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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:
Dec. 02, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nipro Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 2/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 2/500 ;
Abstract
A piercing needle having a low piercing resistance even if repeatedly caused to pierce is provided. The piercing needle has an undercoat of a silane coupling agent, preferably, an amino group-containing alkoxysilane or an epoxy group-containing alkoxysilane, and an outer surface of a mixture of a (1) reactive silicone such as a reaction product of an amino group-containing alkoxysilane, an epoxy group-containing alkoxysilane and a silicone having silanol groups at both terminal ends, with (2) a non-reactive silicone.