摘要:
An aluminum alloy sheet for a lithographic printing plate which allows pits to be more uniformly formed by an electrochemical surface-roughening treatment and exhibits more excellent adhesion to a photosensitive film and water retention properties, and a method of producing the same are disclosed. The aluminum alloy sheet includes 0.1 to 1.5% of Mg, more than 0.05% and 0.5% or less of Zn, 0.1 to 0.6% of Fe, 0.03 to 0.15% of Si, 0.0001 to 0.10% of Cu, and 0.0001 to 0.05% of Ti, with the balance being aluminum and impurities, the Mg content and the Zn content satisfying a relationship “4×Zn %−1.4%≦Mg %≦4×Zn %+0.6%”, and the amount of aluminum powder on the surface of the aluminum alloy sheet being 0.1 to 3.0 mg/m2. It is more effective when precipitates with a diameter (circle equivalent diameter) of 0.1 to 1.0 μm are dispersed on the surface of the sheet in a number of 10,000 to 100,000 per square millimeter (mm2).
摘要:
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing, by a continuous casting process, aluminum alloy strip for use in the production of supports for lithographic printing plates, comprising the step of passing an aluminum melt successively through a filtering means, a launder connected to the filtering means, a liquid level controlling means connected to the launder, and a melt feed nozzle connected to the liquid level controlling means, wherein the aluminum melt is obtained by melting an aluminum starting material, then adding to and melting in the molten aluminum starting material a titanium and boron-containing aluminum alloy, and the time t in seconds required for the aluminum melt to pass through the launder satisfies the following condition (1): t≧270×1.2×D , (1) where D is the depth in meters of the melt in the launder.The method is able to prevent the formation of black streaks even when casting is carried out for an extended period of time.
摘要:
A lithographic printing plate support capable of obtaining a presensitized plate which is excellent in scumming resistance and scratch resistance and achieves a good balance between sensitivity and press life, and a method of manufacturing the support are provided. The support includes a surface which has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 0.36 to 0.50 μm; not more than 3.0 recesses with a depth of at least 4 μm per 400 μm square region; and a surface area ratio ΔS5(0.02-0.2) determined from Sx5(0.02-0.2) denoting the actual surface area of a 5 μm square surface region as determined by three-point approximation based on data obtained by extracting 0.02 to 0.2 μm wavelength components from three-dimensional data on the surface region measured with an atomic force microscope at 512×512 points and S0 denoting the geometrically measured surface area of the surface region, of 50 to 90%.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing a microstructure wherein an aluminum member having an aluminum substrate and a micropore-bearing anodized film present on a surface of the aluminum substrate is subjected at least to, in order, a pore-ordering treatment which involves performing one or more cycles of a step that includes a first film dissolution treatment for dissolving the anodized film until a barrier layer has a thickness of 3 to 50 nm, and an anodizing treatment which follows the first film dissolution treatment; and a second film dissolution treatment for dissolving the anodized film so that a ratio of a diameter of a micropore opening “a” to a micropore diameter at a height “a/2” from a micropore bottom “b” (a/b) is in a range of 0.9 to 1.1, whereby the microstructure having micropores formed on a surface thereof is obtained. The manufacturing method enables microstructures having an ordered array of pits to be obtained in a short period of time.
摘要:
A lithographic printing plate support in which surface unevenness due to surface treatment has been suppressed and a presensitized plate of excellent sensitivity are produced from an aluminum alloy plate containing iron, silicon, titanium and boron by specifying the state in which TiB2 particles are present in the surface layer and the width of the crystal grains, and by having specific indicators relating to the respective concentrations of iron and silicon in the surface layer following graining treatment fall within specific ranges. In a method of manufacturing the lithographic printing plate support, an aluminum alloy melt having specified alloying ingredients is subjected to a specified casting process to have the amount of the alloying ingredients in solid solution following cold rolling fall within specified ranges.
摘要:
Disclosed is a method for producing a structure having: a stripping step in which an aluminum member including an aluminum substrate and an anodized layer present on the aluminum substrate, which layer contains micropores having an average pore diameter of 10 to 500 nm and a coefficient of variation in pore diameter of less than 30%, is electrolyzed in an aqueous acid solution by using the aluminum member for a cathode to thereby strip the anodized layer off the aluminum substrate so as to produce a structure composed of the anodized layer with a plurality of recesses. The method can produce a structure having regularly arranged recesses in a reduced time.
