Patent ID: 6960368

Claim:
A process for forming a deposited film, comprising: receiving electric current and heating at least one depositing material by resistance heating, the at least one depositing material being selected from the group consisting of aluminum, zinc, tin and magnesium and an alloy containing at least one of these metal components, said receiving and heating being performed by a deposited-film forming apparatus, the deposited-film forming apparatus comprising: an evaporating section for the at least one depositing material, and a plurality of tubular barrels formed of a mesh net for accommodation of work pieces, on each of the surfaces of which a depositing material is to be deposited, said evaporating section and said tubular barrels being mounted in a vacuum-treating chamber, wherein said tubular barrels are detachably supported by support shafts provided at each side of each tubular barrel circumferentially outside a horizontal rotational axis of a support member rotatable about said rotational axis, for rotation about said rotational axis, so that the distance between said tubular barrel rotated about said rotational axis of said support member and said evaporating section is varied by rotating said support member, wherein the work pieces are rare earth metal-based permanent magnets and the at least one depositing material is molten at said evaporating section.