JP2005206988A - Cushioning paper - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide cushioning paper giving a formed article having uniform thickness and excellent quality with suppressed defects such as voids by improving the fluidity of a pressing object such as a resin changed to a highly viscous liquid in hot-pressing. <P>SOLUTION: This cushioning paper is produced by using pulp as a main raw material and containing heat-expandable particles in the paper layer. The heat-expandable particle has a foaming temperature of 120-200°C and the amount of the heat-expandable particle is set to 0.7-30 wt.% in solid basis based on the bone-dry basis weight of the pulp. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a cushion paper used at the time of thermal processing such as a molding hot press, and more particularly, to an improvement of the cushion paper that improves the fluidity of a resin that is an object of thermal processing.

  For example, in the manufacturing process of a printed wiring board such as a flexible printed circuit board or a build-up multilayer laminate, as shown in FIG. 3, the object to be thermally processed, that is, the object to be pressed 10 is a press of a stainless steel plate called a hot platen or an end plate. A method is used in which the material is sandwiched between the plates 11 and subjected to a molding process by applying a certain pressure P and heat. At this time, in order to obtain a molded product with high accuracy, a flat plate-shaped hot press cushioning material 12 is interposed between the press object 10 and the press plate 11, and high pressure and high heat applied to the press object 10 are spread over the entire surface. It is a common practice to make uniform.

  Conventionally, as the cushion material 12, various materials such as cushion paper made of kraft paper, rubber, non-woven fabric, or a laminate of rubber and non-woven fabric have been used.

  However, among the cushioning material 12, materials other than cushion paper have the advantage that they can be used repeatedly multiple times, but from the viewpoint of effective use of resources, environmental considerations, product quality such as printed circuit boards, etc. For this reason, conventionally, cushion paper superior in these aspects has been frequently used as the molded hot press cushion material 12.

  By the way, as mentioned above, since high pressure and high temperature are applied during molding hot pressing, the cushioning property is not lost especially during pressing, and the scorching and paper components are not fused. Such durability and heat resistance are required.

  However, conventionally used cushion paper has been inadequate due to heat pressing, and pulp fibers are denatured and cured during the press to lose cushioning properties.

  In view of the above situation, for example, as described in Patent Document 1, a cushion paper in which thermally foamable particles are blended in the inner layer portion of a multilayer paper having at least a surface layer portion and an inner layer portion is proposed by the present applicant. Has been. The thermally expandable particles are thermally expandable microcapsules in which a low boiling point solvent is enclosed in a microcapsule, and are composed of particles whose volume is expanded by heating temperature.

  In such a cushion paper, in the dryer part of the multilayer paper making process, the foamable microcapsules are heated by the dryer above the softening point of the thermoplastic synthetic resin constituting the outer shell, and simultaneously the low boiling solvent encapsulated is vaporized. As the vapor pressure rises and the outer shell expands to form closed cells, it is possible to provide cushioning to the paper itself, and it is also useful for resource protection because it can be effectively recycled. There are advantages.

However, the heat temperature of the dryer in the dryer part is usually less than 120 ° C. Therefore, the heat-expandable particles used only need to foam at a temperature lower than 120 ° C. Since the high pressure P of ˜50 kg / cm ² and the high temperature T of 120 ° C. to 200 ° C. are applied, the thermally foamable particles do not foam at the time of hot pressing. Although a considerable cushioning property was obtained, a sufficient and satisfactory cushioning property could not be obtained.

If sufficient cushioning properties cannot be obtained during hot pressing in this way, the press object that has become a highly viscous liquid due to heat, that is, the resin in the production of printed circuit boards, will not flow smoothly, and the print will have a uniform thickness. In addition to being unable to make a circuit board, volatile components such as air and resin are left behind without being released to the outside, forming voids, causing problems such as delamination and insulation deterioration at high moisture absorption. Arise.
JP 2002-266295 A

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described circumstances, and its object is to improve the fluidity of a press object such as a resin that has changed into a highly viscous liquid during hot pressing. An object of the present invention is to provide a cushion paper that can obtain a molded product having a uniform plate thickness and less defects such as voids and excellent quality.

  The above object of the present invention is a cushion paper made of pulp as a main raw material and blended with thermally foamable particles inside a paper layer, wherein the thermally foamable particles are composed of thermally foamable particles having a foaming temperature of 120 to 200 ° C. And providing a cushion paper characterized in that the amount of the heat-expandable particles is set to 0.7 to 30% by weight based on the absolute dry weight of the pulp in terms of solid content. Achieved.

