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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Naoki Yamamori, Kyotanabe, JP;
Akio Harada, Okayama, JP;
Assignee:
Nippon Paint Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08J 6/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C08J 6/00 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a nonelution type antifouling method which comprises applying a nonelution type antifouling coating composition comprising at least two resins insoluble in seawater and incompatible with each other on top of the outermost layer of underwater portion of a marine structure and forming a coating film having a microheterogeneo us structure in which granular or disk-like minute protrusions with a mean size of 10 nm to 20 &mgr;m in diameter comprising at least one of said resins occupy 5 to 49% of the surface area of the coating film.