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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:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
May. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Brij P. Singh, North Royalton, OH (US);
Pramod K. Arora, North Royalton, OH (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D 3/00 ; C23C 1/600 ; C23C 1/602 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D 3/00 ; C23C 1/600 ; C23C 1/602 ;
Abstract
A substrate surface is coated with a thin film by exposing the substrate to a vapor of amphiphilic molecules in a vacuum chamber, and allowing the amphiphilic molecules to spontaneously self-assemble and attach to the substrate surface wherein the substrate and a quantity of a vaporizable film forming material containing amphiphilic molecules is placed in a vacuum chamber, establishing a vacuum within said chamber, followed by vaporization of the film forming material.