JP4720682B2 - Method for producing flat rectangular conductor and method for producing flat cable - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a flat conductor and a method of manufacturing a flat cable, and relates to a method of manufacturing a flat conductor and a method of manufacturing a flat cable, for example, for manufacturing a flexible flat cable used for wiring of electronic equipment. It is.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a miniaturized flat cable used for wiring of an electronic device that is becoming smaller and lighter is known (see, for example, Patent Document 1). A flat cable such as that described in Patent Document 1 is usually formed by rolling a tin-plated round copper wire into a flat shape, and further extending it by energization heating after rolling to form a flat conductor. . However, it has been found that whisker, which is a problem in a flat cable using a flat conductor manufactured in this way, is likely to occur when the pure tin plating layer of the flat conductor is thick, in order to suppress the occurrence of whiskers. The pure tin plating layer is made thin by forming a tin-copper alloy.
JP 2001-73186 A

  By the way, when the pure tin plating layer in the rectangular conductor is made into a tin-copper alloy, current heating is performed. However, if the voltage at this time is excessively increased, the elongation characteristics of the rectangular conductor deteriorate due to rapid heating. It may end up. Further, if the temperature is raised too much, the tin plating layer may flow and copper may be exposed.

  The objective of this invention is providing the manufacturing method of the flat conductor which can suppress generation | occurrence | production of a whisker when a flat cable is formed, and the manufacturing method of a flat cable, without deteriorating an elongation characteristic.

  In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a method for producing a rectangular conductor according to the present invention includes rolling a tin-plated round copper wire into a rectangular body, and heating and heating the rectangular body to a tin-copper alloy. After forming the layer, the rectangular conductor is further rolled at least once and the rectangular heating is repeated at least once to produce a rectangular conductor.

  In the manufacturing method of the flat conductor thus configured, the thickness of the pure tin plating layer is reduced by flattening the round copper wire tinned by the first rolling and forming a tin copper alloy layer by energization heating. Then, rolling and current heating are further performed. As a result, the flat tin-plated layer can be made thinner without deteriorating the elongation characteristics and appearance, and it is possible to reduce the whisker generation when used in a flat cable, and to have a flexible flat conductor. Can be manufactured.

  Further, the flat cable manufacturing method according to the present invention supplies a plurality of the above-described flat conductors in parallel, and sandwiches the parallel flat conductors from above and below with insulating resin films so that the insulating resin films are connected to each other. A flat cable is manufactured by welding.

  In the method of manufacturing a flat cable configured as described above, in manufacturing a flat conductor to be used, a round copper wire tin-plated by the first rolling is flattened and a tin-copper alloy layer is formed by energization heating to form a pure copper conductor. After reducing the thickness of the tin plating layer, rolling and current heating are further performed. As a result, a flat conductor having a flat shape and a thinner pure tin plating layer can be manufactured. Since a flat cable is manufactured using such a flat conductor, whisker generation is suppressed and flexibility is achieved. A rich flat cable can be manufactured.

  According to the present invention, the round copper wire tinned by the first rolling is flattened and a tin-copper alloy layer is formed by energization heating to reduce the thickness of the pure tin plating layer, and then the rolling and energization are further performed. A flat conductor is produced by heating. Thereby, it is possible to produce a flat conductor having a flat shape and a thin pure tin plating layer to suppress the generation of whiskers when used in a flat cable and having high flexibility.

  DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a manufacturing apparatus for carrying out a method for manufacturing a flat conductor according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a flat conductor manufactured by the method for manufacturing a flat conductor according to the present invention, and FIG. These are the tables which show the comparison result of the flat conductor manufactured by the manufacturing method of the flat conductor which concerns on this invention, and the flat conductor manufactured by the other manufacturing method.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the method for producing a rectangular conductor according to the present invention is to roll a tin-plated round copper wire 11a to form a rectangular body 13 and to heat the rectangular body 13 by energization to produce tin copper. After the alloy layer 24 is formed, the rectangular conductor 20 is manufactured by repeating the rolling and heating of the rectangular body 13 at least once.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a manufacturing apparatus 10 that performs the above-described method for manufacturing a rectangular conductor includes a supply reel 11 on which a tin-plated round copper wire 11 a is wound, and the downstream side of the supply reel 11 ( A first rolling roll 12 is provided on the left side in FIG. In the first rolling roll 12, a pair of rolls 12a and 12b are rotatably provided, and when the round copper wire 11a is passed between the pair of rolls 12a and 12b, the rectangular roll body 13 is rolled with a predetermined pressure. Form. The rolled rectangular state 13 is heated by the first energization heating device 14 to improve the elongation characteristics by self-heating annealing. On the downstream side of the first rolling roll 12 and the first electric heating device 14, a second rolling roll 15 and a second electric heating device 16 having a pair of rolls 15a and 15b are provided, and the rolling is performed again. And the elongation characteristics are further improved by self-heating annealing. The rectangular conductor 20 rolled by the second rolling roll 15 and heated by the second energization heating device 16 is taken up by the take-up reel 17.

