Patents by Inventor Martin Könemann

Martin Könemann 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: 10230023
    Abstract: Color converter comprising at least one polymer and at least one organic fluorescent dye comprising at least one structural unit of the formula (I) where the structural unit may be mono- or polysubstituted by identical or different substituents and where one or more CH groups of the six-membered ring of the benzimidazole structure shown may be replaced by nitrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Koenemann, Gerhard Wagenblast, Robert Send, Sorin Ivanovici, Gerardus De Keyzer
  • Patent number: 10214525
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chlorinated naphthalenetetracarboxylic acid derivatives, preparation thereof and use thereof as charge transport materials, exciton transport materials or emitter materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Koenemann, Gabriele Mattern, Frank Wuerthner, Cornelia Goepfert, Ruediger Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20190023905
    Abstract: The present invention relates to perylene bisimides with rigid 2,2?-biphenoxy bridges which are useful in a wide variety of applications and to novel to perylene bisimides with rigid 2,2?-biphenoxy bridges. The present invention also relates to the use of said compound(s) in color converters for improving the luminous efficacy of LEDs, to color converters and their use and to lighting devices comprising at least one LED or OLED and at least one color converter. The present invention also relates to a printing ink formulation for security printing comprising at least one perylene bisimide with rigid 2,2?-biphenoxy bridges and security documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin KOENEMANN, Gerhard WAGENBLAST, Sorin IVANOVICI, Martina MITGUDE
  • Publication number: 20190010165
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cyanated compounds of the formula (I) wherein at least one of the radicals R2, R3, R4 and R5 is CN, and the remaining radicals are selected from hydrogen, chlorine and bromine; X is O, S, SO or SO2; m is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; R1 is selected from bromine, chlorine, cyano, —NRaRb, C1-C24-alkyl, C1-C24-haloalkyl, C1-C24-alkoxy, C1-C24-haloalkoxy, C3-C24-cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, heteroaryl, C6-C24-aryl, C6-C24-aryloxy, C6-C24-aryl-C1-C10-alkylene, etc.; A is a diradical selected from diradicals of the general formulae (A.1), (A.2), (A.3), and (A.4) wherein R6, (R7)n, (R8)o and (R9)p are as defined in the claims and in the description. The invention further relates to color converters comprising at least one polymer as a matrix material and at least one cyanated compound of formula (I) or mixtures thereof as a fluorescent dye, to the use of the color converters and to lighting devices comprising at least one LED and at least one color converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin KOENEMANN, Gerhard Wagenblast, Sorin Ivanovici, Gabriele Mattern, Martina Mitgude, Gerd Weber
  • Patent number: 10125143
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are cyanated compounds of the formula (I) wherein at least one of the radicals R2, R3, R4 and R5 is CN, and the remaining radicals are selected from hydrogen, chlorine and bromine; X is O, S, SO or SO2; m is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; R1 is selected from bromine, chlorine, cyano, —NRaRb, C1-C24-alkyl, C1-C24-haloalkyl, C1-C24-alkoxy, C1-C24-haloalkoxy, C3-C24-cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, heteroaryl, C6-C24-aryl, C6-C24-aryloxy, C6-C24-aryl-C1-C10-alkylene, etc.; A is a diradical selected from diradicals of the general formulae (A.1), (A.2), (A.3), and (A.4) wherein R6, (R7)n, (R8)o and (R9)p are as defined in the claims and in the description. Also disclosed are color converters containing at least one polymer as a matrix material and at least one cyanated compound of formula (I) or mixtures thereof as a fluorescent dye, the use of the color converters, and lighting devices containing an LED and at least one color converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Koenemann, Gerhard Wagenblast, Sorin Ivanovici, Gabriele Mattern, Martina Mitgude, Gerd Weber
  • Patent number: 9919999
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cyanated perylene compound of the formula I in which one of the Z substituents and one of the Z* substituents are cyano and the other Z substituent and the other Z* substituent are each independently CO2R9, CONR10R11, optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl or C6-C14-aryl, where R9, R10 and R11 are each as defined in the claims; and mixtures thereof. The present invention further relates to a composition comprising a cyanated perylene compound of the formula I or mixtures thereof and to a process for preparation thereof; to color converters comprising at least one polymer as matrix material and at least one cyanated perylene compound or mixtures thereof or a composition comprising at least one cyanated perylene compound or mixtures thereof as fluorescent dye; to the use of these color converters and to lighting devices comprising at least one LED and at least one color converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Koenemann, Gerhard Wagenblast, Sorin Ivanovici, Robert Send, Gabriele Mattern, Gerd Weber
