Surface-treated material and component produced by using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019337268-A1
Application number	US-201716473924-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 26, 2017
Priority date	Dec 27, 2016
Publication date	Nov 7, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention provides: a surface-treated material that can simply and in a short time period form a surface treatment film having an adequate adhesiveness particularly on an electroconductive substrate which is mainly formed of a base metal having a large ionization tendency and is considered to resist having a sound plating film formed thereon; and a component produced by using the same.
A surface-treated material ( 10 ) of the present invention comprises an electroconductive substrate ( 1 ) and a surface treatment film ( 2 ) formed of at least one or more layers of metal layers ( 3 and 4 ) which are formed on the electroconductive substrate ( 1 ), and among the at least one or more layers of metal layers ( 3 and 4 ), a lowermost metal layer ( 3 ) which is directly formed on the electroconductive substrate ( 1 ) comprises a plurality of metal-buried portions ( 3 a) that are scattered in the electroconductive substrate ( 1 ) and continuously extend from a surface of the electroconductive substrate ( 1 ) toward an inside thereof.

First claim

1 . A surface-treated material comprising an electroconductive substrate and a surface treatment film formed of at least one or more layers of metal layers which are formed on the electroconductive substrate, wherein among the at least one or more layers of metal layers, a lowermost metal layer which is a metal layer directly formed on the electroconductive substrate comprises a plurality of metal-buried portions that are scattered in the electroconductive substrate and continuously extend from a surface of the electroconductive substrate toward an inside thereof.

2 . A surface-treated material comprising an electroconductive substrate and a surface treatment film formed of one or more layers of metal layers on the electroconductive substrate, wherein among the metal layers forming the surface treatment film, a lowermost metal layer in contact with the electroconductive substrate comprises a plurality of metal-buried portions that extend from a surface of the electroconductive substrate toward an inside in a thickness direction thereof

3 . The surface-treated material according to claim 1 , wherein an average value of extension lengths of the metal-buried portions is in a range of 0.5 μm or more and 10 μm or less, as measured along a thickness direction from the surface of the electroconductive substrate, as a vertical cross section of the surface-treated material is viewed.

4 . The surface-treated material according to claim 1 , wherein an average existence density of the metal-buried portions is in a range of 1 piece or more and 10 pieces or less per cross-sectional width of the electroconductive substrate of 50 μm, as a vertical cross section of the surface-treated material is viewed.

5 . The surface-treated material according to claim 1 , wherein the electroconductive substrate is aluminum or an aluminum alloy.

6 . The surface-treated material according to claim 1 , wherein the lowermost metal layer is nickel, a nickel alloy, cobalt, a cobalt alloy, copper or a copper alloy.

7 . The surface-treated material according to claim 1 , wherein the surface treatment film is formed of the lowermost metal layer and one or more layers of metal layers formed on the lowermost metal layer, and the one or more layers of metal layers are formed of any metal selected from the group consisting of nickel, a nickel alloy, cobalt, a cobalt alloy, copper, a copper alloy, tin, a tin alloy, silver, a silver alloy, gold, a gold alloy, platinum, a platinum alloy, rhodium, a rhodium alloy, ruthenium, a ruthenium alloy, iridium, an iridium alloy, palladium and a palladium alloy.

8 . The surface-treated material according to claim 7 , wherein the one or more layers of metal layers are composed of two or more layers of metal layers.

9 . A terminal produced with use of the surface-treated material according to claim 1 .

10 . A connector produced with use of the surface-treated material according to claim 1 .

11 . A bus bar produced with use of the surface-treated material according to claim 1 .

12 . A lead frame produced with use of the surface-treated material according to claim 1 .

13 . A medical member produced with use of the surface-treated material according to claim 1 .

14 . A shield case produced with use of the surface-treated material according to claim 1 .

15 . A coil produced with use of the surface-treated material according to claim 1 .

16 . A contact switch produced with use of the surface-treated material according to claim 1 .

17 . A cable produced with use of the surface-treated material according to claim 1 .

18 . A heat pipe produced with use of the surface-treated material according to claim 1 .

19 . A memory disk produced with use of the surface-treated material according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Furukawa Electric Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kobayashi Yoshiaki
• Yamauchi Miho

Classifications

• C25D5/44

  Aluminium · CPC title

• H01R13/03

  characterised by the material, e.g. plating, or coating materials · CPC title

• B32B2457/00

  Electrical equipment · CPC title

• H01R43/16

  for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending · CPC title

• C25D5/12

  at least one layer being of nickel or chromium · CPC title