Patents by Inventor Stephan Zollner

Stephan Zollner 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: 20130040136
    Abstract: Laser-inscribable film, comprising a contrast layer based on a cured acrylate coating composition and, arranged above the contrast layer, an engraving layer, where the cured acrylate coating composition is based on a composition comprising from 30 to 80% by weight of a trifunctional oligomer A, from 0 to 20% by weight of a trifunctional monomer B, from 1 to 30% by weight of a difunctional monomer C, and from 2 to 40% by weight of a colorant pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: TESA SE
    Inventors: Michael Siebert, Philipp Preuß, Jan Ellinger, Klaus Keite-Telgenbüscher, Stephan Zöllner
  • Patent number: 8333865
    Abstract: Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape made of a flat, support material each side of which is coated with a pressure-sensitive adhesive, the pressure-sensitive adhesive on at least one side being produced from a monomer mixture comprising a monomer of the formula CH2?CH(R1)(COOR2), where R1?H or CH3 and R2 is an alkyl radical having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or H and the homopolymer possesses a static glass transition temperature of <?30° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventors: Marc Husemann, Torsten Runge, Stephan Zollner
  • Patent number: 8268442
    Abstract: Adhesive tape suitable for flying splice of flat web material having non-polar surfaces which has been wound to form rolls, the adhesive tape comprising an upper self-adhesive composition (1, 11), a splittable carrier (2, 12) and a lower self-adhesive composition (3, 13) on the bottom face of the splittable carrier (2, 12), wherein as upper self-adhesive composition (1, 11) a silicone-free self-adhesive composition is used which has a bond strength to a polyethylene substrate of 1.5 N/cm or more (measurement method tesa test A) and an initial tack corresponding to a rolling distance of 200 mm or less (measurement method tesa test D), and as lower self-adhesive composition (3, 13) a self-adhesive composition is used which has a bond strength to a polyethylene substrate of 1.5 N/cm or more (measurement method tesa test A) and a complex viscosity of 10,000 Pa·s or more at 1 rad/s and 40° C. (measurement method tesa test F).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: TESA SE
    Inventors: Kai Ellringmann, Stephan Zöllner, Thorsten Krawinkel, Stefan Wulf
  • Patent number: 8258232
    Abstract: Transparent acrylate pressure-sensitive adhesive comprising a filler, the acrylate-pressure sensitive adhesive comprising a polyacrylate and particles of silicate and/or of silica gel. The particles of silicate and/or of silica gel have a size of not more than 50 nm. The acrylate pressure-sensitive adhesive is prepared by a process in which acrylates and comonomers are polymerized in the presence of at least one organic solvent or in bulk, the particles of silicate and/or of silica gel being mixed in before or after the polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventors: Marc Husemann, Stephan Zöllner
  • Patent number: 8173252
    Abstract: The invention relates to pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes for flying splice of flat web materials, having at least one splittable carrier and two layers of adhesive, at least one of the adhesives being a silicone PSA, more particularly an electron-beam-crosslinked silicone PSA, and also to a method of producing them. The silicone PSA advantageously has at least one polydiorganosiloxane having the structure —Si(R2)—O—[Si(R2)—O]n—Si(R2)—, where the 2n+4 substituents R independently of one another are monovalent hydrocarbon radicals and n is an integer, and also at least one resin (“MQ resin”) constructed from (R2)3SiO1/2— units (“M units”) and SiO4/2 units (“Q units”), the substituents R2 of the M units being independently of one another alkyl groups, alkenyl groups, alkylsilyl groups, hydroxyl groups or hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventors: Kai Ellringmann, Stefan Wulf, Stephan Zöllner, Nils Utesch, Christoph Nagel
  • Publication number: 20110274843
    Abstract: Crosslinker-accelerator system for the thermal crosslinking of polyacrylates with functional groups suitable for entering into linking reactions with cyclic ethers, more particularly epoxide groups or oxetane groups, comprising at least one substance containing epoxide or oxetane grouops (crosslinker) and at least one substance with an accelerating action for the linking reaction at a temperature below the melting temperature of the polyacrylate (accelerator).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: TESA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Norbert Grittner, Sven Hansen, Alexander Prenzel, Stephan Zöllner
  • Patent number: 8012581
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bilayer pressure-sensitive adhesive. Provision is made for the bilayer pressure-sensitive adhesive to comprise an apolar layer and a polar layer, the apolar layer and the polar layer each comprising a polyacrylate pressure-sensitive adhesive having a static glass transition temperature of not more than +15° C., and the surface energy of the apolar layer differing from the surface energy of the polar layer by at least 5 mN/m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: tesa AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Marc Husemann, Stephan Zollner
  • Publication number: 20110165402
    Abstract: The invention describes a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape of the kind which can be used in particular for achieving very durable bonds at high temperatures. These adhesive tapes, especially adhesive assembly tapes for the permanent fixing of articles to substrates, are preferably of multilayer construction. The inventive double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes are characterized in that the viscoelastic carrier layer is composed of a photoinitiator-free, thermally homogeneously crosslinked acrylate hotmelt. They are further characterized in that these homogeneously thermally crosslinked acrylate hotmelts have crosslinking sites by way of urethane units. This viscoelastic carrier layer is covered on both sides in each case by adhesive layers, preferably pressure-sensitive adhesive layers. These layers are connected by chemical reaction to the viscoelastic carrier layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: tesa SE
    Inventors: Stephan ZOLLNER, Sven Hansen, Kay Brandes, Jorg Speer
  • Patent number: 7964249
    Abstract: Method for producing a polyacrylate adhesive compound by a hot-melt method in which a polyfunctional ?-cleaving initiator, which is present as an oligomer, is added to the polymer to be crosslinked prior to the hot-melt method and ultraviolet crosslinking is carried out after treatment in the hot-melt method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventors: Ulf Cartellieri, Marc Husemann, Christian Ring, Stephan Zöllner
