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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 26, 1992

Filed:

Sep. 24, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:

Eiji Setoyama, Hitachi, JP;

Mitsuhiro Kamei, Hitachi, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C / ; C23C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
20429808 ; 20429803 ; 20429834 ; 118723 ;
Abstract

A film forming system including an evacuating unit, a pair of opposed electrodes and an RF voltage supplying unit for suppling RF voltages to the respective electrodes to generate a discharge between the electrodes to form a film. The film forming system includes: a discharge variation detecting unit for detecting an amount of a variation in the discharge as a voltage from each of the electrodes; and a phase adjusting unit for detecting the difference in phase between the RF voltages supplied to the electrodes, and for adjusting the phase difference of the RF voltages supplied to the electrodes, according to the difference between the detected phase difference and a preset value.


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