  Further, the object of the present invention is to provide a cushion paper made of pulp as a main raw material and containing thermally foamable particles inside a paper layer, wherein the thermally foamable particles are thermally foamable particles having a foaming temperature of less than 120 ° C. It is composed of thermally foamable particles having a foaming temperature of 120 to 200 ° C., and the blending amount of both thermally foamable particles is set to 0.7 to 30% by weight with respect to the absolute dry basis weight of the pulp as a solid content. This is achieved by providing a cushion paper characterized by comprising:

  The above object of the present invention can be achieved more effectively by providing a cushion paper in which the thermally foamable particles are foamable microcapsules.

  Furthermore, the object of the present invention is characterized in that the foamable microcapsules are microcapsules having an average particle diameter of 5 to 30 μm and a volume expanding 50 to 130 times by heating at 80 to 200 ° C. This is achieved more effectively by providing a cushion paper that does.

  The cushion paper according to the present invention, that is, cushion paper comprising pulp as a main raw material and thermally foamable particles blended inside the paper layer, wherein the thermally foamable particles have a foaming temperature of 120 to 200 ° C. Cushion paper composed of particles and having a blending amount of the thermally foamable particles set to 0.7 to 30% by weight with respect to the absolute dry basis weight of the pulp as a solid content, Since it is configured to foam during hot pressing and increase cushioning properties, if this cushion paper is used as a cushioning material in the production of printed wiring boards by thermoforming press, for example, the resin that has changed to a highly viscous liquid will be smooth. It is possible to manufacture an excellent printed wiring board having a uniform thickness with less trouble such as voids.

  Further, the thermally foamable particles are composed of thermally foamable particles having a foaming temperature of less than 120 ° C. and thermally foamable particles having a foaming temperature of 120 to 200 ° C., and the blending amount of the both thermally foamable particles is a solid content. Cushion paper set to 0.7 to 30% by weight with respect to the absolute dry weight of the pulp, the heat-expandable particles are foamed in each process of paper making and hot pressing, and the cushion paper is total Since the property increases, a molded product superior to the above case can be obtained, and the range of the foaming temperature can be expanded.

  Further, the thermally foamable particles are constituted by microcapsules, and furthermore, microcapsules having an average particle diameter of 5 to 30 μm and a volume expanding 50 to 130 times by heating at 80 to 200 ° C. are used. In addition, the present invention can be realized more specifically, and the above-described significant effects can be obtained.

  Hereinafter, the cushion paper for thermal processing according to the present invention will be described in detail. In addition, this invention is not necessarily limited to the following embodiment, and it cannot be overemphasized that the structure can be variously changed in the range which does not deviate from a claim.

  As shown in a sectional view in FIG. 1, a cushion paper 1 according to the present embodiment has a plurality of structures having a surface layer portion 2 and a lower layer portion 3. Particles 5 are blended.

  The heat-expandable particles 5 may be uniformly dispersed throughout the layer, but in the present embodiment, the heat-expandable particles 5 are disposed on the lower layer portion 3 side so that no particles appear on the surface of the surface layer portion 2. Is distributed. For this reason, in the present cushion paper 1, the thermally foamable particles 5 are scraped off from the paper surface by friction or the like, so that they do not scatter as paper powder, and there is no hole in the paper surface, thereby forming a smooth paper surface. can do.

  The plant fiber used for the cushion paper 1, that is, the raw material of the pulp 4, includes hardwood bleached kraft pulp, softwood bleached kraft pulp, hardwood unbleached kraft pulp, softwood unbleached kraft pulp, hardwood sulfite pulp, conifer sulfite pulp, etc. Machined pulp and chips that are chemically processed using wood fiber as the main raw material, chemically processed kraft pulp, and non-wood fibers such as kenaf, hemp, linter, and firewood, which are fiber raw materials other than wood. Virgin such as mechanically pulped ground pulp, mechanically pulped chemi-ground pulp with chemicals added to wood or chips, or semi-chemical pulp pulped with refiner after cooking the chips until soft Office supplies including pulp, kraft pulp, semi-chemical pulp and enzyme bleached pulp Deinking and quality goods waste paper, bleached pulp, waste paper milk cartons fine cut-off waste paper, coat cut-off waste paper, white superior soft, Tokushiro, recovered pulp and the like obtained from the non-printing of waste paper in the middle white, and the like. These pulps may be used alone or in combination of two or more.

