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    The object of the invention is a method for adhesion of substrates to plastics that can be machined or not. It is a manufacturing process for a plastic (1), which can be machined or not, to a substrate (2) with a metal on its surface. The procedure is based on the generation of heat, produced by the Joule effect, when an electric current passes through an electrically conductive element (3). A relevant aspect of the invention is the inclusion of a mechanical-thermal barrier (6), whose main function is to lower the temperature so that the plastic material solidifies in the area where said barrier is located. The invention is framed in the area of manufacturing technologies and materials, being very varied the sector of activity in which the main uses of the adhesion and conformation of structures will be applied lies in the manufacture of circuits the bon chip for applications of biological or environmental type. It can also be used to make plastic protective housings on electronic circuits mounted on printed circuit boards.
    公开号:ES2661339A1
    申请号:ES201600809
    申请日:2016-09-28
    公开日:2018-03-28
    发明作者:José Manuel Quero Reboul；Salvador DOMÍNGUEZ BLAS；Francisco Antonio PERDIGONES SANCHEZ；Emilio FRANCO GONZÁLEZ；Miguel CABELLO VALVERDE
    申请人:Universidad de Sevilla；
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     Method of joining substrates and plastics by controlled thermal adhesion zone Object of the invention The object of the invention is a process for adhesion of substrates to plastics that may or may not be mechanized. It is a manufacturing process for a plastic (1), which can be machined or not, to a substrate (2) with a metal on its surface. The procedure is based on the generation of heat, produced by Joule effect, when an electric current passes through a conductive element of 10 electricity (3). A relevant aspect of the invention is the inclusion of a mechanical-thermal barrier (6), whose main function is to lower the temperature so that the plastic material solidifies right in the area where said barrier is located. The invention falls within the area of manufacturing and materials technologies, the sector of activity in which it would be applied is very varied: the main uses of the adhesion and forming of structures lies in the manufacture of circuits the bon chip for Biological or environmental applications. It can also be used to make plastic protective housings on electronic circuits mounted on printed circuit boards. State of the art 20 The most commonly used adhesion methods between polymer structures (plastics) and substrates are direct bonding with double-sided adhesive tapes as well as the application of glue, either by temperature curing or by ultraviolet radiation. Both techniques have the disadvantage that there is the presence of glue in some areas where it is not desired, as in the case of the channels present in microfluidic circuits, for example, in which the behavior of liquids can vary according to cross the channel, or they can be contaminated by being in contact with the adhesive tape. The first of these bonding techniques is the placement of adhesive tapes between the substrate and the polymer to be glued. These can be machined to glue the thermoplastic only in the desired areas, avoiding the problem discussed above, which would give us a cleaner and less influential bonding process in liquids. The problem with this improvement comes from the fact that the most common processes to perform this machining of the tapes is by laser or milling, bywhat the bonding procedure ceases to be applicable in a series production process. These tapes may have different adhesives, such as those presented in US 4,218,279, US 4,769,399, US 5,457,149 or even be conductive so that they can be used as an additional conduction layer within the electronic circuit, as shown in US 3,475,213. These tapes have been used to make many useful devices to date, such as those shown in [7-8]. The second of the two techniques currently used is the deposition of a very thin layer of glue between the PCS substrate (printed circuit board) and the polymer. Curing can be performed by different methods, such as those shown in US 4,717,605 A, or in US 4426243 A, which correspond to radiation curing techniques (such as ultraviolet rays) and by applying temperature (ambient in this case), respectively. These bonding methods have been used to make Lab-on-Chip on functional PCS substrates, such as those shown in [9-15-10]. Techniques such as bonding by stamping [11] can also be used, which is nothing more than the controlled deposition of glue on the surface to be adhered by placing it on an embedded medium of the adhesive. The use of glue introduces problems when making channels in the case that said channel is of small dimensions, given that it tends to enter them 20, even closing them. This fact is aggravated when the alignment between the machined polymer and the substrate must be carried out, since the movement of one part on another produces a glue drag, thus encouraging the agglomeration of the latter in parts of the polymer structure, in in which case alignment methods by guides would be necessary. In addition, once cured, the same problem appears as the one that occurred in the bonding by means of adhesive tapes, that the glue existing in the channels contaminates and influences the liquids that circulate through them, unless it is a special glue for the application in question, for example, in biological applications would be mandatory for the glue to have biocompatible properties. In this case, there is also no possibility of avoiding this problem by machining. Although the two bonding methods cited are the most common, there are some others, such as bonding of SU-8 and PCS, which is produced by curing the polymer on the substrate [12] and using PMMA (polymethylmethacrylate) as a medium of bonding for other polymers [13].Also, if the substrates to which the polymers adhere are also polymeric materials, the application of heat to fuse the contact zone between polymers is thus used to fuse it. Heat can be produced either by friction, magnetic induction or direct heating [14]. 