JPH09272958A - Phosphor bronze low in surface cracking sensitivity and its production - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce a phosphor bronze low in surface cracking sensitivity at a high yield by regulating the contents of B, Cd and Sb as impurities increasing the surface cracking sensitivity of phosphor bronze to prescribed ones or below. SOLUTION: Phosphor bronze having a compsn. contg., by weight, 2 to 9% Sn and 0.01 to 0.35% P, in which the contents of Bi, Cd and Sb as impurities satisfy the inequality of Bi+(Cd/9)+(Sb/23)<=0.0011%, and the balance copper is cast into a thin sheet ingot by a horizontal continuous casting method, and this thin sheet ingot is repeatedly subjected to cold working and annealing to obtain the objective phosphor bronze. In the inequality, Bi denotes the weight % of Bi, Cd denotes the weight % of Cd, and Sb denotes the weight % of Sb. By limiting the contents of Bi, Cd and Sb as impurities increasing the surface cracking sensitivity of phosphor bronze to the prescribed ones or below as the above manner, surface cracking therein is made shallow, therefore the amt. of the face to be ground can be reduced to improve the yield of the product.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to phosphor bronze which has low surface cracking susceptibility and can be manufactured with high yield.

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2. Description of the Related Art Phosphor bronze is a conductive copper alloy containing 9 wt% or less Sn and a trace amount of P and having excellent spring characteristics.
It is widely used as a terminal fitting for connecting an electric circuit, a spring for electronic equipment and electric equipment parts, a conductive material requiring spring properties such as a lead frame of an integrated circuit, and the like. This phosphor bronze was manufactured by hot rolling a water-cooled thick ingot of a thick plate, but because of its poor hot ductility, deep cracking occurred in the rolled material, and the manufacturing yield was extremely poor. For this reason, various measures have been taken to improve the hot ductility, but none of them has completely solved the problem. From such a thing,
Currently, the manufacturing method of phosphor bronze is the horizontal continuous casting method.
The mainstream method is to cast a thin plate ingot with a thickness of 10 to 20 mm and subject the ingot to repeated annealing and cold rolling. In this horizontal continuous casting method, in general, in order to improve productivity, a long ingot is wound into a coil, and this is flowed to a lower step. Further, the reverse segregation layer and the defective portion on the surface of the ingot peculiar to phosphor bronze are removed by chamfering in the lower step.

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The ingot wound into a coil is annealed for the first time before cold rolling for the purpose of improving workability by homogenizing the Sn concentrated portion. In particular, cracking is likely to occur during this annealing, and considerable chamfering is required to remove this crack. The depth of this annealing crack is calculated by dividing the total depth of cracks on both sides by the plate thickness (thickness of ingot).
When expressed as a "plate thickness ratio", it may reach 30% or more. Although this annealing crack is shallower than the conventional hot rolling crack, it is considerably large compared to the maximum amount of chamfering of 8% when removing the reverse segregation layer of Sn.

The above-mentioned annealing cracks occur because the stress of about 7 to 12 kgf / mm ² applied to the phosphor bronze ingot wound into a coil shape exceeds the material strength in the process of being released during annealing. Bending strain was applied to phosphor bronze test pieces under the annealing conditions that cause this cracking.
As a result of conducting an experiment in which (bending stress of 8 kgf / mm ² ) is applied and heating, it was confirmed that cracking remarkably occurred under the condition of holding at 300 to 600 ° C for 1 hour.

The inventors of the present invention have conducted various researches on the improvement measures for such annealing cracks. As a result, phosphor bronze has a wide solidification temperature range and S near the surface of the ingot.
A concentrated portion of n is formed, and even if a small amount of Bi segregates in this concentrated portion, especially in the grain boundary that becomes the final solidified portion, the strength of the grain boundary is significantly reduced. It was found that the grain boundary strength is reduced. Although annealing cracks can be prevented by not containing Bi etc. at all,
Since i is about 200 ppm in Sn ingot, it is extremely difficult to reduce the Bi content to 0 in the ingot, and it is not a good cost measure.

Therefore, the present inventors have conducted a detailed study on the relationship between the amount of impurities such as Bi and annealing cracks. as a result,
The inventors have found that the depth of annealing cracks can be made considerably shallow by controlling the amount of impurities such as Bi that increase the surface cracking susceptibility of phosphor bronze to a predetermined amount or less, and further research was conducted to complete the present invention. An object of the present invention is to provide phosphor bronze which has low surface cracking susceptibility and can be manufactured with a high yield.

