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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 1987
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert S Ward, Jr, Lafayette, CA (US);
Assignee:
Thoratec Laboratories Corp., Berkeley, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08L / ; C08L / ; C08L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
525 92 ; 523112 ; 523113 ; 525403 ; 525424 ; 525431 ; 525440 ; 525446 ; 525453 ; 525454 ; 525457 ; 525474 ;
Abstract
A polymer admixture is formed from a base polymer and thermoplastic copolymer additive including polar hard segments and polar and nonpolar soft blocks in graft or block copolymer form. The polymer admixture is characterized by increased contact angle hysteresis and is formed into blood and tissue-contacting surfaces of a biomedical device or into textiles. A preferred additive comprises a segmented block copolymer having polydialkylsiloxanes as nonpolar soft blocks, and a polyurethane as hard segments and a polyalkylene oxide as a polar soft block.