Patents by Inventor Lutz Schmalstieg

Lutz Schmalstieg 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: 5756751
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds containing alkoxysilane and hydantoin groups and corresponding to the formula ##STR1## wherein X represents identical or different organic groups which are inert to isocyanate groups below 100.degree. C., provided that at least one of these groups is an alkoxy group,Z represents COOR.sub.1 or an aromatic ring,R represents the residue obtained by removing the isocyanate groups from an organic monomeric polyisocyanate, a polyisocyanate adduct or an NCO prepolymer,R.sub.1 represents an organic group which is inert to isocyanate groups at a temperature of 100.degree. C. or less,R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are identical or different and represent hydrogen or organic groups which are inert to isocyanate groups at a temperature of 100.degree. C. or less,n is an integer from 1 to 8 andm has an average value of 1.5 to 6.The present invention also relates to the use of these compounds for the preparation coatings, sealants and adhesives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer Corporation
    Inventors: Lutz Schmalstieg, Rainer Rettig, Gotz Limbeck, Richard R. Roesler, Edward P. Squiller, Philip E. Yeske, Stanley F. Siranovich
  • Patent number: 5747628
    Abstract: Polyisocyanates based on polyhydroxy polyethers and tolylene diisocyanate containing ether and urethane groups and having an isocyanate group content of from 11.8 to 14.4% by weight, an average isocyanate functionality of from 3.1 to 4.0 and a free tolylene diisocyanate content of less than 0.1% by weight are produced by reacting a polyhydroxy polyether having a molecular weight in the range of from about 350 to about 500 with excess quantities of tolylene diisocyanate and subsequently distilling the mixture to remove unreacted excess of the starting diisocyanate. These polyisocyanates are particularly useful in the production of polyurethane lacquers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lutz Schmalstieg, Hermann Gruber, Bernd Riberi, Klaus Nachtkamp
  • Patent number: 5723564
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of isocyanurate group-containing polyisocyanates in solvents which are inert towards isocyanate groups by reacting 0.2 to 1.5% of the isocyanate groups of diisocyanatotoluene with an aliphatic monohydric alcohol having 6 to 22 carbon atoms and subsequently trimerizing at least a portion of the isocyanate groups of the urethanized diisocyanates in the form of 40 to 70 wt. % solutions in lacquer solvents which are inert towards isocyanate groups, and the use of these polyisocyanates in two-component polyurethane coating compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lutz Schmalstieg, Carl-Gerd Dieris, Wolfgang Kremer, Bernd Riberi
  • Patent number: 5705593
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polyisocyanates prepared from diphenylmethane diisocyanate wherein at least 95% of the isocyanate groups are blocked with diethyl malonate and wherein the polyisocyanates have, based on solids,A) a content of unblocked and blocked isocyanate groups (calculated as NCO) of 9% to 13%,B) a content of allophanate groups (calculated as C.sub.2 HN.sub.2 O.sub.3, molecular weight 101) of 3% to 9% andC) a calculated average functionality of 2.0 to 2.5.The present invention also relates to a process for the production of these polyisocyanates and to their use as crosslinking agents for organic polyhydroxyl compounds in polyurethane stoving lacquers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lutz Schmalstieg, Josef Pedain, Theodor Engbert, Holger Casselmann, Frank Kobelka
  • Patent number: 5688891
    Abstract: Described herein is a process for the preparation of 1,3-dioxan-2-one group-containing oligourethanes by reacting a) hydroxy-functional 1,3-dioxan-2-ones with b) compounds having an average of at least two isocyanate groups per molecule; the oligourethanes obtainable by this process; and their use, optionally in combination with compounds containing active hydrogen atoms, for the preparation of plastics or as a binder or binder component in coating compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wieland Hovestadt, Hans-Josef Buysch, Lutz Schmalstieg, Harald Blum, Norbert Schon
  • Patent number: 5672736
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing polyisocyanates containing allophanate groups by reacting compounds a), whichi) contain urethane groups, but which are substantially free of hydroxyl groups and isocyanate groups,ii) have an average of at least two urethane groups per molecule,iii) are prepared by reacting organic isocyanates a1) with organic hydroxyl compounds a2) andiv) have an average molecular weight of at most 2,500,with excess quantities, based on the urethane groups, of distillable organic polyisocyanates b) to form polyisocyanates containing allophanate groups and subsequently removing by distillation the unreacted excess of component b) to a residual content of less than 0.5 wt. %, provided that polyisocyanates a1) and polyisocyanates b) are different.The present invention also relates to the products obtained from this process and to their use as binders or binder components in coating compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Brahm, Lutz Schmalstieg, Josef Pedain
  • Patent number: 5610260
