Patents by Inventor Michael Kneip
Michael Kneip 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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Publication number: 20230321356Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a drug delivery device, having a longitudinal axis and comprising a plunger movable along the longitudinal axis and a guide curve adapted to engage at least one part of the plunger so as to guide the plunger when the plunger is being released to move along the longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Uwe Dasbach, Marc Schader, Michael Kneip, Matthias Rau, Peter Nober
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Patent number: 11612695Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a drug delivery device, having a longitudinal axis and comprising a plunger movable along the longitudinal axis and a guide curve adapted to engage at least one part of the plunger so as to guide the plunger when the plunger is being released to move along the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Uwe Dasbach, Marc Schader, Michael Kneip, Matthias Rau, Peter Nober
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Patent number: 11565036Abstract: An assembly nest for transporting a tubular sub assembly of a drug delivery device on an automated production line, in which the tubular sub assembly includes a tubular body and a cap that is wider than the tubular body. The assembly nest includes a base against which a sub assembly of a drug delivery device is mountable to orientate said sub assembly in a predetermined position; and locking mechanism having a resilient member to urge the locking mechanism into one of: an unlocked position, in which a sub assembly of a drug delivery device can be mounted to the base; or a locked position, in which the locking mechanism engages a mounted sub assembly to retain it in its predetermined position on the base.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Matthias Rau, Winfried Huthmacher, Sebastian Braun, Marc Schader, Markus Janiak, Michael Kneip, Martin Baumeyer, Peter Nober
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Publication number: 20220233778Abstract: A feedback mechanism for an injection device that is configured to deliver a medicament to a user is described. The feedback mechanism comprises a piston and a fluid chamber, and the piston is adapted to move into the fluid chamber during use of the injection device. The feedback mechanism also has a damper that is arranged to damp movement of the piston, and an indicator that is arranged to provide feedback to the user after the piston has moved a pre-determined distance into the fluid chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Marc Schader, Michael Kneip, Matthias Rau
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Patent number: 11324895Abstract: A feedback mechanism for an injection device that is configured to deliver a medicament to a user is described. The feedback mechanism comprises a piston and a fluid chamber, and the piston is adapted to move into the fluid chamber during use of the injection device. The feedback mechanism also has a damper that is arranged to damp movement of the piston, and an indicator that is arranged to provide feedback to the user after the piston has moved a pre-determined distance into the fluid chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Marc Schader, Michael Kneip, Matthias Rau
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Publication number: 20210162133Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a drug delivery device, having a longitudinal axis and comprising a plunger movable along the longitudinal axis and a guide curve adapted to engage at least one part of the plunger so as to guide the plunger when the plunger is being released to move along the longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Uwe Dasbach, Marc Schader, Michael Kneip, Matthias Rau, Peter Nober
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Publication number: 20200093981Abstract: An assembly nest for transporting a tubular sub assembly of a drug delivery device on an automated production line, in which the tubular sub assembly includes a tubular body and a cap that is wider than the tubular body. The assembly nest includes a base against which a sub assembly of a drug delivery device is mountable to orientate said sub assembly in a predetermined position; and locking mechanism having a resilient member to urge the locking mechanism into one of: an unlocked position, in which a sub assembly of a drug delivery device can be mounted to the base; or a locked position, in which the locking mechanism engages a mounted sub assembly to retain it in its predetermined position on the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Matthias Rau, Winfried Huthmacher, Sebastian Braun, Marc Schader, Markus Janiak, Michael Kneip, Martin Baumeyer, Peter Nober
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Publication number: 20200046904Abstract: A feedback mechanism for an injection device that is configured to deliver a medicament to a user is described. The feedback mechanism comprises a piston and a fluid chamber, and the piston is adapted to move into the fluid chamber during use of the injection device. The feedback mechanism also has a damper that is arranged to damp movement of the piston, and an indicator that is arranged to provide feedback to the user after the piston has moved a pre-determined distance into the fluid chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2017Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Marc Schader, Michael Kneip, Matthias Rau
