Patent ID: 6599594
Filing Date: 2003-07-29
Classification: C03C,C23C,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A glass container for storing and preserving pharmaceutical or diagnostic solutions for medicinal purposes, wherein said glass container comprises a closure device (2) and an amorphous, transparent anti-adherent coating (4) provided on an entire interior surface thereof over the entire interior surface up to the closure device;wherein the anti-adherent coating is free of heavy metals, is free of silicones, is stable after autoclaving at about 120Â° C. for about 20 min or hot air sterilization for 30 min at 300Â° C., has a contact angle for wetting by water of &gE;80Â°, even after said autoclaving at about 120Â° C. for about 20 min, and wherein the anti-adherent coating contains silicon, oxygen, fluorine, carbon and hydrogen and is deposited by means of a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition process; wherein said coating contains greater than or equal to 10 percent by weight of said carbon when said coating contains less than 0.1 percent by weight of said fluorine, but said coating contains greater than or equal to 5 percent by weight of said carbon when said coating contains greater than or equal to 0.1 percent by weight of said fluorine.