  FIG. 2 shows a rectangular conductor 20 in which a round copper wire 11a obtained by tin plating a copper wire is formed into a rectangular shape by rolling. A copper 21 is provided at the center, and a tin plating layer 22 is provided around the copper 21. The tin plating layer 22 has an outer pure tin plating layer 23 and an inner tin copper alloy layer 24. The width of the flat conductor 20 is, for example, about 0.3 mm, and is 0.25 mm wide by the first rolling, and 0.3 mm wide and 0.035 mm thick by the second rolling. As the round copper wire 11a subjected to tin plating, for example, a tin plating layer having a thickness of 0.4 μm can be used.

  In order to prevent the occurrence of whiskers when the flat cable 40 described later is manufactured using the flat conductor 20 manufactured as described above, a part of the tin plating layer 22 is heated by energizing the flat conductor 20. It is known that it is effective to reduce the thickness of the pure tin-plated layer 23 by deforming into a tin-copper alloy layer 24. However, if the amount of heat generated by the flat conductor 20 is increased at once to increase the amount of tin-copper alloy produced, the flat conductor 20 becomes hardened and hardens, and the elongation characteristics of the flat conductor 20 deteriorate. Further, if the amount of heat generated by a single current heating is large, the tin that has been plated melts and approaches the edge of the flat rectangular conductor 20, and the tin plating layer at the edge becomes thick. Therefore, in the present invention, rolling and heating are performed at least twice. As a result, since the amount of heat generated by the flat conductor 20 by a single energization heating is small compared to the case of manufacturing by one rolling and heating, the flat conductor 20 is suppressed from being in a quenched state, which is favorable. Elongation characteristics can be maintained. Furthermore, the protrusion of tin at the edge portion 25 can be prevented, and the thickness of the pure tin plating layer can be reduced.

  In FIG. 3, the example which compared the flat conductor manufactured with the manufacturing method mentioned above and the flat conductor manufactured with the conventional manufacturing method is shown. In Comparative Examples 1 and 2, rolling and current heating were performed only once. In Comparative Example 1, the heating time by energization heating is set to the same time (0.15 seconds) as that of the embodiment of the present invention (hereinafter referred to as “the product of the present invention”). The same time (0.3 seconds) as the energization time for two times was used. As a result, in Comparative Example 1, since the heating was not sufficient, the thickness of the pure tin plating layer 23 was 0.24 μm, and the thickness of the pure tin plating layer 23 could not be reduced sufficiently. On the other hand, in Comparative Example 2, since the energization time is the same as the total energization time in the product of the present invention, although the thickness of the pure tin plating layer 23 is reduced, it is not sufficient but thick compared with the product of the present invention. It became. In Comparative Examples 1 and 2, the thickness of the pure tin plating layer 23 could not be reduced to 0.1 μm or less. However, in the product of the present invention, the pure tin plating layer 23 was obtained by performing rolling and current heating twice. The thickness of the tin plating layer 23 could be 0.1 μm or less.

  As described above, according to the method for producing a rectangular conductor according to the present invention, the round copper wire 11a tin-plated by the first rolling is flattened, and the tin-copper alloy layer 24 is formed by energization heating to form pure tin. After reducing the thickness of the plating layer 23, rolling and current heating were further performed. This makes it possible to produce a flat conductor 20 having a flat shape and a thin pure tin plating layer 23 to suppress the generation of whiskers when used in the flat cable 40 and to have high flexibility. .

  Next, an embodiment of a flat cable manufacturing method according to the present invention will be described. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of a manufacturing apparatus for carrying out the flat cable manufacturing method according to the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the flat cable manufactured by the flat cable manufacturing method according to the present invention. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the site | part which is common with the manufacturing apparatus 10 and the flat conductor 20 which were mentioned above, and the overlapping description is abbreviate | omitted.

  In the flat cable manufacturing method according to the present invention, a plurality of flat conductors 20 manufactured by the above-described flat conductor manufacturing method are supplied and arranged in a plane. And the flat cable 40 is manufactured by sandwiching a plurality of parallel rectangular conductors 20 from above and below between the insulating resin films 33 and 33 and welding the insulating resin films 33 together.

