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: 20110130486
    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: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Iris Lamparth, Urs Karl Fischer, Frank Zeuner, Armin de Meijere, Volker M. Rheinberger
  • Publication number: 20110118380
    Abstract: Polymerizable dental material which contains (a) at least one radically polymerizable compound according to the general formula I (b) initiators for radical polymerization; and (c) filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Jörg Angermann, Urs Karl Fischer, Volker Rheinberger
  • Patent number: 7932303
    Abstract: A material contains at least a polymerizable N,O-functionalized acrylic acid hydroxyamide of the Formula (I) in which A is an n+m-valent linear or branched aliphatic C1 to C50 radical, in which the carbon chain can be interrupted by O, S, —CO—O—, CO—NH, O—CO—NH or NH—CO—NH, an n+m-valent aromatic C6 to C18 radical or an n+m-valent cycloaliphatic or heterocyclic C3 to C18 radical, wherein the radicals can carry one or more substituents, Y is not present, or is O, S, an ester, amide or urethane group, R1 is hydrogen, an aliphatic C1 to C20 alkyl or C3 to C8 cycloalkyl radical which can carry one or more substituents, R2 is H or a C1 to C10 alkyl radical, R3 is not present or is a C1 to C16 alkylene radical which can be interrupted by O, HG is not present, is —COOH, —P?O(OH)2; —P?O(OH)(OR4); —O—P?O(OH)2, —SO2OH or —O—P?O(OH)(OR4), R4 is a C1 to C15 alkyl radical, phenyl or benzyl radical and n is a number from 1 to 5 and m a number from 0 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Iris Lamparth, Urs Karl Fischer, Frank Zeuner, Armin de Meijere, Volker M. Rheinberger
  • Publication number: 20110054066
    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: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG
    Inventors: Norbert MOSZNER, Frank ZEUNER, Urs Karl FISCHER, Volker M. RHEINBERGER, Iris LAMPARTH
  • Publication number: 20100311863
    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: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Helmut Ritter, Urs-Karl Fischer, Monir Tabatabai, Matthias Schaub, Andreas Utterodt
  • Patent number: 7816476
    Abstract: Cyclopropyl acrylate of general formula (1), constitutional and stereoisomers thereof and their mixtures in which A is selected from:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Frank Zeuner, Urs-Karl Fischer, Volker M. Rheinberger, Armin de Meijere, Viktor Bahutski
  • Patent number: 7659324
    Abstract: Dental materials which contain a radically polymerizable organic binder, at least one radical polymerization initiator and at least one radical polymerization accelerator, both the initiator and the accelerator each having at least one radically polymerizable group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Urs Karl Fischer, Peter Burtscher, Jörg Angermann, Volker M. Rheinberger
  • Patent number: 7605190
    Abstract: Composition with at least one polymerizable binder and at least one polymerization initiator, which contains at least one acylgermanium compound according to general Formula (I), in which R0 is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-18-alkyl radical or an acyl group; R1 and R2 are H, an acyl group or have one of the meanings given for R3; R3 is a branched or linear C1-18-alkyl radical which can be unsubstituted or substituted one or more times by —O—, —NH—, —NR—, —S— or interrupted by other groups, trimethylsilyl, hal-(CH3)2Si—[OSi(CH3)2]r?, (CH3)3Si—[OSi(CH3)2]r—, —COOH, —COO—R10, —CO—NR11R12, —CO-vinyl, —CO-phenyl, phenyl-C1-4-alkyl, phenyl, naphthyl or biphenyl, C5-12 cycloalkyl, a 5 or 6-membered O, S or N-containing heterocyclic ring, halogen, OH, an aromatic C6-30 radical which can be substituted or unsubstituted and/or interrupted by O, S or —NR—, or a branched, cyclic or linear C1-20 alkyl, -alkenyl, -alkoxy or -alkenoxy radical; m is 1, 2 or 3; n is 0 or 1 and p is 0 or 1; wherein in each case two of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Ulrich Salz, Urs Karl Fischer, Robert Liska, Heinrich Gruber, Beate Ganster
  • Patent number: 7595354
    Abstract: A composition comprising (A) at least one fluorinated vinylcyclopropane according to Formula (I) wherein R1 is H or —CO—O—(CH2CH2)p—R7; R2 is H or forms together with R6 a —CH2—C(R9)(R10)—CH2— residue; R3 is H; R4 is H or forms together with R5—CH2—C(R9)(R10)—CH2— residue; R5 is H, —CO—O—R8, —CO—O—(CH2CH2)p—R7 or forms together with R4—CH2—C(R9)(R10)—CH2— residue; R6 is H, —CO—O—R8, —CO—O—(CH2CH2)p—R7 or forms together with R2 a —CH2—C(R9)(R10)—CH2— residue; R7 is perfluorinated C2-C20 aliphatic or alicyclic group; R8 is H, phenyl, benzyl, or a linear or branched C1-C12 aliphatic or alicyclic group; R9 is a H, benzoyl, acetyl or a C1-C5-alkyl group; R10H or a —CO—O—R8; p is 1, 2, 3, or 4, provided that the compound of Formula (I) comprises at least one —CO—O—(CH2CH2)p—R7 residue; (B) at least one non-fluorinated vinylcyclopropane derivative; (C) a bisphenol-A-ether di(meth)acrylate according to Formula (II) wherein R18 is H or CH3, R19 is CH3 or CF3, Y is a C2-C5-alkylen residue which can be substitu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Urs Karl Fischer, Volker M Rheinberger, Giancarlo Galli, Marina Ragnoli, Emo Chiellini
