Patents by Inventor Gregor Strasser

Gregor Strasser has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Coating station
    Patent number: 6123814
    Abstract: A coating station has a flat sputter source opposite a workpiece receiving arrangement is configured as a planet arrangement. The rotating axes (A.sub.P) of the planets intersect one another on a rotating axis (A.sub.S) of the sun system on the side facing away from the sputter source. As a result, substrates, particularly optical lenses, can be coated in extremely small batches according to given formulas in an advantageously flexible manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Dubs, Roman Schertler, Gregor Strasser
  • Coating station
    Patent number: 5911861
    Abstract: A coating station has a flat sputter source opposite a workpiece receiving arrangement is configured as a planet arrangement. The rotating axes (A.sub.p) of the planets intersect one another on a rotating axis (A.sub.s) of the sun system on the side facing away from the sputter source. As a result, substrates, particularly optical lenses, can be coated in extremely small batches according to given formulas in an advantageously flexible manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Dubs, Roman Schertler, Gregor Strasser
  • Vacuum treatment apparatus
    Patent number: 5415729
    Abstract: A vacuum treatment apparatus which is used for the surface treatment of substrates or workpieces in a chamber, includes at least one pneumatically or hydraulically operated seal. The seal can be activated to close against a member for sealing off the chamber, particularly, after a substrate or workpiece has been transported into or removed from the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gregor Strasser, Pius Good, Jurg Steinmann, Roman Schertler
  • Method of coating a workpiece of a plastic material by a metal layer
    Patent number: 5400317
    Abstract: An optical storage disk has a body made of PMMA bulk material with a surface of PMMA. Aluminum or an aluminum alloy, light reflecting layer coats the PMMA surface and is applied using a sputtering apparatus in a sealed gas atmosphere containing argon and carbon containing gas. Application of the coating using sputtering takes place immediately after the PMMA body is inserted into the sealed gas atmosphere and without any pretreatment to the PMMA surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignees: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft, Producers Color Service, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregor Strasser, Michael Hennessey
  • Transport system for conveying workpiece between first and second media
    Patent number: 5017073
    Abstract: A lock chamber for conveying a workpiece from one medium (U.sub.0) into another medium (U.sub.7) which comprises a lever (11) acting as a transport system and pivotably mounted in the chamber on one side. With lock gates (5a, 5b) moves aside the lever (11) can swing out by a required degree into the respective media (U.sub.7, U.sub.0). With the design of the transport system as unilaterally mounted levers (11), the volume of the lock chamber is largely independent of the trajectory of the lever and the volume can be minimized (FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gregor Strasser, Gerald Zohrer, Roman Schertler, Heinrich Fischer