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US 5,665,280 AGranted
Blood collection tube assembly
OwnerYelena G. Tropshainventor
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Abstract
The present invention is a plastic container coated with a multi-layer barrier coating. The multi-layer barrier coating is useful for providing an effective barrier against gas permeability in containers and for extending shelf-life of containers, especially plastic evacuated blood collection devices.
Claims2
A method of depositing a multilayer barrier coating on a plastic substrate in a previously evacuated chamber comprising:
- (a) selecting a curable component comprising:
- i) polyfunctional acrylates, or ii) mixtures of monoacrylates and polyfunctional acrylates;
- (b) flash vaporizing said component into said chamber;
- (c) condensing a first layer of a film of vaporized component onto the outer surface of said container;
- (d) curing said film;
- (e) vaporizing an organosilicon component and admixing the volatilized organosilicon component with an oxidizer component and optionally an inert gas component to form a gas steam exterior to the chamber;
- (f) establishing a glow discharge plasma in the chamber from one or more of the gas stream components;
- (g) controllably flowing the gas stream into the plasma while confining at least a portion of the plasma therein;
- (h) depositing a second layer of silicon oxide adjacent said first layer;
- and
- (i) dip coating a third layer of PVDC onto said second layer.
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