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Granted Patent B2
US 10,426,031 · App. 15/520,152 · Granted Sep 24, 2019

Flexible printed circuit board and method for producing the same

Inventors: Tadahiro Kaibuki (Koka, JP); Kozo Sato (Koka, JP)
Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
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Patent No.
US 10,426,031
App. No.
15/520,152
Granted
Sep 24, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for producing a flexible printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a through-hole formation step of preparing a base material including a base film having insulating properties and flexibility and a pair of metal films stacked on both surface sides of the base film, and forming a through-hole in the metal film on a front surface side of the base material and the base film; a filling step of stacking, by electroplating on a front surface of the base material, stacking a conductive material on a surface of the metal film on the front surface side to form a conductive material layer and to fill the through-hole with the conductive material; and a removal step of removing, by etching the front surface of the base material, a surface layer of the conductive material layer stacked on the surface of the metal film on the front surface side and a surface layer of the conductive material filling the through-hole.

Claims (13)

1. A flexible printed circuit board comprising:

a base film having insulating properties and flexibility;

a first conductive pattern stacked on a front surface side of the base film;

a second conductive pattern stacked on a back surface side of the base film; and

a blind via-hole penetrating the first conductive pattern and the base film,

wherein the blind via-hole is a pillar-shaped filler of a conductive material formed in a through-hole penetrating the first conductive pattern and the base film, and

a front surface of the first conductive pattern has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 0.05 μm or more and 0.7 μm or less,

wherein the first conductive pattern has a metal film and a conductive material layer plated on the front surface side of the metal film, and the conductive material layer has an average thickness of 2 μm or less in a region within 0.2 mm from the center of the blind via-hole,

wherein an average diameter of the blind via-hole on a frontmost surface side is 10 μm or more and 100 μm or less.

2. The flexible printed circuit board according to claim 1 , wherein a volume ratio of the blind via-hole relative to a capacity of the through-hole is 60% or more.

3. The flexible printed circuit board according to claim 1 , wherein the first conductive pattern and the conductive material contain copper as a main component.

4. The flexible printed circuit board according to claim 1 ,

wherein an inclination angle of an inner wall surface of the metal film in a section including a central axis of the through-hole with respect to the front surface of the base film is 60° or more and 89° or less.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 19, 2017
From: KAIBUKI, TADAHIRO; SATO, KOZO
To: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
Reel/Frame 042059/0811 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-217839 · Oct 24, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170318674A1 · Nov 2, 2017
Cited By (2)
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