Oerlikon Trading Ag, Trubbach

Oerlikon Surface Solutions Ag, Pfaffikon

Oc Oerlikon Balzers Ag

Unaxis Trading Ag

Kennametal Inc.

Mitsubishi Materials Corporation

Unaxis-balzers Aktiengesellschaft

Unaxis Balzers Limited

Oelikon Trading Ag

Oerlikon Surface Solutions Ag, Pfähhikon

Unaxis Balzers Aktiengsellschaft

Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co. Kg

Oerlikon Trading Ag, Truebbach

Volker Derflinger

Andreas Reiter

Christoph Gey

Maximilian Erich Luichti

Jürgen Ramm

Beno Widrig

Denis Kurapov

Juergen Ramm

Christian Wohlrab

Hans Braendle

Masakuni Takahashi

Mauro Pedrazzini

Thomas Wunderlich

Johann Karner

Harald Zimmermann

Daniel Lendi

Joern Kohlscheen

Wolfgang Kalss

Albert Peter Gerhard Janssen

Jose Endrino

Canet Acikgoz

Roger Seeli

Lin Shang

Canet Acikgoz Dorokin

Dan Roth-fagaraseanu

Susanne SCHRÜFER

Sebastian Guimond

Toby Charles Middlemiss

Maximilian Erich Luichtl

A component including a substrate surface coated with a coating including at least one MoN layer having a thickness not less than 40 nm. Between the substrate surface and the at least one MoN layer the component includes: i) a substrate surface hardened layer, which is a hardened, nitrogen-containing substrate surface layer that is the result of a nitriding treatment carried out at the substrate surface and has a thickness not less than 10 nm, preferably not less than 20 nm and not greater than 150 nm, and/or ii) a layer system composed of more than 2 MoN layers and more than 2 CrN layers, wherein the MoN and CrN layers forming the layer system are individual layers deposited alternatingly one on each other forming a multilayer MoN/CrN coating film.

Wear and/or friction reduction by using molybdenum nitride based coatings

A multilayer hard film-coated cutting tool including a cutting tool body and a multilayer hard film formed on a surface of the cutting tool body, wherein the multilayer hard film comprises at least an upper layer and a lower layer; the upper layer is made of a Ti and Si compound layer; the lower layer is made of a multi-layered film of an A-layer and a B-layer, a layer thickness of the B-layer is equal to or thicker than a layer thickness of the A-layer, a ratio of the layer thicknesses of the A-layer and the B-layer being A-layer:B-layer=1:1 to 1:2, the multilayer hard films having 2 to 8 pairs of the A-layer and the B-layer in a case where a single pair is defined by a combination of a single A-layer and a single B-layer.

Multilayer hard film-coated cutting tool

A coated body having a substrate and a wear-resistant coating applied to the substrate by physical vapor deposition, the coating comprising a main layer applied to the substrate in a thickness of 1 to 10 &#x3bc;m, wherein said main layer is formed from a nitride of aluminum and at least one other metal from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Si, Zr and combinations thereof; and a cover layer adjacent to the main layer at a thickness of 0.1 to 5 &#x3bc;m, wherein the cover layer comprises at least one alternating layer consisting of an oxynitride layer and a nitride layer arranged over the oxynitride layer, wherein the oxynitride layer is formed from an oxynitride of aluminum and optionally further metals from the group consisting of chromium, hafnium, zirconium, yttrium, silicon and combinations thereof, and the nitride layer is formed from a nitride of aluminum and at least one other metal from the group consisting of Ti, Cr, Si, Zr and combinations thereof.

Coated body and method for production of the body

A coating system comprising at least one layer made at least essentially of ZrOwhich is used for providing insulating properties to parts of medical devices, particularly of electrosurgical devices.

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An inventive workpiece features on at least parts of its surface a wear resistant hard coating comprising the following composition AlCrXSiBZ, where x is at least one element from Nb, Mo, W or Ta; Z is one element or compound from N, C, CN, NO, CO, CNO; and 0.2&#x3c;=a&#x3c;=0.5; 0.01&#x3c;=b&#x3c;=0.2; 0&#x3c;=c&#x3c;=0.1; 0&#x3c;=d&#x3c;=0.1. Further a PVD process for depositing such a wear resistant coating is disclosed whereby at least one workpiece is installed in a vacuum coating system and said system is operated in a low pressure argon atmosphere utilizing at least two metal or metal alloy targets with at least temporarily addition of a reactive gas.

