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- C - Chemistrymetallurgy
- C23C - Coating metallic materialcoating material with metallic materialsurface treatment of metallic material by diffusion into the surface, by chemical conversion or substitutioncoating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering, by ion implantation or by chemical vapour deposition, in general
- C23C 14/06 - Coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering or by ion implantation of the coating forming material characterised by the coating material
Patent holdings for IPC class C23C 14/06
Total number of patents in this class: 4252
10-year publication summary
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306
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353
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347
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338
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342
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297
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308
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289
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244
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150
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfaffikon | 546 |
171 |
| Applied Materials, Inc. | 18861 |
116 |
| Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | 2454 |
97 |
| Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp. | 1033 |
88 |
| Kyocera Corporation | 13909 |
85 |
| Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | 15593 |
63 |
| Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.) | 2877 |
53 |
| Tungaloy Corporation | 513 |
51 |
| Nitto Denko Corporation | 8280 |
50 |
| Hoya Corporation | 2753 |
49 |
| MAHLE International GmbH | 2784 |
43 |
| Walter AG | 263 |
43 |
| Kabushiki Kaisha Riken | 290 |
37 |
| ULVAC, Inc. | 1378 |
37 |
| SECO Tools AB | 461 |
34 |
| Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbH | 283 |
33 |
| JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation | 1487 |
32 |
| Moldino Tool Engineering, Ltd. | 118 |
32 |
| OSG Corporation | 350 |
31 |
| Agc, Inc. | 4913 |
31 |
| Other owners | 3076 |