Surface-treated metal and method for producing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9353270-B2
Application number	US-201214126489-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 18, 2012
Priority date	Jun 17, 2011
Publication date	May 31, 2016
Grant date	May 31, 2016

Abstract

This surface-treated metal includes a metal, and a coated material on a surface of the metal, in which an outermost layer is a photocatalytic film that contains particles showing photocatalytic activity and an organic-inorganic composite resin, a volume ratio of the particles to the film is in a range from 0.5 to 50 vol %, the resin contains a siloxane bond and at least one group selected from the group consisting of an aryl group, a carboxyl group, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, and an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, the coated material has concaves on a surface thereof on the outermost layer side, an area of the outermost layer is 50% to 98% of an area of a surface of the metal, and a surface area of the outermost layer is 101% to 5000% of the area of the surface of the metal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A surface-treated metal comprising:
a metal; and
a coated material that is formed on a surface of the metal,
wherein an outermost layer of the coated material is a photocatalytic film that contains particles showing a photocatalytic activity and an organic-inorganic composite resin,
the coated material has a second layer in contact with the outermost layer between the outermost layer and the metal,
a volume ratio of the particles showing the photocatalytic activity to the photocatalytic film is in a range from 0.5 vol % to 50 vol %,
the organic-inorganic composite resin contains a siloxane bond and at least one group selected from the group consisting of an aryl group, a carboxyl group, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, and an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms,
the coated material has a hole on a surface on the outermost layer side thereof,
the hole extends in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the outermost layer,
the hole separates the outermost layer in the direction perpendicular to the thickness direction when the outermost layer is seen in a cross-sectional view taken along the thickness direction,
the hole is exposed to an outside of the surface-treated metal,
an area of the outermost layer is 50% to 98% of an area of the surface of the metal when the coated material is seen in a plan view,
a surface area, which is exposed to the outside of the surface-treated metal, of the outermost layer is 101% to 5000% of the area of the surface of the metal,
a ratio of a micro-Vickers hardness of the second layer to a micro-Vickers hardness of the outermost layer is 0.20 to 0.95, and
a water contact angle of the second layer is in a range obtained by adding 10° to 80° to a water contact angle of the outermost layer.

2. A surface-treated metal comprising:
a metal; and
a coated material that is formed on a surface of the metal,
wherein an outermost layer of the coated material is a photocatalytic film that contains particles showing a photocatalytic activity and an organic-inorganic composite resin,
the coated material has a second layer in contact with the outermost layer between the outermost layer and the metal,
a volume ratio of the particles showing the photocatalytic activity to the photocatalytic film is in a range from 0.5 vol % to 50 vol %,
the organic-inorganic composite resin contains a siloxane bond and at least one group selected from the group consisting of an aryl group, a carboxyl group, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, and an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms,
the coated material has a hole on a surface on the outermost layer side thereof, the hole extends in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the outermost layer, the hole separates the outermost layer in the direction perpendicular to the thickness direction when the outermost layer is seen in a cross-sectional view taken along the thickness direction,
the hole is exposed to an outside of the surface-treated metal,
an area of the outermost layer is 50% to 98% of an area of the surface of the metal when the coated material is seen in a plan view,
a surface area, which is exposed to the outside of the surface-treated metal, of the outermost layer is 101% to 5000% of the area of the surface of the metal, and
a water contact angle of the second layer is in a range obtained by adding 10° to 80° to a water contact angle of the outermost layer.

3. A surface-treated metal comprising:
a metal; and
a coated material that is formed on a surface of the metal,
wherein an outermost layer of the coated material is a photocatalytic film that contains particles showing a photocatalytic activity and an organic-inorganic composite resin,
a volume ratio of the particles showing the photocatalytic activity to the photocatalytic film is in a range from 0.5 vol % to 50 vol %,
the organic-inorganic composite resin contains a siloxane bond and at least one group selected from the group consisting of an aryl group, a carboxyl group, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, and an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms,
the coated material has a hole on a surface on the outermost layer side thereof, the hole extends in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the outermost layer, the hole separates the outermost layer in the direction perpendicular to the thickness direction when the outermost layer is seen in a cross-sectional view taken along the thickness direction,
the hole is exposed to an outside of the surface-treated metal,
an area of the outermost layer is 50% to 98% of an area of the surface of the metal when the coated material is seen in a plan view,
a surface area, which is exposed to the outside of the surface-treated metal, of the outermost layer is 101% to 5000% of the area of the surface of the metal,
a ratio of the particles showing the photocatalytic activity to the photocatalytic film is in a range from 0.5 mass % to 50 mass %, a particle size distribution based on a number of the particles showing the photocatalytic activity has a plurality of maximum values and minimum values which are present between adjacent maximum values in the plurality of maximum values, and two or more maximum values in the plurality of maximum values have a number frequency which is 1.5 times or greater of a number frequencies of minimum values adjacent to the maximum values thereof, and
a water contact angle of the second layer is in a range obtained by adding 10° to 80° to a water contact angle of the outermost layer.

4. The surface-treated metal according to claim 3 , wherein the particle size distribution has at least one of the two or more maximum values of a particle size range of 100 nm or less and has at least one of the two or more maximum values of a particle size range of 500 nm or greater.

5. The surface-treated metal according to any one of claim 1 , 2 , 3 , or 4 , wherein, when dimensions of the hole in a direction perpendicular to both a direction in which the hole extends and the thickness direction are represented by widths W and dimensions of the hole in the direction in which the hole extends are represented by lengths L, a total of the lengths L of the hole of portions in which the widths W are in a range from 1% to 1000% of a thickness of the outermost layer is 90% to 100% of a total of the lengths L of the hole.

6. The surface-treated metal according to any one of claim 1 , 2 , 3 , or 4 , wherein, when the coated material is seen in the plan view, a plurality of the holes is present, the holes form a network shape, and sizes of portions of the outermost layer which are surrounded by the holes are different from each other.

7. The surface-treated metal according to any one of claim 1 , 2 , 3 , or 4 , wherein, when the outermost layer is seen in the cross-sectional view taken along the thickness direction, among two surfaces facing each other in the thickness direction of the outermost layer, a surface opposite the metal has a plurality of flat areas, and a total length of the plurality of flat areas is 70% to 99% of a total length of the surface.

8. The surface-treated metal according to any one of claim 1 , 2 , 3 , or 4 , wherein the particles showing the photocatalytic activity contain a titanium oxide having an anatase-type structure.

9. The surface-treated metal according to any one of claim 1 , 2 , 3 , or 4 , wherein the metal is any one selected from the group consisting of a steel sheet, a stainless steel sheet, a titanium sheet, a titanium alloy sheet, an aluminum sheet, an aluminum alloy sheet, and a plated metal sheet having a plated layer.

Assignees

• Kanai Takao
• Kubo Yuji
• Kimata Yoshio
• Kanai Hiroshi
• Hamamura Tomonari
• Nomura Hiromasa
• Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp
• Nippon Steel & Sumikin Coated

Inventors

• Kanai Takao
• Kubo Yuji
• Kimata Yoshio
• Kanai Hiroshi
• Hamamura Tomonari
• Nomura Hiromasa

Classifications

• B32B15/043

  of metal (B32B15/01 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B01J35/45

  Nanoparticles · CPC title

• B01J35/40

  characterised by dimensions, e.g. grain size (in a colloidal state B01J35/23; crystallite size B01J35/77) · CPC title

• B01J21/063

  Titanium; Oxides or hydroxides thereof · CPC title

• B01J37/08

  Heat treatment {(B01J37/0009, B01J37/0018 take precedence)} · CPC title