Coated inorganic pigments, process for their production and their use

US6136083A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Institut fuer Neue Materialien gemeinnuetzige GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Schmidt · Riegelsberg, DE
• Martin Mennig · Idar-Oberstein, DE
• Axel Kalleder · Riegelsberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 8, 1997
• Grant date: Oct 24, 2000
• Expiry date: Dec 8, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/2993
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A description is given of coated inorganic pigments comprising an organic pigment which has a coating, prepared by the sol-gel process from glass-forming components and densified to form a xerogel or glass, having a layer thickness of at least 0.8 .mu.m. These pigments are prepared by spray drying a sol-pigment dispersion, followed if desired by thermal densification of the xerogel layer to form a glass layer. The coated pigments are suitable for producing enamels and moldings.