Abstract: A polymer vapor deposition process is used to form a flexible thin-walled endoluminal graft membrane. The endoluminal graft membrane is easily radially compressed in an organized manner in combination with a stent. The endoluminal graft membrane is formed with a plurality of semi-collapsed legs and each semi-collapsed leg includes a plurality of preformed folds.

Abstract: In a substrate processing apparatus, a substrate processing chamber has a substrate support to support a substrate, a gas delivery system to provide an energized cleaning gas to the chamber to clean process residues formed on surfaces in the chamber during processing of the substrate, and an exhaust to exhaust the cleaning gas. A detector monitors a chemiluminescent radiation emitted from about a surface during cleaning of the process residues by the energized cleaning gas and generates a signal in relation to the monitored chemiluminescent radiation. A controller receives the signal and evaluates the signal to determine an endpoint of the cleaning process.

Abstract: A manufacturing system capable of enhancing reliability and luminance of a light emitting element is provided which uses an EL material of very high purity in evaporation. The system is also capable of using an EL material efficiently. Instead of a glass jar, a container (first container 11a) to be set in an evaporation apparatus is employed and a material maker (18) stores an EL material (12), or refines it by sublimation and stores, directly in the container. The container is then transferred to a light emitting device maker (19) for evaporation. With a manufacturing system as such, impurities are prevented from contaminating a highly pure EL material. This system also eliminates the trouble of transferring an EL material from a glass jar to a container. The container may be recovered by the material maker and the EL material remaining in the container may be collected for reuse by the manufacturing system.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of depositing an amorphous fluorocarbon film using a high bias power applied to the substrate on which the material is deposited. The invention contemplates flowing a carbon precursor at rate and at a power level so that equal same molar ratios of a carbon source is available to bind the fragmented fluorine in the film thereby improving film quality while also enabling improved gap fill performance. The invention further provides for improved adhesion of the amorphous fluorocarbon film to metal surfaces by first depositing a metal or TiN adhesion layer on the metal surfaces and then stuffing the surface of the deposited adhesion layer with nitrogen. Adhesion is further improved by coating the chamber walls with silicon nitride or silicon oxynitride.

Abstract: A method for adjusting the size of cooling holes of a gas turbine component is disclosed in which the component is shielded with an easily removable and non- conductive shielding material without shielding the cooling holes themselves. The cooling holes are then coated by a galvanic process and the size of the cooling holes is restored to within manufacturing tolerances. The shielding material is removed and, subsequently, a heat treatment for securing a bonding of the metallic coating is applied.

Abstract: A gas turbine airfoil has an external surface and an internal passage therethrough. The internal passage is selectively coated by providing a source of a flowable precursor coating material in contact with the internal passage of the airfoil, and providing a coating prevention structure overlying at least a portion of the external surface. The flowable precursor coating material is flowed from the source of the flowable precursor coating material and through the internal passage of the airfoil. The coating prevention structure prevents contact of the flowable precursor coating material with the external surface of the airfoil.

Abstract: A coated plastic container provides for low permeability to gases and vapors. A method and system for coating plastic containers includes applying a thin inorganic oxide layer to the external surface of the containers with plasma-assisted vacuum vapor deposition. For example, the coating can include silica which is bonded to the external surface of the container. This coating is flexible and can be applied regardless of the container's internal pressure or lack thereof. The coating firmly adheres to the container and possess an enhanced gas barrier effect after pressurization even when the coating is scratched, fractured, flexed and/or stretched. Moreover, this gas barrier enhancement will be substantially unaffected by filling of the container. A method of recycling coated plastic containers and a method and system for packaging a beverage using the coated containers are also disclosed.

