Abstract: A high strength and high conductivity copper rod or wire includes Co of 0.12 to 0.32 mass %, P of 0.042 to 0.095 mass %, Sn of 0.005 to 0.70 mass %, and O of 0.00005 to 0.0050 mass %. A relationship of 3.0?([Co]?0.007)/([P]?0.008)?6.2 is satisfied between a content [Co] mass % of Co and a content [P] mass % of P. The remainder includes Cu and inevitable impurities, and the rod or wire is produced by a process including a continuous casting and rolling process. Strength and conductivity of the high strength and high conductivity copper rod or wire are improved by uniform precipitation of a compound of Co and P and by solid solution of Sn. The high strength and high conductivity copper rod or wire is produced by the continuous casting and rolling process, and thus production costs are reduced.
Abstract: Provided are a silver-white copper alloy which has superior mechanical properties such as hot workability, cold workability, or press property, color fastness, bactericidal and antibacterial properties, and Ni allergy resistance; and a method of producing such a silver-white copper alloy. The silver-white copper alloy includes 51.0 mass % to 58.0 mass % of Cu; 9.0 mass % to 12.5 mass % of Ni; 0.0003 mass % to 0.010 mass % of C; 0.0005 mass % to 0.030 mass % of Pb; and the balance of Zn and inevitable impurities, in which a relationship of 65.5?[Cu]+1.2×[Ni]?70.0 is satisfied between a content of Cu [Cu] (mass %) and a content of Ni [Ni] (mass %). In a metal structure thereof, an area ratio of ? phases dispersed in an ?-phase matrix is 0% to 0.9%.
Abstract: A copper alloy for electric and electronic devices comprises 23 mass % to 36.5 mass % of Zn; 0.1 mass % to 0.9 mass % of Sn; 0.15 mass % to less than 1.0 mass % of Ni; 0.001 mass % to less than 0.10 mass % of Fe; 0.005 mass % to 0.1 mass % of P; and a balance including Cu and unavoidable impurities, in which 0.002?Fe/Ni<0.7, 3<(Ni+Fe)/P<15, and 0.3<Sn/(Ni+Fe)<2.9, are satisfied by atomic ratio, and a fraction R{220} of the X-ray diffraction intensity from the {220} plane is 0.8 or less.
Abstract: A copper alloy for electric and electronic devices includes: Zn at 23 mass % or more and at 36.5 mass % or less; Sn at 0.1 mass % or more and 0.9 mass % or less; Ni at 0.15 mass % or more and less than 1.0 mass %; Fe at 0.001 mass % or more and less than 0.10 mass %; Co at 0.001 mass % or more and less than 0.1 mass %; P at 0.005 mass % or more and 0.1 mass % or less; and a balance including Cu and unavoidable impurities, wherein a ratio Fe/Ni satisfies 0.002?Fe/Ni<0.7 by atomic ratio, a ratio (Ni+Fe)/P satisfies 3<(Ni+Fe)/P<15 by atomic ratio, a ratio Sn/(Ni+Fe) satisfies 0.3<Sn/(Ni+Fe)<2.9, and a special grain boundary length ratio, L?/L, is 10% or more, L?/L, L? being a sum of each grain boundary length of: ?3; ?9; ?27a; and ?27b special grain boundaries.
Abstract: In a high-strength and high-electrical conductivity copper alloy rolled sheet, 0.14 to 0.34 mass % of Co, 0.046 to 0.098 mass % of P, 0.005 to 1.4 mass % of Sn are contained, [Co] mass % representing a Co content and [P] mass % representing a P content satisfy the relationship of 3.0?([Co]?0.007)/([P]?0.009)?5.9, a total cold rolling ratio is equal to or greater than 70%, a recrystallization ratio is equal to or less than 45% a an average grain size of recrystallized grains is in the range of 0.7 to 7 ?m, an average grain diameter of precipitates is in the range of 2.0 to 11 nm, and an average grain size of fine crystals is in the range of 0.3 to 4 ?m. By the precipitates of Co and P, the solid solution of Sn, and fine crystals, the strength, conductivity and ductility of the copper alloy rolled sheet are improved.
