Patents Assigned to Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
  • Patent number: 4700281
    Abstract: The invention concerns a converter (2) provided with GTO thyristors the frequency and characteristic shape of its output voltage (U.sub.A) being constrained by a load (3). The frequency of the converter (2) is matched to the constrained output voltage (U.sub.A) with the aid of a regulating circuit (4). Non-simultaneously switched GTO thyristors are switched on and off in a predetermined timed relation to each other (FIG. 3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Gernot Thorn, Friedrich-Werner Thomas, Johann Sturmer, Dietrich Dahlinger, Guido Hubertus, Wolfgang Sperzel
  • Patent number: 4695223
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomolecular vacuum pump (1) with a rotor (6) and at least one antifriction bearing (17) for the rotor, the stationary ring (19) of the antifriction bearing being seated on the wall of a sleeve (21) which in turn is supported through at least two O-rings (26, 27) made from an elastic material on a casing section (13) of the pump. To improve the heat flow from the sleeve (21) to the casing (13) of the pump, the annular space (29) formed by two seal rings (26, 27), the sleeve (21) and the pump casing (13) is filled with a medium (31) promoting heat flow from the sleeve to the adjacent part of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Caspar, Gunter Schutz
  • Patent number: 4687902
    Abstract: Electron beam welding apparatus, suitable as a mobile welding apparatus, having a solid dielectric insulator for the high voltage electrical conductors and also having liquid coolants for cooling the conductors and the insulator which are heated by the cathode. The apparatus also includes a valve for sealing the cathode and the anode in an outer housing in one position of the valve and for allowing the passage therethrough of an electron beam in another position of the valve and for providing precision television optical viewing of the welded seam. The apparatus also includes high-voltage connecting apparatus including a plug having a resilient tapered insulating member and a socket in the solid dielectric insulator, and having the shape of a tapered opening for the plug for exerting laterally compressive forces on the plug as the plug is inserted into the socket to avoid trapping air in the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Russell K. Colegrove, Glen S. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 4683426
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for measuring the difference in the concentration of paramagnetic components between an unknown gas and a standard gas by periodically alternate entry of both gases into the gap chamber (2) of a magnetic circuit (1) and by detecting the periodical variations of the magnetic flux caused by the gases in the magnetic circuit.In this process,(a) the two gases are brought into the gap chamber (2) from opposite directions through gas lines (5, 6),(b) the boundary zone between the two gases perpendicular to the magnetic lines of force is moved back and forth in the gap chamber periodically by an alternating flow generator (7), and(c) constantly a portion of the gas mixture is made to escape through an exhaust line (9) from the region of the gap chamber (2) by the inflowing of at least one of the two gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventor: Heinz P. Hummel
  • Patent number: 4682105
    Abstract: Arrangement for electrically measuring coating thickness on travelling webs in vacuum deposition apparatus. A plurality of sensors are arranged with respect to a roller around which the web runs each with a spatially limited measuring region. These produce signals which represent a measure for the coating thickness. The signals can be indicated by an evaluating circuit. To avoid a falsification of the measuring signals as a result of the tendency of the travelling web to flutter, according to the invention the sensors (3,4,5) are arranged in the roller (1) against its surface and are distributed lengthwise of the roller. The sensors are connected to the evaluating circuit (7) by a transfer device (28). Preferably, the sensors rotate with the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventor: Gernot Thorn
  • Patent number: 4677273
    Abstract: An electron-beam welding apparatus includes a vacuum chamber and a gantry entirely within the chamber for adjustably supporting an electron-beam welding gun with x, y and z coordinates of adjustability with respect to mutually perpendicular x-, y- and z-axes within the chamber. The gantry includes apparatus telescoping along the z-axis for adjustably supporting the electron-beam welding gun with respect to the z-axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Russell K. Colegrove, William M. Stone
  • Patent number: 4674884
