Nissan Motor Company Limited

Nippon Oil Fats Co., Ltd.

Origin Electric Company, Limited

Tanabe Chemical Industrial Inc.

Takashi Toyama

Masashi Ohno

Kiminori Ishii

Masashi Ono

Shosaku Yamamoto

Kazuo Kakinuma

Toshio Tanabe

Mitsuyo Maeda

Akihiko Terada

Shimata Tanabe

Minoru Fujisawa

Noritada Nagao

Masayuki Saito

A method of reforming the surface of a plastic article to provide a leather-like touch to the plastic article surface. In this method, a two-liquid type polyurethane paint is prepared and coated on the surface of the plastic article so as to form a coated film having a thickness ranging from 20 to 150 micrometers and having an elongation percentage ranging from 60 to 180% at 20.degree. C., a coefficient of friction ranging from 0.5 to 0.8, and an initial modulus of elasticity ranging from 60 to 150 kg/cm.sup.2.

Plastic article surface reforming method and plastic arrangement thereby

A coating composition for use in a mold coat coating process wherein the coating composition is previously coated on the molding surface of a mold for polyurethane resin, prior to molding of the polyurethane resin in which the coating composition is transferred onto the surface of the molded polyurethane resin. The coating composition is comprised of a principal component including a resin constituent whose principal ingredient is addition polymer of isophorone diisocyanate and polycarbonate polyol in a content ranging from 8 to 25% by weight of the principal component, and a hardener component including a resin constituent whose principal ingredient is addition polymer of hexamethylene diisocyanate and isophorone diisocyanate in a content ranging from 5 to 100% by weight of the hardener component, thereby improving pot life and weatherability of coating film of the coating composition while contributing shortening of so-called open time in a molding cycle.

Coating composition for mold coat of molded polyurethane resin

Painting of an article formed of a synthetic resin, e.g. an automobile bumper formed of polyurethane resin, is accomplished by simplified operations and at reduced cost by using a paint of a desired color containing 5-40 wt % of an aprotic polar solvent, preferbly N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone. The paint is applied directly to a cleaned surface of the plastic article, followed by usual drying and baking. Application of a usual primer is omitted since the paint containing an adequate amount of aprotic polar solvent is excellent in adhesion to plastic surfaces. The obtained paint film is comparable to an ordinary top coat paint film formed on a primer layer in appearance, whether resistance and chemical resistance. When a two-toned paint coat is wished, another paint not containing any aprotic polar solvent is applied onto a selected area of the initially formed paint film, followed by drying and baking.

Method of painting article formed of synthetic resin

A method for finish coating on polyurethane formed articles, which comprises formulating a finish coating composition so as to have a content of pyrrolidone or its derivative represented by the general formula ##STR1## in which R stands for hydrogen or an alkyl group having at the most 4 carbon atoms, in an amount of 5-40% by weight upon the coating, applying this finish coating composition on the polyurethane formed article directly and heating the so called polyurethane formed article at a temperature of at least 50.degree. C. but lower than the thermal deformation temperature of the polyurethane formed article, said method being capable of attaining a coating layer exhibiting both the properties for a primer coat, namely, a better adhesion onto polyurethane formed articles, and for a finish coat, namely, better weather resistance, higher chemical resistance, favorable appearance and so on, with only a single application and permitting thus to dispense with the primer coating and the heat drying procedure therefor.

Method for finish coating on polyurethane formed articles

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Takashi Toyama