Patents by Inventor Ulrich Steuerle
Ulrich Steuerle 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: 6984336Abstract: The invention concerns the treatment of clothes for dry wrinkle resistance, in particular in-wear wrinkle resistance. The clothes are treated with an amphoteric polymer and secured in the desired configuration, preferably during a process of ironing.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2004Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Markus Wilhelm Altmann, Bruno Albert Jean Hubesch, Heidi Simonne Mariette Soyez, Jürgen Detering, Ulrich Steuerle
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Patent number: 6855739Abstract: The invention relates to polyurethane foams comprising (i) ethylenimine, polyethylenimine, polyvinylamine, polyvinylamine copolymers, carboxymethylated polyethylenimines, phosphonomethylated polyethylenimines, quarternized polyethylenimines and/or dithiocarbamatized polyethylenimines or (ii) alkali hydroxides and/or alkaline earth metal hydroxides or a mixture consisting of both (i) and (ii).Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2001Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Armin Becker, Bernd Bruchmann, Andreas Arlt, Ulrich Treuling, Rainer Rahm, Jürgen Decker, Ulrich Steuerle, Martin Kreyenschmidt, Willi Riegel, Werner Bertleff
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Publication number: 20050015887Abstract: The invention concerns the treatment of clothes for dry wrinkle resistance, in particular in-wear wrinkle resistance. The clothes are treated with an amphoteric polymer and secured in the desired configuration, preferably during a process of ironing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2004Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventors: Markus Altmann, Bruno Hubesch, Heidi Soyez, Jurgen Detering, Ulrich Steuerle
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Publication number: 20040198851Abstract: The invention relates to polyurethane foams comprisingType: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2004Publication date: October 7, 2004Applicant: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Armin Becker, Bernd Bruchmann, Andreas Arlt, Ulrich Treuling, Rainer Rahm, Juergen Decker, Ulrich Steuerle, Martin Kreyenschmidt, Willi Riegel, Werner Bertleff
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Patent number: 6777530Abstract: The invention relates to the use of crosslinked nitrogenous compounds which are soluble or dispersible in water and are obtainable by crosslinking of (a) compounds containing at least three NH groups with (b) at least bifunctional crosslinkers which react with NH groups, in detergents and cleaners, especially soil release agents. Compounds (a) are preferably selected from the group consisting of oligo- and polyamines, polyalkylenepolyamines, polyamidoamines, polyamidoamines grafted with (poly)ethyleneimine, and mixtures thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2000Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hubert Meixner, Ulrich Steuerle, Jürgen Decker, Wolfgang Paulus, Dieter Boeckh, Jürgen Alfred Lux, Beate Ehle
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Patent number: 6706190Abstract: A process for fractionating water-soluble or water-dispersible amino-containing synthetic polymers having a broad molar mass distribution by ultrafiltration, wherein the polymer solution or dispersion to be fractionated is fed continuously into an ultrafiltration circulation with at least one ultrafiltration unit, and retentate having a narrower molar mass distribution and permeate are discharged continuously, in such a way that the ultrafiltration circulation is essentially in a steady state, the polymers obtainable by this process and their use.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2001Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ulrich Steuerle, Hartwig Voss, Jürgen Bernbach, Jürgen Decker, Rainer Dyllick-Brenzinger, Klaus Lorenz, Hubert Meixner, Martin Rübenacker
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Publication number: 20030158279Abstract: The invention relates to polyurethane foamed materials containing: (i) ethylene imine, polyethylene imine, polyvinylamine, polyvinylamine copolymers, carboxymethylated polyethylene imines, phosphonomethylated polyethylene imines, quarternized polyethylene imines and/or dithiocarbamatized polyethylene imines or; (ii) alkali hydroxides and/or alkaline-earth hydroxides or; a mixture consisting of both (i) and (ii).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2002Publication date: August 21, 2003Inventors: Armin Becker, Bernd Bruchmann, Andreas Arlt, Ulrich Treuling, Rainer Rahm, Jurgen Decker, Ulrich Steuerle, Martin Kreyenschmidt, Willi Riegel, Werner Bertleff
