Abstract: The multilayer coating film formation method for forming a multilayer coating film on a substrate comprises the steps of: applying an undercoat paint composition (X) comprising an antioxidant (a1) to a substrate to form at least one layer of an uncured first coating film; applying a topcoat paint composition (Y) containing a carboxy-containing polymer (b1) and an epoxy-containing acrylic resin (b2) to the first coating film to form an uncured second coating film; and simultaneously heating the uncured first coating film and the uncured second coating film to cure the films.

Abstract: Provided are a brilliant pigment-containing aqueous base coat coating material with which it is possible to ensure waterproof adhesiveness and impart a metallic gloss, and a method for forming a multilayer film using the same. The invention provides a brilliant pigment-containing aqueous base coat coating material including water-dispersible acrylic polymer particles (A), a water-soluble acrylic resin (B), a curing agent (C), and a brilliant pigment (D) obtained by pulverizing a vapor-deposited metal film to create metal chips. The water-soluble acrylic resin (B) is a copolymer of an N-substituted (meth)acrylamide (i), a hydroxyl group-containing polymerizable unsaturated monomer (ii), a carboxyl group-containing polymerizable unsaturated monomer (iii), and a polymerizable unsaturated monomer (iv) other than (i)-(iii).

Abstract: Provided is a method for forming a multilayer coating film, the method being capable of forming a high-brightness white multilayer coating film which is excellent in terms of brilliant feeling, smoothness, and weather resistance and with which white stains are suppressed. In this method for forming a multilayer coating film to form a brilliant coating film, a white multilayer coating film is formed by: sequentially applying a first coloring paint (P1), a second aqueous coloring paint (P2), a third aqueous coloring paint (P3), and a clear coat paint (P4) on a cured electrodeposition coating film formed on a steel sheet; and forming a first colored coating film, a second colored coating film, a third colored coating film, and a clear coat coating film which each have a particular composition, brightness, film thickness, and the like.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an aqueous coating composition having an excellent finished appearance, such as smoothness and distinctness of image, as well as metallic feel and no metallic mottling when the composition comprises an effect pigment; excellent coating film performance, such as water resistance; and excellent storage stability. The present invention provides an aqueous coating composition comprising (A) acrylic resin particles, (B) a water-soluble acrylic resin, and (C) a phosphoric acid compound represented by a specific formula and having hydrocarbon (and optionally polyoxyalkylene); and also provides a method for forming a coating film, comprising applying the aqueous coating composition, as well as an article coated with the aqueous coating composition.

Abstract: Provided are: a method for producing a polymer composition containing a modified chlorinated polyolefin, which exhibits excellent production stability; and a coating material which contains a polymer composition containing a modified chlorinated polyolefin. According to the present invention, a polymer composition containing a modified chlorinated polyolefin is obtained by copolymerizing polymerizable monomers including (b) a chlorinated polyolefin having an allyloxy group and (c) one or more compounds selected from among (meth)acrylic acid esters, (meth)acrylic acids and styrene in the coexistence of (a) a compound having an allyloxy group and a hydroxyl group.

Abstract: The present invention provides the following method for forming a multilayer coating film. The method comprises forming an uncured coating film of a specific primer paint composition (A) on a substrate, forming a top coating film of a specific top paint composition (B) on the uncured coating film, and simultaneously drying the films. The primer paint composition (A) is a paint composition comprising an epoxy resin (a1), a rust preventive pigment (a2), a color pigment (a3), and an extender pigment (a4); and the top paint composition (B) is a paint composition comprising an acrylic resin (b1) and an active methylene blocked polyisocyanate compound (b2).

Abstract: A laminate containing a metallic base layer and a transparent colored layer formed on the metallic base layer, wherein, when X=[(C*45)2+(C*75)2)]1/2, and Y=[(L*15)2+(C*15)2)]1/2+[(L*25)2+(C*25)2)]1/2, X is 64 or more, and Y is 191 or more; and the measured value of graininess (HG value) is 45 or less, with the proviso that C*15, C*25, C*45, and C*75 represent chroma calculated from spectral reflectances of light illuminated at an incident angle of 45 degrees with respect to the laminate and received at respective angles of 15 degrees, 25 degrees, 45 degrees, and 75 degrees deviated from the specular reflection light, and that L*15 and L*25 represent lightness calculated from spectral reflectances of light illuminated at an incident angle of 45 degrees with respect to the laminate and received at respective angles of 15 degrees and 25 degrees deviated from the specular reflection light.

