JP5900039B2 - Method for producing structure containing thin film graphite, and electric component - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a structure containing thin film graphite and an electrical component.

  In a thin monoatomic graphite (hereinafter sometimes referred to as “thin film graphite”, “graphene sheet”, etc.), a graphene sheet having a larger area than a conventional one, with a side exceeding a width of several hundred μm. There has been proposed a method of manufacturing.

  For example, a line-shaped catalyst metal layer is positioned on one surface of a substrate, heated in a predetermined environment, and a carbon-containing gas is supplied to the surface of the catalyst metal layer, whereby a graphene sheet having a desired film thickness and number of layers is obtained. It has been proposed to form.

  Thin film graphite is attracting attention as a future conductive material because it is superior in electrical properties, electrical properties such as maximum current density, and thermal properties compared to copper, which is frequently used as a conductive material.

For example, the electrical resistivity of thin film graphite is 10 ⁻⁶ Ω · cm, which is about 40% smaller than the electrical resistivity of copper. Moreover, the maximum current density of thin film graphite is 10 ⁸ A / cm ^2, which is 1000 times or more the maximum current density of copper.

  For this reason, thin film graphite is applied as a winding material or a wiring material instead of copper, for example, while minimizing a winding structure such as a choke coil or a transformer or a heat sink while maintaining at least electrical characteristics. It is possible. Moreover, the thin film graphite has a unique property in terms of thermal properties, and can be applied as a cooling structure such as a heat sink.

  However, although the manufacturing method of thin film graphite is being established as described above, after the thin film graphite is manufactured, the thin film graphite is further subjected to secondary processing such as lamination processing, cutting processing, heat treatment, etc. A process for manufacturing such electrical parts has not been established. Therefore, mass production is difficult and it cannot be mounted as an electrical component such as a winding structure.

  As a reference example of secondary processing of thin film graphite, it has been proposed to use as a cooling structure in which a graphene layer is opened from a graphite sheet and disposed on a support layer.

  In addition, as a cooling structure, it has been proposed to produce a flexible high thermal conductive sheet by alternately laminating graphite layers and elastic layers to form a laminated block.

JP 2009-62247 A JP 2009-91174 A JP 2007-273934 A International Publication WO2007 / 142273

  In one aspect, an object of the present invention is to easily manufacture a structure that can be mounted as an electrical component using thin film graphite.

  In one proposal, a graphite sheet forming step of forming a plurality of graphite sheets having a predetermined surface area and thickness is executed. A laminating step of alternately laminating graphite sheets formed in the graphite sheet forming step and welding sheets formed of an insulating member and having a surface area larger than the predetermined surface area is executed. A welding step is performed in which the peripheral portion of the welding sheet protruding from between the graphite sheets laminated in the lamination step is welded. A processing step of processing the composite member of the graphite sheet and the welding sheet fused in the welding step into a predetermined shape to form a structure functioning as a conductive member is executed.

In another proposal, a conductive member is provided which is made of a thin film graphite and has an arc portion and terminal portions formed at both ends of the arc portion. In addition, an insulating member is provided between the plurality of conductive members stacked in layers and holds adjacent conductive members in an insulated state. A conductive member and an insulating member form a structure. The disclosed technology includes the structure and an energization member that is connected between terminals of the conductive member in the structure and causes the arc portion of the conductive member to function as a coil having a desired inductance by flowing a current. It is an electrical component.

  There is an effect that a structure that can be mounted as an electric component using thin film graphite can be easily manufactured.

1 is a perspective view of a choke coil according to a first embodiment. It is the II-II sectional view taken on the line of FIG. The front view of the coil part of the choke coil which concerns on 1st Embodiment, (B) is an equivalent circuit diagram when a thin film graphite sheet is connected in parallel, (C) is the equivalent when a thin film graphite sheet is connected in series It is a circuit diagram. It is process drawing which shows the procedure which manufactures the structure containing the thin film graphite sheet which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is sectional drawing corresponding to FIG. 2 which shows the internal structure of the trans | transformer which concerns on 2nd Embodiment.

