Appeal No. 95-4966
Application No. 08/072,182
According to appellant, the invention is directed to a
method of making a composite article with an electrically
conductive surface comprising the steps of providing whisker-
like structures on a substrate, encapsulating these
structures, and delaminating this layer of encapsulated
structures from the substrate (Brief, page 4).
Claims 15 and 17 are illustrative of
the subject matter on appeal and are reproduced below:
15. A method for preparing a composite article having an
electrically conductive surface comprising the following
steps:
(a) providing conductive whisker-like structures on a
substrate, wherein said whisker-like structures form an array
of discrete microstructures and have an areal number density
of
40-50/µm and are perpendicular to said substrate;2
(b) encapsulating said microstructures with an
encapsulating material, wherein a layer comprising
encapsulated microstructures in produced; and
(c) delaminating said layer from said substrate to
expose a surface on said layer, such that at the surface of
said layer, one end of said microstructures is exposed, and
that the end of said microstructures that is exposed and the
surface of said layer are coincident on a common side of said
layer.
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