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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. 18, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Oludele Olusegun Popoola, Novi, MI (US);
Ronald Paul Cooper, Eastpointe, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 4/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 4/06 ;
Abstract
A thermally sprayed article and method of making same includes the steps of providing an article to be thermally sprayed and thermally spraying a metal material against the article to form an inner layer having a first predetermined thickness. The method also includes the steps of co-depositing a polymer and the metal material against the inner layer to form an outer layer having a second predetermined thickness.