Patents by Inventor Pascal Hesse
Pascal Hesse 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: 10604611Abstract: A reverse-phase suspension polymerisation process for the manufacture of polymer beads comprising forming aqueous monomer beads of an aqueous solution comprising water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer or monomer blend and polymerising the monomer or monomer blend to form polymer beads while suspended in a non-aqueous liquid, recovering polymer beads, and then cleaning the non-aqueous liquid in which the process comprises providing the non-aqueous liquid in a vessel (1), forming a suspension of monomer beads from the aqueous monomer or monomer blend in the non-aqueous liquid, initiating polymerisation to form polymerising beads, removing a suspension of the polymer beads in non-aqueous liquid from the vessel and recovering, water soluble or water swellable polymer beads from the suspension, in which the non-aqueous liquid contains impurities which comprise particles, and then transferring the non-aqueous liquid from the suspension to a cleaning stage, in which the cleaning stage provides a cleaned nonType: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: BASF SEInventors: John Scott Barratt, Aleksandra Jelicic, Pascal Hesse, Oliver Soetje, Robert Haschick, Gabriela Eugenia Fonseca Zepeda, Shankara Narayanan Keelapandal Ramamoorthy, Sandra Jeck, Jelan Kuhn
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Patent number: 10370461Abstract: A reverse-phase suspension polymerization process for the manufacture of polymer beads comprising forming aqueous monomer beads comprising an aqueous solution of water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer or monomer blend and polymerizing the monomer or monomer blend, to form polymer beads while suspended in a non-aqueous liquid, and recovering polymer beads, in which the process comprises providing in a vessel (1) a volume (2) of non-aqueous liquid wherein the volume of non-aqueous liquid extends between at least one polymer bead discharge point (3) and at least one monomer feed point (4), feeding the aqueous monomer or monomer blend through orifices (5) into, or onto, the non-aqueous liquid to form aqueous monomer beads, allowing the aqueous monomer beads to flow towards the polymer bead discharge point initiating polymerization of the aqueous monomer beads to form polymerizing beads, wherein the polymerizing beads form polymer beads when they reach the polymer bead discharge point, removing a suspensiType: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Pascal Hesse, Aleksandra Jelicic, Gabriela Eugenia Fonseca Zepeda, Robert Haschick, Shankara Narayanan Keelapandal Ramamoorthy, Gareth Ian Naylor, John Scott Barratt, Oliver Soetje, Marcel Lievre, Florian Rainau, Mark Lebkuecher
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Patent number: 9765167Abstract: A reverse-phase suspension polymerization process for the manufacture of polymer beads comprising forming aqueous monomer beads comprising an aqueous solution of water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer or monomer blend and polymerizing the monomer or monomer blend to form polymer beads while suspended in a non-aqueous liquid, and recovering polymer beads, in which the process comprises, providing in a vessel (1) a volume (2) of non-aqueous liquid wherein the volume of non-aqueous liquid extends between at least one polymer bead discharge point (3) and at least one monomer feed point (4), feeding the aqueous monomer or monomer blend through orifices (5) into, or onto, the non-aqueous liquid to form aqueous monomer beads, allowing the aqueous monomer beads to flow towards the polymer bead discharge point subjecting the aqueous monomer beads to polymerization conditions to initiate polymerization to form polymerizing beads, wherein the polymerizing beads have formed polymer beads when they reach the polyType: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Robert Haschick, Aleksandra Jelicic, John Scott Barratt, Pascal Hesse, Oliver Soetje, Gabriela Eugenia Fonseca Zepeda, Shankara Narayanan Keelapandal Ramamoorthy, Bjoern Langlotz
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Publication number: 20160159939Abstract: A reverse-phase suspension polymerisation process for the manufacture of polymer beads comprising forming aqueous monomer beads comprising an aqueous solution of water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer or monomer blend and polymerising the monomer or monomer blend, to form polymer beads while suspended in a non-aqueous liquid, and recovering polymer beads, in which the process comprises providing in a vessel (1) a volume (2) of non-aqueous liquid wherein the volume of non-aqueous liquid extends between at least one polymer bead discharge point (3) and at least one monomer feed point (4), feeding the aqueous monomer or monomer blend through orifices (5) into, or onto, the non-aqueous liquid to form aqueous monomer beads, allowing the aqueous monomer beads to flow towards the polymer bead discharge point initiating polymerisation of the aqueous monomer beads to form polymerising beads, wherein the polymerising beads form polymer beads when they reach the polymer bead discharge point, removing a suspensiType: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Pascal HESSE, Aleksandra JELICIC, Gabriela Eugenia FONSECA ZEPEDA, Robert HASCHICK, Shankara Narayanan KEELAPANDAL RAMAMOORTHY, Gareth Ian NAYLOR, John Scott BARRATT, Oliver SOETJE, Marcel LIEVRE, Florian RAINAU, Mark LEBKUECHER
