EP2049712A1 - Procédé et appareil pour plaquer des articles - Google Patents

Procédé et appareil pour plaquer des articles

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EP2049712A1
EP2049712A1 EP06788588A EP06788588A EP2049712A1 EP 2049712 A1 EP2049712 A1 EP 2049712A1 EP 06788588 A EP06788588 A EP 06788588A EP 06788588 A EP06788588 A EP 06788588A EP 2049712 A1 EP2049712 A1 EP 2049712A1
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Prior art keywords
anode
article
plating
piston
another
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James R. Toth
Miguel Azevedo
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Federal Mogul LLC
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Federal Mogul LLC
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C25—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D—PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D7/00—Electroplating characterised by the article coated
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C25—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25B—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF COMPOUNDS OR NON-METALS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25B11/00—Electrodes; Manufacture thereof not otherwise provided for
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C25—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D—PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D17/00—Constructional parts, or assemblies thereof, of cells for electrolytic coating
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C25—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D—PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D17/00—Constructional parts, or assemblies thereof, of cells for electrolytic coating
    • C25D17/10—Electrodes, e.g. composition, counter electrode
    • C25D17/12—Shape or form
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C25—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D—PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D7/00—Electroplating characterised by the article coated
    • C25D7/04—Tubes; Rings; Hollow bodies
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C25—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D—PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D21/00—Processes for servicing or operating cells for electrolytic coating
    • C25D21/10—Agitating of electrolytes; Moving of racks
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C25—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D—PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PRODUCTION OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • C25D5/00—Electroplating characterised by the process; Pretreatment or after-treatment of workpieces
    • C25D5/04—Electroplating with moving electrodes

