Daimler Chrysler Ag

Mercedes-benz Aktiengesellschaft

Daimler Ag

Fritz Mezger

Karl Holdik

Fritz Dannenhauer

Thomas Raith

Markus Bischof

Christoph Ruechardt

Elisabeth Gemmler

Michael Gailberger

Anja Keller

Thomas Gruber

Werner Funke

Reinhold Berkau

Ute Flammer

Georg Meichsner

Kaarl Holdik

A method for curing a chemical composition, the composition containing at least one or more binders having ethylenically unsaturated groups, as well as one or more initiators for triggering a radical polymerization. The method includes a thermal curing step, in which the curing of the composition is effected by a radical polymerization of the binder, which is triggered by a thermal initiator and is carried out under protective gas. Paint films having improved mechanical properties can be produced using the method according to the present invention.

Method for curing a composition

Self-coating or self-layering lacquer systems from at least two different resins, oligomers, or polymers, which are emulsifiable or dispersible in water, have different surface tensions, and form self-layering phases. After the application, the phases separate into the components of the formulation.

Coating composition for forming self-layering or self-coating lacquer systems

A reactive paint to be completely cured in air with binders that bear ethylenically-unsaturated groups, that can be cured by radical polymerization either thermally or both thermally and by UV light or high-energy radiation in a dual-cure method. The paint contains a combined initiator system consisting of thermal initiators and UV initiators and reactive oligomers that are formed from addition compounds of a reactant of formula (4) and a reactant of formula (5) In this formula, X=&#x2014;CO&#x2014;CH&#x2550;CHor &#x2014;CHor &#x2014;CO&#x2014;CH. &#x2014;CHis an aliphatic residue with 1 to 3 C atoms, whereby 0, 1, 2 or 3 X substituents are formed by &#x2014;CH, and Y is a hydrocarbon chain of 3 to 8 atoms that can also contain heteroatoms. Also provided is a method for curing by radical polymerization. The polymerization is first started thermally under air and then is continued either thermally or photoinitiated under air or protective gas, and a use in paint systems, especially in automobile manufacturing or as a binder.

Reactive thermally-curing and/or radiation-curing paints and their curing methods

The invention relates to a pigment with color dependent on the viewing angle, which has been obtained by three-dimensional crosslinking of oriented substances of liquid-crystalline structure having a chiral phase. In order to stabilize the color of such a pigment at elevated temperatures, crosslinking is carried out in the presence of at least one additional, color-neutral compound comprising at least two crosslinkable double bonds.

Pigment with color dependant on viewing angle, method of making and use of same

Pigment with color dependent on viewing angle, method of making and use

The present invention relates to a painted sheet metal part, such as a car body, with a polyacid layer between the coat of paint and the surface of the sheet metal part and to a method for applying such a coating on the part before painting. Initially, the part is cleaned and de-greased, and subsequently the polyacid layer is deposited and stabilized. In order to be able to apply this layer without losing wet adhesion qualities of the coat of paint and the anti-corrosive effect of coating layer, while presenting fewer ecological disadvantages or harmful consequences, polyacids, which comprise homopolymers or copolymers of carboxylic acids containing double bonds or of functional esters of carboxylic esters, or copolymers of carboxylic acids with vinyl compounds, are used pursuant to the present invention as the protective bonding layer. The polyacids used are further combined with polymers having a glass transition temperature above 100.degree. C., such as phenolic resins, urea resins or epoxy resins, and/or with low molecular carboxylic acids with 2 to 30 carbon atoms in the carbon chain, in order to increase the corrosion protection effect. The deposited anti-corrosion layer is stabilized by thermal curing at about 100.degree. to 150.degree. C. The polymers of the corrosion inhibitor layer can be crosslinked intermolecularly, intramolecularly or with the adjacent paint layer with functional groups which are not absorbed by the substrate.

Painted sheet metal part with an anti-corrosion bonding layer based on

The invention relates to a multi-layer coating for vehicle bodies which contains a plurality of different coating layers that differ from one another with respect to certain material parameter values and which separate on the substrate surface following their joint application and arrange themselves automatically layer-wise on the substrate surface in a sequence that is determined by the values of these material parameters. The top coating layer that settles automatically on top after application consists of either 1) plate-shaped interference pigments made of liquid crystalline side chain polymers which separate and automatically align themselves roughly parallel with the surface of the substrate, or 2) curable liquid crystalline polymers. The color phenomenon of this latter top layer is determined by the mesogens of the coating that have an interferential effect, are not crosslinked during coating application, and automatically align themselves roughly diagonally to the substrate surface. These mesogens automatically arranging themselves in a chiral-pneumatic fashion, forming a helix. The coating located in the lower layer is provided with color pigments with an absorbent effect, which are either black or the same hue as the hue of the color-determining interference pigments or helices in the top coating layer.

Powdered lacquer for coating substrates such as automobile bodies

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Fritz Mezger