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Vapor coating method

US6045864A · kind A · utility

164Cited by
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40Claims
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Filing dateDec 1, 1997
Grant dateApr 4, 2000
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Expiry dateDec 1, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB05B7/0861
  • WIPO fieldSurface technology, coating
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Coating system and method that allows coatings to be formed from a wide variety of coatable compositions that are entirely free of any solvents or, alternatively, have relatively little solvent in minor amounts effective to help dissolve one or more components of such compositions. A fluid composition is atomized and contacted with a carrier gas. The contacting occurs under conditions such that vaporization of substantially all of the atomized fluid composition occurs so as to form a vapor having a condensation temperature. The vapor is caused to flow to the surface of the substrate. The surface is at a temperature below the condensation temperature of the vapor. Consequently, the vapor condenses onto the surface to form the coating.

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