Ionizing plasma lubricant method
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsJoel L. Williams, David A. Martin, David B. Montgomery
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Abstract
A method to reduce high breakout and sustaining forces between slidable surfaces includes applying a film of lubricant to at least one of the surfaces and subjecting the lubricant and surface to an ionizing plasma. The invention includes articles having slidable surfaces of low breakout and sustaining forces.
Claims9
An article having reduced breakout and sustaining forces comprising a plasma-treated surface, a second surface slidably engaged therewith and a plasma-treated lubricant at the interface of said surface.
An article having reduced breakout and sustaining forces comprising at least two surfaces in a slidably engaging relationship and a plasma-treated lubricant at the interface of said surfaces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.