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polyisocyanate mixtures which are reaction products of 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate as the isocyanate component, are liquid at greater than 5.degree. C. and have an NCO content of 14.5 to 24% by weight and an allophanate group content (calculated as C.sub.2 HN.sub.2 O.sub.3, molecular weight = 101) of 7.7 to 14.5% by weight; a process for the production of these polyisocyanate mixtures by reacting 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate as the exclusive isocyanate component with one or more monohydric alcohols having 4 to 16 carbon atoms at an NCO/OH equivalent ratio of 5:1 to 8.5:1 and at a temperature of up to 160.degree. C. to form urethane groups and during or subsequent to urethane formation, converting the urethane groups to allophanate groups in the presence of a catalyst which promotes allophanate formation; and the use of these polyisocyanate mixtures as the polyisocyanate component in two-component polyurethane coating compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lutz Schmalstieg, Josef Pedain, Harald Mertes
  • Patent number: 5606004
    Abstract: A process for preparing liquid lacquer polyisocyanates with aliphatically and aromatically bound isocyanate groups and an NCO content of 5 to 25 wt. % by trimerizing an isocyanate component A), containing A1) 70 to 100 wt. % of diisocyanatotoluene and A2) 0 to 30 wt. % of other aromatic isocyanates and B) aliphatic lacquer polyisocyanates, optionally with prior, simultaneous and/or subsequent reaction of a portion of the isocyanate groups with an alcohol component C) having a molecular weight of 32 to 900, and optionally in the presence of D) inert solvents; the resulting lacquer polyisocyanates; and their use in coating compositions, in particular as a cross-linking agent for polyhydroxyl compounds in two-component polyurethane coating compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Brahm, Josef Pedain, Lutz Schmalstieg
  • Patent number: 5580947
    Abstract: A process for the production of olefinically unsaturated isocyanates by reacting a1) isophorone diisocyanate or mixtures of isophorone diisocyanate with a2) other organic polyisocyanates with b1.1) olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acids or mixtures thereof with b1.2) other monobasic or polybasic carboxylic acids, b2.1) olefinically unsaturated alcohols and/or b2.2) other monohydric or polyhydric alcohols, the unsaturated resulting isocyanates and their use as binders for one-component coating compositions which may be cured at room temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Brahm, Eberhard Arning, Lutz Schmalstieg, Jurgen Schwindt, Josef Pedain
  • Patent number: 5574124
    Abstract: Isocyanate prepolymers having an NCO content of 1.5 to 5.0 wt. % and a monomeric diisocyanate content of less than 0.5 wt. % which are the reaction products ofA) aromatic or cycloaliphatic diisocyanates withB) mixtures ofB1) polyether polyols having a molecular weight of 1000 to 3000 andB2) polyester carbonate diols having a molecular weight of 700 to 3000,wherein components B1) and B2) are present in a weight ratio of 0.25:1 to 1.5:1;a process for the preparation of these isocyanate prepolymers by reacting the preceding starting materials at an NCO/OH equivalent ratio of at least 1.5:1 and optionally with subsequent removing unreacted monomeric diisocyanate by distillation; and the use of these isocyanate prepolymers as binders for sealing or coating compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer Corporation
    Inventors: Lutz Schmalstieg, Rainer Rettig, Ulrich Walter, Edwin R. Hortelano
  • Patent number: 5563207
    Abstract: Water-dispersible polyisocyanate compositions based on aliphatic and aromatic diisocyanates and having an NCO content, based on solids, of 6 to 21% by weight, a weight ratio of incorporated TDI units to incorporated HDI units of 6:1 to 0.1:1 and a content of ethylene oxide units, arranged within terminal polyether chains, of 5 to 40% by weight; a method for the preparation of these polyisocyanate compositions by reacting a polyisocyanate component with monovalent polyether alcohols containing ethylene oxide units at an NCO/OH equivalent ratio of 2:1 to 120:1; and aqueous coating compositions containing these polyisocyanate compositions and polyhydroxyl compounds as the binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Brahm, Wolfgang Kremer, Lutz Schmalstieg, Joachim Probst, Werner Kubitza
  • Patent number: 5510432
    Abstract: Isocyanate prepolymers based on an aromatic diisocyanate and a polyether polyol in which at least 95% of the isocyanate groups are blocked by blocking agents selected fromA) about 50 to about 97 equivalent % of a phenol or substituted phenol,B) about 30 to about 50 equivalent % of a pyrazole or a substituted pyrazole andC) 0 to about 10 equivalent % of a blocking agent different from A) and B).These blocked isocyanate prepolymers are particularly useful for the production of flexible epoxy resin systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lutz Schmalstieg, Rainer Rettig, Eberhard Konig
  • Patent number: 5508372
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of storage stable prepolymers containing free isocyanate groups by reactinga) an organic polyisocyanate component having (cyclo)aliphatically bound isocyanate groups and a maximum functionality of 4.5 withb) one or more hydroxy-functional polyacrylate resins having a content of alcoholic hydroxy groups of 0.05 to 7% by weight at an equivalent ratio of isocyanate groups of component a) to hydroxyl groups of component b) of 3:1 to 40:1, wherein components a) and b) are selected to provide a value B of at most 4 when calculated in accordance with the formula: ##EQU1## wherein F.sub.1 and F.sub.2 represent the NCO and OH functionalities of components a) and b), F.sub.1 representing the component with the lower functionality when the components differ in functionality andval.sub.A /val.sub.I represents the OH/NCO equivalent ratio of components a) and b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Brahm, Lutz Schmalstieg, Werner Kubitza, Wieland Hovestadt, Josef Pedain
