Abstract: An exemplary coating device includes a target material and a support device configured for supporting a workpiece. The support device includes a support frame and a holding member. The support frame includes a support member and a support arm disposed on the support member. One end of the holding member is configured for attaching the workpiece thereon, and an opposite end of the holding member is adjustably engaged with the support arm so that the workpiece is a desired distance from the target material.

Abstract: A colored device casing includes a base, a color layer and a bonding layer. The base has at least one smooth region. The bonding layer is positioned between the base and the color layer and bonds the base and the color layer together. The color layer includes at least one metal layer. Portion of the color layer corresponding to and located over the smooth region has a value of L* in a range from about 57.57 to about 59.57, a value of a* in a range from about 1.04 to about 2.04 and a value of b* in a range from about 6.64 to about 7.64 according to the Commission Internationale del'Eclairage LAB system. A surface-treating method for fabricating the colored casing is also provided.

Abstract: A sputtering device includes a housing and a transporting mechanism. The housing defines a sputtering chamber. The transporting mechanism includes a first drive gear, a second drive gear adjacent to the first drive gear, a driving track, a transporting belt, a plurality of slave gears and a plurality of hanging poles. The driving track includes a first track surrounding the first drive gear, a second track surrounding the second drive gear, and a first connection track connecting the first track to the second track. The transporting belt is movably arranged on the driving track. The slave gears are pivotably connected to the transporting belt. The hanging poles are mounted on the salve gears and are configured for hanging the workpieces.

Abstract: A sputtering deposition apparatus includes a chamber device, a conveyor, a number of carriers, and a number of pairs of targets. The chamber device defines a chamber therein. The conveyor is received in the chamber and includes a smoothly extending loop rail, a conveyor belt shaped as the rail and slidably disposed on the rail, and an actuator configured to drive the conveyor belt to slide along the rail. The carriers are disposed on the conveyor belt, each of which is configured for carrying a number of substrates to be deposited with. The pairs of targets arranged along the rail, each of which are oppositely disposed outside and inside the rail.

Abstract: An exemplary lens module includes a barrel and a plurality of deformable lenses received in the barrel. The barrel includes an inner wall. The inner wall has a plurality of circular retaining portions. The plurality of deformable lenses is deformed and retained in the plurality of circular retaining portions. Diameters of the lenses are greater than an inner diameter of the barrel. The lenses each has a curved surface.

Abstract: A sputtering device includes a housing, two baffles, a pair of conveyor, and a support. The housing includes a chamber therein. The baffles are slidably installed in the chamber of the housing to divide the chamber of the housing into a number of separated rooms where workpieces are treated. The baffles are slideable relative to the housing between a first position where the rooms are isolated and sealed by the baffles from others, and a second position where the rooms communicate with each other. The support is received in the housing. The pair of conveyor is mounted on the housing for transporting the support from one of the rooms to another.

Abstract: A sputter-coating apparatus for coating a plurality of workpieces includes a deposition case defining a cavity, a supporting assembly received in the cavity, and a target assembly received in the cavity and extending through the supporting assembly to face the workpieces. The supporting assembly includes a plurality of supporting members. Each supporting member includes a body and a plurality of adjusting units extending through the body. Each adjusting unit includes a supporting pole fixed to the body, a first fixing pole and a second fixing pole fixedly connected to the supporting pole and radially extending from the supporting pole, a first threaded pole and a second threaded pole retractably connected to the supporting pole and radially extending from the supporting pole, and a driving member received in the supporting pole for driving the first threaded pole and the second threaded pole to retract relative to the supporting pole.

Abstract: A sputtering type deposition apparatus includes a chamber device and a target. The chamber device defines an access chamber, a first entrance from exterior to the access chamber, a depositing chamber, and a second entrance from the access chamber to the depositing chamber. The chamber device includes an access door, a separating door, and a carrier. The access door is disposed at the first entrance and configured to open or close the first entrance. The separating door is disposed at the second entrance and configured to open or close the second entrance. The carrier is disposed in the access chamber and configured to carry a substrate from the access chamber to the depositing chamber. The target is received in the depositing chamber.

Abstract: A gas-inputting device for a vacuum sputtering apparatus includes at least one tapered tube. Each tapered tube includes a open end, a closed end, and a conical surface. The small end is configured for introducing gas into the tapered tube. The large end opposes to the open end. Each of the at least one tapered tube tapers from the closed end to the open end. The conical surface connects the open end to the closed end. A plurality of gas holes of a same size are defined in the conical surface and equidistantly arranged along the center axis of the tapered tube from the open end to the closed end.

Abstract: A carrier for use during sputtering includes a main body and support members. The main body defines a receiving space and includes a lateral surface defining at least one groove extending along a longitudinal direction. The receiving space and the at least one groove communicate with each other. The at least one groove is defined by a first surface and a second surface. The first surface defines recessed portions along the longitudinal direction and communicates with the receiving space. The support members are used for hanging workpieces. Each of the support members includes at least one support arm protruding from the lateral surface and is selectively and movably retained by one of the recessed portions.