  • Patent number: 7935383
    Abstract: A method of producing an adhesive tape having at least one carrier layer and two outer adhesive layers, wherein the carrier layer is from 300 ?m to 5000 ?m thick and is composed of a photoinitiator-free homogeneously thermally crosslinked polymer based on acrylate and/or methacrylate, in which at least one trimerized isocyanate crosslinker is added in the melt to a polyacrylate copolymer having primary hydroxyl groups and based on acrylic esters and/or methacrylic ester, a layer of the polyacrylate together with the crosslinker is conveyed to a coating unit, where pressure-sensitive adhesive layers are laminated onto both sides of the not-yet fully-crosslinked polyacrylate layer, and the crosslinking of the polyacrylate leads to a homogeneously crosslinked carrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventors: Stephan Zollner, Sven Hansen, Kay Brandes, Jorg Speer
  • Patent number: 7935762
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polyacrylate which as a result of a polymerization process has a broad, bimodal molecular weight distribution. These acrylate pressure-sensitive adhesives are preferably processed from the melt. The low molecular weight fraction lowers the flow viscosity, while the high molecular weight fraction results in the achievement of a high shear strength, following appropriate crosslinking, for the acrylate pressure-sensitive adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventors: Marc Husemann, Stephan Zollner
  • Patent number: 7910163
    Abstract: A process for producing an adhesive tape with single- or double-sided crosslinked pressure-sensitive acrylate hotmelt adhesive layer, wherein a crosslinker is added in the melt to a polyacrylate copolymer (“polyacrylate”) based on acrylic and/or methacrylic esters, the polyacrylate with crosslinker is conveyed to a coating unit, where it is applied to a web-form layer and following application is homogeneously crosslinked, where the crosslinker is a thermal crosslinker and some of the acrylic and/or methacrylic esters contain primary hydroxyl groups and addition takes place preferably in an extruder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: tesa AG
    Inventors: Stephan Zollner, Sven Hansen, Kay Brandes, Jorg Speer
  • Patent number: 7838599
    Abstract: A Polyacrylate having an at least bimodal molecular weight distribution is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventors: Stephan Zöllner, Nils Utesch, Marc Husemann
  • Patent number: 7820265
    Abstract: Electrically heatable pressure-sensitive adhesive compound, comprising at least one adhesive constituent and at least one electrically conductive filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventors: Marc Husemann, Stephan Zollner, Andreas Westphal
  • Patent number: 7820950
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure-sensitive supporting material, which can be (intrinsically) heated by an inner heat source, and to the use thereof. The heatable supporting material is characterized in that the supporting material comprises a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer inside of which heat is generated. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is a pressure-sensitive adhesive compound, which can be heated by electric current, induction, a chemical reaction or by a physical phase transition. The heatable supporting material has a high heating capacity and is suited for producing pressure-sensitive tapes for adhering heatable mirrors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventors: Klaus Keite-Telgenbüscher, Stephan Zöllner, Marco Kupsky, German Patino, Olaf Gōrbig
  • Publication number: 20100239778
    Abstract: A UV-crosslinkable polyacrylate pressure-sensitive adhesive composition having a polyacrylate having photoinitiator units incorporated therein by polymerization and being produced by a free-radical solvent-free polymerization process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: TESA SE
    Inventors: Jessica Erwin, Klaus Massow, Stephan Zollner
  • Publication number: 20100167050
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polyacrylate which as a result of a polymerization process has a broad, bimodal molecular weight distribution. These acrylate pressure-sensitive adhesives are preferably processed from the melt. The low molecular weight fraction lowers the flow viscosity, while the high molecular weight fraction results in the achievement of a high shear strength, following appropriate crosslinking, for the acrylate pressure-sensitive adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: tesa SE
    Inventors: Marc Husemann, Stephan Zollner
  • Publication number: 20100137524
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing homogeneously crosslinked polymers, in which at least one crosslinker is added to a polymer in the melt, in which the polymer is further processed from the melt, and in which a thermal crosslinking reaction is brought about by means of the crosslinker, with at least part of the crosslinking reaction taking place after the further processing at a temperature below the melting temperature of the polymer, characterized in that the crosslinker comprises an at least difunctional compound, at least one of the functional groups being an oxazoline group, and the polymer contains functional groups which, at a temperature below the melting temperature of the polymer, are able to react with the oxazolines in a linking reaction in the sense of the thermal crosslinking reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: TESA SE
    Inventors: Norbert Grittner, Sven Hansen, Alexander Prenzel, Stephan Zöllner
  • Patent number: 7723436
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polyacrylate which as a result of a polymerization process has a broad, bimodal molecular weight distribution. These acrylate pressure-sensitive adhesives are preferably processed from the melt. The low molecular weight fraction lowers the flow viscosity, while the high molecular weight fraction results in the achievement of a high shear strength, following appropriate crosslinking, for the acrylate pressure-sensitive adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventors: Marc Husemann, Stephan Zollner
  • Publication number: 20100104864
    Abstract: Crosslinker/accelerator system for thermally crosslinking polyacrylates with functional groups that are adapted to react with epoxy groups in a crosslinking reaction, comprising at least one epoxy group-containing substance and at least one substance that accelerates the crosslinking reaction at a temperature below the melting temperature of the polyacrylate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: TESA SE
    Inventors: Stephan Zöllner, Kay Brandes, Sven Hansen, Esther Von Possel