Application of gloss meter in automotive industry

The gloss meter may be used in the auto beauty sector to determine if a car can fulfill the standards of beauty and cleanliness after beauty treatment. Gloss meters use the principle of light reflection to assess the intensity of gloss on automobile body surfaces, car interior leather surfaces, and so on. The gloss meter measures the sheen of the automobile before and after detailing and represents it as a quantitative value, which can be readily and efficiently appraised.

1.Evaluate the gloss effect of car film

A good coating process for the car is "like a tiger with wings", can protect the car paint, but also make the surface of the car paint appears bright and lasting, feel silky smooth effect, rainy days can also make the rain quickly slide off, protective and aesthetic are greatly enhanced. Among them, maintaining a good gloss plays a big role.

Although we can visually assess the gloss effect of the film, the gloss level is closely related to the light. Visual inspection can be influenced by subjective factors of different people, such as observation angle, observation environment light, observer's psychological condition, etc. Automotive gloss meter can exclude these artificial subjective factors and conduct the test objectively. The instrument has built-in light source, which is not affected by angle and ambient light, and the data is more accurate.

2. Judging the quality of paint protective film

Paint protective film is now very popular a new environmentally friendly film, for car lovers, paste the invisible car coat to the car all-day "care" is a very important thing. Its glossiness can be detected by paint gloss meter.

The original paint for the car, is the most precious unlike the engine body parts these can be replaced, the original paint is formed after a complex process, later even if how to make up, and then good material, can not replace the original paint, so many people choose to use paint protective film as a protective car coat, but many people also because of paint protective film and have been fooled, poor quality car coat serious and even hurt the car's paint, but There are also many people because of the superb performance of the paint protective film, the original car paint to protect the bright and shiny, then the face of the market a variety of paint protective film brands, how to pick a preferred paint protective film, is also a big headache.

We often say that the glossiness of the car coat refers to the glossy characteristics of the car after covering the car coat, the car coat will lead to changes in the original car gloss due to the difference in quality. If it is a high-quality paint protective film, the transparency is very high, and can be excellent integration with the original car, not only will not affect the original color of the car paint, but also can enhance the gloss of the car paint. The poor quality of the car coat, its transparency is not enough, it may lead to the car paint looks color difference and gloss loss.

Calibration

Take LS195 paint gloss meter as an example, before using the gloss meter for the first time, perform calibration and calibrate it through the standard plate that comes with the instrument; pay attention to the cleanliness of the standard plate before calibration. The paint gloss meter has a temperature compensation function and does not require frequent calibration.

Multi-point sampling

When conducting coating inspection, take multi-point sampling method. After ensuring that the surface is clean and free of stains, the instrument is placed directly on the surface of the car coating for measurement. The instrument is easy to operate as it is ready to be placed and measured.

Take the average value

The LS195 gloss meter has excellent repeatability of ±0.2GU.