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20090173625 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AN ALUMINA COATING COMPRISED MAINLY OF ALPHA CRYSTAL STRUCTURE - The present invention provides a process for producing an alumina coating comprised mainly of α crystal structure on a base material. | 07-09-2009 |
20090214894 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AN ALUMINA COATING COMPOSED MAINLY OF a-TYPE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE - The present invention provides a process for producing an alumina coating comprised mainly of α crystal structure on a base material. | 08-27-2009 |
20100181191 | SPUTTERING APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to provide a sputtering apparatus capable of suppressing local consumption of axial end portions of a rotatable cylindrical target to make uniform an erosion area in the cylindrical target and thereby improving the service life of the cylindrical target. The apparatus includes a pair of sputter evaporation sources | 07-22-2010 |
20100187104 | FILM FORMATION APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to provide a film formation apparatus capable of easily forming a film with even thickness and being excellent in mass productivity. Therefore, the film formation apparatus is provided with a substrate holder | 07-29-2010 |
20100313810 | CONTINUOUS FILM FORMING APPARATUS - The plasma CVD apparatus of the present invention comprises a pair of deposition rolls | 12-16-2010 |
20110139072 | CONTINUOUS DEPOSITION APPARATUS - Provided is a continuous deposition apparatus wherein replacement operations of a feeding unit and a take-up unit are easily performed. The continuous deposition apparatus is provided with: a vacuum chamber ( | 06-16-2011 |
20110147206 | SPUTTER DEVICE - In a sputter device ( | 06-23-2011 |
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20110067631 | ARC ION PLATING APPARATUS - An arc ion plating apparatus comprises a vacuum chamber, a rotary table for moving a substrate within the vacuum chamber vertically relative to its height direction, an arc evaporation source for bombardment for cleaning the surface of the substrate with metal ions, and an arc evaporation source for deposition group for depositing metal ions on the surface of the substrate. The arc evaporation source for deposition group is composed of a plurality of evaporation sources arranged so as to be opposite to the substrate set on the rotary table, and the arc evaporation source for bombardment is arranged so as to be opposite to the substrate, and formed so that its length in the height direction of the vacuum chamber is equal to the length between the upper and lower ends of the arc evaporation source for deposition group. According to such a structure, over temperature rise or abnormal discharge is hardly caused in the substrate at the time of bombardment, and process controllability is consequently enhanced. | 03-24-2011 |
20110200806 | PROTECTIVE ALUMINA FILM AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a protective alumina film mainly containing alumina in the α-crystal structure and fine crystal grains in which one or more regions containing additionally an element other than aluminum formed along the planes in the direction almost perpendicular to the thickness direction of the protective film are present intermittently in the thickness direction inside the protective film. | 08-18-2011 |
20110220486 | METHOD OF PRODUCING ALPHA CRYSTAL STRUCTURE-BASED ALUMINA FILMS - In forming alumina films on substrates by sputtering of an aluminum metal target in an oxidizing gas-containing atmosphere, film formation is carried out intermittently in a plurality of substeps while restricting a thickness of the film formed in each substep to at most 5 nm. A turntable is disposed to face a direction of sputtering of the aluminum metal target and the substrates are fixed to the turntable. | 09-15-2011 |
20120174864 | PLASMA CVD APPARATUS - The disclosed plasma CVD apparatus ( | 07-12-2012 |
20120180720 | CVD APPARATUS - A CVD apparatus ( | 07-19-2012 |
20130105310 | FILM FORMATION APPARATUS AND FILM FORMATION METHOD | 05-02-2013 |
20130133577 | PLASMA CVD APPARATUS - A plasma CVD apparatus capable of preventing unnecessary deposition on a supplying portion of a source gas so as to suppress generation of flakes, and thereby depositing a CVD coating excellent in quality is provided. This plasma CVD apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a vacuum pump system for vacuuming an interior of the vacuum chamber, a deposition roller around which a substrate is wound, the deposition roller being provided in the vacuum chamber, a gas supplying portion for supplying the source gas to the interior of the vacuum chamber, and a plasma power supply for forming a plasma generating region in the vicinity of a surface of the deposition roller and thereby depositing a coating on the substrate. The gas supplying portion is provided in a plasma non-generating region positioned on the opposite side of the plasma generating region with respect to the deposition roller. | 05-30-2013 |
20130186334 | VACUUM COATING APPARATUS - Provided is a vacuum deposition apparatus including a vacuum chamber, a deposition roller that is arranged in the vacuum chamber, and winds a substrate in a sheet form subject to deposition, and a magnetic field generation unit that is provided inside the deposition roller, and generates a magnetic field on a surface of the deposition roller, where the magnetic field generation unit includes an inside magnet arranged along an axial direction of the deposition roller and an outside magnet having a polarity opposite to the inside magnet and surrounding, in an annular form, the inside magnet, and the inside magnet is formed so as to be narrower in width along the axial direction of the deposition roller than a width of an extent of winding of the substrate W on the deposition roller in a projection viewed from a deposition surface of the substrate, and is arranged within the extent of the winding of the substrate W. | 07-25-2013 |
20130269610 | PLASMA CVD APPARATUS - A plasma CVD apparatus according to the present invention is provided with: a vacuum chamber | 10-17-2013 |
