Taica Corporation

Origin Electric Company, Limited

Akiko Tomiki

Wataru Ikeda

Kazutoshi Toda

Tomoyuki Jingu

The present invention provides: a heat- and light-curable coating composition which is suitable as a top clear coat for plastic molded articles for automobiles or household electric appliances or for plastic molded articles having a water pressure transfer print layer; a coating film formation method using the coating composition; and a water pressure transfer method using the coating composition. The heat- and light-curable coating composition comprises: an acrylic polyol resin (a) having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 50&#xb0; C. to 100&#xb0; C., a mass average molecular weight of 1,000 to 20,000, and a hydroxyl value of 20 to 200 mgKOH/g; a multifunctional photocurable compound (b); a polymerization initiator (c); and a polyisocyanate compound (d), wherein a ratio of the acrylic polyol resin to the multifunctional photocurable compound is 5/95 to 90/10, and an equivalence ratio of hydroxyl groups contained in the acrylic polyol resin to isocyanate groups contained in the polyisocyanate compound, (OH/NCO), is 0.5 to 1.5.

Heating&#x2014;and light-curable coating composition and coating film formation method, water pressure transfer method

Activator applying device including a receiving pan that stores an activator for activation of a transfer film, and a spreading roller that rotates while being dipped in the activator in the receiving pan and applies the activator that has adhered to the surface thereof in a dip section of the activator applying device to the transfer pattern in a different section of the activator applying device. The activator is fed to the receiving pan in an amount greater than the amount of the activator applied to the transfer pattern, and an excessive activator is discharged through a discharge port of the receiving pan. The activator is applied to the transfer pattern with the discharge port being located on the side where the activator is drawn up from the dip section, and the discharge port being located at the position of a streak caused by uneven dispersion of the additive pigment.

Activator applying device, hydraulic transfer apparatus incorporating the same activator applying device, and article with hydraulically transferred pattern manufactured with the same hydraulic transfer apparatus

There is provided a matting activator for water pressure transfer film adapted to impart the maximum matting effect to a decoration obtained by water pressure transfer with a matting agent added to the activator. To an ultraviolet ray hardening resin composite, the main component of the activator are added a matting agent and a resin bead gathering agent. The ultraviolet ray hardening resin composite includes a photo-polymerization monomer including a photo-polymerization component having at least photo-polymerization monomer and a photo-polymerization initiator, the matting agent comprises resin beads, the resin bead gathering agent comprises particulate silica, the weight ratio of the blend of the resin beads relative to the ultraviolet ray hardening resin composite is 0.01-0.3 and the weight ratio of blend of the resin bead gathering agent relative to the resin beads is adjusted in 0.05-1.5 according to the weight ratio of blend of the resin bead.

Matting activator for hydraulic transfer film, hydraulic transfer method, and hydraulic transfer product

The object of the invention is to be able to adjust gloss or impart gloss variation not only for a decoration layer of dark color such as black ink, but also for a decoration layer of light color other than black and the gloss of the ink printed portion is adjusted or the gloss variation where a high gloss pattern part and a low gloss pattern part are adjacent to each other is imparted according to the ratio of blend of ultraviolet ray absorbent and/or ultraviolet ray shielding agent contained in an ink of a print pattern of a transfer film.

Water transfer printing method, transfer film for water transfer printing, ink for transfer film, and water transfer printed product

A coating agent to be applied and permeated into a print pattern of a water pressure transfer film has a main ingredient of a ultraviolet hardening resin composite containing a photo-polymerization monomer, a photo-polymerization oligomer and a photo-polymerization initiator, said photo-polymerization monomer has 3 or less functional groups and a volume shrinkage coefficient of 20% or less, said photo-polymerization oligomer has 10 or less functional groups, the coating agent further contains polyurethane beads having an average particle diameter of 5 through 50 micrometer and the polyurethane beads are blended at 15 through 100 weight part relative to 100 weight part of said ultraviolet hardening resin composite. This coating agent can impart a softness feeling and a wetness feeling to the surface of the decoration layer by the polyurethane beads.

Water pressure transfer method, coating agent for water pressure transfer film, and water pressure transfer article

A method of applying a surface decorative layer on a surface of an article by water pressure transfer in which transfer filmwhich has a print patterncomprising a first areaA having an ink layer and a second areaB having no ink layer and has a whole outer surface formed thereon has an activating agentapplied onto the surface of the transfer filmto activate the ink and to collect a surplus portion of the activating agent in a convex form in the second area, whereby a three-dimensional unevenness is imparted onto the surface of the article.

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Tokyo, Japan

Akiko Tomiki