Patents by Inventor Urs Karl Fischer

Urs Karl Fischer 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: 20180042822
    Abstract: The invention relates to dental materials which contain at least one compound of Formula I The materials are characterized by very good mechanical properties after curing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Jörg Angermann, Urs-Karl Fischer, Martina Hauner
  • Publication number: 20180036209
    Abstract: Dental material which contains at least one vinylcyclopropane of the general formulae I, in which A, B independently of each other are in each case OH or COOH; X, Y independently of each other are in each case O or NH; R1, R2 independently of each other are in each case H or an aliphatic linear or branched C1-C10 hydrocarbon radical which can be interrupted by O, S or an ester group; and n, m independently of each other are in each case 0, 1 or 2, wherein, if X=Y=O, R1?H and R2?H, n+m?1. The vinylcyclopropanes are characterized by a low shrinkage and a high reactivity on radical polymerization and are suitable in particular for the preparation of dental materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Yohann CateI, Urs Karl Fischer, Sven Tauscher
  • Patent number: 9877898
    Abstract: Dental material, which contains an ene compound with two or more C—C multiple bonds and a thiol according to general Formula (1) or an oligomer based on such a thiol, wherein n, p and m are chosen such that the thiol has a total of at least 3 SH groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Peter Burtscher, Urs-Karl Fischer, Helmut Ritter, Monir Tabatabai, Andreas Utterodt
  • Publication number: 20170172855
    Abstract: Radically polymerizable dental material, which contains at least one compound of Formula I: The material preferably additionally contains a radically polymerizable monomer, an initiator for the radical polymerization and filler. It is characterized by a low polymerization contraction stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Urs-Karl Fischer, Iris Lamparth, Peter Burtscher, Robert Liska, Christian Gorsche, Konstanze Seidler, Paul Gauss
  • Patent number: 9668946
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dental restorative material which comprises a thermolabile or photolabile polymerizable compound of Formula I: [(Z1)m-Q1-X)]k-T-[Y-Q2-(Z2)n]l??Formula I, in which T represents a thermolabile or photolabile group, Z1 and Z2 in each case independently represent a polymerizable group selected from vinyl groups, CH2?CR1—CO—O— and CH2?CR1—CO—NR2— or an adhesive group selected from —Si(OR)3, —COOH, —O—PO(OH)2, —PO(OH)2, —SO2OH and —SH, wherein at least one Z1 or Z2 is a polymerizable group, Q1 in each case independently is missing or represents an (m+1)-valent linear or branched aliphatic C1-C20 radical which can be interrupted by —O—, —S—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —CO—NR3—, —NR3—CO—, —O—CO—NR3—, —NR3—CO—O— or —NR3—CO—NR3—, Q2 in each case independently is missing or represents an (n+1)-valent linear or branched aliphatic C1-C20 radical which can be interrupted by —O—, —S—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —CO—NR3—, —NR3—CO—, —O—CO—NR3—, —NR3—CO—O— or —NR3—CO—NR3—, X and Y in each case independently are missing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Iris Lamparth, Thorsten Bock, Urs Karl Fischer, Ulrich Salz, Volker Rheinberger, Robert Liska
  • Publication number: 20170007505
    Abstract: Dental material, which contains an ene compound with two or more C—C multiple bonds and a thiol according to general Formula (1) or an oligomer based on such a thiol, wherein n, p and m are chosen such that the thiol has a total of at least 3 SH groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Peter Burtscher, Urs-Karl Fischer, Helmut Ritter, Monir Tabatabai, Andreas Utterodt
  • Patent number: 9403726
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a ceramic or glass ceramic shaped article using stereolithography and using a slip based on a radically polymerizable binder, polymerization initiator and filler, which comprises (A) at least one acidic monomer of general formula I (B) photoinitiator, and (C) ceramic and/or glass ceramic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Urs Karl Fischer, Norbert Moszner, Volker Rheinberger, Wolfgang Wachter, Johannes Homa, Werner Längle
  • Patent number: 9393181
    Abstract: Dental material which contains a polymerizable phthalic acid derivative of the general Formula I: with R1=H, methyl or a C1-C5 alkyl residue; R2=H, a phenyl, benzyl or C1-C8 alkyl residue; Q1=is absent or is a C1-C15 alkylene residue, wherein the carbon chain can be interrupted by O or S; Q2=is absent or a (n+1)-valent aliphatic C1-C20 residue, wherein the carbon chain can be interrupted by O or S and wherein Q1 and Q2 cannot be absent simultaneously; X=is absent, is O, S or (—CO—NR4—)—, wherein R4 is H, CH3 or C2H5; Y=is absent, is O, S or (—CO—NR5—)—, wherein R5 is H, CH3 or C2H5; n, m=independently of one another in each case mean 1, 2 or 3; R3=H, CH3, C2H5, Cl, Br or OCH3, and wherein the two carboxyl groups of the benzene ring can together form an anhydride group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Thorsten Bock, Urs Karl Fischer, Iris Lamparth, Norbert Moszner, Volker Rheinberger
