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).
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Patent number: 11342168Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAFFIKONInventors: Joerg Vetter, Markus Willach
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Patent number: 11060179Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, PfäffikonInventor: Joerg Vetter
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Patent number: 11020849Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Joerg Vetter, Josef Baumgartner, Hansjoerg Beutel, Jan Breitenbach, Juergen Luginsland, Peter Pozsega
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Publication number: 20200402781Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2018Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Joerg VETTER, Markus WILLACH
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Patent number: 10844493Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFÄFFIKONInventor: Joerg Vetter
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Patent number: 10811239Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFÄFFIKONInventors: Joerg Vetter, Stefan Esser, Jurgen Mueller, Georg Erkens
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Publication number: 20190249310Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventor: Joerg Vetter
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Publication number: 20180265968Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAEFFIKONInventors: Joerg VETTER, Siegfried KRASSNITZER, Markus ESSELBACH
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Publication number: 20180080118Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventor: Joerg Vetter
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Publication number: 20170259424Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2015Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Joerg Vetter, Josef Baumgartner, Hansjoerg Beutel, Jan Breitenbach, Juergen Luginsland, Peter Pozsega
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Patent number: 9728382Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAEFFIKONInventors: Joerg Vetter, Stefan Esser, Juergen Mueller, Georg Erkens
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Patent number: 9269545Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 11, 2008Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, TRUEBBACHInventor: Joerg Vetter
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Patent number: 8956722Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Oerlikon Metaplas GmbHInventors: Joerg Vetter, Georg Erkens
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Publication number: 20150008118Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Applicant: SULZER METAPLAS GMBHInventors: Joerg VETTER, Georg ERKENS
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Publication number: 20140238852Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: SULZER METAPLAS GMBHInventors: Joerg VETTER, Stefan ESSER, Jurgen MUELLER, Georg ERKENS
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Publication number: 20140174920Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2014Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: SULZER METAPLAS GMBHInventors: Joerg VETTER, Stefan ESSER, Juergen MUELLER, Georg ERKENS
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Publication number: 20120189841Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventors: Joerg Vetter, Georg Erkens
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Patent number: 7935426Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 13, 2006Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Sulzer Metaplas GmbHInventor: Joerg Vetter
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Publication number: 20100304102Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2006Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: METAPLAS IONON Oberflaechenveredelungstechnik GmbHInventor: Joerg Vetter
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Patent number: 7357975Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 9, 2005Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Metaplas Ionon Oberflachenveredelungstechnik GmbHInventor: Joerg Vetter