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Ultraviolet curable conductive resin
Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp
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Filing: 1988-08-23
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Granted: 1991-03-12
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Expires: 2008-08-23
Abstract
Abstract A UV curable electrically conductive adhesive has been developed with low resistivity, adequate lap shear strength, good thermal stability, and very stable conductivity at high temperatures of about 100 DEG C. and high humidity. The adhesive may be applied by silk screen printing and cured by UV in about 8 seconds. The adhesive may also be used as a replacement of solder in automated surface mount technology for electronic circuit fabrication. The adhesive is a mixture of (A) a blend of an acrylate epoxy and a urethane, a copolymer of an acrylate epoxy and a urethane, or mixtures thereof; (B) a polyfunctional acrylate monomer; (C) a photoinitiator, and (D) a conductive filler. Optionally, adhesion promoters and flow control agents may be used.
Inventors
- 👤 Wei-Fang A. Su
- 👤 Anthony P. Barrett
- 👤 Luciano C. Scala
- 👤 Karl F. Schoch, Jr.
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-04 11:41
CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01B; H01B1/00; H01B1/20; H01B1/22; C; C08; C08F; C08F299/00; C08F299/02; C08F299/026; C08F299/028; H05; H05K; H05K3/00; H05K3/30; H05K3/303; H05K3/305; H05K3/32; H05K3/321; H05K1/00; H05K1/18; H05K1/181; H05K2201/00; H05K2201/10; H05K2201/10613; H05K2201/10621; H05K2201/10636; Y; Y02; Y02P; Y02P70/00; Y02P70/50; Y10; Y10S; Y10S428/00; Y10S428/901
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
128 words
A conductive adhesive comprising: (A) about 5 to 20 weight percent of a blend of an acrylate epoxy and a urethane, a copolymer of an acrylate epoxy and a urethane, or mixtures thereof; (B) about 5 to 20 weight percent of a polyfunctional acrylate monomer selected from the group consisting of: 1,3-butylene glycol diacrylate; 1,4-butandiol diacrylate; Diethylene glycol diacrylate; 1,6-hexanediol diacrylate; 2,2-dimethylpropane-1,3-diacrylate; tetraethylene glycol diacrylate; tripropylene glycol diacrylate; Trimethylpropane triacrylate; pentaerythritol triacrtylate; ethoxylated trimethylol propane triacrylate; glyceryl propoxy triacrylate, and mixtures thereof; (C) about 1 to 7 weight percent of a photoinitiator; and (D) about 60 to 80 weight percent of a conductive filler selected from the group consisting of silver, iron, copper, nickel and mixtures thereof, and having a particle size of less than about 16 microns.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
128 words
A conductive adhesive comprising: (A) about 5 to 20 weight percent of a blend of an acrylate epoxy and a urethane, a copolymer of an acrylate epoxy and a urethane, or mixtures thereof; (B) about 5 to 20 weight percent of a polyfunctional acrylate monomer selected from the group consisting of: 1,3-butylene glycol diacrylate; 1,4-butandiol diacrylate; Diethylene glycol diacrylate; 1,6-hexanediol diacrylate; 2,2-dimethylpropane-1,3-diacrylate; tetraethylene glycol diacrylate; tripropylene glycol diacrylate; Trimethylpropane triacrylate; pentaerythritol triacrtylate; ethoxylated trimethylol propane triacrylate; glyceryl propoxy triacrylate, and mixtures thereof; (C) about 1 to 7 weight percent of a photoinitiator; and (D) about 60 to 80 weight percent of a conductive filler selected from the group consisting of silver, iron, copper, nickel and mixtures thereof, and having a particle size of less than about 16 microns.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
11 words
The adhesive of claim 1, wherein said conductive filler is silver.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
34 words
The adhesive of claim 1, wherein said conductive filler is selected from the group consisting of metal flakes, metal powders, metal coated glass beads, metal coated glass flakes, metal coated mica and mixtures thereof.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
13 words
The adhesive of claim 3, wherein said conductive filler is a metal flake.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
31 words
The adhesive of claim 1, wherein said adhesive includes about 0.01 to 0.1 weight percent of additives selected from the group consisting of adhesion promoters, flow control agents and mixtures thereof.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
19 words
The adhesive of claim 1, wherein said component (A) is a blend of an acrylate epoxy and a urethane.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
24 words
The adhesive of claim 6, wherein said component (B) is selected from the group consisting of tetraethylene glycol diacrylate, glycerol propoxytriacrylate, and mixtures thereof.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
13 words
The adhesive of claim 7, wherein said component (B) is tetraethylene glycol diacrylate.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
13 words
The adhesive of claim 7, wherein said component (B) is glyceryl propoxy triacrylate.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
42 words
The adhesive of claim 1, wherein said component (C) is selected from the group consisting of: benzoin ethers derivatives; alpha-acryloxime esters derivatives; benzil ketals derivatives; acetophenone derivatives; ketone-amine combination; primary or secondary aliphatic and aromatic amines and the ketones, and mixtures thereof.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
61 words
The adhesive of claim 10, wherein said component (C) is selected from the group consisting of: isobutyl benzoin ether; isopropyl benzoin ether; benzoin ethyl ether; benzoin methyl ether; 1-phenyl-1,2-propane-dione-2-(0-ethoxycarbonyl) oxime; 2,2-dimethoxy-2-phenyl-acetophenone; benzyl; hydroxy-cyclo-hexyl phenyl ketone; diethoxyacetophenone; 2-hydroxy-2-methyl-1-phenyl-propane-1-one; benzophenone; chlorothioxanthone; 2-chlorothioxanthone; isopropyl thioxanthone; 2-methylthioxanthone; chlorine functional substituted benzophenone; halogen substituted alkyl-arylketone, wherein said halogen is chlorine, bromine and iodine and mixtures thereof.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
9 words
A solder paste comprising the adhesive of claim 1.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
12 words
A printed wire board having the adhesive of claim 1 applied thereon.
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