Abstract: A blow molded container having barrier properties and including an upper wall portion having an opening, an intermediate sidewall portion positioned beneath the upper wall portion, and a base portion positioned beneath the intermediate sidewall portion to support the container. The container includes a molded outer layer having an inner surface and an outer surface formed from at least 40% of recycled plastic, and a carbon coating formed on the inner surface of the outer layer and adhered thereto and substantially coextensive with the outer layer, wherein said carbon coating has a thickness of less than about 10 microns.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device for performing plasma chemical vapor deposition (PCVD) for producing coated glass tubes for the drawing of optical fibers. This invention further relates to a device that uses a microwave applicator, and the applicator itself with a profile that allows for a uniform coating across a greater length of the glass tube.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of treatment with a microwave plasma by maintaining a reduced pressure in a plasma-treating chamber for treatment with a plasma in which a substrate that is to be treated with a microwave plasma is contained, introducing a treating gas into the plasma-treating chamber and introducing microwaves into the plasma-treating chamber, wherein a metallic antenna is disposed in the plasma-treating chamber. The plasma is generated within a very short period of time maintaining stability after the microwaves are introduced into the plasma-treating chamber, and the treatment is accomplished maintaining stability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of applying glass layers, which may or may not be doped, to the interior of a substrate tube by means of a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique, using a reactive gas mixture, in order to obtain a preform that exhibits a precisely defined refractive index profile, which method comprises a number of steps.

Abstract: This method of prevention of particle pollution in a pre-clean chamber includes an oxygen gas supplying step for injecting oxygen gas into the pre-clean chamber; and a plasma generating step for ionizing the oxygen gas into plasma so as to interact with silicon-rich oxide to form a silicon oxide layer in the pre-clean chamber. The method according to the invention could prevent particle pollution due to peeling-off of silicon-rich oxide in a pre-clean chamber so as to prolong the life of a bell-jar therein.

Abstract: A passivation method for the metallic surface of a nickel and iron-based superalloy which is used as the constituent material of reactor or furnace walls is described, in which the superalloy is coated on at least one of its surfaces which comes into contact with a corrosive atmosphere containing either hydrocarbons at high temperature or containing oxidizing gases at high temperature, with at least two successive layers resulting from successive chemical vapour deposition of its one or more constituent elements, the external phase, resulting from chemical vapour deposition of at least one silicon compound and the layer(s) deposited between the superalloy surface, and the external layer resulting from chemical vapour deposition of at least one of a metal or metalloid.

Abstract: While silicon-containing ceramics or ceramic composites are prone to material loss in combustion gas environments, this invention introduces a method to prevent or greatly reduce the thickness loss by injecting directly an effective amount, generally in the part per million level, of silicon or silicon-containing compounds into the combustion gases.

Abstract: A method of on-line coating a coat film on the inner wall of a reaction tube in a hydrocarbon pyrolysis reactor for preventing the formation and the deposit of coke on the inner walls. This method comprises the steps of vapor depositing a mixed solution of a metal alkoxide and a chromic compound on the inner walls concurrently with introducing a carrier at a flow rate of 1-5000 kg/hr/coil at a temperature of 600-900° C. under a pressure of 0-3 kg/cm2 to form a buffer layer on the inner walls; and vapor depositing a metal alkoxide as a barrier on the buffer layer; and vapor depositing an alkali metal/alkaline earth metal compound alone or mixed with metal alkoxide as a decoking layer on the barrier. A decoking layer may further be provided on the diffusion barrier.

Abstract: A method of applying surface-modifying auxiliary substances to the working area interior surfaces of die molds for the production of molded products, in particular made of rubber or plastics. The auxiliary substance is supplied in the form of a gas or vapor to the interior surfaces of the die mold, which is integrated into the processing machine, and the gas or vapor is condensed there.

Abstract: The invention provides a plasma CVD method and device which can form a uniform or substantially uniform film on an outer surface of an object independently of the shape of the object, and also provides an electrode used in the method and device. More specifically, a plasma is formed from a deposition material gas by supplying an electric power to the gas, and a film is formed on the outer surface of a hollow object having an opening under the plasma. The electrodes for supplying the electric power for forming the gas plasma include an internal electrode arranged in an inner space of the hollow object and an external electrode arranged outside the object. The internal electrode can selectively have a reduced form allowing passage of the electrode through the opening of the hollow object and an enlarged form predetermined in accordance with the volume and shape of the inner space of the object.

