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Apparatus for coating a substrate

US5122394A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 25, 1990
Grant dateJun 16, 1992
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Expiry dateMay 25, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC23C16/54
  • WIPO fieldSurface technology, coating
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A coating applicator is provided for depositing a film on a surface of glass or other substrates by chemical-vapor deposition. The applicator includes a pair of opposing coating nozzles for applying a vaporized coating-chemical reactant in a carrier gas to the surface at such a concentration and velocity that coating of the surface is achieved under substantially reaction-rate-controlled conditions. Each coating nozzle is positioned adjacent the surface with a small clearance therebetween, the clearance being open to the outside atmospehre. The opposing coating nozzles are directed toward each other at a selected angle with respect to the surface of the substrate. The angle and the clearance provide a condition where there is substantially no intermixing of coating vapors with the outside atmosphere.

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