IP Library Granted Patent US 8,685,497
Granted Patent B2
US 8,685,497 · App. 13/638,973 · Granted Apr 1, 2014

Liquid coating composition

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,685,497
App. No.
13/638,973
Filed
Oct 2, 2012
Granted
Apr 1, 2014
Kind
B2
Art Unit
1715
USPC
427/385.5
Abstract

A liquid coating composition which contains (i) a resin system crosslinkable under catalysis of a catalyst D and comprising a binder A and, as an optional component, a crosslinker B for the binder A, and (ii) solid particles CD consisting of a physical mixture of 70 to 99 wt.-% of a polyurethane resin C and 1 to 30 wt.-% of a catalyst D immobilized in said polyurethane resin C, wherein the sum of the wt.-% totals 100 wt.-%, and wherein the polyurethane resin C has a melting temperature of 40 to 180° C., measured by DSC at a heating rate of 10 K/min.

Claims (14)

1. A liquid coating composition which contains (i) a resin system crosslinkable under catalysis of a catalyst D and comprising a binder A and, as an optional component, a crosslinker B for the binder A, and (ii) solid particles CD consisting of a physical mixture of 70 to 99 wt.-% of a polyurethane resin C and 1 to 30 wt.-% of a catalyst D immobilized in said polyurethane resin C, wherein the sum of the wt.-% totals 100 wt.-%, and wherein the polyurethane resin C has a melting temperature of 40 to 180° C., measured by DSC at a heating rate of 10 K/min.

2. The coating composition of claim 1 containing water and/or organic solvent(s) and having a solids content of 35 to 75 wt.-%, wherein the solids content consists of the resin solids content, the solid particles CD and optional components: pigments, fillers and non-volatile additives.

3. The coating composition of claim 1 , wherein the polyurethane resin C is selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl-functional polyurethanes and polyurethanes with blocked isocyanate groups.

4. The coating composition of claim 1 , wherein the average particle size of the solid particles CD is 1 to 100 μm.

5. The coating composition of claim 1 , wherein the solid particles CD are contained in a proportion of 1 to 10 wt.-%, relative to the resin solids of the coating composition.

6. The coating composition of claim 1 , wherein the coating composition is curable under acid catalysis and wherein the catalyst D is an acid catalyst.

7. The coating composition of claim 1 , wherein the coating composition is curable under organotin catalysis and wherein the catalyst D is an organotin catalyst.

8. The coating composition of claim 6 , wherein the binder A is a hydroxyl-functional binder and wherein the crosslinker B is selected from the group consisting of aminoplast crosslinkers and free polyisocyanate crosslinkers.

9. The coating composition of claim 7 , wherein the binder A is a hydroxyl-functional binder and wherein the crosslinker B is a free or blocked polyisocyanate crosslinker.

10. The coating composition of claim 1 , wherein the melting temperature of the polyurethane resin C is from 60 to 160° C.

11. The coating composition of claim 1 , wherein the solubility of the polyurethane resin C is less than 10 g per liter of butyl acetate or water at 20° C.

12. A process for the production of a coating layer on a substrate, comprising the steps:

1) applying a coating layer from a coating composition of claim 1 on a substrate, and

2) thermally curing the coating layer at a temperature at or above the melting temperature of the polyurethane resin C.