Flexible conductive ink

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10995232-B2
Application number	US-201514804469-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 21, 2015
Priority date	Jan 23, 2013
Publication date	May 4, 2021
Grant date	May 4, 2021

Abstract

This invention is a flexible conductive ink composition comprising (A) a resin binder, (B) silver-plated core conductive particles, and (C) conductive particles having a surface area at least 1.0 m2/g.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A flexible conductive ink composition comprising
(A) a resinous binder, in an amount of from 2 to 60 wt. %, based on the weight of the dry composition, the resins of said binder being thermoplastic resins selected from the group consisting of phenoxy resins, polyesters, and thermoplastic urethane;
(B) silver-plated core conductive particles smaller than 1.0 m 2 /g, and
(C) conductive particles having a surface area of at least 1.0 m 2 /g and a particle size of 1 to 100 μm,
wherein silver-plated core conductive particles (B) are present in an amount from 30 to 92 wt % of the total dry composition, and conductive particles having a specific surface area at least 1.0 m2/g (C) are present in an amount from 3 to 60 wt % of the total dry composition, and wherein the flexibility of the ink composition is higher than the flexibility of the composition without (C) conductive particles,
and wherein the composition does not comprise a curing agent for the resin binder.

2. The flexible conductive ink composition according to claim 1 in which the resin binder is a phenoxy resin.

3. The flexible conductive ink composition according to claim 1 in which the core of the silver-plated core conductive particles is selected from the group consisting of copper, nickel, palladium, carbon black, carbon fiber, graphite, aluminum, indium tin oxide, glass, polymer, antimony doped tin oxide, silica, alumina, fiber, and clay.

4. The flexible conductive ink composition according to claim 1 in which the core of the silver-plated core conductive particles is copper.

5. The flexible conductive ink composition according to claim 1 in which conductive particles having a surface area at least 1.0 m 2 /g are selected from the group consisting of silver, gold, palladium, platinum, carbon black, carbon fiber, graphite, indium tin oxide, silver-plated nickel, silver-plated copper, silver-plated graphite, silver-plated aluminum, silver-plated fiber, silver-plated glass, silver-plated polymer, and antimony-doped tin oxide.

6. The flexible conductive ink composition according to claim 1 in which conductive particles having a surface area at least 1.0 m 2 /g are metal-coated core particles.

7. The flexible conductive ink composition according to claim 1 further comprising a solvent.

8. The flexible conductive ink composition according to claim 7 in which the solvent is selected from the group consisting of butyl glycol acetate, 1,4-butanediol diglycidyl ether, p-tert-butyl-phenyl glycidyl ether, allyl glycidyl ether, glycerol diglycidyl ether, butyldiglycol, 2-(2-butoxyethoxy)-ethylester, acetic acid, 2-butoxyethylester, butylglycol, 2-butoxyethanol, isophorone, 3,3,5 trimethyl-2-cyclohexene-1-one, dimethylsuccinate, dimethylglutarate, dimethyladipate, acetic acid, dipropylene glycol (mono)methyl ether, propylacetate, glycidyl ether of alkyl phenol, and dimethyl esters of adipic, glutaric, and succinic acids.

9. The flexible conductive ink composition according to claim 7 in which the solvent has a flash point above 70° C.

10. The flexible conductive ink composition according to claim 9 in which the solvent is selected from the group consisting of butyl glycol acetate, carbitol acetate, glycol ether, the dimethyl esters of adipic, glutaric, and succinic acids, and ethyl glycol.

11. The flexible conductive ink composition according to claim 10 in which the solvent is selected from the group consisting of butyl glycol acetate and the dimethyl esters of adipic, glutaric, and succinic acids.

12. A process for making an electronic device with the conductive composition of claim 1 comprising applying the conductive composition onto a substrate to form conductive traces or electronic circuitry, and curing and/or drying said conductive composition at about 90° C. to 180° C. for 5 to 60 minutes.

Assignees

• Henkel IP & Holding GmbH
• Ablestik Shanghai Co Ltd
• Henkel Ag & Co Kgaa

Inventors

• Cao Jie
• Garcia-Miralles Jose
• Xiao Allison Yue
• Oldenzijl Rudie
• Dreezen Gunther
• Wu Qili
• Chen Jianping

Classifications

• H05K2201/0218

  Composite particles, i.e. first metal coated with second metal · CPC title

• H05K2201/0245

  Flakes, flat particles or lamellar particles · CPC title

• H05K1/095

  for polymer thick films, i.e. having a permanent organic polymeric binder · CPC title

• C09D11/037

  characterised by the pigment · CPC title

• H05K2201/0272

  Mixed conductive particles, i.e. using different conductive particles, e.g. differing in shape · CPC title