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US 2006/0134313 A1Published application
Methods for producing an anti-microbial plastic product
OwnerJosef-Peter Guggenbichler, Christoph Cichosinventors
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Abstract
The invention relates to methods of producing metal-containing antimicrobial plastics or plastic products and also to plastic products obtainable by the method, especially plastic products for medical requirements.
Claims20
A method of producing an antimicrobial plastic product, comprising
- A) forming an intermediate product,
- B) treating at least one constituent of the intermediate product with an antimicrobial colloidal metal, and
- C) adding a readily or sparingly soluble salt of an antimicrobial metal.
The method of claim 18, characterized in that the sparingly soluble metal salt is selected from the group consisting of silver salts, zinc salts, copper salts, cerium salts, zirconium salts, bismuth salts, platinum salts and/or gold salts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.