Abstract: A laminate containing a metallic base layer and a transparent colored layer formed on the metallic base layer. The metallic base layer contains an aluminum pigment, a light-scattering component, a surface adjusting agent, and a rheology control agent, the aluminum pigment being present in an amount of 15 to 70 parts by mass, on a solids basis; and the light-scattering component being present in an amount of 5 to 55 parts by mass, on a solids basis, based on 100 parts by mass of the metallic base layer. The transparent colored layer contains a resin component, a curing agent, and a color pigment, the color pigment being present in an amount of 0.5 to 10 parts by mass, based on 100 parts by mass of the resin solids content of the transparent colored layer.

Abstract: This invention relates to a paint composition comprising (A) a binder component and (B) a rheology control agent, the binder component (A) comprising an alkoxysilyl-containing acrylic resin (A1) and the rheology control agent (B) comprising a reaction product of (b1) a polyisocyanate compound, (b2) a primary monoamine having a number average molecular weight of 300 or less, and (b3) a polyether amine having a number average molecular weight of more than 300 but less than 6000.

Abstract: This invention relates to a coating method comprising sequentially applying a paint (X) and a paint (Y) to a substrate, and thermally curing two layers simultaneously, wherein the paint (X) contains a binder (XA), the paint (Y) contains a binder (YA) and an alkoxysilyl-containing organopolysiloxane (YB), the alkoxysilyl-containing organopolysiloxane (YB) has a solids content of 0.01 to 20 mass % based on the resin solids content of the binder (YA), and at least one of the paint (X) and the paint (Y) contains a catalyst (C) that promotes hydrolysis condensation of alkoxysilyl.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an aqueous coating composition that can form a multilayer coating film having excellent storage stability, excellent adhesion to plastic base materials, excellent finish, and excellent coating film performance, such as water resistance; and to also provide a coating method using the composition. The present invention provides an aqueous coating composition comprising (A) an aqueous dispersion of a modified polyolefin, (B) an aqueous acrylic resin and/or an aqueous polyester resin, and (C) a phosphoric acid compound represented by a specific formula; and also provides a method for forming a coating film, comprising applying the aqueous coating composition, as well as an article coated with the aqueous coating composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an effect pigment dispersion comprising water, a flake aluminum pigment, and a cellulose-based rheology control agent, wherein the effect pigment dispersion contains 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of solids based on 100 parts by mass of all components thereof, the viscosity measured using a Brookfield type viscometer is 400 to 10000 mPa·sec at a rotational speed of 6 revolutions per minute, and the solids content of the flake aluminum pigment is 30 to 200 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the total amount of components other than the flake aluminum pigment in the total solids content.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-layer coating film formation method in which the following are performed: a step in which a primer coating film is formed; a step in which a base coating film is formed; a step in which a clear coating film is formed; and a step in which these coating films are caused to harden simultaneously. The method satisfies at least: (A) the quantity of isocyanate at the interface between a coated article and the primer coating film is 1.5 parts by mass or less, relative to 100 parts by mass of resin solids in a primer coating material; or (B) the quantity of isocyanate at the interface between the primer coating film and the base coating film is 3.5 parts by mass or less, relative to 100 parts by mass of resin solids in a base coating material.

Abstract: A coating method for a cationic electrodeposition coating material includes: a step of immersing a metallic article to be coated in a first solution bath, a step of immersing the article in a second solution bath and a step of immersing the article in a third solution bath; and at least one of the three steps includes a cationic electrodeposition coating in which a current is applied. A coating film formed through the three steps contains at least: a base resin component (A), a reaction component (B) and a catalyst (C). The first solution bath, the second solution bath and the third solution bath contain the base resin component (A), the reaction component (B) and the catalyst (C) in a combination of one or two of the components.

