Patent 7976940 was granted and assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Coatings which are applied to a component have to be removed again in a complex way in certain regions, since a coating was not desired to be present in those regions. The subsequent removal of this layer adversely affects the component, for example its geometry. The method according to the invention for coating a component includes a masking which at least partially comprises a ceramic powder and can therefore easily be removed after the component has been coated.