- All sections
- 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 16/54 - Apparatus specially adapted for continuous coating
Patent holdings for IPC class C23C 16/54
Total number of patents in this class: 1332
10-year publication summary
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106
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135
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51
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Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
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|---|---|---|
| Applied Materials, Inc. | 20467 |
157 |
| Tokyo Electron Limited | 13871 |
33 |
| Kokusai Electric Corporation | 2238 |
29 |
| ASM IP Holding B.V. | 2412 |
27 |
| Lam Research Corporation | 5655 |
26 |
| Beneq Oy | 245 |
25 |
| Aixtron SE | 336 |
21 |
| Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO | 2445 |
21 |
| Eastman Kodak Company | 2589 |
20 |
| Samsung Display Co., Ltd. | 38817 |
18 |
| Pilkington Group Limited | 776 |
18 |
| Konica Minolta, Inc. | 9150 |
16 |
| AGC Glass Europe | 1183 |
15 |
| Picosun Oy | 165 |
15 |
| Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.) | 2836 |
13 |
| Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. | 2082 |
13 |
| ASM International N.V. | 117 |
12 |
| Safran Ceramics | 448 |
12 |
| IHI Corporation | 3527 |
10 |
| Sumco Corporation | 1109 |
10 |
| Other owners | 821 |