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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2003
Hidetsugu Motobe, Osaka, JP;
Akinori Hibino, Osaka, JP;
Katsuhiko Ito, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An epoxy resin composition for use in producing a prepreg for printed wiring boards excellent in appearance, flame retardancy, etc., which comprises an epoxy resin, a phenolic novolak, and a curing accelerator. It is characterized in that the epoxy resin comprises an epoxy (a) and an epoxy (b), wherein the epoxy (a) is a brominated epoxy resin which is obtained by reacting/mixing a bisphenol A epoxy resin with tetrabromobisphenol A and has an epoxy equivalent of 350 to 470 g/eq and an n=0 component content of 20 to 35% in terms of areal percentage in a GPC chart, and the epoxy (b) is at least one bifunctional epoxy resin which is obtained by reacting any one selected from the group consisting of bisphenol A, bisphenol F, and tetrabromobisphenol A with epichlorohydrin and has an n=0 component content as determined from a GPC chart of 60% or higher.