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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:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas Jung, Hötzum, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 1/435 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 1/435 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a device for coating an object at a high temperature by means of cathode sputtering, having a vacuum chamber and a sputter source, the sputter source having a sputtering cathode. Inside the vacuum chamber is arranged an inner chamber formed from a heat-resistant material, which completely surrounds the sputtering cathode and the object to be coated, at a small spacing, and which has at least one opening to let a gas in and at least one opening to let a gas out.