Patents by Inventor Peter Thomas McGrath
Peter Thomas McGrath has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9072203Abstract: A process used during manufacture of printed circuit boards comprises protecting metal pads and/or through-holes to provide a tarnish-resistant and solderable coating. In the method, the pads and/or through-holes are bright-etched, metal plated, preferably by an immersion process, and treated with a tarnish inhibitor. The tarnish inhibitor may be incorporated into the immersion plating bath. The metal plating is usually with silver or bismuth and the pads and/or through-holes comprise copper.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2002Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Enthone Inc.Inventors: Andrew McIntosh Soutar, Peter Thomas McGrath
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Publication number: 20110279991Abstract: A process used during manufacture of printed circuit boards comprises protecting metal pads and/or through-holes to provide a tarnish-resistant and solderable coating. In the method, the pads and/or through-holes are bright-etched, metal plated, preferably by an immersion process, and treated with a tarnish inhibitor. The tarnish inhibitor may be incorporated into the immersion plating bath. The metal plating is usually with silver or bismuth and the pads and/or through-holes comprise copper.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: ENTHONE INC.Inventors: Andrew McIntosh Soutar, Peter Thomas McGrath
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Publication number: 20110192638Abstract: A process used during manufacture of printed circuit boards comprises protecting metal pads and/or through-holes to provide a tarnish-resistant and solderable coating. In the method, the pads and/or through-holes are bright-etched, metal plated, preferably by an immersion process, and treated with a tarnish inhibitor. The tarnish inhibitor may be incorporated into the immersion plating bath. The metal plating is usually with silver or bismuth and the pads and/or through-holes comprise copper.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: ENTHONE INC.Inventors: Andrew McIntosh Soutar, Peter Thomas McGrath
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Patent number: 6860925Abstract: A process used during manufacture of printed circuit boards comprises protecting metal pads and/or through-holes to provide a tarnish-resistant and solderable coating. In the method, the pads and/or through-holes are bright-etched, metal plated, preferably by an immersion process, and treated with a tarnish inhibitor. The tarnish inhibitor may be incorporated into the immersion plating bath. The metal plating is usually with silver or bismuth and the pads and/or through-holes comprise copper.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2002Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Enthone IncorporatedInventors: Andrew McIntosh Soutar, Peter Thomas McGrath
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Publication number: 20020152925Abstract: A process used during manufacture of printed circuit boards comprises protecting metal pads and/or through-holes to provide a tarnish-resistant and solderable coating. In the method, the pads and/or through-holes are bright-etched, metal plated, preferably by an immersion process, and treated with a tarnish inhibitor. The tarnish inhibitor may be incorporated into the immersion plating bath. The metal plating is usually with silver or bismuth and the pads and/or through-holes comprise copper.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2002Publication date: October 24, 2002Inventors: Andrew McIntosh Soutar, Peter Thomas McGrath
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Publication number: 20020150692Abstract: A process used during manufacture of printed circuit boards comprises protecting metal pads and/or through-holes to provide a tarnish-resistant and solderable coating. In the method, the pads and/or through-holes are bright-etched, metal plated, preferably by an immersion process, and treated with a tarnish inhibitor. The tarnish inhibitor may be incorporated into the immersion plating bath. The metal plating is usually with silver or bismuth and the pads and/or through-holes comprise copper.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2002Publication date: October 17, 2002Inventors: Andrew McIntosh Soutar, Peter Thomas McGrath
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Patent number: 6395329Abstract: A process used during manufacture of printed circuit boards comprises protecting metal pads and/or through-holes to provide a tarnish-resistant and solderable coating. In the method, the pads and/or through-holes are bright-etched, metal plated, preferably by an immersion process, and treated with a tarnish inhibitor. The tarnish inhibitor may be incorporated into the immersion plating bath. The metal plating is usually with silver or bismuth and the pads and/or through-holes comprise copper.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1997Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Inventors: Andrew McIntosh Soutar, Peter Thomas McGrath