  The thermally foamable particles 5 used in the cushion paper 1 are thermally expandable microcapsules formed by encapsulating a low-boiling solvent inside a fine particle outer shell of a thermoplastic synthetic resin, that is, microcapsules. These are particles having an average particle diameter of 5 to 30 μm that expands 50 to 130 times in volume by heating at a temperature of at least 120 to 200 ° C. When the volume expansion of the thermally foamable particles 5 is less than 50 times, the expansion coefficient of the cushion paper is lowered. On the other hand, when the volume expansion of the thermally foamable particles exceeds 130 times, the paper strength such as the peel strength of the cushion paper is lowered. Moreover, when the particle size of the heat-expandable particles 5 is less than 5 μm, the yield of the heat-expandable particles 5 at the time of papermaking is deteriorated, and the expansion rate of the cushion paper is lowered. On the other hand, when the particle size of the heat-expandable particles 5 exceeds 30 μm, the yield of the heat-expandable particles at the time of papermaking is poor and the expansion rate of the cushion paper becomes low as in the case where the particle size is less than 5 μm.

  In addition, as the thermoplastic synthetic resin constituting the outer shell, a copolymer such as vinylidene chloride, acrylonitrile, acrylic acid ester, and methacrylic acid ester is usually used, and low-boiling halogenated hydrocarbons, methylsilane, and the like can be used.

  In the foamable microcapsules, the thermoplastic synthetic resin constituting the outer shell is heated above the softening point, and simultaneously the low boiling point solvent such as isobutane is vaporized, the vapor pressure rises, and the outer shell expands. To form closed cells.

  As such foamable microcapsules, for example, Matsumoto Crosssphere F-30D, F-30GS, F-20D, F-50D, F-80D of Matsumoto Yushi Seiyaku Co., Ltd. or EXPANSEL of Nippon Ferrite Co., Ltd. WU, DU, etc. are known, but not limited thereto.

  In the present cushion paper 1, the thermally foamable particles 5 having a foaming temperature of 120 to 200 ° C. in the paper layer containing the pulp 4 as a main raw material, that is, the inside of the lower layer part 3, have an absolute dry basis of the pulp 4 in solid content. It is blended in an amount of 0.7 to 30% by weight with respect to the converted weight. In addition, the foaming temperature as used in this specification refers to the temperature at which the thermally foamable particles 5 start to foam, that is, the softening point of the thermoplastic synthetic resin that constitutes the outer shell of the thermally foamable particles. As shown in the examples to be described later, if the foaming temperature of the thermally foamable particles 5 is less than 120 ° C., it is not preferable because foaming occurs in the dryer part of the paper making process and foaming is not performed during hot pressing. If the foaming temperature exceeds 200 ° C., foaming is not preferred even during hot pressing. Such heat-expandable particles 5 have a property of contracting when heated excessively. Further, if the blending amount of the heat-expandable particles 5 is less than 0.7% by weight based on the absolute dry weight of the pulp 4 in terms of solid content, the particles do not foam sufficiently, so that the bulk required as cushion paper ( That is, the thickness) does not come out and desired cushioning properties cannot be obtained. On the other hand, when the blending amount exceeds 30% by weight, the cushioning property is increased, but the paper strength such as the peel strength of the cushion paper is lowered, and the paper is easily broken. It is preferable to set in the range.

  Since the present cushion paper 1 is configured as described above, the heat-foamable particles 5 are foamed at the time of hot pressing that generates a high temperature of 120 ° C. or higher, and can be pressed when sufficient cushioning properties are obtained. Therefore, according to the present cushion paper 1, it is possible to manufacture a printed wiring board having an excellent quality and having a uniform thickness as described above and less defects such as voids.

  FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of cushion paper 1A according to another embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the cushion paper 1A is a paper having a multi-layered structure in which a layer structure includes an inner layer portion 6 between an upper layer portion 2a and a lower layer portion 3a. In order to obtain a paper having such a multi-layer paper structure, for example, a well-known paper machine such as a circular mesh paper machine, an ultraformer multilayer paper machine, or a Benbond former multilayer paper machine can be used.

  In the present cushion paper 1A, similarly to the above-described embodiment, the thermally foamable particles 5a1 foamed at a temperature of less than 120 ° C. inside the paper layer mainly composed of the pulp 4 and mainly inside the inner layer portion 6, and the temperature is 120. Thermally expandable particles 5a2 that foam at ˜200 ° C. are dispersed and blended. The blending amount of both the heat-expandable particles 5a1 and the heat-expandable particles 5a2 is set to 0.7 to 30% by weight based on the absolute dry basis weight of the pulp 4a.

  The present cushion paper 1A configured as described above is capable of obtaining the desired paper thickness and cushioning properties when the paper is made, that is, in the dryer part by the foaming of the heat-expandable particles 5a1 by the dryer. By foaming the expandable particles 5a2, it is possible to obtain a desired paper thickness and cushioning property, thereby increasing the total cushioning property of the cushion paper 1A. Therefore, according to this cushion paper 1A, it is possible to further improve the fluidity of the resin that has been changed to a highly viscous liquid in the thermal processing such as a molding hot press, thereby producing a molded product with excellent quality. Can do. Moreover, since the temperature range for thermal foaming can be extended over a wide range, there is an advantage that the design is easy.

