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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2000
John F. Ackerman, Laramie, WY (US);
Andrew J. Skoog, West Chester, OH (US);
Jane A. Murphy, Middletown, OH (US);
Matthew B. Buczek, Fairfield, OH (US);
Brian K. Flandermeyer, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Israel S. Jacobs, Schenectady, NY (US);
Daniel G. Backman, Melrose, MA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A coating is prepared by providing a plurality of metallic flake particles, depositing a surface-protective applied layer on the particle surfaces to form protected particles, and mixing the protected particles with a binder precursor to form a coating mixture. The coating mixture is applied to a substrate. The surface-protective applied layer is preferably silica, which is deposited by a sol-gel process from a tetraethyl orthosilicate solution.