Patents by Inventor Rüdiger Sens
Rüdiger Sens 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: 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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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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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: 8921558Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Thomas Gessner, Helmut Reichelt, Ingo Münster, Martin Könemann, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Jianqiang Qu, Rüdiger Sens, Anja Schwögler, Antonio Manetto
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Patent number: 8802852Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Thomas Gessner, Helmut Reichelt, Ingo Münster, Martin Könemann, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Jianqiang Qu, Rüdiger Sens, Anja Schwögler, Antonio Manetto
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Publication number: 20140080220Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Thomas Gessner, Helmut Reichelt, Ingo Münster, Martin Könemann, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Jianqiang Qu, Rüdiger Sens, Anja Schwögler, Antonio Manetto
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Publication number: 20140073059Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Thomas Gessner, Helmut Reichelt, Ingo Münster, Martin Könemann, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Jianqiang Qu, Rüdiger Sens, Anja Schwögler, Antonio Manetto
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Publication number: 20140066656Abstract: The present invention relates 9,9?-spirobifluorene compounds of general formula I wherein the variables R11, R12, R21, R22, R31, R32, R41 and R42 independently of each other have the meaning of aryl or hetaryl, with the proviso that not all of the radicals R11, R12, R21, R22, R31, R32, R41 and R42 are identical, to the use of compounds of general formula I in organic electronics applications, especially in organic field effect transistors, in organic photodetectors and organic solar cells, specifically in dye-sensitized solar cells and bulk heterojunction solar cells, and to an organic field effect transistor, a dye-sensitized solar cell and a bulk heterojunction solar cell comprising compounds of general formula I.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Ingmar BRUDER, Ruediger Sens, Robert Send, Henrike Wonneberger, Hermann Bergmann, Vytautas Getautis, Maryte Daskeviciene, Tadas Malinauskas, Daiva Tomkute-Luksiene
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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: 20140034623Abstract: A process for altering the absorption of electromagnetic radiation by one or more compounds of the general formulae (I) wherein these compounds are irradiated with electromagnetic radiation of wavelength from 300 to 750 nm. The use of compounds of the general formula (I) or (II) for marking materials, for example paper or mineral oil, and use of compounds of the general formula (I) or (II) for causing a color change. The use of compounds of the general formula (I) or (II) for laser welding, heat management, as a photoinitiator, as a free-radical scavenger or for detection of oxygen. A process for regulating the absorption or transmission of electromagnetic radiation by a material wherein one or more compounds of the general formula (I) or (II) are contacted with this material and these compounds are irradiated with electromagnetic radiation of wavelength from 300 to 750 nm. Specific compounds of the general formula (I).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Thomas GESSNER, Ruediger SENS, Sophia EBERT
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Patent number: 8618297Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Thomas Geβner, Helmut Reichelt, Ingo Münster, Martin Könemann, Neil Gregory Pschirer, Jian Qiang Qu, Rüdiger Sens, Anja Schwögler, Antonio Manetto
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Patent number: 8610893Abstract: A process for marking articles, wherein the article to be marked is contacted with at least one marker and the absorption spectrum of the at least one marker in contact with the article has at least one narrow band with a half-height width of <1500 cm?1 which is in the UV and/or visible and/or IR wavelength region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The markers are selected from organic dyes, inorganic chromophores and pigments. The article to be marked comprises paper, metal, glass, ceramic or plastic.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2010Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Ruediger Sens, Thomas Gessner, Erwin Thiel
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Patent number: 8609846Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formulae Ia and Ib in which the variables R, n, A, B, R1 and R2 are each as defined in the description. The present invention further relates to the use of compounds of the formula Ia or Ib or mixtures of compounds of the formulae Ia and Ib and/or isomers or mixtures of the isomers of the compounds of the formulae Ia and Ib as photosensitizers in solar cells and photodetectors, and to solar cells and photodetectors which comprise such compounds of the formula Ia or Ib or mixtures of compounds of the formulae Ia and Ib and/or isomers or mixtures of the isomers of the compounds of the formulae Ia and Ib as photosensitizers.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Neil Gregory Pschirer, Jan Schoeneboom, Felix Eickemeyer, Helmut Reichelt, Ruediger Sens, Ingmar Bruder
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Patent number: 8586745Abstract: A process for altering the absorption of electromagnetic radiation by one or more compounds of the general formulae (I) wherein these compounds are irradiated with electromagnetic radiation of wavelength from 300 to 750 nm. The use of compounds of the general formula (I) or (II) for marking materials, for example paper or mineral oil, and use of compounds of the general formula (I) or (II) for causing a color change. The use of compounds of the general formula (I) or (II) for laser welding, heat management, as a photoinitiator, as a free-radical scavenger or for detection of oxygen. A process for regulating the absorption or transmission of electromagnetic radiation by a material wherein one or more compounds of the general formula (I) or (II) are contacted with this material and these compounds are irradiated with electromagnetic radiation of wavelength from 300 to 750 nm. Specific compounds of the general formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2009Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Thomas Gessner, Ruediger Sens, Sophia Ebert