The invention provides an evaporator that is heated by an electron beam in vacuum, evaporates or sublimates a vapor-deposition material, and forms a lithium-containing compound coating on a surface of a substrate in transfer by codeposition. The evaporator includes a hearth liner that includes a cooler; and a plurality of liners that are accommodated in the hearth liner, each of which has the vapor-deposition material thereinside.

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for coating flexible substrates are provided. A coating system includes an unwinding module housing a feed reel capable of providing a continuous sheet of flexible material, a winding module housing a take-up reel capable of storing the continuous sheet of flexible material, and a processing module arranged downstream from the unwinding module. The processing module includes a plurality of sub-chambers arranged in sequence, each configured to perform one or more processing operations to the continuous sheet of flexible material. The processing module includes a coating drum capable of guiding the continuous sheet of flexible material past the plurality of sub-chambers along a travel direction. The sub-chambers are radially disposed about the coating drum and at least one of the sub-chambers includes a deposition module. The deposition module includes a pair of electron beam sources positioned side-by-side along a transverse direction perpendicular to the travel direction.

In a vacuum processing apparatus for performing a predetermined vacuum processing on a surface of a sheet-like base material while keeping the base material to travel inside the vacuum chamber, the can-roller of this invention disposed to lie opposite to a vacuum processing unit has an axial body; an inner cylindrical body to be inserted onto an outside of the axial body; an outer cylindrical body enclosing an outer cylindrical surface of the inner cylindrical body with a gap therebetween, and cover bodies for respectively closing axial both ends of the inner cylindrical body. Each of the cover bodies has a plurality of flow passages. A cross-section of each of the fluid passages overlaps a cross-section of the cover body. A cross-sectional area of the gap between the inner cylindrical body and the outer cylindrical body is set to a size that can obtain a predetermined flow velocity.

A vapor deposition unit of this invention is provided with: a container box for containing therein a vapor deposition material; and a heating means for heating the vapor deposition material inside the container box, and which has formed in one plane of the container box a discharge opening for discharging a sublimated or evaporated vapor deposition material as a result of heating. The vapor deposition unit is further provided, inside a storing chamber, with a moving means for moving the vapor deposition unit. Provided that a direction looking toward the opening in the storing chamber is defined as an upper side, the moving means moves the vapor deposition unit disposed in the storing chamber in an up-and-down direction in a posture coinciding with a phase of the discharge opening.

Provided are an alloy coating steel plate and a method of manufacturing the same, and in this case, the alloy coating steel plate includes a steel, and an Al—Mg—Si alloy layer positioned on the steel plate, wherein the Al—Mg—Si alloy layer is formed to include Mg—Si alloy grains in an alloy layer configured in an Al—Mg alloy phase.

A vapor deposition apparatus is described. The vapor deposition apparatus includes a substrate support for supporting a substrate to be coated; a vapor source with a plurality of nozzles for directing vapor toward the substrate support through a vapor propagation volume; and a heatable shield extending from the vapor source toward the substrate support. The heatable shield surrounds the vapor propagation volume at least partially and includes an edge exclusion portion for masking areas of the substrate not to be coated. The substrate support may be a rotatable drum with a curved drum surface, and the vapor deposition apparatus may be configured to move the substrate on the curved drum surface past the vapor source in a circumferential direction.

The invention provides a film formation apparatus that includes: a transfer unit that transfers a substrate; a film formation unit that forms an electrolyte film on a film formation region of the substrate transferred by the transfer unit; and an extraneous-material removal unit that comes into contact with the electrolyte film of the substrate transferred by the transfer unit after film formation of the film formation unit and thereby removes extraneous materials contained in the film formation region.

Provided are a polypropylene film that has excellent structural stability relative to heat, is suitable for use in high-voltage capacitors or the like, and, when used in a high-voltage capacitor, has excellent long-term reliability in high-temperature environments; a metal layer laminated film that uses the polypropylene film; and a film capacitor. The polypropylene film has the sum of F5 values for the longitudinal direction and the width direction at 130° C. of at least 15 MPa and, for dielectric breakdown testing at 130° C., a dielectric breakdown voltage (B150) (V/μm) after heat treating for 1 minute at 150° C. and a dielectric breakdown voltage (B0) (V/μm) without heat treating satisfy the following relationship.

(B150)/(B0)≥0.80

A vacuum deposition facility is provided for continuously depositing on a running substrate coatings formed from metal alloys including a main element and at least one additional element. The facility includes a vacuum deposition chamber and a substrate running through the chamber. The facility also includes a vapor jet coater, an evaporation crucible for feeding the vapor jet coater with a vapor having the main element and the at least one additional element, a recharging furnace for feeding the evaporation crucible with the main element in molten state and maintaining a constant level of liquid in the evaporation crucible, and a feeding unit being fed with the at least one additional element in solid state for feeding the evaporation crucible with the at least one additional element either in molten state, in solid state or partially in solid state. A process is also provided.

Systems for depositing coatings onto surfaces of molds and other articles are generally provided. In some embodiments, a system is adapted and arranged to cause gaseous species to flow parallel to a filament array. In some embodiments, a system comprises one or more mold supports that are translatable.