C23C

Coating metallic material

Official title: 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 (making metal-coated products by extrusion B21C23/22; covering with metal by connecting pre-existing layers to articles, see the relevant places, e.g. B21D39/00, B23K; metallising of glass C03C; metallising mortars, concrete, artificial stone, ceramics or natural stone C04B41/00; enamelling of, or applying a vitreous layer to, metals C23D; treating metal surfaces or coating of metals by electrolysis or electrophoresis C25D; single-crystal film growth C30B; by metallising textiles D06M11/83; decorating textiles by locally metallising D06Q1/04)

C23C (Coating metallic material) appears on 71,555 US grants and 80,061 published applications in this corpus.

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19763930
19773490
19783360
19792630
19803490
19813570
19823550
19833940
19844510
19855280
19864860
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19885070
19897530
19907960
19917770
19928160
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199410050
199510870
199610210
199710150
199812810
199914520
200017690
20011864785
200218772054
200318452424
200417502682
200514062740
200611872885
200711542697
200810772749
200911783172
201017303250
201117203122
201219013126
201320133186
201422173345
201523013802
201623643875
201726883702
201826543499
201928983593
202028023720
202125293512
202225803807
202324263503
202427313372
202528023084
202617792375

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