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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2001
William R. Dudley, Geneseo, NY (US);
Alan P. Miller, Woodbury, MN (US);
Robert A. Yapel, Oakdale, MN (US);
William R. Dudley, Geneseo, NY (US);
Alan P. Miller, Woodbury, MN (US);
Robert A. Yapel, Oakdale, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
Described are methods and products prepared from the methods, each of which include methods of coating certain materials onto a substrate, including coating a coating material and an edge material onto the substrate in a manner which may provide an improved thickness profile of the overall coating, and that may do so by using the edge material to augment the thickness of the coating material edge, or that may do so by improving the coating material edge by using the edge material to affect the shape of the coating material edge, the products being useful, for example, in electrochemical cells.