Patents by Inventor Urs A. Mueller

Urs A. Mueller 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: 20130263408
    Abstract: The invention relates to combing element for a circular comb of a combing machine that is connectable to a base body of the circular comb via fastening means. The combing element has a plurality of adjacently situated clothing elements oriented transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the combing element and provided with a toothed clothing. The combing element has a mounting bar with a supporting surface on which the clothing elements rest. The ends of the clothing elements protrude beyond the lateral faces of the mounting bar adjoining the supporting surface, and the clothing elements are joined to the mounting bar by means of at least one weld seam applied between the base surfaces of the ends of the clothing elements that protrude beyond the supporting surface of the mounting bar and the mounting bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Graf+ Cie AG
    Inventor: Urs Müller
  • Patent number: 8445732
    Abstract: The present invention refers to the use as flavor or fragrance of a compound of formula (I) wherein R4 is hydrogen and the bond between C-3 and C-4 is a single bond or the dotted line together with the bond between C-3 and C-4 represents a double bond; or R4 is methylene, forming with C-3 and C-4 a cyclopropane ring; R3 is hydrogen, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6 alkyl, or C2, C3, C4, C5, C6 alkenyl; and I) R1 and R2 together with the carbon atom to which they are attached form a carbonyl group; or II) R1 is hydroxyl and R2 is selected from C1, C2, C3 alkyl, and C2, C3, C4 alkenyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Givaudan SA
    Inventors: Sébastien March, Jerzy A. Bajgrowicz, Samuel Derrer, Philip Kraft, Urs Mueller
  • Publication number: 20130065969
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl and isopropyl; or R1 and R2 together form a saturated or monounsaturated 5- or 6-membered hydrocarbon ring, as represented by the arcuate dotted line; R3 is selected from methyl and ethyl; R4 is selected from methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, cyclopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, cyclobutyl and cyclopentyl; R5 is selected from hydrogen and methyl, and the dotted line between positions 3? and 4? represents an optional double bond. The compounds have a musk odour and are useful in fine and functional fragrances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Philip Kraft, Urs Mueller
  • Publication number: 20120271059
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of ?,?-unsaturated-?,?-disubstituted esters 1 with high E/Z- and ?,?/?,?-ratios, Formula (1) by reacting at a temperature of between about 130 and 170 degrees centigrade the conjugated malonate Formula (3) with, a group I, II or III metal halide or an organic cation/halide anion pair, an inorganic proton source and a polar solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Fridtjof Schröder, Urs Mueller, Peter Gygax
  • Publication number: 20120184630
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl and isopropyl; or R1 and R2 together form a saturated or monounsaturated 5- or 6-membered hydrocarbon ring, as represented by the arcuate dotted line; R3 is selected from methyl and ethyl; R4 is selected from methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, cyclopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, cyclobutyl and cyclopentyl; R5 is selected from hydrogen and methyl, and the dotted line between positions 3? and 4? represents an optional double bond. The compounds have a musk odour and are useful in fine and functional fragrances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Philip Kraft, Urs Mueller
  • Patent number: 7947679
    Abstract: The naphthyridine derivatives of formula (I) a and method of combating or controlling phytopathogenic fungi which comprises applying the compounds of formula (I) to a plant, to a seed of a plant and to the locus of the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Jelf Crowley, Markus Dobler, Urs Mueller, John Williams
  • Patent number: 7884103
    Abstract: The invention relates to N-sulfonyl-?-amino-acetic acid derivatives of the general formula (I): including the optical isomers thereof and mixtures of such isomers, wherein Ar1 and Ar2 independently of each other stand for an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group, R1 and R2 stand independently of each other for hydrogen, optionally substituted C1-C5alkyl, optionally substituted C2-C5alkenyl, C-2C5alkynyl or optionally substituted C3C6Cycloalkyl; R3 designates hydrogen, C-3C5alkenyl, C3-C5 alkynyl or optionally substituted C1-C5alkyl; R4 is optionally substituted C1-C5alkyl, optionally substituted C-2C5alkenyl, C-2C5aklynyl or optionally substituted C-3C6 cycloalkyl; R5 and R6 are independently of each other hydrogen or optionally substituted C1-C5alkyl, optionally substituted C2-C5alkenyl, C-2C5alkynyl or optionally substituted C3-C6cycloalkyl; R7 and R8 are independently of each other hydrogen or optionally substituted C1-C5alkyl, optionally substituted C2-C5alkenyl, C2-C5alkynyl or optionally subst
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventor: Urs Müller
  • Publication number: 20100331348
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) wherein the substituents have the meanings assigned to them in claim 1, are useful as pesticides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicants: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, INC., SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Patrice Selles, Eric Daniel Clarke, Alison Clare Elliot, Delphine Fawke, Ottmar Franz Hueter, Urs Mueller, Peter Renold, Sarah Targett, William Guy Whittingham