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Publication number: 20160159955Abstract: A reverse-phase suspension polymerisation process for the manufacture of polymer beads comprising forming aqueous monomer beads comprising an aqueous solution of water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer or monomer blend and polymerising the monomer or monomer blend to form polymer beads while suspended in a non-aqueous liquid, and recovering polymer beads, in which the process comprises, providing in a vessel (1) a volume (2) of non-aqueous liquid wherein the volume of non-aqueous liquid extends between at least one polymer bead discharge point (3) and at least one monomer feed point (4), feeding the aqueous monomer or monomer blend through orifices (5) into, or onto, the non-aqueous liquid to form aqueous monomer beads, allowing the aqueous monomer beads to flow towards the polymer bead discharge point subjecting the aqueous monomer beads to polymerisation conditions to initiate polymerisation to form polymerising beads, wherein the polymerising beads have formed polymer beads when they reach the polyType: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Robert HASCHICK, Aleksandra JELICIC, John Scott BARRATT, Pascal HESSE, Oliver SOETJE, Gabriela Eugenia FONSECA ZEPEDA, Shankara Narayanan KEELAPANDAL RAMAMOORTHY, Bjoern LANGLOTZ
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Publication number: 20160159958Abstract: A reverse-phase suspension polymerisation process for the manufacture of polymer beads comprising forming aqueous monomer beads of an aqueous solution comprising water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer or monomer blend and polymerising the monomer or monomer blend to form polymer beads while suspended in a non-aqueous liquid, recovering polymer beads, and then cleaning the non-aqueous liquid in which the process comprises providing the non-aqueous liquid in a vessel (1), forming a suspension of monomer beads from the aqueous monomer or monomer blend in the non-aqueous liquid, initiating polymerisation to form polymerising beads, removing a suspension of the polymer beads in non-aqueous liquid from the vessel and recovering, water soluble or water swellable polymer beads from the suspension, in which the non-aqueous liquid contains impurities which comprise particles, and then transferring the non-aqueous liquid from the suspension to a cleaning stage, in which the cleaning stage provides a cleaned nonType: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: BASF SEInventors: John Scott BARRATT, Aleksandra JELICIC, Pascal HESSE, Oliver SOETJE, Robert HASCHICK, Gabriela Eugenia FONSECA ZEPEDA, Shankara Narayanan KEELAPANDAL RAMAMOORTHY, Sandra JECK, Jelan KUHN
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Publication number: 20160102197Abstract: The invention relates to thermoplastic molding compounds which contain impact-modified styrene/nitrile monomer copolymers, to molded products and films produced therefrom and to the use thereof. The impact modifiers used are linear A-B-A tri-block copolymers from hard polymer blocks A and a soft polymer block B, preferably polymethylmethacrylate-block-polybutylacrylate-block-polymethylmethacrylate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2014Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Philipp BOECKMANN, Sven FLEISCHMANN, Matthias MUELLER, Pascal HESSE, Jordan KOPPING
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Patent number: 9249290Abstract: The invention relates to a thermoplastic molding compound containing: a) 50 to 85 parts of one or more terpolymers based on acrylnitril, alpha-methylstyrene, and styrene as component A, said terpolymers consisting of: 5 to 30 wt. % styrene, 15 to 35 wt. % acrylnitril, 50 to 70 wt. % alpha-methylstyrene, and 0 to 5 wt. % additional copolymerizable monomers, b) 15 to 50 parts of one or more impact-modifying graft rubbers with an olefinic double bond in the rubber phase as component B, c) 0 to 45 parts of one or more copolymers based on styrene and acrylnitril as component C, said copolymers consisting of: 71 to 81 wt. % styrene, 29 to 19 wt. % acrylnitril, and 0 to 5 wt. % additional copolymerizable monomers, and optionally additives and fibrous and/or particulate fillers. The thermoplastic molding compound leads to a reduced yellowing of the produced molded body.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2012Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: STYROLUTION EUROPE GMBHInventors: Peter Ittemann, Rolf Minkwitz, Pascal Hesse, Bernd Niedermaier
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Publication number: 20150322182Abstract: Styrene beads, wherein the styrene polymer beads comprise from 0.5 to 5% by weight of one or more high-temperature peroxides, where the high-temperature peroxides have a half-life time of 1 hour in the range from 110 to 160° C., measured in cumene.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Patrick Spies, Pascal Hesse, Bernhard Schmied, Libor Seda, Rainer Ostermann, Frank Braun, Gregor Haverkemper, Uwe-Johannes Lehnen, Klaus Hahn, Jan Holoch