5 The problem with this type of technique is that the entire contact area is heated equally in the process, so it cannot be used to bond substrates with microfluidic structures on its surface since they are deformed or completely destroyed. Regarding the use that has been given so far to the losses produced in a resistor due to the Joule effect, there is, for example, its use for the manufacture of 10 gas sensors, micropumps, pressure sensors, flow sensors, microvalves and temperature sensors, among others [15-19]. It has also been used previously to fuse a silicon substrate with another silica crystal [20], or to fuse two polymers with each other [21], but no work has been found where it has been used to glue a polymer with a PCS substrate. 15 References 1. 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Baldi," Integration of microelectronic chips in microfluidic systems on printed circuit board ", Journal 5 of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 22 (10), 105022, 2012. 11. S. Gassmann, A. Trozjuk, J. Singhal, H. Schuette, M L. Miranda , or. Zielinski, "PCB based micro fluidic system for thermal cycling of sea water samples. In Industrial Technology (ICIT) ", 2015 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 3365-3369), IEEE, 2015. 10 12. C. Aracil, F. Perdigones, J. M Moreno, A. Luque, J. M Quero, "Portable Lab-on-PCB platform for autonomous micromixing", Microelectronic Engineering, 131, 13-18,2015. 13. K. Kontakis, A. Petropoulos, G. Kaltsas, T. Speliotis, E. Gogolides, "A novel microfluidic integration technology for PCB-based devices: Application to 15 microflow sensing ", Microelectronic Engineering, 86 (4), 1382-1384, 2009. 14. A. 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Chomnawang, "Design and Fabrication of Thin-Film Aluminum Microheater and Nickel Temperature Sensor", Nano / Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems ( NEMS), 2012 7th IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2012. 20. TY Cheng, L. Un, K. Najafi, "Localized silicon fusion and eutectic bonding for 35 MEMS fabrication and packaging ': Microelectromechanical Systems, Journal of, 9 ( 1), 3-8, 2000. 40 21. CW Tsao, DL DeVoe, "Bonding of thermoplastic polymer microfluidics" Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 6 (1), 1-16, 2009. Description of the figures Figure 1: Figure re sum of the invention. (a) Plan view of the plastic placed on the substrate (b) final result of bonding. (1) Plastic 45 (2) Substrate (3) Metal resistance (4) and (5) Electrical connections (6) Mechanical-thermal barrier5 Figure 2: Generic curve of heating and cooling stages. Figure 3: Plastic bonding process. (a) Positioning and pressure, (b) adhesion and (c) final bonding. (7) Pressure element Description of the invention The invention is a manufacturing process for adhering plastics, which may or may not be machined, to a surface with a metal on a substrate, so that the adhesion zone is controlled. The procedure is based on the generation of heat produced by Joule effect, when an electric current passes through an electrically conductive element. An important feature of the invention is the inclusion of a mechanical-thermal barrier, whose main function is to brake and lower the temperature so that the plastic solidifies at that point, thus delimiting the adhesion zone. The object of the patent application is a manufacturing process for a plastic (1), which can be machined or not, to a substrate (2) with a metal resistance on its surface (3) with its two electrical connections ( 4), (5) And a barrier (6), so that the adhesion zone is controlled. The procedure is based on the generation of heat produced by the Joule effect, when an electric current 20 passes through an electrically conductive element. An important feature of the invention is the inclusion of a mechanical-thermal barrier (6), whose main function is to brake and lower the temperature so that the plastic material solidifies right in the area where said barrier is located, and to prevent the plastic Go to the other side. Figure 1 shows the process of the invention, where Figure 1 (a) is the plan view 25 of the plastic-substrate assembly before being glued; Figure 1 (b) is the cross-section according to the plane A-A 'of the final bonding of the plastic with the substrate. This procedure prevents plastic from flowing beyond the mechanical-thermal barrier. This invention, apart from eliminating the use of adhesives or tapes, intends to solve said technical difficulty by enabling adhesion free of adhesives, avoiding the aforementioned contamination problems and facilitating the manufacture of said devices in a competitive, industrial and low cost manner. The bonding can be done with any plastic (1) mechanized or not, provided it is in solid state. The shape and dimensions of the device may vary depending on the needs.The conductor used for the invention can also be any metal, in the case of the materialization presented in Figure 1 (a and b), it is metal on a substrate (2). In the case of the example, it is a metal-shaped resistive element (3) in the form of a coil, to achieve the greatest heating in the smallest possible area 5, so that a temperature level equal to or greater than the glass transition temperature can be reached of plastic (1), achieving the desired adhesion. In order to introduce the current into the electrical circuit, electrical connections (4) and (5) are used. The electrical current necessary to reach the desired temperature will depend on the shape and arrangement of the conductor. An important feature of the invention is the inclusion