Fluidized bed pyrocarbon coating

US10829853B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• On-X Life Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Mark E. Seeley · Austin, US
• Fletcher D. Southard · Austin, US
• Mike James Mewhort · Pflugerville, US
• Joseph Earl Robinson · Pflugerville, US
• Roger William Leikam · Round Rock, US
• Jeff Wayne Stark · Round Rock, US
• Brett A. Bickerton · Austin, US
• Jonathan C. Stupka · Austin, US
• David Wilde · Georgetown, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 2019
• Grant date: Nov 10, 2020
• Expiry date: Apr 17, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B05D1/60
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Arrangements are provided for assembling multiple substrates for coating within a fluidized bed coater so as to deposit a coating of uniform thickness across the entire exterior surface thereof. One embodiment includes a method for coating orthopedic implants having convex and concave surfaces with pyrocarbon by pyrolytic decomposition of a hydrocarbon.