User's color matching system, thinned pigment dispersion set for color matching, paint color matching method, color matching data base for user and method of using the same
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1. A user'"'"'s color matching system in which a user of a colored paint himself matches a color of a base paint using a thinned pigment dispersion for color matching under the following conditions (1) to (3):
- (1) the user has a color matching device capable of conducting measuring and mixing for color matching;
(2) the maker of the colored paint offers the user the base paint and the thinned pigment dispersion for color matching of a required hue, wherein the thinned pigment dispersion is offered as a thinned pigment dispersion set for color matching comprising a thinned pigment dispersion for rough color matching having a high pigment concentration and a thinned pigment dispersion for fine color matching having a low pigment concentration for each hue; and
(3) the maker of the colored paint offers the user, in any mode, a color matching data base for user that indicates a standard amount of a base paint in color matching and a mixing amount of a thinned pigment dispersion for rough color matching and the thinned pigment dispersion for fine color matching for each hue.
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Abstract
A user of a colored paint is made to have an inexpensive color matching device having the least measuring and mixing functions, and a maker of a colored paint offers the user a base paint, a thinned pigment dispersion for rough color matching and a thinned pigment dispersion for fine color matching and a data indicating mixing amounts of them in terms of a unit which is easy to calculate, and further offers him a correction data of mixing amounts in consideration of seasonal factors or environmental factors as required.
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1. A user'"'"'s color matching system in which a user of a colored paint himself matches a color of a base paint using a thinned pigment dispersion for color matching under the following conditions (1) to (3):
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(1) the user has a color matching device capable of conducting measuring and mixing for color matching;
(2) the maker of the colored paint offers the user the base paint and the thinned pigment dispersion for color matching of a required hue, wherein the thinned pigment dispersion is offered as a thinned pigment dispersion set for color matching comprising a thinned pigment dispersion for rough color matching having a high pigment concentration and a thinned pigment dispersion for fine color matching having a low pigment concentration for each hue; and
(3) the maker of the colored paint offers the user, in any mode, a color matching data base for user that indicates a standard amount of a base paint in color matching and a mixing amount of a thinned pigment dispersion for rough color matching and the thinned pigment dispersion for fine color matching for each hue. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
(1) a standard amount of a base paint shown in terms of a weight unit or a volume unit; and
(2) a mixing amount of a thinned pigment dispersion for color matching of one or more hues shown in terms of a weight unit or a volume unit relative to the base paint in the standard amount.
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9. The user'"'"'s color matching system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the data of the mixing amount of the thinned pigment dispersion for color matching of one or more hues comprises the following two types of data:
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(2a) a mixing amount of a thinned pigment dispersion for rough color matching having a high pigment concentration indicated by a large measuring unit in terms of a weight unit or a volume unit relative to the base paint in the standard amount; and
(2b) a mixing amount of a thinned pigment dispersion for fine color matching having a low pigment concentration indicated by a measuring unit scaled up at a dilution ratio in terms of a weight unit or a volume unit relative to the base paint in the standard amount.
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10. The user'"'"'s color matching system as claimed in claim 8, which is offered to the user on-line.
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11. The user'"'"'s color matching system as claimed in claim 8, which is offered to the user in combination with a color sample.
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12. The user'"'"'s color matching system as claimed in claim 8, wherein in the color matching data base for user, the standard amount of the base paint is shown in terms of the weight unit and the mixing amount of the thinned pigment dispersion or the mixing amounts of the thinned pigment dispersion for rough color matching and the thinned pigment dispersion for fine color matching are shown in terms of the volume unit,
the data of the mixing amount of the thinned pigment dispersion or the data of the mixing amounts of the thinned pigment dispersion for rough color matching and the thinned pigment dispersion for fine color matching are corrected, as required, by a correction formula in consideration of the change in the specific gravity of various thinned pigment dispersions owing to environmental factors, and the correction data is offered to the user as required.
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6. A thinned pigment dispersion set for color matching which is offered from a maker of a thinned pigment dispersion to a user having a measuring device capable of accurate measurement in large and small two measuring units and which is used for the user to conduct color matching of a paint of any hue with the measuring device, said thinned pigment dispersion set comprising
a pigment dispersion produced for color matching of the base paint, or a thinned pigment dispersion for rough color matching having a high pigment concentration, which is obtained by diluting the pigment dispersion at a relatively low ratio with a colorless transparent solution for pigment dilution containing at least one of HEC (hydroxyethyl cellulose), a polycarboxylate and xanthan gum as a thickener and an alkylene glycol as a drying inhibitor and which is used for rough color matching of the base paint in a large measuring unit in the measuring device, and a thinned pigment dispersion for fine color matching having a low pigment concentration, which is obtained by diluting the pigment dispersion at a relatively high ratio, a known dilution ratio relative to the thinned pigment dispersion for rough color matching with said solution for pigment dilution and which is used for fine color matching of the base paint subjected to the rough color matching in a measuring unit scaled up at the known dilution ratio, and the pigment concentration ratio, known to the user, of the thinned pigment dispersion for rough color matching having the high pigment concentration and the thinned pigment dispersion for fine color matching having the low pigment concentration being in the range of from 5: - 1 to 50;
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