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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshio Shindo, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Electroplating Engineers of Japan Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C25D 3/48 ; C23C 1/800 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C25D 3/48 ; C23C 1/800 ;
Abstract
A non-cyanide electrolytic gold plating solution excellent in its solution stability, and a method for gold plating using thereof. A non-cyanide electrolytic gold plating solution according to the present invention containing a trivalent gold compound which is a gold hydroxide salt and/or chloroaurate salt; a chelating agent which is a hydantoin compound of imidazolidinedione, 5,5-dimethylhydantoin, or hydantoic acid; a buffer; and a conductive salt, wherein the concentration of the gold in the gold plating solution is 0.5 to 30 g/L, the concentration of the chelating agent in the gold plating solution is 0.1 to 2.5 M/L, and pH is 5.0 to 10.0.