Abstract: The Cu—Ni—Si-based copper alloy plate contains 1.0 mass % to 3.0 mass % of Ni, and Si at a concentration of ? to ¼ of the mass % concentration of Ni with a remainder of Cu and inevitable impurities, in which, when the average value of the aspect ratio (the minor axis of crystal grains/the major axis of crystal grains) of each crystal grains in an alloy structure is 0.4 to 0.6, the average value of GOS in the all crystal grains is 1.2° to 1.5°, and the ratio (L?/L) of the total special grain boundary length L? of special grain boundaries to the total grain boundary length L of crystal grain boundaries is 60% to 70%, the spring bending elastic limit becomes 450 N/mm2 to 600 N/mm2, the solder resistance to heat separation is favorable and deep drawing workability is excellent at 150° C. for 1000 hours.
Abstract: Provided is a copper alloy containing 18% by mass to 30% by mass of Zn, 1% by mass to 1.5% by mass of Ni, 0.2% by mass to 1% by mass of Sn, and 0.003% by mass to 0.06% by mass of P, the remainder including Cu and unavoidable impurities. Relationships of 17?f1=[Zn]+5×[Sn]?2×[Ni]?30, 14?f2=[Zn]?0.5×[Sn]?3×[Ni]?26, 8?f3={f1×(32?f1)}1/2×[Ni]?23, 1.3?[Ni]+[Sn]?2.4, 1.5?[Ni]/[Sn]?5.5, and 20?[Ni]/[P]<400 are satisfied. The copper alloy has a metallographic structure of an ? single phase.
Abstract: A copper alloy for an electric and electronic device comprises more than 2 mass % and less than 23 mass % of Zn; 0.1 mass % to 0.9 mass % of Sn; 0.05 mass % to less than 1.0 mass % of Ni; 0.001 mass % to less than 0.10 mass % of Fe; 0.005 mass % to 0.1 mass % of P; and a balance including Cu and unavoidable impurities, in which 0.002?Fe/Ni<1.5, 3<(Ni+Fe)/P<15, and 0.3<Sn/(Ni+Fe)<5, are satisfied by atomic ratio, and a fraction R{220} of the X-ray diffraction intensity from the {220} plane is 0.8 or less.
Abstract: Provided is a copper alloy containing 18% by mass to 30% by mass of Zn, 1% by mass to 1.5% by mass of Ni, 0.2% by mass to 1% by mass of Sn, and 0.003% by mass to 0.06% by mass of P, the remainder including Cu and unavoidable impurities. Relationships of 17?f1=[Zn]+5×[Sn]?2×[Ni]?30, 14?f2=[Zn]?0.5×[Sn]?3×[Ni]?26, 8?f3={f1×(32?f1)}1/2×[Ni]?23, 1.3?[Ni]+[Sn]?2.4, 1.5?[Ni]/[Sn]?5.5, and 20?[Ni]/[P]?400 are satisfied. The copper alloy has a metallographic structure of an ? single phase.
Abstract: Provided are a silver-white copper alloy which has superior mechanical properties such as hot workability, cold workability, or press property, color fastness, bactericidal and antibacterial properties, and Ni allergy resistance; and a method of producing such a silver-white copper alloy. The silver-white copper alloy includes 51.0 mass % to 58.0 mass % of Cu; 9.0 mass % to 12.5 mass % of Ni; 0.0003 mass % to 0.010 mass % of C; 0.0005 mass % to 0.030 mass % of Pb; and the balance of Zn and inevitable impurities, in which a relationship of 65.5?[Cu]+1.2×[Ni]?70.0 is satisfied between a content of Cu [Cu] (mass %) and a content of Ni [Ni] (mass %). In a metal structure thereof, an area ratio of ? phases dispersed in an ?-phase matrix is 0% to 0.9%.
