Patent ID: 6942922

Claim:
A cationic paint composition containing, as a vehicle component, a xylene-formaldehyde resin-modified amino group-containing epoxy resin obtained by reacting (a) an epoxy resin with an epoxy equivalent of 180-2,500, with (b) an acid compound selected from the group consisting of a phenol of the following formula (1) and a carboxylic acid of the following formula (2): wherein, X represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group with 1 to 15 carbon atoms which may optionally have substituents selected from the group consisting of —OH, —OR, —SH, and —SR, Y represents a hydrocarbon group with 1 to 15 carbon atoms which may optionally have substituents selected from the group consisting of —OH, —OR, —SH, and —SR in which R represents an alkyl group, (c) a xylene-formaldehyde resin having a phenolic hydroxyl group, and (d) an amino group-containing compound.