Patent ID: 9309593
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: C04B,C23C

Claim Text:
1. A hard-material-coated body of metal, hard metal, cermet or ceramic, coated with a TiSiCN composite coating or with a multi-layer coating system that contains at least one TiSiCN composite coating, wherein the TiSiCN composite coating is a nanocomposite coating with a halogen content of <1 atomic % and an oxygen content of <4 atomic %, which is produced via a thermal CVD technique without additional plasma excitation and which contains a nanocrystalline phase of TiC x N 1-x with 0.1≦x≦0.99 with a crystallite size between 5 nm and 150 nm and a second phase of amorphous SiC x N y .