Norton Company

Saint-gobain Abrasives, Inc.

Saint-gobain Abrasives Technology Company

Paul Wei

Gwo Shin Swei

Wenliang Patrick Yang

Kevin Bruce Allen

Anthony C Gaeta

Damien Cyrille Nevoret

Gwo S Swei

Thomas G Kinisky

Marc Pehkonen

A coated abrasive product is disclosed, which includes a substrate and an abrasive layer overlying the substrate. The abrasive layer includes abrasive grains and a binder, the binder being formed from a binder formulation having first and second binder components mixed together uniformly with the abrasive grains, wherein the first binder component is radiation curable and the second binder component comprises a powder and is thermally curable.

Processes for forming coated abrasive products

Coated abrasives suitable for very fine abrading applications can be obtained by depositing a layer of a formulation comprising abrasive grits, fillers, grinding aid, additives and a binder resin on a substrate in the form of a structured abrasive, adhering to the surface of the structured abrasive a functional powder; and then applying a top size coat over the functional powder.

Engineered abrasives

Coated abrasives comprising shaped structures deposited on a backing can be given increased versatility can be made by a process in which the shaped structure is imposed on a structure deposited in layers on the backing before the shaped structures are formed such that different characteristics are revealed as the structure is eroded during use.

Production of layered engineered abrasive surfaces

The invention provides a useful tool for advising customers for abrasive tools on the selection of optimum grinding conditions for the use of a specific tool wherein the tool is in the form of a performance map generated from a plurality of data points obtained by measuring performance for a plurality of combinations of the two key grinding process variables.

Process for determining optimum grinding conditions

Abrasive tools, such as coated abrasives, made using radaition curable resin binders can be given a greater depth of cure of the binder if they include an acylphosphine oxide initiator.

Coated abrasive

Coated abrasives suitable for very fine abrading applications can be obtained by depositing a layer of a formulation comprising abrasive grits, fillers, grinding aid, additives and a binder resin on a substrate, treating the formulation to increase the viscosity and render it plastic but non-flowing, embossing a suitable pattern on the surface of the layer, and then curing the binder component of the formulation.

Production of patterned abrasive surfaces

Coated abrasives suitable for very fine abrading applications can be obtained by depositing formulations comprising abrasive grits, fillers, grinding aid, additives and a binder resin and in patterns on a surface using a rotogravure technique providing the viscosity is controlled such that the formulation deposited does not lose its shape prior to cure.

Rotogravure process for production of patterned abrasive surfaces

Coated abrasives suitable for very fine abrading applications can be obtained by depositing a layer of a formulation comprising abrasive grits, fillers, grinding aid, additives and a binder resin on a substrate in the form of a structured abrasive and then adhering to the surface of the structured abrasive a functional powder.

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