IP Library Granted Patent US 8,814,997
Granted Patent B2
US 8,814,997 · App. 13/501,139 · Granted Aug 26, 2014

Electroless plating pretreatment agent, electroless plating method using same, and electroless plated object

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Patent No.
US 8,814,997
App. No.
13/501,139
Granted
Aug 26, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electroless plating pretreatment agent that can retain stably Pd(II) over a long period of time in an organic solvent, an electroless plating method using the same that is capable of forming an electroless plated film having excellent adhesion, and an electroless plated object. The electroless plating pretreatment agent contains an organic palladium compound and a coordination compound having a functional group with a metal-capturing capability dissolved in an organic solvent, the coordination compound being selected from the group consisting of the imidazole analogs, polyethyleneamines, ethyleneimines and polyethyleneimines.

Claims (11)

1. An electroless plating pretreatment agent consisting of an organic palladium compound and a coordination compound having a functional group with a metal-capturing capability dissolved in an organic solvent, in which the coordination compound is selected from the group consisting of imidazole analogs, polyethyleneamines, ethyleneimines and polyethyleneimines and the coordination compound is added in an amount of 0.01 mole to 5 moles per 1 mole of the organic palladium compound, wherein the imidazole analogs is a compound represented by Formula (1) below:

where R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 each represent hydrogen, a lower alkyl or a phenyl group.

2. The electroless plating pretreatment agent according to claim 1 , wherein the compound represented by Formula (I) is selected from the group consisting of imidazole, 1-methylimidazole, 2-methylimidazole, 2-phenylimidazole, 1,2-dimethylimidazole and 2,4-dimethylimidazole.

3. The electroless plating pretreatment agent according to claim 1 , wherein the organic palladium compound is selected from the group consisting of palladium naphthenate, acetylacetone palladium and a fatty acid palladium compound with 5 to 25 carbon atoms.

4. The electroless plating pretreatment agent according to claim 3 , wherein the fatty acid palladium compound with 5 to 25 carbon atoms is palladium neodecanoate, palladium octylate, palladium heptanoate or palladium pentadecanoate.

5. An ink composition containing the electroless plating pretreatment agent according to claim 1 .

6. An electroless plating method, comprising pretreating an object to be plated with the electroless plating pretreatment agent described in claim 1 and then electroless plating.

7. A plated object obtained by the electroless plating method according to claim 6 .

8. An electroless plating method, comprising pretreating an object to be plated with the ink composition described in claim 5 and then electroless plating.

9. The electroless plating method according to claim 8 , wherein pretreating the object to be plated comprises a step of forming a fine line pattern on the object by drawing with the ink composition containing the electroless plating pretreatment agent.

10. A plated object obtained by the electroless plating method according to claim 8 .

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Aug 11, 2021
From: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
To: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057160/0114 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Feb 7, 2017
From: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
To: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 041649/0733 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 11, 2012
From: IMORI, TORU; SUZUKI, JUN; MURAKAMI, RYU; AIBA, AKIHIRO; ITO, JUNICHI
To: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 028024/0260 →