Patents by Inventor Walther Hofherr

Walther Hofherr 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).

  • Patent number: 5554446
    Abstract: A coated material comprising (a) a solid dielectric or semi-conductive substrate which is (b) partially or completely coated on at least one surface with a silicate in which a crystalline charge transfer complex is incorporated.The material can be used as an antistatic or electrically conductive material, preferably in the form of screens or picture tubes provided with an antistatic finish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Ernst Minder, Walther Hofherr
  • Patent number: 5413860
    Abstract: A coated material comprising (a) a solid dielectric or semi-conductive substrate which is (b) partially or completely coated on at least one surface with a silicate in which a crystalline charge transfer complex is incorporated. The material can be used as an antistatic or electrically conductive material, preferably in the form of screens or picture tubes provided with an antistatic finish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Ernst Minder, Walther Hofherr
  • Patent number: 5348762
    Abstract: A process for the production of a conductive layer on a substrate, said conductive layer comprising a network of crystal needles of conductive radical cation salts based on tetrathiotetracenes, tetraselenotetracenes or tetratellurotetracenes and chlorine, bromine, iodine or copper dichloride, and said network is embedded in a polymer matrix, by coating at least one side of said substrate with a) a suspension of crystal needles of the radical cation salts of formula I in an inch solvent which may additionally contain a thermoplastic polymer or at least one starting compound for a thermosetting polymer, or b) a solution (b1) of a tetrathiotetracene, tetraselenotetracene or tetratellurotetracene, (b2) of a monomeric, oligomeric or polymeric organic compound which contains chlorine, bromine or iodone and, when heated with these tetracenes, forms a radical cation salt, or of anhydrous CuCl.sub.2, a CuCl.sub.2 aquo complex or a CuCl.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Walther Hofherr, Ernst Minder, Bruno Hilti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet