Phosphorus Containing Patents (Class 420/472)
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Patent number: 8171886Abstract: A fish cultivation net 3 has a rhombically netted form made by arranging a large number of waved wires 6 in parallel such that the adjacent wires are entwined with each other at their curved portions 6a. The wires 6 has a composition containing 62 to 91 mass % of Cu, 0.01 to 4 mass % of Sn, and the balance being Zn. The Cu content [Cu] and the Sn content [Sn] in terms of mass % satisfy the relationship 62?[Cu]?0.5[Sn]?90. The copper alloy material has a phase structure including an ? phase, a ? phase, and a ? phase and the total area ratio of these phases is 95 to 100%.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2005Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Shindoh Co., Ltd.Inventor: Keiichiro Oishi
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Publication number: 20120082588Abstract: Disclosed is a lead-free copper alloy for casting which contains 0.1-0.7% of S, 8% or less (excluding 0%) of Sn, and 6% or less (excluding 0%) of Zn, and in which a sulfide is dispersed and the average spheroidization ratio of the sulfide is 0.7 or greater. Due to this constitution, said lead-free copper alloy for casting has excellent mechanical properties such as strength, high pressure resistance and good machinability and, therefore, is useful as a starting material for faucet metal fittings, water faucet and so on, even though the alloy contains no lead which causes deterioration of water.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2010Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicants: Biwalite Co., Ltd., Shiga Valve CooperativeInventors: Takeski Kobayashi, Toru Maruyama, Ryozo Matsubayashi, Hiroyuki Abe, Masakazu Teramura
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Publication number: 20120073712Abstract: Alloy containing between 1% and 20% by weight of Ni, between 1% and 20% by weight of Sn, between 0.5%, 3% by weight of Pb in Cu which represents at least 50% by weight of the alloy; characterized in that the alloy further contains between 0.01% and 5% by weight of P or B alone or in combination. The invention also pertains to a metallic product having enhanced mechanical resistance at intermediate temperatures (300° C. to 700° C.) and excellent machinability. The metallic product of the invention can be advantageously used for the fabrication of connectors, electromechanical, or micromechanical pieces.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: SWISSMETAL- UMS USINES METALLURGIQUES SUISSES SAInventors: Natanael Dewobroto, Doris Empl, Laurent Felberbaum, Vincent Laporte, Andreas Mortensen, Andreas Rossoll, Emmanuel Vincent
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Publication number: 20120039742Abstract: A Cu—Fe—P alloy sheet that is provided with the high strength and with the improved resistance of peel off of oxidation film, in order to deal with problems such as package cracks and peeling, is provided. A copper alloy sheet for electric and electronic parts according to the present invention is a copper alloy sheet containing Fe: 0.01 to 0.50 mass % and P: 0.01 to 0.15 mass %, respectively, with the remainder of Cu and inevitable impurities. A centerline average roughness Ra is 0.2 ?m or less and a maximum height Rmax is 1.5 ?m or less, and Kurtosis (degree peakedness) Rku of roughness curve is 5.0 or less, in measurement of the surface roughness of the copper alloy sheet in accordance with JIS B0601.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd)Inventors: Yasuhiro ARUGA, Ryoichi Ozaki, Yosuke Miwa
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Publication number: 20120039743Abstract: A Cu—Fe—P alloy sheet that is provided with the high strength and with the improved resistance of peel off of oxidation film, in order to deal with problems such as package cracks and peeling, is provided. A copper alloy sheet for electric and electronic parts according to the present invention is a copper alloy sheet containing Fe: 0.01 to 0.50 mass % and P: 0.01 to 0.15 mass %, respectively, with the remainder of Cu and inevitable impurities. A centerline average roughness Ra is 0.2 ?m or less and a maximum height Rmax is 1.5 ?m or less, and Kurtosis (degree peakedness) Rku of roughness curve is 5.0 or less, in measurement of the surface roughness of the copper alloy sheet in accordance with JIS B0601.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yasuhiro ARUGA, Ryoichi Ozaki, Yosuke Miwa
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Publication number: 20120039741Abstract: A Cu—Fe—P alloy sheet that is provided with the high strength and with the improved resistance of peel off of oxidation film, in order to deal with problems such as package cracks and peeling, is provided. A copper alloy sheet for electric and electronic parts according to the present invention is a copper alloy sheet containing Fe: 0.01 to 0.50 mass % and P: 0.01 to 0.15 mass %, respectively, with the remainder of Cu and inevitable impurities. A centerline average roughness Ra is 0.2 ?m or less and a maximum height Rmax is 1.5 ?m or less, and Kurtosis (degree peakedness) Rku of roughness curve is 5.0 or less, in measurement of the surface roughness of the copper alloy sheet in accordance with JIS B0601.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yasuhiro ARUGA, Ryoichi OZAKI, Yosuke MIWA