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According to the first aspect of the present invention,
2-9 wt% Sn, 0.01-0.35 wt% P, Bi,
Phosphor bronze which has a low susceptibility to surface cracking and which contains the balance copper and unavoidable impurities in which the amounts of impurities of Cd and Sb satisfy the following formula. Bi + (Cd / 9) + (Sb / 23) ≦ 0.0011 wt
% (However, Bi is wt% of Bi, Cd is wt% of Cd, Sb is S
wt% of b. )

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the phosphor bronze according to the first aspect is cast into a thin plate ingot by a horizontal continuous casting method, and the thin plate ingot is repeatedly subjected to cold working and annealing. The method for producing phosphor bronze having low surface cracking sensitivity according to Item 1.

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BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The action of alloying elements in the alloy of the present invention will be described below. Sn contributes to the improvement of mechanical properties by forming a solid solution in Cu. Its content is 2-9wt%
The reason for limiting the above is that if the amount is less than 2 wt%, the effect cannot be sufficiently obtained, and if it exceeds 9 wt%, the effect of improving the mechanical properties is saturated and the workability is deteriorated. P plays an important role in deoxidizing the molten metal and improving the quality of the ingot. The reason for limiting the amount to 0.01 to 0.35 wt% is that the effect is not sufficiently obtained if it is less than 0.01 wt%, and if it exceeds 0.35 wt%, the low melting point intermetallic compound (Cu ₃ P) is generated in the grain boundaries. This is because the strength of the crystal grain boundaries is reduced due to the formation. In the present invention,
The amount of impurities in Bi, Sb, and Cd is [Bi + (Cd / 9) + (Sb / 2
3) ≦ 0.0011wt%] (Bi is wt% of Bi, Cd is wt% of Cd, Sb is S
The reason for limiting so that the expression (wt% of b) is satisfied is Bi,
This is because if Sb and Cd do not satisfy the above formula, the ingot undergoes stress embrittlement in the annealing step and cracks. Sb and Cd
Like Bi, it also increases the surface cracking susceptibility of phosphor bronze, but its effect is not as great as Bi.

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The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to examples. Phosphor bronze having various compositions shown in Table 1 was melted and cast by a horizontal continuous casting method to cast 5 tons of thin plate ingots each having a width of 650 mm and a thickness of 15 mm. The produced ingot was wound into a coil and subjected to homogenizing heat treatment at 700 ° C. The brittle temperature range of the phosphor bronze ingot (300 to 600
(° C) was 1 hour. The maximum stress applied to the surface of the winding coil was 11 kgf / mm ² . The alloy of the present invention was produced by selecting Cu and Sn ingots having a relatively high purity. From the inside of each obtained coil, length 3m (about 2m
The ingot of ² ) was sampled and the depth of cracks on the surface of the ingot was measured. The maximum depth of cracking was measured on both sides of the ingot, the maximum depth of each surface was added, and this was divided by the plate thickness to obtain the "crack / plate thickness ratio". The results are shown in Table 1.

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[Table 1] (Note) * X = Bi + (Cd / 9) + (Sb / 23)

As is apparent from Table 1, No. 1 of the present invention example
For ~ 8, the "crack / plate thickness ratio" is reduced to 30% or less. On the other hand, in Comparative Examples Nos. 9 and 10, the "cracking / thickness ratio" is large at about 50%. This is because the amount of impurities of Bi, Cd, and Sb, which increase the sensitivity to surface cracking, is large, and the value of X exceeds 0.0011 wt% which is the limit value of the present invention.

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As described above, in the phosphor bronze alloy of the present invention, the impurities of Bi, Cd, and Sb for enhancing the surface cracking susceptibility are limited to a predetermined amount or less, so that the depth of annealing cracking becomes shallow, Therefore, the amount of chamfering can be reduced and the manufacturing yield is improved.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. Sn in 2 to 9 wt% and P in 0.01 to 0.35 wt%
Phosphor bronze containing Bi, Cd, and Sb satisfying the following formula and having a low surface cracking susceptibility, which comprises the balance copper and unavoidable impurities. Bi + (Cd / 9) + (Sb / 23) ≦ 0.0011 wt
% (However, Bi is wt% of Bi, Cd is wt% of Cd, Sb is S
b wt%) 2. The surface crack according to claim 1, wherein the phosphor bronze according to claim 1 is cast into a thin plate ingot by a horizontal continuous casting method, and the thin plate ingot is repeatedly subjected to cold working and annealing. A method for producing phosphor bronze with low sensitivity.