Decorative PVD coated items and radomes and methods of making same

US12179661B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Motherson Innovations Company Limited · GB

Inventors

• Dean Caruso
• Simon Belcher · Clarendon, AU
• Simon David Field · Loxton, AU
• Shane Randell Koehne · McLaren Vale, AU
• Andreas Herrmann · Stuttgart, DE
• Scott Edwards · Clarendon, AU
• Bastian Stoehr · Clarendon, AU
• Tim Symonds · Clarendon, AU

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 30, 2021
• Grant date: Dec 31, 2024
• Expiry date: Nov 21, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S2013/9327
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A decorative radome including a radio-transmissive substrate having a first surface on a first side and a second surface on a second side; and a first surface radio-transmissive decorative coating; methods of manufacturing a PVD coated system include applying a hard coating to the substrate; applying a PVD coating by magnetron sputtering to the substrate; and laser etching one or more of a pattern or a graphic into the PVD coating; and A decorative PVD coated item, comprising: a substrate; a hard coating applied to the substrate; a PVD coating provided on the hard coating and the substrate, wherein the PVD coating is laser etched with one or more of a pattern or a graphic so that the PVD coating is at least partially removed and the pattern or the graphic is revealed as a result of the contrast between the substrate and the PVD coating.