Load-lock drum-type coating apparatus

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PATENT NO 5421979
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08101614

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Vacuum coating apparatus (30) includes a coating chamber (32), and a load-lock chamber (34) connected to the coating chamber via a high vacuum valve (44). The coating chamber includes deposition-devices (123) and a cylindrical or drum shaped substrate-transporter (100) for transporting substrates (64) past the deposition-devices. Substrates are carried on substrate-carriers (66) which are configured to fit into transport-stations (102) around the periphery of the substrate-transporter. A magazine (61) holding a plurality of substrate-carriers is located in the load-lock chamber. An injector arrangement (120) is provided for ejecting a substrate-carrier from the magazine, transporting the substrate-carrier through the high vacuum valve, and inserting the substrate-carrier into a transport-station of the substrate-carrier.

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PHOTRAN CORPORATION A CORPORATION OF MN21875 GRENADA AVENUE LAKEVILLE MN 55044

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Stevenson, David E Northfield, MN 13 208

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