Abstract: A blow molded container having barrier properties and including an upper wall portion having an opening, an intermediate sidewall portion positioned beneath the upper wall portion, and a base portion positioned beneath the intermediate sidewall portion to support the container. The container includes a molded outer layer having an inner surface and an outer surface formed from at least 40% of recycled plastic, and a carbon coating formed on the inner surface of the outer layer and adhered thereto and substantially coextensive with the outer layer, wherein said carbon coating has a thickness of less than about 10 microns.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for depositing a coating on the wall of a metal container. According to said method, the coating is deposited using a plasma at a pressure close to atmospheric pressure. The metallic container can be an aerosol dispenser can and the resulting coating advantageously replaces the internal layer of varnish usually deposited in containers of this type.

Abstract: The invention provides a container such as a bottle or flask, made heterogeneously from a material with a barrier effect and a polymer material, characterized in that the material with a barrier effect is an amorphous carbon material with a polymer tendency which is applied as a coating on a substrate of polymer material.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for making a coated plastic container, such as for packaged beverages, possessing a gas barrier and having enhanced resistance to loss in barrier due to handling abuses expansion of walls of the container. The system comprises a vacuum cell, a coating source in the vacuum cell for supplying a coating vapor to an external surface of a plastic container positioned within the vacuum cell, and gas feeds for supplying one or more process gases into an interior space of the vacuum cell. The coating source heats and evaporates an inorganic coating material, such as metal or silicon, to form a coating vapor, which is energized to form a plasma. The process gases include a carbon-containing gas, such as acetylene.

Abstract: A method for reducing contaminants in a processing chamber 10 having chamber plasma processing region components comprising the following steps. The chamber plasma processing region components are cleaned. The chamber is then seasoned as follows. A first USG layer is formed over the chamber plasma processing region components. An FSG layer is formed over the first USG layer. A second USG layer is formed over the FSG layer. Wherein the USG, FSG, and second USG layers comprise a UFU season film. A UFU season film coating the chamber plasma processing region components of a processing chamber comprises: an inner USG layer over the chamber plasma processing region components; an FSG layer over the inner USG layer; and an outer USG layer over the FSG layer.

Abstract: A blow molded multi-layer container is provided having an upper wall portion, including an opening; an intermediate sidewall portion positioned beneath the upper wall portion; and a base portion positioned beneath the intermediate sidewall portion, the base portion being adapted to dependently or independently support the container. The container includes (i) a molded inner layer formed from a plastic material, the inner layer having a vertical length and a carbon-treated inner surface; and (ii) a molded outer layer formed from recycled plastic that is substantially coextensive with the inner layer. The recycled outer layer comprises at least 40% by weight of the overall weight of the container, but can comprise more than 90% by weight, depending upon the needs of the application. In a preferred embodiment, the thickness of the inner and/or outer layers is controllably adjusted along their respective vertical lengths.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for uniformly coating hollow bodies, in which one open end of the hollow body is closed off in a gas-tight manner by a cover, the hollow body is introduced into a plasma-induced CVD reactor, vacuum is applied to the hollow body, a coating temperature is established and the plasma-induced coating takes place. The present invention also relates to the use of the process for uniformly coating hollow bodies according to the invention for coating tubes, vessels, syringe bodies, reflectors, domes and funnels.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a titanium nitride thin film at the surface of a substrate the chemical vapor deposition method (CVD method) includes supplying trakisdialkylamino titanium (TDAAT and ammonia into a reaction vessel, and heating it a prescribed temperature under a low pressure of less than 100 Pa total pressure, wherein the partial pressure PTDAAT of the source-material gas is set in a range of 0<PNH3/PTDAAT<10 with respect to the partial pressure PNH3 of the added ammonia gas.

