Applications of diffusion hardening techniques

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PATENT NO 9775713
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12161529

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A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example CoCr, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.

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  • SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Band, Timothy J Matlock Bath, GB 1 0
Forster, Hamish Memphis, US 4 29
Hunter, Gordon B Germantown, US 6 43
Jani, Shilesh C Germantown, US 41 904
Morrison, Mark L Memphis, US 6 48
Pawar, Vivek D Germantown, US 13 70
Salehi, Abraham B Bartlett, US 7 514
Shea, Jeffrey J Memphis, US 32 432

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