Method and system for a roboust color matching and adjustment process of effect colors

    公开(公告)号:US12181341B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-31

    申请号:US17631896

    申请日:2020-08-01

    Inventor: Guido Bischoff

    Abstract: Described herein is a computer-implemented method for providing a match metric for matching and adjusting color of a target coating and at least one sample coating, the method including at least the steps of: obtaining, via at least one communications interface, spectral curve(s) of the target coating and spectral curves of the sample coating determined at at least one gloss geometry; producing normalized first derivative values of the normalized spectral curves of the target coating and of the sample coating; producing difference values between the normalized first derivative values of the target coating and of the sample coating; producing a first match metric for the target coating and the sample coating based at least on the difference values produced for the at least one gloss geometry; and producing the match metric based on the first match metric. Also described herein is a respective system.

    Soft-magnetic powder comprising coated particles

    公开(公告)号:US12180568B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-31

    申请号:US17791572

    申请日:2021-01-07

    Applicant: BASF SE

    Abstract: The invention is related to a soft-magnetic powder comprising coated particles, the coated particles comprising a core and a shell, the core having an average particle size D50 in a range from 0.1 μm to 100 μm and comprising iron, wherein the shell has a thickness of not more than 20 nm and comprises at least two solid oxides and wherein the shell comprises at least three layers and the shell comprises more than one layers of a first solid oxide and at least one layer of a second solid oxide, wherein the more than one layers of the first solid oxide and the at least one layer of the second solid oxide are arranged in an alternating manner. The invention is further related to a process for the production of the soft-magnetic powder, a use of the soft-magnetic powder and an electronic component comprising the soft-magnetic powder.

    Method and device for identification of effect pigments in a target coating

    公开(公告)号:US12174073B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-24

    申请号:US17755885

    申请日:2020-11-12

    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method, a respective device, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The method includes: obtaining color values, texture values and digital images of a target coating, retrieving from a database one or more preliminary matching formulas based on the color and/or texture values obtained for the target coating, determining sparkle points within the respective obtained images and within the respective images associated with the one or more preliminary matching formulas, creating subimages of each sparkle point from the respective images, providing the created subimages to a convolutional neural network, the convolutional neural network being trained to correlate a respective subimage of a respective sparkle point with a pigment and/or pigment class, and determining, based on an output of the neural network, at least one of the one or more preliminary matching formulas as the formula(s) best matching the target coating.

    Continuous production of a PPG-based TPU

    公开(公告)号:US12168712B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-17

    申请号:US17309421

    申请日:2019-11-29

    Applicant: BASF SE

    Abstract: A thermoplastic polyurethane having a glass transition temperature of the soft phase of not more than −25° C. measured using DMA and a heating rate of 2K/min at 1 Hz under torsion based on DIN EN ISO 6721: 2016; maximum G″ can be obtained by a process at least including the reaction of a polyol composition including a polypropylene glycol, wherein the proportion of the secondary terminal OH groups based on the total number of terminal OH groups of the polypropylene glycol is in the range of more than 90%, with a polyisocyanate to obtain a polyol composition including a prepolymer and the reaction of the polyol composition including the prepolymer with a polyisocyanate composition including at least one polyisocyanate and at least one chain extender having a molecular weight

    Water-emulsifiable isocyanates with improved properties

    公开(公告)号:US12168711B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-17

    申请号:US17621709

    申请日:2020-06-18

    Applicant: BASF SE

    Abstract: A process for producing a water-emulsifiable polyisocyanate formulation, in which, in a first process step, (A) a dispersion-active reaction product (E) is prepared from at least one diisocyanate selected from the group of hexamethylene 1,6-diisocyanate, pentamethylene 1,5-diisocyanate, 4,4′-di(isocyanatocyclohexyl)methane, 1-isocyanato-3,3,5-trimethyl-5-(isocyanatomethyl)cyclohexane, tolylene 2,4- and 2,6-diisocyanate, tetramethylxylylene diisocyanate, p-xylylene diisocyanate, 2,4′- and 4,4′-diisocyanatodiphenylmethane, with at least one mono- or polyhydric polyalkylene ether alcohol having 2 to 4 carbon atoms in the alkylene groups that comprises a polymer chain having at least 8 ethylene oxide units, and the resultant reaction product (E), in a second process step, (B) is mixed with at least one (cyclo)aliphatic polyisocyanate having an average NCO functionality of 2.2 to 5.0, preferably of 2.5 to 4.0, wherein step (B) is performed in the presence of an allophanatization catalyst and the conditions are chosen such that (E) and the polyisocyanate form allophanate groups, characterized in that the allophanatization catalyst is at least one salt consisting of a metal cation and at least one dithiophosphate anion.

    MONITORING THE TREATMENT OF AN AGRICULTURAL FIELD

    公开(公告)号:US20240407352A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-12

    申请号:US18703091

    申请日:2022-10-26

    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for monitoring the treatment of an agricultural field (11) with a pesticide product by an agricultural machine (10), wherein the agricultural machine (10) comprises at least one sensor device (31) and at least one treatment component comprising at least one nozzle (21), the method comprising the steps: providing (40) location-specific sensor data of the agricultural field (10) from the at least one sensor device (31); analyzing (42) the location-specific sensor data with respect to at least one harmful organism as one treatment indicator; generating location-specific control data for the at least one treatment component based on the analyzed location¬ specific sensor data; providing (44) a pesticide savings parameter in real-time, wherein the pesticide savings parameter relates to an amount of pesticide product based on the location-specific sensor data in relation to an amount of pesticide product based on a reference treatment with a pesticide product.

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