Owner Oerlikon Trading AG, Truebbach

Inventors Kalss, Wolfgang; Fontaine, Frederic; Lechthaler, Markus

Agent Griffith Hack

Pub. Number AU-B-2007302162

PCT Pub. Number WO2008/037556

Priority 60/826,943 26.09.06 US; 60/909,559 02.04.07 US

Filing date 30 August 2007

Wipo publication date 3 April 2008

Acceptance publication date 28 June 2012

C23C 28/00 Coating for obtaining at least two superposed coatings either by methods not provided for in a single one of main groups , or by combinations of methods provided for in subclasses and or

C23C 14/06 Coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering or by ion implantation - characterised by the coating material

C23C 14/32 Coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering or by ion implantation - by explosion

C23C 28/04 Coating for obtaining at least two superposed coatings either by methods not provided for in a single one of main groups , or by combinations of methods provided for in subclasses and or - only coatings of inorganic non-metallic material

C23C 30/00 Coating with metallic material characterised only by the composition of the metallic material, i.e. not characterised by the coating process