  • Patent number: 9333150
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dental restorative material on the basis of at least one compound of Formula I A-[X-Q-(Y-CG)n]m?? Formula I, wherein CG represents in each case independently an azide group N3 or an alkyne group selected from the group consisting of —CR1R2—C?CH, with the proviso that the dental restorative material comprises at least one compound of Formula I comprising an azide group and at least one compound of Formula I comprising an alkyne group. The invention also relates to the use of the dental restorative materials according to the invention for preparing dental composites, preferably composite blanks, which are suitable in particular for mechanical processing by means of computer-aided processing techniques such as milling and grinding processes, and which are suitable above all for preparing dental restoration materials such as inlays, onlays, crowns, bridges or veneering materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Peter Burtscher, Urs Karl Fischer, Thomas Hirt, Ulrich S. Schubert, Martin Hager, Bobby Happ, Benedict Sandmann
  • Patent number: 9138382
    Abstract: Radically polymerizable macrocyclic polyethers or macrocyclic heteroanalogous polyethers, preferably crown ethers, heteroanalogous crown ethers and cryptands for use in dental materials is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Frank Zeuner, Urs Karl Fischer, Volker M. Rheinberger, Iris Lamparth
  • Patent number: 8921450
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radically polymerizable monomer of formula (I) wherein W1 and W2 in each case independently represent H or X—R—Y—PG, wherein at least one of W1 and W2 represents X—R—Y—PG, X in each case independently is missing or represents an ether, ester, amide, urethane or urea group, Y in each case independently is missing or represents an ether, ester, amide, urethane or urea group, R in each case independently is missing or represents a C1-C16 alkylene radical which can be interrupted by one or more O atoms, wherein R can be missing only if X and/or Y is simultaneously also missing, and PG in each case independently represents a cyclic, ring-opening polymerizable group, a, b, c and d independently of each other can take the values 3 to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Jörg Angermann, Urs Karl Fischer, Volker Rheinberger
  • Patent number: 8889758
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dental materials comprising liquid, nanoparticulate functionalized hydrophobic co-condensates of tetraalkyl silicates with functionalized trialkoxysilanes of the formula I P—(CH2)n—Si(OR)3 where P, R and n independently of one another have the following meanings: P=a polymerizable CH2?CH—, CH2?CH—O—, styryl, (meth)acrylic or (meth)acrylamide group or an SH group capable of polyaddition, R=methyl, ethyl or propyl and n=from 3 to 15, which can be prepared by co-condensation of tetraalkyl silicates with alkyltrialkoxysilanes functionalized in the ? position and subsequent end group functionalization with trimethylsilyl groups; The invention further relates to the use of the dental materials for filling composites, fixing cements or materials for coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Volker Rheinberger, Simone Klapdohr, Urs Karl Fischer
  • Patent number: 8883877
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dental material comprising, relative to the total mass of the material: (a) 1 to 95 wt.-% of at least one polymerizable N,O-functionalized acrylic acid hydroxamide, (b) 0 to 70 wt.-% diluent monomer, (c) 0 to 70 wt.-%, cross-linker monomer, (d) 0.1 to 5.0 wt.-% polymerization initiator (e) 0 to 80 wt.-% filler, (f) 0 to 70 wt.-% solvent, and (g) 0 to 70 wt.-% adhesive monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Iris Lamparth, Urs Karl Fischer, Frank Zeuner, Armin de Meijere, Volker M. Rheinberger
  • Publication number: 20140329929
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dental restorative material which comprises a thermolabile or photolabile polymerizable compound of Formula I: [(Z1)m-Q1-X)]k-T-[Y-Q2-(Z2)n]1??Formula I, in which T represents a thermolabile or photolabile group, Z1 and Z2 in each case independently represent a polymerizable group selected from vinyl groups, CH2?CR1—CO—O— and CH2?CR1—CO—NR2— or an adhesive group selected from —Si(OR)3, —COOH, —O—PO(OH)2, —PO(OH)2, —SO2OH and —SH, wherein at least one Z1 or Z2 is a polymerizable group, Q1 in each case independently is missing or represents an (m+1)-valent linear or branched aliphatic C1-C20 radical which can be interrupted by —O—, —S—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —CO—NR3—, —NR3—CO—, —O—CO—NR3—, —NR3—CO—O— or —NR3—CO—NR3—, Q2 in each case independently is missing or represents an (n+1)-valent linear or branched aliphatic C1-C20 radical which can be interrupted by —O—, —S—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —CO—NR3—, —NR3—CO—, —O—CO—NR3—, —NR3—CO—O— or —NR3—CO—NR3—, X and Y in each case independently are missing
