C23C 8/02
Pretreatment of the material to be coated
Official title: Pretreatment of the material to be coated (C23C8/04 takes precedence)
C23C8/02 (Pretreatment of the material to be coated) appears on 837 US grants and 997 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C23C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 997
- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 8 | 26 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Processing method and processing apparatus for metal component19 May 2026US 12,630,914 B2Parker Netsushori Kogyo K.K.
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- Laser Treatment of Piston Seal Rings10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266370 A1Rtx Corporation
- Surface treatment method, stainless steel component, x-ray tube, x-ray tube device, manufacturing method of stainless steel component, and manufacturing method of x-ray tube10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269166 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Method for nitriding a steel3 Sep 2026US 2026/0258544 A1Safran Transmission Systems
- High-magnetic-induction grain-oriented silicon steel with excellent surface and preparation method therefor27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250810 A1Shougang Zhixin Electromagnetic Materials (Qian'an) Co., Ltd.
- Surface-treated steel sheet and method for manufacturing surface-treated steel sheet20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242972 A1Nippon Steel Corporation
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- Magnetron sputtering apparatus and process326US 4,851,095 AOptical Coating Laboratory, Inc. · 1989
- Methods for forming dielectric materials and methods for forming semiconductor devices189US 6,534,420 B2Micron Technology, Inc. · 2003
- Nanocoated primary particles and method for their manufacture141US 6,913,827 B2The Regents of the University of Colorado · 2005
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