Copper alloy assembly and production method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12337407-B2
Application number	US-202318341063-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2023
Priority date	Jan 8, 2021
Publication date	Jun 24, 2025
Grant date	Jun 24, 2025

Abstract

A copper alloy bonded body composed of a plurality of members made of an age-hardenable copper alloy, the members diffusion-bonded to one another. The copper alloy bonded body has undergone solution annealing and an aging treatment, the content of beryllium in the age-hardenable copper alloy is 0.7% by weight or less, and (i) a bonding interface between the members has disappeared and/or (ii) a bonding interface between the members remains, and an oxide film at the bonding interface has a thickness of 0 nm or more and 5.0 nm or less.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A copper alloy bonded body composed of a plurality of members made of an age-hardenable copper alloy, the members diffusion-bonded to one another, wherein the copper alloy bonded body has undergone solution annealing including heating at a temperature of 700 to 1100° C. for 1 to 180 minutes and an aging treatment at 350 to 550° C. for 30 to 480 minutes,
wherein a content of beryllium in the age-hardenable copper alloy is 0.7% by weight or less, and wherein:
(i) a bonding interface between the members has disappeared and/or
(ii) a bonding interface between the members remains, and an oxide film at the bonding interface has a thickness of 0 nm or more and 5.0 nm or less.

2. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 1 , comprising crystal grains of the age-hardenable copper alloy grown beyond the bonding interface or a position where the bonding interface was present.

3. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 1 , wherein the oxide film has a thickness of 0 nm or more and 1.0 nm or less.

4. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 1 , wherein a residual component derived from a material other than the age-hardenable copper alloy is absent at the bonding interface or a position where the bonding interface was present.

5. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 1 , wherein a base material and a bonding part of the copper alloy bonded body have a strength of 520 MPa or higher.

6. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 5 , wherein the base material and the bonding part of the copper alloy bonded body have a strength of 690 MPa or higher.

7. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 1 , wherein a base material including a bonding part of the copper alloy bonded body has a thermal conductivity of 209 W/mK or more.

8. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 1 , wherein a base material including a bonding part of the copper alloy bonded body has an electrical conductivity of 50 IACS % or more.

9. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 1 , wherein the age-hardenable copper alloy is at least one selected from the group consisting of beryllium copper alloy 11 (JIS alloy number C1751, EN material number CW110C, and UNS alloy number C17510), beryllium copper alloy 10 (EN material number CW104C and UNS alloy number C17500), beryllium copper CuCo1Ni1Be (EN material number CW103C), beryllium copper alloy 14Z (composed of Be: 0.2 to 0.6% by weight, Ni: 1.4 to 2.4% by weight, Zr: 0 to 0.5% by weight, and the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities), beryllium copper alloy 50 (composed of Be: 0.2 to 0.6% by weight, Ni: 1.4 to 2.1% by weight, Ag: 0.1 to 0.3% by weight, Zr: 0 to 0.5% by weight, and the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities), beryllium copper alloy 10Zr (composed of Be: 0.4 to 0.7% by weight, Co: 2.0 to 2.8% by weight, Zr: 0 to 0.3% by weight, and the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities), chromium copper (UNS alloy number C18200), chromium zirconium copper (UNS alloy number C18510 and EN material number CW106C), zirconium copper (UNS alloy number C15000, EN material number CW120C), and Corson copper (EN material number CW109C, CW111C, UNS alloy number C19010, C70250, AMPCO944 (composed of Ni: 6.5 to 7.5% by weight, Si: 1.5 to 2.5% by weight, Cr: 0.5 to 1.5% by weight, and the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities), and AMPCO940 (composed of Ni: 1.5 to 3.0% by weight, Si: 0.5 to 1.5% by weight, Cr: 0.3 to 1.5% by weight, and the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities)).

10. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 9 , wherein the age-hardenable alloy is at least one selected from the group consisting of beryllium copper alloy 11 (JIS alloy number C1751, EN material number CW110C, and UNS alloy number C17510), beryllium copper alloy 10 (EN material number CW104C and UNS alloy number C17500), beryllium copper CuCo1Ni1Be (EN material number CW103C), beryllium copper alloy 14Z (composed of Be: 0.2 to 0.6% by weight, Ni: 1.4 to 2.4% by weight, Zr: 0 to 0.5% by weight, and the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities), beryllium copper alloy 50 (composed of Be: 0.2 to 0.6% by weight, Ni: 1.4 to 2.1% by weight, Ag: 0.1 to 0.3% by weight, Zr: 0 to 0.5% by weight, and the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities), and beryllium copper alloy 10Zr (composed of Be: 0.4 to 0.7% by weight, Co: 2.0 to 2.8% by weight, Zr: 0 to 0.3% by weight, and the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities).

11. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 1 , prepared using a copper alloy member having an RRA (Relative Reduction of Area) of 0.8 or more in a hydrogen gas, measured in a slow strain rate tensile test performed at a strain rate of 5×10 −5 s −1 or less.

12. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 1 , wherein the copper alloy bonded body including a bonding part has a tensile strength of 520 MPa or higher in a hydrogen gas, measured in a slow strain rate tensile test performed at a strain rate of 5×10 −5 s −1 or less.

13. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 12 , wherein the copper alloy bonded body including a bonding part has a tensile strength of 690 MPa or higher in a hydrogen gas, measured in a slow strain rate tensile test performed at a strain rate of 5×10 −5 s −1 or less.

14. The copper alloy bonded body according to claim 1 , wherein the copper alloy bonded body comprises a flow passage space inside.

15. A method for producing the copper alloy bonded body according to claim 1 , comprising:
providing a plurality of members made of an age-hardenable copper alloy, wherein each surface to be bonded is a flat surface having a flatness of 0.1 mm or less and a ten-point average roughness Rzjis of 6.3 μm or less, and wherein the content of beryllium is 0.7% by weight or less;
removing an oxide film present at each surface to be bonded of a plurality of the members;
subjecting a plurality of the members to diffusion bonding by hot pressing to provide an intermediate bonded body;
subjecting the intermediate bonded body to solution annealing including heating at a temperature of 700 to 1100° C. for 1 to 180 minutes and subsequent water cooling; and
subjecting the solution-annealed intermediate bonded body to an aging treatment at 350 to 550° C. for 30 to 480 minutes.

16. The method according to claim 15 , wherein removing the oxide film is performed by washing each surface to be bonded of a plurality of the members with an inorganic acid solution.

17. The method according to claim 15 , wherein the hot pressing is performed by applying a pressure of 1.0 MPa or higher at a temperature of 500 to 1050° C. for 30 to 480 minutes in a furnace wherein a degree of vacuum is higher than 1.0×10 −2 Torr (that is, pressure is lower than 1.0×10 −2 Torr).

18. The method according to claim 15 , wherein when the age-hardenable copper alloy is free of Be, the hot pressing is performed by applying a pressure of 1.0 MPa or higher at a temperature of 500 to 1050° C. for 30 to 480 minutes in a furnace wherein a degree of vacuum is higher than 1.0×10 −1 Torr (that is, pressure is lower than 1.0×10 −1 Torr).

19. The method according to claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises, prior to the solution annealing, subjecting the intermediate bonded body to a homogenization treatment at a temperature of 900 to 1050° C. for 60 to 480 minutes in a furnace wherein a degree of vacuum is higher than 1.0×10 −1 Torr (that is, pressure is lower than 1.0×10 −1 Torr) or in a furnace under an atmosphere of nitrogen or another non-oxidizing gas.

Assignees

• Univ Kyushu Nat Univ Corp
• Ngk Insulators Ltd

Inventors

• Takakuwa Osamu
• Matsunaga Hisao
• Ishikawa Takahiro
• Uchiyama Hiromitsu
• Sakakibara Masato
• Akaiwa Masaaki

Classifications

• B23K20/001

  by extrusion or drawing · CPC title

• C22F1/08

  of copper or alloys based thereon · CPC title

• C22F1/02

  in inert or controlled atmosphere or vacuum (adjusting the composition of the atmosphere C21D1/76) · CPC title

• C22F1/002

  by rapid cooling or quenching; cooling agents used therefor · CPC title

• C22C9/06

  with nickel or cobalt as the next major constituent · CPC title