Paint adhesion by polyvinyl amines in acidic aqueous corrosion protection product containing polymers

• US 8,142,897 B2
• Filed: 04/27/2011
• Issued: 03/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Henkel KGaA (Henkel AG & Co KGaA)
• Original Assignee: Henkel KGaA (Henkel AG & Co KGaA)
• Inventors: Schmidt, Andreas, De Zeeuw, Ard
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thao T.
• Application Number:
  US13/095,473
• Publication Number:
  US 20110281120A1
• Time in Patent Office: 335 Days
• Field of Search: 428/458, 252/389.1, 427/388.2
• US Class Current: 428/458
• CPC Class Codes: C09D 5/08 Anti-corrosive paints
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 22/361 containing titanium, zirconium or hafnium compounds
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31605 Next to free metal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31681 Next to polyester, polyamide or polyimide [e.g., alkyd, glue, or nylon, etc.]

Abstract

The invention relates to an aqueous, chromium-free and curable corrosion protection agent for the first coating of metal surfaces, said agent containing at least one organic polymer or copolymer of at least partially acylated vinyl amines, for improving the properties of adhesion of the cured first coating to the metallic surface and to further organic coatings. The invention also relates to a method for producing a first coating comprising the agent according to the invention, and for applying further organic coatings, in particular those based on polyurethane resins and/or based on isocyanates and diols or polyols, and to a metal strip produced in this way or a metal sheet cut off same, which can optionally be shaped.

Claims

1. A chromium-free, curable corrosion protection agent for the first coating of metallic substrates, the corrosion protection agent having a pH in the range of from 1 to 3 and containing water and components:

a) fluoro complex ions of titanium and/or zirconium,

b) at least one corrosion protection pigment,

c) at least one organic polymer or copolymer which is water-soluble or water-dispersible in the specified pH range and which as such in aqueous solution in a concentration of 50 wt. % has a pH in a range from 1 to 3, and

d) at least one polyvinyl amine comprising amino groups that are acylated, said polyvinyl amine having a molecular weight of greater than 100,000 g/mol but not greater than 1,000,000 g/mol and a degree of acylation of not less than 80%.

2. The agent according to claim 1, wherein the amino groups of the polyvinyl amines of component d) are formylated.

3. The agent according to claim 2, wherein the molecular weight of the polyvinyl amines of component d) is not greater than 500,000 g/mol.

4. The agent according to claim 1, wherein the degree of acylation of the polyvinyl amines of component d) is not less than 90%.

5. The agent according to claim 1, wherein the water-soluble or water-dispersible organic polymers or copolymers of component c) are synthesized from one or more monomers selected from acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, acrylic acid ester and methacrylic acid ester monomers, and comprise at least one type of functional group selected from epoxide, silane, hydroxyl, carboxyl, phosphoric acid and phosphoric acid ester groups.

6. The agent according to claim 5, wherein the water-soluble or water-dispersible organic polymers or copolymers of component c) contain at least one monomer selected from acrylic acid esters and methacrylic acid esters.

7. The agent according to claim 5, wherein monomers carrying phosphoric acid or phosphoric acid ester groups are present in the polymer or copolymers of component c) in an amount ranging from 0.5 to 4 mol %.

8. The agent according to claim 1, wherein in a ready-to-use state the agent contains said components in quantity ranges, indicated in wt % based on the entire corrosion protection agent, of:

water;

25 to 69.6 wt. %,

a) fluoro complex ions of titanium and/or zirconium, calculated as hexafluorotitanic or hexafluorozirconic acid;

in total 0.3 to 3 wt. %,

b) corrosion protection pigment(s);

in total 5 to 25 wt. %,

c) organic polymer which is water-soluble or water-dispersible in the specified pH range and which as such in aqueous solution in a content of 50 wt. % has a pH in the range from 1 to 3;

25 to 50 wt. %,

d) acylated polyvinyl amines;

in total 0.1 to 5 wt. %,

e) phosphate ions, calculated as phosphoric acid;

0 to 5 wt. %,

f) manganese and/or magnesium ions;

in total 0 to 2 wt. %,

g) organic compound(s) capable of forming chelate complexes;

in total 0 to 5 wt. %,

h) molybdate and/or tungsten ions, calculated as ammonium salt;

in total 0 to 1 wt. %,

i) cations selected from zinc, cobalt, nickel, vanadium and iron ions;

in total 0 to 1 wt. %,

j) reducing agents selected from iron(II) ions and hydroxylamine, hydroxyl ammonium salts or hydroxylamine-cleaving compounds;

in total 0 to 0.1 wt. %.

9. The agent according to claim 1, comprising no more than 5 wt. % of organic compounds which under atmospheric pressure have a boiling point of at most 150°

C.

10. A method for coating metal strip, comprising the steps of applying a corrosion protection agent according to claim 1 to a degreased and cleaned metal strip, curing the corrosion protection agent on the metal strip, and obtaining a film having a thickness in a range of from 0.5 to 10 μ

m.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein, following curing of the corrosion protection agent, a further coating agent containing an organic binder system based on polyurethane resins and/or based on isocyanates and dials or polyols, is applied and cured.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the metal strip is selected from strips of zinc or zinc alloys, iron or iron alloys, aluminum or aluminum alloys, and from steel strips coated with zinc, zinc alloys, aluminum or aluminum alloys.

13. A coated metal strip or a metal sheet cut off said metal strip, optionally shaped, comprising a coating produced in accordance with claim 10.