JPH0693396A - Production of aluminum foil excellent in strength and foil rollability - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To produce an Al foil excellent in strength and foil rollability by continuously casting and rolling a molten Al alloy containing specific amounts of Fe and Si, applying specific heat treatment, and then applying cold rolling while performing process annealing at specific temp. between cold rolling stages. CONSTITUTION:A molten Al alloy having a composition consisting of, by weight, 0.2-0.8% Fe, 0.05-0.3% Si, and the balance Al with inevitable impurities is continuously cast and rolled, by which a directly rolled slab of <=25mm thickness is formed and also intermetallic compounds are finely dispersed by means of rapid and uniform cooling. Heating treatment is applied to the resulting strip- like cast slab at >=450 deg.C to finely disperse crystallized substances and homogenize solidified structure. The cast slab is cold-rolled at about >=30% draft, process-annealed at 250-450 deg.C, and then cold-rolled. By this method, the Al foil minimal in the occurrence of pinholes even if rolling is done to an extremely small thickness of about <=6mum and excellent in strength and foil rollability can be obtained.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an aluminum foil, and more particularly to a method for manufacturing an aluminum foil suitable for obtaining an aluminum foil having high strength and few pinholes. .

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2. Description of the Related Art Aluminum foil has a plate thickness of about 5 to 200 μm and is mainly used for packaging foods, medicines and the like. This aluminum foil is often used by being laminated with polyethylene, vinyl, paper, resin or the like. The aluminum foil used for such an application needs to be shielded from moisture and ultraviolet rays in the atmosphere depending on the packaged contents. Conventionally,
JIS-IN30 is used for aluminum foil for such applications.
(99.3% Al), JIS-1050 (99.5% A)
1), pure aluminum such as JIS-1100 (Al-0.13% Cu) is mainly used. This aluminum foil was cast into an ingot from a molten aluminum by a semi-continuous casting method, and was hot-rolled and cold-rolled to give an ingot.
A plate material (foil material) having a thickness of about 3 to 0.6 mm, and further foil rolling to a thickness of about 5 to 200 μm by foil rolling,
Further, it is general to perform annealing treatment. If necessary, the ingot is usually homogenized before hot rolling or subjected to intermediate annealing during cold rolling.

[0003]

By the way, recently, thinner aluminum foil has been required, and it has an extremely thin thickness of 6 μm or less, which is thinner than 7 μm which has been generally put into practical use. Things are becoming required. Generally, when rolling to a thin foil having a thickness of 10 μm or less, it is usual to carry out polymerization rolling (rolling two foils in layers), but in this polymerization rolling, the thinner the foil thickness, the more exponentially generated in the foil. Since the number of pinholes increases and the strength is insufficient, there is a problem that the foil breaks due to the tension during rolling, and the moisture permeation resistance of the foil remarkably decreases due to the increase in the number of pinholes. Therefore, when an extremely thin aluminum foil with a thickness of 6 μm or less is to be manufactured by a conventional general method, a sharp increase in the number of pinholes and a lack of strength cause frequent breakage accidents during foil rolling, resulting in high productivity. The fact is that only a foil with poor moisture permeability was obtained as the final foil. Therefore, there is a strong demand for the development of an aluminum foil material that has few pinholes even if it is rolled to a thickness of 6 μm or less and is excellent in strength and foil rollability.

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Means for Solving the Problems As a result of intensive studies to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present inventors have found that an aluminum alloy produced by direct continuous casting and rolling from an aluminum alloy melt having an appropriate amount of Fe and Si adjusted. After heat-treating the strip-shaped cast plate, it was found that the foil rolling property of the cold rolling, the intermediate annealing, the cold rolling of the produced foil is extremely excellent,
The present invention has been completed.

That is, according to the present invention, Fe is 0.2 to 0.8.
%, Si of 0.05 to 0.3%, and the balance being aluminum alloy molten metal consisting of Al and unavoidable impurities continuously cast and rolled to directly form a strip-shaped cast plate having a plate thickness of 25 mm or less. After heat treatment at a temperature of 450 ° C or higher,
A method for producing an aluminum foil having excellent strength and foil rollability, which comprises performing cold rolling, performing intermediate annealing at 250 to 450 ° C., and then performing cold rolling.

[0006]

Next, the present invention will be described in detail. Fe is
Fine particles are crystallized as an Al-Fe intermetallic compound during continuous casting and rolling, and are uniformly dispersed in the matrix as fine particles having a diameter of 0.2 to 5 µm by subsequent heat treatment and cold rolling. The Al-Fe-based fine particles have the effect of refining the crystal grains during intermediate annealing because they serve as nuclei for recrystallization.
It has the effect of improving strength. In order to obtain these effects, the amount of Fe added must be 0.2% or more, but if it exceeds 0.8%, not only the effect is saturated, but also the corrosion resistance decreases. Therefore, Fe is added in the range of 0.2 to 0.8%.

Si has the effect of improving strength by coexisting with Fe. To obtain this effect, the amount of Si added is 0.
It must be at least 05%. On the other hand, the amount of Si added is 0.3
%, The amount of solid solution Si increases, causing hardening in the foil rolling step and increasing pinholes. Therefore, Si is added in the range of 0.05 to 0.3%.

[0008] Other impurities include Cu, Mn, Mg, Zn, etc. contained in ordinary aluminum ingots, but if these are about 0.05% or less, there is no particular problem. In addition, as an optional additional element, each containing 0.1% or less of Ti and B is effective for refining the solidification structure during continuous casting and rolling.