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  • This invention relates generally to processes and apparatus for plating articles, such as, but not limited to, pistons for combustion engines.
  • the present invention provides an apparatus and process for plating articles with a coating from a plating bath, such as, for example, application of a chrome- based coating to surfaces of a piston.
  • the apparatus includes a shaped anode which is contoured to at least some of the outer contoured features of the article.
  • the article itself is made the cathode, and the cathode and anode are moved relative to one another during plating to control application of the plating to the article.
  • the shaped anode is held stationary and the piston is rotated in the plating bath relative to the shaped anode.
  • the invention is particularly well suited to articles having rotational symmetry such that the shape of the anode can be fixed and the article rotated relative to the anode to maintain a constant spacing between the article and contours of the anode during plating.
  • pistons are particularly well suited in that many of the features, including the outer surface of the piston, the ring grooves, the top surface, and often the combustion bowl, have symmetry relative to a central longitudinal axis of the piston body, or at least approximate symmetry.
  • the combustion bowl has a reentrant bowl configuration such that the combustion bowl undercuts a circumferential upper lip of the bowl, thus, making it particularly difficult to plate these areas using a conventional plating bath arrangement.
  • the present invention can accommodate such difficult contours, by extending, in the case of the upper ring groove, a portion of the anode into the ring groove and shaping the anode across the top surface and into the combustion bowl and to include, if necessary, the reentrant feature of the combustion bowl.
  • the apparatus and process may optionally include at least a second anode that is stationary relative to the article being plated and moveable relative to the first anode.
  • this second anode is designed to rotate with the article relative to the first anode for simultaneously plating other areas of the article which may not be accessible or convenient for access by the first fixed anode.
  • the article may have internal features or passages that are not accessible from outside the article (for example, passages or bores or non-circular features), hi the case of a piston, it may, for example, be desirable to plate the pin bores from the plating bath.
  • a pin- shaped anode may be positioned in the pin bores and supported for rotation with the piston about the longitudinal axis of the piston and coupled to an associated rectifier to impart controlled plating to the surfaces of the pin bores. This may be done at the same time that the outer surface of the piston is being plated as it rotates relative to the rotationally fixed first anode.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective view of an article plated by the process
  • Figure 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the article shown in association with the plating apparatus.
  • Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 rotated 90 degrees about a central axis of the article.
  • the invention provides a process and apparatus that utilizes conformable anodes in a plating process to apply a plating material to an article.
  • a wire or other material suitable for an anode is shaped to conform to the approximate shape of a region of the article to be coated.
  • the anode is powered by an electrical power source, such as a rectifier, and the article serves as the cathode, wherein the anode and article are both immersed in a plating bath. While immersed, there is relative movement imparted between the anode and the article.
  • the article is rotated relative to the anode about a central axis of the article, wherein the anode can be fixed so as to not rotate about the central axis.
  • the method and apparatus may also include one or more additional anodes that may be positionally fixed relative to the article (and thus relatively moveable relative to the other shaped anode to plate other areas of the article that are inaccessible or less conventionally coated by the other shaped anode).
  • the apparatus and method contemplates inserting a correspondingly shaped anode into the bore that can rotate with the article such that the surfaces of the bore can be plated in the same bath and at the same time as the other surfaces being plated in connection with the shaped anode.
  • FIGS 1-3 show a piston article 10, referred to hereafter as piston, as the article to be plated.
  • the piston 10 includes a piston head 12 having an upper surface 14 extending substantially perpendicular to the central axis 22 in which a combustion bowl 16 is formed.
  • the combustion bowl 16 may have an edge or lip 18 and an undercut region 20 extending radially outwardly from the lip 18.
  • the piston 10 has a central longitudinal axis 22 which various outer surfaces of the piston extend at least partially symmetrically about, and also includes a pair of laterally spaced pin bosses 24 in which aligned pin bores 26 are formed having a common pin bore axis 28.
  • the pin bore axis 28 extends transversely to the central axis 22, and may be perpendicular to the central axis 22.
  • the piston 10 may further include a pair of opposed piston skirt portions 30 that are formed as one piece with the pin bosses 24 having an outer surface 32.
  • the piston head 12 is formed with a plurality of ring grooves, including an upper ring groove 34 that is closest to the upper surface 14 of the piston article 10.
  • Figures 2 and 3 illustrate the piston 10 in conjunction with a plating apparatus 36.
  • the apparatus 36 preferably includes a plating bath 38 of a selective plating solution (such as, for example, one which will produce a chromium-based coating) in which the piston 10 may be immersed.
  • the apparatus 36 includes a first shaped anode 40 that may be in the form of a wire or other suitable material that can serve as an anode.
  • the anode 40 is arranged along the outside of the piston 10 and has an area less than the total area of the outer surface of the piston 10.
  • the anode 40 is formed to have a shape corresponding to the general shape of the outer surface of the piston in relation to the longitudinal cross section of the piston presented to the anode 40 for the surfaces that are to be plated.
  • the anode 40 is able to be conformed to follow the contour of the surface. This is particularly important in being able to apply a uniform coating across the various ring grooves, as well as the undercut region 20.