摘要:
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a support for a lithographic printing plate, which method includes: a casting step in which an aluminum alloy melt is fed between a pair of cooling rollers by a melt feed nozzle and is rolled as it is being solidified by the pair of cooling rollers, forming an aluminum alloy plate, and a graining treatment step in which a surface of the aluminum alloy plate is subjected to graining treatment which includes at least alkali etching treatment and subsequent electrochemical graining treatment, thereby giving a support for a lithographic printing plate; wherein the surface of the aluminum alloy plate on the side which is subjected to the graining treatment undergoes an amount of aluminum dissolution X per square meter (g/m2) during the alkali etching treatment and has a total amount of electricity Y per square decimeter (C/dm2) applied thereto during an anode reaction in the electrochemical graining treatment such as to satisfy formula (1) below: 1,000>Y≧10X (1). By using this method, a support for a lithographic printing plate which is free of surface mottling is provided.
摘要:
There is provided an aluminum alloy blank for a lithographic printing plate comprising iron in a range of 0.20 to 0.80 wt %; and the balance being aluminum, a crystal grain refining element, and unavoidable impurity elements. In the aluminum alloy blank, a content of silicon is in a range of 0.02 to 0.30 wt % and a content of copper is equal to or below 0.05 wt % among the impurity elements, and a solid solution amount of silicon is in a range of 150 ppm to 1500 ppm inclusive.
摘要:
The first embodiment is a support for a lithographic printing plate, wherein the surface area ratios obtained from three-dimensional data by use of an atomic force microscope meets the following requirements (1-i) to (1-iii).The second embodiment is a support for a lithographic printing plate, wherein the aforementioned surface area ratios and a steepness meets the following requirements (2-i) to (2-ii).The third embodiment is a support for a lithographic printing plate, wherein the aforementioned surface area ratios meets the following requirements (4-i) to (4-iii). (1-i) a surface area ratio ΔS50(50) is 20 to 90%, (1-ii) a surface area ratio ΔS50(2-50) is 1 to 30%, and (1-iii) a surface area ratio ΔS50(0.2-2) is 5 to 40%, (2-i) a surface area ratio ΔS50(50) is 30 to 60%, and (2-ii) a steepness a4550(0.2-2) is 5 to 40%, (4-i) a surface area ratio ΔS5(5) is 20 to 90%, (4-ii) a surface area ratio ΔS5(0.2-5) is 5 to 40%, and (4-iii) A surface area ratio ΔS5(0.02-0.2) is 15 to 70%.
摘要:
In order to provide a structure which has a sufficiently large signal strength and generates local plasmon resonance of excellent reproducibility, the invention provides a process for manufacturing a structure at least a portion of which is an aluminum member having on a surface thereof an anodized layer having a plurality of micropores, the process comprising the steps of, in order, anodizing a surface of an aluminum member so as to form an anodized layer having micropores present therein, sealing the micropores in the anodized layer by filling the micropores with metal, surface-treating the sealed anodized layer so as to remove at least a portion of upper layer surface thereof and set the average surface roughness (Ra) to at most 30 nm, and subjecting the surface-treated anodized layer to electrodeposition so as to form metal particles on the metal filled into the micropores during sealing.
摘要翻译:为了提供具有足够大的信号强度并产生具有优异再现性的局部等离子体共振的结构,本发明提供一种制造方法,其结构的至少一部分是铝构件,其表面上具有阳极氧化层,阳极氧化层具有 多个微孔,该方法包括以下步骤:依次阳极氧化铝构件的表面以形成其中存在微孔的阳极氧化层,通过用金属填充微孔来密封阳极氧化层中的微孔, 处理密封的阳极氧化层以便去除其上层表面的至少一部分,并将平均表面粗糙度(R a a a N)设定为至多30nm,并将经表面处理的阳极氧化层 电沉积,以便在密封期间在填充到微孔中的金属上形成金属颗粒。