  (First embodiment)

  FIG. 1 shows a choke coil 10 that is an embodiment of a structure containing thin film graphite according to the disclosed technology. The choke coil 10 is an example of an electrical component according to the disclosed technology.

The choke coil 10 functions as a resistor for high frequency and serves as a high frequency filter that attenuates the high frequency. The choke coil 10 may be classified as a coil inductor. The coil inductor, the other choke coil 10, the high frequency tuning coil, a bar antenna, also used as a power supply choke like.

  A high-frequency tuning coil is used to connect a coil and a capacitor in parallel and tune to a certain frequency to extract a signal, and is used for a tuning circuit of a television or a radio.

  The bar antenna is used for tuning like the high-frequency tuning coil, but has a core that is inserted in the inside so as to have the same characteristics as the antenna, and is used for a portable radio or the like.

  The power choke is used for a power source noise prevention filter and a smoothing circuit filter so as to exhibit a particularly large resistance even at a low frequency.

  In the choke coil 10 according to the first embodiment, a plurality of thin film graphite sheets 12 (see FIG. 2) are applied as conductive wires instead of the conventionally applied copper wires.

The thin-film graphite sheet 12 of the first embodiment has a function as a high-frequency filter like the copper wire to be compared, but is greatly different from the copper wire in that the electrical resistivity is 10 ⁻⁶ Ω · cm or less. Yes, about 40% of the electrical resistivity of the copper wire. Moreover, the maximum current density of the thin film graphite sheet 12 is 10 ⁸ A / cm ^2, which is 1000 times or more that of the copper wire.

  Between the plurality of thin film graphite sheets 12, a welding sheet 14 as an insulator is interposed. As a result, the thin film graphite sheet 12 and the welding sheet 14 are stacked in a plurality of layers alternately to form a structure 16 containing the thin film graphite sheet 12.

  A synthetic resin material such as polyethylene and polypropylene can be used as the material of the welding sheet 14, and the thickness is about 0.01 mm to 10 mm, although it varies depending on the specifications of the choke coil 10 to be manufactured.

  Since the welding sheet 14 is an insulator as described above, the thin-film graphite sheets 12 are laminated in a non-contact state electrically. The plurality of thin film graphite sheets 12 are in an electrically connected state in post-processing (wiring).

  The structure 16 containing the thin-film graphite sheet 12 is sandwiched between two divided iron cores 18 and 20 so as to form an outer shell of the choke coil 10.

  FIG. 3 shows an equivalent circuit of electrical wiring formed by the thin film graphite sheet 12 in the structure 16 according to the first embodiment.

  The thin film graphite sheet 12 having a plurality of layers is cut into a so-called keyhole shape in a front view shown in FIG. The cut thin film graphite sheet 12 is formed with a ring-shaped coil portion 12A. A pair of leg portions extending in parallel with each other are provided from both ends in the circumferential direction of the coil portion 12A, and serve as wiring terminals 12B.

  The legs 12B are wired so as to electrically connect the thin film graphite sheets 12 of each layer. As shown in FIG. 3 (B), this wiring may be connected in parallel with the coil portion 12A, or may be connected in series as shown in FIG. 3 (C), depending on the application or desired characteristics. Good.

  Here, the outer dimension (dimension L × D × H in FIG. 1) of the choke coil 10 of the first embodiment is a rectangular body having a side of about 3 cm. As a comparative example, when a copper wire is applied as a wire in order to maintain the same electrical performance as that of the first embodiment, a volume eight times larger is required by simple calculation.

  Hereinafter, a manufacturing procedure of the choke coil 10 according to the first embodiment, in which the structure 16 containing the thin film graphite sheet 12 is applied as the coil portion 12A, will be described.

  (Procedure 1 “Graphite sheet forming step 1”)

  As shown in FIG. 4A, an adhesive tape 24A is attached to the surface of the rectangular block-shaped highly oriented graphite 22 and then the adhesive tape 24A is peeled (a part is separated from the graphite 22). As a result, the surface layer surface of the graphite 22 is peeled off by the adhesive force of the adhesive tape 24A, and the thin graphite material 22A moves to the adhesive surface side of the adhesive tape 24A.

