Patents by Inventor Peter Erk

Peter Erk 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: 10347848
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new amorphous material with advantageous properties as charge transport material and/or absorber material for various applications, in particular in photoelectric conversion devices, i.e. an amorphous material of the composition (R1NR23)5Me X1aX2b wherein R1 is C1-C4-alkyl, R2 are independently of one another hydrogen or C1-C4-alkyl, Me is a divalent metal, X1 and X2 have different meanings and are independently of one another selected from F, CI, Br, I or a pseudohalide, a and b are independently of one another 0 to 7, wherein the sum of a and b is 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wilfried Hermes, Ingmar Bruder, Peter Erk, Daniel Waldmann
  • Patent number: 9917260
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photoactive material comprising a donor substance and an acceptor substance, wherein the donor substance comprises or consists of one or more compounds of formula (I) described herein, or the acceptor substance comprises or consists of one or more compounds of formula (I) described herein, or the donor substance comprises or consists of a first compound of formula (I) described herein and the acceptor substance comprises a second compound of formula (I) described herein with the proviso that the first and second compound are not the same, as well as to an organic solar cell comprising said photoactive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sudhakar Sundarraj, Christian Eickhoff, Sheeja Bahulayan, Robert Send, Yuichi Nishimae, Helmut Reichelt, Junichi Tanabe, Peter Erk
  • Patent number: 9913473
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel crystalline modification of fipronil, to a process for the preparation of the same, to pesticidal and parasiticidal mixtures and compositions comprising said crystalline modification and to their use for combating pests and parasites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Heidi Emilia Saxell, Peter Erk, Claude Taranta, Thomas Kröhl, Gerhard Cox, Martin Sukopp, Gautam R. Desiraju, Rahul Banerjee, Prashant M. Bhatt
  • Patent number: 9865823
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode layer comprising a porous film made of oxide semiconductor fine particles sensitized with a quinolinium dye having a fluorinated counteranion. Moreover the present invention relates to a photoelectric conversion device comprising said electrode layer, a dye sensitized solar cell comprising said photoelectric conversion device and to novel quinolinium dyes having a fluorinated counteranion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Send, Ingmar Bruder, Peter Erk, Ruediger Sens, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Hitoshi Yamato, Shinji Nakamichi, Ryuichi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170082426
    Abstract: A detector (110) for optically detecting at least one object (112) is proposed. The detector (110) comprises at least one optical sensor (114). The optical sensor (114) has at least one sensor region (116). The optical sensor (114) is designed to generate at least one sensor signal in a manner dependent on an illumination of the sensor region (116). The sensor signal, given the same total power of the illumination, is dependent on a geometry of the illumination, in particular on a beam cross section of the illumination on the sensor area (118). The detector (110) furthermore has at least one evaluation device (122). The evaluation device (122) is designed to generate at least one item of geometrical information from the sensor signal, in particular at least one item of geometrical information about the illumination and/or the object (112).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ingmar BRUDER, Felix EICKEMEYER, Peter ERK, Ruediger SENS, Stephan IRLE, Haroun AL MOHAMEDI, Andreas PELSTER, Erwin THIEL
  • Patent number: 9595678
    Abstract: A photovoltaic element (110) is proposed for conversion of electromagnetic radiation to electrical energy. The photovoltaic element (110) may especially be a dye solar cell (112). The photovoltaic element (110) has at least one first electrode (116), at least one n-semiconductive metal oxide (120), at least one electromagnetic radiation-absorbing dye (122), at least one solid organic p-semiconductor (126) and at least one second electrode (132). The p-semiconductor (126) comprises at least one metal oxide (130).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Neil Gregory Pschirer, Ingmar Bruder, Rüdiger Sens, Peter Erk
  • Patent number: 9451772
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel crystalline modification of fipronil, to a process for the preparation of the same, to pesticidal and parasiticidal mixtures and compositions comprising said crystalline modification and to their use for combating pests and parasites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Heidi Emilia Saxell, Peter Erk, Claude Taranta, Thomas Kroehl, Gerhard Cox, Martin Sukopp, Stefan Scherer, Antti Ojala, Gautam R. Desiraju, Rahul Banerjee, Prashant M. Bhatt
