Applications of diffusion hardening techniques

摘要

H: /txb/Interwoven/NRPortbl/DCC/TXB/7881474_.doc-4/6/15 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.