- All sections
- C - Chemistry; metallurgy
- C23C - Coating metallic material; coating material with metallic material; surface treatment of metallic material by diffusion into the surface, by chemical conversion or substitution; coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering, by ion implantation or by chemical vapour deposition, in general
- C23C 14/06 - Coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering or by ion implantation of the coating forming material characterised by the coating material
Patent holdings for IPC class C23C 14/06
Total number of patents in this class: 3996
10-year publication summary
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318
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315
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357
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352
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346
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342
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304
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311
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288
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89
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfaffikon | 556 |
161 |
| Applied Materials, Inc. | 16587 |
106 |
| Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | 2378 |
93 |
| Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp. | 969 |
87 |
| Kyocera Corporation | 12735 |
76 |
| Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.) | 2865 |
52 |
| Tungaloy Corporation | 481 |
51 |
| Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | 14131 |
50 |
| Nitto Denko Corporation | 7879 |
49 |
| Hoya Corporation | 2822 |
49 |
| MAHLE International GmbH | 2670 |
42 |
| Kabushiki Kaisha Riken | 265 |
36 |
| ULVAC, Inc. | 1448 |
35 |
| Walter AG | 240 |
35 |
| Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbH | 284 |
34 |
| JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation | 1576 |
34 |
| SECO Tools AB | 456 |
34 |
| OSG Corporation | 355 |
32 |
| Sandvik Intellectual Property AB | 1634 |
32 |
| Canon Anelva Corporation | 676 |
29 |
| Other owners | 2879 |