Patents by Inventor Wilfried Knott

Wilfried Knott 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: 20110190190
    Abstract: Household care compositions having a linear polydimethylsiloxane-polyether copolymers with amino and/or quaternary ammonium groups, obtainable by the reaction of organopolysiloxanes functionalized with secondary aminoalkyl groups with the reaction products formed from compounds containing epoxy groups and amines, the use thereof and process for preparation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Frank Schubert, Wilfried Knott, Michael Ferenz, Klaus-Dieter Klein, Tobias Maurer, Ralph Scheuermann, Bernard William Kluesener, Rajan Keshav Panadiker
  • Publication number: 20110172373
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing equilibration products of organosiloxanes by rearrangement of the siloxane bond to a cation exchange resin, the organopolysiloxanes thus obtainable, and the use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: EVONIK GOLDSCHMIDT GMBH
    Inventors: Wilfried Knott, Frauke Henning, Klaus-Dieter Klein, Horst Dudzik
  • Publication number: 20110042004
    Abstract: Curable material comprising silylated polymers containing urethane groups, and use thereof in sealants, adhesives, binders and/or surface modifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: Evonik Goldschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Frank SCHUBERT, Wilfried Knott, Michael Ferenz, Stefan Silber
  • Publication number: 20110046305
    Abstract: Novel urethane- and silyl-containing prepolymers and compositions obtained as reaction products from alkoxysilyl-bearing compounds and isocyanate-bearing compounds, and a process for preparation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: Evonik Goldschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Schubert, Michael Ferenz, Wilfried Knott
  • Publication number: 20110034576
    Abstract: Preparation and use of polyurethane foams with the use of foam stabilizers of the general formula (I)
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Frauke Henning, Wilfried Knott, Oliver Thum, Carsten Schiller, Martin Glos, Annegret Terheiden
  • Publication number: 20110021693
    Abstract: Novel silicone polyether copolymers of inverse structure of the formula 1, characterized in that no unsaturated functional groups caused by side reactions or conversion products thereof are present in the copolymer, and a process for preparation thereof, in which a polyether modified terminally and/or laterally with alkoxysilyl groups is reacted with silanes and/or siloxanes which bear one or more hydrolysis-labile groups, in a hydrolysis and condensation reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Evonik Goldschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Frauke Henning, Frank Schubert, Wilfried Knott, Horst Dudzik
  • Publication number: 20100298455
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions containing polyether-siloxane copolymers which are based on branched SiH-functional siloxanes, where at least one of the polyether-siloxane copolymers has a radical —OR8 where R8=hydrogen or an alkyl radical having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms which is bound to a silicon atom, a process for producing polyurethane foam in which these compositions are used as foam stabilizers, polyurethane foams containing these compositions and the use of these polyurethane foams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: EVONIK GOLDSCHMIDT GMBH
    Inventors: Frauke Henning, Carsten Schiller, Horst Dudzik, Eva Emmrich, Annegret Terheiden, Martin Glos, Wilfried Knott, Christian Eilbracht
  • Publication number: 20100292357
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the targeted reorganization of polydimethylsiloxanes over sulphonic acid-containing cation exchange resins which have water contents of 8 to 25% by weight, and polydimethylsiloxanes thus prepared and the use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: EVONIK GOLDSCHMIDT GMBH
    Inventors: Wilfried Knott, Martin Glos, Norbert Nilewski
  • Patent number: 7825206
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing SiOC-bonded polyorganosiloxanes by reacting, by processes known per se, hydroxyl-containing compounds with a stoichiometric excess of polyorganosiloxanes which contain —Si(H) units and are of the general formula (I) in the presence of one or more element compounds of main group III and/or of transition group 3 as a catalyst, wherein the reaction, on completion of conversion of the compounds containing hydroxyl groups, is continued until no further ?Si—H groups are detectable by gas volumetric means, and also the compounds prepared in this way and their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Evonik Goldschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Neumann, Wilfried Knott
  • Patent number: 7825205
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of SiOC-linked, linear polydimethylsiloxane-polyoxyalkylene block copolymers having (AB) repeat units, via reaction by methods known per se of polyetherdiols with a stoichiometric excess of ?,?-dihydropolydimethylsiloxanes, in the presence of one or more compounds of elements of main group 13 and/or of transition group 3 as catalyst, which comprises, after completed reaction of the alcohol component, continuing the reaction until no remaining ?Si(H) groups are detectable by a gas-volumetric method, and also to the compounds thus prepared, and to their use as surfactant additives for the production of polyurethane ether foams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Evonik Goldschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Knott, Juergen Droese, Klaus Dieter Klein, Rüdiger Landers, Dagmar Windbiel