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Patent number: 6336942Abstract: Aqueous solutions or aqueous emulsions of copolymers are obtainable by copolymerization of (a) from 20 to 95 mol % of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated C4-C12-dicarboxylic acid or the anhydride thereof with (b) from 5 to 80 mol % of at least one branched oligomer or polymer which has a vinyl, vinylidene or alkylvinylene terminal group and is of at least 9 carbon atoms and (c) from 0 to 50 mol % of at least one further monoethylenically unsaturated compound which is copolymerizable with the monomers (a) and (b) and contain from 0.5 to 70% by weight, based on the total amount of the solutions or emulsions, of these copolymers. These copolymer solutions or emulsions are suitable as leather assistants and as dispersants for pigments.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1997Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Peter Danisch, Johannes Peter Dix, Walter Denzinger, Axel Kistenmacher, Michael Kneip, Hans-Joachim Müller, Joachim Rösch, Gunnar Schornick
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Patent number: 6200640Abstract: Aqueous solutions or dispersions of copolymers obtainable by free-radical copolymerization of (a) from 20 to 90% by weight of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated C4-6-dicarboxylic acid or the anhydride thereof, as component A, (b) from 5 to 50% by weight of at least one olefin having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, as component B, (c) from 5 to 50% by weight of at least one hydrophobic comonomer from the group consisting of long-chain olefins, esters of long-chain alcohols with acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, long-chain amides of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, and long-chain alkyl vinyl ethers, as component C, (d) from 0 to 40% by weight of further comonomers which can be copolymerized with the above monomers, as component D, where the sum of the amounts of components A, B, C and, if used, D is 100% by weight, followed by at least partial esterification or hydrolysis and neutralization and/or reaction of the carboxyl groups formed during the hydrolysis with bases, for treating leather and/or fur skins.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1998Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Michael Kneip, Axel Kistenmacher, Peter Danisch, Gerhard Wolf
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Patent number: 6110230Abstract: Specific carboxyamide-polysiloxanes of the formula IV ##STR1## or the formula IVa ##STR2## having a carboxyl content of from 0.02 to 1.0 mmol/g and an average molar mass (number average) [M.sub.n ] in the range from 2.times.10.sup.3 to 60.times.10.sup.3 g/mol are used for hydrophobicizing materials of fibrous structure, especially leather or fur skins.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1999Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Holger Friedrich, Michael Kneip, Bernd Leutner
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Patent number: 6033442Abstract: The use of aqueous solutions or dispersions of copolymers composed ofA) from 5 to 95 mol % of ethylenically unsaturated mono- or dicarboxylic acids having 3 to 10 carbons, their anhydrides, their alkali metal, alkaline earth metal or ammonium salts, or mixtures thereof,B) from 5 to 95 mol % of ethylenically unsaturated acetals, ketals or orthocarboxylic esters of the formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 to R.sup.12 independently are hydrogen or an organic radical anda to d independently are 0 or 1, andC) from 0 to 70 mol % of other copolymerizable monomersor their hydrolysis products or polymer-analogous reaction products, as tanning agents for the self-tanning, pretanning or assist tanning of leather pelts and skin pelts or for the retanning of leather and skins.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1998Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Walter Denzinger, Axel Kistenmacher, Gerhard Wolf, Michael Kneip, Norbert Greif, Knut Oppenlander
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Patent number: 6007801Abstract: A cosmetic composition comprising a carboxyl-containing polysiloxane and a cosmetically acceptable auxiliary; in which the carboxyls are amidated by a compound selected from the group consisting of 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol, ethanolamine, morpholine and triethanolamine, and said amidation is up to 50 mol % of the carboxyls.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1997Date of Patent: December 28, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Peter Hossel, Michael Kneip, Norbert Greif
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Patent number: 5914442Abstract: Aqueous solution or aqueous dispersion of copolymers suitable for the fatliquoring and filling of leather and fur skins are obtained by free-radical copolymerization ofA.sup.1) C.sub.6 -C.sub.40 -monoolefins or C.sub.6 -C.sub.40 -alkyl vinyl ethers or mixtures thereof withB.sup.1) monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.4 -C.sub.8 -dicarboxylic anhydrides or by free-radical copolymerization ofA.sup.2) C.sub.6 -C.sub.40 -alkyl acrylates or methacrylates or vinyl esters of C.sub.6 -C.sub.40 -carboxylic acids or mixtures thereof withB.sup.2) monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.3 -C.sub.12 -carboxylic acids, monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.4 -C.sub.12 -dicarboxylic anhydrides, monoesters or monoamides of monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.4 -C.sub.12 -dicarboxylic acids, amides of monoethylenically unsaturated C.sub.3 -C.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 1996Date of Patent: June 22, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hermann Birkhofer, Michael Kneip, Peter Danisch, Walter Denzinger, Axel Kistenmacher, Heinrich Hartmann
