Medium Size Compact Coating Unit For Conventional and Nanocomposite Coatings - π311

Medium size compact coating unit for conventional and Nanocomposite coatings

General Information

• Compact hardcoating unit
• Based on PLATIT LARC® and CERC® technologies (LAteral Rotating Cathodes and CEntral Rotating Cathodes)
• Coating on tool steels (TS) above 230 °C, high speed steels (HSS) 350 - 500 °C and on tungsten carbide (WC) between 350 - 550 °C
• Reconfigurable by the user into different cathode setups:
A : 3 LARC® cathodes and one CERC® cathode
B : 3 LARC® cathodes (π311eco)
• π311eco: Coating unit with 3 LARC-cathodes only

Coatings

• Monolayers, Multilayers, Nanogradients, Nanolayers, Nanocomposites, TripleCoatings3 and their combinations
• Main standard coatings: AlTiN, nACo3, nACRo3
• All TripleCoatings3® available
• Selected QUADCoatings4® available

Hardware

• Foot print: W2350 x D1660 x H2300 mm
• Vacuum chamber, internal sizes: W580 x D566 x H580 mm
• Max. size of coatable parts: Ø485 x H480 mm
• Usable plasma volume: Ø485 x H440 mm
• Max. load: 150 kg
• System with turbo molecular pump
• Revolutionary rotating (tubular) cathode system
with 3 LARC® / CERC® cathodes:
• Magnetic Coil Confinement (MACC) for ARC control
• Changing time for skilled operator: approx. 15-30 min/cathode
• VIRTUAL SHUTTER® and TUBE SHUTTER® for all LARC® cathodes
• LGD®: LARC® Glow Discharge
• Ionic plasma cleaning:
• etching with gas (Ar/H2); glow discharge
• metal ion etching (Ti, Cr)
• Pulsed BIAS supply (350 kHz)
• 6 (+1) gas channels, 6 MFC controlled
• Special dust filters for heaters (20 kW)
• Electrical connection: 3x400V, 100A, 50-60 Hz
• In π311-13 mode: max. 45 kVA
• In π311-03 mode: max. 40 kVA
• Upgradeable to π311+DLC, π311+OXI, and to both on user's place

Eletronics and Sofware

• Control system with touch-screen menu driven concept
• No programming knowledge is required for control
• Data logging and real-time viewing of process parameters
• Remote diagnostics and control
• Insite operator's manual and on CD-ROM
• Operating software compatible to π80

Minimum Cycle Times
for Optimum Conditions*

• Shank tools (2 μm): ø 10 x 70 mm, 504 pcs: 4.5 h
• Inserts (3 μm): ø 20 x 6 mm, 2940 pcs: 5 h
• Hobs (4 μm): ø 80 x 180 mm, 28 pcs: 6.5 h
*: The cycle times can be achieved under the following conditions:

• solid carbide tools (no outgassing necessary)
• high quality cleaning before the coating process (short etching)
• continuous operation (pre-heated chamber)
• 3-cathode processes with CERC cathode
• use of fast cooling (e.g. with helium, opening the chamber at 200°C)
• π311: 4 (up to 5) batches / day
• π311-eco: 3 (up to 4) batches / day

Coating types

TiN | Nitrides
TiCN-grey | Nitrides
TiAlN / AlTiN | Nitrides
CrN | Nitrides
CrTiN | Nitrides
ZrN | Nitrides
AlCrN | Nitrides
AlTiCrN | Nitrides
nACo® | Nitrides
nACRo® | Nitrides
cVIc® | DLC
CROMVIc® | DLC
CROMTIVIc® | DLC
nACVIc® | DLC
nACo3® | Nitrides
nACRo3® | Nitrides
TiXCo3® | Nitrides
AlCrN3® | Nitrides
AlTiCrN3® | Nitrides
nACRo4®-eco | Nitrides
nACoX4® | OXI

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