Abstract: One aspect of this copper alloy for an electronic and electrical equipment contains: more than 2.0 mass % to 36.5 mass % of Zn; 0.10 mass % to 0.90 mass % of Sn; 0.15 mass % to less than 1.00 mass % of Ni; and 0.005 mass % to 0.100 mass % of P, with the balance containing Cu and inevitable impurities, wherein atomic ratios of amounts of elements satisfy 3.0<Ni/P<100.0 and 0.10<Sn/Ni<2.90, and Vickers hardness of a surface of an ? phase containing Cu, Zn, and Sn is 100 or more.
Abstract: A copper alloy casting with excellent machinability, strength, wear resistance and corrosion resistance contains Sn: 0.5 to 15 mass %; Zr: 0.001 to 0.049 mass %; P: 0.01 to 0.35 mass %; one or more elements selected from Pb: 0.01 to 15 mass %, Bi: 0.01 to 15 mass %, Se: 0.01 to 1.2 mass %, and Te: 0.05 to 1.2 mass %; and Cu: 73 mass % or more serving as a remainder. In this case, f1=[P]/[Zr]=0.5 to 100, f2=3[Sn]/[Zr]=300 to 15000, and f3=3[Sn]/[P]=40 to 2500 (the content of an element ‘a’ is expressed as [a] mass %). The total content of ?, ? and ?-phases is 95% or more, and the mean grain size is 300 ?m or less.
Abstract: A copper alloy for electric and electronic devices includes: Zn from more than 2 mass % to less than 23 mass %; Sn at 0.1 mass % or more and 0.9 mass % or less; Ni at 0.05 mass % or more and less than 1.0 mass %; Fe at 0.001 mass % or more and less than 0.10 mass %; P at 0.005 mass % or more and 0.1 mass % or less; and a balance including Cu and unavoidable impurities, wherein a ratio Fe/Ni satisfies 0.002?Fe/Ni<1.5 by atomic ratio, a ratio (Ni+Fe)/P satisfies 3<(Ni+Fe)/P<15 by atomic ratio, a ratio Sn/(Ni+Fe) satisfies 0.3<Sn/(Ni+Fe)<5, and a special grain boundary length ratio, L?/L, is 10% or more, L? being a sum of each grain boundary length of: ?3; ?9; ?27a; and ?27b special grain boundaries.
Abstract: A melt-solidified substance includes melt-solidified portions formed by welding, build-up spray welding, metallizing or fusing. The melt-solidified portions have the alloy composition containing Zr: 0.0005 to 0.05 mass %, P: 0.01 to 0.34 mass %, Cu: the remainder and satisfying the relationship between the contents of P and Zr, [P]/[Zr]=0.3 to 20, and the mean grain size in the macrostructure after melt-solidification is 300 ?m or less. If Fe and/or Ni are contained in the melt-solidified portion as inevitable impurities, the content of Fe or Ni is restricted to be 0.3 mass % or less when either Fe or Ni is contained, and the total content of Fe and Ni is restricted to be 0.4 mass % or less when both Fe and Ni are contained.
Abstract: A copper alloy material includes, by mass %, Mg of 0.3 to 2%, P of 0.001 to 0.1%, and the balance including Cu and inevitable impurities. An area fraction of such crystal grains that an average misorientation between all the pixels in each crystal grain is less than 4° is 45 to 55% of a measured area, when orientations of all the pixels in the measured area of the surface of the copper alloy material are measured by an EBSD method with a scanning electron microscope of an electron backscattered diffraction image system and a boundary in which a misorientation between adjacent pixels is 5° or more is considered as a crystal grain boundary, and a tensile strength is 641 to 708 N/mm2, and a bending elastic limit value is 472 to 503 N/mm2.
