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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
May. 19, 2000
Nandkishor G. Patke, Shoreview, MN (US);
MedicalCV, Inc., Inver Grove Heights, MN (US);
Abstract
A fluidized bed pyrolytic carbon coating apparatus ( ) is provided for coating substrate surfaces with pyrolytic carbon. The preferred coating apparatus ( ) includes a fluidized bed reactor ( ) having a reactor chamber ( ), a gas feed inlet ( ), an exhaust gas outlet ( ), a source ( ) of process feed gas and a gas line ( ) through which the process feed gas can pass from the source ( ) of process feed gas to the gas feed inlet ( ) and into the reactor chamber ( ). The gas line ( ) includes an actuator ( ) having a timing circuit ( ) which acts to vary a rate of flow of process feed gas through the gas line ( ) into the reactor chamber ( ) such that the rate of flow into the reactor chamber ( ), cycles regularly and consistently over a period of time so as to create a pulsating gas flow and a pulsation effect upon the fluidized bed within the reactor chamber ( ).