  • Publication number: 20100331427
    Abstract: The present invention refers to the use as flavour or fragrance of a compound of formula (I) wherein R4 is hydrogen and the bond between C-3 and C-4 is a single bond or the dotted line together with the bond between C-3 and C-4 represents a double bond; or R4 is methylene, forming with C-3 and C-4 a cyclopropane ring; R3 is hydrogen, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6 alkyl, or C2, C3, C4, C5, C6 alkenyl; and I) R1 and R2 together with the carbon atom to which they are attached form a carbonyl group; or II) R1 is hydroxyl and R2 is selected from C1, C2, C3 alkyl, and C2, C3, C4 alkenyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Givaudan SA
    Inventors: Sebastien March, Jerzy A. Bajgrowicz, Samuel Derrer, Philip Kraft, Urs Mueller
  • Publication number: 20100322889
    Abstract: The present invention refers to compound of formula (I) wherein R1 is methyl, ethyl or vinyl; the bond between C-3? and C-4? is a single bond or the dotted line together with the bond between C-3? and C-4? represents a double bond; and the side chain —CR1OH is at position 1? or 4? of the ring. The invention furthermore refers to their preparation and to fragrance applications comprising them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: Givaudan SA
    Inventors: Sebastien March, Jerzy A. Bajgrowicz, Samuel Derrer, Philip Kraft, Urs Mueller
  • Patent number: 7790668
    Abstract: 6-Methoxy-2,6-dimethyloctanal, a method of its production and fragrance compositions comprising it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Givaudan SA
    Inventor: Urs Mueller
  • Patent number: 7766206
    Abstract: A hand-held setting tool for driving fastening elements in a workpiece includes a drive-in ram (12) displaceable in the guide (15) in which a receptacle (16) for the fastening elements (23) is located and which has a feeding opening (17) for the fastening elements (23) and located in a region of the receptacle (16), and a displacement device (30) for displacing the fastening elements (23) into the receptacle (16) and controlled by the drive-in ram (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Emanuel Kurth, Urs Mueller, Marc Putzi, Tilo Dittrich
  • Patent number: 7718828
    Abstract: A method for the production of campholytic aldehyde starting from campholenic aldehyde in the presence of a copper catalyst and a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Givandan SA
    Inventors: Samuel Derrer, Urs Mueller
  • Patent number: 7682410
    Abstract: The present invention refers to the use as gas odorant of alkoxy alkynes of formula (I) wherein R1 is methoxy or ethoxy; and R2 is hydrogen or methyl, to a process of odorizing gas and to fuel gas comprising it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Givaudan SA
    Inventors: Urs Mueller, John Norman Short
  • Patent number: 7683190
    Abstract: A method of preparing enatiomerically enriched 3a,6,6,9a-tetramethyl-dodecahydro-naphtho[2,1-b]furan, formula (I), from (E,E)-homofarnesic acid or (E)-monocyclohomofarnesic acid by (a) reacting firstly with a chiral alcohol, (b) reacting the product of (a) with an acid to cause a first cyclization, (c) producing an alcohol by reacting the product of (b) with a reducing agent and (d) causing a second cyclization by reacting the product of (c) with an acid. The product of this process gives a mixture of both enantiomers with one in excess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Givaudan SA
    Inventors: Georg Frater, Urs Mueller
  • Publication number: 20100004489
    Abstract: A method for the production of campholytic aldehyde starting from campholenic aldehyde in the presence of a copper catalyst and a solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: Givaudan SA
    Inventors: Samuel Derrer, Urs Mueller
  • Publication number: 20090298950
    Abstract: The present invention relates to campholytic aldehyde condensates of formula (I) wherein R1-R5 have the same meaning as given in the specification. It furthermore relates to a method of their production and to fragrance compositions and fragrance applications comprising them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Jerzy A. Bajgrowicz, Urs Mueller
  • Publication number: 20090265892
    Abstract: A fixing device fixes toothed elements to a component of a textile machine. The component of the textile machine can be either a top comb, a circular comb or a card flat. The fixing device includes a stationary bearing surface for the toothed elements and a flexible spring leg for pressing the toothed elements to the bearing surface by use of a holding force. The fixing device includes a device for neutralizing the holding force of the spring leg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Graf & Cie AG
    Inventor: Urs Mueller
  • Publication number: 20090069333
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel derivatives of pyridopyrazines and pyridopyridazines, to processes for preparing them, to intermediate chemicals used in their manufacture, to compositions containing them and to methods of using them to combat fungi, especially fungal infections of plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Jelf Crowley, Markus Dobler, Urs Mueller, John Williams
  • Publication number: 20080287472
    Abstract: Fungicidal compositions comprising derivatives of pyridopyrimidines having the general formula (1): processes for preparing them, to certain intermediate chemicals used in their manufacture, to compositions containing them and to methods of using them to combat fungi, especially fungal infections of plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Jelf CROWLEY, Markus DOBLER, Urs MUELLER, John WILLIAMS