Patents by Inventor Joachim Weber

Joachim Weber 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: 20040060478
    Abstract: The invention relates to the novel pigment dispersants of the formula (I), wherein Q1 is a group of an organic pigment selected from the group of the perinone, quinacridone, quinacridonequinone, anthanthrone, indanthrone, dioxazine, diketopyrrolopyrrole, indigo, thioindigo, thiazine indigo, isoindoline, isoindolinone, pyranthrone, isoviolanthrone, flavanthrone or anthrapyrimidine pigments; s is a number of from 1 to 5; n is a number of from 0 to 4; the sum of s and n being 1 to 5, and to pigment preparations. Said pigment preparations are characterized by a content of at least one organic pigment and one pigment dispersant of the formula ((I), wherein Q1 is a group of an organic pigment selected from the group of phthalocyanine, azo, benzimidazolone, disazocondensation, perinone, quinacridone, quinacridonequinone, anthanthrone, indanthrone, dioxazine, diketopyrrolopyrrole, indigo, thioindigo, thiazine indigo, isoindoline, isoindolinone, pyranthrone, isoviolanthrone, flavanthrone or anthrapyrimidine pigments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Klaus Brychcy, Erwin Dietz
  • Publication number: 20030218743
    Abstract: To detect defects in a continuously moving strip of transparent material, especially a wide thin glass strip, a narrow monochromatic light beam is guided transverse to the motion direction of the moving strip and is coupled into the moving strip, preferably through an edge region of the moving strip, by a transparent liquid arranged between the moving strip and the light source producing the monochromatic light beam. In a first embodiment the monochromatic light beam is inclined to an upper surface of the moving strip through which it passes and is coupled into the moving strip by a transparent liquid whose index of refraction is greater than that of the atmosphere surrounding the moving strip. In a second embodiment the monochromatic light beam is parallel to the upper surface of the strip and is coupled into an edge surface of the continuously moving strip by a transparent liquid whose index of refraction is about equal to that of the moving material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventors: Klaus Gerstner, Joachim Weber
  • Patent number: 6646126
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing transparent perylimide pigments of the formula (I): in which u is a number from 0 to 8 and, if u>0, E is a chlorine or bromine atom and, where u>1, may be a combination thereof, which comprises wet-grinding a crude perylimide pigment in a liquid medium in a stirred ballmill operated at a power density of from 1.0 kW per liter of milling space and at a stirrer tip speed of more than 12 m/s under the action of grinding media having a diameter of less than or equal to 0.9 mm, and isolating the resulting pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Manfred Urban, Martin Böhmer, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 6616859
    Abstract: A process for preparing alcoholic solutions of alkali metal alkoxides. The process includes reacting an alkali metal with an alcohol in a microreactor wherein the microreactor provides laminer flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant International Ltd.
    Inventors: Uwe Nickel, Leonhard Unverdorben, Joachim Weber, Erwin Dietz, Juergen Patzlaff
  • Publication number: 20030162976
    Abstract: The invention provides novel pigment dispersants of the formula (I) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Felix Wendelin Grimm, Erwin Dietz
  • Publication number: 20030162977
    Abstract: The invention provides novel pigment dispersants of the formula (I) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Felix Wendelin Grimm, Erwin Dietz
  • Publication number: 20030158410
    Abstract: A process for preparing diketopyrrolopyrrole pigments comprises conducting the elementary steps of pigment synthesis (reaction and hydrolysis) in a miniaturized continuous reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Uwe Nickel, Leonhard Unverdorben, Joachim Weber, Erwin Dietz, Juergen Patzlaff
  • Patent number: 6582508
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for the fine division of pigments which comprises spraying a coarsely crystalline crude pigment and/or a poorly dispersible prepigment in suspension form through nozzles to a point of conjoint collision in a reactor chamber enclosed by a housing in a microjet reactor, a gas or an evaporating liquid being passed into the reactor chamber through an opening in the housing for the purpose of maintaining a gas atmosphere in the reactor chamber, and the resulting pigment suspension and the gas or the evaporated liquid being removed from the reactor through a further opening in the housing by means of overpressure on the gas entry side or underpressure on the product and gas exit side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Dietz, Joachim Weber, Dieter Schnaitmann, Christian Wille, Leonhard Unverdorben
  • Publication number: 20030105325
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing transparent perylimide pigments of the formula (I) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Applicant: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Manfred Urban, Martin Bohmer, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 6566519
    Abstract: A process for preparing diketopyrrolopyrrole pigments comprises conducting the elementary steps of pigment synthesis (reaction and hydrolysis) in a miniaturized continuous reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant International Ltd.