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Publication number: 20110303387Abstract: A lead-free copper alloy includes, in combination by weight, about 10.0% to about 20.0% bismuth, about 0.05% to about 0.3% phosphorous, about 2.2% to about 10.0% tin, up to about 5.0% antimony, and up to about 0.02% boron, the balance essentially copper and incidental elements and impurities. The alloy contains no more than about 0.05 wt. % or 0.10 wt. % lead.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: QUESTEK INNOVATIONS LLC.Inventors: Abhijeet Misra, Jason Sebastian, James A. Wright
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Publication number: 20110224112Abstract: Sliding parts are made of Pb-free Cu-Bi based sintered material. The side in contact with a shaft is machined to a predetermined roughness. A number of Bi phases are present on the finished surface. Stable performance of Bi is to be exhibited. Machined sintered material covers a portion of the Bi phases. The ratio of the exposed surface area of the Bi phases is 0.5% or more relative to the area of the finished surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2009Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryo Mukai, Hiromi Yokota, Kao Mouri
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Publication number: 20110223056Abstract: The present invention relates to a Cu—Ni—Sn—P-based copper alloy sheet having a specific composition, where (1) the copper alloy sheet is set to have an electrical conductivity of 32% IACS or more, a stress relaxation ratio in the direction parallel to the rolling direction of 15% or less, a 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2008Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yasuhiro Aruga, Daisuke Hashimoto, Koya Nomura
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Publication number: 20110206941Abstract: The invention relates to a copper-tin alloy, comprising 0.2 to 0.8% by weight Sn, 0.1 to 0.6% by weight Ni and/or Co, 0 to 0.05% by weight Zn, 0 to 0.2% by weight Fe, 0.008 to 0.05% by weight P, and also Cu as remainder. The invention furthermore relates to a corresponding composite material having a base material made of such an alloy and also to suitable uses thereof. The technological and physical properties are comparable with those of a CuFe2P alloy. However, the alloy according to the invention and also a tin-plated composite material made thereof can be readily recycled.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2009Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: SUNDWIGER MESSINGWERK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Michael Koehler, Andreas Heide, Ralf Hojda, Udo Riepe
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Publication number: 20110182767Abstract: A copper alloy with an excellent stress relaxation resistance including Ni: 0.1 through 3.0 mass %, Sn: 0.01 through 3.0 mass %, P: 0.01 through 0.3 mass % and remainder copper and inevitable impurities, and the Ni content in extracted residues separated and left on a filter having filter mesh size of 0.1 ?m by using an extracted residues method accounting for 40 mass % or less of the Ni content in the copper alloy, wherein the extracted residues method requires that 10 g of the copper alloy is immersed in 300 ml of a methanol solution which contains 10 mass % of ammonium acetate, and using the copper alloy as the anode and platinum as the cathode, constant-current electrolysis is performed at the current density of 10 mA/cm2, and the solution in which the copper alloy is thus dissolved is subjected to suction filtration using a membrane filter of polycarbonate whose filter mesh size is 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel Ltd.)Inventors: Yasuhiro Aruga, Koya Nomura, Katsura Kajihara, Yukio Sugishita, Hiroshi Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20110174417Abstract: A high strength and high conductivity copper alloy pipe, rod, or wire is composed of an alloy composition containing 0.13 to 0.33 mass % of Co, 0.044 to 0.097 mass % of P, 0.005 to 0.80 mass % of Sn, and 0.00005 to 0.0050 mass % of O, wherein a content [Co] mass % of Co and a content [P] mass % of P satisfy a relationship of 2.9?([Co]?0.007)/([P]?0.008)?6.1, and the remainder includes Cu and inevitable impurities. The high strength and high conductivity copper alloy pipe, rod, or wire is produced by a process including a hot extruding process. Strength and conductivity of the high strength and high conductivity copper pipe, rod, or wire are improved by uniform precipitation of a compound of Co and P and by solid solution of Sn.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI SHINDOH CO., LTD.Inventor: Keiichiro Oishi
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Publication number: 20110129173Abstract: [Task] In the provided Cu-based sliding material, the properties equivalent to those of a Pb-containing material is attained even free of Pb, and material has stable friction coefficient. [Solution Means] A Pb-free copper-alloy sliding material contains 1.0 to 15.0% of Sn, 0.5 to 15.0% of Bi and 0.05 to 5.0% of Ag, and Ag and Bi from an Ag—Bi eutectic. If necessary, at least one of 0.1 to 5.0% of Ni, 0.02 to 0.2% P, and 0.5 to 30.0% of Zn is contained. Further, if necessary, 1.0 to 10.0 mass % of at least one of a group consisting of Fe3P, Fe2P, FeB, NiB and AlN, having an average particle diameter of 1.5 to 70 ?m is contained.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2008Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiromi Yokota, Ryo Mukai, Shinichi Kato, Nahomi Hamaguchi
