Patents Represented by Attorney Sudhir G. Deshmukh
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Patent number: 6495201Abstract: A process for the multi-layer repair coating of substrates, wherein a base coat layer of a water-based base coat coating composition is applied to a precoated substrate and a clear coat layer of a transparent clear coat coating composition is applied to the base coat layer thus obtained, characterised in that the base coat layer of the colour- and/or special effect-imparting water-based base coat coating composition is applied in three successive spray passes, and each spray pass is executed such that uniform, adjacent and substantially non-overlapping coating strips are applied to the substrate surface to be coated.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2001Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Andrew Duda, Guenter Berschel, Wolfgang Feyrer
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Patent number: 6471185Abstract: This invention provides for a two-pack solvent based coating composition that cures in two stages when applied over substrates. The first stage of the cure takes place rapidly under ambient conditions to produce a coating surface that can be readily sanded or buffed. Thereafter, over a period of days a second stage cure takes place to produce a coating having excellent coating properties. Thus, a coated component, such as automotive body, can be speedily moved out from a spray booth without affecting the surface quality of the coated surface. As a result, coating operation productivity can be increased. The aforedescribed dual cure properties of the coating composition result from including in a binder component of the coating composition an acrylic polymer having secondary amine and hydroxyl functionalities. The composition is most suited for use in automotive refinish applications.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2001Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Laura Ann Lewin, Christopher Scopazzi, Douglas Matt Lamb
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Patent number: 6462114Abstract: A process for forming a microgel which comprises a crosslinked core and a multiplicity of linear polymeric arms attached to the core, wherein the process comprises (a) first forming a halogen atom terminated prepolymer with a weight average molecular weight from 1,000 to 25,000 by polymerizing monoethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of an organic sulfonyl halide, an organic complexing agent and a transition metal (i.e., Cu, Ru, Ni, Re, Pd, Fe, or Rh); and (b) subsequently polymerizing the prepolymer with a mixture of monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and 0.5 to 60 mole percent, based on the total moles of monomer and prepolymer, of multi-olefinic polymerizable monomers to form a microgel with a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 to 100,000,000 and crosslinked core.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2001Date of Patent: October 8, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Charles T. Berge, Michael Fryd, Jeffrey W. Johnson, Graeme Moad, Ezio Rizzardo, Christopher Scopazzi, San Hoa Thang
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Patent number: 6441078Abstract: Improved aqueous powder coat dispersion, comprising (a) a powder coating dispersed in (b) an aqueous phase, wherein the aqueous phase contains a silica compound selected from the group consisting of (i) 0.2 to 2% by weight, based on the weight of the powder coating, of finely divided silicic acid with large BET-surface; (ii) 0.1 to 1.5% by weight, based on the weight of the powder coating, of layered silicates; and (iii) combinations thereof, exhibit improved sedimentation properties and provide coatings with improved sag characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2000Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Karl-Friedrich Doessel, Oliver Reis, Volker Rekowski
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Patent number: 6436260Abstract: This invention is directed to a process for electrocoating bulk articles to provide a corrosion protective coating and comprises the following steps: (1) the bulk articles to be coated are placed in an electrically conductive receiving container and the container and bulk articles are electrocoated with an aqueous electrocoating composition containing a film forming binder and electrically conductive components; (2) baking the coated bulk articles and the receiving container to form an electrically conductive coating on the bulk articles and the container and removing the coated bulk articles from the container; and (3) repeating steps (1) and (2) at least once without any intermediate cleaning of the receiving container having an electrically conductive coating. The advantage of the novel process of this invention is that the receiving container can be used at least twice and up to six times without any intermediate cleaning or removal of the applied electrocoating layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2000Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Klaus-Peter Lorenz, Gabriele Buettner, Klausjoerg Klein
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Patent number: 6437056Abstract: Coating composition suitable for multilayer lacquering, containing, in addition to organic solvent, anti-sagging agents, optionally pigments, extenders and additives, a binder/crosslinkin agent system containing A) from 20 to 80 wt. % of carboxyl-functional (meth)acrylic copolymers and/or carboxyl-functional polyesters having an acid number of from 20 to 300, B) from 20 to 80 wt. % of epoxy-functional crosslinking agents, the percentages by weight of A) and B) adding up to 100 wt. %. C) from 0 to 30 wt. % of polymer polyol C), based on the sum of the weights of A) and B), E) from 0 to 20 wt. % of further crosslinking agents, based on the sum of the weights of A, B, and C), F) from 0 to 10 wt. % of monoepoxides, based on the sum of the weights of A) and B), and D) as anti-sagging agents, from 0.1 to 3 wt.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2000Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nmeours and CompanyInventors: Ralf Dahm, Carmen Flosbach, Hermann Kerber, Walter Schubert, Astrid Tückmantel
