Patents by Inventor Joerg Vetter

Joerg Vetter 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).

  • Patent number: 11342168
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the evaporation of a cathode by means of cathodic arc evaporation, wherein the focal spot of the arc is forced to a predetermined track on the cathode surface by means of temporally and spatially controllable magnetic fields, wherein a predetermined removal of material of the cathode surface is produced. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAFFIKON
    Inventors: Joerg Vetter, Markus Willach
  • Patent number: 11060179
    Abstract: An electric-arc evaporation method for coating surfaces, wherein at least two active consumption targets are used in the method, characterized in that the consumption targets are alternately connected as a cathode and an anode during the coating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon
    Inventor: Joerg Vetter
  • Patent number: 11020849
    Abstract: A handheld tool case including at least one base unit, which includes at least one side wall, and at least one cover unit, which is intended to indirectly or directly delimit, with the base unit, a case interior for the storage and/or transportation of at least one transportation object. It is provided that the handheld tool case includes a positioning unit, which, in at least one operating state, during a closing movement between the base unit and the cover unit, converts a closing force into a positioning force on the at least one transportation object, which has at least one component in the direction of the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Vetter, Josef Baumgartner, Hansjoerg Beutel, Jan Breitenbach, Juergen Luginsland, Peter Pozsega
  • Publication number: 20200402781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the evaporation of a cathode by means of cathodic arc evaporation, wherein the focal spot of the arc is forced to a predetermined track on the cathode surface by means of temporally and spatially controllable magnetic fields, wherein a predetermined removal of material of the cathode surface is produced. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Joerg VETTER, Markus WILLACH
  • Patent number: 10844493
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a coated substrate having a hard material coating, which comprises a hard carbon layer of the hydrogen-free amorphous carbon layer type, wherein the coating comprises a layer consisting of zirconium between the substrate and the hydrogen-free amorphous carbon layer; wherein between the layer consisting of zirconium and the hydrogen-free amorphous carbon layer, a layer consisting of Zr—Cx can be formed in which a zirconium monocarbide is formed; and the layer consisting of Zr—Cx and comprising zirconium monocarbide is applied directly to the adhesive layer consisting of zirconium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFÄFFIKON
    Inventor: Joerg Vetter
  • Patent number: 10811239
    Abstract: Cylindrical evaporation source which includes, at an outer cylinder wall, target material to be evaporated as well as a first magnetic field source and a second magnetic field source which form at least a part of a magnet system and are arranged in an interior of the cylindrical evaporation source for generating a magnetic field. In this respect, first magnetic field source and second magnetic field source are provided at a carrier system such that a shape and/or a strength of the magnetic field can be set in a predefinable spatial region in accordance with a predefinable scheme. In embodiments, the carrier system is configured for setting the shape and/or strength of the magnetic field of the carrier system such that the first magnetic field source is arranged at a first carrier arm and is pivotable by a predefinable pivot angle (?1) with respect to a first pivot axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFÄFFIKON
    Inventors: Joerg Vetter, Stefan Esser, Jurgen Mueller, Georg Erkens
  • Publication number: 20190249310
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a coated substrate having a hard material coating, which comprises a hard carbon layer of the hydrogen-free amorphous carbon layer type, wherein the coating comprises a layer consisting of zirconium between the substrate and the hydrogen-free amorphous carbon layer; wherein between the layer consisting of zirconium and the hydrogen-free amorphous carbon layer, a layer consisting of Zr—Cx can be formed in which a zirconium monocarbide is formed; and the layer consisting of Zr—Cx and comprising zirconium monocarbide is applied directly to the adhesive layer consisting of zirconium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventor: Joerg Vetter
  • Publication number: 20180265968
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coating chamber (1) for performing a vacuum-assisted coating process, in particular PVD or CVD or electric arc coating chamber or hybrid coating chamber. The coating chamber (1) comprises a heat shield (3, 31, 32, 33), which is arranged on a temperature-controllable chamber wall (2) of the coating chamber (1) and is intended for adjusting an exchange of a predeterminable amount of thermal radiation between the heat shield (3, 31, 32, 33) and the temperature-controllable chamber wall (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAEFFIKON
