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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1996
Henry Peter Offer, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yuk-Chiu Lau, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Young Jin Kim, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Alfred Stanley Nelson, III, San Jose, CA (US);
General Electric Company, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A durable coating process which provides improved adhesive bond strength between the coating and its substrate. This process utilizes spray parameters which generate a unique plasma coating that can be applied through a liquid environment between the spray gun nozzle and the substrate to provide combined ion cleaning, etching and activation of the surface to be coated. The improved surface conditioning allows the creation of an exceptionally strong metallurgical bond at the interface between the splattered droplets of the coating material and the substrate. The improved plasma coating process utilizes a relatively short nozzle-to-work surface distance and is therefore suitable for use directly in a liquid such as water in order to keep the substrate from overheating, which may be more likely to occur if the coating were applied in a gas or vacuum environment. The resulting plasma coating is characterized by high values of adhesive bond strength which are attributable to the high-strength metallurgical bond formed between the coating and substrate.