Nippon Paint Compnay, Ltd.

Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd.

Hisaichi Muramoto

Kazunori Kanda

Keizou Ishii

Shinichi Ishikura

Yusuke Ninomiya

Hozumi Sato

Takashi Nishioka

Koichi Ueda

Katsuo Koshimura

Yutaka Kanoi

Tadahiro Kakiuchi

Koichi Saito

Kenji Yasuda

Tadafumi Miyazono

Satoshi Urano

Kei Aoki

Hiroyuki Sakamoto

Yasuhiro Hayashi

Yasuyuki Tsuchiya

Kenshiro Tobinaga

Yasushi Umeda

Hitoshi Hori

Koji Izumiya

Keizo Ishii

Takefumi Yamamoto

Seiko Inoue, Legal Representative

Kouichi Ohara

Takashi Kuniyoshi

Masanori Oiwa

Hidetsumu Okada

The present invention provides an improved two-layer coating system. The present invention relates to a process for forming a cured gradient coating film, comprising the steps of: applying an aqueous electrodeposition coating composition comprising at least two resins and a curing agent, on an electrically conductive substrate, heating a electrodeposition coating film to form a layer separation, and then, curing the electrodeposition coating film to form a cured gradient coating film; wherein the resins include one resin component constituting a resin layer (a) in direct contact with air before applying top coating and other resin component constituting a resin layer (b) in direct contact with the electrically conductive substrate, and, wherein a solubility parameter (&#x3b4;a) of a resin component A and a solubility parameter (&#x3b4;b) of a resin component B have a specific relationship.

Process for forming cured gradient coating film and multi-layered coating film containing the same

In a method of producing an oil-in-water type emulsion containing an internally crosslinked fine resin particle, the fine resin particle is encapsulated in an emulsion particle having an average particle diameter of 0.02 to 0.3 &#x3bc;m. The method includes a step of undergoing phase transition from a water-in-oil type emulsion (Y) which includes a resin (A) having a cationic group or an anionic group, an acid or a base (B) neutralizing 20 to 150 mole percent of the cationic group or the anionic group in the resin (A), an internally crosslinked fine resin particle (C), having an average particle diameter of 0.01 to 0.2 &#x3bc;m, dispersed in an oil phase and an aqueous medium (D) to an oil-in-water type emulsion (Z) by adding the aqueous medium (D) further to the water-in-oil type emulsion (Y).

Method of producing oil-in-water type emulsion containing internally crosslinked fine resin particle, oil-in-water type emulsion containing internally crosslinked fine resin particle, cation electrodeposition coating composition and substance coated

The present invention provides an electrodeposition coating composition excellent in storage stability and capable of forming a novel multilayer structure comprising a particle A containing a resin (a) whose solubility parameter is &dgr;a, and a particle B containing a curing agent and a resin (b) whose solubility parameter is &dgr;b, wherein the value of (&dgr;b-&dgr;a) is not less than 1.0.

Electrodeposition coating composition

The present invention provides a method of forming a multilayer coating film comprising the step (I) of coating an article to be coated with an electrodeposition coating containing two resin components incompatible with each other followed by curing by heating to form an electrodeposited coating film, the step (II) of applying a water-borne intermediate coating onto the electrodeposited coating film to form an uncured intermediate coating film, the step (III) of applying a water-borne base coating onto the intermediate coating film to form an uncured base coating film, the step (IV) of applying a clear coating onto the base coating film to form an uncured clear coating film and the step (V) of curing the intermediate coating film, the base coating film and the clear coating film simultaneously by heating to thereby obtain a multilayer coating film.