    Abstract: Cell for gas analyzers, having a casing with a cylindrical bore which is divided by an axial wall of separation into two chambers. The one chamber serves for the gas being measured and the other for a reference medium. The chambers terminate in windows at both ends. To make such a cell resistant to pressure and corrosion, the reference medium is constituted by a transparent, glass-clear material which is disposed in the cylindrical bore. At each end of the cylindrical bore there is provided an annular shoulder for the support of an annular gasket and a window. The windows are held by annular compression flanges and annular gaskets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Heimel, Albert Randow, Rudi Ross, Gerhard Wiegleb
  • Patent number: 4669873
    Abstract: A spectrophotometer obtains transmitted, reflected, or radiated light from at least two measuring points on at least one object and a spectroscopic light disperser disperses the obtained light spectroscopically to measuring cells for electrically indicating the spectrum of the obtained light, whereby the spectrum may be analyzed for indicating optical properties of the object at the measuring point from which the light was obtained. At least one fibre-glass cable respectively carries the light obtained at each measuring point to the spectroscopic light disperser. The ends of the fibres of each cable at the spectroscopic light dispersion are arranged in a row and the row of fibre ends of each cable are parallel to each other in a matrix of fibre ends. At least one light stop allows light from only one fibre-glass cable at a time to carry the light to the spectroscopic light disperser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Wirz
  • Patent number: 4670651
    Abstract: An apparatus for the performance of the SNMS process, having a separate ion source, a sample holder, a system for the production of a radio-frequency plasma and a mass analyzer, in which the ion source and the mass analyzer are disposed side by side on the same side of the chamber provided for the radio-frequency plasma, and in which the sample mounted on the sample holder is situated within the chamber provided for the radio-frequency plasma. This apparatus can be used not only for the performance of the two kinds of SNMS operation (DMB and SBM) but also secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) under optimum spatial conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Meier, Karl-Heinz Muller
  • Patent number: 4661409
    Abstract: A method for producing amorphous carbon coatings on substrates by degrading a gaseous hydrocarbon compound in an ionized gas atmosphere within a reaction chamber. An electromagnetic alternating field is used for the excitation of the plasma. To achieve the object of increasing the deposition rate and permitting substrates even of great surface area to be uniformly coated, the frequency of the electromagnetic alternating field is selected in the microwave region (915 to 2,540 MHz). Furthermore, the microwave energy is put into the gaseous atmosphere by means of at least one ladder-type waveguide situated outside of the reaction chamber. The invention also relates to a substance provided with an amorphous carbon coating, in which an adhesion-mediating coating consisting of a polymer from the group of the siloxanes or silazanes is provided between the substrate and the amorphous carbon coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Jorg Kieser, Michael Neusch
  • Patent number: 4658404
    Abstract: Disclosed is an induction furnace with a furnace bottom comprising a crucible, an induction winding and a gas-tight casing, also having a lid, for the furnace bottom, which lid has at least one gas connection, a charging valve and a pouring arrangement. The furnace bottom and lid are connected by a flange joint and tiltably mounted by means of a picot bearing and a drive about a tipping axis in a furnace stand. The pivot bearing is secured to the lid, the tipping mechanism engages the lid, and the furnace bottom is separable from the lid by unfastening the flange joint, the lid remaining in the furnace stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Sick, Otto Stenzel, Heinz Kohnert, Hans-Johann Kemmer
  • Patent number: 4652358
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cathode system for sputtering apparatus which includes a target plate of ferromagnetic material. A magnet system is situated behind the target plate and has opposed poles positioned so that at least a portion of the lines of force emerging from the poles passes out through the target and returns thereto. The target is placed on a floor which includes strips of ferromagnetic material in the area of the poles of the magnet system. These strips close the magnetic circuit between the magnet system and the target plate. The remainder of the floor is made of nonmagnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Deppisch, Klaus Roll, Karl-Heinz Schuller
  • Patent number: 4648347
    Abstract: In vacuum depositing apparatus, especially for the manufacture of magnetic tapes, a substrate holder is disposed in the form of a cooling cylinder, and in the path of the vapor stream there is a mask for the purpose of geometrically restricting the vapor stream. In order to prevent any condensation of vaporized material in solid form, the surface of the mask facing the vapor stream is not aligned horizontally, and its lowermost edge lies within the projected surface of the crucible opening. The surface of the mask can be heated up to a temperature that is between the vaporizing temperature and the solidification temperature of the vaporized material. In an especially advantageous manner, the surface of the mask is formed by tiles of a ceramic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Aichert, Volker Bauer, Albert Feuerstein, Horst Ranke
