US Patent Issued to Oerlikon Surface Solutions, Pfaffikon on Oct. 21 for "Fixture to be used in PVD processes for cylindrical, elongated substrates" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,491, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfaffikon (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Fixture to be used in PVD processes for cylindrical, elongated substrates" was invented by Sebastian Nahen (Grabs, Switzerland), Francesco Macri (Mels, Switzerland) and Rudolf Meiler (Schiers, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixture system to be used in a vacuum chamber (16) of a vacuum treatment system, comprising, a spindle (1), a gear wheel, in this text referred to as sun wheel (2), a cylindrical object exhibiting properties that allow the gear wheel to mesh into it, in order to rotate said cylindrical object, ...