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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Christopher P Banks, Saffron Walden, GB;
Edward Irving, Higher Whitley, GB;
Assignee:
Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C25D / ; C23F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
156656 ; 1566591 ; 156666 ; 156668 ; 156904 ; 430323 ; 430325 ; 430330 ; 29846 ; 205125 ; 205224 ;
Abstract
Metallic patterns, such as printed circuits, are prepared by immersing metal substrates, bearing electrodeposited films and resist films in patterned areas, into an aqueous solution or dispersion of a hardening agent so that the hardening agent diffuses only into the electrodeposited film. This is followed by curing the hardening agent by heat or irradiation to render it resistant to the solvent used to remove the resist film and to the etchant solution for the metal exposed when the resist film is removed.