Patents by Inventor Thomas Flug

Thomas Flug 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: 9688841
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flame-retardant thermoplastic polyurethane based on at least one diisocyanate and on at least one substance reactive toward isocyanate, and preferably on at least one chain extender, and also optionally on at least one catalyst, and comprising at least one flame retardant, and also optionally additives and/or auxiliaries, where one flame retardant is a metal hydroxide at least to some extent surrounded by a coating, the material comprises, as further flame retardant, at least one phosphorus-containing flame retardant which is a derivative of phosphoric acid, phosphonic acid, and/or phosphinic acid and the material further comprises hydrotalcite and/or phyllosilicate, and also to an associated production process and the use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Steffen Henze, Oliver Muehren, Alfons Bertels, Sabine Conrad, Thomas Flug, Hans Rudolph, Christian Beckmann, Dietmar Meier
  • Patent number: 9670337
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flame-retardant thermoplastic polyurethane based on at least one diisocyanate and on at least one substance reactive toward isocyanate, and preferably on at least one chain extender, and also optionally on at least one catalyst, and comprising at least one flame retardant, and also optionally additives and/or auxiliaries, where one flame retardant is a metal hydroxide at least to some extent surrounded by a coating, and the metal hydroxide is aluminum hydroxide, aluminum oxide hydroxide, or a mixture of said hydroxides, and also to an associated production process and use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Steffen Henze, Oliver Muehren, Alfons Bertels, Sabine Conrad, Thomas Flug, Hans Rudolph, Christian Beckmann, Dietmar Meier
  • Publication number: 20130245170
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flame-retardant thermoplastic polyurethane based on at least one diisocyanate and on at least one substance reactive toward isocyanate, and preferably on at least one chain extender, and also optionally on at least one catalyst, and comprising at least one flame retardant, and also optionally additives and/or auxiliaries, where one flame retardant is a metal hydroxide at least to some extent surrounded by a coating, and the metal hydroxide is aluminum hydroxide, aluminum oxide hydroxide, or a mixture of said hydroxides, and also to an associated production process and use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Steffen HENZE, Oliver Muehren, Alfons Bertels, Sabine Conrad, Thomas Flug, Hans Rudolph, Christian Beckmann, Dietmar Meier
  • Publication number: 20130245169
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flame-retardant thermoplastic polyurethane based on at least one diisocyanate and on at least one substance reactive toward isocyanate, and preferably on at least one chain extender, and also optionally on at least one catalyst, and comprising at least one flame retardant, and also optionally additives and/or auxiliaries, where one flame retardant is a metal hydroxide at least to some extent surrounded by a coating, the material comprises, as further flame retardant, at least one phosphorus-containing flame retardant which is a derivative of phosphoric acid, phosphonic acid, and/or phosphinic acid and the material further comprises hydrotalcite and/or phyllosilicate, and also to an associated production process and the use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Steffen HENZE, Oliver Muehren, Alfons Bertels, Sabine Conrad, Thomas Flug, Hans Rudolph, Christian Beckmann, Dietmar Meier
  • Patent number: 8138299
    Abstract: Thermoplastic polyurethanes which have a hardness of from 50 Shore A to 80 Shore A and are based on (b) polyester diols, wherein a polyester diol (b1) based on butane-1,4-diol and at least one further diol having at least 5 carbon atoms and a polyester diol (b2) based on butane-1,4-diol and at least one further diol having two or three carbon atoms are present as (b) polyester diols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jörn Duwenhorst, Hauke Malz, Karin Scheffer, Thomas Flug, Martin Vallo
  • Patent number: 7625849
    Abstract: Mixtures comprising amorphous phenolic stabilisers and at least one reducing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hauke Malz, Thomas Flug, Sylvia Rybicki
  • Publication number: 20080194789