  • Publication number: 20180065980
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are cyanated compounds of the formula (I) wherein at least one of the radicals R2, R3, R4 and R5 is CN, and the remaining radicals are selected from hydrogen, chlorine and bromine; X is O, S, SO or SO2; m is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; 10 is selected from bromine, chlorine, cyano, —NRaRb, C1-C24-alkyl, C1-C24-haloalkyl, C1-C24-alkoxy, C1-C24-haloalkoxy, C3-C24-cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, heteroaryl, C6-C24-aryl, C6-C24-aryloxy, C6-C24-aryl-C1-C10-alkylene, etc.; A is a diradical selected from diradicals of the general formulae (A.1), (A.2), (A.3), and (A.4) wherein R6, (R7)n, (R8)o and (R9)p are as defined in the claims and in the description. Also disclosed are color converters containing at least one polymer as a matrix material and at least one cyanated compound of formula (I) or mixtures thereof as a fluorescent dye, the use of the color converters, and lighting devices containing an LED and at least one color converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin KOENEMANN, Gerhard WAGENBLAST, Sorin IVANOVICI, Gabriele MATTERN, Martina MITGUDE, Gerd WEBER
  • Patent number: 9790423
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cyanated naphthalenebenzimidazole compounds of the formula (I) and mixtures thereof, in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 are each independently hydrogen, cyano or aryl which is unsubstituted or has one or more identical or different substituents RAr, where RAr is as defined in the claims and in the description, with the proviso that the compounds of the formula I comprise at least one cyano group. The invention further relates to color converters comprising at least one polymer as a matrix material and at least one cyanated naphthalenebenzimidazole compound or mixtures thereof as a fluorescent dye, to the use of the color converters and to lighting devices comprising at least one LED and at least one color converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Inventors: Martin Könemann, Gabriele Mattern, Gerhard Wagenblast, Sorin Ivanovici, Robert Send
  • Patent number: 9711665
    Abstract: A color converter comprising at least one layer comprising at least one organic fluorescent colorant and at least one barrier layer having a low permeability to oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Gerhard Wagenblast, Martin Koenemann, Sorin Ivanovici, Gerardus De Keyzer, Robert Send
  • Publication number: 20170183295
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cyanated perylene compound of the formula I in which one of the Z substituents and one of the Z* substituents are cyano and the other Z substituent and the other Z* substituent are each independently CO2R9, CONR10R11, optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl or C6-C14-aryl, where R9, R10 and R11 are each as defined in the claims; and mixtures thereof. The present invention further relates to a composition comprising a cyanated perylene compound of the formula I or mixtures thereof and to a process for preparation thereof; to color converters comprising at least one polymer as matrix material and at least one cyanated perylene compound or mixtures thereof or a composition comprising at least one cyanated perylene compound or mixtures thereof as fluorescent dye; to the use of these color converters and to lighting devices comprising at least one LED and at least one color converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin KOENEMANN, Gerhard WAGENBLAST, Sorin IVANOVICI, Robert SEND, Gabriele MATTERN, Gerd WEBER
  • Publication number: 20170174676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chlorinated naphthalenetetracarboxylic acid derivatives, preparation thereof and use thereof as charge transport materials, exciton transport materials or emitter materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin KOENEMANN, Gabriele MATTERN, Frank WUERTHNER, Cornelia ROEGER, Ruediger SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 9512354
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chlorinated naphthalenetetracarboxylic acid derivatives, preparation thereof and use thereof as charge transport materials, exciton transport materials or emitter materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Koenemann, Gabriele Mattern, Frank Wuerthner, Cornelia Roeger, Ruediger Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20160284947
