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Electrically conductive adhesive tape
Assignee: 3M Co
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Filing: 1988-08-29
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Granted: 1993-08-31
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Expires: 2008-08-29
Abstract
Abstract Electrically conductive elements on two substrates can be electrically interconnected by an adhesive tape containing electrically conductive particles, most of which are substantially uniformly spaced from their six nearest neighbors. Preferably the particles are spherical and of substantially equal diameter slightly exceeding the thickness of the adhesive layer. The adhesive tape can be made by forming a dense monolayer of the particles, covering a stretchable adhesive layer with that dense monolayer, biaxially stretching the adhesive layer to separate each particle from other particles of the monolayer, and then embedding the particles either into that adhesive layer or into the adhesive layer of another tape.
Inventors
- 👤 Clyde D. Calhoun
- 👤 Maurice J. Fleming
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-10-24 05:21
CPC Classifications
H; H05; H05K; H05K3/00; H05K3/30; H05K3/32; H05K3/321; H05K3/323; C; C09; C09J; C09J7/00; C09J7/10; C09J7/30; C09J7/35; C09J7/38; C09J9/00; C09J9/02; H01; H01B; H01B5/00; H01B5/14; H01R; H01R11/00; H01R11/01; C09J2301/00; C09J2301/20; C09J2301/206; C09J2301/30; C09J2301/314; H05K2201/00; H05K2201/02; H05K2201/0203; H05K2201/0206; H05K2201/0221; H05K2201/023; H05K2201/09; H05K2201/09818; H05K2201/09945; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/24; Y10T428/24355; Y10T428/24372; Y10T428/24413; Y10T428/24479; Y10T428/24521; Y10T428/24545; Y10T428/25; Y10T428/256; Y10T428/258; Y10T428/28; Y10T428/2852; Y10T428/287; Y10T428/2878; Y10T428/2891
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
70 words
Adhesive tape comprising a backing carrying an adhesive layer of substantially uniform thickness containing a monolayer of laterally spaced, electrically conductive particles, most of which are about equal to or somewhat larger than the adhesive thickness, thus making the adhesive layer electrically conductive through its thickness and electrically insulating laterally, wherein the improvement comprises: most of said particles have about six near neighbors from which each is substantially equally spaced.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
70 words
Adhesive tape comprising a backing carrying an adhesive layer of substantially uniform thickness containing a monolayer of laterally spaced, electrically conductive particles, most of which are about equal to or somewhat larger than the adhesive thickness, thus making the adhesive layer electrically conductive through its thickness and electrically insulating laterally, wherein the improvement comprises: most of said particles have about six near neighbors from which each is substantially equally spaced.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
12 words
Adhesive tape as defined in claim 1 wherein said particles are equiax.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
15 words
Adhesive tape as defined in claim 2 wherein said particles are of substantially uniform diameter.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
47 words
Adhesive tape as defined in claim 3 wherein said particles have a Knoop Hardness Value of at least 300 so that when substrates comprising electrically conductive elements are adhered together with a piece of the tape, the particles penetrate those elements upon application of ordinary hand pressure.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
38 words
Adhesive tape as defined in claim 4 wherein said adhesive is a pressure-sensitive adhesive, and both the diameter of the equiax particles and the thickness of the adhesive layer are within the range of 10 to 50 μm.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
21 words
Adhesive tape as defined in claim 2 wherein the average spacing between said equiax particles does not exceed their average diameter.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
21 words
Adhesive tape as defined in claim 1 wherein said particles are at least as deformable as are substantially pure silver particles.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
31 words
Adhesive tape as defined in claim 1, the adhesive of which is a pressure-sensitive adhesive and the backing of which is a disposable carrier web, each surface of which is low-adhesion.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
14 words
Adhesive tape as defined in claim 8 wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive is a silicone.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
109 words
Adhesive tape comprising a backing carrying an adhesive layer of substantially uniform thickness containing a monolayer of laterally spaced, electrically conductive particles, most of which are about equal to or somewhat larger than the adhesive thickness, thus making the adhesive layer electrically conductive through its thickness and electrically insulating laterally, wherein the improvement comprises: almost all of said particles are substantially equiax and of substantially the same diameter not greater than 100 μm, the average spacing between particles does not exceed their average diameter, each particle is spaced from every other particle, and most of said particles have about six near neighbors from which each is substantially equally spaced.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
109 words
Adhesive tape comprising a backing carrying an adhesive layer of substantially uniform thickness containing a monolayer of laterally spaced, electrically conductive particles, most of which are about equal to or somewhat larger than the adhesive thickness, thus making the adhesive layer electrically conductive through its thickness and electrically insulating laterally, wherein the improvement comprises: almost all of said particles are substantially equiax and of substantially the same diameter not greater than 100 μm, the average spacing between particles does not exceed their average diameter, each particle is spaced from every other particle, and most of said particles have about six near neighbors from which each is substantially equally spaced.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
20 words
Adhesive tape as defined in claim 10 wherein the average diameter of the particles is between 10 and 50 μm.
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