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Patent number: 7883588Abstract: In a Cu—Bi based sintered alloy, to which hard particles, such as Fe3P, are added, the main constituent components of the microstructure are a Cu matrix, Bi phase and the hard particles. In the sintering method of the present invention, the flow of the Bi phase is suppressed to as low level as possible. The novel structure is that the contact between the Bi phase and hard particles is kept to a low ratio. A lead-free bearing used for a fuel injection pump according to the present invention contains from 1 to 30 mass % of Bi and from 0.1 to 10 mass % of hard particles having from 10 to 50 ?m of the average particle diameter, the balance being Cu and unavoidable impurities. The properties of the main component phases are utilized at a high level such that the sliding properties are equivalent to those of a Pb containing Cu-based sintered alloy.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2005Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignees: Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd., Denso CorporationInventors: Hiromi Yokota, Daisuke Yoshitome, Hiroaki Hayakawa, Naruhiko Inayoshi, Youichi Murakami, Masashi Suzuki, Takahiro Nozu
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Publication number: 20110005739Abstract: An alloy comprising copper, nickel, tin and, optionally, phosphorus which can be used in, for example, a copper alloy tube for heat exchangers that provides excellent fracture strength and processability for reducing the weight of the tube and for use in high pressure applications with cooling media such as carbon dioxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Inventors: M. Parker Finney, Larz Ignberg, Anders Kamf, Timothy L. Goebel, Ying Gong, Edward G. Rottmann
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Publication number: 20100303667Abstract: The invention relates to brass alloys that are substantially lead-free. In the alloys of the invention, lead is replaced with tellurium sulfur or blends of tellurium and sulfur resulting in alloys that exhibit excellent machinability and conductivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Inventor: Norman M. Lazarus
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MELT-SOLIDIFIED SUBSTANCE, COPPER ALLOY FOR MELT-SOLIDIFICATION AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Publication number: 20100297464Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2005Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: SANBO SHINDO KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Keiichiro Oishi -
Publication number: 20100284852Abstract: Equestrian bits are manufactured with the mouthpiece component comprising a copper alloy with composition; 65-80% by weight copper, 0-2% tin and the remainder being zinc including other elements. In a further embodiment, the copper alloy comprises 70-73% copper, 0.9-1.2% tin, 28% zinc the remainder being other elements at a %, by weight, of less than 1%. The alloy of the invention provides a horse bit mouthpiece which rapidly achieves thermal equilibration when placed in, or moved within, the mouth and has characteristic strength sufficient for the intended use.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Inventor: Graham Hugh Cross
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Publication number: 20100284851Abstract: The invention provides a Cu—Ni—Sn—P alloy sheet satisfying the resistance property of stress relaxation in the direction perpendicular to the rolling direction and excellent in the other necessary properties as terminals and connectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2009Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventor: Yasuhiro Aruga
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Patent number: 7819992Abstract: A member for water works is proposed in which the content of lead is limited to a very small values while maintaining its mechanical properties, castability, machinability, pressure resistance, etc. to levels equivalent to those of conventional copper alloys containing lead. A copper alloy is produced which contains not less than 2.0% by weight and not more than 5.9% by weight of tin, not less than 1.5% by weight and not more than 5.0% by weight of nickel, not less than 5.0% by weight and not more than 12.1% by weight of zinc, not less than 0.4% by weight and not more than 3.3% by weight of bismuth, and not less than 0.009% by weight and not more than 0.15% by weight of phosphorus, the balance being copper and impurities.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2006Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Kurimoto, Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Yamamoto, Yoshimasa Hirai, Hiroaki Maedono, Chizuko Maedono, legal representative
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Patent number: 7806996Abstract: A copper-based alloy essentially includes 5.0 to 10.0 wt % of Zn, 2.8 to 5.0 wt % of Sn, 0.4 to 3.0 wt % of Bi, 0<Se?0.35 wt %, 0<P?0.5, one of 0<Sb?2.2 wt % and 0<Ni?4.8 wt %, and a balance of Cu and unavoidable impurities. It may essentially includes 5.0 to 10.0 wt % of Zn, 2.8 to 5.0 wt % of Sn, 0.4 to 3.0 wt % of Bi, 0?Se?0.35 wt %, 0<P<0.5 wt %, one of 0<Sb?2.2 wt % and 0<Ni?4.8 wt %, 1.20 to 4.90 Vol. % of at least one selected from the group consisting of a non-solid solution substance secured with Bi and a non-solid solution secured with Bi and Se, and a balance of Cu and unavoidable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Kitz CorporationInventors: Kazuhito Kurose, Yukihiro Hirata, Tomoyuki Ozasa, Hisanori Terui
