E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Herberts Gmbh

Paul Rupieper

Christian Voy&eacute;

Joachim Cramm

Michael H&ouml;ffer

Joachim Blum

Christian Voye

Michael Hoffer

A process for determining changes in a liquid medium, in particular a liquid coating agent or its components, caused by shear stress, in which a given volume of the medium is allowed to pass repeatedly through a shear unit under reproducible conditions.

Process for determining changes in liquid media, in particular coating agents under shear stress

A process for the generation of a computer image of a coated, three-dimensional object involves preparing a coating comprising a relevant coating layer with variable layer thickness on one or more test panels; taking a plurality of measurements of one or more optical surface properties as a function of the layer thickness of the relevant coating layer; storing the optical data in a datafile with assignment of the layer thickness of the relevant coating layer; facetting the visible surface(s) of a three-dimensional object by computer into a sufficient number of flat polygonal areas each being sufficiently small for the sufficiently accurate description of the surface topography; assigning layer thickness of the relevant coating layer and associated optical data in each case to each individual polygonal area by computer; and assembling the polygonal areas into a computer image of the three-dimensional object.

Process for generating a computer image of a coated three-dimensional object

A process for generating a computer image of a three-dimensional object provided with a special-effect coating, involves coating a test panel with the coating, taking a plurality of angle-dependent colorimetric measurements of the coating; storing the calorimetric data in a datafile with assignment of the corresponding angles; facetting the visible surfaces of a three-dimensional object by computer into a sufficient number of flat polygonal areas each being sufficiently small for the sufficiently accurate description of the surface topography; assigning the colorimetric data to each individual polygonal area by computer as a function of the position of an observer and at least one illumination source; and assembling the polygonal areas into a computer image of a three-dimensional object with a visually perceptible special-effect coating thereon.

Process for generating a computer image of a three-dimensional object provided with a special-effect coating

A process and a device for determining changes in a liquid medium, in particular a liquid coating agent or its components, caused by shear stress, in which a given volume of the medium is allowed to pass repeatedly through a shear unit under reproducible conditions.

Process and device for determining changes in liquid media, in particular coating agents under shear stress

Method for the contactless measurement of optical parameters on a plane coating layer applied from a liquid coating compound or a liquid component of a coating compound having one or more optical measuring instruments, in which the coating layer is applied to the outer surface of a circulating carrier strip (closed upon itself) stretched over a drive roller and one or more tensioning rollers and the contactless optical measurement is then performed on the coating layer at a plane point on the carrier strip, wherein the carrier strip may be circulating during the measurement.

Method and device for the optical measurement of coating layers

Method for determining the visual effect of lacquer coatings on plastic surfaces, in which one or more successive lacquer layers is/are each applied onto the entire surface of a substrate consisting of a plastic test sheet joined with a metal test sheet and dried or cured, wherein the two test sheets are joined together in such a manner as to form a common plane, or planes arranged parallel to or optionally partially overlapping each other, one of the lacquer layers is applied in the form of a wedge with a layer thickness gradient, and, on the lacquer coated substrate surface obtained in this manner, one or more surface properties influencing the visual impression is/are then measured at least on the plastic test sheet by means of one or more optical measurement methods at measurement points distributed over the entire area in the form of a grid screen, and, solely on the metal test sheet, the particular thickness of the wedge-shaped lacquer layer is also measured.

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