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US 11,884,793 B2Granted
Molded article with metallic appearance
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsPing Wang, Liang Yang, Ruizhi Pei, Shuo Song, Fang Chen, Zihui Xu
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a molded article with a metallic appearance and a process for making the same. Particularly, the present invention relates to a molded article having a part that comprises a layer with a sandwich structure.
Claims12
A molded article having at least one part that comprises at least one layer comprising:
- a) from 50% to 99.99% of a thermoplastic material by weight of said layer, and
- b) from 0.01% to 50% of metallic flakes by weight of said layer;
- wherein the layer exhibits a sandwich structure in which a ratio of Middle Flake Density of the layer over Surface Flake Density of the layer is at least 3, and
- wherein the metallic flakes have an aspect ratio of an average diameter to an average thickness being at least 2.
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