Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a resistor to be printed and plated as the integrated part of the circuit of a printed circuit board by plating a resistive material to an insulating substrate existing between conductive areas so that the resistive material may connect the conductive areas to each other. SOLUTION: After exposed copper is etched off and an etch resist is removed, the exposed surface is activated and a mask for plating which substantially covers the entire exposed surface except an area where a resistor 16 is to be plated is applied to the surface. Then the exposed surface is plated with a resistive material and the mask for plating is removed. After the mask is removed, the surface of a bare dielectric substrate 10 is activated so that the surface may accept plating. Then a mask for plating is applied to the substrate 10 so that a desired circuit may be demarcated in a negative state and the area between the circuit and a position related to the resistor 16 may be demarcated in a positive state. Thereafter, the desired circuit is plated and a resist 15 is removed.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a printed circuit board provided with a plated resistor which is unified in a body with a circuit, by eliminating exposed copper by etching, plating an exposed region by using a mask for plating, and eliminating the mask for plating by stripping. SOLUTION: The surface of a copper-coated laminate having an insulating dielectric substratum 10 and a stuck copper foil 11 is eliminated by etching. By stripping resist 12, the surface of an arbitrarily exposed dielectric material surface is made uniform. Thereon a mask for plating is so applied that resist 15 for plating covers the whole surface except the region where a resistor 16 is to be plated. By stripping the mask for plating, the surface of a printed circuit board is arbitrarily cleaned, and a plated resistor 16 is covered with a protective film. Thereby the printed circuit board provided with a plated resistor 16 unified in a body with a circuit can be formed.
Abstract:
PHOSPHATE COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING AT LEAST ONE COPPER SALT ARE UTLILIZED FOR COATING SURFACES OF FERROUS METALS. THE PHOSPHATE COATINGS ACHIEVED, WHICH POSSESS A REDDISH COLOR, SERVER AS AN EXCELLENT MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION OF THE ARTICLES THIS COATED AND, IN ADDITION, THE FINISH IS OF GOOD CORROSION RESISTANCE.
Abstract:
Composition and methods for providing a phosphate conversion coating on a metal surface, particularly a copper surface, characterized in that the phosphating composition includes at least one composition-soluble compound containing vanadium, niobium, tungsten or tantalum. The phosphate conversion coatings so produced are thicker, more durable and more uniform than those produced by known phosphating compositions. The compositions and processes are especially useful for providing a passivating/uniformizing coating layer on copper surfaces to which organic resin is thereafter deposited to serve as a resist in printed circuit fabrication sequences, particularly when the organic resin is an electrophoretically deposited organic resin. Also described is the microetching of copper surfaces with a phosphoric acid/peroxide microetchant preparatory to deposit thereon (or after a further provision of a phosphate conversion coating) of a photoresist which is then imagewise exposed and developed to provide a patterned resist.
Abstract:
An aqueous acidic copper electroplating composition containing an improved additive system for use at elevated temperatures. The improved additive system comprises (a) a suppressor comprising at least one high molecular weight polymer; (b) a brightener comprising at least one divalent sulfur compound; and (c) a leveler comprising a heterocyclic nitrogen compound. The improved electroplating composition is usable for plating through holes in printed circuit boards.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to an improved method for metallizing polymer substrates, such as polyimides. The present invention comprises the steps of surface treating the polymer substrate with a plasma jet or corona discharge surface treatment, conditioning and etching the polymer substrate with an etching solution comprising a hydroxide and ionic palladium, activating the polymer substrate with ionic palladium, reducing the palladium on the polymer substrate, plating an electroless nickel layer onto the prepared polymer substrate, arid plating an electroless copper layer over the electroless nickel layer. The process of the invention provides an improved method for preparing the polymer substrate for subsequent electrolytic plating thereon.
Abstract:
A process and product manufactured by the process is revealed whereby resistors (16) can be manufactured integral a printed circuit board (10, 13) by plating the resistors onto an insulative substrate (10). Uniformization o f the insulative substrate by etching and oxidation of the plated resistor are revealed as techniques for improving the uniformity and consistency of the plated resistors.
Abstract:
Composition and methods for providing a phosphate conversion coating on a metal surface, particularly a copper surface, characterized in that the phosphating composition includes at least one composition-soluble compound containing vanadium, niobium, tungsten or tantalum. The phosphate conversion coatings so produced are thicker, more durable and more uniform than those produced by known phosphating compositions. The compositions and processes are especially useful for providing a passivating/uniformizing coating layer on copper surfaces to which organic resin is thereafter deposited to serve as a resist in printed circuit fabrication sequences, particularly when the organic resin is an electrophoretically deposited organic resin. Also described is the microetching of copper surfaces with a phosphoric acid/peroxide microetchant preparatory to deposit thereon (or after a further provision of a phosphate conversion coating) of a photoresist which is then imagewise exposed and developed to provide a patterned resist.
Abstract:
Composition and methods for providing a phosphate conversion coating on a metal surface, particularly a copper surface, characterized in that the phosphating composition includes at least one composition-soluble compound containing vanadium, niobium, tungsten or tantalum. The phosphate conversion coatings so produced are thicker, more durable and more uniform than those produced by known phosphating compositions. The compositions and processes are especially useful for providing a passivating/uniformizing coating layer on copper surfaces to which organic resin is thereafter deposited to serve as a resist in printed circuit fabrication sequences, particularly when the organic resin is an electrophoretically deposited organic resin. Also described is the microetching of copper surfaces with a phosphoric acid/peroxide microetchant preparatory to deposit thereon (or after a further provision of a phosphate conversion coating) of a photoresist which is then imagewise exposed and developed to provide a patterned resist.
Abstract:
Composition and methods for providing a phosphate conversion coating on a metal surface, particularly a copper surface, characterized in that the phosphating composition includes at least one composition-soluble compound containing vanadium, niobium, tungsten or tantalum. The phosphate conversion coatings so produced are thicker, more durable and more uniform than those produced by known phosphating compositions. The compositions and processes are especially useful for providing a passivating/uniformizing coating layer on copper surfaces to which organic resin is thereafter deposited to serve as a resist in printed circuit fabrication sequences, particularly when the organic resin is an electrophoretically deposited organic resin. Also described is the microetching of copper surfaces with a phosphoric acid/peroxide microetchant preparatory to deposit thereon (or after a further provision of a phosphate conversion coating) of a photoresist which is then imagewise exposed and developed to provide a patterned resist.