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Coating agent for medicaments and methods for making and using the same

US4433076A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 8, 1981
Grant dateFeb 21, 1984
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Expiry dateDec 8, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF02B3/06
  • WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

What are disclosed are methods for making a suspension suitable for use as a coating agent for medicaments by suspending a powder of certain vinyl copolymers in an aqueous solution or suspension of a plasticizer therefor, methods for converting such a suspension of copolymer in plasticizer into a film-forming solution or other extensively homogeneous phase, such suspensions and the film-forming conversion products thereof, and methods for coating medicaments with such suspensions and film-forming conversion products.

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