H01J 37/32614
Consumable cathodes for arc discharge
Official title: {Consumable cathodes for arc discharge}
H01J37/32614 (Consumable cathodes for arc discharge) appears on 85 US grants and 94 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01J- Granted patents
- 85
- Published applications
- 94
- Assignees
- 68
- Inventors
- 211
- Latest grant
- 24 Jun 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Deposition apparatus24 Jun 2025US 12,338,526 B2Canon Anelva Corporation
- Multi racetrack cathodic arc14 Jan 2025US 12,198,905 B2Vapor Technologies, Inc.
- Ion source having different modes of operation26 Nov 2024US 12,154,766 B2APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Method for manufacturing hard carbon-based coating, and member provided with coating10 Sep 2024US 12,084,777 B2D.N.A. Metal Company, Limited
- Ion generation device and ion generation method7 May 2024US 11,978,608 B2Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ion Technology Co., Ltd.
- Hybrid Cathodes for ION Plasma Deposition Systems and Methods17 Jul 2025US 2025/0230537 A1GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
- Deposition apparatus15 Feb 2024US 2024/0052477 A1Canon Anelva Corporation
- Ion source having different modes of operation7 Dec 2023US 2023/0395357 A1APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Multi racetrack cathodic arc22 Jun 2023US 2023/0197425 A1Vapor Technologies, Inc.
- Improved cathode arc source, filters thereof and method of filtering macroparticles4 May 2023US 2023/0137012 A1Nanofilm Technologies International Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Plasma arc apparatus for applying coatings by means of a consumable cathode72US 4,492,845 A1985
- Cathode arc vapor deposition method and apparatus48US 6,103,074 APhygen, LLC · 2000
- Coaxial plasma arc vapor deposition apparatus and method42US 7,867,366 B1Alameda Applied Sciences Corp. · 2011
- Coaxial plasma arc vapor deposition apparatus and method41US 8,038,858 B1Alameda Applied Sciences Corp. · 2011
- Radial pulsed arc discharge gun for synthesizing nanopowders25US 6,777,639 B2Nanotechnologies, Inc. · 2004