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Patent number: 7776163Abstract: The present invention provides a lead-free free-cutting aluminum brass alloy and its manufacturing method. The alloy comprises: 57.0˜63.0 wt % Cu, 0.3˜0.7 wt % Al, 0.1˜0.5 wt % Bi, 0.2˜0.4 wt % Sn, 0.1˜0.5 wt % Si, 0.01˜0.15 wt % P, at least two elements selected from the group of 0.01-0.15 wt % Mg, 0.0016-0.0020 wt % B, and 0.001-0.05 wt % rare earth elements and the balance being Zn and unavoidable impurities. The inventive alloy has excellent castability, weldability, cuttability and corrosion resistance. It is suitable for low pressure die casting, gravity casting, horizontal continuous casting, forging and extrusion. Its metal material cost is lower than bismuth brass. It is particularly applicable for components used in drinking water supply systems and other structural components. It is a new environmentally-friendly free-cutting aluminum brass alloy.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2009Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Xiamen Lota International Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chuankai Xu, Zhenqing Hu, Siqi Zhang
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Publication number: 20100166595Abstract: A phosphor-bronze alloy as raw materials for Semi Solid Metal casting has a component composition containing Sn of 4 to 15 mass %, Zr of 0.0005 to 0.04 mass %, P of 0.01 to 0.25 mass %, and a balance of Cu and inevitable impurities, further containing Zn of 0.1 to 7.5 mass % as needed, and further containing one or more kinds of Pb of 0.01 to 4.5 mass %, Bi of 0.01 to 3.0 mass %, Se of 0.03 to 1.0 mass %, and Te of 0.01 to 1.0 mass % as needed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2007Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: Mitsubishi Shindoh Co., Ltd.Inventor: Keiichiro Oishi
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Patent number: 7736448Abstract: The present invention relates to a nanocrystalline metallic material, particularly to nano-twin copper material with ultrahigh strength and high electrical conductivity and its preparation method. High-purity polycrystalline Cu material with a microstructure of roughly equiaxed submicron-sized grains (300-1000 nm) has been produced by pulsed electrodeposition technique, by which high density of growth-in twins with nano-scale twin spacing were induced in the grains. Inside each grain, there are high densities of growth-in twin lamellae. The twin lamellae with the same orientations are inter-parallel, and the twin spacing ranges from several nanometers to 100 nm with a length of 100-500 nm. This Cu material invented has more excellent performance than existing ones.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2003Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Institute of Metal Research Chinese Academy of SciencesInventors: Lei Lu, Xiao Si, Yongfeng Shen, Ke Lu
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Publication number: 20100098579Abstract: The present invention relates to a lead-free, bismuth-free free-cutting phosphorous brass alloy and its method of manufacture. The alloy comprises: Cu; Zn; 0.59 to 1.6 wt % P; and other elements in the amount of 0.005 to 0.6 wt %, which comprise at least two elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Si, Sb, Sn, Rare earth element (RE), Ti and B, and the balance being unavoidable impurities. The phosphorous brass alloy contains a combined wt % of Cu and Zn of between 97.0 wt % and 99.5 wt %, within which the content of Zn is above 40 wt %. Considering the solid solubility of P in the matrix of copper will be decreased rapidly with the temperature decrease and form the brittle intermetallic compounds Cu3P with Cu, the present invention relies upon P to ensure excellent cuttability of the invented alloy. The invented alloy is reasonably priced, and has excellent cuttability, castability, hot and cold workability, dezincification corrosion resistance, mechanical properties and weldability.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: XIAMEN LOTA INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Chuankai Xu, Zhenqing Hu, Siqi Zhang
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Patent number: 7695578Abstract: A copper-based alloy that has the soundness of alloy enhanced by restraining the concentrated occurrence of microporosities while suppressing the lead content and an ingot and a liquid-contacting part using the alloy are provided. The copper-based alloy has the soundness of alloy improved during the course of solidification of the copper-based alloy by crystallizing an intermetallic compound capable of solidifying at a temperature exceeding a solidus line in dendritic gaps of the alloy, suppressing migration of a solute, thereby allowing dispersion of microporosities, utilizing crystallization of the intermetallic compound as well for effecting dispersed crystallization of a low melting metal or a low melting intermetallic compound capable of solidifying at a temperature falling short of a liquidus line, and relying on the low melting metal or low melting intermetallic compound to enter the microporosities and suppress occurrence of microporosities.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2004Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Kitz CorporationInventors: Teruhiko Horigome, Kazuhito Kurose
