US3658663A - Method for effecting partial metal plating - Google Patents
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- ABSTRACT titioning base and not requiring plating via a conductive powder or particles filled on said inner side of the partitioning base, and by immersing that portion of the article protruding on the outer side of said base in the electrolyte, it is possible to accomplish partial metal plating of this article without any complicated steps required in the prior art and to perform mass production at greatly reduced cost.
- the present invention is concerned with a method for effecting partial metal plating, especially electroplating, of articles, and more particularly, it relates to an improved method of accomplishing partial electroplating of articles, especially those having a rounded and non-angled cylindrical circumference with simplified procedure and at much reduced cost.
- FIG. 1 is a vertical cross sectional view of the apparatus which is employed in putting a preferred embodiment of the method of the present invention into practice;
- P16. 2 is a perspective view of an example of the supporting and partitioning base of said apparatus.
- FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a transistor header which is an example of the article to be subjected to partial plating.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 show an example of the plating apparatus for use in putting the method of the present invention into practice.
- like parts are indicated by like reference numerals for the sake of simplicity of explanation.
- reference numeral 1 represents a supporting and partitioning base of a dish-like configuration.
- This supporting and partitioning base 1 com prises a main plate 1' of a dish-like configuration made of a rubber or plastic material having electro-insulating property and an electro-conductive inner lining metal plate 1'' which lines and covers the inner surfaces of said main plate 1 and which serves as the cathode during the plating operation.
- the electrically insulated main plate 1 is provided with a number of openings 4, 4, which are formed through the bottom of said main plate 1 in spaced relations relative to each other at predetermined intervals. Each of these openings 4, 4, is intended for insertion therein of the base portion 3 of a transistor header (article to be plated).
- Each of these openings 4, 4 is of the same V-shaped configuration of the same dimension in its inner peripheral end portion which, when a cylindrical article 2 is inserted in said opening and supported therein, will establish a tight linear contact with the cylindrical circumference of said article.
- said inner lining metal plate I" is provided with as many apertures 5, 5, as said openings 4, 4 one for each opening 4.
- the diameter of each aperture 5 is slightly larger than that of the opening 4 intended for supporting the base portion 3 of the transistor header 2. It s ould be understood that said supporting and partitioning base 1 of a dish-like configuration may be substituted by a partitioning base made of a net.
- the steps of plating operation begin with the insertion of the article 2 in one of said openings 4, 4, through the corresponding aperture 5 in such a fashion that that portion of said article 2 requiring partial plating protrudes from the reverse side of said supporting and partitioning base 1. Then, the dish-like supporting and partitioning base 1 is filled, on the inner side thereof, with a powder or particles 6 having good electro-conductivity so that the filler 6 is brought into good contact with the outer leads 7 and the flange 3' of the article 2.
- the base 3 and the inner leads 8 both of which protrude from the reverse side of the supporting partitioning base 1 are immersed in a metal plating medium liquid or electrolyte by placing this partitioning base 1 on surface of said liquid so as to be set afioaton the liquid which is contained in an electrolyte reservoir 9 to thereby establish electric conduction between an anode made of a conductive metal plate 10 housed within the liquid reservoir 9 and the cathode which, in this example, is composed of the base 3 and the inner leads 8 of the transistor header 2, with the assistance of both the inner lining metal plate I" and the deposited conductive powder or particles 6.
- the partitioning base 1 serves to seal the inner side thereof from the electrolyte.
- electroplating may be performed upon connection of the apparatus to a power source.
- the electro-conductive powder or particles fill into any narrow spaces which exist in the external regions of the article 2 to be plated so that this fact contributes to rendering the article 2 highly conductive, thus insuring unfailing plating of only the required portion of the article 2.
- the method of the present invention completely eliminates the complicated procedure of establishing conduction for each individual article 2 which was required in the prior art; but instead, it allows simultaneouspartial plating of a number of articles very quickly and with great easine'ss, thus markedly increasing the efficiency of the plating operation and reducing the cost. Accordingly, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the method of the present invention has a further advantage that it can be applied as effectively also to the electroplating of such articles as will require electric conduction at multiple points, which was considered impossible in the prior art.
- An improved method for effecting partial metal plating, especially electroplating, of articles by the use of an apparatus comprising a supporting and partitioning base composed essentially of an electrically insulated dish-like main plate and an electroconductive inner lining metal plate covering the inner surfaces of said base, said base having a plurality of spaced openings formed through the bottom thereof, each opening being of a V-shaped inner peripheral end for tightly linearly fit at the apex of said V-shape to the circumference of the article to be plated when the latter is inserted in place in said opening, said inner lining metal plate having the same number of apertures to correspond to the respective openings of the partitioning base in such a fashion that the diameter of said aperture is slightly greater than that of said opening; and by establishing electric conduction between the conductive portion in that region of the article located on the inner side of said supporting and partitioning base and not requiring plating and the terminal of an electrode located on the outer side of said supporting and partitioning base with the assistance of an electroconductive powder or particles filled on said inner side of the base; and
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US4042480A (en) * | 1973-10-04 | 1977-08-16 | Noz Francis X | Apparatus for selectively applying a metal coating to the metallic parts of elements which pass through an insulator |
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US4500394A (en) * | 1984-05-16 | 1985-02-19 | At&T Technologies, Inc. | Contacting a surface for plating thereon |
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