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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2007
Filed:
May. 06, 2003
Scott V. Thomsen, Milford, MI (US);
Hugh A. Walton, Davisburg, MI (US);
Scott V. Thomsen, Milford, MI (US);
Hugh A. Walton, Davisburg, MI (US);
Guardian Industries Corp., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A coating apparatus deposits a first coating (single or multi-layered) onto a first side of a substrate (e.g., glass substrate) passing through the apparatus, and a second coating (single or multi-layered) onto the other or second side of the substrate. In certain example embodiments, the first coating may be deposited via sputtering while the second coating is deposited via ion beam deposition. In such a manner, it is possible to coat both sides of the substrate in a single apparatus in an efficient manner. In other embodiments, the coating apparatus may sputter a coating onto a first side of the substrate and ion beam mill at least one surface of the substrate as the substrate passes through the coating apparatus. In other embodiments of this invention, a dual mode chamber may be provided that is adapted to receive a removable ion beam module on one side of a substrate and a removable sputtering module on the other side of the substrate. The different removable modules may or may not be used simultaneously in different embodiments of this invention.