Electrically conductive material

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10177465-B2
Application number	US-201515523592-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2015
Priority date	Oct 29, 2014
Publication date	Jan 8, 2019
Grant date	Jan 8, 2019

Abstract

An electrically conductive material with which excellent conduction reliability can be achieved for an oxide layer. The electrically conductive material contains electrically conductive particles including resin core particles, a plurality of electrically insulating particles being disposed on the surface of the resin core particles and forming protrusions, and an electrically conductive layer being disposed on the surface of the resin core particles and the electrically insulating particles, a Mohs' hardness of the electrically insulating particles being greater than 7. As a result, the electrically conductive particles pierce and sufficiently penetrate the oxide layer of the electrode surface so that excellent conduction reliability can be achieved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electrically conductive material comprising:
electrically conductive particles including: resin core particles; a plurality of electrically insulating particles disposed on a surface of the resin core particles and forming protrusions; and an electrically conductive layer disposed on the surface of the resin core particles and a surface of the electrically insulating particles, wherein
a Mohs' hardness of the electrically insulating particles is greater than 7, and
the electrically conductive layer of the electrically conductive particles is nickel or a nickel alloy;
a first circuit member, the first circuit member being a plastic substrate; and
a terminal of the first circuit member, the terminal including an oxide layer, and the terminal being formed on the plastic substrate and being connected to an electrically conductive particle.

2. The electrically conductive material according to claim 1 , wherein the electrically insulating particles of the electrically conductive particles are at least one of zirconia, alumina, tungsten carbide, and diamond.

3. The electrically conductive material according to claim 2 , wherein the oxide layer is a TiO 2 layer.

4. The electrically conductive material according to claim 1 , wherein an average particle size of the electrically insulating particles of the electrically conductive particles is from 50 to 250 nm, and
a number of protrusions formed on the surface of the resin core particles of the electrically conductive particles is from 1 to 500.

5. The electrically conductive material according to claim 1 , wherein a compressive elasticity modulus of the resin core particles of the electrically conductive particles when compressed by 20% is from 500 to 20000 N/mm 2 .

6. The electrically conductive material according to claim 1 , wherein the oxide layer is a TiO 2 layer.

7. The electrically conductive material according to claim 1 , wherein the first circuit member and the second circuit member being integrated circuits are connected.

8. The electrically conductive material according to claim 1 , wherein an elasticity of the plastic substrate is 2000 MPa to 4100 MPa.

9. A connection structure comprising:
a first circuit member, the first circuit member being a plastic substrate;
a second circuit member;
a terminal of the first circuit member and a terminal of the second circuit member are connected by electrically conductive particles,
the electrically conductive particles include:
resin core particles;
a plurality of insulating particles disposed on a surface of the resin core particles and forming protrusions; and
an electrically conductive layer disposed on a surface of the resin core particles and the electrically insulating particles,

a Mohs' hardness of the electrically insulating particles is greater than 7, and
the terminal is formed on the plastic substrate and includes an oxide layer.

10. The connection structure according to claim 9 , wherein the first circuit member and the second circuit member being integrated circuits are connected.

11. The connection structure according to claim 9 , wherein an elasticity of the plastic substrate is 2000 MPa to 4100 MPa.

12. The connection structure according to claim 9 , wherein the oxide layer is a TiO2 layer, and the electrically conductive layer of the electrically conductive particles is nickel or a nickel alloy.

13. A production method for a connection structure, comprising:
crimping a terminal of a first circuit member and a terminal of a second circuit member via an electrically conductive material comprising electrically conductive particles, the electrically conductive particles including resin core particles, a plurality of electrically insulating particles disposed on a surface of the resin core particles and forming protrusions, and an electrically conductive layer disposed on a surface of the resin core particles and the electrically insulating particles, a Mohs' hardness of the electrically insulating particles being greater than 7, and the first circuit member being a plastic substrate; and
forming the terminal on the plastic substrate, the terminal of the first circuit member including an oxide layer.

14. The production method for a connection structure according to claim 13 , wherein the first circuit member and the second circuit member being integrated circuits are connected.

15. The production method for a connection structure according to claim 13 , wherein an elasticity of the plastic substrate is 2000 MPa to 4100 MPa.

16. The production method for a connection structure according to claim 13 , wherein the oxide layer is a TiO2 layer, and the electrically conductive layer of the electrically conductive particles is nickel or a nickel alloy.

Assignees

• Dexerials Corp

Inventors

• Hirayama Kenichi
• Kubode Hiromi
• Ejima Koji

Classifications

• H01B1/22

  the conductive material comprising metals or alloys · CPC title

• H01R4/188 Primary

  having an uneven wire-receiving surface to improve the contact · CPC title

• C23C18/32

  Coating with nickel, cobalt or mixtures thereof with phosphorus or boron (C23C18/50 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B22F1/16

  Metallic particles coated with a non-metal (coated with lubricating or binding agents or with organic material B22F1/10) · CPC title

• C23C18/50

  with alloys based on iron, cobalt or nickel · CPC title