Abstract: A blow molded container having barrier properties and including an upper wall portion having an opening, an intermediate sidewall portion positioned beneath the upper wall portion, and a base portion positioned beneath the intermediate sidewall portion to support the container. The container includes a molded outer layer having an inner surface and an outer surface formed from at least 40% of recycled plastic, and a carbon coating formed on the inner surface of the outer layer and adhered thereto and substantially coextensive with the outer layer, wherein said carbon coating has a thickness of less than about 10 microns.

Abstract: A container, desirably blow molded or extrusion molded, said container having barrier properties and including an upper wall portion having an opening, an intermediate sidewall portion positioned beneath the upper wall portion, and a base portion positioned beneath the intermediate sidewall portion to support the container. The container includes a molded first layer having an inner surface and an outer surface formed from high density polyethylene, and a carbon coating formed on the inner surface of the first layer and adhered thereto and substantially coextensive with the first layer, wherein said carbon coating has a thickness of less than about 10 microns.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process comprising the steps of:

Abstract: A hard carbon film (15) is formed directly or through an intermediate layer for enhancing adhesion over an inner surface (11b) of a guide bush (11) for holding a workpiece (51) rotatably and axially slidable on an automatic lathe at a position near a cutting tool, to be in sliding contact with the workpiece (51) or directly or through an intermediate layer for enhancing adhesion on the surface of a superhard lining fixed to the inner surface (11b). The guide bush (11) has remarkably enhanced durability and prevents damaging the workpiece (51) and seizing that makes a machining operation impossible even when the guide bush (11) is used for an extended period of time and when the automatic lathe operates for heavy machining.

Abstract: A method of deposing a carbon-containing substance in the pores of a porous body comprises establishing an open varying magnetic field flux loop and placing the body such that a magnetic field flux generated by the open magnetic field flux loop passes through a region of said body and heats that region, creating a thermal gradient across the body and bringing a thermally decomposable carbon-containing gas into contact with the heated region, thereby depositing a carbon-containing substance in the pores if said heated region.

Abstract: Stable foam caulk, sealant and insulation compositions are disclosed. The compositions comprise solid, waxy non-ionic lipophilic surfactants having low HLB values. These surfactants, upon foamed dispensing of the composition, provide stable support for bubbles formed from drying of a latex emulsion of a film forming polymer and a volatile liquid hydrocarbon propellant. In addition to use in caulking, sealant or insulation methods, the composition can be used to form artificial terrains and other hardenable structural surfaces as backgrounds or support means for hobbies, crafts, and the like.

Abstract: The described device is introduced into a plastic container with a narrow opening and serves a plasma enhanced process for treating the inside surface of the container. The device (2) extends between the container opening and the container bottom along the container axis (X) and comprising a gas feed tube (23) for feeding a process gas into the container and permanent magnets (24) for establishing a stationary magnetic field inside the container. The magnets (24) form a column of superimposed magnets which is arranged inside the gas feed tube (23). The north and south poles of each magnet are positioned on opposite sides of the container axis (X). The device may also comprise cooling means (25) for cooling the gas feed tube and the magnets.

Abstract: A method and apparatus, and product by process, for the production of bulk polysilicon by a chemical vapor deposition process on a removable tube section. A quartz envelope and base plate form a CVD reactor enclosure, with external radiant heaters providing process heat through the wall of the reactor, and with process gas inlet and outlet ports located in the base plate. A tube section, preferably an EFG silicon tube-section, vertically emplaced on the base plate and capped to close the top is used as the reaction chamber. During the CVD process, deposition occurs on the inside surface of the chamber tube, the inner diameter of the deposit layer becoming increasingly smaller as the yield accumulates. In a two tube reactor, a smaller diameter, vertical middle tube is uniformly spaced and supported inside the chamber tube for fall flow of process gas over and under the middle tube so that deposition occurs on the three exposed tube surfaces.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coating process, particularly for coating a gas turbine blade (1) having cooling passageways (4) opening out onto the surface (2). During the coating operation, a fluid (6) is directed out of the cooling passageways (4) to prevent blocking of the cooling passageways (4). The invention also relates to an apparatus for implementing this coating process.

