Cathodic electrocoating compositions containing methane sulfonic acid as a neutralizing agent
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsJoseph Albert Antonelli, Christopher Scopazzi, William Bertus Vanderlinde
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Abstract
An improved aqueous cathodic electrocoating composition having a binder of an epoxy-amine adduct which is of an epoxy resin that has been reacted with an amine, and a blocked polyisocyanate crosslinking agent; wherein the improvement is the use of an alkane sulfonic acid as the neutralizing agent for the epoxy amine adduct to provide an electrocoating composition having improved throw power.
Claims5
An improved aqueous cathodic electrocoating composition comprising a binder of an epoxy-amine adduct of an epoxy resin that has been reacted with an amine, and a blocked polyisocyanate crosslinking agent;
- wherein the improvement consists of the use of methane sulfonic acid as the neutralizing agent for the epoxy amine adduct to provide an electrocoating composition having improved throw power.
In a method of preparing a cathodic electrocoating composition comprising the following steps in any workable order:
- (a) preparing an epoxy resin-amine adduct;
- (b) preparing a blocked polyisocyanate crosslinking agent;
- (c) blending the epoxy-amine adduct with the blocked polyisocyanate crosslinking agent;
- (d) neutralizing the epoxy-amine adduct with an organic acid to form an emulsion;
- (e) blending the emulsion with a pigment paste;
- wherein the improvement consists essentially of the addition of an organic acid which consists of methane sulfonic acid to provide an electrocoating composition having improved throw power.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.