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Use of immersion tin and alloys as a bonding medium for multilayer circuits
Assignee: Techno Instruments Investments 1983 Ltd
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Filing: 1986-10-29
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Granted: 1989-03-28
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Expires: 2006-10-29
Abstract
Abstract A novel immersion tin composition is disclosed containing both thiourea compounds and urea compounds. A method for improving the adhesion of printed circuit boards to one another in a multilayer board and for minimizing or eliminating smear in a multilayer board is also disclosed comprising coating the metal layers of the individual circuit boards with an immersion tin coating prior to laminating them to form a multilayer board. The immersion tin composition may also be prepared from a two component system which eliminates or substantially retards the formation of H 2 S in the presence of sulfur containing components.
Inventors
- 👤 Abraham M. Holtzman
- 👤 Joseph Relis
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-06 17:37
CPC Classifications
H; H05; H05K; H05K3/00; H05K3/22; H05K3/24; H05K3/244; C; C23; C23C; C23C18/00; C23C18/16; C23C18/1601; C23C18/1633; C23C18/1655; C23C18/1658; C23C18/166; C23C18/52; C23C18/54; H05K3/38; H05K3/382; H05K3/384; H05K2203/00; H05K2203/07; H05K2203/0703; H05K2203/072; H05K3/46; H05K3/4611
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 23
Claim 1
Independent Claim
111 words
A composition containing components adapted to form an immersion coating composition when said components are admixed together, one of said components comprising (a) a thiourea compound and (b) a urea compound another of said components comprising (c) a metal salt (d) a member selected from the group of hypophosphite salts or a hypophosphorous acid, and said metal salt being selected from the group of salts based on the Group IVA metals including tin, Group VIII metals, Group IB metals, Group IIB metals and Group IIIA metals, said metal salt, urea compound and thiourea compound each being present in an amount sufficient to enable said composition to function as an immersion composition.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
111 words
A composition containing components adapted to form an immersion coating composition when said components are admixed together, one of said components comprising (a) a thiourea compound and (b) a urea compound another of said components comprising (c) a metal salt (d) a member selected from the group of hypophosphite salts or a hypophosphorous acid, and said metal salt being selected from the group of salts based on the Group IVA metals including tin, Group VIII metals, Group IB metals, Group IIB metals and Group IIIA metals, said metal salt, urea compound and thiourea compound each being present in an amount sufficient to enable said composition to function as an immersion composition.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
12 words
The composition of claim 1 in which (c) is a tin salt.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
16 words
The composition of claim 1 in which (c) is stannous sulfate and (e) is sulfuric acid.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
15 words
The composition of claims 1 or 2 where said metal salt comprises a stannous salt.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
14 words
The composition of claims 1 or 2 or 3 further comprising a reducing agent.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
23 words
The compositions of claims 1 or 2 further comprising an acid and said metal salt comprises a stannous salt of a mineral acid.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
30 words
The composition of claim 1 wherein said thiourea compound and said urea compound comprise a thiourea nucleus and a urea nucleus with the same substituents on each of said nuclei.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
17 words
The composition of claim 7 where said thiourea compound comprises thiourea and said urea compound comprises urea.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
51 words
The composition of claims 1 or 2 or 3 further comprising a compound selected from a member of the group consisting of a Group VIII metal salt, a Group IVA metal salt with the exception of tin, a Group IIB metal salt or a Group IB metal salt or mixtures thereof.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
33 words
The composition of claims 1 or 2 or 3 further comprising a metal salt selected from a member of the group consisting of the salts of iron, cobalt, and nickel or mixtures thereof.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
15 words
The composition of claims 1 or 2 or 3 further comprising a salt of lead.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
13 words
The composition of claims 1 or 2 or 3 further comprising a surfactant.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
16 words
The composition of claims 1 or 2 or 3 further comprising a polyoxyethylene nonyl phenol surfactant.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
58 words
The composition of claims 1 or 2 or 3 where the components of said composition are present in the following amounts on a molar basis: (a) about 10 to about 125 parts of a thiourea compound; (b) about 10 to about 125 parts of a urea compound; (c) about 1 to about 15 parts of a metal salt.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
36 words
The composition of claim 14 further comprising 0 to about 40 parts of a chelating agent; about 5 to about 110 parts of a reducing agent and from 0 to about 250 parts of an acid.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
70 words
The composition of claim 15 further comprising a compound selected from a member of the group consisting of a Group VII metal salt, a Group IVA metal salt with the exception of tin, a Group IIB metal salt or a Group IB metal salt or mixtures thereof in an amount from about 0.2 parts to about 55 parts on a molar basis and said metal salt comprises a tin salt.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
16 words
An immersion coating formed from the two component composition of claims 1 or 2 or 3.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
25 words
An immersion coating formed from the two component composition of claims 1 or 2 or 3 further comprising, a chelating agent and a reducing agent.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
138 words
A process for forming an immersion coating composition which comprises preforming separate component compositions one of said component compositions comprising (a) a thiourea compound and (b) a urea compound, and another of said component compositions comprising (c) a metal salt; (d) a member selected from the group of hypophosphite salts or hypophosphorous acid, said metal salt being selected from the group of salts based on the Group IVA metals including tin, Group VIII metals, Group IB metals, Group IIB metals and Group IIIA metals, said metal salt, urea compound and thiourea compound each being present in an amount sufficient to enable said composition to function as an immersion composition, then admixing said component compositions together just prior to use as an immersion coating to minimize formation of hydrogen sulfide by the reaction of said components with one another.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
138 words
A process for forming an immersion coating composition which comprises preforming separate component compositions one of said component compositions comprising (a) a thiourea compound and (b) a urea compound, and another of said component compositions comprising (c) a metal salt; (d) a member selected from the group of hypophosphite salts or hypophosphorous acid, said metal salt being selected from the group of salts based on the Group IVA metals including tin, Group VIII metals, Group IB metals, Group IIB metals and Group IIIA metals, said metal salt, urea compound and thiourea compound each being present in an amount sufficient to enable said composition to function as an immersion composition, then admixing said component compositions together just prior to use as an immersion coating to minimize formation of hydrogen sulfide by the reaction of said components with one another.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
13 words
A process as in claim 19 in which (c) is a tin salt.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
18 words
A process as in claim 20 in which (c) is stannous sulfate and which further contains sulfuric acid.
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