Abstract: Removing the electrical field from the internal volume of high-voltage structures; e.g., bushings, connectors, capacitors, and cables. The electrical field is removed from inherently weak regions of the interconnect, such as between the center conductor and the solid dielectric, and places it in the primary insulation. This is accomplished by providing a conductive surface on the inside surface of the principal solid dielectric insulator surrounding the center conductor and connects the center conductor to this conductive surface. The advantage of removing the electric fields from the weaker dielectric region to a stronger area improves reliability, increases component life and operating levels, reduces noise and losses, and allows for a smaller compact design. This electric field control approach is currently possible on many existing products at a modest cost. Several techniques are available to provide the level of electric field control needed.

Abstract: Removing the electrical field from the internal volume of high-voltage structures; e.g., bushings, connectors, capacitors, and cables. The electrical field is removed from inherently weak regions of the interconnect, such as between the center conductor and the solid dielectric, and places it in the primary insulation. This is accomplished by providing a conductive surface on the inside surface of the principal solid dielectric insulator surrounding the center conductor and connects the center conductor to this conductive surface. The advantage of removing the electric fields from the weaker dielectric region to a stronger area improves reliability, increases component life and operating levels, reduces noise and losses, and allows for a smaller compact design. This electric field control approach is currently possible on many existing products at a modest cost. Several techniques are available to provide the level of electric field control needed.

Abstract: A method for the surface treatment of vacuum materials reduces the H2O sticking probability on the surface of the vacuum material. The H2O sticking probability is reduced by selectively depositing silicon oxide, for example, and covering the regions which are in an active state on the surface of the vacuum material, and by setting the coverage to less than 100% of the state where film formation is achieved. If the abovementioned coverage is within the range from 40 to 80%, then it is possible to reduce the H2O sticking probability to a minimum.

Abstract: A method and apparatus, and product by process, for the production of bulk polysilicon by broad area chemical vapor deposition, consisting of a quartz envelope and base plate forming a reactor enclosure, with external radiant heaters providing the heat source. A thin wall, edge-defined film fed growth (EFG) silicon tube section is used as the deposition casing and reaction chamber wall. The tube is capped at the top and sealed to the base plate to form the reaction chamber. External heaters radiate heat through the quartz enclosure to heat the tube wall to deposition temperature. A through flow of process gas is introduced to initiate the deposition. A uniform wide surface area deposit occurs on the inside surface of the tube, causing the diameter to become increasingly smaller as the yield accumulates.

Abstract: Stable foam caulk, sealant and insulation compositions are disclosed. The compositions comprise solid, waxy non-ionic lipophilic surfactants having low HLB values. These surfactants, upon foamed dispensing of the composition, provide stable support for bubbles formed from drying of a latex emulsion of a film forming polymer and a volatile liquid hydrocarbon propellant. In addition to use in caulking, sealant or insulation methods, the composition can be used to form artificial terrains and other hardenable structural surfaces as backgrounds or support means for hobbies, crafts, and the like.

Abstract: An article is formed of a gas turbine component having a substrate, an internal passage through the substrate defining an internal surface of the substrate, and an internal protective layer overlying the internal surface of the substrate. The internal protective layer has a composition of aluminum, plus, in weight percent, on average from about 0.1 to about 5.0 percent of a modifying element selected from the group consisting of hafnium, yttrium, zirconium, chromium, and silicon, and combinations thereof, and elements found in the substrate.

Abstract: A process and device is shown for coating the delineating surfaces of a hollow object, preferably a hollow object having at least one sealable opening, by means of plasma coating, via the action of plasma on the delineating surface of the hollow object that is to be coated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming an intermediate film and a hard carbon film over the inner surface of a cylindrical member having a bore, such as a bushing or a cylinder, with the hard carbon film being formed on the intermediate film with a uniform thickness, greatly enhancing of abrasion resistance of the inner surface. The cylindrical member is placed in a vacuum vessel, an auxiliary electrode of an intermediate film forming material, such as a titanium-silicon alloy or the like, is inserted in the bore of the cylindrical member, a sputtering gas is supplied into the vacuum vessel, a voltage is applied to the auxiliary electrode to produce a plasma around the auxiliary electrode in order that the intermediate film forming material is sputtered from the auxiliary electrode and an intermediate film is formed over the inner surface of the cylindrical member.

