US3380898A - Electrolyte and method for electrodepositing a pink gold alloy - Google Patents

Electrolyte and method for electrodepositing a pink gold alloy Download PDF

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US3380898A
US3380898A US465201A US46520165A US3380898A US 3380898 A US3380898 A US 3380898A US 465201 A US465201 A US 465201A US 46520165 A US46520165 A US 46520165A US 3380898 A US3380898 A US 3380898A
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    • C25ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
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    • C25D3/62Electroplating: Baths therefor from solutions of alloys containing more than 50% by weight of gold
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  • This invention relates to an electroplating process and bath for the production of pink gold deposits consisting essentially of a copper-gold-antimony alloy.
  • Acid gold piating baths for the deposition of gold operating at a pH of between 3 and 5 or 6.5 are known. It is also known that bright, hard gold deposits obtained when base metal ions capable of codepositing with the gold are added to such baths. See, for example, US. 2,905,601.
  • One of the most difiicult colors to obtain by the acid gold plating process is a bright gold deposit with a pink coloration. This is difiicult because copper is the main metal ion producing pink coloration and with copper ions the bath is sensitive to changes in concentration, etc., so that uniformly-reproducible, copper-gold alloy deposits can be obtained only by careful regulation of the bath components and of the conditions of operation. Also, after a time, a slight haze develops in deposits obtained from such baths, the haze becoming more irnportant as the bath or solution ages.
  • the copper complex is a copper salt of any suitable chelating or complexing agent having a negative logarithm of stability constant for copper of about 17 or less.
  • suitable chelating or complexing agent include ethylenediamine tetracetic acid (EDTA), diethylenetriamino pentaacetic acid, N-hydroxyethylethylenediarnine triacetic acids or the sodium or other alkali metal salts thereof.
  • EDTA ethylenediamine tetracetic acid
  • diethylenetriamino pentaacetic acid diethylenetriamino pentaacetic acid
  • N-hydroxyethylethylenediarnine triacetic acids or the sodium or other alkali metal salts thereof.
  • the excess chelating agent is the same type of compound.
  • Specular bright deposits are obtained from such baths at thicknesses of 25 microns and over so that the gold layer is thick enough to provide corrosion resistance as well as the pink decoration.
  • the weak acid is one, as defined in the literature, which has a pK value of over about 3 and such weak acids include the organic acids and phosphoric acid.
  • the acid employed .is polybasic the partially 3,380,898 Patented Apr. 30, 1968 neutralized acid salts or mixtures thereof may be employed in place of the acid and salt.
  • KH PO or corresponding salt of sodium, lithium or ammonium may be employed in the above bath as the weak acid and salt.
  • the mono-potassium salt of citric acid may be employed as the acid and salt combination.
  • the antimony as the tartrate
  • it can also be added as other salts which are soluble in the bath.
  • the antimony is also essential for the production of pink coloration and specular effects with the acid gold baths disclosed herein.
  • the alloy deposits obtained from baths as described above consists essentially of to gold, 14 to 24% copper and 0.5 to 1.5% antimony.
  • the alloy has a Knoop hardness of about 230-280 kg./mm. with a 25 g. load.
  • the present invention is based on the discovery that minute additions of lead to such baths decrease a tendency which such baths have to form haze when the agitation and current density are not controlled properly.
  • the bath contains the ingredients sets forth above and in addition the following:
  • Lead (added as soluble lead salt as lead acetate) 15-200 mg./l. preferably 15 mg./l.
  • the exact mechanism of this phenomenon is not understood, but in view of the small amounts needed, the effect would appear to be difiusion-controlled. It is preferred to add the lead as the acetate, a common water soluble lead salt, but any lead compound soluble in the bath, such as lead ethylenediamine-tetra-acetate, may be used.
  • the lead content was increased to 200 mg./l., the only eifect being an increase in brightness and levelling action.
  • An aqueous bath for plating hard, specularly bright copper-gold alloy consisting essentially of the following:
  • An aqueous bath for plating hard, specularly bright copper-gold alloy consisting essentially of the following:
  • Gold (added as potassium gold cyanide) g./l about 4 Copper salt of NagEDTA (calc. as Cu) g./l about 5 Antimony tartrate '(calc. as Sb) g./l about 1.5 Lead (added as lead acetate) mg./l about 15 Na EDTA g./l about 20 KH PO g./l about Adjusted to pH of 5.3.

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CH391268A CH476116A (fr) 1968-03-15 1968-03-15 Procédé pour le dépôt électrolytique d'alliages d'or er de cuivre, brillants et durs, de couleur rose, bain aqueux pour la mise en oeuvre de ce procédé, et article obtenu par la mise en oeuvre de ce procédé
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US3833487A (en) * 1972-12-22 1974-09-03 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Electrolytic soft gold plating
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US3873428A (en) * 1974-02-19 1975-03-25 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Preferential gold electroplating
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US3460953A (en) * 1966-05-27 1969-08-12 Pennsalt Chemicals Corp Process for depositing brasslike coatings and composition therefor
US3833488A (en) * 1971-08-20 1974-09-03 Auric Corp Gold electroplating baths and process
US3770596A (en) * 1972-07-21 1973-11-06 Auric Corp Gold plating bath for barrel plating operations
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US3833487A (en) * 1972-12-22 1974-09-03 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Electrolytic soft gold plating
US3873428A (en) * 1974-02-19 1975-03-25 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Preferential gold electroplating
US4547436A (en) * 1982-11-19 1985-10-15 E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company Conductive element metallized with a thick film gold composition
US4717459A (en) * 1985-05-30 1988-01-05 Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. Electrolytic gold plating solution
US4670107A (en) * 1986-03-05 1987-06-02 Vanguard Research Associates, Inc. Electrolyte solution and process for high speed gold plating
US20060283714A1 (en) * 2005-06-02 2006-12-21 Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials Llc Gold alloy electrolytes
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