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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Balzers Aktiengesellschaft, Fuerstentum, LI;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
20419226 ; 20419227 ; 20419212 ; 20429827 ; 20429828 ; 20429829 ; 20429815 ; 20419228 ;
Abstract
A coating station has a flat sputter source opposite a workpiece receiving arrangement is configured as a planet arrangement. The rotating axes (A.sub.P) of the planets intersect one another on a rotating axis (A.sub.S) of the sun system on the side facing away from the sputter source. As a result, substrates, particularly optical lenses, can be coated in extremely small batches according to given formulas in an advantageously flexible manner.