  (Procedure 2 “Graphite sheet forming step 2”)

  As shown in FIG. 4 (B), another adhesive tape 24B is further applied to the thin film graphite material 22A attached to the adhesive tape 24A, and then this adhesive tape 24B is peeled off (a part thereof). Separated from the graphite material 22A).

  As a result, the surface layer portion of the graphite 22A is peeled off by the adhesive force of the adhesive sheet 24B, and the thin graphite material 22B, which is thinner than the thin graphite material 22A, is transferred to the adhesive surface side of the adhesive tape 24B.

The thin film graphite sheet 12 having a thickness dimension of about 0.01 mm is formed by performing the operation of the procedure 2 one or more times. This thickness dimension of 0.01 mm is a guideline for an electric resistivity of 10 ⁻⁶ Ω · cm or less. When executed twice or more, the adhesive sheets 24C, D, E... Are required, and the thin film graphite materials 22C, D, E. The thin film graphite sheet 12 is about 0.01 mm.

  (Procedure 3 “Lamination process 1”)

  As shown in FIG. 4C, a separately prepared welding sheet 26 is pressed against the surface of the thin film graphite sheet 12 having a desired thickness. Since the surface area (contour) of the welding sheet 26 is larger than the surface area (contour) of the thin film graphite sheet 12, the periphery of the welding sheet 26 protrudes from the periphery of the thin film graphite sheet 12. At this time, since the thin film graphite sheet 12 is further thinned, the thin film graphite sheet 12 having a thickness of about 0.01 mm including the final process (transfer process to the welding sheet 26) is formed. May be. In other words, the target thickness dimension (0.01 mm) is not necessary in the processing up to the procedure 3. Moreover, it is not necessary to distinguish the adhesive sheets 24A, B, C, D, E... And the welding sheet 26, and the welding sheet 26 may be applied from the beginning.

  (Procedure 4 “Lamination process 2”)

  By repeatedly executing the procedure 1 to the procedure 3, the bilayer body 28 of the desired number of units is generated with the bilayer body 28 of the welding sheet 26 and the thin film graphite sheet 12 as one unit.

  (Procedure 5 “Lamination process 3”)

  As shown in FIG. 4D, all the two-layer bodies 28 having a plurality of units have the same orientation. In FIG. 4D, the thin film graphite sheet 12 is the upper layer and the welding sheet 26 is the lower layer.

  The two-layer bodies 28 that are all in the same direction are sequentially stacked, and the two-layer bodies 28 of a plurality of units are integrated.

  When all the thin film graphite sheets 12 need to be sandwiched between the welding sheets 26 finally, a single welding sheet 26X may be prepared (see the uppermost welding sheet 26X in FIG. 4D). )

  (Procedure 6 "Welding process")

  As shown in FIG. 4E, in the state where the two-layer body 28 and the welding sheet 26X are laminated, the peripheral portions of the welding sheets 26 and the welding sheets 26X of the adjacent two-layer bodies 28 are in contact with each other. . The welding process is performed in a contact state between the welding sheet 26 and the welding sheet 26X. By this welding process, the two-layer body 28 and the welding sheet 26X are integrated, and the structure 16 containing the thin film graphite sheet 12 is formed.

  The welding process is typically heat welding, high frequency (ultrasonic) welding, or the like.

  For example, in the case of the hot air type, the hot air temperature is preferably 100 ° C. or higher and 800 ° C. or lower. This is because the maximum operating temperature of the choke coil 10 on which the structure 16 containing the graphite sheet 12 is mounted is about 100 ° C., and the thin film graphite sheet 12 is altered by 800 ° C. Thereby, it is possible to prevent the portion welded after mounting from being altered.

  (Procedure 7 “Processing process”)

  As shown in FIG. 4 (F), the structure containing the thin film graphite sheet formed by the welding process in step 6 is processed into a desired shape. In the first embodiment, the structure containing the thin film graphite sheet is formed on the ring-shaped coil portion 12A and both ends in the circumferential direction of the coil portion 12A so as to operate the choke coil 10 as a high-frequency filter. A pair of wiring terminals 12B is formed.