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Patent number: 6576086Abstract: Paper, board and cardboard are produced by draining paper stock containing interfering substances in the presence of fixing agents by a process in which the fixing agents used are reaction products which are obtainable by reacting amino- and/or ammonium-containing polymers selected from the group consisting of the polymers containing vinylamine units polyalkylene polyamines polyamidoamines ethyleneimine-grafted polyamidoamines which may be crosslinked, polydiallyldimethylammonium chlorides polymers containing dialkylaminoalkylacrylamide units or dialkylaminoalkylmethacrylamide units and polyallylamines and dicyandiamide and formaldehyde condensates with reactive sizes for paper in a weight ratio of polymer to reactive size of from 15,000:1 to 1:1, and the reaction products thus obtainable are used as fixing agents for water-soluble and for water-insoluble interfering substances in the production of paper, board and cardboard from paper stocks containing interfering substances.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1999Date of Patent: June 10, 2003Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Roland Ettl, Hubert Meixner, Anton Esser, Rainer Scholz, Norbert Mahr, Ulrich Steuerle, Matthias Höne, Klaus Lorenz
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Publication number: 20020132748Abstract: The invention concerns the treatment of clothes for dry wrinkle resistance, in particular in-wear wrinkle resistance. The clothes are treated with an amphoteric polymer and secured in the desired configuration, preferably during a process of ironing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2001Publication date: September 19, 2002Inventors: Markus Wilhelm Altmann, Bruno Albert Jean Hubesch, Heidi Simonne Mariette Soyez, Jurgen Detering, Ulrich Steuerle
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Patent number: 6331519Abstract: A method of boosting the detergency of a detergent, which entails admixing an amine with an average pKA of from 1 to 14 to the detergent, wherein the amine is a polymer containing repeating units corresponding to the formula: —[CH2—CH(NH2)]— produced by at least partial hydrolysis of oligo/polyvinylformamides and co-polymers of vinylformamide wherein 5 to 100% of the nitrogen atoms are present in primary or secondary amino groups.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2000Date of Patent: December 18, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jürgen Huff, Ulrich Steuerle, Hubert Meixner, Beate Ehle, Wolfgang Paulus, Jürgen Alfred Lux, Lukas Häussling
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Patent number: 6300305Abstract: The use of an amine with an average pKA of from 1 to 14 as detergency booster, preferably in textile detergents, especially in color detergents, and detergent formulations containing these amines.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2000Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Juergen Huff, Ulrich Steuerle, Hubert Meixner, Beate Ehle, Wolfgang Paulus, Juergen Alfred Lux, Lukas Haeussling
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Patent number: 6261581Abstract: Use of polymers which contain (a) 0.1 to 100 mol % of vinylamine units or ethyleneimine units, (b) 0 to 99.9 mol % of units of at least one monomer from the group consisting of open-chain N-vinylcarboxamides, vinyl formate, vinyl acetate, vinyl propionate, vinyl alcohol, C1- to C6-alkyl vinyl ethers, monoethylenically unsaturated C3- to C8-carboxylic acids, their esters, nitriles, amides and anhydrides, N-vinylurea, N-vinylimidazoles and N-vinylimidazolines and (c) 0 to 5 mol % of units of monomers having at least two ethylenically unsaturated double bonds, in copolymerized form, the sum of (a), (b) and (c) in mol % always being 100, as biocide.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1998Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Norbert Gebhardt, Dieter Zeller, Claudia Nilz, Ulrich Steuerle, Charlotte Johansen
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Patent number: 6235258Abstract: A non-crystalline silica solid is obtainable by a process comprising the step of contacting in a liquid medium at least one silica precursor with at least one template comprising a polyethyleneimine or a mixture of two or more thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 1998Date of Patent: May 22, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ulrich Müller, Ulrich Steuerle
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Patent number: 6180590Abstract: The use of an amine with an average pKA of from 1 to 14 as detergency booster, preferably in textile detergents, especially in color detergents, and detergent formulations containing these amines.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1998Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: J{umlaut over (u)}rgen Huff, Ulrich Steuerle, Hubert Meixner, Beate Ehle, Wolfgang Paulus, J{umlaut over (u)}rgen Alfred Lux, Lukas H{umlaut over (a)}ussling
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Patent number: 6129786Abstract: Composite pigments based on nanoparticulate metal oxides modified by crosslinked or uncrosslinked polyalkylenepolyamine and anionic dyes are useful for coloring paints, inks, plastic, paper, wood, leather and textile materials.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1998Date of Patent: October 10, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Boubacar Camara, Manfred Patsch, Ulrich Steuerle, Jurgen Romeis
