C23C 14/02
Pretreatment of the material to be coated
Official title: Pretreatment of the material to be coated (C23C14/04 takes precedence)
C23C14/02 (Pretreatment of the material to be coated) appears on 2,343 US grants and 2,861 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C23C- Granted patents
- 2,343
- Published applications
- 2,861
- Assignees
- 1,364
- Inventors
- 6,609
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 58 | 23 |
| 2002 | 50 | 77 |
| 2003 | 54 | 62 |
| 2004 | 56 | 70 |
| 2005 | 39 | 81 |
| 2006 | 37 | 76 |
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| 2022 | 91 | 176 |
| 2023 | 100 | 163 |
| 2024 | 121 | 162 |
| 2025 | 138 | 101 |
| 2026 | 77 | 64 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Film forming method and film forming apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,753,485 B2Tokyo Electron Limited
- Method for forming robust hydrophobic surfaces on steel workpiece6 Oct 2026US 12,753,490 B2Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
- Surface-coated cutting tool29 Sep 2026US 12,746,604 B2Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
- Surface pre-oxidized AlCrVTiSiON nano-gradient coating and preparation method thereof22 Sep 2026US 12,742,236 B2
- Method of operating a PVD apparatus22 Sep 2026US 12,745,577 B2SPTS Technologies Limited
- Productive coating process for a steel sheet and corresponding equipment8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308746 A1
- Razor blade comprising parylene c and parylene n1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295877 A1BIC Violex Single Member S.A.
- Razor blade comprising a parylene and titanium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295878 A1BIC Violex Single Member S.A.
- Orthopedic implants with increased hardness and increased depth of hardness and method of making17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273134 A1Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. KG
- Nitro-diamond-like-carbon coating on shaving blade tips17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273785 A1Dollar Shave Club, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for producing compound thin films1,267US 4,058,430 A1977
- Plasma pre-treating surfaces for atomic layer deposition548US 7,498,242 B2ASM America, Inc. · 2009
- Reactor system for sublimation of pre-clean byproducts and method thereof449US 10,053,774 B2ASM IP Holding B. V. · 2018
- Apparatus for forming a thin film on surface of semiconductor substrate417US 5,174,881 AMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1992
- Method of forming a thin film on surface of semiconductor substrate369US 5,407,867 AMitsubishki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1995