Feathery copper fiber body, process for production thereof, and copper microcoil
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US ยท United States
- Current Assignee / Owner
- YAZAKI CORP
- Publication Date
- 2003-04-03
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable ยท inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to a copper fiber body to be incorporated in various resin compositions, rubber compositions, low melting metals, coating compounds or adhesives as an electrically-conducting material, electromagnetic barrier material, reinforcing material or the like.
[0003] 2. Related Art
[0004] As a copper fiber body there has been widely known copper whisker. In 1956, S. S. Blenner obtained copper whisker by reducing a copper halide in hydrogen gas. In 1965, Tachibana and Kishi succeeded in producing a considerably small copper whisker while controlling the rate of reduction reaction of copper halide with carbon dioxide gas produced by the reaction of charcoal with air in a closed air system.
[0005] However, these methods are disadvantageous in that the resulting yield is too low. Further, the resulting copper whisker cannot be considered small enough in size. Thus, such a copper whisker can be hardly incorp...