Axalta Coating Systems IP Co LLC

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Uwe Johansson

Wilhelm H Kettler

The invention relates to a check-tile for validating instrument scales of color measurement instruments, in particular goniospectrophotometers, said check-tile comprising a non-transparent (opaque) substrate coated with a multi-layer coating, said multi-layer coating comprising: A) a pigmented ground coat, wherein said pigmented ground coat is opaque and made of a base coat coating composition I comprising at least one achromatic solid pigment, B) a pigmented mid-coat, wherein said pigmented mid-coat is translucent and made of a base coat coating composition II comprising at least one transparent interference pigment and at least one transparent or semi-transparent solid pigment, and C) a clear top coat made of a transparent clear coat coating composition on top of the mid-coat.

Check-tile for colour measurement instruments

The invention relates to a check-tile for validating instrument scales of color measurement instruments, in particular goniospectrophotometers, said check-tile comprising a non-transparent (opaque) substrate coated with a pigmented coating, wherein: A) said non-transparent (opaque) colored substrate is colored with at least one achromatic solid pigment, and is coated with a pigmented mid-coat, wherein said pigmented mid-coat I is translucent and made of a base coat coating composition I comprising at least one transparent interference pigment and at least one transparent or semi-transparent solid colored pigment, or, B) said non-transparent (opaque) colored substrate is colored with at least one opaque solid color pigment, and is coated with a pigmented mid-coat II, wherein said pigmented mid-coat is translucent and made of a base coat coating composition II comprising at least one transparent interference pigment.

The invention relates to a check-tile for validating instrument scales of color measurement instruments, in particular goniospectrophotometers, said check-tile comprising a non-transparent (opaque) substrate coated with a multi-layer coating, said multi-layer coating comprising: A) a pigmented ground coat, wherein said pigmented ground coat is opaque and made of a base coat coating composition I comprising at least one opaque solid colored pigment, and B) a pigmented mid-coat, wherein said pigmented mid-coat is translucent and made of a base coat coating composition II comprising at least one transparent interference pigment.

The invention relates to a check-tile for validating instrument scales of color measurement instruments, in particular goniospectrophotometers, said check-tile comprising a transparent substrate coated with a multi-layer coating, said multi-layer coating comprising: A) a pigmented mid-coat applied to the transparent substrate, wherein said pigmented mid-coat is translucent and made of a base coat coating composition I comprising at least one transparent interference pigment, and B) a pigmented ground coat, wherein said pigmented ground coat is opaque and made of a base coat coating composition II comprising at least one opaque solid colored pigment.

The present invention provides a color recipe calculation method for matt finished, solid color shades, by means of which it is possible to determine the proportion of matting agents in a color recipe in a manner decoupled from the actual calculation of the recipe and is based on a conventional spectrophotometric characterization of a matt sample using a standardised 45&#xb0;/0&#xb0; measurement geometry along with an established gloss measurement, or alternatively using a spectrophotometer equipped with a d/8&#xb0; measurement geometry and analyzing readings taken with the specular component included and excluded.

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Erkrath, Germany

Uwe Johansson