Method of making a flexible base plate for printed circuit board

• US 4,765,860 A
• Filed: 10/27/1987
• Issued: 08/23/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hajime Kitamura, Kaname Inoue, Susumu Ueno
• Original Assignee: Hajime Kitamura, Kaname Inoue, Susumu Ueno
• Inventors: Inoue, Kaname, Kitamura, Hajime, Ueno, Susumu
• Primary Examiner(s): CASHION, MERRELL C
• Application Number:
  US07/115,659
• Time in Patent Office: 301 Days
• Field of Search: 204/165, 204/168-169, 427/38-41, 156/630, 156/632, 156/272.6, 156/307.7, 156/273.3, 156/274.4, 156/274.8, 156/275.7, 156/307.3, 156/308.2, 156/320, 156/285, 156/322, 156/286, 250/492.1, 250/324-326
• US Class Current: 156/272.6
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2457/08 PCBs, i.e. printed circuit boards
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 38/0008 Electrical discharge treatment, e.g. corona, plasma treatment; wave energy or particle radiation heat treatment B32B38/0036
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/0393 Flexible materials H05K1/038 takes precedence; specific organic compositions are classified in H05K1/0313 and subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/0355 Metal foils
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2203/095 Plasma, e.g. for treating a substrate to improve adhesion with a conductor or for cleaning holes
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/381 by special treatment of the substrate
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/386 by the use of an organic polymeric bonding layer, e.g. adhesive

Abstract

The invention provides a method for the preparation of a flexible base for printed circuit board of the type formed of lamination of a flexible sheet-like polymeric base and a metal, e.g. copper, foil adhesively bonded to the surface thereof by use of an adhesive, in which the surface of the polymeric base prior to bonding of the metal foil is subjected to exposure to low temperature plasma so that the adhesive bonding strength between the polymeric base and the metal foil can be greatly improved.

Claims

1. A method for the preparation of a flexible base for printed circuit board composed of a flexible sheet-like polymeric base and a metal foil adhesively bonded to the polymeric base by means of an adhesive which comprises

(a) subjecting the surface of the polymeric base to exposure to an atmosphere of low temperature plasma generated by glow discharge with application of an electric voltage of at least 4000 volts between electrodes in an atmosphere of oxygen or a gaseous mixture containing at least 10% by volume of oxygen wherein the density of the electric power in the glow discharge on the electrode is at least 2.5 watts/cm² said glow discharge being performed at a pressure between 0.001 to 10 Torr, said electrodes being spaced from each other around 1--20 cm;

and

(b) integrally bonding the metal foil to the plasma-treated surface of the polymeric base with a layer of an adhesive intervening therebetween.