    Abstract: Thermoplastic polyurethanes which have a hardness of from 50 Shore A to 80 Shore A and are based on (b) polyester diols, wherein a polyester diol (b1) based on butane-1,4-diol and at least one further diol having at least 5 carbon atoms and a polyester diol (b2) based on butane-1,4-diol and at least one further diol having two or three carbon atoms are present as (b) polyester diols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jorn Duwenhorst, Hauke Malz, Karin Scheffer, Thomas Flug, Martin Vallo
  • Publication number: 20080004388
    Abstract: Thermoplastics comprising plasticizer (i), wherein the plasticizer (i) is based on a polyether having at least one hydroxy group, and the at least one hydroxy group in the plasticizer has been alkylated or has been esterified with a monocarboxylic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hauke Malz, Thomas Flug, Christa Hackl, Horst Welzel, Martin Vallo
  • Patent number: 7282533
    Abstract: Plastics comprise sterically hindered, esterified amine (I) which contains less than 100 ppm, based on the weight of (I), of titanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mirko Kreitschmann, Hauke Malz, Thomas Flug, Sylvia Rybicki
  • Publication number: 20060189727
    Abstract: Plastics comprise sterically hindered, esterified amine (I) which contains less than 100 ppm, based on the weight of (I), of titanium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: Basf Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mirko Kreitschmann, Hauke Malz, Thomas Flug, Sylvia Rybicki
  • Publication number: 20060167207
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mixture (1) comprising (a) isocyanate and (b) stabilizers with a molar mass of from 600 to 10000 g/mol comprising at least two phenolic groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: Basf Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kai Thiele, Hauke Malz, Thomas Flug, Sylvia Rybicki
  • Publication number: 20060122076
    Abstract: Mixtures comprising amorphous phenolic stabilisers and at least one reducing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Hauke Malz, Thomas Flug, Sylvia Rybicki
  • Patent number: 6995230
    Abstract: The invention relates to stabilizers containing at least two phenolic groups bonded to one another via a connecting radical (II) which is a polyol with a number-average molecular weight of from 75×F g/mol to 250×F g/mol, preferably from 100×F g/mol to 200×F g/mol, in particular from 100×F g/mol to 150×F g/mol, where the term F is the number of phenolic groups in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hauke Malz, Thomas Flug, Peter Böhme, Markus Kamieth
  • Patent number: 6894139
    Abstract: Catalysts contain, as structural units, at least one tertiary amino group and at least one group which, after its decomposition, is capable of complexing or protonating the tertiary amino group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Kreyenschmidt, Hauke Malz, Dieter Rodewald, Thomas Flug, Ansgar Frericks
  • Publication number: 20040132954
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mixture of substances with a number average molecular weight of between 500 and 15000 g/mol, whereby the number average molecular weight is different from the weight average molecular weight which is obtainable by A) reacting UV-absorbers, or a mixture of UV-absorbers and stabilisers for synthetic materials with dioles, whereby at least one section of the UV-absorbers or the stabilisers comprise at least two groups which react against dioles, and/or B) reacting UV-absorbers, or a mixture of UV-absorbers and stabilisers for thermoplastic synthetic materials with a polyol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Hauke Malz, Johann Diedrich Brand, Thomas Flug, Christa Hackl
  • Publication number: 20030191217
    Abstract: The invention relates to stabilizers containing at least two phenolic groups bonded to one another via a connecting radical (II) which is a polyol with a number-average molecular weight of from 75×F g/mol to 250×F g/mol, preferably from 100×F g/mol to 200×F g/mol, in particular from 100×F g/mol to 150×F g/mol, where the term F is the number of phenolic groups in the molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Hauke Malz, Thomas Flug, Peter Bohme, Markus Kamieth
  • Publication number: 20030176618
    Abstract: Catalysts contain, as structural units, at least one tertiary amino group and at least one group which, after its decomposition, is capable of complexing or protonating the tertiary amino group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Martin Kreyenschmidt, Hauke Malz, Dieter Rodewald, Thomas Flug, Ansgar Frericks