(19)
(11) EP 2 165 791 A8

(12) CORRECTED EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION
Note: Bibliography reflects the latest situation

(15) Correction information:
Corrected version no 1 (W1 A2)

(48) Corrigendum issued on:
07.07.2010 Bulletin 2010/27

(88) Date of publication A3:
14.04.2010 Bulletin 2010/15

(43) Date of publication:
24.03.2010 Bulletin 2010/12

(21) Application number: 08162067.6

(22) Date of filing: 02.09.2004
(27) Previously filed application:
 02.09.2004 PCT/JP20/04013087
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
B22F 9/24(2006.01)
 B22F 1/00(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB

(30) Priority: 05.09.2003 JP 2003314208
09.04.2004 JP 2004116253
09.04.2004 JP 2004116254

(62) Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
04772901.7 / 1661648

(71) Applicants:
  • Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8117 (JP)
  • Dai Nippon Toryo Co., Ltd.
    Osaka-City, Osaka 554-0012 (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Takata, Yoshiaki
    Naka-shi Ibaraki-ken 311-0102 (JP)
  • Hirata, Hiroki
    Naka Ibaraki (JP)
  • Satoh, Jun-etsu
    Naka Ibaraki (JP)
  • Niidome, Yasuro
    Fukuoka Fukuoka (JP)
  • Yamada, Sunao
    Kasuya Fukuoka (JP)
  • Nishioka, Koji
    Ibaraki-ken 305 0821 (JP)
  • Kawasaki, Hideya
    Osaka-fu 324-0036 (JP)
  • Mizoguchi, Daigou
    Otawara-shi Tochigi-shi, 324-0036 (JP)
  • Nagai, Masanori
    Otawara Tochigi (JP)
  • Murouchi, Masato
    Otawara Tochigi (JP)
  • Ishihara, Masaoki
    Otawara Tochigi (JP)

(74) Representative: Gille Hrabal Struck Neidlein Prop Roos 
Patentanwälte Brucknerstrasse 20
40593 Düsseldorf
40593 Düsseldorf (DE)

 
Remarks:
This application was filed on 08-08-2008 as a divisional application to the application mentioned under INID code 62.
 


(54) Metal microparticle, composition containing the same and process for producing metal microparticle


(57) One object of the present invention is to provide metal fine particles which have selective wavelength absorption characteristics in a wavelength region from visible light to near infrared light, and have sharp absorption characteristics, and influences little the surrounding wavelength, and therefore, they yield tones having high chroma. The present invention provides a production method for producing metal fine particles by reducing metal ions in an aqueous solution containing a surfactant, wherein an aspect ratio of the metal fine particles is controlled by performing the reduction reaction while adjusting a solution temperature.