Laser processing is generally used as a processing method applied to the processing process. For example, in the case of excimer laser processing, XeCl laser light is used as a light source of excimer laser light, the wavelength thereof is 308 nm, and the pulse width is 20 nsec. Here, the output light from the XeCl laser is condensed so that the energy density per pulse on the irradiated surface is 2 Joules / m ² . And it irradiates to the structure containing the thin film graphite sheet which is a to-be-processed object, and it processes so that it may become what is called a keyhole shape (coil part 12A and terminal part 12B) in 1st Embodiment.

  Thin film graphite sheets with an electrical resistivity of about 40% lower and a maximum current density of 1000 times or more compared to copper wire or the like applied as a winding material can be used as a single unit by mechanical manufacturing methods and chemical methods. A manufacturing method close to the so-called manual operation such as a manufacturing method has been established. However, a manufacturing method of electrical parts using the graphite sheet has not been established.

  An example of a manufacturing method for mechanically peeling the graphite layer-wise is a Scotch tape method. In addition, as a production method for chemically growing a graphite sheet, there are, for example, a CVD method using a metal catalyst, a Sic surface decomposition method, and the like.

  Therefore, in the first embodiment, an electrical component using a copper wire or the like is established by using the graphite sheet to establish a process for manufacturing the structure 16 to be mounted on the coil portion 12A of the choke coil 10 or the like. Can be reduced in size and weight.

  (Second Embodiment)

In the first embodiment, the choke coil 10 is taken as an example of the structure containing the thin film graphite sheet, and the manufacturing method thereof has been described. However, the structure containing the thin-film graphite sheet is not limited to the choke coil 10, and the same effect can be obtained even with the transformer 30 (see FIG. 5) having the same configuration. Incidentally, transformer 30 is an example of electrical components used in the technique disclosed herein.

  The basic configuration of the transformer is a core in which a conductive wire is wound around a core that is an iron core, and may be classified into a power transformer, a switching power transformer, an audio transformer, and the like depending on the application.

  The power transformer is obtained by winding a plurality of coils around the same magnetic core and has a voltage conversion function. Using this, it is often used to step down or step up an AC voltage.

  The switching power transformer is the same as the power transformer described above, but is characterized by the use of a small and efficient toroidal core because of its high frequency.

  The audio transformer is a transformer used for impedance conversion in order to reduce transmission loss when impedance differs greatly in a transistor circuit or the like.

  FIG. 5 shows a transformer 30 using a structure containing a thin film graphite sheet according to the second embodiment.

  In the transformer 30 of the second embodiment, the coil unit 32 includes a coil unit 32A having a conventional copper wire as a winding, and a plurality of thin film graphite sheets 10 in order to maintain required electrical specifications. And a coil portion 32 </ b> B formed by the containing structure 16. The coil portion 32A acts as one of the primary winding and secondary winding of the transformer 30, and the coil portion 32B acts as the other of the primary winding and secondary winding of the transformer 30.

  In the coil portion 32A, for example, a copper wire 34 is wound many times around a core (iron core) (not shown). The winding portion of the copper wire 34 is divided into two by an insulating member 36.

  A pair of coil portions 32B is provided so as to sandwich the coil portion 32A. The coil part 32B is the structure 16 containing the thin film graphite sheet 12 applied in the first embodiment, and the manufacturing method thereof is manufactured by the procedure described in the operation of the first embodiment. The Therefore, description of the procedure of the manufacturing method is omitted here.

The thin-film graphite sheet 12 of the second embodiment has a function as a high-frequency filter like the comparative copper wire 34, but has a large difference from the copper wire in that the electrical resistivity is 10 ⁻⁶ Ω · cm or less. About 40% of the electrical resistivity of the copper wire. Moreover, the maximum current density of the thin film graphite sheet 12 is 10 ⁸ A / cm ^2, which is 1000 times or more that of the copper wire.

  Between the plurality of thin film graphite sheets 12, a welding sheet 26, which is an insulator, is interposed. As a result, the thin film graphite sheet 12 and the welding sheet 26 are alternately stacked over a plurality of layers to form a coil portion 32B.

