Patent number: 7575714
Abstract: The present invention is a silver alloy including silver as the main component and at least one rare-earth element as a first dopant element, and excellent in reflectance maintenance property. In the present invention, the first dopant element is preferably samarium, neodymium, lanthanum, cerium, ytterbium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, europium, and gadolinium. Also, in the present invention, the silver alloy preferably includes, as a second dopant element, at least one element selected from copper, manganese, silicon, chromium, nickel, cobalt, yttrium, iron, scandium, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, tantalum, tungsten, platinum, gold, rhodium, iridium, palladium, indium, tin, lead, aluminum, calcium, gallium, bismuth, antimony, strontium, hafnium, and germanium.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 9, 2004
Date of Patent:
August 18, 2009
Assignee:
Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.
Inventors:
Tomokazu Obata, Hiroshi Yanagihara