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Patent number: 5733342Abstract: Hydroxamic acids and hydroxamic acid ethers I and II ##STR1## where Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 are --NH --OY, --NR.sup.1 --OY or --OX, where in the case of (I) at least one of Z.sup.1 or Z.sup.2, and in the case of (II) Z.sup.1 is --NH --OY or --NR.sup.1 --OY, andR.sup.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 -alkyl,X is hydrogen, alkali metal, ammonium or substituted ammonium, andY is hydrogen, alkali metal, ammonium, substituted ammonium or C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 -alkyl, andL is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.100 linker which can also carry oxygen and nitrogen functional groups,with the exception of N,N-bis(carboxymethyl)-2-aminoacetohydroxamic acid.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1995Date of Patent: March 31, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Greindl, Alexander Kud, Volker Schwendemann, Michael Kneip, Elisabeth Kappes, Richard Baur, Juergen Schneider, Birgit Potthoff-Karl, Alfred Oftring
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Patent number: 5702490Abstract: Leather and skins are water repellent in aqueous emulsion in the presence of emulsifiers with polysiloxanes which are functionalized with carboxyl groups in a comb-like manner and in which the carboxyl groups are bonded to the polymer main chain via spacer groups in the form of linear or branched C.sub.2 -C.sub.40 -alkylene groups which may be interrupted by up to 8 non-neighboring oxygen atoms or groups of the formula --NR.sup.1 --, CO-- ?sic! or --CO--NR.sup.1 -- and in addition may carry up to 5 carboxyl groups or carboxamido groups of the formula --CO--NR.sup.1 R.sup.2 --, where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, the spacer groups being bonded to the polymer main chain via a direct bond or via an oxygen atom or a group of the formula --NR.sup.1 --, --CO--, --CO--NR.sup.1 -- or --CO--O--.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1996Date of Patent: December 30, 1997Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Michael Kneip, Peter Danisch
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Patent number: 5620748Abstract: Soft leathers with a pleasant hand are obtained on fatliquoring and filling leather and fur skins with water-soluble or water-dispersible graft polymers of vegetable and animal oils, obtainable by radically initiated polymerizationA) of a monomer or monomer mixture comprising(a) from 20 to 100% by weight of monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids and/or monoethylenically unsaturated sulfonic acids and/or monoethylenically unsaturated phosphonic acids or their alkali metal, alkaline earth metal or ammonium salts,(b) from 0 to 80% by weight of other monoethylenically unsaturated monomers which are copolymerizable with the monomers (a), and(c) from 0 to 5% by weight of at least doubly ethylenically unconjugatedly unsaturated monomersin the presence ofB) vegetable and/or animal oils in a weight ratio of A:B of (80-1):(20-99).Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1994Date of Patent: April 15, 1997Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hermann Birkhofer, Peter Danisch, Walter Denzinger, Heinrich Hartmann, Michael Kneip
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Patent number: 5530159Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing .beta.-alaninediacetic acid (Ia) or its alkali metal or ammonium salts (Ib) which comprises reacting iminodiacetic acid with acrylonitrile or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl acrylates in weakly acid to weakly basic aqueous medium and subsequently hydrolyzing the nitrile or ester moiety to the acid or a salt.The products prepared according to the invention can be used, in particular, to form complexes.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1994Date of Patent: June 25, 1996Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Michael Kneip, Juergen Schneider, Alfred Oftring
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Patent number: 5112530Abstract: 2-Hydroxy-3-aminopropionic acid derivatives of the general formula I ##STR1## where X is hydrogen, an alkali metal or ammonium which may be substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -hydroxyalkyl, and Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.2 have the following meanings:A) .omega.-substituted alkyl of the general formula--(CH.sub.2).sub.m --R.sup.1where R.sup.1 is hydrogen, hydroxyl or --COOX, --NH--CH(COOX)--CH.sub.2 --COOX or --NY.sup.1 Y.sup.2 and m is from 1 to 20, although m is not 1 when Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.2 are identical and R.sup.1 is --COOX,B) a polyether group of the general formula--(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.m --R.sup.2where R.sup.2 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl,C) a .beta.-hydroxyl-substituted group of the general formula ##STR2## where R.sup.3 is --COOX, --CH.sub.2 OH or --CH.sub.2 --NY.sup.1 Y.sup.2 and n is from 1 to 5,D) an .alpha.-carboxyl-substituted group of the general formula ##STR3## where R.sup.4 is hydrogen, methyl or hydroxymethyl and R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1990Date of Patent: May 12, 1992Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Richard Baur, Charalampos Gousetis, Stefan Birnbach, Michael Kneip, Alfred Oftring