US 12,404,581 B2
Apparatus for accommodating an article in a vacuum-coating installation
Frank Macionczyk, Oberkochen (DE); and Erwin Green, Aalen (DE)
Assigned to Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen (DE)
Filed by Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen (DE)
Filed on Jan. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/151,031.
Application 18/151,031 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/EP2021/068190, filed on Jul. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 118 367.4 (DE), filed on Jul. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0151478 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. C23C 14/50 (2006.01); C23C 14/24 (2006.01); C23C 14/54 (2006.01); H01J 37/32 (2006.01); H01J 37/34 (2006.01)
CPC C23C 14/505 (2013.01) [C23C 14/24 (2013.01); C23C 14/54 (2013.01); H01J 37/32715 (2013.01); H01J 37/3411 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for receiving an object in a vacuum-coating installation, the apparatus comprising:
a carrier having a coating opening;
a holding device configured to hold the object in the coating opening; and
a pivot bearing for the holding device, the pivot bearing being secured to the carrier, the pivot bearing having a pivot axis about which the holding device can be pivoted to turn the object held in the coating opening, and the pivot bearing having a bearing body with a circumferentially closed receptacle for a round body with an extent in a direction of the pivot axis,
wherein the bearing body additionally has a circumferentially open receptacle for the round body, and wherein the round body can be inserted into the circumferentially closed receptacle through the circumferentially open receptacle when the holding device is being arranged on the carrier.