Kansai Paint Company, Ltd.

Toru Ozaki

Shigeru Nakamura

Yutaka Mizutani

Terukazu Shibata

Motoshi Yabuta

Yasushi Nakao

Mitsuhiro Fukuda

The present invention provides a method for film formation, which comprises applying onto a substrate an electrocoating (A) and an intermediate coating (B) in this order, heat-curing the formed films of the coatings (A) and (B), applying thereon a liquid light color coating (C), the liquid light color coating (C) forming a color film having an L value of 30-95 in the Lab color system, which comprises 100 parts by weight of a thermosetting resin composition, 0.1-30 parts by weight of a fine aluminum powder having an average particle diameter of less than 10.mu. and 1-200 parts by weight of a titanium oxide pigment and which shows a film hiding power of 25.mu. or less and a film elongation ratio of 10-50% at 20.degree. C., a liquid metallic coating (D) which comprises 100 parts by weight of a thermosetting resin composition and 0.1-20 parts by weight of a metallic pigment having an average particle diameter of 3.mu. or more and which shows a film hiding power of 50.mu. or more and a film elongation ratio of 10% or less at 20.degree. C., and a clear coating (E) in this order on a wet-on-wet basis, and heating the formed films of the coatings (C), (D) and (E) to crosslink and cure the three films simultaneously. According to the method, part of the heat-curing steps employed in multilayer film formation can be eliminated and a multilayer film of smaller thickness and improved properties (e.g. improved surface smoothness and chipping resistance) can be obtained.

Method for film formation and product thereof

The present invention provides a method for film formation, which comprises applying onto a substrate an electrocoating (A) and an intermediate coating (B) in this order, heat-curing the formed films of the coatings (A) and (B), applying thereon a liquid deep color coating (C) which comprises 100 parts by weight of a thermosetting resin composition, 0.1-30 parts by weight of an aluminum powder having an average particle diameter of 10.mu. or less, 1-100 parts by weight of a titanium oxide pigment and 0.1-10 parts by weight of a carbon black pigment and which shows a film hiding power of 25.mu. or less and a film elongation ratio of 10-50% at 20.degree. C., a liquid color clear coating (D) which comprises a thermosetting resin composition and a color pigment as the main components and which shows a film hiding power of 50.mu. or more and a film elongation ratio of 10% or less at 20.degree. C., and a clear coating (E) in this order on a wet-on-wet basis, and heating the formed films of the coatings (C), (D) and (E) to crosslink and cure the three films simultaneously. According to the method, part of the heat-curing steps employed in multilayer film formation can be eliminated and a multilayer film of smaller thickness and improved properties (e.g. improved surface smoothness and chipping resistance) can be obtained.

Method for film formation

The invention provides an automotive top coating composition, comprising as the main components;: (A) an acrylic polymer prepared by copolymerizing 5 to 40% by weight of an alkoxysilane-containing vinyl monomer which is a compound represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein A is ##STR2## R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R.sub.2 is a bivalent aliphatic saturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are the same or different and are each a phenyl group, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R.sub.4 is an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 1 to 100, 5 to 50% by weight of a hydroxyl-containing vinyl monomer and 10 to 90% by weight of a vinyl monomer which is copolymerizable with the above vinyl monomers, and (B) an amino resin in an amount of 5 to 50% by weight based on the total amount of resin solids in the coating composition.

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Toru Ozaki