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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Masatoshi Nakayama, Saku, JP;
Masanori Shibahara, Saku, JP;
Assignee:
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428408 ; 428216 ; 428469 ; 428446 ;
Abstract
Articles protectively coated with a diamond-like thin film firmly bonded to the substrates are obtained by forming an intermediate layer composed of an amorphous mixture of silicon and carbon on a substrate of a material which has only a slight affinity for such a diamond-like thin film, and forming a diamond-like thin film further thereon.