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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2015
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Andrew R. Fox, Oakdale, MN (US);
Lori-Ann S. Prioleau, St. Paul, MN (US);
Ronald W. Ausen, St. Paul, MN (US);
Zhiqun Zhang, Roseville, MN (US);
William J. Kopecky, Hudson, WI (US);
Leigh E. Wood, Woodbury, MN (US);
Michelle L. Legatt, St. Paul, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A filtration medium including a polymeric netting of polymeric ribbons and polymeric strands. Each of the polymeric ribbons and strands has a length and width, with the length being the longest dimension and the width being the shortest dimension. The polymeric ribbons have a height-to-width aspect ratio of at least three to one or five to one a major surface that is intermittently bonded to a polymeric strand, and a height typically greater than the height of the one polymeric strand. A filter including the filtration medium and a method useful for making the polymeric netting are also disclosed.