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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:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Christoph Walther, Kattendorf, DE;
Gunther Raddatz, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D / ; B05D / ; B05D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
427-228 ; 427379 ; 427387 ; 427409 ;
Abstract
In a process for coating surgical needles, a leveling coat is applied to a surface of a surgical needle in one step or in several steps to fill in and/or level out surface roughness A slip coating is applied to the leveling coat