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Publication number: 20100080731Abstract: A tin-free lead-free free-cutting magnesium brass alloy comprises 56.0 to 64.0 wt % Cu, 1.05 to about 2.1 wt % Mg, 0.21 to 0.4 wt % P and other elements 0.002 to 0.9 wt % which comprise at least two elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Si, Sb, rare earth elements, Ti and B and the balance being Zn with unavoidable impurities, wherein a cutting percentage of the alloy is at least 80%. The process for producing such alloy is also proposed. The invented alloy is excellent in cuttability, castability, hot and cold workability, corrosion resistance, mechanical properties and weldability and particularly applicable in spare parts, forging and casting which need cutting and grinding process. The cost of necessary metal materials of the invented alloy is lower than lead-free free-cutting bismuth and antimony brass alloy and is equivalent to lead-contained brass alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: XIAMEN LOTA INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Chuankai Xu, Zhenqing Hu, Siqi Zhang
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Patent number: 7678173Abstract: In a Pb-free copper-based sintered alloy containing from 1 to 30% of Bi and from 0.1 to 10% of hard matter particles having from 10 to 50 ?m of average particle diameter, the Bi phase has a smaller average particle diameter than that of the hard matter particles and is dispersed in the Cu matrix, or the hard matter particles having 50% or less of a contact length ratio with the Bi phase based on the total circumferential length of the hard particle, which are in contact with said Bi phase, are present in a ratio of 70% or more based on the entire number of the hard matter particles.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2005Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiromi Yokota, Daisuke Yoshitome, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kawaguti
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Publication number: 20100061884Abstract: Disclosed is a white-colored copper alloy comprising by weight up to 30% zinc, up to 20% manganese, up to 5% nickel with the balance copper. This alloy may have from 6% to 25% zinc, from 4% to 17% manganese, from 0.1% to 3.5% nickel and the balance copper. The balance copper in the alloy may further contain at least one of: up to 0.5% of at least one of the group which consists of Sn, Si, Co, Ti, Cr, Fe, Mg, Zr, and Ag; and up to 0.1% of at least one of the group which consists of P, B, Ca, Ge, Se, Te. It may also contain up to 0.3% Zr by weight. The alloy may have an electrical conductivity greater than 2.5% IACS at eddy current gauge exciting frequencies between 60 kHz and 480 kHz.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: PMX INDUSTRIES INC.Inventors: CRAIG CLARK, THOMAS D. JOHNSON, RICHARD PRATT, TIMOTHY SUH
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Publication number: 20100050375Abstract: In the copper-alloy-based sliding material, alloy steel particles containing fine carbides are dispersed in a range of 1 to 20 wt % of the total weight into a Cu-based matrix containing 5 to 15 wt % of Sn, and the copper-alloy-based sliding material has a Vickers hardness in a range of 44 to 148 as a macro hardness.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2008Publication date: March 4, 2010Inventor: Masanori Ueyama
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Publication number: 20100008817Abstract: A seamless pipe copper alloy includes Zr and at least one of Al, Sn, and Zn, with the balance being Cu and unavoidable impurities, the Al content, the Sn content, the Zn content, and the Zr content of the copper alloy satisfying the expressions 0.05?A+B+C, 0.01?D?0.5, and 0.25?A+B+C+D?0.8 (wherein A represents the Al content (mass %), B represents the Sn content (mass %), C represents the Zn content (mass %), and D represents the Zr content (mass %)). The seamless pipe copper alloy exhibits excellent workability, high strength, and high thermal conductivity. The seamless pipe copper alloy also shows only a small decrease in strength due to brazing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2007Publication date: January 14, 2010Inventor: Tetsuya Ando
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Publication number: 20090311126Abstract: Considering the solid solubility of P in the matrix of copper will be decreased rapidly with the temperature decrease and form the brittle intermetallic compounds Cu3P with Cu, the present invention elects P as one of the main elements for ensuring the excellent cuttability of the invented alloy. The lead-free free-cutting phosphorous brass alloy comprises: Cu, Zn, 0.4 to 1.6 wt % P. and other elements in the amount of 0.005 to 0.6 wt %, which comprise at least two elments selected from the group consisting of Al, Si, Sb, Sn, Re, Ti and B, and the balance being unavoidable impurities. The phosphorous brass alloy contains a combined wt % of Cu and Zn of between 97.0 wt % and 99.5 wt %, within which the content of Zn is above 35 wt %. The method of manufacturing the alloy is also disclosed. The invented alloy has excellent cuttability, castability, hot and cold workability, dezincification corrosion resistance, mechanical properties and weldability.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2009Publication date: December 17, 2009Inventors: Chuankai Xu, Zhenqing Hu, Siqi Zhang
