Patents by Inventor Walter Gotz
Walter Gotz 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: 9206315Abstract: The instant invention includes an article and a method of forming the article. The article includes a mixture of a thermoplastic polyurethane and polyamide 6/66 copolymer. The thermoplastic polyurethane has a Shore Hardness of at least 36D as determined using DIN EN ISO 1183-1.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Manoranjan Prusty, Axel Wilms, Eric S. Noon, Walter Gotz, Gulay Serhatkulu, Elke Marten
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Publication number: 20120055576Abstract: The instant invention includes an article and a method of forming the article. The article includes a mixture of a thermoplastic polyurethane and polyamide 6/66 copolymer. The thermoplastic polyurethane has a Shore Hardness of at least 36D as determined using DIN EN ISO 1183-1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2009Publication date: March 8, 2012Inventors: Manoranjan Prusty, Axel Wilms, Eric S. Noon, Walter Gotz, Gulay Serhatkulu, Elke Marten
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Patent number: 6703475Abstract: A process for continuous production of copolyamides based on a lactam (I), a diamine (II) and a dicarboxylic acid (III) comprises reacting a mixture (IV) comprising a diamine (II), a dicarboxylic acid (III) and water in a first reaction zone at a pressure in the range from 1.3*105 to 2.5*105 Pa in the entry zone of the reaction zone and at a temperature above the melting point of polymer (V) to a conversion, based on the molar amounts of diamine (II) and dicarboxylic acid (III), of at least 80% to form a polymer (V), reacting a mixture (VI) comprising lactam (I) and water in a second reaction zone at a pressure in the range from 5*105 to 40*105 Pa and at a temperature above the melting point of polymer (VII) to a conversion, based on the molar amount of lactam (I), of at least 80% to form a polymer (VII), then reacting polymer (V) and polymer (VII) with each other in a third reaction zone at a pressure in the range from 1*105 to 1.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2002Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jürgen Deininger, Walter Götz, Alfons Ludwig, Gunter Pipper
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Patent number: 6455612Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus and method for injecting an additive directly into a polymer melt stream. The method comprises supplying a melt flow of a polymeric host material to a die assembly having a thin-plate assembly and injecting at least one additive into at least one predetermined location in a cross-section of the melt flow of the polymeric host material while the melt flow passes through the die assembly. The method achieves uniform dosing of the one or more additives in the extrusion direction in the polymeric host material without homogeneously mixing the one or more additives and the polymeric host material. The apparatus for directly injecting one or more additives into a polymer melt stream comprises a pumping system, a die assembly having a thin-plate assembly, and a distribution line.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2001Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Charles F. Helms, Jr., Dominick A. Burlone, James L. Huff, Thomas Kessler, Herman Brandt, Walter Gotz, Jürgen Hofmann
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Patent number: 6391239Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus and method for injecting an additive directly into a polymer melt stream. The method comprises supplying a melt flow of a polymeric host material to a die assembly having a thin-plate assembly and injecting at least one additive into at least one predetermined location in a cross-section of the melt flow of the polymeric host material while the melt flow passes through the die assembly. The method achieves uniform dosing of the one or more additives in the extrusion direction in the polymeric host material without homogeneously mixing the one or more additives and the polymeric host material. The apparatus for directly injecting one or more additives into a polymer melt stream comprises a pumping system, a die assembly having a thin-plate assembly, and a distribution line.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2000Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Charles F. Helms, Jr., Dominick A. Burlone, James L. Huff, Thomas Kessler, Herman Brandt, Walter Gotz, Jürgen Hofmann
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Patent number: 6289928Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus and method for injecting an additive directly into a polymer melt stream. The method comprises supplying a melt flow of a polymeric host material to a die assembly having a thin-plate assembly and injecting at least one additive into at least one predetermined location in a cross-section of the melt flow of the polymeric host material while the melt flow passes through the die assembly. The method achieves uniform dosing of the one or more additives in the extrusion direction in the polymeric host material without homogeneously mixing the one or more additives and the polymeric host material. The apparatus for directly injecting one or more additives into a polymer melt stream comprises a pumping system, a die assembly having a thin-plate assembly, and a distribution line.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1998Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Charles F. Helms, Jr., Dominick A. Burlone, James L. Huff, Thomas Kessler, Herman Brandt, Walter Gotz, Jürgen Hofmann