    Abstract: Color converter comprising at least one polymer and at least one organic fluorescent dye comprising at least one structural unit of the formula (I) where the structural unit may be mono- or polysubstituted by identical or different substituents and where one or more CH groups of the six-membered ring of the benzimidazole structure shown may be replaced by nitrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin KOENEMANN, Gerhard WAGENBLAST, Robert SEND, Sorin IVANOVICI, Gerardus DEKEYZER
  • Patent number: 9406848
    Abstract: Color converter comprising at least one polymer and at least one organic fluorescent dye comprising at least one structural unit of the formula (I) where the structural unit may be mono- or polysubstituted by identical or different substituents and where one or more CH groups of the six-membered ring of the benzimidazole structure shown may be replaced by nitrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Koenemann, Gerhard Wagenblast, Robert Send, Sorin Ivanovici, Gerardus De Keyzer
  • Publication number: 20160177177
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cyanated naphthalenebenzimidazole compounds of the formula (I) and mixtures thereof, in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 are each independently hydrogen, cyano or aryl which is unsubstituted or has one or more identical or different substituents RAr, where RAr is as defined in the claims and in the description, with the proviso that the compounds of the formula I comprise at least one cyano group. The invention further relates to color converters comprising at least one polymer as a matrix material and at least one cyanated naphthalenebenzimidazole compound or mixtures thereof as a fluorescent dye, to the use of the color converters and to lighting devices comprising at least one LED and at least one color converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin KÖNEMANN, Gabriele MATTERN, Gerhard WAGENBLAST, Sorin IVANOVICI, Robert SEND
  • Publication number: 20160084477
    Abstract: Illumination device comprising at least one LED and at least one colour converter comprising at least one organic fluorescent colorant in a matrix consisting essentially of polystyrene or polycarbonate, wherein LED and colour converter are present in a remote phosphor arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Gerhard WAGENBLAST, Martin KOENEMANN, Gerardus DE KEYZER, Sorin IVANOVICI, Michel PEPERS, Matthias MUELLER, Robert SEND
  • Patent number: 9236535
    Abstract: Illumination device comprising at least one LED and at least one color converter comprising at least one organic fluorescent colorant in a matrix consisting essentially of polystyrene or polycarbonate, wherein LED and color converter are present in a remote phosphor arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Gerhard Wagenblast, Martin Koenemann, Gerardus De Keyzer, Sorin Ivanovici, Michel Pepers, Matthias Mueller, Robert Send
  • Patent number: 8921558
    Abstract: Novel mono-azide substituted rylene-imide derivatives, their use in methods for the detection of analytes and reagents kits for the detection of analytes comprising said novel mono-azide substituted rylene-imide derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Gessner, Helmut Reichelt, Ingo Münster, Martin Könemann, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Jianqiang Qu, Rüdiger Sens, Anja Schwögler, Antonio Manetto
  • Patent number: 8802852
    Abstract: Novel mono-azide substituted rylene-imide derivatives, their use in methods for the detection of analytes and reagents kits for the detection of analytes comprising said novel mono-azide substituted rylene-imide derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Gessner, Helmut Reichelt, Ingo Münster, Martin Könemann, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Jianqiang Qu, Rüdiger Sens, Anja Schwögler, Antonio Manetto
  • Publication number: 20140155603
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of the formula (I) in which Y1 and Y2 are each O or, respectively, NRa or NRb, where Ra and Rb are each H or organyl; Z1 to Z4 are each O or S; R11 to R14, R21 to R24 are each Cl, F; where 1 or 2 of the R11 to R14, R21 to R24 radicals may also be CN and/or 1 R11 to R14, R21 to R24 radical may be H; and where, when Y1 is NRa, Z1 or Z2 may also be NRc, where Ra and Rc together are a bridging X group having from 2 to 5 atoms; and where, when Y2 is NRb, Z3 or Z4 may also be NRd, where Rb and Rd together are a bridging X group having from 2 to 5 atoms; to a process for preparation thereof, and to their use as emitter materials, charge transport materials or exciton transport materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Koenemann, Gabriele Mattern, Gerd Weber