US 7,553,529 B2
	Article with lubricated surface and method
Vinay G. Sakhrani, Raleigh, N.C. (US); Joel L. Williams, Cary, N.C. (US); Charles Tomasino, Raleigh, N.C. (US); and Paul M. Vernon, Chapel Hill, N.C. (US)
Assigned to TriboFilm Research, Inc., Raleigh, N.C. (US)
Filed on Jun. 13, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/138,521.
Application 12/138521 is a division of application No. 10/791542, filed on Mar. 02, 2004, granted, now 7,431,989.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/468156, filed on May 06, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2008/0254304 A1, Oct. 16, 2008
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B32B 1/08 (2006.01); B32B 17/10 (2006.01); B32B 27/16 (2006.01); B32B 27/32 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 428—36.91  [428/429; 428/451; 428/447; 428/523]

22 Claims

1. An article having reduced break-out force and reduced sliding frictional force comprising one or more surfaces and a lubricant applied to at least one of the surfaces, the lubricant including a polysiloxane-based compound, the lubricant-coated surface subsequently exposed to an energy source at about atmospheric pressure, wherein the energy source is an ionizing gas plasma at about atmospheric pressure.