Patents by Inventor Rainer Berghaus
Rainer Berghaus 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: 9497961Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel composition for improving the effectiveness of herbicides, to the use of this composition for improving the effectiveness of herbicides, to a herbicidal agent which comprises this composition and at least one herbicide, and to the use of this herbicidal agent for controlling undesired plant growth. The composition comprises: (a) at least one C1-C4-alkyl ester of at least one aliphatic C14-C22-carboxylic acid, where the at least one carboxylic acid consists to at least 70% by weight of aliphatic carboxylic acids having 18 carbon atoms; (b) at least one anionic surfactant which is selected from the esterification products of monohydroxy-functional alkyl polyethers with inorganic polyprotonic acids; (c) at least one aliphatic C14-C22-carboxylic acid; (d) optionally at least one antifoam; and (e) at least one aromatic solvent.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2009Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Michael Krapp, Rainer Berghaus, Markus Becker, Bernd Sievernich, Herve R. Vantieghem
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Publication number: 20160262394Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising an active and a graft copolymer obtainable by free-radical polymerization of a monomer mixture comprising N-vinyllactam, vinyl ester, and an alcohol alkoxylate. It further relates to a method for preparing said composition by mixing the pesticide and the graft copolymer, and to a method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired plant growth and/or undesired attack by insects or mites and/or for regulating the growth of plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Yvonne DIECKMANN, Rainer GUTZLER, Murat MERTOGLU, Ann-Kathrin MARGUERRE, Rainer BERGHAUS
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Publication number: 20150230461Abstract: The present invention relates to composition comprising a pesticide and an alkoxylate of the formula (I) as defined below. The invention further relates to said alkoxylate. The invention further relates to a method of preparing said composition by bringing the alkoxylate and the pesticide into contact. Finally, the invention relates to a method of controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired plant growth and/or undesired insect or mite attack and/or for regulating the growth of plants, wherein said composition is allowed to act on the respective pests, their environment or the crop plants to be protected from the respective pest, on the soil and/or on undesired plants and/or on the crop plants and/or on their environment; and to seed containing said composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2013Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Murat Mertoglu, Rainer Berghaus, Andreas Kunst, Benedikt Crone, Christian Koenig
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Patent number: 8877681Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of specific amphiphilic alkoxyates as synergistic adjuvant for agrotechnical applications. Suitable agrotechnical compositions are also described. Thus, the addition of such alkoxylates makes possible an accelerated uptake of active ingredients by the plant. The alkoxylates to be used are alkoxylates based on branched alcohols such as 2-propylheptanol, C13-oxo alcohols and C10-oxo alcohols.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Rainer Berghaus, Oskar Schmidt, Harald Köhle, Reinhard Stierl, Norbert Wagner, Paul Klingelhöfer
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Patent number: 8778840Abstract: The present invention relates to novel soluble liquid (SL) formulations comprising A) quinclorac ammonium salts of formula I wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently hydrogen or optionally substituted alkyl, and B) a solvents of formula IIa wherein R5 is alkyl; A is alkylene or oxyalkylene; and m is 0, 1, 2 or 3; and/or a solvent of formula IIb HO—B—OH??(IIb) wherein B is a straight-chain or branched alkylene or alkyleneoxyalkylene or alkyleneoxyalkyleneoxyalkylene.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2008Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Rainer Berghaus, Terrance Cannan, Joseph Zawierucha, Glenn W. Oliver
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Patent number: 8546306Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous dispersion comprising microcapsules, the capsule wall of which is formed from radically polymerized monomers and the capsule core of which comprises at least one oil, in which the capsule core comprises at least one lipophilic surfactant and the continuous phase of the dispersion comprises at least one agrochemical. In addition, the invention relates to a process for the preparation of an aqueous dispersion by (i) providing an aqueous dispersion comprising microcapsules, the capsule wall of which is formed from radically polymerized monomers and the capsule core of which comprises at least one oil and at least one lipophilic surfactant (microcapsule crude dispersion), and (ii) mixing with at least one agrochemical.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Tatjana Levy, Marc Rudolf Jung, Rainer Berghaus, Hans-Peter Hentze, Tobias Joachim Koplin, Jurith Montag, Anke Reinold, Christian Sowa
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Publication number: 20130190360Abstract: Pesticidal composition containing a pyripyropene insecticide and an adjuvant The present invention relates to a compositions comprising a pyripyropene pesticide of the formula (I) or (II) as defined below and an adjuvant. The present invention relates also to methods of preparing and applying such compositions, as well as several uses thereof, and finally seeds, comprising said composition. The invention also relates to an aqueous pesticide formulation comprising a pesticide compound of the formula I as defined in claim 1 in the form of fine particles suspended in an aqueous liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Wen Xu, Paul Neese, William Maurice Fletcher, Douglas D. Anspaugh, Heidi Emilia Saxell, Cedric Dieleman, Walter Weishaar, Paul Ch. Kierkus, Kara Benton, Rainer Berghaus, Tatjana Levy
