Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Akihiko Miyoshi

Yoshihiro Bessho

Yoshifumi Nakamura

Minehiro Itagaki

Satoru Yuhaku

Kazuhiro Miura

Yasuhiko Hakotani

An improved gold paste for use in the manufacture of ceramic circuit boards is disclosed, which has a composition comprising an inorganic component, an organic binder, a solvent. The inorganic component contains (a) 84-94 wt % powdery gold with a particle size of 0.3-0.7 .mu.m, (b) 0.3-2.0 wt % powdery V.sub.2 O.sub.5 with a particle size of 0.3-2.0 .mu.m, and (c) 0.3-2.0 wt % powdery CuO with a particle size of 0.3-2.0 .mu.m.

Gold paste for a ceramic circuit board

A method of making a multi-layered ceramic substrate which includes the steps of laminating a desired number of green sheets each being made of glass ceramics containing at least an organic binder and a solvent and each having a pattern of electrodes formed thereon by the use of an electroconductive paste, to thereby provide a green sheet laminate, The electrodes on opposite surfaces or an entire surface layer of the green sheet laminate are subsequently printed with a paste comprising an inorganic component added with at least an organic binder containing a Zn composition. On each surface of the laminate printed with the paste of the Zn composition, a green sheet made of an inorganic composition incapable of being sintered at a temperature of crystallization of the glass ceramics is then laminated thereby providing a laminate plate which is subsequently fired. After the firing, both of the inorganic composition incapable of firing sintered and the Zn composition are removed from the opposite surfaces of the laminate. The paste of the Zn composition may contains a main component selected from the group consisting of Zn, ZnO, Zn(OH).sub.2, ZnAl.sub.2 O.sub.4, and ZnCO.sub.3.

Method of making multi-layered ceramic substrates

Conductive ink has an inorganic compound comprising 70.0-95.0 wt. % of CuO which is conductive and 5.0-30.0 wt. % of inorganic binder mixed with each other, and solvent and organic binder in which the inorganic compound is dispersed. The inorganic binder consists of lead borosilicate crystalline glass or aluminum borosilicate crystalline glass soften and crystallizes at 850.degree.-950.degree. C. The diameter of CuO powder of the inorganic compound is 100-7.0 .mu.m. The diameter of the lead borosilicate crystalline glass powder or the aluminum borosilicate crystalline glass powder of the inorganic compound is 1.0-5.0 .mu.m. The organic binder consists of ethyl cellulose or copolymer of polyisobytylmethacrylate and poly.alpha.-methylstyrene. The conductive ink contains the organic binder at 0.5-2.0 wt. %.

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Akihiko Miyoshi