Patents by Inventor Stefan Ortner

Stefan Ortner 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).

  • Publication number: 20250197619
    Abstract: Polypropylene composition containing units derived from 1-butene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Peter Niedersüss, Stefan Ortner, Joel Fawaz, Karlheinz Friedrich, Pauli Leskinen
  • Patent number: 12258429
    Abstract: New C2C3 random copolymer composition, which shows improved sealing behaviour due to low sealing initiation temperature (SIT) and high hot tack force. In addition, the inventive composition shows an excellent sterilization behaviour, i.e. retention of low haze level after sterilization. The present invention is furthermore related to the manufacture of said copolymer composition and to its use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Peter Niedersuss, Stefan Ortner
  • Publication number: 20250043122
    Abstract: A heterophasic polypropylene composition (PC), comprising: i) from 40.0 to 90.0 wt.-% of a heterophasic C3C2 copolymer (HECO) having an MFR2 of 1.0 to 5.0 g/10 min, a Tm of 149 to 160° C., a CF content of 60.0 to 95.0 wt.-%, a C2(CF) of 0.0 to 2.0 wt.-%, a SF content of 5.0 to 40.0 wt.-% and a C2(SF) of 18.0 to 30.0 wt.-%; and ii) from 10.0 to 60.0 wt.-%, of a C3C4 random copolymer (RACO), having an MFR2 in the range from 0.5 to 15.0 g/10 min and a C4 content in the range from 1.0 to 10.0 wt.-%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Peter Niedersüss, Stefan Ortner, Joel Fawaz, Karlheinz Friedrich
  • Patent number: 12162251
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer film comprising at least two outer layers and at least one core layer, at least one of the outer layers comprises component a1), the other outer layer comprises component a1) or a2). Component a1) is a terpolymer of propylene, ethylene and one C4 to C10 ?-olefin; having ethylene content in the range of 0.1 to 8.0 wt.-%, C4 to C10 ?-olefin content in the range of 0.1 to 16.0 wt.-%, and a melt flow rate MFR2 0.5 to 12.0 g/10 min. Component a2) is a polypropylene having a melting temperature of at least 150° C. The core layer comprises a heterophasic propylene copolymer b) having MFR2 of 0.3 to 20.0 g/10 min, XCS content of 16.0 to 50.0 wt.-%, and comonomer content of 11.5 to 21.0 mol-%, comprising a matrix being a random propylene copolymer b1) and an elastomeric propylene copolymer b2) dispersed in said matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Stefan Ortner, Peter Niedersuess, Luca Boragno, Markus Gahleitner
  • Patent number: 12151455
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a multilayer structure. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a polypropylene multilayer extrusion laminate structure which provides sufficient thermal resistance and mechanical properties, and which multilayer structure can be recycled. The present invention is further directed to a process for producing the multilayer structure by an extrusion lamination process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Auli Nummila-Pakarinen, Stefan Ortner, Peter Niedersuess, Josefien Swagten-Linssen
  • Patent number: 12129371
    Abstract: A heterophasic propylene ethylene copolymer composition having an MFR2 of 1.0 to 5.0 g/10 min, a C2 content of 0.8 to 6.0 mol-%, and a Tm of 153.0 to 159.0° C., comprising: a) a crystalline matrix (M) being a propylene homo- or copolymer, preferably a homopolymer; and b) an amorphous propylene-ethylene elastomer (E); wherein the heterophasic propylene ethylene copolymer composition is characterized in terms of its soluble fraction (SF) and crystalline fraction (CF) as determined by CRYSTEX QC analysis: i) from 85.0 to 90.0 wt.-% of a crystalline fraction (CF) having an iV(CF) of 2.00 to 3.00 dl/g, a C2(CF) of 0.0 to 1.5 mol-%; and ii) from 10.0 to 15.0 wt.-% of a soluble fraction (SF) having an iV(SF) of 1.30 to 2.50 dl/g and a C2(SF) of 25.0 to 40.0 mol-%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Peter Niedersüss, Stefan Ortner
  • Publication number: 20240270949
    Abstract: A heterophasic propylene ethylene copolymer composition having an MFR2 of 1.0 to 5.0 g/10 min, a C2 content of 0.8 to 6.0 mol-%, and a Tm of 153.0 to 159.0° C., comprising: a) a crystalline matrix (M) being a propylene homo- or copolymer, preferably a homopolymer; and b) an amorphous propylene-ethylene elastomer (E); wherein the heterophasic propylene ethylene copolymer composition is characterized in terms of its soluble fraction (SF) and crystalline fraction (CF) as determined by CRYSTEX QC analysis: i) from 85.0 to 90.0 wt.-% of a crystalline fraction (CF) having an iV(CF) of 2.00 to 3.00 dl/g, a C2(CF) of 0.0 to 1.5 mol-%; and ii) from 10.0 to 15.0 wt.-% of a soluble fraction (SF) having an iV(SF) of 1.30 to 2.50 dl/g and a C2(SF) of 25.0 to 40.0 mol-%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Peter Niedersüss, Stefan Ortner
  • Patent number: 11993701
    Abstract: New polypropylene composition which combines low sealing initiation temperature (SIT), high hot-tack, good optical properties, like low haze and its use, and improved stiffness/impact balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Markus Gahleitner, Jingbo Wang, Klaus Bernreitner, Peter Niedersüss, Friedrich Berger, Stefan Ortner
  • Publication number: 20240158544
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coated article comprising at least a substrate layer (SL), a first coating layer (CL1) and a second coating layer (CL2), wherein CL2 comprises a polypropylene composition comprising (A) a polypropylene homopolymer having a melt flow rate MFR2 (230° C./2.16 kg) measured according to ISO 1133 in the range from 10 to 40 g/10 min; a melting temperature Tm as determined by DSC according to ISO 11357 in the range from 149 to 162° C.; and a molecular weight distribution MWD in the range from 2.4 to 4.5 as determined by GPC; and/or (B) an ethylene propylene random copolymer having a melt flow rate MFR2 (230° C./2.16 kg) measured according to ISO 1133 in the range from 4 to 40 g/10 min; a melting temperature Tm as determined by DSC according to ISO 11357 in the range from 115 to 145° C.; and a number of 2,1 and 3,1 regio defects in the range from 0.01 to 1.2 mol-% as measured by 13C NMR; and wherein SL and CL1 are polypropylene-based layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Jingbo WANG, Markus GAHLEITNER, Klaus BERNREITNER, Pauli LESKINEN, Peter NIEDERSUESS, Auli NUMMILA-PAKARINEN, Stefan ORTNER
