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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
May. 01, 2014
Axalta Coating Systems Ip Co., Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Hartmut Krause, Wermelskirchen, DE;
Larry Eugene Steenhoek, Wilmington, DE (US);
Wolfgang Joachim Kuepper, Wuppertal, DE;
Allan Blase Joseph Rodrigues, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Wilhelm Kettler, Wuppertal, DE;
AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS IP CO., LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method and a system is provided for producing one or more matching formulas to match color and coarseness appearance of a target coating on a substrate. The method includes, but is not limited to 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. A system is also provided for matching color and coarseness appearance of the surface coating.