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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2010
Applicants:

Hartmut Krause, Wermelskirchen, DE;

Larry Eugene Steenhoek, Wilmington, DE (US);

Wolfgang Joachim Küpper, Wuppertal, DE;

Allan Blase Joseph Rodrigues, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);

Wilhelm Kettler, Wuppertal, DE;

Inventors:

Hartmut Krause, Wermelskirchen, DE;

Larry Eugene Steenhoek, Wilmington, DE (US);

Wolfgang Joachim Küpper, Wuppertal, DE;

Allan Blase Joseph Rodrigues, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);

Wilhelm Kettler, Wuppertal, DE;

Assignee:

Axalta Coating Systems IP Co., LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/25 (2006.01); G01J 3/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 3/46 (2013.01); G01J 3/463 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention is directed to a method and a system for producing one or more matching formulas to match color and coarseness appearance of a target coating on a substrate. The method provides providing a set of coating chips comprising at least two coating chips having different lightness values, and at least two coating chips having matching lightness values and different coarseness values. This invention provides a simple method and the system for matching color and coarseness appearance of the surface coating.


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