Abstract: A sputtering device is provided. The sputtering device comprises a housing defining a chamber, and a carrier arranged within the housing. The carrier comprises a base, a plurality of supporting members, a plurality of spacing members, and a cap. The supporting members are spaced from each other and rotatably connected to the base. Each supporting member defines at least one cavity to receive at least one workpiece. The spacing members are fixed to the base, each of which is arranged between two adjacent supporting members. The cap is arranged above the plurality of supporting members and the plurality of spacing members to form a substantially enclosed space. The driving device is used to drive the carrier to rotate and to drive the plurality of supporting members to rotate with respect to the base.

Abstract: A sputtering deposition method is utilized by a sputtering deposition apparatus including a first chamber, a second chamber, a first carrier, and a second carrier. Some first substrates are positioned in the first carriers in the first chamber for heating. The first carriers in the first chamber and the second carriers in the second chamber are exchanged. The first substrates in the second chamber are sputtered. The second carriers in the first chamber and the first carriers in the second chamber are exchanged. The first substrates in the first chamber are taken out.

Abstract: A rolling-circle machine for rolling a workpiece includes at least one first rolling portion, a second rolling portion connected to the first rolling portion, and at least one adjusting screw. The first rolling portion includes one or more first concaved sections for rolling the workpiece and at least a through hole. The second rolling portion includes one or more second concaved sections for rolling the workpiece. The second concaved section forms one or more rolling slots in cooperation with the first concaved section. The adjusting screw includes a threaded post passing through the through hole of the first rolling portion and one end of the threaded post is fixed in the second rolling portion. The adjusting screw is configured for adjusting a distance between the first and the second rolling portion to roll workpieces that have different dimensions.

Abstract: A sputter-coating apparatus is configured for forming coatings on a plurality of workpieces, and includes a deposition chamber defining a cavity, a plurality of targets received in the cavity, and a plurality of supporting assemblies. Each target includes a first target plate and an opposite second target plate. The supporting assemblies are received in the cavity and arranged between the first target plates and the second target plates. Each supporting assembly includes a hollow rotating post for rotating about a first axis substantially parallel to a lengthwise direction thereof, at least one support extending from the post, and at least one driving unit. Each support includes a connecting arm rotatably connected to the post and a fixing portion attached to the connecting arm for supporting a workpiece. The driving unit is configured for driving each connecting arm to rotate relative to the corresponding post about a second axis.

Abstract: A inspection device for inspecting coated transparent components includes an opaque container, a light source and a light intensity detector. The opaque container has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. A retaining portion is formed in the opaque container and positioned between the first and second ends and configured to retain the coated transparent components. The light source is positioned on the first end and configured to emit light passing through the coated transparent components. The light intensity detector is positioned on the second end and configured to detect the intensity of light transmitted through the coated transparent components to the light intensity detector, and calculate a light transmission rate.

Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes a base layer, a coating layer and an intermediate layer positioned between the base layer and the coating layer. The intermediate layer contains chromium and nitrogen. A content of the chromium in the intermediate layer gradually decreases from the base layer to the coating layer.

Abstract: An exemplary lens holding apparatus includes a pipe, a number of hollow lens holding units, and an air pump. The pipe has an airtight end and an air vent end. The lens holding units each are in communicate with the pipe and each include a number of first portions and a number of second portions. The first and second portions are alternately arranged and each have an inner space for communicating each other. The second portions each have a top wall and a bottom wall. The top wall has a first through hole defined therein and in communicate with the inner space of the second portion. The air pump is connected to the air vent end and configured for pumping air from the pipe, such that lenses received in the first through holes are releasably held in position.

Abstract: A tray for a vacuum deposition apparatus includes a base having an upper surface, a number of cooling pipes fixed to the base each having a plurality of alternately arranged cooling portions and conduits, and a number of engaging members. The cooling portions protrude from the upper surface and each has a cooling channel therein. Two ends of the cooling channel communicate with two adjacent conduits. Each of the engaging members each has a hole surrounding a corresponding cooling portion therein.

Abstract: An lens screening device for controlling diameters of lenses within a range from a lower threshold to a upper threshold. The lens screening device includes a number of connecting poles and two screening plates. Each of the screening plates includes a tray and a scraper slidably disposed on the tray and configure for scraping the tray. The tray defines a number of through holes of same diameter therein. The diameter of the through holes in an upper screening plate is larger than that of the through holes in a lower screening plate.

Abstract: An exemplary lens module includes a barrel and a plurality of deformable lenses received in the barrel. The barrel includes an inner wall. The inner wall has a plurality of circular retaining portions. The plurality of deformable lenses is deformed and retained in the plurality of circular retaining portions. Diameters of the lenses are greater than an inner diameter of the barrel. The lenses each has a curved surface.