Abstract: A method for forming a multilayer coating film, the method including the following steps (1) to (3): (1) applying a colored paint (X) to a substrate to form a colored coating film whose lightness L* value in the L*a*b* color space is 5 or less, (2) applying an effect pigment dispersion (Y) to the colored coating film formed in step (1) to form an effect coating film, and (3) applying a clear paint (Z) to the effect coating film formed in step (2) to form a clear coating film, wherein the effect pigment dispersion (Y) contains water, a rheology control agent (A), and a flake-effect pigment (B), the flake-effect pigment (B) being an effect pigment in which a transparent or translucent base material is coated with a metal oxide, and the effect pigment dispersion (Y) having a solids content of 0.

Abstract: A method for producing an acrylic resin-coated silica particle dispersion by (1), mixing and heating silica particles (A), an organic solvent (B) and a monomer having a polymerizable unsaturated group and a hydrolyzable silyl group (C) to obtain a polymerizable unsaturated group-containing silica particle dispersion (i), (2) adding a tertiary amine (D) with a molecular weight of 120 to 380 and having a terminal alkyl and/or aryl group, to the component (i) dispersion, to obtain a polymerizable unsaturated group-containing silica particle dispersion (ii), and (3) reacting the component (ii) dispersion with a polymerizable unsaturated monomer (E), in a solid mass ratio of (ii):(E)=20:80 to 90:10, to obtain an acrylic resin-coated silica particle dispersion.

Abstract: A water-based coating composition and method for forming a multi-layer coating film by which it is possible to form a coating film 5 having excellent smoothness, image clarity, and chipping resistance in a 3C1B format. The composition is characterized by containing 7 to 60 mass % of an acrylic resin emulsion (a), 10 to 60 mass % of a film-forming resin (b), and 10 10 to 50 mass % of a curing agent (c), on the basis of the total mass of the solid resin content in the composition; the acrylic resin emulsion (a) having a core/shell structure where the core section contains, as a copolymer component, 0.1 to 10 mass % of a polymerizable unsaturated 15 monomer having two or more polymerizable unsaturated groups in one molecule, on the basis of the total mass of monomer of the core section, and the hydroxyl value of the core section is 50 to 200 mgKOH/g, and the hydroxyl value of the shell section is 50 to 200 mgKOH/g.

Abstract: A method for forming a multilayer coating film, comprising: (1) applying a yellow pigment-containing paint (X) to a substrate to form at least one layer of a yellow coating film; (2) applying an effect pigment dispersion (Y) to the yellow coating film to form an effect coating film; (3) applying a clear paint (Z) to the effect coating film to form a clear coating film; and (4) heating the yellow coating film, the effect coating film, and the clear coating film to separately or simultaneously cure the coating films, wherein the multilayer coating film has an h value of 60 to 120°, the multilayer coating film has a Y5 value of 200 or more, and the multilayer coating film has a CS value of 90 or more, wherein the CS value is expressed by a specific equation.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to further lower the viscosity of a sulfur compound solid electrolyte dispersion paste while suppressing sedimentation of a sulfur compound solid electrolyte. Provided is a sulfur compound solid electrolyte dispersion paste for secondary batteries, containing a dispersion resin (A), a sulfur compound solid electrolyte (B) and a solvent (C), wherein the dispersion resin (A) contains at least one type of acrylic resin (a) having a weight-average molecular weight of 3000 or higher.

Abstract: Provided is a method for forming a multilayer coating film including the following steps (1) to (4): (1) applying a base paint (X) to a substrate to form a base coating film; (2) applying a specific effect pigment dispersion (Y) to the base coating film formed in step (1) to form an effect coating film with a specific dry film thickness; (3) applying a clear paint (Z) to the effect coating film formed in step (2) to form a clear coating film; and (4) heating the uncured base coating film, the uncured effect coating film, and the uncured clear coating film formed in steps (1) to (3) to simultaneously cure these three coating films.