Abstract:
A method for repairing an aluminum part having a worn portion is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: (i) producing a first substantially non-porous coating over the worn portion utilizing a cold spray process wherein a powder mixture is propelled against the worn portion of the aluminum part, and (ii) anodizing the aluminum part to grow an aluminum oxide layer overlaying the first substantially non-porous coating. The powder mixture includes aluminum and an alloy media.
Abstract:
A plated aluminum sheet has improved spot weldability and press-formability and is suitable for use in the manufacture of automobile bodies. The aluminum sheet has a plated coating of a metal having a melting point of about 700.degree. C. or above, e.g., Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, or Ni, an alloy of two or more of these metals, or a Zn alloy with at least one of these metals, on one or both surfaces thereof.
Abstract:
A process for the continuous, electrolytic plating of a long span of metal with a layer of metal, having a high line speed and low period of immersion in the electrolyte, and a device therefor. The span of metal is passed through a shaving drawplate, then through a metal plating solution to which an electric voltage is applied through a fluid electric connector comprising a solution of metal chloride, a fluoride and boric acid.The process is used to plate a metal with an adhesive metal layer, which provides both ductility to facilitate extrusion and low, non-evolving contact resistance.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for production of a copper clad, electrically insulated base for printed circuit boards, wherein a foil, of copper, copper alloy, aluminum or aluminum alloy by electroplating on preferably both sides furnished with a 1-35 .mu.m thick unpatterned layer of copper or copper alloy, is under heat and pressure laminated with the copper surfaces facing an electrically insulating, resin containing base. The copper layers are electroplated onto the foil in such a way that the layers after lamination strongly adhere to the insulating base and at the same time exhibit a very poor adhesion to the foil, which easily can be stripped from the copper layers without splitting these. The foil works during the lamination as a mold plate, whereby conventional mold plates can be excluded. The invention also comprises the use of such a copper clad foil as a combined mold plate and base for the copper layers during the lamination.
Abstract:
A process for plating aluminum and aluminum alloy substrates, such as 390 aluminum alloy pistons, with iron comprises (a) cathodically activating the aluminum-containing substrate in an acid bath and (b) plating iron from an iron sulfate-containing bath,
Abstract:
A dense, smooth, ductile, hard, highly reflective, corrosion-resistant, temperature resistant, and wear-resistant crystalline alloy of nickel, cobalt and boron. The alloy is epitaxially electrodeposited on an activated substrate using a pulsed square wave current. The epitaxial deposition occurs in an electrolytic bath containing nickel ions, cobalt ions, complexing agents, and an amino borane compound at a moderately low pH level and moderate temperature. An insoluble, solid catalyst, preferably palladium, causes the alloy to diffuse into the surface of the substrate and become bonded by a polar-covalent bond to it. Implements coated with the alloy, as well as plating solutions and methods for making the alloy are also disclosed.
Abstract:
Aluminum or an aluminum alloy on the surface of which an anodic oxide film comprising a porous layer and a barrier layer having micropores in the porous layer has been formed by a primary anodic oxidation treatment is subjected to a secondary anodic oxidation treatment and an immersion treatment so as to enlarge the pore diameter of the micropores, to make the cross-sectional profile of the micropores circular, and to make the thickness of the barrier layer and thus, the length of the micropores uniform, and subjecting the so treated aluminum or aluminum alloy to an electrolytic deposition treatment in an electrolytic bath containing a magnetic substance so as to uniformly allow a large amount of the magnetic substance to be deposited in the enlarged, uniform micropores, thereby obtaining a magnetic recording material having improved magnetic intensity and magnetic characteristics.
Abstract:
A method of treating an aluminum article prior to plating by first cleaning the article to be substantially free of aluminum oxide and then immersing the article in a solution containing sodium hydroxide, sodium metasilicate, trisodium phosphate and sodium carbonate.