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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2016
On-x Life Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Mark E. Seeley, Austin, TX (US);
Fletcher Derek Southard, Austin, TX (US);
Mike James Mewhort, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Joseph Earl Robinson, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Roger William Leikam, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jeff Wayne Stark, Round Rock, TX (US);
Brett A. Bickerton, Austin, TX (US);
Jonathan C. Stupka, Austin, TX (US);
David Wilde, Georgetown, TX (US);
On-X Life Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
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.