Method of forming multilayer coating films and multilayer coating films

Plural layered electrodeposited coating and method for forming multi layered coating containing the same

The present invention provides a photosensitive resin composition which is superior in water-developing properties, resilience, strength of resin plate after exposure, elongation at break, and transparency of resin plate. The composition comprises:

Water-developing photosensitive resin composition

A photosensitive resin composition is provided which is excellent in water developability, impact resilience, resin plate strength after exposure, breaking extension, and resin-plate transparency. The composition comprises:

Water-developable photosensitive resin composition

It is an object of the present invention to provide a developer-circulating method and an apparatus for carrying out the method in making a flexographic printing plate which prevents dissolved chemical substance from adversely affecting human bodies and has excellent safety; capable of preventing the increase of the viscosity of developer; and capable of effectively preventing the dissolved chemical substance from adhering to the apparatus, thus preventing the life of the apparatus from being reduced and collecting the dissolved chemical substance in a short period of time and which is superior in operation efficiency, work efficiency, and treating efficiency. Solid content of liquid containing resin component which has eluted from flexographic printing plates 3, 42 and dispersed in developer is flocculated by flocculating agent, and the liquid containing the flocculated solid content is separated into the liquid and solid contents. The solid content is discharged and the liquid is re-utilized as the developer. A pH-adjustment may be performed in addition to the flocculation. The pH-adjustment may be carried out after the developer is separated into the solid content and the liquid, without performing the flocculating process.

Developer-circulating method in flexographic printing plate-making

The present invention provides a resin composition for flexographic printing plate, which is superior in rubber elasticity, hardness and elongation as well as water developability. The resin composition for flexographic printing plate capable of water developing, attains excellent rubber elasticity, hardness and elongation without deterioration of water developability, using as elastic particles copolymer elastic particles having whisker on the particle surface which forms an entanglement between particles.

Resin composition for flexographic printing plate

Disclosed is a process for preparing crosslinked resin particles which comprises dispersing a resin having both a water-dispersible function and a self-crosslinkable function in one molecule in an aqueous medium and then three-dimensionally crosslinking.

Crosslinked resin particles and production thereof

The present invention provides an indirect type lithographic printing original plate which can afford a high-quality print without causing scumming in the background area. The indirect type lithographic printing original plate includes a substrate and a zinc oxide-dispersed resin layer formed on the surface of the substrate, the substrate being a plastic film or sheet containing 1 to 40% by weight of a polymer antistatic agent having a melting point of not less than 90.degree. C., and wherein the polymer antistatic agent is substantially insoluble in water and isopropyl alcohol.

Indirect type lithographic printing original plate

Disclosed is a photosensitive material for printing comprising a photoconductive layer containing a phthalocyanine compound and a binder resin provided on a conductive substrate. The binder resin is composed of one or more sorts of resins. At least one sort of the resin is a homopolymer of a radical-polymerizable monomer (I) of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a methyl group, m is an integer of 2 to 5 and n is an integer of 0 to 10. An amount of the homopolymer is 0.01 to 50% by weight based on the total amount of the binder resin.

Photosensitive printing material

The present invention provides an electrographic printing photosensitive resin composition, which exhibits a good photosensitivity in a negative corona charging system and is useful for a laser platemaking system using semi-conductor laser light within a near infrared range as a light source. Disclosed is a negative charging type printing photosensitive resin composition comprising a phthalocyanine compound (a), a mercaptoarylimidazole (thiazole) compound (b) and, if necessary, a compound selected from the group consisting of a condensed polycyclic quinone compound, a bisazo compound, a cyanine compound, a quinacridone compound and a mixture thereof (d), said compounds being dispersed in a binder resin (c). A printing photosensitive resin plate using the photosensitive resin composition is also disclosed.

Negative charging type printing photosensitive resin composition

Polymer microparticles having immobilized therein a water-insoluble substance such as oil-soluble dyes or pigments are produced by a method which includes the steps of forming droplets of a solution of a self-emulsifiable resin in a nonaqueous solvent containing the water-insoluble substance and an ethylenically unsaturated monomer suspended in an aqueous medium, and then allowing the monomer in the droplets to polymerize in situ.

Production of polymer microparticles having water-insoluble chemicals

Disclosed is a photosensitive resin composition which has improved water developability and storage stability. The composition comprises

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