IP Library Granted Patent US 10,193,053
Granted Patent B2
US 10,193,053 · App. 15/296,124 · Granted Jan 29, 2019

Insulating base material with conductive pattern

Inventor: Shozo Otera (Nagaokakyo, JP)
Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
H01L41/09H01L41/047H01L41/0477H01L41/193H02N2/00H02N2/02
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Patent No.
US 10,193,053
App. No.
15/296,124
Granted
Jan 29, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An insulating base material including conductive patterns includes an insulating base material layer, metal layers provided on the insulating base material layer, and conductive patterns of a conductive material, provided on the metal layers, and an in-plane resistance value of the metal layers is about 0.1 MΩ or more larger than an in-plane resistance value of the conductive patterns.

Claims (20)

1. An insulating base material including a conductive pattern comprising:

an insulating base material layer;

a metal layer provided on the insulating base material layer; and

a conductive pattern including a conductive material, and provided on the metal layer; wherein

the metal layer has an in-plane resistance value that is at least about 0.1 MΩ larger than an in-plane resistance value of the conductive pattern; and

a thickness of the metal layer is less than a thickness of the conductive pattern including the conductive material.

2. The insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 1 , wherein a difference between the in-plane resistance value of the metal layer and an in-plane resistance value of the insulating base material layer is about 100 MΩ or less.

3. The insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 1 , wherein the in-plane resistance value of the metal layer falls within a range of about 0.1 MΩ to about 100 MΩ.

4. The insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the metal layer is about 10 nm or less.

5. The insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 1 , wherein the insulating base material layer is an electrostrictive material.

6. The insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 1 , wherein the metal layer includes a metal selected from the group consisting of aluminum, copper, platinum, gold, nickel, or alloys thereof.

7. The insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 1 , wherein the conductive material is an organic conductive material.

8. The insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the metal layer is in a range of about 1 nm to about 10 nm.

9. The insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 1 , wherein the insulating base material layer includes a polymer electrostrictive material.

10. The insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 9 , wherein the polymer electrostrictive material is selective from the group consisting of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), PVDF-based copolymers, and terpolymers.

11. The insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 9 , wherein the polymer electrostrictive material is P(VDF-TrFE-CFE), where P refers to poly, VDF refers to vinylidene fluoride, TrFE refers to trifluoroethylene, CFE refers to chlorofluoroethylene.

12. The insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 1 , wherein the conductive material includes at least one of nickel, platinum, platinum-palladium alloy, aluminum, gold, gold-palladium alloy, polyethylenedioxythiophene, polypyrrole, and polyaniline.

13. The insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 1 , wherein the in-plane resistance value of the metal layer falls within a range of about 10 MΩ to about 100 MΩ.

14. An actuator comprising:

the insulating base material including the conductive pattern according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 18, 2016
From: OTERA, SHOZO
To: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 040042/0201 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-093944 · Apr 30, 2014 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2015055592 · Feb 26, 2015
Related Publication 20170040526A1 · Feb 9, 2017
Cited By (1)
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