  In addition, as a dryer used in the dryer part at the time of papermaking as mentioned above, well-known dryers, such as a Yankee dryer, a multi-cylinder dryer, a hot air dryer, an infrared dryer, etc., can be used, for example.

  In order to confirm the effect of the present invention, 11 types of samples (Samples 1 to 6 and Comparative Samples 1 to 5) were prepared, and the following evaluation experiments were performed on the cushioning properties and paper strength of these samples.

  As an experiment, as shown in Table 1, the type and blending amount of the heat-expandable particles are selected as conditions, each numerical value is changed minutely, and six types of cushion paper samples according to the present invention (samples 1 to 6) are selected. ) After making five types of conventional cushion paper samples (Comparative Samples 1 to 5), each sample and the comparative sample were heated in a hot air dryer set at a temperature of 170 ° C. for 2 minutes.

  As for the evaluation, the cushioning property is the expansion rate (%) of the paper thickness (μm) after heating with respect to the paper thickness (μm) at the time of papermaking (papermaking stage), and the paper strength is the paper at the time of papermaking. The peel strength (MPa) of the paper and the peel strength (MPa) of the paper after heating were evaluated by relative comparison.

  In Table 1, “paper thickness (μm)” is a value measured based on JIS-P8118, and “peel strength (MPa)” is a value measured based on TAPPIUM522.

  The results of the experiment and evaluation are shown in Table 1.

表１から、熱発泡性粒子の配合量が０．７〜３０重量％であるクッション紙であると優れた剥離強度（紙力）及び膨張率（クッション性）が得られ、熱発泡性粒子の配合量が０．７重量％より低いものでは十分なクッション性が得られず、逆に熱発泡性粒子の配合量が３０重量％より高いとクッション性は得られるが、十分な紙力は得られないことが分かる。

From Table 1, excellent release strength (paper strength) and expansion rate (cushioning properties) are obtained when the cushioning paper has a thermal foamable particle content of 0.7 to 30% by weight. When the blending amount is lower than 0.7% by weight, sufficient cushioning properties cannot be obtained. Conversely, when the blending amount of the thermally foamable particles is higher than 30% by weight, cushioning properties can be obtained, but sufficient paper strength is obtained. I can't understand.

  Moreover, it turns out that sufficient cushioning properties are obtained when the thermally foamable particles having a foaming temperature of 120 to 200 ° C. are used.

  In addition, although the said result is a thing of only 1 level which makes heating temperature 170 degreeC and heating time 2 minutes as heating conditions, this heating temperature is set to the range of 120-200 degreeC, and heating time is set. Even when it is set to several minutes, the present inventors have confirmed that the evaluation result is not much different from the above case.

  The content of the present invention has been described by taking the case where the paper layer is a cushion paper having a plurality of structures as an example, but the present invention does not necessarily have a plurality of paper layers, and may be a single layer. In addition, the contents of the present invention have been mainly described with reference to the manufacture of printed wiring boards. However, the cushion paper according to the present invention is applied to all other thermal processing processes such as a thermoforming press performed using a cushion material. be able to.

It is sectional drawing which shows the structure of cushion paper concerning one Embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing which shows the structure of cushion paper concerning other embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing which shows the outline | summary of the hot press processing process using the conventional cushion paper.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1, 1A Cushion paper 2, 2a Upper layer part 3, 3a Lower layer part 4 Pulp 5, 5a1, 5a2 Thermal foamable particle 6 Inner layer part 10 Press object 11 Press board 12 Cushion material

Claims (4)

In cushion paper comprising pulp as a main raw material and thermally foamable particles blended inside the paper layer, the thermally foamable particles are composed of thermally foamable particles having a foaming temperature of 120 to 200 ° C., and the thermally foamable properties. Cushion paper, wherein the blending amount of particles is set to 0.7 to 30% by weight based on the absolute dry weight of the pulp in terms of solid content. In cushion paper comprising pulp as a main raw material and thermally foamable particles blended in the paper layer, the thermally foamable particles are thermally foamable particles having a foaming temperature of less than 120 ° C and heat having a foaming temperature of 120 to 200 ° C. A cushion comprising: expandable particles, and the amount of both heat-expandable particles is set to 0.7 to 30% by weight based on the absolute dry weight of the pulp in terms of solid content paper. The cushion paper according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the thermally foamable particles are expandable microcapsules. The cushioning paper according to claim 3, wherein the foamable microcapsule is a microcapsule having an average particle diameter of 5 to 30 µm and a volume expanding 50 to 130 times by heating at 80 to 200 ° C.

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