  • Patent number: 4647011
    Abstract: A magnetic valve for use with vacuum which has an improved junction between the stem and the valve disk which prevents detritus from impairing the seal of the valve. The valve has a magnetic drive coil outside a vacuum tight casing and an armature within the casing to which a valve stem is connected. A junction between the valve stem and the valve disk includes a head on one of the two components and a beaded margin enveloping the head on the other of the two components. An annular gasket is disposed between the head and the beaded margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Franz-Peter Contzen, Gerhard Jokisch, Francesco Vittori
  • Patent number: 4645413
    Abstract: A friction pump (molecular pump, turbomolecular pump) has pumping surfaces which include surface areas which face upstream as well as surface areas which face downstream with respect to the pumping direction. In at least a portion of the pumping surfaces, surface areas of different roughness are present, such that the roughness of the surface areas facing downstream with respect to the pumping direction is greater than the roughness of the surface areas facing upstream with respect to the pumping direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventor: Gunter Reich
  • Patent number: 4640136
    Abstract: A method for the processing of values measured in a gas friction vacuum meter, in which the pressure is determined by the drag on a magnetically suspended free ball, by forming a first time value t.sub.n-1 by measuring the time required for N/2 periods of revolution of the ball, and a second time value t.sub.n by the immediately following measurement of the time required for another N/2 periods of revolution of the ball, determining a pressure value by comparing the two times values, repeating this pressure value determination of two time values after each period of rotation for the same number N of periods of revolution of the ball to a total of z determinations, and displaying the average of the pressure value determined Z times. To be able to determine the pressure with optimum measurement times and uncertainties of measurement, the ratio of N to Z is selected at approximately 4:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventor: Lothar Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4640455
    Abstract: A readily mountable metal seal member is made from a profiled metal bar having a cross section approximately in the shape of a keyhole, the thicker portion of which forms the sealing bead of the seal member and the thinner portion serves to mount it in the joint to be sealed. Sections of the thinner portion may be removed over regions to be curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Lutz Grein, Gunter Matthiensen
  • Patent number: 4639199
    Abstract: A two-shaft vacuum pump which draws gas in at an inlet and compresses it at a first outlet for discharge, thereby producing a vacuum at the inlet, has a second, pressure-responsive outlet from the area where the gas is compressed for discharge from the first outlet. The second outlet thereby relieves excess, compression gas pressure which could overload the pump motor, for example, at the start of operation when high-density gas is drawn in for compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Frings, Hans-Peter Kabelitz, Karl-Heinz Ronthaler
  • Patent number: 4639602
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for the deflection of a beam of charged particles, which deflects a particle beam entering at any point into the deflection system such that it impinges upon the entrance orifice of a detector disposed at the exit from the deflection system. The deflection system comprises eight rotationally symmetrically disposed deflection plates and preferably includes two sections in order to achive a large range of uniform field strength in the deflection and a perpendicular impingement of the beam on the detector orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Henzler
  • Patent number: 4639567
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for melting rod-shaped material 12. This is continuously displaced in the direction of the rod axis towards an induction coil (5), disposed at the lower end (12a) of the rod, which has an opening coaxial with the rod and which is supplied with an alternating current. An induction coil (5) is used of which the axial dimension is several times smaller than the radial dimension. Preferably, a so-called flat-coil is used. The induction coil has an opening (5c) which is smaller than the rod diameter. On melting the lower end (12a) of the rod is held with its end face at a substantially constant spacing above the induction coil (5). The method and apparatus are suitable for the production of metal powder and for the direct production of shaped parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
    Inventor: Otto Stenzel