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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2003
Mark F. Carlson, St. Louis Park, MN (US);
Steven J. Porter, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Sean M. Stucke, Farmington, MN (US);
Ralph A. Chappa, Prior Lake, MN (US);
Mark F. Carlson, St. Louis Park, MN (US);
Steven J. Porter, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Sean M. Stucke, Farmington, MN (US);
Ralph A. Chappa, Prior Lake, MN (US);
SunModics,Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Abstract
This invention provides a coating apparatus and methods for coating a device, such as an industrially or medically applicable device. The apparatus is suitable for providing a coating using a photoactivatable compound and a polymerizable compound. In another aspect, the apparatus and methods are useful for coating a device wherein the surface of the device has small pores or apertures. The apparatus includes of containers suitable for holding the object to be coated and the coating solution, a gas supply source for supplying gas to solution, an irradiation station for providing light used in the coating process, and a conveyor mechanism to direct the containers to and from the irradiation station.