Patents by Inventor Rainer Gras

Rainer Gras 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: 6916897
    Abstract: Polyaddition products containing hydroxyl and uretdione groups, a process for their preparation, their use for the production of highly reactive polyurethane (PUR) powder coatings which are free from elimination products and which crosslink to give light-stable and weather-stable coating films of high gloss, and the powder coatings produced accordingly are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Patent number: 6908980
    Abstract: Polyaddition products containing hydroxyl and uretdione groups, a process for their preparation, their use for the production of highly reactive polyurethane (PUR) powder coatings which are free from elimination products and which crosslink to give light-stable and weather-stable coating films of high gloss, and the powder coatings produced accordingly are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Publication number: 20030208026
    Abstract: Polyaddition products containing hydroxyl and uretdione groups, a process for their preparation, their use for the production of highly reactive polyurethane (PUR) powder coatings which are free from elimination products and which crosslink to give light-stable and weather-stable coating films of high gloss, and the powder coatings produced accordingly are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Applicant: DEGUSSA-HUELS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Publication number: 20030204040
    Abstract: Polyaddition products containing hydroxyl and uretdione groups, a process for their preparation, their use for the production of highly reactive polyurethane (PUR) powder coatings which are free from elimination products and which crosslink to give light-stable and weather-stable coating films of high gloss, and the powder coatings produced accordingly are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: DEGUSSA-HUELS
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Patent number: 6613861
    Abstract: Polyaddition products containing hydroxyl and uretdione groups, a process for their preparation, their use for the production of highly reactive polyurethane (PUR) powder coatings which are free from elimination products and which crosslink to give light-stable and weather-stable coating films of high gloss, and the powder coatings produced accordingly are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Patent number: 6479613
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of polyaddition products containing uretdione groups, prepared from a polyisocyanate-uretdione having at least two free isocyanate groups, diols and, if desired, monoalcohols or monoamines, in which the polyaddition products containing uretdione groups are prepared by a solvent-free and continuous procedure which is carried out in an intensive kneading apparatus/extruder. The invention also relates to the use of polyaddition products containing uretdione groups for PUR powder coatings and for solvent-containing, one-component stoving enamels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Dugussa-Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Gras, Siegfried Brandt, Klaus Behrendt, Silvia Herda
  • Patent number: 6437074
    Abstract: Partially or totally blocked polyisocyanates comprising physical mixtures of individual a) urethane-functional and/or b) biuret-functional and/or c) isocyanurate-functional aliphatic and (cyclo)aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic diisocyanate whose isocyanate groups are blocked in such a way that there is from 0.5 to 1 mol, preferably from 0.8 to 1 mol, of 1, 2, 4-triazole per isocyanate equivalent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Publication number: 20020095019
    Abstract: Polyaddition products containing hydroxyl and uretdione groups, a process for their preparation, their use for the production of highly reactive polyurethane (PUR) powder coatings which are free from elimination products and which crosslink to give light-stable and weather-stable coating films of high gloss, and the powder coatings produced accordingly are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Applicant: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Publication number: 20020062000
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of polyaddition products containing uretdione groups, prepared from a polyisocyanate-uretdione having at least two free isocyanate groups, diols and, if desired, monoalcohols or monoamines, in which the polyaddition products containing uretdione groups are prepared by a solvent-free and continuous procedure which is carried out in an intensive kneading apparatus/extruder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 1996
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: RAINER GRAS, SIEGFRIED BRANDT, KLAUS BEHRENDT, SILVIA HERDA
  • Patent number: 6204351
    Abstract: Partially or completely blocked polyisocyanates having an built-in HALS stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Gras, Elmar Wolf
  • Patent number: 6166164
