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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2017
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Lee William Tutt, Webster, NY (US);
Todd Mathew Spath, Hilton, NY (US);
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A deposition unit for a thin film deposition system includes a plurality of deposition heads. Each deposition head includes an output face having a plurality of gas slots extending in a cross-track direction. Two of the deposition heads are positioned adjacent to each other in the cross-track direction such that the adjacent deposition heads have abutting ends. The abutting ends of the adjacent deposition heads include interlocking structures having an alternating sequence of protrusions and recesses such that the protrusions on the abutting end of one adjacent deposition head fit into the recesses on the abutting end of the other adjacent deposition head. The gas slots extend into the protrusions on the abutting ends such that in an overlap region, the gas slots of one adjacent deposition head overlap with the gas slots of the other adjacent deposition head.