  • Publication number: 20160248021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photoactive material comprising a donor substance and an acceptor substance, wherein the donor substance comprises or consists of one or more compounds of formula (I) described herein, or the acceptor substance comprises or consists of one or more compounds of formula (I) described herein, or the donor substance comprises or consists of a first compound of formula (I) described herein and the acceptor substance comprises a second compound of formula (I) described herein with the proviso that the first and second compound are not the same, as well as to an organic solar cell comprising said photoactive material. The present invention also relates to a photoelectric conversion device comprising or consisting of two or more organic solar cells comprising said photoactive material and to compounds of formula (I) as described herein for use as donor substance or as acceptor substance in a photoactive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Sudhakar SUNDARRAJ, Christian EICKHOFF, Sheeja BAHULAYAN, Robert SEND, Yuichi NISHIMAE, Helmut REICHELT, Junichi TANABE, Peter ERK
  • Publication number: 20160218302
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new amorphous material with advantageous properties as charge transport material and/or absorber material for various applications, in particular in photoelectric conversion devices, i.e. an amorphous material of the composition (R1NR23)5Me X1aX2b wherein R1 is C1-C4-alkyl, R2 are independently of one another hydrogen or C1-C4-alkyl, Me is a divalent metal, X1 and X2 have different meanings and are independently of one another selected from F, CI, Br, I or a pseudohalide, a and b are independently of one another 0 to 7, wherein the sum of a and b is 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wilfried HERMES, Ingmar BRUDER, Peter ERK, Daniel WALDMANN
  • Publication number: 20160211464
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photoactive material comprising a donor substance and an acceptor substance, wherein the donor substance comprises or consists of one or more compounds of formula (I) described below, or the acceptor substance comprises or consists of one or more compounds of formula (I) described below, or the donor substance comprises or consists of a first compound of formula (I) described below and the acceptor substance comprises a second compound of formula (I) described below with the proviso that the first and second compound are not the same, as well as to an organic solar cell or photodetector comprising said photoactive material. The present invention also relates to a photoelectric conversion device comprising or consisting of two or more organic solar cells comprising said photoactive material and to compounds of formula (I) as described below for use as donor substance or as acceptor substance in a photoactive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Junichi TANABE, Yuichi NISHIMAE, Christian EICKHOFF, Peter ERK, Ruediger SENS, Robert SEND, Sudhakar SUNDARRAJ
  • Patent number: 9368729
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of mixtures which comprise, as components K1), one or more merocyanines selected from the group of the compounds of the general formulae Ia, Ib, Ic, Id, Ie, IIa and IIb, as defined in more detail in the description, as an electron donor or electron acceptor, and, as component K2), one or more compounds which, with respect to component K1), act correspondingly as an electron acceptor or electron donor, for producing photoactive layers for organic solar cells and organic photodetectors, to a process for producing photoactive layers, corresponding solar cells and organic photodetectors, and to mixtures which comprise, as components, one or more compounds of the general formulae Ia, Ib, Ic, Id, Ie, IIa and/or IIb of component K1, as defined in more detail in the description, and one or more compounds of component K2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Hwang, Peter Erk, Helmut Reichelt, Ruediger Sens, Ingmar Bruder, Antti Ojala, Jan Schoeneboom, Frank Wuerthner, Hannah Buerckstuemmer, Elena Tulyakova, Klaus Meerholz, Vera Steinmann, Nils Kronenberg
  • Patent number: 9087991
    Abstract: A photovoltaic element (110) is proposed for conversion of electromagnetic radiation to electrical energy, more particularly a dye solar cell (112). The photovoltaic element (110) has at least one first electrode (116), at least one n-semiconductive metal oxide (120), at least one electromagnetic radiation-absorbing dye (122), at least one solid organic p-semiconductor (126) and at least one second electrode (132). The p-semiconductor (126) comprises silver in oxidized form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alfred Kuhn, Ingmar Bruder, Rüdiger Sens, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Peter Erk
  • Patent number: 9054325
    Abstract: Thin layers or films of metal oxides are used as a semiconductor material of solar cells and they are coated with a sensitizer to achieve the high absorption of sunlight. Various dyes have been used as sensitizers in solar cells. Rylene monoimide derivatives are developed as photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells and as photodetectors. The Rylene monoimide derivatives have very good quantum efficiencies, particularly in the NIR region of the absorption spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignees: 03;BASF SE, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
