Coated article with polymeric basecoat

• US 20020081451A1
• Filed: 12/21/2000
• Published: 06/27/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vapor Technologies, Inc. (Masco Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Vapor Technologies, Inc. (Masco Corporation)
• Inventors: Chen, Guocun
• Granted Patent: US 6,770,376 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/626
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 28/00 Coating for obtaining at least two superposed coatings either by methods not provided for in a single one of groups C23C2/00 - C23C26/00 or by combinations of methods provided for in subclasses C23C and C25C or C25D
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12562 Elastomer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12569 Synthetic resin
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12806 Refractory [Group IVB, VB, or VIB] metal-base component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31551 Of polyamidoester [polyurethane, polyisocyanate, polycarbamate, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31605 Next to free metal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31678 Of metal

Abstract

An article is coated with a multi-layer coating having the appearance of nickel. The coating comprises a polymeric layer on the surface of said article and vapor deposited on the polymeric layer a refractory metal nitride or refractory metal alloy nitride where the nitrogen content of said nitride is from about 6 to about 45 atomic percent.

Claims

1. An article having on at least a portion of its surface a multi-layer coating having the appearance of nickel comprising:

layer comprised of polymer;

layer comprised of refractory metal nitride or refractory metal alloy nitride wherein said nitrogen content of said refractory metal nitride or refractory metal alloy nitride is from about 6 to about 45 atomic percent.

2. The article of claim 1 wherein said nitrogen content is from about 8 to about 35 atomic percent.

3. The article of claim 1 wherein a layer comprised of refractory metal or refractory metal alloy is on said layer comprised of polymer.

4. The article of claim 1 wherein a layer comprised of refractory metal oxide is on said layer comprised of refractory metal nitride.

5. The article of claim 3 wherein a layer comprised of refractory metal oxide is on said layer comprised of refractory metal nitride.

6. The article of claim 1 wherein a layer comprised of the reaction products of (i) refractory metal , (ii) oxygen and (iii) nitrogen is on said layer comprised of refractory metal nitride.

7. The article of claim 3 wherein a layer comprised of the reaction products of (i) refractory metal, (ii) oxygen and (iii) nitrogen is on said layer comprised of refractory metal nitride.

8. The article of claim 1 wherein said layer comprised of polymer is comprised of epoxy urethane.