    Abstract: Partially or totally blocked polyisocyanates comprising physical mixtures of individuala) urethane-functional and/orb) biuret-functional and/orc) isocyanurate-functionalaliphatic and (cyclo)aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic diisocyanate whose isocyanate groups are blocked in such a way that there is from 0.5 to 1 mol, preferably from 0.8 to 1 mol, of 1,2,4-triazole per isocyanate equivalent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Patent number: 6051675
    Abstract: Partially or totally blocked polyisocyanates comprising physical mixtures of individuala) urethane-functional and/orb) biuret-functional and/orc) isocyanurate-functionalaliphatic and (cyclo)aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic diisocyanate whose isocyanate groups are blocked in such a way that there is from 0.5 to 1 mol, preferably from 0.8 to 1 mol, of 1,2,4-triazole per isocyanate equivalent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Patent number: 5955558
    Abstract: Partially or completely blocked polyisocyanates having a built-in HALS stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Gras, Elmar Wolf
  • Patent number: 5945531
    Abstract: A polyisocyanate composition, comprising:A) from 55 to 87% by weight of a polyisocyanate which contains uretdione groups;B) from 10 to 30% by weight of blocking agent,C) from 3 to 30% by weight of polyol having more than two hydroxyl groups and/or chain extender having more than two hydroxyl groups, wherein the polyisocyanate contains more than two terminal, partially or fully blocked isocyanate groups and has a molecular weight of from 1000 to 10,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Patent number: 5939199
    Abstract: Polyurethane powder coating compositions of high reactivity, containinga) an isocyanate component which is partially or totally blocked with 1,2,4-triazole,b) hydroxyl-containing polymers, andc) if desired, customary auxiliaries and additives, where the isocyanate component is a physical mixture of individual trimers (isocyanato-isocyanurates) of aliphatic and (cyclo)aliphatic and/or cycloaliphatic diisocyanates provide heat curable weather resistant coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Patent number: 5859164
    Abstract: Uretdione-functional polyaddition compounds of the formula: ##STR1## where: ##STR2## R.sup.1 is R or linear, branched or cyclic alkylene radicals of 2-16 carbon atoms,R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are identical or different hydrocarbon radicals of 1-14 carbon atoms,R.sup.4 is R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Gras, Joern Volker Weiss, Elmar Wolf, Felix Schmitt
  • Patent number: 5852154
    Abstract: The invention relates to cold-curing, low-solvent or solvent-free 2-component polyurethane/polyurea compositions comprising a reaction product of:a) a diamine of the following composition ##STR1## where R is a linear, branched or cyclic alkylene radical having 2-16 carbon atoms which may be optionally substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, wherein in said alkylene radical 1-3 CH.sub.2 groups may optionally be replaced by ##STR2## groups; and b) one or more NCO prepolymers prepared from reaction of one or more linear, branched or cyclic aliphatic isocyanates and one or more branched polyetherpolyols or polyesterpolyols, wherein the NCO prepolymer has an NCO functionality .gtoreq.2;wherein reactants a) and b) are reacted in an NCO:NH equivalent ratio of (1.5-1):1 and their use as coatings and reaction coating materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Gras, Felix Schmitt, Elmar Wolf
  • Patent number: 5847067
    Abstract: Urea- and uretdione-functional polyisocyanates having the following formula (I): ##STR1## where ##STR2## n is an integer of from 1 to 20; R.sup.1, R.sup.3 =not more than one linear or branched (cyclo)alkyl radical having 1-14 carbon atoms or H and at least one of the formula: ##STR3## R.sup.2 =R, linear or branched (cyclo)alkyl radical having 6 carbon atoms; R.sup.4, R.sup.5 =identical or different hydrocarbon radicals having 1 to 14 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Patent number: 5750727
    Abstract: A polyisocyanate composition, comprising:A) from 55 to 87% by weight of a polyisocyanate which contains uretdione groups;B) from 10 to 30% by weight of blocking agent,C) from 3 to 30% by weight of polyol having more than two hydroxyl groups and/or chain extender having more than two hydroxyl groups, wherein the polyisocyanate contains more than two terminal, partially or fully blocked isocyanate groups and has a molecular weight of from 1000 to 10,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rainer Gras
  • Patent number: 5728795
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of totally or partially blocked polyisocyanates based on a blocking agent and on a polyisocyanate containing at least two free NCO groups, if desired in the presence of a chain extender, in which the totally or partially blocked polyisocyanates are prepared by a solvent-free and continuous procedure. This reaction is carried out in a static mixer or intensive kneading apparatus or extruder. The invention furthermore relates to the use of the totally or partially blocked polyisocyanates for PUR powder coatings and solvent-containing, one-component PUR stoving enamels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Gras, Siegfried Brandt