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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2009
Applicant:
Wilhelm Kettler, Wuppertal, DE;
Inventor:
Wilhelm Kettler, Wuppertal, DE;
Assignee:
Axalta Coating Systems IP Co., LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 3/46 (2006.01); G01J 3/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 3/463 (2013.01); G01J 3/46 (2013.01); G01J 3/465 (2013.01); G01J 3/52 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for matching the color of a dry color shade standard, said method comprising the steps of A) Measuring the dry color shade standard, B) Calculating a recipe for the dry color shade standard, C) Generating a virtual wet color shade standard based on the recipe for the dry color shade standard calculated in step B), wherein the virtual wet color shade standard is generated with wet characterization data and D) Matching the virtual wet color shade standard. The method can be used for elaboration of color shades and batch adjustment in production of paints.