Patents by Inventor Manfred Stadlbauer
Manfred Stadlbauer 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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Patent number: 8729144Abstract: The present invention relates to a foamed polypropylene composition comprising a propylene homo- and/or copolymer and glass fibres, wherein (i) the composition has a density of 50 to 950 kg/m3, (ii) the tensile modulus tm(extrusion direction) measured according to ISO 527 in extrusion direction and the k-value measured according to ASTM C-518 satisfy the relation: tm(extrusion direction) [MPa]/k [W/mK]?9000 MPa·mK/W, to the use of said composition for the production of an insulating layer and to an article comprising said composition.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Martin Anker, Per-Ola Hagstrand, Manfred Stadlbauer
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Publication number: 20140079899Abstract: Propylene copolymer a. comprising at least 1-hexene as a comonomer, b. having a comonomer content in the range of 1.0 to 3.0 wt.-%, c. having a xylene soluble fraction equal or below 2.5 wt.-%, and d. being partially crystallized in the ?-modification.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Borealis AGInventors: Klaus Bernreitner, Manfred Stadlbauer, Norbert Hafner, Wilfried Töltsch, Pirjo Jääskeläinen
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Patent number: 8637625Abstract: Propylene copolymer (a) comprising at least 1-butene as a comonomer, (b) having a comonomer content in the range of 1.0 to 3.0 wt.-%, (c) having a xylene soluble fraction equal or below 2.5 wt.-%, and (d) being partially crystallized in the ?-modification.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Borealis AGInventors: Klaus Bernreitner, Manfred Stadlbauer, Norbert Hafner, Wilfried Töltsch
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Patent number: 8427810Abstract: The present invention relates to a capacitor film comprising a biaxially oriented polypropylene wherein a) said polypropylene has a draw ratio in machine direction of at least 4.0 and a draw ratio in transverse direction of at least 4.0, and b) said polypropylene has an electrical breakdown strength EB63% according to IEC 60243-part 1 (1988) of at least 300 kV/mm at a draw ratio in machine direction and in transverse direction of 4.0.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Manfred Stadlbauer, Eberhard Ernst, Lauri Huhtanen, Yvo Daniels, Franck Jacobs
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Patent number: 8378047Abstract: The present technology relates to a biaxially oriented polypropylene film. The biaxially oriented polypropylene film comprises a polypropylene material having xylene solubles of at least 0.5 percent by weight. The polypropylene also has a strain hardening index of at least 0.15 measured at a deformation rate d?/dt of 1.00 s?1 at a temperature of 180° C. In certain embodiments, the strain hardening index is defined as the slope of a logarithm to the basis 10 of a tensile stress growth function as a function of a logarithm to the basis 10 of a Hencky strain for the range of Hencky strains between 1 and 3.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Borealis Technology OYInventors: Manfred Stadlbauer, Eberhard Ernst, Petri Lehmus, Yvo Daniels, Franck Jacobs
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Patent number: 8367174Abstract: Propylene copolymer a. comprising at least 1-hexene as a comonomer, b. having a comonomer content in the range of 1.0 to 3.0 wt.-%, c. having a xylene soluble fraction equal or below 2.5 wt.-%, d. having a polydispersity index (PI) of equal or below 4.0 Pa?1, and e. being partially crystallized in the ?-modification.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Borealis AGInventors: Klaus Bernreitner, Manfred Stadlbauer, Norbert Hafner, Wilfried Töltsch
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Patent number: 8344069Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer composition comprising a polyolefin base resin comprising (A) a propylene homopolymer with a MWD of 1.5 to 5.0, and (B) an ethylene copolymer with one or more comonomers selected from alphaolefins with 4 to 12 carbon atoms, having a density of not greater than 920 kg/m3 wherein the polyolefin base resin has a weight ratio of propylene homopolymer (A) to ethylene copolymer (B) from 95:5 to 60:40, the use of such a polymer composition for the manufacture of an injection molded article, an article produced from such a polymer composition, an article with a grained surface structure produced from such a polymer composition showing having a scratch resistance, determined as the difference of the luminance ?L at a load of 10 N, of not more than 1 and a gloss at an angle of 60° of not more than 2.8%, and the use of a polymer composition for the production of such an article.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Markus Gahleitner, Erwin Kastner, Hartmut Siebert, Manfred Stadlbauer