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Patent number: 6254949Abstract: The shaped article consists of a) from 5 to 95% by weight of a molding composition A made from at least one thermoplastic polyamide, copolyamide or blends of these as component A1, fillers and/or reinforcing materials, if desired, as component A2, impact modifiers as component A3 and other additives and processing aids as component A4, and b) from 5 to 95% by weight of a molding composition B, made from at least one thermoplastic polyamide, copolyamide or blends of these as component B1, at least one crosslinked elastomeric polymer as component B2 and, if desired, other additives and processing aids as component B3, where, in the shaped article, segments of molding compositions A and B are connected to one another over a relatively large area. These shaped articles may be used in the motor vehicle sector, for example as air or coolant ducts.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1999Date of Patent: July 3, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Alexander Glück, Walter Götz, Volker Lohrbächer, Graham Edmund Mc Kee, Mark Völkel
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Patent number: 6187877Abstract: A polymer based on a dicarboxylic acid and a diamine is prepared by polycondensation in an extruder, by (a) heating a mixture of a dicarboxylic acid having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms and a diamine having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms, which mixture is solid at room temperature and has a residual moisture content of less than 5% by weight, to a temperature in the range from 150 to 400° C. under autogenous pressure in a contrarotating twin-screw extruder to give a product A, (b) feeding the product A to a corotating twin-screw extruder, with the product A being exposed to a temperature in the range from 150 to 400° C. and residual water present and also water from the polycondensation being removed through the degassing openings, to give a product B, with the proviso that the corotating twin-screw extruder has at least two segments having different pressures.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1997Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Walter Götz, Jürgen Hofmann, Michael Kopietz, Helmut Horle
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Patent number: 5986006Abstract: Homo- or copolymers A composed ofA.sub.1) 40-100% by weight of monomers of the general formula I ##STR1## A.sub.2) 0-60% by weight of monomers of the general formula II ##STR2## and A.sub.3) 0-10% by weight of further monomers capable of free radical polymerization,the percentages by weight of the monomers A.sub.1) to A.sub.3) summing to 100% andR.sup.1 and R.sup.4 being identical or different radicals and each being hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl,R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.5, R.sup.6 being identical or different radicals and each being hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl,with the proviso that at least two radicals from the group consisting of R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 and from the group consisting of R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are hydrogen, andR.sup.7 is alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or aralkyl,are used as branching agents for amino-containing thermoplastic polymers.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1998Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengsellschaftInventors: Alexander Gluck, Walter Gotz, Gregor Ley
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Patent number: 5959069Abstract: Polyamides are built up from, as fundamental building blocks (a), lactams or aminocarboxylic acids or mixtures of these,as fundamental building blocks (b), from 1 to 50 .mu.mol of at least tribasic amines or carboxylic acids per gram of polyamide,as fundamental building blocks (c), dibasic carboxylic acids or amines andas fundamental building blocks (d), monobasic carboxylic acids or amines,where (c) and (d) are carboxylic acids if (b) are amines, and (c) and (d) are amines if (b) are carboxylic acids,the equivalents ratio of the functional groups of (b) to the functional groups of (c) and (d) together is from 60:40 to 40:60 andthe equivalents ratio of the functional groups of (c) to the functional groups of (d) is from 15:85 to 60:40.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1997Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Alexander Gluck, Walter Gotz, Stefan Grutke, Martin Laun, Volker Warzelhan
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Patent number: 5468530Abstract: High molecular weight thermoplastic molding materials are obtainable by mixingA) 20-80% by weight of a polyphenylene ether andB) 0-70% by weight of conventional additives and processing assistantsinto a melt ofc) 10-80% by weight of a low molecular weight polyamide having a viscosity number of from 40 to 185 ml/gand subsequently carrying out solid-phase postcondensation.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1994Date of Patent: November 21, 1995Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Walter Gotz, Axel Gottschalk