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AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsHironori Umeda, Tohru Mashimo, Kazuo Hironaka, Tadamitsu Nakahama, Takakazu Yamane, Makoto Aizawa, Yukifumi Taniguchi
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A surface coating applied to a subject surface includes an undercoating, a color base layer, coated over the undercoating layer, which contains a coloring material, and a color clear layer, coated over the color base layer, which contains a coloring dye of a hue within +/-10 from a hue of the coloring material of the base color layer on the 100-division Mansell hue ring. The color clear layer may be applied with a paint spray device while rotating the subject surface around an axis and continuously moving the subject surface along the axis to form a spiral pattern of paint spray relative to and around the subject surface at regular pitches. Preferably, the ratio of each of the regular pitches to a width of the pattern of paint spray is less than 0.3.
A method of applying a surface coating to a subject surface with a paint spray device which forms a spray pattern of paint having a specified diameter comprising the steps of:
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