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Patent number: 8283418Abstract: Polypropylene composition comprising a) an isotactic polypropylene (iPP) produced in the presence of a single-site catalyst and said isotactic polypropylene (iPP) has a mean isotactic block length between two structural chain defects, as a statistical average, greater than 70, and b) an atactic polypropylene (aPP) with an absorbance ratio of the absorption band at 998 cm?1 to the absorption band at 973 cm?1 [A998/A973] below 0.80 wherein the weight ratio of said atactic polypropylene to the sum of said atactic polypropylene and said isotactic polypropylene (aPP/(aPP+iPP)) is at least 0.50 wt.-%.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2008Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Werner Posch, Manfred Stadlbauer, Stefan Schiesser
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Patent number: 8247052Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present technology provide a cable comprising a conductor and a cable layer. The cable layer comprises a polypropylene material. The cable layer and/or the polypropylene material comprise a crystalline fraction crystallizing in the temperature range of 200 to 105° C. determined by stepwise isothermal segregation technique. The crystalline fraction comprises a part, wherein, during subsequent melting at a melting rate of 10° C./min, the part melts at or below 130° C. and the part represents at least 20 percent by weight of the crystalline fraction. In certain embodiments, the part melts at or below the temperature T=Tm?3° C., wherein Tm is the melting temperature of the cable layer and/or the polypropylene material, and the part represents at least 45 percent by weight of the crystalline fraction. Certain embodiments provide methods and processes for manufacturing the cable described above and herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Wendy Loyens, Manfred Stadlbauer, Hans Eklind
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Patent number: 8153745Abstract: Multi-branched polypropylene having a g? of less than 1.00.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2007Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Eberhard Ernst, Manfred Stadlbauer
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Patent number: 8142902Abstract: Certain embodiments provide an article comprising a substrate, wherein the substrate is extrusion coated with a composition comprising a multi-branched polypropylene having a g? of less than 1.00. In certain embodiments, the substrate is extrusion coated with a composition comprising a polypropylene material. Either the composition and/or the polypropylene material are represented by the equation: Vicat B [° C.]>?3.96·Cx [mol %]+86.85; wherein Vicat B is the heat resistance, according to ISO 306 (50 N), of the composition and/or the polypropylene material; and Cx is the comonomer content the composition and/or the polypropylene material.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Manfred Stadlbauer, Manfred Kirchberger, Eberhard Ernst
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Publication number: 20110315264Abstract: Propylene copolymer a. comprising at least 1-hexene as a comonomer, b. having a comonomer content in the range of 1.0 to 3.0 wt.-%, c. having a xylene soluble fraction equal or below 2.5 wt.-%, d. having a polydispersity index (PI) of equal or below 4.0 Pa?1, and e. being partially crystallized in the ?-modification.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2009Publication date: December 29, 2011Inventors: Klaus Bernreitner, Manfred Stadlbauer, Norbert Hafner, Wilfried Töltsch
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Publication number: 20110293867Abstract: Propylene copolymer (a) comprising at least 1-butene as a comonomer, (b) having a comonomer content in the range of 1.0 to 3.0 wt.-%, (c) having a xylene soluble fraction equal or below 2.5 wt.-%, and (d) being partially crystallized in the ?-modification.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2009Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: Borealis AGInventors: Klaus Bernreitner, Manfred Stadlbauer, Norbert Hafner, Wilfried Töltsch
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Patent number: 7956148Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of polypropylene using a catalyst system of low porosity, the catalyst system comprising an asymmetric catalyst, wherein the catalyst system has a porosity of less than 1.40 ml/g.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2007Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Eberhard Ernst, Manfred Stadlbauer
