Coating film, manufacturing method therefor, and PVD apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11261519-B2
Application number	US-201616062109-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 16, 2016
Priority date	Dec 18, 2015
Publication date	Mar 1, 2022
Grant date	Mar 1, 2022

Abstract

The purpose of the invention is to provide technology, which, in addition to being capable of forming thick hard carbon films of excellent durability even using PVD, is able to establish both chipping resistance and wear resistance in the formed hard carbon film and able to improve low friction properties and peeling resistance. Provided is a coating film to be coated on the surface of a substrate, the coating film having a total film thickness of greater than 1 μm to 50 μm wherein: when a cross-section is observed using bright field TEM images, white hard carbon layers that are shown as relatively white and black hard carbon layers that are shown as black are alternately laminated in the thickness direction; and the white hard carbon layers have regions that have grown in a fan-shape in the thickness direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A coating film, coated on a substrate surface, wherein
when a cross-section is observed through a bright-field TEM image, white hard carbon layers shown as relatively white and black hard carbon layers shown as black are alternately laminated in a thickness direction to have a total film thickness ranging from 1 μm to 50 μm, and
the white hard carbon layers have regions that have grown in a fan shape in the thickness direction.

2. The coating film according to claim 1 , further comprising an adhesion layer comprising relatively-white hard carbon between the white hard carbon layer shown as relatively white and the black hard carbon layer shown as black when the cross-section is observed through the bright-field TEM image.

3. The coating film according to claim 2 , wherein a sp 2 /sp 3 ratio of the adhesion layer comprising the white hard carbon is 0.4-0.9.

4. The coating film according to claim 1 , wherein a sp 2 /sp 3 ratio of the black hard carbon layer is 0.1-0.4.

5. The coating film according to claim 1 , wherein a sp 2 /sp 3 ratio of the white hard carbon layer is 0.4-0.9.

6. The coating film according claim 1 , wherein when electron beam diffraction is performed to the white hard carbon layers, diffraction spots are shown at positions with a lattice spacing of 0.3-0.4 nm.

7. The coating film according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of each layer of the white hard carbon layers is 20-2000 nm, and
a thickness of each layer of the black hard carbon layers is 20-1000 nm.

8. The coating film according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of the thickness of the white hard carbon layer to the thickness of the black hard carbon layer changes in the thickness direction of the coating film, and increases from the substrate side toward the surface side.

9. The coating film according to claim 1 , wherein the white hard carbon layers have organized darkness and lightness when the cross-section is observed through the bright-field TEM image.

10. The coating film according to claim 1 , wherein a hydrogen content of the black and/or the white hard carbon layers is below 10 atom %.

11. The coating film according to claim 1 , wherein at least one layer of the white hard carbon layers exists in a region within a depth of 1 μm from the surface, and the sp 2 /sp 3 ratio of the white hard carbon layer is above 0.5.

12. The coating film according to claim 1 , wherein an outermost surface is the white hard carbon layer.

13. The coating film according to claim 1 , wherein a nano indentation hardness of the black hard carbon layers is 30-80 GPa.

14. The coating film according to claim 13 , wherein a nano indentation hardness of the white hard carbon layers is 10-30 GPa.

15. The coating film according to claim 1 , which is a coating film coated on a substrate surface, wherein when the cross-section is observed through bright-field TEM image, the white hard carbon layers shown as relatively white and the black hard carbon layers shown as relatively black are alternately laminated in the thickness direction, and a bulging part crossing an interlayer of at least two of the laminated layers is present.

16. The coating film according to claim 15 , wherein the bulging part is present in a manner that an area ratio when observing the cross-section of the coating film is within a range above 5% and below 40%.

17. The coating film according to claim 15 , wherein in the bulging part, the area ratio is greater in an upper half in a lamination direction of the coating film than in a lower half.

18. The coating film according to claim 15 , wherein the bulging part expand toward a lamination direction of the coating film.

19. The coating film according to claim 15 , wherein the white hard carbon layers have regions that have grown in a fan shape towards a lamination direction.

20. The coating film according claim 15 , wherein the white hard carbon layers have growth shapes which can be described as mesh-shaped, scale-like, branch-like or layer-like.

21. The coating film according to claim 15 , wherein a sp 2 /sp 3 ratio of the white hard carbon layer is 0.4-0.9, and a sp 2 /sp 3 ratio of the black hard carbon layer is 0.1-0.4.

22. A piston ring, which comprises the coating film according to claim 15 on at least a peripheral sliding surface.

Assignees

• Nippon Itf Inc
• Nippon Piston Ring Co Ltd

Inventors

• Moriguchi Hideki
• Shibata Akinori
• Ooshiro Takehiko
• Ito Yoshihiro
• Okazaki Takahiro
• Sugiura Hiroyuki

Classifications

• F16J9/26

  characterised by the use of particular materials · CPC title

• C23C28/046

  with at least one amorphous inorganic material layer, e.g. DLC, a-C:H, a-C:Me, the layer being doped or not · CPC title

• C23C28/044

  coatings specially adapted for cutting tools or wear applications · CPC title

• C23C14/0605

  Carbon · CPC title

• C23C14/541 Primary

  Heating or cooling of the substrates · CPC title