    Inventors: Uwe Nickel, Leonhard Unverdorben, Joachim Weber, Erwin Dietz, Juergen Patzlaff
  • Patent number: 6562121
    Abstract: Organic pigments are conditioned by introducing a liquid prepigment suspension into a miniaturized continuous reactor and thermally treating therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited
    Inventors: Uwe Nickel, Klaus Kund, Erwin Dietz, Joachim Weber, Olaf Schupp
  • Patent number: 6548647
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing azo colorants which comprises spraying one or more coupling components individually or in a mixture and one or more compatible diazonium salts individually or in a mixture, in their solution or suspension form through nozzles to a point of conjoint collision in a reactor chamber enclosed by a housing in a microjet reactor, a gas or an evaporating liquid being passed into the reactor chamber through an opening in the housing for the purpose of maintaining a gas atmosphere in the reactor chamber, and the resulting product solution or suspension and the gas or the evaporated liquid being removed from the reactor through a further opening in the housing by means of overpressure on the gas entry side or underpressure on the product and gas exit side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Dietz, Joachim Weber, Dieter Schnaitmann, Christian Wille, Leonhard Unverdorben, Klaus Saitmacher, Jörg Jung, Kristina Schiffer
  • Patent number: 6537364
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for the fine division of pigments which comprises dissolving coarsely crystalline crude pigments in a solvent and precipitating them with a liquid precipitation medium by spraying the pigment solution and the precipitation medium through nozzles to a point of conjoint collision in a reactor chamber enclosed by a housing in a microjet reactor, a gas or an evaporating liquid being passed into the reactor chamber through an opening in the housing for the purpose of maintaining a gas atmosphere in the reactor chamber, and the resulting pigment suspension and the gas or the evaporated liquid being removed from the reactor through a further opening in the housing by means of overpressure on the gas entry side or underpressure on the product and gas exit side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Dietz, Joachim Weber, Dieter Schnaitmann, Christian Wille, Leonhard Unverdorben, Klaus Brychcy
  • Patent number: 6521756
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing transparent perylimide pigments of the formula (I) in which u is a number from 0 to 8 and, if u>0, E is a chlorine or bromine atom and, where u>1, may be a combination thereof, which comprises wet-grinding a crude perylimide pigment in a liquid medium in a stirred ballmill operated at a power density of from 1.0 kW per liter of milling space and at a stirrer tip speed of more than 12 m/s under the action of grinding media having a diameter of less than or equal to 0.9 mm, and isolating the resulting pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Manfred Urban, Martin Böhmer, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 6504045
    Abstract: The invention relates to six new crystal polymorphs, &agr; (alpha), &bgr; (beta), &ggr; (gamma), &dgr; (delta), &zgr; (zeta), and &eegr; (eta), of the disazo colorant of the formula I, having characteristic reflections in the X-ray diffraction spectrum. The novel crystal polymorphs are prepared by treatment in organic solvents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Ruediger Jung, Hans-Joachim Metz, Joachim Weber, Martin U. Schmidt, Olaf Schupp, Andreas Wacker
  • Patent number: 6413309
    Abstract: Pigment preparations comprising a) at least one organic base pigment, b1) at least one perylene pigment dispersant of the formula (I)  and b2) at least one acidic, carboxyl- or sulfo-containing perylene pigment dispersant have advantageous rheological and coloristic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Manfred Urban, Manfred Opravil, Erwin Dietz
  • Patent number: 6409816
    Abstract: Pigment preparations comprise a) at least one diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment, and b) at least one perylene pigment dispersant of the formula (I)  and have advantageous rheological and coloristic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Erwin Dietz
  • Publication number: 20020065402
    Abstract: The invention relates to six new crystal polymorphs, &agr; (alpha), &bgr; (beta), &ggr; (gamma), &dgr; (delta), &zgr; (zeta), and &eegr; (eta), of the disazo colorant of the formula I, 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Ruediger Jung, Hans-Joachim Metz, Joachim Weber, Martin U. Schmidt, Olaf Schupp, Andreas Wacker
  • Publication number: 20020055619
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing azo colorants which comprises spraying one or more coupling components individually or in a mixture and one or more compatible diazonium salts individually or in a mixture, in their solution or suspension form through nozzles to a point of conjoint collision in a reactor chamber enclosed by a housing in a microjet reactor, a gas or an evaporating liquid being passed into the reactor chamber through an opening in the housing for the purpose of maintaining a gas atmosphere in the reactor chamber, and the resulting product solution or suspension and the gas or the evaporated liquid being removed from the reactor through a further opening in the housing by means of overpressure on the gas entry side or underpressure on the product and gas exit side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Applicant: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Dietz, Joachim Weber, Dieter Schnaitmann, Christian Wille, Leonhard Unverdorben, Klaus Saitmacher, Jorg Jung, Kristina Schiffer
  • Publication number: 20020040663
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for the fine division of pigments which comprises spraying a coarsely crystalline crude pigment and/or a poorly dispersible prepigment in suspension form through nozzles to a point of conjoint collision in a reactor chamber enclosed by a housing in a microjet reactor, a gas or an evaporating liquid being passed into the reactor chamber through an opening in the housing for the purpose of maintaining a gas atmosphere in the reactor chamber, and the resulting pigment suspension and the gas or the evaporated liquid being removed from the reactor through a further opening in the housing by means of overpressure on the gas entry side or underpressure on the product and gas exit side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Publication date: April 11, 2002
    Applicant: Clariant GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Dietz, Joachim Weber, Dieter Schnaitmann, Christian Wille, Leonhard Unverdorben