In the method of the present invention, the aluminum alloy melt having the above composition range is continuously cast and rolled to directly obtain a plate thickness of 25 mm.
The following band-shaped cast plate is used. The plate thickness of 25 mm or less of the strip-shaped cast plate obtained by the above continuous casting and rolling means that the intermetallic compounds formed during solidification of alloying component elements such as Fe and Si are sufficiently dispersed, and the effect of the continuous casting and rolling is achieved. It is a plate thickness that is sufficiently utilized, that is, a plate thickness that is obtained in a cast state in which the molten metal is cooled uniformly and rapidly. If the thickness of the strip-shaped cast plate exceeds 25 mm, the rapid solidification cannot be completed, and the intermetallic compound becomes coarse. Therefore, the thinner the plate thickness, the better.
If the thickness is less than mm, casting becomes difficult and the fine dispersion effect of the intermetallic compound is saturated, so it is not preferable to set the thickness to less than 3 mm, preferably continuous casting having a thickness of 5 to 10 mm. It is preferable to form a rolled plate. In order to continuously cast and roll the molten aluminum alloy, the molten metal in the above-mentioned mold is passed through a nozzle arranged between two oppositely rotating casting rolls or a mold composed of a traveling casting belt. And then cooled in a mold to solidify. This method is known as a direct continuous casting and rolling method, and 3C method, Hunter method, Hazel method and the like are industrially used, but the present invention is not limited to these methods.

Next, in the method of the present invention, the strip cast plate obtained by continuous casting and rolling is heat-treated at a temperature of 450 ° C. or higher. This heat treatment has an effect of dividing the crystallized substance and finely dispersing it, and an effect of breaking the solidified structure to form a homogeneous structure. Furthermore, during casting and rolling, Fe which is a supersaturated solid solution,
This has the effects of reducing the amount of impurity elements such as Si and improving the foil rollability, and lowering the recrystallization temperature during the intermediate annealing performed in a later step to make the recrystallized grain size fine and uniform. If this heat treatment is less than 450 ° C., the effect is not sufficient, the recrystallized grain size during intermediate annealing becomes coarse, and the foil rollability deteriorates. Therefore, it is preferable to perform heat treatment at a temperature of 450 ° C. or higher, more preferably 480 ° C. or higher for 0.5 hour or longer.

Next, in the method of the present invention, after cold working, intermediate annealing is performed at 250 to 450 ° C. The intermediate annealing is
It is performed in order to soften the plate material and obtain better rollability. If the cold working ratio before intermediate annealing is low, the driving force for recrystallization is insufficient, the recrystallized grain size during intermediate annealing becomes coarse, foil rollability decreases, and pinholes increase. The cold working rate is preferably 30% or more. If the intermediate annealing temperature is less than 250 ° C, the softening of the plate material is not sufficient and the rolling property is deteriorated. Since the amount of elements increases, foil rollability decreases and pinholes increase. Therefore, the intermediate annealing is performed in the range of 250 to 450 ° C, more preferably 280 to
It is better to carry out at a temperature of 420 ° C. for 0.5 to 8 hours. Further, in order to adjust the tempered state of the final foil, cold rolling and intermediate annealing may be repeated twice or more under the above intermediate annealing conditions.

Further, in continuous casting and rolling, surface defects such as oxides are easily generated on the surface of the strip-shaped cast plate, which may cause pinholes. It is effective to remove these surface defects by subjecting the surface cleaning treatment to the alkaline solution having a pH of 10 or more for 1 to 300 seconds at least once during the foil manufacturing process.

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The present invention will be described in more detail based on the following examples. The molten aluminum alloy symbols A to D having the alloy compositions shown in Table 1 were continuously cast and rolled into strip-shaped cast plates having a thickness of 6 mm. Further, as a conventional example, a semi-continuous cast ingot having a thickness of 500 mm was chamfered and homogenized by a usual method and then hot-rolled to a thickness of 6 mm. These were heat-treated under the conditions shown in Table 2, cold-rolled, intermediate-annealed at a plate thickness of 0.8 mm, and further cold-rolled to 0.35
It was a foil with a thickness of mm. These foil materials were foil-rolled to a thickness of 15 μm by four passes, and finally polymerized to give a foil having a thickness of 6 μm. For this foil, the number of pinholes was measured, and the tensile strength after 4 passes was measured. These results are also shown in Table 2.

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[Table 1]

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[Table 2]

As is apparent from Table 2, the foil according to the present invention
No. In Nos. 1 to 4, the number of pinholes was as small as 50 / m ² or less and the strength was excellent. Comparative example No. whose manufacturing conditions are different from those of the present invention. In Nos. 5 to 9, although the foil strength was high, a large number of pinholes were generated. Conventional example No. manufactured from a semi-continuous casting ingot without using the continuous casting and rolling method. No. 10 has a small number of pinholes, but the strength is low.

[0017]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention,
It is possible to provide an aluminum foil material which is excellent in foil strength and foil rollability and has few pinholes, and which has a remarkable industrial effect.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Fe: 0.2 to 0.8 wt% (hereinafter wt% is abbreviated as%), Si: 0.05 to 0.3%, and the balance Al and unavoidable impurities The molten aluminum alloy is continuously cast and rolled into a band-shaped cast plate having a plate thickness of 25 mm or less, which is heat-treated at a temperature of 450 ° C or higher, and then cold-rolled to an intermediate temperature of 250 to 450 ° C. A method for manufacturing an aluminum foil having excellent strength and foil rollability, which comprises performing annealing and then cold rolling.