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Publication number: 20120264607Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of specific amphiphilic alkoxyates as synergistic adjuvant for agrotechnical applications. Suitable agrotechnical compositions are also described. Thus, the addition of such alkoxylates makes possible an accelerated uptake of active ingredients by the plant. The alkoxylates to be used are alkoxylates based on branched alcohols such as 2-propylheptanol, C13-oxo alcohols and C10-oxo alcohols.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Inventors: Rainer BERGHAUS, Oskar Schmidt, Harald Köhle, Reinhard Stierl, Norbert Wagner, Paul Klingelhöfer
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Patent number: 8129312Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of specific amphiphilic alkoxyates as synergistic adjuvant for agrotechnical applications. Suitable agrotechnical compositions are also described. Thus, the addition of such alkoxylates makes possible an accelerated uptake of active ingredients by the plant. The alkoxylates to be used are alkoxylates based on branched alcohols such as 2-propylheptanol, C13-oxo alcohols and C10-oxo alcohols.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2003Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Rainer Berghaus, Oskar Schmidt, Harald Köhle, Reinhard Stierl, Norbert Wagner, Paul Klingelhöfer
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Publication number: 20120021914Abstract: The invention relates to suspension concentrates of a plant protective agent which comprise alcohol alkoxylate and cyclodextrin. The invention also relates to a method for producing said suspension concentrates and to the use of the suspension concentrates for treating plants and their habitat, and to corresponding methods and spray mixtures containing said suspension concentrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2009Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Rainer Berghaus, Matthias Bratz, Rainer Dyllick-Brenzinger
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Publication number: 20110275519Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispersion containing an aqueous continuous phase and a dispersed phase, wherein the dispersed phase exhibits a nano-sized self-assembled structurization and wherein the dispersed phase contains a pesticide with a water solubility at 25° C. of up to 10 g/l and a melting point of below 100° C. The present invention further relates to a method for preparing said dispersion comprising a step of contacting the components, and to a method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired plant growth and/or undesired attack by insects or mites and/or for regulating the growth of plants, where said dispersion is allowed to act on the particular pests, their habitat or the plants to be protected from the particular pest, the soil and/or on undesired plants and/or the useful plants and/or their habitat.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventors: Otto GLATTER, Sandra Engelskirchen, Tatjana Levy, Helmut Auweter, Rainer Berghaus, Siegfried Strathmann
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Publication number: 20110201500Abstract: The present invention relates to an anhydrous formulation comprising a) a first pesticide in dissolved form, b) a second pesticide in the form of suspended particles, c) an alkyl lactate, and d) an alcohol. It further relates to a method of controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired plant growth and/or undesired insect or mite infestation and/or of regulating the growth of plants, where the specified formulation is allowed to act on the pests in question, their habitat or the plants to be protected from the particular pest, the soil and/or on undesired plants and/or the useful plants and/or their habitat. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of the formulation for increasing the rain resistance of the applied pesticides.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Murat Mertoglu, Winfried Mayer, Dieter Strobel, Rainer Berghaus, Siegfried Strathmann
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Publication number: 20110177949Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel composition for improving the effectiveness of herbicides, to the use of this composition for improving the effectiveness of herbicides, to a herbicidal agent which comprises this composition and at least one herbicide, and to the use of this herbicidal agent for controlling undesired plant growth. The composition comprises: (a) at least one C1-C4-alkyl ester of at least one aliphatic C14-C22-carboxylic acid, where the at least one carboxylic acid consists to at least 70% by weight of aliphatic carboxylic acids having 18 carbon atoms; (b) at least one anionic surfactant which is selected from the esterification products of monohydroxy-functional alkyl polyethers with inorganic polyprotonic acids; (c) at least one aliphatic C14-C22-carboxylic acid; (d) optionally at least one antifoam; and (e) at least one aromatic solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Michael Krapp, Rainer Berghaus, Markus Becker, Bernd Sievernich, Herve R. Vantieghem
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Publication number: 20110039904Abstract: The present invention relates to certain alcohol alkoxylates of the amphiphilic type, to agrochemical agents comprising them, and to the use of the alcohol alkoxylates as activity-improving adjuvants in the agrochemical field and particularly in the field of plant protection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Ulrich Steinbrenner, Michael Stoesser, Rainer Berghaus, Siegfried Strathmann
