Film forming coating composition containing surface treated barium sulfate, and methods of use

• US 6,849,673 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2003
• Issued: 02/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: JM Huber Corporation
• Original Assignee: JM Huber Corporation
• Inventors: Lynch, Thomas J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Moore, Margaret G.
• Application Number:
  US10/611,548
• Publication Number:
  US 20050004268A1
• Time in Patent Office: 580 Days
• Field of Search: 524/423, 523/213
• US Class Current: 523/213
• CPC Class Codes: C08K 9/04 Ingredients treated with organic substances treated with macromolecular compounds C08K9/08

Abstract

A coating composition comprising, in admixture, a resin and aminosilane surface-treated barium sulfate particles, and methods of using it as a film forming coating. Low blistering, highly corrosion resistant and low viscosity coating compositions are provided.

Claims

1. A flowable liquid coating composition useful for forming a film, comprising, in admixture, a resin and particles comprising barium sulfate wherein barium sulfate at an exterior surface of the particles has been surface treated with an organosilane containing an amino moiety.

2. The coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the coating composition has a viscosity more than 50% lower than a viscosity measured for the same coating composition except prepared with the barium sulfate lacking surface treatment with the organosilane having the amino moiety, wherein the viscosity measurement is made in centipoise with a Brookfield RVT Rotational Viscometer.

3. The coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the particles have a median particle size in the range of approximately 0.1 to approximately 40 microns.

4. The coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the organosilane containing an amino moiety includes an amino group selected from at least one of a primary, a secondary, or a tertiary amine.

5. The coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the organosilane containing an amino moiety is represented by the following formula:

wherein R₁R₂, R₃ each independently is selected from hydrogen, lower alkyl, aryl, lower alkylaryl, or lower arylalkyl, z is 0 or 1, Y is selected from the group consisting of a substituted or nonsubstituted amino-containing group, and X is a non-substituted or substituted hydrocarbenyl linking group.

6. The coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the organosilane containing an amino moiety is added onto the surface of the barium sulfate when surface treated with the organosilane in an amount of about 0.1% to about 2%, based on dry weight of the barium sulfate before the addition.

7. The coating composition according to claim 1, comprising a pigment which at least in part is comprised by the particles that have been surface treated with the organosilane containing the amino moiety.

8. The coating composition according to claim 7, wherein the pigment comprises about 1 to about 65% by volume of the coating composition.

9. The coating composition according to claim 7, wherein the pigment has a total volume, and the barium sulfate comprises about 1 to about 100% of the total volume of the pigment.

10. The coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the resin comprises a curable resin.

11. The coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the resin comprises a curable resin selected from the group consisting of epoxy resins, polyurethane resins, alkyd resins, melamine resins, phenolic resins, polyester resins, individually or in combinations thereof.

12. The coating composition according to claim 10, wherein the curable resin comprises an epoxy resin and a curing agent.

13. The coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the coating composition comprises a water-based emulsion or latex system forming a film upon water evaporation therefrom.

14. The coating composition according to claim 1, wherein the resin comprises a thermoplastic resin.

15. The coating composition according to claim 1, having a pigment volume concentration (PVC)/critical pigment volume concentration (CPVC) ratio value of 0.1 to 0.95.

27. The coating composition of claim 10, wherein the curable resin comprises about 10 to about 30 weight % of the coating composition.

16. A dry film, comprising a dried coating having an average film thickness of about 1×

10<sup>−

3</sup> to about 25×

10<sup>−

3</sup> inch and the coating having a composition comprising a thermoset resin into which is dispersed particles comprising barium sulfate wherein barium sulfate at an exterior surface of the particles has been surface-treated with organosilane containing an amino moiety.

17. A method of providing a flowable liquid coating film on a solid substrate surface comprising:

applying a flowable liquid coating composition on the substrate surface as a film, wherein the coating composition comprises a resin system, and a dispersion in the resin system, wherein the dispersion comprises a pigment including particles comprising barium sulfate wherein barium sulfate at an exterior surface of the particles has been surface treated with an organosilane containing an amino moiety, and

drying or permitting drying of the film to form a dried film from the applied coating composition, which film is attached to the solid substrate surface.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the resin comprises a curable resin which is selected from the group consisting of epoxy resins, polyurethane resins, alkyd resins, melamine resins, phenolic resins, polyester resins, individually or in combinations thereof.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the resin system comprises a mixture of first and second components, wherein the first component comprises a curable resin, and the second component comprises a curing agent for the curable resin.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the resin system comprises a water-based emulsion or latex system forming a film upon water evaporation therefrom.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein the resin comprises a thermoplastic resin.

22. The method of claim 17, wherein the applying is performed effective that the coating composition forms a dry film having an average film thickness of about 1×

10<sup>−

3</sup> to about 25×

10<sup>−

3</sup> inch.

23. The method of claim 17, wherein the contacting of the substrate surface with coating composition is repeated at least once.

24. The method of claim 17, wherein the contacting of the substrate surface with the coating composition comprises using an application technique selected from at least one of brushing, spraying, blade coating, rolling, or dipping.

25. The method of claim 17, wherein the substrate surface is a metallic surface.

26. The coated substrate product of the method of claim 17.

29. The method of claim 17, wherein the flowable liquid coating composition being formulated to have a viscosity more than 50% lower than a viscosity measured for the same coating composition except prepared with the barium sulfate lacking surface treatment with the organosilane having the amino moiety, wherein the viscosity measurement is made in centipoise with a Brookfield RVT Rotational Viscometer.

30. The method of claim 18, comprising curing the flowable liquid composition at room temperature during said drying.

28. A coating composition useful for forming a film, comprising, in admixture, a resin and barium sulfate particles that have been surface treated with an organosilane containing an amino moiety, wherein the coating composition has a viscosity more than 50% lower than a viscosity measured for the same coating composition except prepared with the barium sulfate lacking surface treatment with the organosilane having the amino moiety, wherein the viscosity measurement is made in centipoise with a Brookfield RVT Rotational Viscometer.