20140110253 | VACUUM COATING APPARATUS - Provided is a vacuum coating apparatus that deposits a coating on a substrate, the vacuum coating apparatus including: a vacuum chamber; a vacuum exhaust unit that performs a vacuum exhaust operation inside the vacuum chamber; a plurality of rotation holding units that hold the substrate as a coating subject in a rotating state; and a revolution mechanism that revolves the plurality of rotation holding units about a revolution axis parallel to the rotation axes of the respective rotation holding units; in which the plurality of rotation holding units are divided into a plurality of groups so that power is supplied to the respective rotation holding units in a manner that the rotation holding units of the respective groups have different potentials. For example, the respective groups alternately repeat a state where the rotation holding units become cathodes and serve as working electrodes that play primary role to generate glow discharge plasma and a state where the rotation holding units serve as counter electrodes. | 04-24-2014 |
20140312761 | PLASMA SOURCE AND VACUUM PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A plasma source that is uniformly and efficiently cooled, a vacuum plasma processing apparatus including the plasma source, and a plasma source cooling method are provided. The vacuum plasma processing apparatus includes a vacuum chamber of which the inside is evacuated to a vacuum state and a plasma source which is provided inside the vacuum chamber. The plasma source includes a plasma generation electrode that generates plasma inside the vacuum chamber and a reduced pressure space forming member that forms a reduced pressure space accommodating a liquid cooling medium and depressurizing at the back surface of the plasma generation electrode, and the plasma generation electrode is cooled by the evaporation heat generated when the cooling medium is evaporated by a depressurization. | 10-23-2014 |
20140318454 | PLASMA CVD APPARATUS - A plasma CVD apparatus of the present invention includes: a vacuum chamber; a vacuum exhaust unit that evacuates the vacuum chamber so that the inside becomes a vacuum state; a gas supply unit that supplies a source gas into the vacuum chamber; a plasma generation power supply that generates plasma in the source gas supplied into the vacuum chamber; a plurality of rotation holding units that hold the substrates in a spinning state; and a plurality of revolution mechanisms that revolve the plurality of rotation holding units around a revolution axis parallel to a shaft center and rotation axes of the rotation holding units, wherein the respective revolution mechanisms are divided as any one of a first group connected to one electrode of the plasma generation power supply and a second group connected to the other electrode of the plasma generation power supply. | 10-30-2014 |
20150176118 | WEB SUBSTRATE ROLL-FORMING APPARATUS AND WEB SUBSTRATE ROLL - Provided is an apparatus capable of preventing the intrusion of particles into spaces in a web substrate roll. The apparatus forms web substrate rolls by continuously winding a long web substrate ( | 06-25-2015 |
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20130028641 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes multiple image forming stations, and a controller for executing selectively a multi-color image mode or a monochromatic image forming mode, wherein in the monochromatic image forming mode, a first one of image forming stations which forms the image, and a second one which is upstream of the first image forming station exposes the image bearing members to a first image pattern and a second image pattern, respectively, and the controller determines the second image pattern in accordance with the first image pattern, and effects the exposure to the second image pattern. | 01-31-2013 |
20130039671 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developer container, a first calculator, and a second calculator, wherein the first calculator calculates an amount of the developer supplied to the image bearing member from the developer container, on the basis of an amount of the developer measured by a measuring device after an image forming operation, and an amount of the developer initially contained in the developer container, and wherein the controller outputs information signal relating to the developer amount accumulated in the collection container on the basis of the amount of the developer calculated by the first calculator and the amount of the developer calculated by the second calculator. | 02-14-2013 |
20130148992 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus capable of forming an image at a plurality of image forming speeds, includes: an image bearing member; a developer carrying member; a developer feeding member, having a foam layer at its surface, for feeding the developer to the developer carrying member by being rotated at a speed corresponding to each of the image forming speeds in contact with the developer carrying member; and a controller for rotating, before development, the developer feeding member for a predetermined time corresponding to the image forming speed. The controller extends the predetermined time when an image forming mode is switched from a first mode in which image formation is effected at a first image forming speed to a second mode in which the image formation is effected at a second image forming speed slower than the first image forming speed. | 06-13-2013 |
20140016952 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Based on a photosensitive drum life threshold value when each of the plurality of image formation execution modes is independently used, and a photosensitive drum life threshold value according to a usage rate of each of the image formation execution modes, the image forming apparatus having a plurality of image formation execution modes calculates a photosensitive drum life threshold value according to the usage rate. Then, the image forming apparatus compares the calculated photosensitive drum life threshold value with a remaining CT film thickness prediction value for the photosensitive drum to determine the life of the photosensitive drum. | 01-16-2014 |
20140016953 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum life estimation mechanism which estimates wear amounts of a charge transfer layer in both of a toner bearing area and an end portion of a toner non-bearing area of a developing roller and informs a user that the photosensitive drum has reached the end of its life if, out of total wear amounts of the areas corresponding to predetermined life threshold values of the toner bearing and non-bearing areas, either of the total wear amounts reaches the threshold value. | 01-16-2014 |