  • Publication number: 20090239967
    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: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG
    Inventors: Norbert MOSZNER, Frank ZEUNER, Robert LISKA, Volker M. RHEINBERGER, Iris LAMPARTH, Urs Karl FISCHER
  • Patent number: 7585901
    Abstract: Bicyclic cyclopropane derivatives of the general Formula (I) in which n+m is 0 to 8; r is 1 to 4; R1 is absent or is a C1-C20 alkylene radical which can be interrupted by O or S, a cycloaliphatic C4-C12 radical, a bicyclic C4-C12 radical, a C6-C14 arylene or C7-C20 alkylenearylene radical; R2 is for r=1 a C1-C20 alkyl radical which can be interrupted by O or S, a cycloaliphatic C4-C12 radical, a bicyclic C4-C12 radical, a C6-C14 aryl or a C7-C20 alkylaryl radical; is for r>1 an r-times substituted aliphatic C1 to C20 radical which can be interrupted by O or S, a cycloaliphatic C4-C12 radical, an aromatic C6-C14 radical or aliphatic-aromatic C7-C20 radical; X is absent or is —CO—O—, —CO—NH— or —O—CO—NH—, and Y is CH2, O or S which is suitable in particular for the preparation of dental materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Armin de Meijere, Frank Zeuner, Urs Karl Fischer
  • Publication number: 20090139433
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an alkylenediamine-N,N,N?,N?-tetraacetic acid-(meth)acrylamide of formula (I) The invention also relates to a polymerizable composition which is characterized in that it comprises at least one alkylenediamine-N,N,N?,N?-tetraacetic acid-(meth)acrylamide of formula (I), and its use in particular as dental material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert MOSZNER, Jorg ANGERMANN, Urs Karl FISCHER, Volker M. RHEINBERGER
  • Patent number: 7501457
    Abstract: Dental materials and associated methods are described based on multicyclic allyl sulphides with general Formula (I): in which R1 is H or a C1-C10 alkyl radical; R2 is H or a C1-C10 alkyl radical; R3 is absent or is a C1-C20 alkylene radical which can be interrupted by O or S, a cycloaliphatic C4-C12 radical, a bicyclic C6-C12 radical, a C6-C14 arylene or C7-C20 alkylene arylene radical; R4 is an n-times substituted aliphatic C2 to C20 hydrocarbon radical which can be interrupted by O or S, a cycloaliphatic C4-C12 radical, an aromatic C6-C14 radical, an aliphatic-aromatic C7-C20 radical or a heterocyclic radical which can contain 4 to 20 carbon atoms and 1 to 6 heteroatoms which are selected from N, O, P and/or S atoms, or which is formed exclusively by these heteroatoms; R5 is absent or is a C1-C10 alkylene radical; X is absent or is O, S, —O—CO— or —O—CO—NH—; Y is absent or is O, S, —O—CO— or —O—CO—NH—; m is 0 or 1 and n is an integer from 3 to 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Jörg Angermann, Peter Burtscher, Urs Karl Fischer, Norbert Moszner, Volker M. Rheinberger
  • Publication number: 20090043004
    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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Volker Rheinberger, Simone Klapdohr, Urs Karl Fischer
  • Publication number: 20080277814
    Abstract: Composition with at least one polymerizable binder and at least one polymerization initiator, which contains at least one acylgermanium compound according to general Formula (I), in which R0 is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-18-alkyl radical or an acyl group; R1 and R2 are H, an acyl group or have one of the meanings given for R3; R3 is a branched or linear C1-18-alkyl radical which can be unsubstituted or substituted one or more times by —O—, —NH—, —NR—, —S— or interrupted by other groups, trimethylsilyl, hal-(CH3)2Si—[OSi(CH3)2]r?, (CH3)3Si—[OSi(CH3)2]r—, —COOH, —COO—R10, —CO—NR11R12, —CO-vinyl, —CO-phenyl, phenyl-C1-4-alkyl, phenyl, naphthyl or biphenyl, C5-12 cycloalkyl, a 5 or 6-membered O, S or N-containing heterocyclic ring, halogen, OH, an aromatic C6-30 radical which can be substituted or unsubstituted and/or interrupted by O, S or —NR—, or a branched, cyclic or linear C1-20 alkyl, -alkenyl, -alkoxy or -alkenoxy radical; m is 1, 2 or 3; n is 0 or 1 and p is 0 or 1; wherein in each case two of
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Ulrich Salz, Urs Karl Fischer, Robert Liska, Heinrich Gruber, Beate Ganster
