Patent ID: 9222173
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: C23C

Abstract:
1. Vacuum processing device comprising a process chamber, a vacuum chamber containing the said process chamber, an exhaust line outside the vacuum chamber, a connector with a housing, with a duct for connecting an exhaust opening of the process chamber which is surrounded by a contact ring with the exhaust line, where the duct comprises a bellows extending in an axial direction and carrying a coupling tube for connecting a distal end of the duct facing the exhaust opening to the contact ring in a gas-tight manner, and where the bellows is, at an opposite proximal end of the duct, fixed to the housing and connected, equally in a gas-tight manner, to the exhaust line, and with an actuator for switching the duct between a connected state where the coupling tube contacts the contact ring and a disconnected state where, with the bellows contracted, the coupling ring is at an axial distance from the contact ring, where the actuator is reciprocatable in the axial direction and cooperative with the coupling tube so as to allow the same at least limited play in a lateral direction perpendicular to the axial direction in the connected state.