High oxidation resistant hard coating for cutting tools

A work piece or structural component is coated with a system of film layers at least one of which is composed of (AlCr)X, where X=N, C, B, CN, BN, CBN, NO, CO, BO, CNO, BNO or CBNO and 0.2&#x2266;y&#x3c;0.7, with the composition within said film being either essentially constant or varying over the thickness of the film continually or in steps, as well as a process for producing it.

Work piece with a hard film of AlCr-containing material, and process for its production

A multilayer hard coating for tools for machining applications with a multilayer structure for improving the wear resistance of workpieces includes at least one (AlCr)X layer (0.2&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.7), wherein X is one of the following elements N, C, B, CN, BN, CBN, NO, CO, BO, CNO, BNO, CBNO, but preferably N or CN, and/or a (TiSi) layer (0.99&#x2267;z&#x2267;0.7). The hard coating also includes at least one layer stack with one (AlCrTiSi) X mixed layer, followed by another (TiSi)X layer, followed by another (AlCrTiSi) X mixed layer, followed by another (AlCr)X layer.

Multilayer hard coating for tools

A vacuum process system for surface-treating work pieces uses an arc evaporation source. The system has a first electrode connected to a DC power source and a second electrode, disposed separately from the arc evaporation source. The two electrodes are operated while being connected to a single pulsed power supply.

Method for operating a pulsed arc evaporation source and vacuum process system comprising said pulsed arc evaporation source

A work piece or structural component is coated with a system of film layers at least one of which is composed of (AlCr)X, where X&#x2550;N, C, B, CN, BN, CBN, NO, CO, BO, CNO, BNO or CBNO and 0.2&#x2266;y&#x3c;0.7, with the composition within said film being either essentially constant or varying over the thickness of the film continually or in steps, as well as a process for producing it.

Work piece with a hard film of ALCR-containing material, and process for its production

A multilayer hard coating for tools for machining applications with a multilayer structure for improving the wear resistance of workpieces includes at least one (AlCr)X layer (0.2&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.7), wherein X is one of the following elements N, C, B, CN, BN, CBN, NO, CO, BO, CNO, BNO, CBNO, but preferably N or CN, and/or a (TiSi) layer (0.99&#x2267;z&#x2267;0.7). The hard coating also includes at least one layer stack with one (AlCrTiSi)X mixed layer, followed by another (TiSi)X layer, followed by another (AlCrTiSi)X mixed layer, followed by another (AlCr)X layer.

A multilayer hard coating for tools for machining applications with a multilayer structure for improving the wear resistance of workpieces includes at least one (AlCr) X layer (0.2&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.7), wherein X is one of the following elements N, C, B, CN, BN, CBN, NO, CO, BO, CNO, BNO, CBNO, but preferably N or CN, and/or a (TiSi) layer (0.1&#x2266;z&#x2266;0.3). The hard coating also includes at least one layer stack with one (AlCrTiSi) X mixed layer, followed by another (TiSi) X layer, followed by another (AlCrTiSi) X mixed layer, followed by another (AlCr) X layer.

A work piece or structural component is coated with a system of film layers at least one of which is composed of (AlCr) X, where X=N, C, B, CN, BN, CBN, NO, CO, BO, CNO, BNO or CBNO and 0.2&#x2266;y&#x3c;0.7, with the composition within said film being either essentially constant or varying over the thickness of the film continually or in steps, as well as a process for producing it.

A layer system in particular for tools or machine components operated under insufficient lubrication or under dry operation conditions, is proposed, which system, starting from the base body, comprises a hard substance layer system, subsequently a metallic layer and finally a slide layer system, the last mentioned preferably made of Carbide, in particular of Tungstencarbide or Chromiumcarbide and dispersed Carbon.

Method to increase wear resistance of a tool or other machine component

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