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Patent number: 6436478Abstract: A process for coating a thermoplastic substrate which comprises applying a solvent based coating composition to the substrate and curing the coating composition at ambient temperature to 125° C. to form a uniform smooth film on the substrate; wherein the coating composition contains about 45-80% by weight of a film forming binder and 20-55% by weight of an organic liquid carrier; wherein the binder contains (A) 40-90% by weight, based on the weight of the binder, of a polymer selected from the following: acrylic polyol, polyester polyol, polyether polyol or a polyurethane polyol; and (B) 10-60% by weight, based on the weight of the binder, of an organic polyisocyanate crosslinking agent; and wherein the organic liquid carrier used in the coating composition comprises at least 50% by weight, based on the weight of the organic liquid carrier used in the coating composition, of tertiary butyl acetate; the process of this invention also can be used to apply lacquers, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2001Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: E. I. de Pont de Nemours & CompanyInventor: James William O'Neil
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Patent number: 6433072Abstract: A pigment paste containing water-dilutable hydroxy-functional polyurethaneurea paste resins with a urea group content (calculated as —NHCONH—) of 10 to 300 mmol, a urethane group content (calculated as —NHCOO—) of 20 to 300 mmol, each per 100 g of solid resin, an OH value of 20 to 250 mg KOH/g, an acid value of 15 to 80 and a molecular weight Mn of 1000 to 20000 obtainable by I) preparing a NCO group-containing polyurethane prepolymer by reacting a1) hydroxy-functional compounds with a molecular weight (Mn) of 360 to 8000 with a2) polyisocyanates and a3) compounds with at least one group which can react with isocyanate and at least one ionic group, II) subsequent reaction of the prepolymer with a4) hydroxy-functional monoamines and optionally polyols and III) neutralisation of groups which can be converted into ionic groups.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2000Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Armin Göbel, Bettina Vogt-Birnbrich
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Patent number: 6432491Abstract: A process for multilayer lacquering, wherein a surfacer coating compound is applied to an optionally precoated substrate and then cured, a top coat layer of a color-imparting and/or special effect-imparting base coat and a clear coat coating compound or of a pigmented one-coat top coat coating compound is applied to the surfacer layer obtained and cured, wherein, after application of the surfacer coating compound, the not yet cured surfacer layer is irradiated with NIR radiation in the wave length range from 760 to 1500 nm.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2001Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Karsten Blatter, Werner Lenhard
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Patent number: 6432484Abstract: The invention is directed to a two-pack high solids low VOC ambient curable coating composition, which includes cross linking and binder components. The crosslinking component includes a polyamine, a polyketimine, or a combination thereof. The polyamine is provided on an average with at least two amine functionalities per polymer chain and the polyketimine is provided on an average with at least two ketimine functionalities per polymer chain. A reactive diluent in the binder component includes a macromolecule substantially free from acrylate functionalities and having at least two acetoacetate functionalities per the macromolecule. If desired, the coating composition includes a binder polymer. The coating composition of the invention is particularly suited in automotive refinish coatings.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2001Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Patrick Henry Corcoran, Carl Brent Douglas, Eric Diaz Felton, Josef Huybrechts, Gary Delmar Jaycox, Patricia Mary Ellen Sormani, Marko Strukelj, Lech Wilczek
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Patent number: 6433030Abstract: A process for working up powder lacquer wastes to give re-useable powder lacquers by compacting the powder lacquer wastes, without completely melting them, to give a sintered product, in which mixtures of different types of powder lacquer wastes or mixtures of powder lacquer wastes with different standard powder lacquers are compacted and the compacted products obtained are milled to give powder lacquers without an extrusion treatment.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2000Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Karsten Blatter, David Montgomery, Heléne Bolm
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Patent number: 6432483Abstract: A liquid coating composition curable at ambient temperature comprising a polyacetoacetate-containing component and a polyamine component, the former comprising bulky pendant moieties that contribute to rapid cure and robust films of good early hardness.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2000Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & CompanyInventors: Gary Delmar Jaycox, Patricia Mary Ellen Sormani, Marko Strukelj
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Patent number: 6432490Abstract: The process of this invention applies at least one coating composition to an optionally precoated substrate and then cures the thus obtained coating layer(s), whereby at least one of the coating layers is prepared from a coating composition that can be chemically cross-linked solely by radical polymerization of olefinic double bonds, the resin solid of the composition has a C═C equivalent weight from 100 to 10,000, preferably from 100 to 5,000, and the curing of the coating layer(s) is carried out with NIR radiation in the wave length range from 760-1500 nm.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2001Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Volker Rekowski, Oliver Reis, Martin Wulf
