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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1999
David S. Wilde, Round Rock, TX (US);
Michael R. Emken, Pflugerville, TX (US);
James A. Accuntius, Georgetown, TX (US);
Medical Carbon Research Institute, LLC, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Pyrolytic carbon of extremely uniform crystalline characteristics and essentially free of discontinuities is obtained in a fluidized bed coater by creating an asymmetric recirculation of the fluidized bed within the high temperature coating chamber. Through the use of any of a variety of gas injection schemes, fluidizing/coating gas mixtures are injected through the three-dimensionally curved concave bottom surface of the coater to create a pattern where the fluidized bed ascends within about one-half of the volume of the coater and then spills over to become a descending bed in the other half.