Copper alloy wire, copper alloy stranded wire, electric wire, terminal-fitted electric wire, and method of manufacturing copper alloy wire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016284437-A1
Application number	US-201415037623-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 5, 2014
Priority date	Dec 19, 2013
Publication date	Sep 29, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided are: a copper alloy wire having an excellent electrical conductivity, a high strength, and an excellent elongation; a copper alloy stranded wire including the copper alloy wire; an electric wire including the copper alloy wire or the copper alloy stranded wire as a conductor; a terminal-fitted electric wire including the aforementioned electric wire; and a method of manufacturing a copper alloy wire. The copper alloy wire has a composition including: not less than 0.2% by mass and not more than 1% by mass of Mg; not less than 0.02% by mass and not more than 0.1% by mass of P; and the balance including Cu and inevitable impurities. The copper alloy wire has an electrical conductivity of not less than 60% IACS, a tensile strength of not less than 400 MPa, and an elongation at breakage of not less than 5%.

First claim

1 . A copper alloy wire comprising: not less than 0.2% by mass and not more than 1% by mass of Mg; not less than 0.02% by mass and not more than 0.1% by mass of P; and the balance containing Cu and inevitable impurities,
the copper alloy wire having an electrical conductivity of not less than 60% IACS, a tensile strength of not less than 400 MPa, and an elongation at breakage of not less than 5%.

2 . The copper alloy wire according to claim 1 , wherein
the copper alloy wire has a structure in which a precipitate disperses, the precipitate includes a compound containing the Mg and the P, and the precipitate has an average particle size of not more than 500 nm.

3 . The copper alloy wire according to claim 1 , further comprising: not less than 0.01% by mass and not more than 0.5% by mass in total of at least one element selected from Fe, Sn, Ag, In, Sr, Zn, Ni, and Al.

4 . The copper alloy wire according to claim 1 , wherein a mass ratio Mg/P of the Mg to the P is not less than 4 and not more than 30.

5 . The copper alloy wire according to claim 1 , wherein the copper alloy wire has a wire diameter of not more than 0.35 mm.

6 . The copper alloy wire according to claim 1 , wherein an average particle size of a matrix including the Cu is not more than 10 μm.

7 . A copper alloy stranded wire comprising the copper alloy wire as recited in claim 1 .

8 . A copper alloy stranded wire which is a compression-molded stranded wire comprising the copper alloy wire as recited in claim 1 .

9 . The copper alloy stranded wire according to claim 7 , wherein the copper alloy stranded wire has a cross-sectional area of not less than 0.05 mm 2 and not more than 0.5 mm 2 .

10 . The copper alloy stranded wire according to claim 7 , wherein the copper alloy stranded wire has a twist pitch of not less than 10 mm and not more than 20 mm.

11 . An electric wire comprising a conductor and an insulating layer covering a surface of the conductor,
the conductor being a copper alloy wire as recited in claim 1 .

12 . An electric wire with a terminal comprising the electric wire as recited in claim 11 and the terminal attached to an end of the electric wire.

13 . A method of manufacturing a copper alloy wire, the method comprising:
dissolving Mg and P into Cu to prepare a solid solution material having a composition containing not less than 0.2% by mass and not more than 1% by mass of the Mg; not less than 0.02% by mass and not more than 0.1% by mass of the P; and the balance containing the Cu and inevitable impurities; precipitating a compound containing the Mg and the P to disperse the compound in a matrix by heating the solid solution material to produce an aged material; and wiredrawing the aged material in a plurality of passes to produce a wiredrawn material having a predetermined final wire diameter, an electrical conductivity of not less than 60% IACS, and a tensile strength of not less than 400 MPa, in the wiredrawing, an intermediate softening treatment being performed on an intermediate material having an intermediate wire diameter of more than one time and not more than ten times as large as the final wire diameter.

14 . The method of manufacturing a copper alloy wire according to claim 13 , wherein the solid solution material is produced by casting a copper alloy having the composition and performing a solution heat treatment on the cast copper alloy.

15 . The method of manufacturing a copper alloy wire according to claim 13 , wherein the aged material is produced by performing an aging treatment on the solid solution material.

16 . The method of manufacturing a copper alloy wire according to claim 13 , further comprising annealing on the wiredrawn material to cause the annealed wiredrawn material to have an elongation at breakage of not less than 5%.

17 . An electric wire comprising a conductor and an insulating layer covering a surface of the conductor,
the conductor being a copper alloy stranded wire as recited in claim 7 .

Assignees

• Sumitomo Electric Industries
• Autonetworks Technologies Ltd
• Sumitomo Wiring Systems

Inventors

• Inoue Akiko
• Kuwabara Tetsuya
• Nakai Yoshihiro
• Nishikawa Taichiro
• Kobayashi Hiroyuki

Classifications

• H01B1/026

  Alloys based on copper · CPC title

• H01B13/0036

  Details · CPC title

• B22D21/005

  with high melting point, e.g. Be 1280 degrees C, Ti 1725 degrees C · CPC title

• C22F1/08

  of copper or alloys based thereon · CPC title

• H01R4/185

  combined with a U-shaped insulation-receiving portion · CPC title