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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2018
Macdermid Enthone Inc., Waterbury, CT (US);
Paul Andrew Bray, South Staffordshire, GB;
Martin Vaughan Herbert, Wiltshire, GB;
Keith Paul Parsons, Wiltshire, GB;
Peter Alan Warwick, Oxfordshire, GB;
MacDermid Enthone Inc., Waterbury, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of creating a selectively plated three-dimensional thermoplastic part. The method includes the steps of: a) providing a film of uncured polycarbonate film having a hardcoated layer on a first surface thereof; b) selectively catalyzing the polycarbonate film by depositing a catalyst in a desired pattern on the first surface of the polycarbonate film; c) thermoforming the polycarbonate film to form a three-dimensional polycarbonate film; d) UV-curing the hardcoated polycarbonate film by irradiating the film with UV rays; e) molding the hardcoated polycarbonate film to produce a three-dimensional molded part comprising the hardcoated polycarbonate film; f) activating the selectively catalyzed hardcoated polycarbonate film; and g) plating a metal layer on the catalyzed portions of the hardcoated polycarbonate film, wherein the plated metal only deposits on the catalyzed portions of the hardcoated polycarbonate film.