Abstract: A method of coating an inner face of a metal tube with an electrically conducting coating material includes the steps of positioning a wire, made of the coating material, generally axially in an interior of the tube, along the inner face thereof; and passing an electric current pulse of sufficient intensity through the wire to cause an explosive vaporization thereof, whereby particles of the vaporized material impinge on the inner face of the metal tube and form a layer thereon.

Abstract: In a method for preparing and/or coating the surfaces of metallic hollow structural elements that have at least two connection openings between their outer and inner surfaces, first and second reaction gas mixtures (I, II) are prepared by reaction gas sources for treating the outer and inner surfaces of the hollow structural elements. The first reaction gas mixture (I) is guided over the outer surfaces and thereafter over the inner surfaces of the structural elements, and then the second reaction gas mixture (II) is guided over the inner surfaces and thereafter over the outer surfaces of the structural elements. An apparatus for carrying out the method includes a reaction vessel enclosing an outer reaction space, a central holding pipe arranged in the reaction vessel and enclosing an inner space, and hollow support arms removably attached on the holding pipe to extend radially outwardly therefrom.

Abstract: A gas inlet, which also serves as a counter electrode, is located inside of a vacuum chamber made of an electrically insulating material. A container is mounted on a mandrel mounted on the gas inlet. The chamber is evacuated to a subatmospheric pressure. A process gas is then introduced into the container through the gas inlet. The process gas is ionized by coupling RF power to a main electrode located adjacent an exterior surface of the chamber and to the gas inlet which deposits a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) thin film onto the interior surface of the container.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for aluminum nitride coating of cylinder contact surfaces (ZL) of a crankcase (KG) made of an aluminum basic alloy where the aluminum nitride coating is performed by surface nitriding of the aluminum basic alloy, and the activated nitrogen is generated by a high-pressure plasma process.

Abstract: A method of inhibiting deposition of material on a wall of a chemical vapor deposition reactor includes providing a chemical vapor deposition reactor having a wall which has an inside facing surface, the inside facing surface at least partially defining a chemical vapor deposition reactor chamber; forming a first material atop the inside facing surface; positioning a substrate in the chemical vapor deposition a reactor chamber, the substrate having an outer surface; and chemical vapor depositing a second material layer on the substrate in a manner which is selective to the substrate outer surface, and not the first material, thereby restricting deposition of the second layer on the reactor inside facing surface.

Abstract: The production of a bearing surface by coating a known bearing material directly on the surface of a gear bore. A process of coating bearing materials directly onto the surface of a gear and the product thereof. The surface is preferably the inner bore surface of a planet gear. The coating methods include sputtering and vapor deposition. The bearing material applied as a coating is preferably a copper-lead composition. The resultant gear having a bearing coating can be useful in any high density, high efficiency epicyclic gear train for aircraft, marine or land based power transmissions.

Abstract: The invention is a glass container which can be sterilized for medical purposes, including the storage of pharmaceutical or diagnostic products, further including solutions. The container is made from glass containing a stabilizer which inhibits the deleterious effects of high energy radiation, wherein the surface which is in direct contact with the product or solution has a coating that has a thickness of less than 400 nm and is formed from oxides or nitrides of the elements Si, Ti, Ta, AI or a mixture thereof.

Abstract: Plasma assisted polymerization and deposition of a very thin inner surface coating in a plastic or metal container without an undesirable increase in container surface temperature is provided to change the surface properties of the internal plastic surface of a container by reaction of the surface with a reactive gas which has been energized to produce a plasma or the surface is activated by a plasma of reactive gas so that it becomes receptive to a further surface reaction.