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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2007
Timothy J. Band, Matlock Bath, GB;
Hamish Forster, Memphis, TN (US);
Vivek D. Pawar, Germantown, TN (US);
Abraham B. Salehi, Bartlett, TN (US);
Jeffrey J. Shea, Memphis, TN (US);
Gordon B. Hunter, Germantown, TN (US);
Shilesh C. Jani, Germantown, TN (US);
Mark L. Morrison, Memphis, TN (US);
Timothy J. Band, Matlock Bath, GB;
Hamish Forster, Memphis, TN (US);
Vivek D. Pawar, Germantown, TN (US);
Abraham B. Salehi, Bartlett, TN (US);
Jeffrey J. Shea, Memphis, TN (US);
Gordon B. Hunter, Germantown, TN (US);
Shilesh C. Jani, Germantown, TN (US);
Mark L. Morrison, Memphis, TN (US);
Smith & Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN (US);
Abstract
A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example CoCr, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.