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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:
Sep. 15, 1992
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jon E Bengston, Newington, CT (US);
Assignee:
MacDermid, Incorporated, Waterbury, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
427438 ; 427437 ; 4274431 ; 427304 ; 427305 ; 427306 ;
Abstract
Conductive surfaces such as copper and/or tungsten surfaces, particularly copper circuitry areas of printed circuit board substrates or fused tungsten circuitry areas of fused tungsten-ceramic packages, are activated for receipt of electroless nickel plating thereon by providing the surfaces with particulate zinc metal, particularly by contact of the surfaces with an aqueous suspension of particulate zinc metal.