Ductile coating for an implant component
AssigneeWaldemar Link GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsHelmut D. Link, Richard Csaszar
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Abstract
The invention relates to a coating for an implant component, a method for producing an implant component having said coating, and a use of said coating on an implant component. The coating is intended for an implant component, in particular a spinal implant component, and is a TiNb coating which has, in addition to an atom % proportion of Ti and an atom % proportion of Nb, an atom % proportion of 5-30 atom % of Ag.
Claims13
An implant component which is at least partially coated with a coating, comprising a TiNb coating having an atomic percent of Ti and an atomic percent of Nb, and an atomic percent of Ag, wherein the atomic percent of Ag is from 1-25 percent, and the implant component is plastically deformable.
A method for producing an implant component, wherein the method comprises the steps of:
- providing an implant component to be coated in a coating chamber;
- providing at least one target, such that upon evaporation a predetermined atomic percent ratio of titanium, niobium and silver is produced;
- providing an inert atmosphere;
- evaporating the at least one target
- simultaneously coating the implant component with the evaporated metal of the at least one target;
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- plastically deforming the coated implant component before implantation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.