  • Patent number: 7825209
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of SiOC-linked, linear polydimethylsiloxane-polyoxyalkylene block copolymers having (AB) repeat units, via reaction of one or more polyetherdiols with a stoichiometric excess of ?,?-dihydropolydimethylsiloxanes and at least one tertiary amine as catalyst, which comprises, after completed reaction of the alcohol component, continuing the reaction in the presence of small amounts of water until no remaining ?Si(H) groups are detectable by a gas-volumetric method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Evonik Goldschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Knott, Klaus-Dieter Klein, Rüdiger Landers, Dagmar Windbiel
  • Publication number: 20100249339
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing branched SiH-functional siloxanes by converting a mixture of one or more low molecular weight SiH-functional siloxanes, one or more low molecular weight SiH-free siloxanes and one or more trialkoxysilanes with addition of water and in the presence of at least one Brønsted-acidic catalyst, which is characterized in that the reaction is performed in one process step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: EVONIK GOLDSCHMIDT GMBH
    Inventors: Frauke Henning, Wilfried Knott, Horst Dudzik
  • Publication number: 20100184913
    Abstract: Use of one or more mixed curable hydroxyl-containing silyl polyethers as a constituent of compositions, as modifiers for surfaces, the silyl polyethers being prepared by DMC-catalysed alkoxylation of epoxy-functional alkoxysilanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas EBBRECHT, Frank Schubert, Matthias Naumann, Wilfried Knott, Kathrin Lehmann, Joachim Venzmer, Berend-Jan De Gans, Stefan Silber, Frauke Henning
  • Patent number: 7754778
    Abstract: The invention provides linear polydimethylsiloxane-polyoxyalkylene block copolymers containing Si—C groups and carboxylic ester groups and having repeating (A1BA2B) units where A1 and A2 are two different polydimethylsiloxane units of the general formula (I) with a number of Si atoms N=(n+2) of 15?N?30 and NA1?NA2 and B is a unit of the formula (II) —CH2—CH2—(CH2)a—CO[O—CH2—CH(R)]c—O-[D-O]e—[—CH2—CH(R)—O]d—OC—(CH2)b—CH2—CH2— (II) where R independently at each occurrence is H, —CH3 or —C2H5, a and b independently of one another are 0 to 20, c and d independently of one another are values?1, e is 0 or 1 and D is a hydrocarbon radical having 2 to 10 C atoms, the overall molar weight of the unit of the formula II being from 600 to 10 000 g/mol, with the proviso that the average mixed molar weight of the polydimethylsiloxane units (A1+A2) is from >1665 to <1998 g/mol and the fraction of [O—CH2—CH(R)] with R?H is >0% to ?50% by weight, based on the overall weight of [O—CH2—CH(R)] in B, a process for p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Evonik Goldschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Knott, Oliver Thum, Klaus-Dieter Klein, Dagmar Windbiel, Claudia Hierath
  • Publication number: 20100168367
    Abstract: Novel silicone polyethers by alkoxylating polymerization of epoxide monomers with (poly)organosiloxanes starting from an ?,?-dihydroxysiloxane as starter by means of DMC catalysis and process for preparing them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Frank SCHUBERT, Wilfried Knott
  • Publication number: 20100113633
    Abstract: Silicone-polyether block copolymers prepared by organomodification of branched polysiloxanes having terminal and/or lateral SiH functions or linear polysiloxanes having lateral and/or terminal SiH functions by means of polyethers or polyether mixtures, characterized in that the polyethers used have a polydispersity Mw/Mn in the range from 1.0 to 1.5 and/or ratios Mn/MWIN and Mw/MWIN in the range from 0.7 to 1.3, their preparation and use and also polymer articles produced therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Frauke Henning, Wilfried Knott, Frank Schubert, Roland Hubel, Christian Eilbracht
  • Publication number: 20100105843
    Abstract: Process for the preferential alkoxylation of silicone-polyether copolymers either alone or in compositions thereof containing, for example, excess polyether by use of double metal cyanide catalysts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Wilfried Knott, Frank Schubert, Frauke Henning
  • Publication number: 20100081781
    Abstract: Novel polyether alcohols (VI) which bear organosiloxane groups by alkoxylation of epoxy-functional (poly)organosiloxanes over double metal cyanide (DMC) catalysts, and process for preparation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventors: Frank SCHUBERT, Wilfried KNOTT
  • Publication number: 20100071849
    Abstract: Prepolymers having more than one alkoxysilyl function per chain end reactive towards epoxide groups as a constituent of curable compositions, and their use for producing adhesive-bonding and coating compositions, which may also be foamable, and also polymeric materials produced therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Wilfried Knott, Frank Schubert, Martin Glos, Carsten Schiller, Matthias Naumann
  • Publication number: 20100056649
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing liquid, branched SiH-functional siloxanes by reacting a mixture of one or more low molecular weight SiH-functional siloxanes, one or more low molecular weight SiH-free siloxanes, one or more tetraalkoxysilanes, and optionally one or more trialkoxysilanes with addition of water and in the presence of a Brønsted-acidic ion exchanger, which is characterized in that the reaction is performed in one process step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: EVONIK GOLDSCHMIDT GMBH
    Inventors: Frauke Henning, Wilfried Knott, Michael Ferenz