propylene copolymer composition (P) having a comonomer content in the range of 3.0 to 8.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins, said propylene copolymer composition (P) comprises a polypropylene (A) and a polypropylene (B) in the weight ratio [(A)/(B)] of 20/80 to 80/20, wherein said polypropylene (A) has a comonomer content of equal or below 4.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins, and said propylene copolymer (B) has a comonomer content of 4.0 to 20.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Luigi Resconi, Nina Ackermans, Joachim Fiebig, Kristin Reichelt
  • Patent number: 10047249
    Abstract: A multi-layer blown polymer film comprising a core layer (CL) and at least one sealing layer (SL), said sealing layer(s) (SL) comprise(s) a propylene copolymer composition (P) having a comonomer content in the range of 3.0 to 8.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins, said propylene copolymer composition (P) comprises a polypropylene (A) and a polypropylene (B) in the weight ratio [(A)/(B)] of 20/80 to 80/20, wherein said polypropylene (A) has a comonomer content of equal or below 4.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins, and said propylene copolymer (B) has a comonomer content of 4.0 to 20.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Joachim Fiebig, Kristin Reichelt
  • Publication number: 20180208800
    Abstract: A multi-layer blown polymer film comprising a core layer (CL) and at least one sealing layer (SL), said sealing layer(s) (SL) comprise(s) a propylene copolymer composition (P) having a comonomer content in the range of 3.0 to 8.0 wt.-%, the N comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins, said propylene copolymer composition (P) comprises a polypropylene (A) and a polypropylene (B) in the weight ratio [(A)/(B)] of 20/80 to 80/20, wherein said polypropylene (A) has a comonomer content of equal or below 4.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins, and said propylene copolymer (B) has a comonomer content of 4.0 to 20.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Joachim Fiebig, Kristin Reichelt
  • Patent number: 9994003
    Abstract: A multi-layer polymer film comprising a core layer and a sealing layer, said sealing layer comprises a propylene copolymer composition, said propylene copolymer composition—has a comonomer content in the range of 3.0 to 8.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12?-olefins, —comprises a polypropylene (A) and a polypropylene (B) in the weight ratio [(A)/(B)] of 20/80 to 80/20, wherein—said polypropylene (A) has a comonomer content of equal or below 4.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12?-olefins, and—said propylene copolymer (B) has a comonomer content of 4.0 to 20.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12?-olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Joachim Fiebig, Kristin Reichelt
  • Publication number: 20180154617
    Abstract: A multi-layer polymer film comprising a core layer and a sealing layer, said sealing layer comprises a propylene copolymer composition, said propylene copolymer composition has a comonomer content in the range of 3.0 to 8.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins, comprises a polypropylene (A) and a polypropylene (B) in the weight ratio [(A)/(B)] of 20/80 to 80/20, wherein said polypropylene (A) has a comonomer content of equal or below 4.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins, and said propylene copolymer (B) has a comonomer content of 4.0 to 20.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are C5 to C12 ?-olefins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Joachim Fiebig, Kristin Reichelt
  • Patent number: 9828698
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a new polypropylene composition comprising a propylene homopolymer, to a melt-blown fiber comprising the polypropylene composition, to a melt blown web comprising the melt blown fiber and/or the polypropylene composition, to an article comprising the melt blown fiber and/or the melt blown web as well as to the use of the polypropylene composition for improving the relation between pressure drop and hydrohead of a melt-blown web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Katja Klimke, Joachim Fiebig, Henk Van Paridon, Anita Luyten, Markus Gahleitner
  • Publication number: 20170320975
    Abstract: Synergistic visbreaking composition of peroxide and a hydroxylamine ester for increasing the visbreaking efficiency for polypropylene polymers at melt extrusion temperatures below 250° C. and its use in visbreaking polypropylene. The present invention is furthermore related to the use of such visbroken polypropylene polymers for producing melt blown non-wovens with improved barrier properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Joachim Fiebig, Henk Van Paridon, Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner
  • Publication number: 20170314172
    Abstract: Melt-blown webs having no shots and improved barrier properties, whereby the melt-blown webs are made out of a so-called “controlled rheology” propylene (CR-PP), which was visbroken without any peroxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Joachim Fiebig, Henk Van Paridon, Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Wilhelmus Henricus Adolf Sars, Antti Tynys
  • Publication number: 20170198126
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a new polypropylene composition comprising a propylene homopolymer and a polymeric nucleating agent, to melt-blown fibers comprising the polypropylene composition, to a melt-blown web comprising the melt-blown fibers and/or the polypropylene composition, to an article comprising the melt-blown fibers and/or the melt-blown web as well as to the use of the polypropylene composition for improving the relation between pressure drop and hydrohead of a melt-blown web and for improving the thermo-mechanical properties of a melt-blown web in machine direction (MD) and transverse direction (TD).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Wilhelmus Henricus Adolf Sars, Joachim Fiebig, Henk Van Paridon, Markus Gahleitner
  • Patent number: 9595388
    Abstract: Polypropylene composition comprising a polypropylene and an ?-nucleating agent, wherein the polypropylene composition has • a comonomer content of equal or below 1.0 wt.- %, •<2,1> erythro regiodefects of more than 0.1 mol.- %, and • at least 9.0 wt- % of a crystalline fraction crystallizing in the temperature range of above 160 to 170° C., wherein said fraction is determined by the stepwise isothermal segregation technique (SIST).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Dietrich Gloger, Katja Klimke, Joachim Fiebig, Christelle Grein, Robert Persson
  • Publication number: 20170029980
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a new polypropylene composition comprising a propylene homopolymer, to a melt-blown fiber comprising the polypropylene composition, to a melt blown web comprising the melt blown fiber and/or the polypropylene composition, to an article comprising the melt blown fiber and/or the melt blown web as well as to the use of the polypropylene composition for improving the relation between pressure drop and hydrohead of a melt-blown web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Jingbo WANG, Katja KLIMKE, Joachim FIEBIG, Henk VAN PARIDON, Anita LUYTEN, Markus GAHLEITNER
  • Publication number: 20160059524
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-layered polymer film, comprising a sealing layer and a base layer, wherein the sealing layer comprises a polypropylene (SL-PP), and wherein the sealing layer polypropylene SL-PP comprises comonomer units derived from ethylene in an amount of from 0.5 wt % to 25 wt % and from at least one C5-12 alpha-olefin in an amount of from 0.5 mol % to 4.0 mol %, and has an amount of xylene solubles XS of at least 20 wt %, and the xylene solubles have an amount of ethylene-derived comonomer units of from 4 wt % to 50 wt %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Joachim Fiebig, Kristin Reichelt
  • Patent number: 9255349
    Abstract: Melt-blown fiber comprising a terpolymer of propylene, ethylene and a C4 to C10 ?-olefin, wherein further said melt blown fiber and/or said terpolymer has/have a melt flow rate MFR25 (230° C.) of at least 300 g/10 min, the amount of propylene in said terpolymer is at least 90.0 wt.-%, the weight ratio of ethylene and ?-olefin within said terpolymer is 1/100 to below 1/1, and the terpolymer has <2,1> regiodefects of below 0.4 mol.-% 0.10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Henk Van Paridon, Antti Tynys, Joachim Fiebig, Matthew Parkinson
  • Patent number: 9234303
    Abstract: Polypropylene composition comprising a polypropylene having a melt flow rate MFR2 (230° C.) of at least 450 g/10 min and a molecular weight distribution (MWD) of not more than 3.5, a polypropylene having a melt flow rate MFR2 (230° C.) of equal or below 20 g/10 min, wherein the composition has a melt flow rate MFR2 (230° C.) of at least 200 g/10 min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Antti Tynys, Joachim Fiebig, Pascal Perrillat-Collomb
  • Patent number: 9206530
    Abstract: Melt-blown fiber (MBF) comprising a propylene copolymer (PP), wherein the melt-blown fiber (MBF) and/or the propylene copolymer (PP) has/have (a) a melt flow rate MFR2 (230° C.) measured according to ISO 1133 of at least 300 g/10 min, (b) a comonomer content of 1.5 to 6.0 wt.-%, the comonomers are ethylene and/or at least one C4 to C12 ?-olefin, (c) <2,1> regiodefects of more than 0.4 mol.-% determined by 13C-NMR spectroscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Antti Tynys, Joachim Fiebig
  • Patent number: 8999867
    Abstract: Melt-blown fiber having an average diameter of not more than 5.0 ?m, said fiber comprises at least 85 wt.-% of a propylene copolymer, wherein •said melt blown fiber and/or said propylene copolymer has/have a melt flow rate MFR2 (230° C.) measured according to ISO 1133 of at least 200 g/10 min, •said propylene copolymer has a comonomer content of 0.5 to 5.5 wt.-%, the comonmers are ethylene and/or at least one C4 to C20 ?-olefin selected from the group consisting of 1-butene, 1-pentene, 1-hexene, 1-heptene, and 1-octene, •the propylene copolymer has <2,1> regiodefects of not more than 0.4 mol.-% determined by 13C-spectroscopy, and •said melt blown fiber and/or said propylene copolymer fulfill(s) the equation (1). wherein Tm [° C.] is the melting temperature [given in ° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Henk Van Paridon, Bert Broeders, Wilhelmus henricus Adolf Sars, Joachim Fiebig, Nina Ackermans