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Publication number: 20090311128Abstract: A shear plane ratio is reduced by a dislocation density in which a value obtained by dividing the half-value width ? of the intensity of diffraction of {311} plane in the surface of a Cu—Fe—P alloy sheet, by its peak height H, is 0.015 or more. In addition, a Cu—Fe—P alloy sheet with relatively small Fe content is provided with a texture in which a ratio (I(200)/I(220)) of intensity of diffraction of (I(200)) from the (200) plane in the sheet surface to intensity of diffraction of (I(220)) from the (220) plane, is 0.3 or less. In addition, a Cu—Fe—P alloy sheet with relatively small Fe content is provided with a texture in which the orientation distribution density of Brass orientation measured by the crystal orientation analysis method using an EBSP by an FE-SEM, is 25% or more; and an average grain size in the sheet is 6.0 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2007Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho(Kobe Steel, Ltd)Inventors: Yasuhiro Aruga, Ryoichi Ozaki, Yosuke Miwa
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Publication number: 20090304544Abstract: Systems and methods of manufacturing a brazing alloy component such that the brazing alloy component has sufficient ductility to be formed into a ring-shaped member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2008Publication date: December 10, 2009Inventor: Terry Lee Howard
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Publication number: 20090297390Abstract: By enhancing a stress corrosion cracking resistance in a leadless brass alloy, specifically by suppressing a velocity of propagation of corrosion cracks in the brass alloy, a straight line crack peculiar to the leadless brass alloy is suppressed, a probability of cracks coming into contact with ? phases is heightened and local corrosion on the brass surface is prevented to suppress induction of cracks by the local corrosion, thereby providing a leadless brass alloy contributable to enhancement of the stress corrosion cracking resistance. The present invention is directed to an Sn-containing Bi-based, Sn-containing Bi+Sb-based or Sn-containing Bi+Se+Sb-based leadless brass alloy excellent in stress corrosion cracking resistance, having an ?+? structure or ?+?+? structure and having ? phases distributed uniformly therein at a predetermined proportion to suppress local corrosion and induction of stress corrosion cracks.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2007Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Tameda Hidenobu, Kazuhito Kurose, Teruhiko Horigome, Tomoyuki Ozasa, Hisanori Terui, Masaru Yamazaki, Hideki Kotsuji
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Publication number: 20090280026Abstract: A Cu—Zn—Si alloy includes, in % by weight, 70 to 80% of copper, 1 to 5% of silicon, to 0.5% of boron, up to 0.2% of phosphorus and/or up to 0.2% of arsenic, a remainder of zinc, plus inevitable impurities. Products using the alloy and processes for producing the alloy are also provided. The alloy is distinguished by an improved resistance to oxidation and by uniform mechanical properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2009Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: DIEHL METALL STIFTUNG & CO. KGInventors: HEINZ STROBL, KLAUS SCHWARM, HERMANN MAYER, NORBERT GAAG, ULRICH REXER, KLAUS MARSTALLER
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Patent number: 7608157Abstract: The present invention discloses a heat resistance copper alloy material characterized in that said copper alloy material comprises 0.15 to 0.33 mass percent of Co, 0.041 to 0.089 mass percent of P, 0.02 to 0.25 mass percent of Sn, 0.01 to 0.40 mass percent of Zn and the remaining mass percent of Cu and inevitable impurities, wherein each content of Co, P, Sn and Zn satisfies the relationships 2.4?([Co]?0.02)/[P]?5.2 and 0.20?[Co]+0.5[P]+0.9[Sn]+0.1[Zn]?0.54, wherein [Co], [P], [Sn] and [Zn] are said mass percents of Co, P, Sn and Zn content, respectively; and said copper alloy material is a pipe, plate, bar, wire or worked material obtained by working said pipe, plate, bar or wire material into predetermined shapes.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2003Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Shindoh Co., Ltd.Inventor: Keiichiro Oishi
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Publication number: 20090239094Abstract: A Cu—Zn alloy strip and Sn plating strip thereof having improved thermal peel resistance of Sn Plating is provided. In a Cu—Zn alloy strip comprising 15 to 40% by mass of Zn and a balance of Cu and unavoidable impurities, the total concentration of P, As, Sb and Bi is regulated to 100 ppm by mass or less, the total concentration of Ca and Mg is regulated to 100 ppm by mass or less, and the concentrations of O and S are each regulated to 30 ppm by mass or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2007Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takaaki Hatano
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Publication number: 20090224379Abstract: A QFN package is provided with a lead frame formed by processing a copper alloy sheet containing 0.01 to 0.50% by mass Fe, 0.01 to 0.20% by mass P, and Cu and inevitable impurities as other components, having a micro Vickers hardness of 150 or above, a uniform elongation of 5% or below and a local elongation of 10% or below, or a copper alloy sheet containing 0.05 to 2% by mass Ni, 0.001 to 0.3% by mass P, 0.005 to 5% by mass Zn, and Cu and inevitable impurities as other components, having a micro Vickers hardness of 150 or above, a uniform elongation of 5% or below and a local elongation of 10% or below. Lead burrs formed during the dicing of the QFN package are short, and a dicing blade used for dicing the QFN package is abraded at a low wear-out rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel Ltd.)Inventors: Yosuke MIWA, Masayasu Nishimura, Ryoichi Ozaki, Shinya Katsura
