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Process for coating a substrate, plant for implementing the process and feeder for feeding such a plant with metal

US9051642B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 16, 2008
Grant dateJun 9, 2015
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Expiry dateDec 31, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01J37/3408
  • WIPO fieldSurface technology, coating
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A coating process for coating at least one side of a running substrate, by vacuum evaporation, with a layer of a sublimable metal or metal alloy, in which said metal or metal alloy is positioned so as to face said side of the substrate in the form of at least two ingots placed in contact with one another, that surface of said ingots facing said side of the substrate being kept parallel to the substrate and at a constant distance from the latter during coating, and also to a coating plant for implementing the process and to a feeder for supply.

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