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US 2009/0024097 A1Published application
Lubricious coatings
AssigneeTyco Healthcare Group LP
InventorGregory G. Okoniewski
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides substrates having a lubricious coating thereon. The substrate may be flexible and include, in embodiments, a medical device. The lubricious coating, in embodiments, is applied in a pattern so that the coating avoids delamination and/or fracturing which might otherwise occur as the substrate flexes and/or stretches.
Claims19
An article comprising:
- a substrate;
- and
- a patterned lubricious coating comprising a dot matrix pattern on at least a portion of said substrate.
A method comprising:
- providing a substrate;
- applying to the substrate a lubricious coating in a dot matrix pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.