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Patent number: 6428898Abstract: The present invention is directed to low VOC curable coating compositions suitable for use in various mar and etch resistant coatings, such as in automotive coatings. The binder of the composition includes silicon/hydroxyl and cross-linking components. The silicon/hydroxyl component includes one or more reactive oligomers having linear or branched cycloaliphatic moiety and at least two functional groups with at least one being a silane or silicate group, the remaining being a hydroxyl group. Applicants have unexpectedly discovered that by including silane or silicate functionalities in these reactive oligomers, the solids level of the composition can be significantly increased at reduced composition viscosities. As a result, such high solids low VOC compositions can be readily applied by conventional application means, such as by spraying.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2000Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & CompanyInventors: Robert J. Barsotti, Isidor Hazan, John David Nordstrom
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Patent number: 6426148Abstract: A curable coating composition comprising, in an organic solvent, a binder of (i) a non-isocyanate oligomer or blend of oligomers containing at least two functional groups with at least one being an epoxy group, the remaining being epoxy or hydroxyl; (ii) optionally a polyester, oligoester, or acrylic polymer with at least two hydroxyl groups; and (iii) an oligomeric crosslinker or blend of crosslinkers which contain at least two isocyanate groups.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2000Date of Patent: July 30, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & CompanyInventors: Robert John Barsotti, Lee R. Harper, John David Nordstrom
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Patent number: 6413588Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a durable multi-layered coating on difficult-to-coat substrates, such as aluminum. The process includes subjecting the surface of the difficult-to-coat substrate to a adhesion promoting step, followed by applying an intermediate layer of flexible primer, which contains a polyester copolymer produced through a two-stage polymerization process. A mar resistant top layer of clear coating composition is then applied over the intermediate layer to produce the multi-layered durable coating on the difficult-to-coat substrate. If desired, the intermediate layer may be pigmented or it may be applied in the form of one or more patterned layers of different colors. Alternatively, one or more patterned layers of different colors may be applied over the intermediate layer before the application of the mar resistant top layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1999Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: William W. Pettus, Henry Stever Tremper, III, Henry A. Tronco, Jr.
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Patent number: 6409814Abstract: Pigment preparations, having a solid content of 10 to 60 wt-%, obtainable by mixing together, in the presence of at least one water-miscible organic solvent, pigments coated with a silicon-oxygen-matrix with at least one resin having carboxyl groups sufficient to provide an acid value of 10 to 100 mg KOH/g resin and having an number average molecular mass of 500 to 5000, wherein the ratio of pigment to resin is in the range of 1:0.3 to 1:10, can be used for the preparation of water-borne effect base coats with shear stability.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2000Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Werner Bosch, Georg Antonio Cuddemi, Frank Mueller, Marco Taschner
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Patent number: 6410147Abstract: The present invention is directed to a low gloss crosslinkable coating composition that produces a low gloss coating upon cure. The crosslinkable composition includes a binder component and a crosslinking agent. The binder component includes a combination of at least two partially compatible crosslinkable components retained in an evaporable medium, such that the low gloss coating exhibits a 60° specular gloss that is at least 5% lower than gloss of coatings from coating compositions containing any one of the crosslinkable components. The low gloss coating composition of the present invention is especially suited for OEM and refinish automotive coating applications, such as automotive fenders and automotive side boards, typically used in sport utility vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2000Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Ding-Yu Chung, Isidor Hazan, Donald Albert Paquet, Jr.
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Patent number: 6399742Abstract: This invention concerns low viscosity aldimine and ketimine reactive diluents having multi-imine functionality, which are useful in automotive refinish coating compositions, including a process for making them and the coatings that contain them.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1999Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Marko Strukelj
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Patent number: 6392000Abstract: A binder comprising a block polymer of blocks A and B and at least one of the blocks of C and D or E and F. The blocks are formed from: A monocarboxylic acids having 15 to 50 carbon atoms, B polyisocyanates having at least two isocyanate groups, C polycarboxylic acids having at least two carboxyl and/or anhydride groups, D polyisocyanates having at least two isocyanate groups, E polyalcohols having at least two hydroxyl groups, and F polyisocyanates having at least two isocyanate groups. The composition of the block polymer has the following composition: (f+g)/h=0.5 to 1.0, i/(h−f−g)=2.0 to 25 and a/(c+e)=0.1 to 1.0, where a, c and e=total moles of A, C and E; f=total equivalents of hydroxyl groups, g=total equivalents of carboxyl and anhydride groups, h=total equivalents of isocyanate groups and I=total moles of A to F.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2000Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Wolfgang Schuelke, Rainer Krause, Diethard Winkler