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Publication number: 20090220375Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a bronze-based alloy of low lead content, first improved in tensile strength at high temperatures, secondly contributing to the promotion of the environmental conservation including recycling, while avoiding the adverse effect of lead on human bodies by means of reduction of a lead content, and excellent from the standpoints of mass-productivity and manufacturing cost. The alloy includes 2.0 to 6.0 mass % of Sn, 3.0 to 10.0 mass % of Zn, 0.1 to 3.0 mass % of Bi, 0.1 mass %<P?0.6 mass % and the remainder of Cu and unavoidable impurities to improve the tensile strength thereof at high temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2006Publication date: September 3, 2009Inventors: Tomoyuki Ozasa, Hisanori Terui, Hidenobu Tameda, Teruhiko Horigome, Kazuhito Kurose
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Publication number: 20090214380Abstract: The present invention relates to a copper alloy, in particular for components which carry media or drinking water, in particular fittings, valves or compression joints and also an advantageous use of the copper alloy and components for lines carrying media or drinking water. It is an object of the present invention to provide a copper alloy which has good corrosion resistance, good castability and mechanical workability and also good mechanical properties and displays good migration values, particularly in respect of the migration of lead and nickel ions into drinking water. The copper alloy provided for this purpose by the present invention comprises from 2% by weight to 4.5% by weight of silicon, from 1 to 15% by weight of zinc and from 0.05% by weight to 2% by weight of manganese. Furthermore, from 0.05 to 0.4% by weight of aluminium and from 0.05 to 2% by weight of tin can optionally be present. As balance, the copper alloy contains copper and unavoidable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2006Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicants: GEBR. KEMPER GMBH & CO. KG METALLWERKE, JRG GUNZENHAUSER AG, R. NUSSBAUM AG METALLGIESSEREI UND ARMATURENFABRIK, VIEGA GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Katrin Müller, Patrik Zeiter, Frank Leistritz
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Publication number: 20090116996Abstract: A copper alloy with an excellent stress relaxation resistance including Ni: 0.1 through 3.0 mass %, Sn: 0.01 through 3.0 mass %, P: 0.01 through 0.3 mass % and remainder copper and inevitable impurities, and the Ni content in extracted residues separated and left on a filter having filter mesh size of 0.1 ?m by using an extracted residues method accounting for 40 mass % or less of the Ni content in the copper alloy, wherein the extracted residues method requires that 10 g of the copper alloy is immersed in 300 ml of a methanol solution which contains 10 mass % of ammonium acetate, and using the copper alloy as the anode and platinum as the cathode, constant-current electrolysis is performed at the current density of 10 mA/cm2, and the solution in which the copper alloy is thus dissolved is subjected to suction filtration using a membrane filter of polycarbonate whose filter mesh size is 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2006Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel Ltd.)Inventors: Yasuhiro Aruga, Koya Nomura, Katsura Kajihara, Yukio Sugishita, Hiroshi Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20090116997Abstract: A copper alloy tube according to the present invention includes Sn 0.1 to 2.0 mass %, P 0.005 to 0.1 mass %, S 0.005 mass % or less, O 0.005 mass % or less, and H 0.0002 mass % or less, and the remainder has a composition consisting of Cu and unavoidable impurities. And, as is annealed, the copper alloy tube has the following characteristics: a tensile strength in the longitudinal direction of the copper alloy tube is 250 N/mm2 or more; an average grain diameter is 30 ?m or less when measured in the direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the tube, in the cross section perpendicular to the tube axis; and assuming that a tensile strength in the longitudinal direction of the copper alloy tube is ?L, and a tensile strength in the circumferential direction of the same is ?T, ?T/?L>0.93 holds.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2008Publication date: May 7, 2009Applicant: KOBELCO & MATERIALS COPPER TUBE, LTD.Inventors: Masato WATANABE, Takashi Shirai
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Copper Tin Nickel Phosphorus Alloys With Improved Strength and Formability and Method of Making Same
Publication number: 20090098011Abstract: A new copper-based alloy is described along with a processing method to make a strip that can be used for various automotive interconnects. The alloy process combination yields a material with high strength and electrical conductivity with excellent formability. The combination of properties result from a Cu—Sn—Ni—P alloy with optional Mg additions and thermal-mechanical processing to make an alloy with a conductivity of 40% IACS, yield strength of 80 KSI, bend formability of 1t/1t minimum, and stress relaxation of 65% at 150° C. after 1000 hours. Processing can be modified to increase formability at the expense of yield strength. Improvements to conductivity come from changes in chemistry as well as processing. The new chemistry-process optimization results in a low cost alloy of Cu—Sn—Ni—P—Mg.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Carole Lynne Trybus, Peter William Robinson -
