IP Library Granted Patent US 12,004,304
Granted Patent B2
US 12,004,304 · App. 17/442,373 · Granted Jun 4, 2024

Method for manufacturing printed wiring board

Inventors: Yoshinori Shimizu (Ageo, JP); Hiroto Iida (Ageo, JP); Misato Mizoguchi (Ageo, JP); Akitoshi Takanashi (Ageo, JP); Makoto Hosokawa (Ageo, JP)
Assignee: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD.
H05K3/064C23C18/1646C23C18/1689C23C28/023C25D5/022C25D7/00G03F7/20G03F7/42H05K2203/072H05K2203/0723H05K2203/1152
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Patent No.
US 12,004,304
App. No.
17/442,373
Granted
Jun 4, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a method for manufacturing a printed wiring board that effectively suppresses pattern failure and is also excellent in fine circuit forming properties. This method includes: providing an insulating substrate including a roughened surface; performing electroless plating on the roughened surface of the insulating substrate to form an electroless plating layer less than 1.0 μm thick having a surface having an arithmetic mean waviness Wa of 0.10 μm or more and 0.25 μm or less as measured in accordance with JIS B0601-2001 and a kurtosis Sku of 2.0 or more and 3.5 or less as measured in accordance with ISO 25178; laminating a photoresist on the surface of the electroless plating layer; performing exposure and development to form a resist pattern; applying electroplating to the electroless plating layer; stripping the resist pattern; and etching away an unnecessary portion of the electroless plating layer to form a wiring pattern.

Claims (17)

1. A method for manufacturing a printed wiring board, comprising:

(a) providing an insulating substrate comprising a roughened surface, comprising

(a-1) providing a surface-treated copper foil having a treated surface having an arithmetic mean waviness Wa of 0.20 μm or more and 0.35 μm or less as measured in accordance with JIS B0601-2001 and a maximum height Sz of 3.0 μm or more and 4.0 μm or less as measured in accordance with ISO 25178,

(a-2) laminating an insulating substrate on the treated surface of the surface-treated copper foil to transfer a surface profile of the treated surface to a surface of the insulating substrate, and then

(a-3) etching away the surface-treated copper foil to obtain the insulating substrate comprising the roughened surface;

(b) performing electroless plating on the roughened surface of the insulating substrate to form an electroless plating layer less than 1.0 μm thick having a surface having an arithmetic mean waviness Wa of 0.10 μm or more and 0.25 μm or less as measured in accordance with JIS B0601-2001 and a kurtosis Sku of 2.0 or more and 3.5 or less as measured in accordance with ISO 25178;

(c) laminating a photoresist on the surface of the electroless plating layer;

(d) performing exposure and development on the photoresist to form a resist pattern;

(e) applying electroplating to the electroless plating layer via the resist pattern;

(f) stripping the resist pattern; and

(g) etching away an unnecessary portion of the electroless plating layer exposed by stripping of the resist pattern, to form a wiring pattern.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the arithmetic mean waviness Wa on the surface of the electroless plating layer is 0.20 μm or more and 0.25 μm or less.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the kurtosis Sku on the surface of the electroless plating layer is 3.0 or more and 3.5 or less.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the electroless plating layer has a thickness of 0.3 μm or more and less than 1.0 μm.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the wiring pattern has a thickness of 2 μm or more and 30 μm or less.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the photoresist comprises a dry film resist.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the dry film resist has a thickness of 2 μm or more and 35 μm or less.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 31, 2026
From: MITSUI MINING AND SMELTING COMPANY, LIMITED
To: MITSUI KINZOKU COMPANY, LIMITED
Reel/Frame 075357/0342 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 23, 2021
From: SHIMIZU, YOSHINORI; IIDA, HIROTO; MIZOGUCHI, MISATO; TAKANASHI, AKITOSHI; HOSOKAWA, MAKOTO
To: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057579/0737 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-058628 · Mar 26, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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