Abstract: A copper alloy for an electric and electronic device includes more than 2.0 mass % to 36.5 mass % of Zn, 0.1 mass % to 0.9 mass % of Sn, 0.05 mass % to less than 1.0 mass % of Ni, 0.5 mass ppm to less than 10 mass ppm of Fe, 0.001 mass % to less than 0.10 mass % of Co, 0.001 mass % to 0.10 mass % of P, and a balance including Cu and unavoidable impurities, in which, ratios between the amounts of the respective elements satisfy 0.002?Fe/Ni<1.5, 3<(Ni+Fe)/P<15, and 0.3<Sn/(Ni+Fe)<5 by atomic ratio, and the copper alloy includes a precipitate containing P and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co and Ni.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a copper alloy for electric and electronic device, a copper alloy sheet for electric and electronic device, a conductive component for electric and electronic device, and a terminal. The copper alloy for electric and electronic device comprises more than 2.0 mass % and less than 23.0 mass % of Zn; 0.10 mass % to 0.90 mass % of Sn; 0.05 mass % to less than 1.00 mass % of Ni; 0.001 mass % to less than 0.100 mass % of Fe; 0.005 mass % to 0.100 mass % of P; and a balance including Cu and unavoidable impurities, in which 0.002?Fe/Ni<1.500, 3.0<(Ni+Fe)/P<100.0, and 0.10<Sn/(Ni+Fe)<5.0, are satisfied by atomic ratio, the H content is 10 mass ppm or less, the O content is 100 mass ppm or less, the S content is 50 mass ppm or less, and the C content is 10 mass ppm or less.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a copper alloy for electric and electronic device, a copper alloy sheet for electric and electronic device, a conductive component for electric and electronic device, and a terminal. The copper alloy for electric and electronic device includes more than 2.0 mass % to 15.0 mass % of Zn; 0.10 mass % to 0.90 mass % of Sn; 0.05 mass % to less than 1.00 mass % of Ni; 0.001 mass % to less than 0.100 mass % of Fe; 0.005 mass % to 0.100 mass % of P; and a remainder comprising Cu and unavoidable impurities, in which 0.002?Fe/Ni<1.500, 3.0<(Ni+Fe)/P<100.0, and 0.10<Sn/(Ni+Fe)<5.00 were satisfied by atomic ratio, and a yield ratio YS/TS is more than 90% which is calculated from a strength TS and a 0.2% yield strength YS when a tensile test is performed in a direction parallel to a rolling direction.
Abstract: A copper alloy for an electric and electronic devices comprises 23 mass % to 36.5 mass % of Zn; 0.1 mass % to 0.9 mass % of Sn; 0.15 mass % to less than 1.0 mass % of Ni; 0.001 mass % to less than 0.10 mass % of Fe; 0.005 mass % to 0.1 mass % of P; and a balance including Cu and unavoidable impurities, in which 0.002?Fe/Ni<0.7, 3<(Ni+Fe)/P<15, and 0.3<Sn/(Ni+Fe)<2.9, are satisfied by atomic ratio, and a fraction R{220} of the X-ray diffraction intensity from the {220} plane is 0.8 or less.
Abstract: A copper alloy sheet for terminal and connector materials contains 4.5 mass % to 12.0 mass % of Zn, 0.40 mass % to 0.9 mass % of Sn, 0.01 mass % to 0.08 mass % of P, and 0.20 mass % to 0.85 mass % of Ni with a remainder being Cu and inevitable impurities, a relationship of 11?[Zn]+7.5×[Sn]+16×[P]+3.5×[Ni]?19 is satisfied, a relationship of 7?[Ni]/[P]?40 is satisfied in a case in which the content of Ni is in a range of 0.35 mass % to 0.85 mass %, an average crystal grain diameter is in a range of 2.0 ?m to 8.0 ?m, an average particle diameter of circular or elliptical precipitates is in a range of 4.0 nm to 25.0 nm or a proportion of the number of precipitates having a particle diameter in a range of 4.0 nm to 25.0 nm in the precipitates is 70% or more, an electric conductivity is 29% IACS or more, a percentage of stress relaxation is 30% or less at 150° C. for 1000 hours as stress relaxation resistance, bending workability is R/t?0.