Wolf-Dieter Munz
16Patents
10h-index
27Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 12, 1979 → Nov 9, 2004
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5306407A | Method and apparatus for coating substrates | Electricity | 75 | Expired |
| US4871434A | Process for equipment to coat tools for machining and forming techniques with mechanically resistant layers | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US4791017A | Hard, gold-colored under layer for a gold or gold-containing surface layer and an article therewith | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 27 | Expired |
| US4426267A | Process and apparatus for the coating of shaped articles by cathode sputtering | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 26 | Expired |
| US7081186B2 | Combined coating process comprising magnetic field-assisted, high power, pulsed cathode sputtering and an unbalanced magnetron | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 23 | Expired |
| US4426264A | Method and means for controlling sputtering apparatus | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US4544468A | Method of and apparatus for coating shaped parts by cathodic atomization | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 18 | Expired |
| US5160595A | Arc-magnetron and the method of coating | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US5259941A | Vaporizer for vacuum coating apparatus | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 15 | Expired |
| US4428809A | Method and apparatus for forming electrically conductive transparent oxide | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 13 | Expired |
| US4466940A | Multicomponent alloy for sputtering targets | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 10 | Expired |
| US4882022A | Process and apparatus for sputter coating a gold alloy onto a substrate | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US4200502A | Method for producing an electrical thin layer circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 5 | Expired |
| US4808373A | Multiple-substance alloy for targets of cathode sputtering apparatus | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US7160635B2 | Protective Ti-Al-Cr-based nitrided coatings | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Expired |
| USRE33530E | Process and apparatus for the coating of shaped articles by cathode sputtering | General | 1 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.