  Since the welding sheet 26 is an insulator as described above, the thin-film graphite sheets 12 are laminated in a non-contact state electrically. In post-processing (wiring), an electrically connected state is established.

  The coil portion 32 </ b> A and the coil portion 32 </ b> B form an outer shell of the transformer 30 by being sandwiched between two divided iron cores 38 and 40.

  In the second embodiment, the coil portion 32A using a copper wire and the coil 32B using the structure 16 containing the thin film graphite sheet 12 are used in combination. This is because, based on the electrical specifications of the transformer 30 to be manufactured, the coil portion 32B alone may not be able to cope with it. For example, electrical specifications include durability, compensation for high voltage, physical strength, and the like.

  Note that the transformer 30 of the second embodiment uses the coil portion 32A and the coil portion 32B together in order to distinguish them from the choke coil 10 of the first embodiment, but the coil portion 32B is a single coil portion. May be formed.

  In the first embodiment and the second embodiment, the thin film graphite sheet 12 is applied as a direct electrical component such as the choke coil 12 or the transformer 30, but as a heat sink that is an indirect electrical component. It is also possible to apply.

  That is, the thin graphite sheet 12 has a thermal conductivity of about 5000 W / mK, which is very good as compared with 2000 W / mK for diamond and 400 W / mK for copper.

  All documents, patent applications and technical standards mentioned in this specification are to the same extent as if each individual document, patent application and technical standard were specifically and individually described to be incorporated by reference. Incorporated by reference in the book.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Choke coil 12 Thin film graphite sheet 14 Welding sheet 16 Structure 18, 20 Iron core 12A Coil part 12B Wiring terminal 22 Graphite 24A, B, C, D, E ... Adhesive tape 22A, B, C, D, E ... -Graphite material 26 Welding sheet 26X Welding sheet 28 Two-layer body 30 Transformer 32A Coil part 32B Coil part 34 Copper wire 36 Insulating members 38, 40 Iron core

Claims (5)

A graphite sheet forming step of forming a plurality of graphite sheets having a predetermined surface area and wall thickness;
A lamination step of alternately laminating a graphite sheet formed in the graphite sheet forming step and a welding sheet formed of an insulating member and having a surface area larger than the predetermined surface area;
A welding step of welding the peripheral edge portion of the welding sheet protruding from between the graphite sheets laminated by the lamination step;
A processing step of processing the composite member of the graphite sheet and the welding sheet fused in the welding step into a predetermined shape to form a structure functioning as a conductive member;
The manufacturing method of the structure containing the thin film graphite which has this. The graphite sheet forming step is performed by attaching an adhesive tape to highly oriented graphite that is thicker than a predetermined thickness, and then peeling the graphite and the adhesive tape so that the graphite is adhered to the adhesive surface of the adhesive tape. 2. The thin film graphite according to claim 1, wherein the surface layer portion of the graphite sheet is transferred at least once to adjust the thickness of the graphite sheet so that the electrical resistivity of the graphite sheet is 10 ⁻⁶ Ω · cm or less. A method for producing a structure containing   The laminating step includes a transfer step of transferring a plurality of graphite sheets formed by the graphite sheet forming step to the welding sheet to form a two-layer body, and the two-layer body generated by the transfer step The manufacturing method of the structure containing the thin film graphite of Claim 1 or Claim 2 which prepares a required number and laminate | stacks.   The processing step includes a cutting step of cutting the structure into a cylindrical shape whose axis is in the stacking direction, and an electrical connection in series so that the graphite sheet exposed from the side surface after the cutting step functions as a coil winding or The manufacturing method of the structure containing the thin film graphite of any one of Claims 1-3 provided with the wiring process connected in parallel. It is made of thin film graphite and is provided between the conductive member in which the arc part and the terminal part formed at both ends of the arc part are formed and the plurality of conductive members stacked in layers, and the adjacent conductive member is insulated. A structure including an insulating member held in
An energizing member that is connected between terminals of the conductive member in the structure, and causes an arc portion of the conductive member to function as a coil having a desired inductance by passing a current;
Having electrical parts.

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