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Patent number: 6083898Abstract: The invention relates to the use of crosslinked nitrogenous compounds which are soluble or dispersible in water and are obtainable by crosslinking of(a) compounds containing at least three NH groups with(b) at least bifunctional crosslinkers which react with NH groups,in detergents and cleaners, especially soil release agents.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1999Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hubert Meixner, Ulrich Steuerle, Jurgen Decker, Wolfgang Paulus, Dieter Boeckh, Jurgen Alfred Lux, Beate Ehle
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Patent number: 6063286Abstract: Process for preparing fine-particle, water-insoluble polymers of aziridines by polymerizing aziridines, preferably ethylenimine, in the presence of crosslinkers which contain at least two functional groups, and in at least one ether, and also modified, water-insoluble polymers of aziridines which can be obtained by reacting fine-particle, water-insoluble, crosslinked polymers of aziridines, in aqueous medium, with carbon disulfide or formaldehyde and a nucleophilic agent from the group consisting of alkali metal cyanides, primary amines, secondary amines, alkali metal sulfites and alkali metal phosphites, and use of the modified and non-modified fine-particle, water-insoluble polymers for immobilizing active compounds, as absorbents for aldehydes, ketones and acids, and also for removing heavy metal ions from wastewaters.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1998Date of Patent: May 16, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ulrich Steuerle, Wolfgang Reuther, Hubert Meixner, Michael Ehle, Thomas Greindl, Rainer Betz
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Patent number: 6056967Abstract: A process for the preparation of water-soluble, amino-containing condensates and adducts having a greater drainage and retention effect in papermaking, in which from 5 to 95% by weight of the condensates or adducts are separated off as permeate from solutions of water-soluble, amino-containing condensates or adducts by ultrafiltration through membranes and the amino-containing condensates or adducts having improved efficiency are, if required, isolated from the retentate, and the high molecular weight polymer fractions contained in the retentate are used as retention aids, drainage aids and fixing compositions in papermaking, as promoters in the sizing of paper with alkyldiketenes, as flocculants for sewage sludges, as adhesion promoters in the production of laminated films, as additives for hair and skincare compositions and as compositions for immobilizing anionic active ingredients.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1998Date of Patent: May 2, 2000Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ulrich Steuerle, Hubert Meixner, Rainer Dyllick-Brenzinger, Wolfgang Reuther, Hartmut Kanter, Albert Hettche, Jurgen Weiser, Gunter Scherr
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Patent number: 5977293Abstract: A process for the continuous preparation of homopolymers of ethyleneimine by polymerization of ethyleneimine in a solvent in the presence of catalysts at temperatures of at least 80.degree. C., in homogeneous liquid phase in a tubular reactor in which the ratio of length to internal diameter is at least 5:1. There are obtained polyethyleneimines having a content of secondary nitrogen atoms of more than 40 to 60% and molecular weight distribution M.sub.w /M.sub.n of from 1.5:1 to 3:1.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1998Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ulrich Steuerle, Wolfgang Reuther, Wolfgang Harder
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Patent number: 5693825Abstract: A process for the preparation of an aziridine, especially ethyleneimine but also its derivatives in which one or both of its carbon atoms may be substituted once or twice by C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 -cycloalkyl or aryl, and the nitrogen atom is substituted by hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 -cycloalkyl, aryl benzyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -hydroxyalkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 - aminoalkyl wherein ethanolamine or its derivatives bearing the same carbon and nitrogen substituents is reacted in the gas phase for dehydration at from 200.degree. to 600.degree. C. and from 0.001 to 5 bar, especially 0.1 to 1 bar, over a heterogeneous catalyst shaped as presintered moldings and maintained as a steady-state or as a circulating fluidized bed catalyst. The preferred fluidizable presintered moldings are those prepared from a ceramic powder as a catalyst or catalyst carrier having a uniform pore size in the macroporous range.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 1996Date of Patent: December 2, 1997Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Uwe Dingerdissen, Gunter Lauth, Peter Trubenbach, Ulrich Steuerle