    Inventors: Joerg VETTER, Siegfried KRASSNITZER, Markus ESSELBACH
  • Publication number: 20180080118
    Abstract: An electric-arc evaporation method for coating surfaces, wherein at least two active consumption targets are used in the method, characterized in that the consumption targets are alternately connected as a cathode and an anode during the coating process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventor: Joerg Vetter
  • Publication number: 20170259424
    Abstract: A handheld tool case including at least one base unit, which includes at least one side wall, and at least one cover unit, which is intended to indirectly or directly delimit, with the base unit, a case interior for the storage and/or transportation of at least one transportation object. It is provided that the handheld tool case includes a positioning unit, which, in at least one operating state, during a closing movement between the base unit and the cover unit, converts a closing force into a positioning force on the at least one transportation object, which has at least one component in the direction of the side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Joerg Vetter, Josef Baumgartner, Hansjoerg Beutel, Jan Breitenbach, Juergen Luginsland, Peter Pozsega
  • Patent number: 9728382
    Abstract: Evaporation source, in particular for use in a sputtering process or in a vacuum arc evaporation process, preferably a cathode vacuum arc evaporation process. The evaporation source includes an inner base body which is arranged in an outer carrier body and which is arranged with respect to the outer carrier body such that a cooling space in flow communication with an inlet and an outlet is formed between the base body and the carrier body. In accordance with the invention, the cooling space includes an inflow space and an outflow space, and the inflow space is in flow communication with the outflow space via an overflow connection for the cooling of the evaporation source such that a cooling fluid can be conveyed from the inlet via the inflow space the overflow connection and the outflow space to the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAEFFIKON
    Inventors: Joerg Vetter, Stefan Esser, Juergen Mueller, Georg Erkens
  • Patent number: 9269545
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum arc source (1), including ring-like magnetic field source (2) and a cathode body (3) with an vaporization material (31) as a cathode (32) for the production of an arc discharge on an vaporization surface (33) of the cathode (32). In this arrangement the cathode body (3) is bounded in an axial direction in a first axial direction by a cathode base (34) and in a second axial direction by the vaporization surface (33) and the ring-like magnetic (2) is arranged polarised parallel or anti-parallel and concentric to a surface normal (300) of the vaporization surface (33). In accordance with the invention a magnetic field enhancement ring (4) is arranged on a side remote from the vaporization surface (33) at a pre-determinable second spacing (A2) in front of the cathode base (34). The invention further relates to an arc vaporization chamber (10) with an arc vaporization source (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, TRUEBBACH
    Inventor: Joerg Vetter
  • Patent number: 8956722
    Abstract: The invention thus relates to a layer system (1) for the formation of a surface layer on a surface of a substrate, in particular on the surface of a tool, in particular on the surface of a shaping tool, wherein the layer system includes at least a first surface layer of the composition (VaMebMcXd)?(NuCvOw)?, where (a+b+c+d)=?, ?=100%, with respect to the atoms Va,Meb,Mc,Xd present in the layer, (u+v+w)=?. ?=100 with respect to the atoms N, C, O present in the layer, with the sum of all the atoms in the layer (?+?)=100 at %, where 40???80 at % applies, and where Meb is at least one element from the group of chemical elements including Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, Ni, Cu, Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm of the periodic system of chemical elements and Mc is at least one element of the group of chemical elements including Ti, Cr, and Xd is at least one element from the group of chemical elements including S, Se, Si, B of the periodic system of elements, where 0?u?100, 0?v?100 and 0?w?80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Oerlikon Metaplas GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Vetter, Georg Erkens
  • Publication number: 20150008118
    Abstract: Method for the coating of a substrate (S) in a process chamber (3), in which a gas atmosphere is set up and maintained in the process chamber (3) and an anode (6, 61) and a cylindrical vaporization cathode (2, 21, 22) formed as a target (2, 21, 22) are provided in the process chamber (3). The cylindrical vaporization cathode (2, 21, 22) includes the target material (200, 201, 202) and the target material (200, 201, 202) of the cylindrical cathode (2, 21, 22) is transferred into a vapor phase by means of an electrical source of energy (7, 71, 72).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: SULZER METAPLAS GMBH
    Inventors: Joerg VETTER, Georg ERKENS
  • Publication number: 20140238852