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Publication number: 20150011692Abstract: The invention relates to a thermoplastic molding compound containing: a) 50 to 85 parts of one or more terpolymers based on acrylnitril, alpha-methylstyrene, and styrene as component A, said terpolymers consisting of: 5 to 30 wt. % styrene, 15 to 35 wt. % acrylnitril, 50 to 70 wt. % alpha-methylstyrene, and 0 to 5 wt. % additional copolymerizable monomers, b) 15 to 50 parts of one or more impact-modifying graft rubbers with an olefinic double bond in the rubber phase as component B, c) 0 to 45 parts of one or more copolymers based on styrene and acrylnitril as component C, said copolymers consisting of: 71 to 81 wt. % styrene, 29 to 19 wt. % acrylnitril, and 0 to 5 wt. % additional copolymerizable monomers, and optionally additives and fibrous and/or particulate fillers. The thermoplastic molding compound leads to a reduced yellowing of the produced molded body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2012Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Peter Ittemann, Rolf Minkwitz, Pascal Hesse, Bernd Niedermaier
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Publication number: 20150005402Abstract: a) Production of prepolymer beads through a first suspension polymerization reaction using an aqueous suspension comprising styrene monomers and comprising particulate additives, b) isolation of the prepolymer beads, c) optional division of the prepolymer beads into fractions of different particle size and selection of one or more fractions for subsequent stages, d) production of an aqueous suspension of the prepolymer beads and conduct of a second suspension polymerization reaction in the presence of blowing agent and with addition of further monomers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Patrick Spies, Pascal Hesse, Bernhard Schmied, Libor Seda, Rainer Ostermann, Frank Braun, Gregor Haverkemper, Uwe-Johannes Lehnen, Klaus Hahn, Jan Holoch
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Patent number: 8889748Abstract: A composition comprising at least one expandable styrene polymer component and at least one cyclohexanecarboxylic ester and also optionally further components can be processed to mechanically robust foam materials.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Wolfram Husemann, Uwe-Johannes Lehnen, Patrick Spies, Boris Breitscheidel, Klaus Hahn, Jan Holoch, Olaf Kriha, Bernhard Schmied, Pascal Hesse
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Patent number: 8455559Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing expandable styrene polymers which comprises the steps of: (a) adding an aqueous phase comprising a suspension stabilizer and an organic phase comprising styrene and an initiator to a reactor, (b) commencing the addition of a blowing agent at a styrene conversion in the range from 40 to 70% and adding the blowing agent over a period ranging from 30 to 60 minutes, (c) adding a stabilizer to stabilize the bead size distribution of the expandable styrene polymer at a styrene conversion in the range from 65 to 99%.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Wolfgang Ferstl, Jun Gao, Klaus Hahn, Pascal Hesse, Jan Holoch, Klaus-Dieter Hungenberg, Wolfram Husemann, Renata Jovanovic, Wolfgang Kasten, Olaf Kriha, Eckhard Neufeld, Michel Pepers, Birgit Reinhard, Bernhard Schmied, Rudolf Süttinger, Ping Zhang
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Publication number: 20130085242Abstract: Process for preparing polymers by controlled free-radical polymerization, wherein the polymerization of one or more free-radically polymerizable monomers of the general formula (I) where R1, R2, R3 are each H, C1-C4-alkyl, R4 is C(?O)0R5, C(?O)NHR15, C(?O)NR5R6, OC(?O)CH3, C(?O)OH, CN, aryl, hetaryl, C(?O)OR5OH, C(?O)OR5Si(OR5)3, halogen, NHC(O)H, P(?O)(OR7)2, R5 is C1-C20-alkyl, R15 is C1-C20-alkyl, R6 is C1-C20-alkyl, R7 is H, C1-C20-alkyl, in the presence of a. one or more catalysts comprising Cu in the form of Cu(0), Cu(I), Cu(II) or mixtures thereof, b. one or more initiators selected from the group consisting of organic halides or pseudohalides, c. one or more ligands, d. optionally one or more solvents, e. optionally one or more inorganic halide salts, and comprises the steps i) addition of the catalyst a., ii) optionally addition of monomers of the general formula (I), iii) optionally addition of solvent d., iv) addition of ligand c., v) addition of initiator b.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Pascal HESSE, Sven FLEISCHMANN, Florian BECKER, Klaus MUEHLBACH, Klaus-Dieter HUNGENBERG, Markus BRYM, Matthias KLEINER
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Publication number: 20110291040Abstract: A composition comprising at least one expandable styrene polymer component and at least one cyclohexanecarboxylic ester and also optionally further components can be processed to mechanically robust foam materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Wolfram Husemann, Uwe-Johannes Lehnen, Patrick Spies, Boris Breitscheidel, Klaus Hahn, Jan Holoch, Olaf Kriha, Bernhard Schmied, Pascal Hesse
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Publication number: 20110224316Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing expandable styrene polymers which comprises the steps of: (a) adding an aqueous phase comprising a suspension stabilizer and an organic phase comprising styrene and an initiator to a reactor, (b) commencing the addition of a blowing agent at a styrene conversion in the range from 40 to 70% and adding the blowing agent over a period ranging from 30 to 60 minutes, (c) adding a stabilizer to stabilize the bead size distribution of the expandable styrene polymer at a styrene conversion in the range from 65 to 99%.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Wolfgang Ferstl, Jun Gao, Klaus Hahn, Pascal Hesse, Jan Holoch, Klaus-Dieter Hungenberg, Wolfram Husemann, Renata Jovanovic, Wolfgang Kasten, Olaf Kriha, Eckhard Neufeld, Michel Pepers, Birgit Reinhard, Bernhard Schmied, Rudolf Süttinger, Ping Zhang