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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2001
Andrew J. Cobley, Coventry, GB;
Mark J. Kapeckas, Marlborough, MA (US);
Erik Reddington, Ashland, MA (US);
Wade Sonnenberg, Edgartown, MA (US);
Leon R. Barstad, Raynham, MA (US);
Thomas Buckley, Dedham, MA (US);
Shipley Company, L.L.C., Marlborough, MA (US);
Abstract
A metal plating bath and metal plating process that contains aldehyde compounds that prevent or reduce the consumption of metal plating bath additives. The metal plating baths provide for an efficient plating method because the plating process need not be interrupted to replenish the plating bath with additives. The Metal plating baths may be employed to plate metals such as copper, gold, silver, palladium, cobalt, chromium, cadmium, bismuth, indium, rhodium, iridium, and ruthenium.