    Abstract: Cylindrical evaporation source which includes, at an outer cylinder wall, target material to be evaporated as well as a first magnetic field source and a second magnetic field source which form at least a part of a magnet system and are arranged in an interior of the cylindrical evaporation source for generating a magnetic field. In this respect, first magnetic field source and second magnetic field source are provided at a carrier system such that a shape and/or a strength of the magnetic field can be set in a predefinable spatial region in accordance with a predefinable scheme. In embodiments, the carrier system is configured for setting the shape and/or strength of the magnetic field of the carrier system such that the first magnetic field source is arranged at a first carrier arm and is pivotable by a predefinable pivot angle (?1) with respect to a first pivot axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SULZER METAPLAS GMBH
    Inventors: Joerg VETTER, Stefan ESSER, Jurgen MUELLER, Georg ERKENS
  • Publication number: 20140174920
    Abstract: Evaporation source, in particular for use in a sputtering process or in a vacuum arc evaporation process, preferably a cathode vacuum arc evaporation process. The evaporation source includes an inner base body which is arranged in an outer carrier body and which is arranged with respect to the outer carrier body such that a cooling space in flow communication with an inlet and an outlet is formed between the base body and the carrier body. In accordance with the invention, the cooling space includes an inflow space and an outflow space, and the inflow space is in flow communication with the outflow space via an overflow connection for the cooling of the evaporation source such that a cooling fluid can be conveyed from the inlet via the inflow space the overflow connection and the outflow space to the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: SULZER METAPLAS GMBH
    Inventors: Joerg VETTER, Stefan ESSER, Juergen MUELLER, Georg ERKENS
  • Publication number: 20120189841
    Abstract: The invention thus relates to a layer system (1) for the formation of a surface layer on a surface of a substrate, in particular on the surface of a tool, in particular on the surface of a shaping tool, wherein the layer system includes at least a first surface layer of the composition (VaMebMcXd)?(NuCvOw)?, where (a+b+c+d)=?, ?=100%, with respect to the atoms Va,Meb,Mc,Xd present in the layer, (u+v+w)=?. ?=100 with respect to the atoms N, C, O present in the layer, with the sum of all the atoms in the layer (?+?)=100 at %, where 40???80 at % applies, and where Meb is at least one element from the group of chemical elements including Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Mo, W, Ni, Cu, Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm of the periodic system of chemical elements and Mc is at least one element of the group of chemical elements including Ti, Cr, and Xd is at least one element from the group of chemical elements including S, Se, Si, B of the periodic system of elements, where 0?u?100, 0?v?100 and 0?w?80.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: Joerg Vetter, Georg Erkens
  • Patent number: 7935426
    Abstract: The invention relates to a layer arrangement (1) for the formation of a coating on a surface (2) of a substrate (3), in particular on the surface (2) of a tool (3), wherein the layer arrangement comprises at least one hard layer (4, 5, 6, 7, 8) having the composition SiaBbMecNuCvOw with a,b>0 and 33 at %>c ?0, preferably 25 at %>c?0, in particular 10 at %>c?0 and u,v,w?0, and Me being a metal. Furthermore, the invention relates to a coating method for depositing a layer arrangement (1), as well as to a substrate (3), in particular a tool (3) or a wearing part (3) having a layer arrangement (1) according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Sulzer Metaplas GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Vetter
  • Publication number: 20100304102
    Abstract: The invention relates to a layer arrangement (1) for the formation of a coating on a surface (2) of a substrate (3), in a particular on the surface (2) of a tool (3), wherein the layer arrangement comprises at least one hard layer (4,5,6,7,8) having the composition SiaBbMecNuCvOw with a,b>0 and 33 at%>c?0, preferably 25 at%>c?0, in particular 10 at%>c?0 and u,v,w?0, and Me being a metal. Futhermore, the invention relates to a coating method for depositing a layer arrangement (1), as well as to a substrate (3), in particular a tool (3) or a wearing part (3) having a layer arrangement (1) according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: METAPLAS IONON Oberflaechenveredelungstechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Vetter
  • Patent number: 7357975
    Abstract: The carbon-containing hard coating (1) according to the invention comprises nano-crystalline grains being separated from each other by grain boundaries, wherein said hard coating comprises aluminum (Al), at least one additional metal (Me1, Me2), carbon (C) and at least one further element (E1, E2) and has the chemical composition: (AlxMe1yMe2z)CuE1vE2w wherein Me1 is a metal, and Me2 is a metal, with x>0.4 and x+y+z=1 and y,z?0, and E1 and E2 are further chemical elements with 1>u>0 and u+v+w=1 and v,w?0. The grain boundaries have a higher concentration of carbon atoms than the nano-crystalline grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Metaplas Ionon Oberflachenveredelungstechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Vetter