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Patent number: 7872067Abstract: The present invention relates to amphiphilic polymer compositions, to a process for their preparation and to their use for preparing aqueous active compound compositions of water-insoluble active compounds, in particular active compounds for crop protection. The amphiphilic polymer compositions can be obtained by reacting a) at least one hydrophobic polymer P1 which carries functional groups R1 which are reactive toward isocyanate groups and which is constructed of ethylenically unsaturated monomers M1, comprising: a1) at least 10% by weight, based on the total amount of monomers M1, of monomers M1a of the formula I ?in which X is oxygen or a group N—R4; R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in the claims and the description; a2) up to 90% by weight, based on the total amount of monomers M1, of neutral monoethylenically unsaturated monomers M1b whose solubility in water at 25° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2005Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Günter Oetter, Christian Krüger, Harald Köhle, Maria Scherer, Norbert Wagner, Matthias Bratz, Rainer Berghaus, Richard van Gelder
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Publication number: 20100323892Abstract: The invention relates to an aqueous dispersion comprising microcapsules, the capsule wall of which is formed from radically polymerized monomers and the capsule core of which comprises at least one oil, in which the capsule core comprises at least one lipophilic surfactant and the continuous phase of the dispersion comprises at least one agrochemical. In addition, the invention relates to a process for the preparation of an aqueous dispersion by (i) providing an aqueous dispersion comprising microcapsules, the capsule wall of which is formed from radically polymerized monomers and the capsule core of which comprises at least one oil and at least one lipophilic surfactant (microcapsule crude dispersion), and (ii) mixing with at least one agrochemical.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Tatjana Levy, Marc Rudolf Jung, Rainer Berghaus, Hans-Peter Hentze, Tobias Joachim Koplin, Jurith Montag, Anke Reinold, Christian Sowa
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Publication number: 20100255992Abstract: The present invention relates to novel soluble liquid (SL) formulations comprising A) quinclorac ammonium salts of formula I wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently hydrogen or optionally substituted alkyl, and B) a solvents of formula IIa wherein R5 is alkyl; A is alkylene or oxyalkylene; and m is 0, 1, 2 or 3; and/or a solvent of formula IIb HO—B—OH??(IIb) wherein B is a straight-chain or branched alkylene or alkyleneoxyalkylene or alkylene-oxyalkyleneoxyalkylene.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Rainer Berghaus, Terrance Cannan, Joseph Zawierucha, Glenn W. Oliver
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Publication number: 20100227763Abstract: The present invention relates to active compound concentrates having herbicidal action, comprising a) from 10 to 100 g/l of at least one 4-benzoyl-substituted pyrazole compound of the formula I in which R1, R3 independently of one another are hydrogen, halogen, methyl, halomethyl, methoxy, halomethoxy, methylthio, methylsulfinyl or methylsulfonyl; R2 is a 5-membered heterocyclic radical which is unsubstituted or carries 1, 2, 3 or 4 substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C1-C4-haloalkoxy and C1-C4-alkylthio; R4 is hydrogen, halogen or methyl; R5 is C1-C6-alkyl, C3-C6-cycloalkyl or C3-C6-cycloalkylmethyl; and R6 is hydrogen or C1-C4-alkyl; or one of its agriculturally useful salts, b) from 200 to 700 g/l of 2-chloro-N-(2,4-dimethyl-3-thienyl)-N-(2-methoxy-1-methylethyl)acetamide, and c) from 10 to 200 g/l of at least one surfactant S selected from a mixture of at least one anionic surfactant and at least one nonionic surfactant, whereType: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2007Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: Basf SEInventors: Michael Krapp, Rainer Berghaus, Matthias Bratz, Elmar Kibler, Herve R. Vantieghem
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Publication number: 20100210461Abstract: The present invention relates to agrochemical compositions which comprise certain alcohol alkoxylates of the amphiphilic type, and the use of the alcohol alkoxylates as activity-improving adjuvant in the agrochemical sector, and in particular in the plant protection sector. The alcohol alkoxylates take the form of alkoxylated alcohols of the formula (I) R—O—[(CnH2nO)x-(PhC2H3O)y—(CmH2mO)z]co—H??(I) in which R represents a hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; n, m independently of one another represent a value of from 2 to 16; x represents a value of from 0 to 100; y represents a value of from 0.5 to 100; z represents a value of from 0 to 100; and x+y+z corresponds to a value of from 2 to 100, where at least one of x or z is greater than 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Michael Stoesser, Rainer Berghaus, Gerhard Krennrich, Markus Kummeter, Guenter Oetter, Jurith Montag
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Publication number: 20100184603Abstract: The present invention relates to certain alcohol alkoxylates of the amphiphilic type, to agrochemical compositions comprising them, and to the use of the alcohol alkoxylates as activity-enhancing adjuvant in the agrochemical sector and in particular in the sector of plant protection. The alcohol alkoxylates are alkoxylated alcohols of the formula (I) R—O—(CmH2mO)q—[(C2H4O)z—(CnH2nO)x—(C2H4O)y]co—Z??(I) in which R represents C1-C7-alkyl; m represents 2 or 3; q represents 0, 1, 2 or 3; n represents an integer from 3 to 16; x is a value of from 1 to 100; y is a value of from 0 to 100; z is a value of from 0 to 100; and x+y+z corresponds to a value of from 2 to 100; Z represents hydrogen or an end group cap, where at least one of y and z is greater than 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Michael Stoesser, Rainer Berghaus, Gerhard Krennrich, Markus Kummeter, Guenter Oetter, Ulrich Steinbrenner, Norbert Wagner, Peter Dombo