Patent ID: 6741260
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: C09D

Abstract:
A toning method of a paint having brilliant feeling characterized by executing the following steps (1) to (3) by a computer toning apparatus constituted by (A) a colorimeter, (B) micro-brilliant-feeling sample-color tags, and (C) a computer in which a plurality of paint blendings, color data and micro-brilliant-feeling data corresponding to the paint blendings, and color characteristic data and micro-brilliant-feeling data of a plurality of primary-color paints are entered and a color-matching-computation logic using said paint blendings and data values works:(1) a step of measuring a reference color with which the color of a paint should be matched through toning by a colorimeter and obtaining color data of the reference color; (2) a step of comparing said reference color with micro-brilliant-feeling sample-color tags and deciding the micro-brilliant feeling of said reference color; and (3) a step of comparing the color data and micro-brilliant feeling of said reference color with the color data and micro-brilliant-feeling data corresponding to paint blendings previously entered in a computer, indexing matching degrees between colors and micro-brilliant feelings of said entered paint blendings, and selecting a prospective paint blending.