  • Publication number: 20080234405
    Abstract: A material contains at least a polymerizable N,O-functionalized acrylic acid hydroxyamide of the Formula (I) in which A is an n+m-valent linear or branched aliphatic C1 to C50 radical, in which the carbon chain can be interrupted by O, S, —CO—O—, CO—NH, O—CO—NH or NH—CO—NH, an n+m-valent aromatic C6 to C18 radical or an n+m-valent cycloaliphatic or heterocyclic C3 to C18 radical, wherein the radicals can carry one or more substituents, Y is not present, or is O, S, an ester, amide or urethane group, R1 is hydrogen, an aliphatic C1 to C20 alkyl or C3 to C8 cycloalkyl radical which can carry one or more substituents, R2 is H or a C1 to C10 alkyl radical, R3 is not present or is a C1 to C16 alkylene radical which can be interrupted by O, HG is not present, is —COOH, —P?O(OH)2; —P?O(OH)(OR4); —O—P?O(OH)2, —SO2OH or —O—P?O(OH)(OR4), R4 is a C1 to C15 alkyl radical, phenyl or benzyl radical and n is a number from 1 to 5 and m a number from 0 to 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Iris Lamparth, Urs Karl Fischer, Frank Zeuner, Armin de Meijere, Volker M. Rheinberger
  • Patent number: 7365222
    Abstract: Bicyclic cyclopropane derivatives of the general Formula (I) in which n+m is 0 to 8; r is 1 to 4; R1 is absent or is a C1-C20 alkylene radical which can be interrupted by O or S, a cycloaliphatic C4-C12 radical, a bicyclic C4-C12 radical, a C6-C14 arylene or C7-C20 alkylenearylene radical; R2 is for r=1 a C1-C20 alkyl radical which can be interrupted by O or S, a cycloaliphatic C4-C12 radical, a bicyclic C4-C12 radical, a C6-C14 aryl or a C7-C20 alkylaryl radical; is for r>1 an r-times substituted aliphatic C1 to C20 radical which can be interrupted by O or S, a cycloaliphatic C4-C12 radical, an aromatic C6-C14 radical or aliphatic-aromatic C7-C20 radical; X is absent or is —CO—O—, —CO—NH— or —O—CO—NH—, and Y is CH2, O or S which is suitable in particular for the preparation of dental materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Armin de Meijere, Frank Zeuner, Urs Karl Fischer
  • Publication number: 20080076847
    Abstract: Composition with at least one polymerizable binder and a polymerization initiator, which contains at least one acylgermane according to general Formula (I), in which R0 is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-18-alkyl radical or an acyl group; R1 and R2 are H, an acyl group or have one of the meanings given for R3; R3 is a branched or linear C1-18-alkyl radical which can be unsubstituted or substituted one or more times by —O—, —NH—, —NR—, —S— or interrupted by other groups, trimethylsilyl, hal-(CH3)2Si—[OSi(CH3)2]r?, (CH3)3Si—[OSi(CH3)2]r—, —COOH, —COO—R10, —CO—NR11R12, —CO-vinyl, —CO-phenyl, phenyl-C1-4-alkyl, phenyl, naphthyl or biphenyl, C5-12 cycloalkyl, a 5 or 6-membered O, S or N-containing heterocyclic ring, halogen, OH, an aromatic C6-30 radical which can be substituted or unsubstituted and/or interrupted by O, S or —NR—, or a branched, cyclic or linear C1-20 alkyl, -alkenyl, -alkoxy or -alkenoxy radical; m is 1, 2 or 3; n is 0 or 1 and p is 0 or 1; and the use of acyl germanes of Formula (I) for ex
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Ulrich Salz, Urs Karl Fischer, Robert Liska, Heinrich Gruber, Beate Ganster
  • Publication number: 20080058443
    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: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Helmut Ritter, Urs-Karl Fischer, Monir Tabatabai, Matthias Schaub, Andreas Utterodt
  • Publication number: 20070287792
    Abstract: Dental material which contains at least one radically polymerizable monomer according to the general formula (I): in which PG is a cyclic, ring-opening polymerizable group; X1 is absent, O, S, is an ester, amide or urethane group; X2 is absent with, O, S, is an ester, amide or urethane group; Y is absent, O, S, is an ester, amide or urethane group; R is an organic radical with a valency of (n+m), with 1 to 35 carbon atoms and 0 to 8 heteroatoms, the H atoms of which can be wholly or partially substituted by F atoms; R1 is absent or is a C1-C16 alkylene radical which can be interrupted by O atoms; R2 is absent or is a C1-C16 alkylene radical which can be interrupted by O atoms; n is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; m is 1, 2 or 3; HG is —P?O(OH)2; —P?O(OH)(OR14); —O—P?O(OH)2, —O—P?O(OH)(OR15) or —SO2OH, wherein R14 is a C1-C15 alkyl radical, phenyl or benzyl radical; and R15 is a C1-C15 alkyl radical, phenyl or benzyl radical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: IVOCLAR VIVADENT AG
    Inventors: Norbert Moszner, Jorg Angermann, Frank Zeuner, Armin de Mejere, Urs Karl Fischer, Volker Rheinberger