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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2012
Applicant:
Veeco Instruments Inc., Plainview, NY (US);
Inventor:
Scott Wayne Priddy, Saint Louis Park, MN (US);
Assignee:
Veeco Instruments Inc., Plainview, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/00 (2006.01); H01R 41/00 (2006.01); H01R 4/48 (2006.01); C23C 14/24 (2006.01); C23C 14/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 14/243 (2013.01); C23C 14/0623 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides electrical contact assemblies can be used with vacuum deposition sources. In one exemplary application, the electrical contact assemblies of the present invention provide electrical contact to an arcuate or otherwise curved surface of a heating device used with a vacuum deposition source.