Stock material or miscellaneous articles – All metal or with adjacent metals – Composite; i.e. – plural – adjacent – spatially distinct metal...
Reexamination Certificate
2001-01-05
2002-11-12
Koehler, Robert R. (Department: 1775)
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
All metal or with adjacent metals
Composite; i.e., plural, adjacent, spatially distinct metal...
C073S789000, C073S826000, C073S866000, C148S686000, C428S606000, C428S607000, C428S935000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06479170
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to electrodeposited copper foil; to a method of evaluating physical properties of the electrodeposited copper foil; and to a copper-clad laminate employing the electrodeposited copper foil.
BACKGROUND ART
Conventionally, copper foil has been employed as a material for producing printed wiring boards, which are widely used in the electric and electronics industries. In general, electrodeposited copper foil is bonded, through hot-pressing, onto an electrically insulating polymer material substrate such as a glass-epoxy substrate, a phenolic polymer substrate, or polyimide, to thereby form a copper-clad laminate, and the thus-prepared laminate is used for producing printed wiring boards.
In conventionally carried out hot-pressing, a copper foil, a prepreg (substrate) which is cured into a B-stage, and mirror plates serving as spacers are laid-up in a multilayered manner, and the copper foil and the prepreg are hot-press-bonded at high temperature and pressure (hereinafter the step may be referred to as “batch-press-lamination”), to thereby produce a copper-clad laminate.
However, in recent years, reducing the production costs of commercial copper foil products has been an essential issue for maintaining the global competitiveness in the electric and electronics industries. Thus, there is intense demand for reduction in production costs and, further, reduction in the price of printed wiring boards serving as principal components of electronic apparatus.
To meet the demand, a variety of efforts have been made to reducing costs of copper-clad laminates and electrodeposited copper foil, which are intermediate products for producing printed wiring boards. For example, instead of FR-4, CEM-3 has been employed as a copper-clad laminates, and a continuous lamination method has been employed so as to remarkably enhance productivity.
However, the aforementioned alteration in material and method of production results in adverse effects on copper-clad laminates, which effects have never been observed. Thus, an electrodeposited copper foil, serving as a basic material, is required to have characteristics to overcome the adverse effects. In particular, the problems which arise after an electrodeposited copper foil has been bonded to a substrate include bow or warpage, twist, and poor dimensional stability of the copper-clad laminates.
As one solution to the aforementioned problems, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (kokai) No. 2-258337 discloses employment of an electrodeposited copper foil exhibiting excellent high-temperature elongation (HTE) characteristics (hereinafter referred to as “S-HTE foil”); i.e., an elongation as high as more than 10% in an atmosphere of 180° C. Although attempts have been made to solve the aforementioned problems by controlling tensile strength in an atmosphere of 180° C., as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (kokai) No. 5-24152, the problems have not yet been solved completely.
REFERENCES:
patent: 6132887 (2000-10-01), Clouser et al.
patent: 0 207 224 (1999-03-01), None
Hirasawa Yutaka
Takahashi Naotomi
Jenkens & Gilchrist
Koehler Robert R.
Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd.
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