of a mechanical-thermal barrier (6), made with the same metal used for heating, but not electrically connected to it. The function of this mechanical-thermal barrier (6) is to limit the displacement of molten plastic and lower the temperature in the area where it is located. Its use is due to the fact that at the time of heating 15 of the plastic (1), it exceeds the glass transition point and flows. The mechanical-thermal barrier (6) delimits the flow of plastic into the structure getting it to maintain the desired shape. In particular, said shape is defined by the shape of the mechanical-thermal barrier (6). Figure 1 (a and b) represents the device after adhesion. To do this, 20 first, the plastic (1) is placed on the substrate used (2). Once the plastic and the substrate are aligned, a constant pressure is exerted between them. This pressure serves to further favor the adhesion of the system because the plastic (1) which, when heated, will be above the glass transition state, will cover the resistive element (3) reaching the level of the substrate (2), and 25 will favor homogenous heat transmission. Embodiment of the invention For the realization of the plastic part, an extruded polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) sheet is used (1). As a substrate, a PCB (2), 30 composed of FR4 and copper is used. Figure 1. On the PCB, through a photolithographic process and chemical attack of copper, the copper tracks (3), (6) and the pads (4) are obtained. ) and (5). These copper tracks (3), (6) and the pads (4) and (5) define: the heater acting resistance (3), the mechanical-thermal barrier (6), the current input pad (4 ) and the grounding pad (5).Once the PCS substrate is manufactured, the bonding process is carried out, Figure 2 (section A-A ') of Figure 1. To make the adhesion between the PMMA part (1) and the printed circuit board (2 ), is placed (1) on (2) so that the lower surface of the PMMA (1) is in contact with the upper face of the PCS (2). In addition, an element (7) is used to exert pressure on the assembly, Figure 3 (a), thereby improving the bonding. Subsequently, the necessary electric potential difference between the pads (4) and (5) is applied, which generates an intensity on the heater (3) that causes it to begin to increase its temperature during a single heating stage, 10 transmitting that heat to the part of PMMA (1). The adhesion between the PMMA piece (1) and the PCS substrate (2) begins to occur when the glass transition temperature is exceeded at the base of the PMMA sheet (1), a temperature that remains constant for a certain period of time . The PCS substrate (2) contains a mechanical-thermal barrier consisting of a copper track (6), located next to the copper heater 15 (3), causing the temperature radiated by said copper heater (3) to be lower as it approaches said barrier (6), thus preventing molten PMMA from invading the area to the right of the barrier (6), Figure 3 (b). Once the glass transition has been reached at a higher temperature, and the melting of the PMMA sheet base (1) is achieved, tension is gradually stopped, and in a single stage, between the input pad (4) and the grounding pad (5) and the pressure element (7) is maintained so that they continue to exert pressure between PMMA (1) and PCB (2) until it has cooled completely to room temperature. After this step, the pressure element (7) can be removed, the 25 PMMA remaining attached to the PCB substrate with the adhesion zone defined by the mechanical-thermal barrier (6). Figure 3 (c). 
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    Claims 1. Method of joining substrates and plastics by means of controlled thermal adhesion zones, characterized in that, starting from a substrate composed of two layers, one of them non-conductive and the other conductive resistive, the conductive layer 5 is shaped by removing material by means of chemical attack or other means so that two geometries are manufactured simultaneously, one of them with two electrical connections and the other that functions as a mechanical-thermal barrier, placing it next to the previous one, after which a plastic is placed on the resulting conductive layer, such that when an electrical current passes through the geometry that contains 10 electrical connections, a temperature equal to or greater than the glass transition temperature of the plastic is generated that makes it adhere to the substrate, at the same time that it flows until it stops at the mechanical barrier. thermal over which no current circulates. 2. Method of joining substrates and plastics by controlled thermal adhesion zones according to the previous claim, characterized in that the plastic is preferably polymethylmethacrylate. 3. Method of joining substrates and plastics by means of controlled thermal adhesion zones according to claim 1, characterized in that the substrate is any material with deposition of a thermally conductive material on any of its surfaces. 4. Method of joining substrates and plastics by means of controlled thermal adhesion zones, characterized in that, starting from a substrate, a resistive conductive layer 25 is deposited and given a certain geometric shape that includes two electrical connections, after which a new resistive conductive layer of another different conductive material and is given a geometric shape that functions as a mechanical-thermal barrier, placing it next to the previous geometry, and a plastic is placed on the resulting conductive layers, in such a way that when a 30 electric current passes through the geometry that contains the electrical connections, a temperature equal to or greater than the glass transition temperature of the plastic is generated, which makes it adhere to the substrate at the same time as it flows until it stops at the mechanical-thermal barrier over which it does not no current flows.
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