C23C 14/32
By explosion
Official title: by explosion; by evaporation and subsequent ionisation of the vapours {, e.g. ion-plating}(C23C14/34 - C23C14/48 take precedence)
C23C14/32 (By explosion) appears on 1,086 US grants and 1,121 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C23C- Granted patents
- 1,086
- Published applications
- 1,121
- Assignees
- 540
- Inventors
- 2,295
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 8 | 0 |
| 1977 | 7 | 0 |
| 1978 | 8 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 5 | 0 |
| 1983 | 10 | 0 |
| 1984 | 15 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 15 | 0 |
| 1990 | 21 | 0 |
| 1991 | 13 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 16 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 13 | 0 |
| 1998 | 21 | 0 |
| 1999 | 24 | 0 |
| 2000 | 23 | 0 |
| 2001 | 21 | 8 |
| 2002 | 19 | 20 |
| 2003 | 15 | 39 |
| 2004 | 18 | 30 |
| 2005 | 16 | 28 |
| 2006 | 11 | 18 |
| 2007 | 9 | 33 |
| 2008 | 8 | 36 |
| 2009 | 8 | 40 |
| 2010 | 16 | 39 |
| 2011 | 29 | 31 |
| 2012 | 25 | 28 |
| 2013 | 21 | 57 |
| 2014 | 20 | 52 |
| 2015 | 34 | 68 |
| 2016 | 42 | 68 |
| 2017 | 41 | 60 |
| 2018 | 49 | 65 |
| 2019 | 43 | 49 |
| 2020 | 60 | 76 |
| 2021 | 51 | 59 |
| 2022 | 54 | 55 |
| 2023 | 40 | 49 |
| 2024 | 46 | 54 |
| 2025 | 46 | 40 |
| 2026 | 27 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Wear resistant coating produced from at least two different AlCr-based targets6 Oct 2026US 12,753,484 B2Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, PfäFfikon
- 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
- Cutting tool25 Aug 2026US 12,716,123 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Coated cutting tool26 May 2026US 12,636,707 B2AB Sandvik Coromant
- Cutting tool1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295681 A1Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
- Method and device for plasma heating of the internal walls of a vacuum furnace1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302140 A1
- Device, control device and method for laser-induced arc evaporation24 Sep 2026US 2026/0286504 A1Von Ardenne Asset GmbH & Co. KG
- Orthopedic implants with increased hardness and increased depth of hardness and method of making17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273134 A1Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. KG
- Oxidation and SRZ Resistant Coatings on Nickel Superalloys17 Sep 2026US 2026/0275460 A1Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Dual plasma beam sources and method560US 7,411,352 B2Applied Process Technologies, Inc. · 2008
- Embedded plasma source for plasma density improvement266US 6,446,572 B1Tokyo Electron Limited · 2002
- Method of depositing a carbon film on a substrate and products obtained thereby189US 4,486,286 ANerken Research Corp. · 1984
- Method for resisting galling187US 4,468,309 AWhite Engineering Corporation · 1984
- Method of making an open pore structure132US 4,975,230 AVapor Technologies, Inc. · 1990