Patent ID: 6040044
Filing Date: 2000-03-21
Classification: B44C,C08K,C09D,Y10T

Abstract:
A decorative material comprising:a substrate; andan abrasion-resistant coating layer formed on said substrate, said abrasion-resistant coating layer comprising spherical inorganic particles (A) having an average particle diameter of 3 to 50 micrometers and a Knoop hardness of 1,300 kg/mm.sup.2 or more, and a binder (B) comprising a crosslinkable resin having an average molecular weight of crosslinked molecules of from 300 to 700, the amount of said spherical particles (A) being from 5% to 50% by weight of the total amount of the components (A) and (B), the hardness of said spherical particles (A) being higher than that of said binder (B), the average particle diameter d, in micrometers, of said spherical particles (A) fulfilling the following inequality (1):0.3t.ltoreq.d.ltoreq.3.0t (1)wherein t is an average thickness, in micrometers, of said coating layer.