Aqueous dispersion of a polyester and a polyamide of low acid number and coating composition comprising same for applying a basecoat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10160872-B2
Application number	US-201515505477-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 21, 2015
Priority date	Aug 22, 2014
Publication date	Dec 25, 2018
Grant date	Dec 25, 2018

Abstract

The present invention relates to an aqueous dispersion (P) comprising at least one polymeric resin (P1) and at least one polymeric resin (P2) different therefrom, where the polymeric resin (P1) is a polyamide and the polymeric resin (P2) is a polyester which is at least obtainable by reaction of at least one polymerized aliphatic C12-C24 monocarboxylic acid with at least one diol and/or polyol, (P) being obtainable by dispersing of (P1) in water or an aqueous medium in the presence of (P2), and where (P1) has an acid number <10 mg of KOH per g of polyamide, and (P) contains at most 25 wt %, based on the total weight of (P), of one or more organic solvents, and also to an aqueous coating composition comprising (P), at least one binder (A) comprising at least one polymeric resin (A1), which is different from the polymeric resins (P1) and (P2), and at least one pigment (B) for at least partly coating a substrate with a basecoat film.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An aqueous dispersion (P) comprising at least one polymeric resin (P1) and at least one polymeric resin (P2) different therefrom, wherein
the polymeric resin (P1) is a polyamide and
the polymeric resin (P2) is a polyester,
the aqueous dispersion (P) is obtained by dispersing the polymeric resin (P1) in water or an aqueous medium in the presence of the polymeric resin (P2),
the polyamide as polymeric resin (P1) has an acid number <10 mg of KOH per g of polyamide,
the polyester as polymeric resin (P2) is obtained by reaction of at least one polymerized aliphatic C 12 -C 24 monocarboxylic acid with at least one diol and/or polyol, and
the aqueous dispersion (P) contains at most 25 wt %, based on the total weight of the dispersion (P), of one or more organic solvents.

2. The aqueous dispersion (P) as claimed in claim 1 , which contains at most 20 wt %, based on the total weight of the dispersion (P), of one or more organic solvents.

3. The aqueous dispersion (P) as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the polyamide as polymeric resin (P1) has an acid number in a range from 0.01 to 8.0 mg of KOH per g of polyamide.

4. The aqueous dispersion (P) as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a relative weight ratio of polymeric resins (P2) and (P1) to one another, based in each case on their solids content, in the dispersion (P) is in a range from 10:1 to 1.5:1.

5. The aqueous dispersion (P) as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the polyamide as polymeric resin (P1) is present in the dispersion (P) in an amount in a range from 0.5 to 15 wt %, based on the total weight of the dispersion (P).

6. The aqueous dispersion (P) as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the polyester as polymeric resin (P2) is present in the dispersion (P) in an amount in a range from 5 to 20 wt %, based on the total weight of the dispersion (P).

7. The aqueous dispersion (P) as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the polyester as polymeric resin (P2) has an acid number in a range from 20 to 50 mg of KOH per g of polyester and/or a hydroxyl number in a range from 20 to 300 mg of KOH per g of polyester.

8. The aqueous dispersion (P) as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the polyester as polymeric resin (P2) is obtained by reaction of at least one dimerized and/or trimerized aliphatic C 12 -C 24 -monocarboxylic acid with at least one aliphatic C 2 -C 20 polyol and/or C 2 -C 20 diol.

9. The aqueous dispersion (P) as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the polyester as polymeric resin (P2) is prepared additionally with at least one dicarboxylic acid and/or at least one tricarboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of aliphatic C 3 -C 12 dicarboxylic acids, cycloaliphatic C 5 -C 12 dicarboxylic acids, aromatic C 8 -C 12 -dicarboxylic acids, aliphatic C 5 -C 12 tricarboxylic acids, cycloaliphatic C 6 -C 12 tricarboxylic acids and aromatic C 9 -C 12 tricarboxylic acids, and optionally additionally with at least one aliphatic C 12 -C 24 monocarboxylic acid.

10. The aqueous dispersion (P) as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the aqueous dispersion does not form two or more macroscopic phases after storage at 40° C. for 28 days.

11. An aqueous coating composition comprising
the aqueous dispersion (P) as claimed in claim 1 ,
at least one binder (A) comprising at least one polymeric resin (A1), which is different from the polymeric resins (P1) and (P2), and optionally at least one crosslinking agent (A2), and
at least one pigment (B),
wherein the composition is configured for at least partly coating an optionally coated substrate with a basecoat film.

12. The coating composition as claimed in claim 11 , which comprises the polyamide as polymeric resin (P1) within the dispersion (P) in an amount in a range from 0.05 to 5 wt %, based on the total weight of the coating composition.

13. The coating composition as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the binder (A) comprises at least one polyurethane and/or at least one poly(meth)acrylate and/or at least one polyester as at least one polymeric resin (A1).

14. The coating composition as claimed in claim 11 , which comprises the polymeric resin (A1) in an amount in a range from 5 to 40 wt %, based on the total weight of the coating composition, and the pigment (B) in an amount in a range from 0.1 to 25 wt %, based on the total weight of the coating composition.

15. A substrate coated at least partly with the aqueous coating composition as claimed in claim 11 .

16. The substrate of claim 15 , wherein the substrate coated at least partly with the aqueous coating composition does not comprise bits, pinholes, and/or pops.

17. A method of making an aqueous coating composition, the method comprising:
incorporating the dispersion (P) as claimed in claim 1 as a rheological assistant in an aqueous coating composition.

Assignees

• Basf Coatings Gmbh

Inventors

• Corten Cathrin
• Eierhoff Dirk
• Wilm Patrick
• Schwarz Joerg
• Boshe-Plois Stefanie
• Fechtner Susanne Katharina
• Nickolaus Ralf

Classifications

• C09D177/00

  Coating compositions based on polyamides obtained by reactions forming a carboxylic amide link in the main chain (based on polyhydrazides C09D179/06; based on polyamide-imides C09D179/08); Coating compositions based on derivatives of such polymers · CPC title

• C09D175/04

  Polyurethanes · CPC title

• C09D7/20

  Diluents or solvents · CPC title

• C08L2201/54

  Aqueous solutions or dispersions · CPC title

• C09D7/44 Primary

  Combinations of two or more thickening agents · CPC title