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US 6,146,145 AGranted
Method of color-matching powder coating and coating method using color-matched powder coating
AssigneeKyocera Mita Corporation
InventorsTakayuki Itakura, Norio Horikami
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Abstract
A method of blending a light-transmittable powder coating which is colored in at least one color and a colorless light-transmittable powder coating which is not colored, and dryblending the powder coatings, to color-match the powder coatings, capable of reproducing colors which could not be reproduced in conventional powder coatings, for example, light colors, transparent colors, or brilliant colors.
Claims6
A method of producing a color-matched powder coating, comprising the steps of:
- providing at least one of a plurality of colored light-transmittable powder coatings which are colored by a coloring agent, and a colorless light-transmittable powder coating containing no coloring agent;
- calculating a blending ratio of the colored powder coatings and the colorless powder coating;
- weighing the colored powder coatings and the colorless powder coating on the basis of the calculating step;
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- dryblending the powder coatings using a mixer.
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