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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 16/503 - Chemical coating by decomposition of gaseous compounds, without leaving reaction products of surface material in the coating, i.e. chemical vapour deposition [CVD] processes characterised by the method of coating using electric discharges using DC or AC discharges
Patent holdings for IPC class C23C 16/503
Total number of patents in this class: 187
10-year publication summary
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Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
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This class
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|---|---|---|
| Applied Materials, Inc. | 20344 |
22 |
| Tokyo Electron Limited | 13770 |
13 |
| AGC Glass Europe | 1177 |
11 |
| Lam Research Corporation | 5615 |
10 |
| Aixtron SE | 334 |
6 |
| Konica Minolta, Inc. | 9110 |
4 |
| ASM IP Holding B.V. | 2384 |
4 |
| Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.) | 2830 |
4 |
| Youtec Co., Ltd. | 43 |
4 |
| Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. | 481 |
3 |
| Canon Anelva Corporation | 684 |
3 |
| Southwest Research Institute | 741 |
3 |
| Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. | 6118 |
3 |
| TMEIC Corporation | 905 |
3 |
| Armorlube, LLC | 15 |
3 |
| Micron Technology, Inc. | 27611 |
2 |
| Infineon Technologies AG | 8398 |
2 |
| Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited | 9018 |
2 |
| Shell Oil Company | 2075 |
2 |
| Asahi Glass Company, Limited | 2627 |
2 |
| Other owners | 81 |