  • Patent number: 5468833
    Abstract: Moisture-curing, one-component coating compositions wherein the binder contains a mixture of A) 100 parts by weight of a polyisocyanate or polyisocyanate mixture of the diphenylmethane series, B) 40 to 150 parts by weight of NCO prepolymers with an NCO content of 1.5 to 12% by weight based on aromatic polyisocyanates and C) 10 to 90 parts by weight of at least one aliphatic lacquer polyisocyanate and the use of the coating compositions for the production of coatings on various substrates.The present invention relates to moisture-curing one-component coating compositions containing as binder a polyisocyanate component containingA) 100 parts by weight of a polyisocyanate or polyisocyanate mixture of the diphenyl methane series having an NCO content of 20 to 33% by weight,B) 40 to 150 parts by weight of one or more NCO prepolymers which have an NCO content of 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jurgen Schwindt, Karl-Heinz Hentschel, Lutz Schmalstieg
  • Patent number: 5468804
    Abstract: A water-dispersible polyisocyanate composition obtained by the partial urethanization of the isocyanate groups of 2,4- and/or 2,6-diisocyanatotoluene with monohydric and polyhydric alcohols, a process for its production, its use as the binder for an aqueous two-component coating composition in combination with a water-soluble or water-dispersible polyhydroxyl component and coatings for water-resistant sheet-form substrates prepared from this coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lutz Schmalstieg, Wolfgang Kremer, Martin Brahm, Joachim Probst, Werner Kubitza
  • Patent number: 5459214
    Abstract: The present invention relates to olefinically unsaturated, urethane group-containing isocyanates which are prepared by reacting at an NCO/OH equivalent ratio of 4 to 40a) an isocyanate component substantially containing urethane group-free cycloaliphatic diisocyanates withb) an unsaturated alcohol component substantially containing monohydric olefinically unsaturated alcoholsand subsequently removing distillable unreacted isocyanates by distillation. The present invention also relates to a process for the preparation of these isocyanates and to their use as a binder component in one-component, coating compositions which may be cured at room temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Brahm, Eberhard Arning, Lutz Schmalstieg, Bernd Riberi
  • Patent number: 5364955
    Abstract: N-alkoxysilylalkyl-aspartic acid esters are prepared by the reaction of equimolar quantities of amino-alkyl alkoxysilanes with maleic or fumaric acid esters. These N-alkoxysilylalkyl-aspartic acid esters are particularly useful as reactants in the preparation of prepolymers containing alkoxysilane and urea groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Zwiener, Lutz Schmalstieg, Josef Pedain
  • Patent number: 5219975
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for the preparation of amines containing urethane and urea groups. The amines are produced by reacting A) isocyanate prepolymers containing urethane groups and in which the isocyanate groups are reversibly blocked with secondary monoamines with B) amines having molecular weights of from 60 to 500, which are at least difunctional and which have a total of at least two primary or secondary amino groups, with splitting off of the secondary monoamine. The invention is also directed to the amines so produced and to the use as a hardener for an epoxide resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lutz Schmalstieg, Karl-Heinz Hentschel, Josef Pedain, Klaus Nachtkamp
  • Patent number: 5215618
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for bonding substrates comprising applying a hot-melt adhesive to the surface of at least one of the substrates and contacting the surface of said substrate with the surface of the other substrate, said adhesive containing an ester group-containing polyisocyanate which is a solid below 30.degree. C. and liquid above 100.degree. C., corresponding to formula (I)A(OCO-B-NCO).sub.n (I)in whichn stands for a whole number or a fraction (statistical average) of from 2 to 6,A stands for an n-valent organic group such as is obtained by removal of hydroxyl groups from an n-valent polyhydroxyl compound in the molecular weight (Mn) range of from 800 to 6000 containing ester and/or carbonate groups andB stands for an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon group having up to 18 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lutz Schmalstieg, Eduard Haensel, Klaus Nachtkamp, Heinrich Konigshofen, Otto Ganster
  • Patent number: 5151484
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isocyante prepolymers containing ether and ester groups, having an isocyanate content of 1.9% to 25% by weight and based on the reaction product ofA) a polyisocyanate component containing at least one organic polyisocyanate having an average molecular weight of 168 to 1000,B) an organic polyhydroxyl component containing at least one polyhydroxyl compound containing ether and ester groups, having an average hydroxyl functionality of 2 to 3 and an average hydroxyl number of 40 to 90 and based on the esterification products ofi) polyether polyols having an average hydroxyl number of 200 to 600 withii) from 25 to 67 equivalent-%, based on the hydroxyl groups of component (i) and the carboxyl groups of component (ii), of an organic carboxylic acid component containing at least one organic monocarboxylic acid or a mixture of at least one organic monocarboxylic acid with up to 20 carboxyl equivalent-%, based on all the carboxylic acids, of polybasic organic carboxylic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lutz Schmalstieg, Peter Hihlein, Josef Pedain, Wolfhart Wieczorrek