  • Publication number: 20240100816
    Abstract: Polypropylene-based multilayer film, which is biaxially oriented, a process for manufacturing the biaxially oriented multilayer film and its use in flexible packaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Peter Niedersuess, Stefan Ortner
  • Publication number: 20240101735
    Abstract: Film made from ethylene-propylene-1-butene terpolymer and propene-butene copolymer blend and ethylene-propylene-1-butene terpolymer and propene-butene copolymer blend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Peter Niedersüss, Stefan Ortner
  • Patent number: 11904580
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer blown film including at least one skin layer (A) including a Ziegler Natta catalyzed heterophasic propylene copolymer (HECO) and one inner layer (B) including a metallocene catalyzed propylene based random copolymer (PRC), and optionally one core layer (C) including either a Ziegler Natta catalyzed heterophasic propylene copolymer (HECO) or a metallocene catalyzed propylene based random copolymer (PRC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Peter Niedersuess, Stefan Ortner
  • Publication number: 20230406971
    Abstract: Process for the production of a polypropylene based article having improved surface tension retention, and polypropylene based article having improved surface tension
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Peter Niedersuess, Stefan Ortner
  • Publication number: 20230382091
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer blown film comprising at least one skin layer (A) comprising a Ziegler Natta catalyzed heterophasic propylene copolymer (HECO) and one inner layer (B) comprising a metallocene catalyzed propylene based random copolymer (PRC), and optionally one core layer (C) comprising either a Ziegler Natta catalyzed heterophasic propylene copolymer (HECO) or a metallocene catalyzed propylene based random copolymer (PRC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Peter Niedersuess, Stefan Ortner
  • Publication number: 20230257567
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a film, preferably an unoriented film, comprising a polypropylene composition comprising a random copolymer of propylene monomer units and ethylene comonomer units, wherein the random copolymer has a content of ethylene comonomer units of from 0.5 to 4.0 wt %, based on the total weight amount of monomer units in the random copolymer, the polypropylene composition has a melt flow rate MFR2 of from 0.5 to 20.0 g/10 min, determined according to ISO 1133 at a temperature of 230° C. and a load of 2.16 kg, and the film has a tensile modulus in machine direction TM-MD in the range of from 450 to 850 MPa, when measured according to ISO 527-3 on a 50 ?m monolayer cast film, a process for producing such a film and the use of such a polypropylene composition for the production of a film with an improved balance of properties of tensile modulus and protrusion impact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Peter Niedersuess, Stefan Ortner
  • Publication number: 20230212338
    Abstract: Blown films, especially monolayer blown films, with an improved property profile, the blown films comprising at least 95.0 wt% of a specific heterophasic propylene copolymer (TERHECO).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Jingbo WANG, Markus GAHLEITNER, Klaus BERNREITNER, Pauli LESKINEN, Peter NIEDERSUESS, Stefan ORTNER
  • Publication number: 20230001674
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer film comprising at least two outer layers (A) and (C) and at least one core layer (B), at least one of the outer layers (A) and/or (C) comprises component a1), whereas the other outer layer comprises component a1) or a2), whereby component a1) is a terpolymer of propylene, ethylene and one C4 to C10 ?-olefin; whereby said terpolymer a1) has an ethylene content in the range of 0.1 to 8.0 wt.-% based on the total weight of the terpolymer a1); a C4 to C10 ?-olefin content in the range of 0.1 to 16.0 wt.-% based on the total weight of the terpolymer a1); and a melt flow rate MFR2 measured according to ISO 1133 (230° C., 2.16 kg load) in the range of 0.5 to 12.0 g/10 min; component a2) is a polypropylene having a melting temperature of at least 150° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan Ortner, Peter Niedersuess, Luca Boragno, Markus Gahleitner
  • Patent number: 11505686
    Abstract: New polypropylene composition which combines low sealing initiation temperature (SIT), high hot-tack and good mechanical properties, like high dart drop strength (DDI), and its use especially for film applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Markus Gahleitner, Jingbo Wang, Klaus Bernreitner, Peter Niedersuss, Friedrich Berger, Stefan Ortner
  • Publication number: 20220282077
    Abstract: New polypropylene composition which combines low sealing initiation temperature (SIT), high hot-tack, good optical properties, like low haze and its use, and improved stiffness/impact balance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Markus Gahleitner, Jingbo Wang, Klaus Bernreitner, Peter Niedersüss, Friedrich Berger, Stefan Ortner
  • Publication number: 20220259339
    Abstract: The invention is related to film comprising a polypropylene composition showing improved coefficiency of friction as well as optical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Jingbo Wang, Markus Gahleitner, Klaus Bernreitner, Pauli Leskinen, Markku Vahteri, Stefan Ortner