  As shown in FIG. 4, in the manufacturing apparatus 30 that performs the above-described flat cable manufacturing method, a plurality of supply reels 31 around which the flat conductor 20 is wound are provided. On the downstream side of the supply reel 31 (left side in FIG. 4), a rectangular conductor arranging machine 32 that arranges a plurality of rectangular conductors 20 supplied from the supply reel 31 in a planar shape is provided. The flat conductor arrangement machine 32 can hold the pitch of the flat conductors 20 at a constant interval, and can change the pitch width as necessary. A pair of resin film supply bobbins 34 and 34 are provided on the downstream side of the flat conductor arrangement machine 32 in order to supply the resin films 33 to the upper and lower surfaces of the arranged flat conductors 20, respectively. Film pressing rollers 35, 35 are provided for arranging 33 on the upper and lower surfaces of the arranged rectangular conductors 20 and heating and pressing the resin film 33. Here, the two resin films are bonded together to form the flat cable 40. Then, the flat cable is taken up by the flat cable take-up machine 36 further downstream.

  FIG. 5 shows an example of a flat cable 40 manufactured by the flat cable manufacturing method according to the present invention. The flat cable 40 is manufactured by arranging the rectangular conductors 20 having a width W = 0.3 mm, for example, with a pitch P = 0.5 mm and sandwiching the flat cable 40 with an insulating resin film 33 from above and below. That is, the interval between the adjacent flat conductors 20 and 20 is as extremely narrow as 0.2 mm, and when the whisker grows on the pure tin plating layer of the flat conductor at this narrow pitch, the flat conductors become in a state of movement, for example, There is a possibility that the circuit board of the electrical component is short-circuited. In the present invention, since the pure tin plating layer is extremely thin, whiskers are difficult to grow.

  As described above, according to the flat cable manufacturing method of the present invention, the flat cable 40 is manufactured using the flat conductor 20 in which the pure tin-plated layer 23 is thinned by repeating the rolling and current heating twice. Therefore, it is possible to manufacture the flat cable 40 that suppresses the generation of whiskers and is rich in flexibility.

  In addition, the manufacturing method of the flat conductor of this invention and the manufacturing method of a flat cable are not limited to each embodiment mentioned above, A suitable deformation | transformation, improvement, etc. are possible. For example, in each embodiment mentioned above, although illustrated about the case where a rolling and a heating process are performed twice, rolling and electric heating can also be performed 3 times or more. The rectangular conductor that has been rolled and energized and heated may be wound up once, then rolled out, and rolled and energized and heated again. In the flat cable manufacturing method described above, the flat conductor 20 is manufactured and wound in advance, and the flat cable 40 is manufactured using a plurality of the wound flat conductors 20. It is possible to manufacture a plurality of flat conductors 20 by a conductor manufacturing method and to continuously manufacture the flat cable 40 using the conductors.

  As described above, the method for producing a flat conductor and the method for producing a flat cable according to the present invention flatten a round copper wire tin-plated by the first rolling and form a tin-copper alloy layer by energization heating. After reducing the thickness of the tin plating layer, rolling and current heating are further performed. As a result, it is possible to produce a flat conductor having a flat shape and a thin pure tin plating layer to suppress whisker generation when used in a flat cable and to produce a flexible flat conductor. It is useful as a manufacturing method of a flat conductor for manufacturing a flexible flat cable used for wiring of an electronic device, a manufacturing method of a flat cable, and the like.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of the manufacturing apparatus for enforcing the manufacturing method of the flat conductor concerning this invention. It is sectional drawing of the flat conductor manufactured by the manufacturing method of the flat conductor which concerns on this invention. It is a table | surface which shows the comparative example of the flat conductor manufactured by the manufacturing method of the flat conductor which concerns on this invention, and the flat conductor manufactured by the other manufacturing method. It is a block diagram which shows an example of the manufacturing apparatus which enforces the manufacturing method of the flat cable which concerns on this invention. It is sectional drawing of the flat cable manufactured by the manufacturing method of the flat cable which concerns on this invention.

Explanation of symbols

11a Round copper wire 13 Flat rectangular body 20 Flat rectangular conductor 24 Tin copper alloy layer 33 Insulating resin film 40 Flat cable

Claims (2)

  The tin-plated round copper wire is rolled into a rectangular body, and the rectangular body is energized and heated to form a tin-copper alloy layer, and then the rectangular body is rolled and energized at least once. A method for producing a rectangular conductor, comprising producing a rectangular conductor repeatedly.   A flat cable is manufactured by supplying a plurality of the rectangular conductors according to claim 1 in parallel and sandwiching the parallel rectangular conductors from above and below with insulating resin films to weld the insulating resin films together. A manufacturing method of a flat cable characterized by the above.

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