    Inventors: Flavio Luiz Benedito, Ingmar Bruder, Peter Erk, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Robert Send, Klaus Muellen, Henrike Wonneberger, Chen Li
  • Publication number: 20150124268
    Abstract: A detector (110) for optically detecting at least one object (112) is proposed. The detector (110) comprises at least one optical sensor (114). The optical sensor (114) has at least one sensor region (116). The optical sensor (114) is designed to generate at least one sensor signal in a manner dependent on an illumination of the sensor region (116). The sensor signal, given the same total power of the illumination, is dependent on a geometry of the illumination, in particular on a beam cross section of the illumination on the sensor area (118). The detector (110) furthermore has at least one evaluation device (122). The evaluation device (122) is designed to generate at least one item of geometrical information from the sensor signal, in particular at least one item of geometrical information about the illumination and/or the object (112).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ingmar BRUDER, Felix Eickemeyer, Peter Erk, Ruediger Sens, Stephan Irle, Haroun Al Mohamedi, Andreas Pelster, Erwin Thiel
  • Publication number: 20150108415
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode layer comprising a porous film made of oxide semiconductor fine particles sensitized with a quinolinium dye having a fluorinated counteranion. Moreover the present invention relates to a photoelectric conversion device comprising said electrode layer, a dye sensitized solar cell comprising said photoelectric conversion device and to novel quinolinium dyes having a fluorinated counteranion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Send, Ingmar Bruder, Peter Erk, Ruediger Sens, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Hitoshi Yamato, Shinji Nakamichi, Ryuichi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9001029
    Abstract: A detector (110) for optically detecting at least one object (112) is proposed. The detector (110) comprises at least one optical sensor (114). The optical sensor (114) has at least one sensor region (116). The optical sensor (114) is designed to generate at least one sensor signal in a manner dependent on an illumination of the sensor region (116). The sensor signal, given the same total power of the illumination, is dependent on a geometry of the illumination, in particular on a beam cross section of the illumination on the sensor area (118). The detector (110) furthermore has at least one evaluation device (122). The evaluation device (122) is designed to generate at least one item of geometrical information from the sensor signal, in particular at least one item of geometrical information about the illumination and/or the object (112).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ingmar Bruder, Felix Eickemeyer, Peter Erk, Rüdiger Sens, Stephan Irle, Haroun Al Mohamedi, Andreas Pelster, Erwin Thiel
  • Patent number: 8859607
    Abstract: The present invention relates to crystalline complexes comprising at least one agriculturally active organic compound A having at least one functional moiety which is capable as serving as a hydrogen acceptor in a hydrogen bond and thiophanate-methyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Rafel Israels, Heidi Emilia Saxell, Matthias Bratz, Marco Kuhns, Peter Erk
  • Patent number: 8791046
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crystalline modification of fipronil, to a process for the preparation of the same, to pesticidal and parasiticidal mixtures and compositions comprising said crystalline modification and to their use for combating pests and parasites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Heidi Emilia Saxell, Peter Erk, Claude Taranta, Thomas Kröhl, Gerhard Cox, Gautam R. Desiraju, Rahul Banerjee, Prashant M. Bhatt
  • Patent number: 8658290
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of halogenated phthalocyanines as charge transport materials and/or as absorber materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignees: BASF SE, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Martin Koenemann, Sudhakar Sundarraj, Jae Hyung Hwang, Jan Schoeneboom, Albert Liu, Peter Peumans, Felix Eickemeyer, Ingmar Bruder, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Ruediger Sens, Gerd Weber, Sheeja Bahulayan, Peter Erk
  • Publication number: 20130207056
    Abstract: Thin layers or films of metal oxides are used as a semiconductor material of solar cells and they are coated with a sensitizer to achieve the high absorption of sunlight. Various dyes have been used as sensitizers in solar cells. Rylene monoimide derivatives are developed as photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells and as photodetectors. The Rylene monoimide derivatives have very good quantum efficiencies, particularly in the NIR region of the absorption spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Flavio Luiz Benedito, Ingmar Bruder, Peter Erk, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Robert Send, Klaus Muellen, Henrike Wonneberger, Chen Li