Method of manufacturing metal member-welded structure, and metal member-welded structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020141434-A1
Application number	US-201816629353-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 30, 2018
Priority date	Jul 25, 2017
Publication date	May 7, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a metal member-welded structure includes: a preparing step of preparing an Al alloy member formed of an Al-based alloy and a Cu member containing Cu as a main component; and a welding step of applying laser from a side of the Al alloy member to the Al alloy member and the Cu member disposed to face each other, and welding the Al alloy member and the Cu member to each other. The Al-based alloy contains, as an additional element, one of: 1 mass % or more and 17 mass % or less of Si; 0.05 mass % or more and 2.5 mass % or less of Fe; and 0.05 mass % or more and 2.5 mass % or less of Mn. A laser applying condition satisfies an output of 550 W or more and a scanning rate of 10 min/sec or more.

First claim

1 . A method of manufacturing a metal member-welded structure, the method comprising:
a preparing step of preparing an Al alloy member made of an Al-based alloy and a Cu member containing Cu as a main component; and a welding step of applying laser from a side of the Al alloy member to the Al alloy member and the Cu member disposed to face each other, and welding the Al alloy member and the Cu member to each other, wherein the Al-based alloy contains, as an additional element, one of: 1 mass % or more and 17 mass % or less of Si; 0.05 mass % or more and 2.5 mass % or less of Fe; and 0.05 mass % or more and 2.5 mass % or less of Mn, and a laser applying condition satisfies
an output of 550 W or more, and
a scanning rate of 10 mm/sec or more.

2 . The method of manufacturing a metal member-welded structure according to claim 1 , wherein
the laser applying condition satisfies
an output of 850 W or less, and
a scanning rate of 90 mm/sec or less.

3 . The method of manufacturing a metal member-welded structure according to claim 1 , wherein the laser is fiber laser.

4 . The method of manufacturing a metal member-welded structure according to claim 1 , wherein the laser is applied to allow penetration through the Cu member.

5 . A metal member-welded structure comprising:
an Al alloy member containing 1 mass % or more and 17 mass % or less of Si; a Cu member containing Cu as a main component; and a welded portion formed by melting and solidifying each of materials of the Al alloy member and the Cu member, wherein the welded portion includes a stack structure formed by sequentially stacking
a γ 2 phase containing Cu 9 Al 4 and not containing Si,
a δ phase containing Cu 3 Al 2 and not containing Si, and
a θ phase containing Al 2 Cu and Si,
in a direction away from an interface with the Cu member.

6 . A metal member-welded structure comprising:
an Al alloy member containing 0.05 mass % or more and 2.5 mass % or less of Fe; a Cu member containing Cu as a main component; and a welded portion formed by melting and solidifying each of materials of the Al alloy member and the Cu member, wherein the welded portion includes a stack structure formed by sequentially stacking
a γ 2 phase containing Cu 9 Al 4 and not containing Fe,
a δ phase containing Cu 3 Al 2 and Fe,
an inner θ phase containing Al 2 Cu and Fe, and
an outer θ phase containing Al 2 Cu and not containing Fe,
in a direction away from an interface with the Cu member.

7 . A metal member-welded structure comprising:
an Al alloy member containing 0.05 mass % or more and 2.5 mass % or less of Mn; a Cu member containing Cu as a main component; and a welded portion formed by melting and solidifying each of materials of the Al alloy member and the Cu member, wherein the welded portion includes a stack structure formed by sequentially stacking
a γ 2 phase containing Cu 9 Al 4 and not containing Mn,
a β phase containing Cu 3 Al and Mn, and
a θ phase containing Al 2 Cu and not containing Mn,
in a direction away from an interface with the Cu member.

8 . The metal member-welded structure according to claim 5 , wherein
the welded portion includes a sea-island structure including:
a plurality of island portions containing Al 2 Cu and Si, and distributed on a side opposite to the interface with respect to the stack structure; and
a sea portion containing pure Al and Si, and interposed among the plurality of island portions.

9 . The metal member-welded structure according to claim 8 , wherein a distance between the island portions is 10 μm or less.

10 . The metal member-welded structure according to claim 6 , wherein
the welded portion includes a sea-island structure including:
a plurality of coarse island portions containing Al 2 Cu and Fe, and distributed on a side opposite to the interface with respect to the stack structure;
a plurality of minute island portions containing pure Al and distributed among the plurality of coarse island portions; and
a three-dimensional mesh-like sea portion containing Al 2 Cu and Fe, and interposed between the coarse island portion and the minute island portion.

11 . The metal member-welded structure according to claim 7 , wherein
the welded portion includes a sea-island structure including:
a plurality of coarse island portions containing Al 2 Cu and Mn, and distributed on a side opposite to the interface with respect to the stack structure;
a plurality of minute island portions containing pure Al and distributed among the plurality of coarse island portions; and
a three-dimensional mesh-like sea portion containing Al 2 Cu and Mn, and interposed between the coarse island portion and the minute island portion.

12 . The metal member-welded structure according to claim 10 , wherein a distance between the coarse island portions is 10 μm or less.

13 . The metal member-welded structure according to claim 8 , wherein the welded portion has a lamellar structure containing Al 2 Cu and pure Al on a side opposite to the stack structure with respect to the sea-island structure.

14 . The metal member-welded structure according to claim 5 , wherein the welded portion penetrates through the Cu member.

15 . The metal member-welded structure according to claim 10 , wherein the welded portion has a lamellar structure containing Al 2 Cu and pure Al on a side opposite to the stack structure with respect to the sea-island structure.

16 . The metal member-welded structure according to claim 11 , wherein the welded portion has a lamellar structure containing Al 2 Cu and pure Al on a side opposite to the stack structure with respect to the sea-island structure.

17 . The metal member-welded structure according to claim 6 , wherein the welded portion penetrates through the Cu member.

18 . The metal member-welded structure according to claim 7 , wherein the welded portion penetrates through the Cu member.

Assignees

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

Inventors

• Sugimura Koki
• Goto Kazuhiro
• Kuwabara Tetsuya
• Hirai Hiroki
• Ono Junichi
• Tanaka Tetsuji
• Nakayama Osamu
• Hamada Kazuaki
• Miyamoto Kenji

Classifications

• B23K26/21

  by welding · CPC title

• B23K26/323

  involving parts made of dissimilar metallic material · CPC title

• C22C21/00

  Alloys based on aluminium · CPC title

• C22C21/02

  with silicon as the next major constituent · CPC title

• F16B5/08 Primary

  by means of welds or the like (welding B23K) · CPC title