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Publication number: 20110104416Abstract: Propylene copolymer a. comprising at least 1-hexene as a comonomer, b. having a comonomer content in the range of 1.0 to 3.0 wt.-%, c. having a xylene soluble fraction equal or below 2.5 wt.-%, and d. being partially crystallized in the ?-modification.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: Borealis AGInventors: Klaus Bernreitner, Manfred Stadlbauer, Norbert Hafner, Wilfried Töltsch, Pirjo Jääskeläinen
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Patent number: 7914899Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present technology provide a capacitor film comprising a polypropylene material. The capacitor film comprises xylene solubles of at least 0.5 percent by weight. In certain embodiments the xylene solubles are in a range of 0.5 to 1.5 percent by weight. The film also comprises a crystalline fraction melting in the temperature range of 200° C. to 105° C. determined by stepwise isothermal segregation technique. The crystalline fraction comprises a part, the part representing at least 10 percent by weight of said crystalline fraction, and wherein the part melts at a melting rate of 10° C./min. Certain embodiments present a capacitor film where the part melts at or below 140° C. In other embodiments, the said part melts at or below the temperature T=Tm?3° C., wherein Tm is the melting temperature of the capacitor film and/or the polypropylene material, and the part represents at least 45 percent by weight of the crystalline fraction.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2009Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Manfred Stadlbauer, Eberhard Ernst, Lauri Huhtanen, Yvo Daniels, Franck Jacobs
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Publication number: 20110060085Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer composition comprising a polyolefin base resin comprising (A) a propylene homopolymer with a MWD of 1.5 to 5.0, and (B) an ethylene copolymer with one or more comonomers selected from alphaolefins with 4 to 12 carbon atoms, having a density of not greater than 920 kg/m3 wherein the polyolefin base resin has a weight ratio of propylene homopolymer (A) to ethylene copolymer (B) from 95:5 to 60:40, the use of such a polymer composition for the manufacture of an injection molded article, an article produced from such a polymer composition, an article with a grained surface structure produced from such a polymer composition showing having a scratch resistance, determined as the difference of the luminance ?L at a load of 10 N, of not more than 1 and a gloss at an angle of 60° of not more than 2.8%, and the use of a polymer composition for the production of such an article.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2009Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventors: Markus Gahleitner, Erwin Kastner, Hartmut Siebert, Manfred Stadlbauer
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Publication number: 20110040061Abstract: A short-chain-branched polypropylene having xylene solubles of at least 0.5 percent by weight is provided. In certain embodiments the polypropylene has a strain hardening index of at least 0.15 as measured by a deformation rate of 1.00 s?1 at a temperature of 180° C. In certain embodiments, the strain hardening index is defined as the slope of the logarithm to the basis 10 of the tensile stress growth function as function of the logarithm to the basis 10 of the Hencky strain for the range of the Hencky strains between 1 and 3. The polypropylene may have xylene solubles in the range of 0.5 to 1.5 percent by weight. In certain embodiments, the polypropylene has a strain hardening index in the range of 0.15 to 0.30. In certain embodiments, the polypropylene has a melting point of at least 148° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: BOREALIS TECHNOLOGY OYInventors: Manfred Stadlbauer, Eberhard Ernst, Lauri Huhtanen, Yvo Daniels, Franck Jacobs
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Patent number: 7799841Abstract: The present technology relates to a foam comprising a polypropylene material. The polypropylene material is produced in the presence of a metallocene catalyst, and the foam and/or the polypropylene has a branching index g? of less than 1.00 and a strain hardening index (SHI@1 s?1) of at least 0.30 measured by a deformation rate d?/dt of 1.00 s?1 at a temperature of 180° C., where the strain hardening index (SHI) is defined as the slope of the logarithm to the basis 10 of the tensile stress growth function (log(?E+)) as a function of the logarithm to the basis 10 of the Hencky strain (log(?)) in the range of Hencky strains between 1 and 3.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2009Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Manfred Stadlbauer, Eberhard Ernst
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Publication number: 20100168364Abstract: Multi-branched polypropylene having a g? of less than 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2007Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: Borealis Technology OyInventors: Eberhard Ernst, Manfred Stadlbauer