Publication number: 20090087340Abstract: The invention proposes a brazing alloy, which can be produced in particular as a homogenous, ductile, amorphous brazing foil and consists of 2 to 20 atom % of nickel, 2 to 12 atom % of tin, 0.5 to 5.0 atom % of zinc, 6 to 16 atom % of phosphorus, remainder copper and incidental impurities. The total amount of copper, nickel, tin and zinc is between 80 and 95 atom %. The addition of more than 0.5 atom % of zinc produces excellent resistance to surface oxidation in air and/or atmospheric humidity. These brazing alloys can be used to produce excellent brazed joints.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Inventors: Thomas Hartmann, Dieter Nuetzel
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Publication number: 20090010797Abstract: A Cu—Fe—P copper alloy sheet which has the high strength and the high electrical conductivity compatible with excellent bendability is provided. The Cu—Fe—P copper alloy sheet contains 0.01% to 3.0% of Fe and 0.01% to 0.3% of P on a percent by mass basis wherein the orientation density of the Brass orientation is 20 or less and the sum of the orientation densities of the Brass orientation, the S orientation, and the Copper orientation is 10 or more and 50 or less in the microstructure of the copper alloy sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2005Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yasuhiro Aruga, Katsura Kajihara
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Patent number: 7461770Abstract: The invention proposes a brazing alloy, which can be produced in particular as a homogenous, ductile, amorphous brazing foil and consists of 2 to 20 atom % of nickel, 2 to 12 atom % of tin, 0.5 to 5.0 atom % of zinc, 6 to 16 atom % of phosphorus, remainder copper and incidental impurities. The total amount of copper, nickel, tin and zinc is between 80 and 95 atom %. The addition of more than 0.5 atom % of zinc produces excellent resistance to surface oxidation in air and/or atmospheric humidity. These brazing alloys can be used to produce excellent brazed joints.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2005Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Hartmann, Dieter Nuetzel
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Publication number: 20080298998Abstract: A copper alloy for electric and electronic equipments, containing from 0.5 to 4.0 mass % of Ni, from 0.5 to 2.0 mass % of Co, and from 0.3 to 1.5 mass % of Si, with the balance of copper and inevitable impurities, wherein R{200} is 0.3 or more, in which the R{200} is a proportion of a diffraction intensity from a {200} plane of the following diffraction intensities and is represented by R{200}=I{200}/(I{111}+I{200}+I{220}+I{311}), I{111} is a diffraction intensity from a {111} plane, I{200} is a diffraction intensity from a {200} plane, I{220} is a diffraction intensity from a {220} plane, and I{311} is a diffraction intensity from a {311} plane, each at the material surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2008Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: THE FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi KANEKO, Tatsuhiko EGUCHI, Kuniteru MIHARA, Kiyoshige HIROSE
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Publication number: 20080286142Abstract: A member for water works is proposed in which the content of lead is limited to a very small values while maintaining its mechanical properties, castability, machinability, pressure resistance, etc. to levels equivalent to those of conventional copper alloys containing lead. A copper alloy is produced which contains not less than 2.0% by weight and not more than 5.9% by weight of tin, not less than 1.5% by weight and not more than 5.0% by weight of nickel, not less than 5.0% by weight and not more than 12.1% by weight of zinc, not less than 0.4% by weight and not more than 3.3% by weight of bismuth, and not less than 0.009% by weight and not more than 0.15% by weight of phosphorus, the balance being copper and impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2006Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: KURIMOTO, LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Yamamoto, Yoshimasa Hirai, Hiroaki Maedono, Chizuko Maedono
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Publication number: 20080216759Abstract: A fish cultivation net 3 has a rhombically netted form made by arranging a large number of waved wires 6 in parallel such that the adjacent wires are entwined with each other at their curved portions 6a. The wires 6 has a composition containing 62 to 91 mass % of Cu, 0.01 to 4 mass % of Sn, and the balance being Zn. The Cu content [Cu] and the Sn content [Sn] in terms of mass % satisfy the relationship 62?[Cu]?0.5[Sn]?90. The copper alloy material has a phase structure including an ? phase, a ? phase, and a 8 phase and the total area ratio of these phases is 95 to 100%.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2005Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: SANBO SHINDO KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Keiichiro Oishi