Coating processes – Electrical product produced – Condenser or capacitor
Patent
1998-02-05
2000-06-06
Kincaid, Kristine
Coating processes
Electrical product produced
Condenser or capacitor
4273935, 4274121, 361311, 3613014, B05D 512, H01G 4120
Patent
active
060715510
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a national stage of PCT/DE96/01448 filed Aug. 3, 1996 and based, in turn, on German national application 195 28 929.3 of Aug. 7, 1995 under the International Convention.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is directed to a process for producing plastic films useful for the production of film capacitors.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
It is known to produce film capacitors by providing a plastic backing film with a metal coating on one side or both sides. Aluminum or its alloys can be used as a suitable metal. The metal is preferably vaporized by deposition on the backing film. The obtained metal-coated plastic film is used as a starting material in order to press several film portions one upon the other for the production of a package. The several film portions are thereby bonded to one another so that a unitary capacitor package is obtained. The steps which are necessary for the production of the electrode terminals are not mentioned in detail here since they are of no importance for the invention described in the following.
Because of the vaporized metal layers such capacitors have only a limited moisture resistance. Corrosion problems arise since moisture enters betweens the vaporized metal layer and the plastic backing film. Accordingly, although these capacitors are relatively inexpensive to produce, they have, however, only a limited durability.
Such capacitors are encapsulated for improving the moisture resistance. This has the disadvantage that these capacitors cannot be used as chips in the surface installation on account of geometrical reasons. Moreover, such capacitors have only a limited adaptability to necessary soldering methods.
In order to increase the moisture resistance of such film capacitors the Japanese disclosure letter (Kokai) 6-20868 provides the plastic backing film with a coating on water basis in the form of an aqueous solution or an aqueous dispersion. The extruded plastic backing film is longitudinally stretched. Then one side or both sides of the film are either successively or continuously provided with water-based coating in the form of an aqueous solution or an aqueous dispersion. Thereafter, a heat treatment is carried out. Finally, the coating is dried simultaneously with stretching of the film in a traverse direction. Thereafter, the product is subjected to a heat treatment at temperatures of 230.degree. C. A surface-modified plastic film is generated which has a total thickness of 1.0-15 .mu.m, wherein the coating on one side has a thickness of 0.03-0.3 .mu.m.
Then the surface-modified starting film produced in this manner is provided with a metal coating on one side or on both sides in the customary manner. Then the metal-coated films are pressed for the generation of capacitor packages.
Capacitors produced from such films have a better resistance to moisture than capacitors produced from backing films which have not been treated.
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the invention to provide a process for the production of plastic films useful for the production of film capacitors which have an especially good moisture resistance.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the invention the above-cited problem is solved by a process for producing plastic films useful for the production of film capacitors, said process comprising the following steps: polymerizable, especially through cross-linking reactions, at an increased reaction temperature lying above the drying temperature of the coating; plastic backing film for the production of a coating; and
The gist of the invention is that the coating applied onto the plastic backing film with the inventive process is still reactive after drying upon the influence of heat. In other words, compounds contained within the coating are polymerizable, especially through cross-linking reactions, at an increased reaction temperature above the drying temperature of the coating. This polymerization reaction is initiated by the pressing of several film port
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Aluminium Feron GmbH & Co.
Dubno Herbert
Kincaid Kristine
Thomas Eric W.
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