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).
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Patent number: 10347848Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Wilfried Hermes, Ingmar Bruder, Peter Erk, Daniel Waldmann
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Patent number: 9917260Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Sudhakar Sundarraj, Christian Eickhoff, Sheeja Bahulayan, Robert Send, Yuichi Nishimae, Helmut Reichelt, Junichi Tanabe, Peter Erk
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Patent number: 9913473Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Heidi Emilia Saxell, Peter Erk, Claude Taranta, Thomas Kröhl, Gerhard Cox, Martin Sukopp, Gautam R. Desiraju, Rahul Banerjee, Prashant M. Bhatt
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Patent number: 9865823Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Robert Send, Ingmar Bruder, Peter Erk, Ruediger Sens, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Hitoshi Yamato, Shinji Nakamichi, Ryuichi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20170082426Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Ingmar BRUDER, Felix EICKEMEYER, Peter ERK, Ruediger SENS, Stephan IRLE, Haroun AL MOHAMEDI, Andreas PELSTER, Erwin THIEL
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Patent number: 9595678Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 15, 2011Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Neil Gregory Pschirer, Ingmar Bruder, Rüdiger Sens, Peter Erk
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Patent number: 9451772Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20160248021Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2014Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Sudhakar SUNDARRAJ, Christian EICKHOFF, Sheeja BAHULAYAN, Robert SEND, Yuichi NISHIMAE, Helmut REICHELT, Junichi TANABE, Peter ERK
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Publication number: 20160218302Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2014Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Wilfried HERMES, Ingmar BRUDER, Peter ERK, Daniel WALDMANN
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Publication number: 20160211464Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2014Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Junichi TANABE, Yuichi NISHIMAE, Christian EICKHOFF, Peter ERK, Ruediger SENS, Robert SEND, Sudhakar SUNDARRAJ
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Patent number: 9368729Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 11, 2010Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: 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
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Patent number: 9087991Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Alfred Kuhn, Ingmar Bruder, Rüdiger Sens, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Peter Erk
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Patent number: 9054325Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignees: 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
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Publication number: 20150124268Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2015Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Ingmar BRUDER, Felix Eickemeyer, Peter Erk, Ruediger Sens, Stephan Irle, Haroun Al Mohamedi, Andreas Pelster, Erwin Thiel
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Publication number: 20150108415Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Robert Send, Ingmar Bruder, Peter Erk, Ruediger Sens, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Hitoshi Yamato, Shinji Nakamichi, Ryuichi Takahashi
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Patent number: 9001029Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Ingmar Bruder, Felix Eickemeyer, Peter Erk, Rüdiger Sens, Stephan Irle, Haroun Al Mohamedi, Andreas Pelster, Erwin Thiel
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Patent number: 8859607Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 8, 2008Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Rafel Israels, Heidi Emilia Saxell, Matthias Bratz, Marco Kuhns, Peter Erk
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Patent number: 8791046Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Heidi Emilia Saxell, Peter Erk, Claude Taranta, Thomas Kröhl, Gerhard Cox, Gautam R. Desiraju, Rahul Banerjee, Prashant M. Bhatt
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Patent number: 8658290Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of halogenated phthalocyanines as charge transport materials and/or as absorber materials.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2008Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignees: BASF SE, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20130207056Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2013Publication date: August 15, 2013Inventors: Flavio Luiz Benedito, Ingmar Bruder, Peter Erk, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Robert Send, Klaus Muellen, Henrike Wonneberger, Chen Li