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Patent number: 6319543Abstract: In PCB manufacture, the pads and/or through-holes of a bare board are protected prior to mounting of other components by a silver plating process. The silver plate is applied from a plating composition by a replacement process in which silver ions oxidized copper and deposit a layer of silver at the surface. In the aqueous plating composition the silver ions are maintained in solution by the incorporation of a multidentate complexing agent. The compositions may contain a silver tarnish inhibitor and are free of reducing agent capable of reducing silver ions to silver metal, halide ions and substantially free of non-aqueous solvent. Surface mounted components can be soldered direct to the silver coated contact using any commercially available solder. Silver does not deposit onto solder mask, but only onto metal which is less electropositive than silver.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1999Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Alpha Metals, Inc.Inventors: Andrew McIntosh Soutar, Peter Thomas McGrath
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Patent number: 6074803Abstract: A process for manufacturing a multi-layer circuit board comprises applying a layer of a photo-resist to the conducting surface of an inner-layer and fixing the resin composition in a pre-selected pattern for example by exposing to UV radiation which results in polymerization in the exposed areas. After removing the non-fixed areas by developing in an aqueous developing solution and etching in an etching solution, the fixed areas of resin composition remain in place on the inner-layer and are directly adhered to the neighboring insulating layer in an adhesion step.The preferred resin compositions according to the invention comprise a first photo-polymerizable resin component having an acid number from 15 to 75, a second epoxy resin component having unreacted epoxy groups, and a photoinitator, the ratio or first to second resin components being at least 1:1.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1997Date of Patent: June 13, 2000Assignee: Alpha Metals LimitedInventors: Peter Thomas McGrath, Wolfgang Hetterich
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Patent number: 5955141Abstract: In PCB manufacture, the pads and/or through-holes of a bare board are protected prior to mounting of other components by a silver plating process. The silver plate is applied from a plating composition by a replacement process in which silver ions oxidized copper and deposit a layer of silver at the surface. In the aqueous plating composition the silver ions are maintained in solution by the incorporation of a multidentate complexing agent. The compositions may contain a silver tarnish inhibitor and are free of reducing agent capable of reducing silver ions to silver metal, halide ions and substantially free of non-aqueous solvent. Surface mounted components can be soldered direct to the silver coated contact using any commercially available solder. Silver does not deposit onto solder mask, but only onto metal which is less electropositive than silver.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1997Date of Patent: September 21, 1999Assignee: Alpha Metals, Inc.Inventors: Andrew McIntosh Soutar, Peter Thomas McGrath
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Patent number: 5800859Abstract: A process for copper coating printed circuit boards is disclosed. The process includes a treating step in which a metal surface is contacted with an adhesion promotion composition material. The adhesion promotion material includes 0.1 to 20% by weight hydrogen peroxide, an inorganic acid, an organic corrosion inhibitor and a surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1995Date of Patent: September 1, 1998Inventors: Andrew David Price, Peter Thomas McGrath
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Patent number: RE45175Abstract: In PCB manufacture, the pads and/or through-holes of a bare board are protected prior to mounting of other components by a silver plating process. The silver plate is applied from a plating composition by a replacement process in which silver ions oxidized copper and deposit a layer of silver at the surface. In the aqueous plating composition the silver ions are maintained in solution by the incorporation of a multidentate complexing agent. The compositions may contain a silver tarnish inhibitor and are free of reducing agent capable of reducing silver ions to silver metal, halide ions and substantially free of non-aqueous solvent. Surface mounted components can be soldered direct to the silver coated contact using any commercially available solder. Silver does not deposit onto solder mask, but only onto metal which is less electropositive than silver.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2012Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Fry's Metals, Inc.Inventors: Andrew McIntosh Soutar, Peter Thomas McGrath
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Patent number: RE45279Abstract: In PCB manufacture, the pads and/or through-holes of a bare board are protected prior to mounting of other components by a silver plating process. The silver plate is applied from a plating composition by a replacement process in which silver ions oxidized copper and deposit a layer of silver at the surface. In the aqueous plating composition the silver ions are maintained in solution by the incorporation of a multidentate complexing agent. The compositions may contain a silver tarnish inhibitor and are free of reducing agent capable of reducing silver ions to silver metal, halide ions and substantially free of non-aqueous solvent. Surface mounted components can be soldered direct to the silver coated contact using any commercially available solder. Silver does not deposit onto solder mask, but only onto metal which is less electropositive than silver. REEXAMINATION RESULTS The questions raised in reexamination proceedings Nos. 90/012,336 and 90/009,934, filed Jun. 4, 2012 and Aug.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Fry's Metals, Inc.Inventors: Andrew McIntosh Soutar, Peter Thomas McGrath