Copper alloy plate, copper alloy plate with plating film, and methods for producing these

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11926889-B2
Application number	US-202017630691-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 5, 2020
Priority date	Aug 6, 2019
Publication date	Mar 12, 2024
Grant date	Mar 12, 2024

Abstract

A copper alloy plate containing in a center part of a plate thickness direction more than 2.0% (% by mass) and 32.5% or less of Zn; 0.1% or more and 0.9% or less of Sn; 0.05% or more and less than 1.0% of Ni; 0.001% or more and less than 0.1% of Fe, and 0.005% or more and 0.1% or less of P; and the balance Cu, including a surface layer part in which a surface Zn concentration in a surface is 60% or less of a center Zn concentration in the center part, having a depth from the surface to where Zn concentration is 90% of the center Zn concentration; and in the surface layer, the Zn concentration increases from the surface toward the center part in the plate thickness direction at a concentration gradient of 10% by mass/μm or more and 1000% by mass/μm or less.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A copper alloy plate comprising a surface layer part,
wherein in a center in a plate thickness direction more than 2% (% by mass, the same hereafter) and 32.5% or less of Zn as a center Zn concentration; 0.1% or more and 0.9% or less of Sn; 0.05% or more and less than 1.0% of Ni; 0.001% or more and less than 0.1% of Fe, and 0.005% or more and 0.1% or less of P; and the balance Cu with inevitable impurities are contained,
wherein a surface Zn concentration at a surface of the copper alloy plate is 40% or less of the center Zn concentration,
wherein the surface layer part has a depth from the surface to where Zn concentration is 90% of the center Zn concentration; and
wherein in the surface layer part, the Zn concentration increases from the surface toward the center at a concentration gradient of 10% by mass/μm or more and 1000% by mass/μm or less, and the Zn concentration in the surface layer part does not decrease from the surface Zn concentration.

2. The copper alloy plate according to claim 1 , further containing 0.001% or more and less than 0.1% of Co.

3. The copper alloy plate according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the surface layer part is 1 μm or less.

4. A copper alloy plate with a plating film comprising the copper alloy plate according to claim 1 and a plating film formed on the surface layer part of the copper alloy plate.

5. The copper alloy plate with the plating film according to claim 4 , wherein an average concentration of Zn in the plating film is 10% or less of the center Zn concentration.

6. The copper alloy plate with the plating film according to claim 4 , wherein the plating film consists of one or more layers selected from tin, copper, zinc, gold, silver, palladium, and alloy of them.

7. A method of manufacturing the copper alloy plate according to claim 1 comprising steps of
a Zn condense treatment step in diffusing Zn on a surface and concentrating Zn to form a surface part in which Zn is concentrated; and
a surface part removal treatment step in removing the surface part and forming the surface layer part.

8. A method of manufacturing the copper alloy plate with a plating film according to claim 4 , wherein the plating film is formed by electroplating at 0.1 A/dm 2 or more and 60 A/dm 2 or less of an electric current density.

9. The method of manufacturing the copper alloy plate with a plating film according to claim 8 , wherein
the plating film contains tin; and
after the electroplating treatment is performed, reflow treatment is performed at 230° C. or more and 330° C. or less of heating peak temperature for 0.5 seconds or more and 30 seconds or less of heating time at the heating peak temperature.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Materials Corp

Inventors

• Morikawa Kenji
• Miyashima Naoki
• Maki Kazunari
• Funaki Shinichi

Classifications

• C22C9/04 Primary

  with zinc as the next major constituent · CPC title

• B32B15/01

  all layers being exclusively metallic {(making layered metal workpieces by pressure cladding B23K20/22; making coatings with a metallic material characterised by its composition C23C30/00)} · CPC title

• B32B15/20

  comprising aluminium or copper {(B32B15/016 and B32B15/017 take precedence)} · CPC title

• C25D3/38

  of copper · CPC title

• C25D5/50

  by heat-treatment · CPC title