  • the shaped anode 40 is configured relative to the shape of the piston 10 in order to develop a plating on the outer surface 32 of the skirt portions 30, the upper ring groove 34 and preferably the entire surface of the combustion bowl 16.
  • the shaped anode 40 extends at least partially in the longitudinal direction generally parallel to the central axis 22 and along the outer surface of the piston 10 adjacent the outer surface 32 of the skirt portions 30, along the head of the piston 12.
  • the anode 40 is represented as having a portion 42 extending into the upper ring groove 34 generally perpendicular to the central axis 22, and also has a portion that wraps around the upper surface 14 of the piston 10 and then down into the combustion bowl 16.
  • the portion of the anode 40 in the combustion bowl follows the contour of the undercut region 20 where it may terminate at the central longitudinal axis 22.
  • the undercut region 20 is able to be plated with a uniform thickness of coating material, as desired.
  • the distance in which the anode 40 is spaced from the adjacent surfaces can be controlled with a high degree of precision. As such, it will be appreciated that if the piston article 10 were rotated relative to the anode 40 (or vice versa) that the relative movement would cause the entire outer surface of the regions of the piston 10 that are desired to be coated to be exposed to the shaped anode. In other words, with each revolution, the outer surfaces would pass by the fixed shaped anode 40.
  • the shaped anode 40 is coupled to a corresponding electrical power source, such as rectifier 44 and the piston 10 is electrically coupled to make it a cathode in relation to the anode 40.
  • the piston 10 immersed in the plating bath 38 along with the shaped anode 40, is rotated relative to the shaped anode 40 to develop a controlled thickness of plating 46 on the targeted areas of the piston 10 as mentioned.
  • the shaped anode makes certain that these targeted areas are carefully controlled.
  • an inner diameter surface 48 of the pin bores 26 may be further desirable to coat an inner diameter surface 48 of the pin bores 26 with the plating material from the bath 38.
  • This can be achieved at the same time that the outer surface is coated by positioning another anode, referred to hereafter as a pin bore anode 50, within the pin bore 26 and supporting the pin bore anode 50 in relative fixed relation to the piston 10, while enabling the pin bore anode 50 to rotate concurrently with the piston 10 about the longitudinal central axis 22, and thus, relative to the shaped anode 40 during the plating process.
  • the pin bore anode 50 is coupled to an associated rectifier 52 which results in deposition of the plating material to the pin bore surface 48.
  • Coupling the pin bore anode 50 to its own rectifier 52 separate from the other rectifier 44 enables independent control of the pin bore anode 50 and the corresponding plating of the pin bore surface 48 from that of the shaped anode 40 and the corresponding plating of the other surfaces, including the upper surface 14, the combustion bowl 16, the skirt portions 30, one or more of the ring grooves, if desired.
  • one aspect of this invention provides the use of anodes which are conformable to varying geometric shapes of surfaces being plated in a plating process, such as a plating process used to coat a heavy duty (HD) steel piston.
  • a wire such as shown at 40, or other preformed anode member conforming to the approximate shape of surfaces being plated on the piston (skirt area 30 to ring area above the skirt area to top bowl area 14) is utilized to allow deposition of the coating to the areas of interest.
  • This is powered by the plating electrical power source, such as the rectifier 44.
  • the entire piston assembly is rotated within the plating bath 38 such that it revolves past the conformable anode 40 resulting in deposition of the coating over the intended areas.
  • the second anode 50 is utilized, with the common cathode connection being the same steel piston 10, whereby this second conformable anode 50 is placed within the pin bores 26 resulting in deposition of the coating on the ID surface 48 of the pin bores 26. This is powered by the rectifier 52 which, as mentioned, is separate from the rectifier 44.
  • the use of conformable anodes 40, 50 for plating surfaces of the piston 10 allows the deposition of the coating in those areas where the coating is desired at the desired thicknesses. Spinning the piston 10 allows for uniform deposition around the entire circumference of the piston 10.
  • the piston 10 will be fitted into a holder or otherwise supported by a member that makes the common cathode connection to the piston 10 as well as to serve as the mechanism for rotating the piston 10 about its central axis 22 so that it can be rotated past the conformable anode 40 that results in deposition of the coating on the piston skirt 30, ring groove area and the upper surface 14, including the combustion bowl 16.
  • the pin bores 26 are plated by means of the cylindrical anode 50 placed within the pin bore area, which as described, is powered by the second rectifier 52. This allows for application of the appropriate plating density and thickness for each of the two separate regions being plated. As such, in a single plating process, the piston areas plated by the separate anodes 40, 50 can have differing plating densities and thicknesses.

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  • Chemical Kinetics & Catalysis (AREA)
  • Electrochemistry (AREA)
  • Materials Engineering (AREA)
  • Metallurgy (AREA)
  • Organic Chemistry (AREA)
  • Electroplating Methods And Accessories (AREA)
  • Pistons, Piston Rings, And Cylinders (AREA)

Abstract

La présente invention concerne un procédé et un appareil utilisant au moins une anode conformable (40) dans un procédé de plaquage pour appliquer un plaquage à un article (10). Un fil métallique ou autre matériau adapté pour une anode est mis sous une forme telle qu'il se conforme à la forme approximative d'une zone de l'article à revêtir. L'anode est alimentée par une source électrique (44), et l'article sert de cathode. L'anode et l'article sont tous les deux immergés dans un bain de plaquage (38). L'article et l'anode pivotent l'un par rapport à l'autre autour d'un axe central (22) de l'article. Le mouvement relatif entre l'anode et l'article entraîne l'application d'un plaquage uniforme (46) à des zones sélectionnées de l'article qui passent devant l'anode. Une autre anode (50) peut être disposée selon un rapport fixe avec l'article pour entraîner le plaquage à une zone choisie séparée de l'article en même temps que l'autre anode.
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