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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2004
Joachim Hossick-schott, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Heiko Specht, Aschaffenburg, DE;
Frank Kruger, Bruchköbel, DE;
Oliver Keitel, Aschaffenburg, DE;
Joachim Hossick-Schott, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Heiko Specht, Aschaffenburg, DE;
Frank Kruger, Bruchköbel, DE;
Oliver Keitel, Aschaffenburg, DE;
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
W.C. Heraeus GmbH & Co., Hanau, DE;
Abstract
The present invention provides improved cathodes and industrialized methods for producing such cathodes using an industrial dosing valve-based electrode coating fluid emitting technique. The family of cathodes according to the present invention can be produced so that they inhabit a pre-existing metallic surface such as an inner surface of a titanium casing adjacent but insulated from direct electrical communication from an anode. Foil-type valve metal anodes as well as porous valve metal anodes formed from metallic powders may be used in conjunction with the cathodes of the present invention.