Composite device and manufacturing method therefor

• US 6,787,199 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2003
• Issued: 09/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Original Assignee: Murakami Corporation
• Inventors: Takeuchi, Masato, Anpo, Masakazu, Dohshi, Satoru, Kuzuya, Norihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): MEEKS, TIMOTHY HOWARD
• Application Number:
  US10/414,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20030198735A1
• Time in Patent Office: 510 Days
• Field of Search: 427/529, 427/562, 427/255.31, 427/255.38, 502/103, 502/202
• US Class Current: 427/529
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 21/02 Boron or aluminium; Oxides or hydroxides thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 35/30 characterised by their physical properties
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 35/39 Photocatalytic properties
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 37/0238 via the gaseous phase-sublimation
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 37/347 Ionic or cathodic spraying; Electric discharge
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 17/007 containing a dispersed phase, e.g. particles, fibres or flakes, in a continuous phase
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2217/425 consisting of a porous layer
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2217/45 Inorganic continuous phases
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 2217/477 Titanium oxide
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 14/08 Oxides C23C14/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/249953 Composite having voids in a component [e.g., porous, cellular, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/249987 With nonvoid component of specified composition

Abstract

This invention provides a composite device whereby surface reflection and interference colors can be inhibited, photocatalytic decomposition performance may be improved and hydrophilicity-acquiring rate may be improved. A mixture film (14) is deposited on the surface of a base (12). The mixture film (14) is a colorless and transparent mixture film with a high light transmittance made of a mixture of boron oxide and photocatalytic titanium oxide.

Claims

1. A method for manufacturing a composite device;

wherein a mixture film comprising a photocatalytic material and boron oxide as main components is deposited on a surface of a base by;

placing a crucible containing a raw material for a photocatalytic material and a crucible containing boron oxide under a vacuum atmosphere in which a small amount of oxygen is introduced;

simultaneously evaporating the raw material for the photocatalytic material and boron oxide in these crucibles to allow clusters of the materials to be emitted from the nozzles of the crucibles, respectively;

oxidizing the cluster of the emitted raw material for the photocatalytic material with said introduced oxygen to form a cluster of the photocatalytic material;

ionizing the clusters of the photocatalytic material and of boron oxide; and

accelerating the ionized clusters in an electric field to collide with the surface of the base, thereby forming a mixture film.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the surface of the base comprises glass or a synthetic resin.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein an intermediate layer is formed on the surface of the base prior to forming the mixture film.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the intermediate layer comprises a porous inorganic oxide film, an alkali-diffusion inhibiting film, or a reflecting film.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the photocatalytic material comprises photocatalytic titanium oxide.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said simultaneously evaporating is carried out so that the ratio of photocatalytic titanium oxide to boron oxide is 50:

50 to 5;

95.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the raw material for a photocatalytic material is titanium.