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Iris Lamparth, Thorsten Bock, Urs Karl Fischer, Ulrich Salz, Volker Rheinberger, Robert Liska
  • Patent number: 8829067
    Abstract: Composition with at least one polymerizable binder and one polymerization initiator, which contains at least one acylgermanium compound according to general Formula (I), and the use of acylgermanes of Formula (I) as initiators for radical polymerization or for the preparation of dental restorations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Frank Zeuner, Robert Liska, Volker M. Rheinberger, Iris Lamparth, Urs Karl Fischer
  • Publication number: 20140183799
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a ceramic or glass ceramic shaped article using stereolithography and using a slip based on a radically polymerizable binder, polymerization initiator and filler, which comprises (A) at least one acidic monomer of general formula I (B) photoinitiator, and (C) ceramic and/or glass ceramic particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Urs Karl Fischer, Norbert Moszner, Volker Rheinberger, Wolfgang Wachter, Johannes Homa, Werner Längle
  • Patent number: 8466212
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dental materials composed of calix[n]arenes and also to the use thereof for cements, composites, adhesives and coating materials in the dental field. The materials include (a) 0.5 to 90% by weight of at least one polymerizable calix[n]arene according to formula (I), (b) 0.01 to 5% by weight of initiator, (c) 0 to 90% by weight of at least one additional monomer which can polymerize under cationic and/or radical conditions and/or which can polymerize by ring opening, (d) 0 to 85% by weight of filler, (e) 0.01 to 5% by weight of additive and (f) 0 to 70% by weight of solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignees: Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Haraeus Kulzer GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Helmut Ritter, Urs-Karl Fischer, Monir Tabatabai, Matthias Schaub, Andreas Utterodt
  • Publication number: 20130090404
    Abstract: Dental material which contains a polymerizable phthalic acid derivative of the general Formula I: with R1?H, methyl or a C1-C5 alkyl residue; R2?H, a phenyl, benzyl or C1-C8 alkyl residue; Q1=is absent or is a C1-C15 alkylene residue, wherein the carbon chain can be interrupted by O or S; Q2=is absent or a (n+1)-valent aliphatic C1-C20 residue, wherein the carbon chain can be interrupted by O or S and wherein Q1 and Q2 cannot be absent simultaneously; X=is absent, is O, S or (—CO—NR4—)—, wherein R4 is H, CH3 or C2H5; Y=is absent, is O, S or (—CO—NR5—)—, wherein R5 is H, CH3 or C2H5; n, m=independently of one another in each case mean 1, 2 or 3; R3?H, CH3, C2H5, Cl, Br or OCH3, and wherein the two carboxyl groups of the benzene ring can together form an anhydride group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG
    Inventors: Thorsten BOCK, Urs Karl FISCHER, Iris LAMPARTH, Norbert MOSZNER, Volker RHEINBERGER
  • Publication number: 20120010066
    Abstract: Slip based on radically polymerizable binder, polymerization initiator and filler, which comprises (A) at least one acidic monomer of general formula I (HG-Y—)aX?Z—PG)b ??Formula I (B) photoinitiator, and (C) ceramic and/or glass ceramic particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG
    Inventors: Urs Karl Fischer, Norbert Moszner, Volker Rheinberger, Wolfgang Wachter, Johannes Homa, Werner Längle
  • Publication number: 20120010322
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radically polymerizable monomer of formula (I) wherein W1 and W2 in each case independently represent H or X—R—Y—PG, wherein at least one of W1 and W2 represents X—R—Y—PG, X in each case independently is missing or represents an ether, ester, amide, urethane or urea group, Y in each case independently is missing or represents an ether, ester, amide, urethane or urea group, R in each case independently is missing or represents a C1-C16 alkylene radical which can be interrupted by one or more O atoms, wherein R can be missing only if X and/or Y is simultaneously also missing, and PG in each case independently represents a cyclic, ring-opening polymerizable group, a, b, c and d independently of each other can take the values 3 to 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG
    Inventors: Norbert MOSZNER, Jörg ANGERMANN, Urs Karl FISCHER, Volker RHEINBERGER