US3663384A - Bath for electroplating tin-bismuth alloy - Google Patents

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US3663384A
US3663384A US79272A US3663384DA US3663384A US 3663384 A US3663384 A US 3663384A US 79272 A US79272 A US 79272A US 3663384D A US3663384D A US 3663384DA US 3663384 A US3663384 A US 3663384A
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  • ABSTRACT Bath for electroplating tin-bismuth alloy upon a metal object such as a frame of a computer, including fluoboric acid in order to maintain the pH acid, tin fluoborate and a bismuth oxide-bismuth sulphate mixture of low quantity.
  • the utilized method is of the soluble anode type and the cathode is formed of the object to be coated.
  • tin coatings have a drawback. Indeed, at temperatures near the room temperature, a temperature lower than 13 0, tin is submitted to an allotropic transformation: the deposited white tin is changed into a grey tin. This phenomenon is known as tin pest. This tin pest appears as a non-adherent powder which separates from the deposit, thereby exposing the underlying metal to corrosion.
  • the prior art has disclosed an electroplating method and bath for electroplating bismuth-tin-alloy.
  • the bath is basic and, therefore, bismuth must be introduced in the form of organic bismuthates which are not much soluble.
  • the operating temperature is near 90 C. This method is difficult as to its implementation and is relatively expensive and does not make it possible to obtain a sufficient bismuth concentration.
  • one object of this invention is to obtain an acid bath for electroplating tin-bismuth alloy.
  • Another object of the invention is the implementation of a tin-bismuth electroplating method with which it is possible to obtain a constant bismuth concentration in the tin.
  • Another object of the invention is the implementation of a method with which it is possible to obtain a uniform coating of the tin-bismuth alloy upon another metal and this in a simple and cheap manner.
  • the object to be coated is immersed into the bath where it acts as a cathode.
  • a tin anode is used which is wrapped in a polypropylene bag the texture of which is very close in order to prevent the non ionized metal particles from moving which are pulled out of the anode during dissolution of the anode used to regenerate the tin-contents in the bath.
  • the proportion of tin contained in the bath is within 2080 g. of metal tin per liter which is introduced in the form of tin salt, namely, tin fluoborate.
  • the concentration of the bismuth ions in the bath which is within 0.0l and 0.05 g. of bismuth per liter, is obtained in the bath by introducing therein from 0.1 to 0.5 g.
  • the bath contains also about lg. of formol per liter in order to avoid the anodic oxidation of the stannous ions (Sn* into stannic ions $11 Besides, this bath may include gelatine the proportions of which are 2 to 7 g. per liter and B-naphtol the proportions of which are 0.5 to 1.5 g. per liter in order to improve the quality of the deposit.
  • the bath may also contain brighteners in appropriate proportions.
  • the so-formed bath has an acid pI-l and its acidity corresponds to the acidity of a solution containing 100 g./liter of sulphuric acid.
  • the density is about 13 B.
  • the electroplating process is carried out at a temperature within 20-50 C.
  • the voltage is between 1 and 3 volts and the current density is between 0.8 and 3A/dm
  • the obtained deposit ratio is 0.5 M/mlllllte.
  • the anode-cathode surface ratio may be between 1 and 1.5.
  • tin fluoborate 30g/liter of metal tin fluoboric acid 130g/liter boric-acid 30g/liter mixture: bismuth sulphate 30% by weight bismuth oxide 70% by weight 0.3g/liter formol lg/liter equivalent acid H IOOg/liter The tests have been made at 25 C. and are gathered in the following table.
  • the preferred percentage of bismuth in tin is 0.4 percent.
  • An aqueous bath for electroplating tin-bismuth alloy characterized in that it includes acid ions in order to maintain pH acid, and characterized in that the bismuth is inserted in the form of a bismuth sulphate-bismuth oxide mixture, the concentration of which relative to the entire bath is between 0.1 and 0.5 grams per liter and in which the relative proportion of bismuth sulphate to bismuth oxide is in the range between 15/85 and 1.
  • tin fluoborate equivalent to 30g/liter of metal tin i oxide is in the range between 15/85 and l. I I 8/ of fluqbfllrif acid 4.
  • a tin plating bath according to claim 3 wherein said a bismuth mixture comprises bismuth sulphate and bismuth sulphatemismuth t fggzg the oxide in relative weight proportions of approximately 30 to 70 es tive on s b hts f wh' h 5 Pei-cam lrc 5%-75Z y s.
  • a tin plating bath according to claim 4 including approxi- 5.
  • lgll 0 f l mately 1 gram per liter of formal as additive to inhibit anodic oxidation of the stannous ions.

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US4331518A (en) * 1981-01-09 1982-05-25 Vulcan Materials Company Bismuth composition, method of electroplating a tin-bismuth alloy and electroplating bath therefor
US5094726A (en) * 1981-09-11 1992-03-10 Learonal, Inc. Limiting tin sludge formation in tin or tin-lead electroplating solutions
US5066367A (en) * 1981-09-11 1991-11-19 Learonal Inc. Limiting tin sludge formation in tin or tin/lead electroplating solutions
US4599149A (en) * 1981-09-11 1986-07-08 Learonal, Inc. Process for electroplating tin, lead and tin-lead alloys and baths therefor
US4871429A (en) * 1981-09-11 1989-10-03 Learonal, Inc Limiting tin sludge formation in tin or tin/lead electroplating solutions
US4701244A (en) * 1983-12-22 1987-10-20 Learonal, Inc. Bath and process for electroplating tin, lead and tin/alloys
US4717460A (en) * 1983-12-22 1988-01-05 Learonal, Inc. Tin lead electroplating solutions
US4617097A (en) * 1983-12-22 1986-10-14 Learonal, Inc. Process and electrolyte for electroplating tin, lead or tin-lead alloys
US4565609A (en) * 1983-12-22 1986-01-21 Learonal, Inc. Bath and process for plating tin, lead and tin-lead alloys
US4565610A (en) * 1983-12-22 1986-01-21 Learonal, Inc. Bath and process for plating lead and lead/tin alloys
US4749626A (en) * 1985-08-05 1988-06-07 Olin Corporation Whisker resistant tin coatings and baths and methods for making such coatings
WO1990004048A1 (en) * 1988-10-14 1990-04-19 Atochem North America, Inc. A method, bath and cell for the electrodeposition of tin-bismuth alloys
US5039576A (en) * 1989-05-22 1991-08-13 Atochem North America, Inc. Electrodeposited eutectic tin-bismuth alloy on a conductive substrate
US5393573A (en) * 1991-07-16 1995-02-28 Microelectronics And Computer Technology Corporation Method of inhibiting tin whisker growth
US5450784A (en) * 1993-09-28 1995-09-19 Detroit Diesel Corporation Electroplated piston skirt for improved scuff resistance
US5391402A (en) * 1993-12-03 1995-02-21 Motorola Immersion plating of tin-bismuth solder
US5435838A (en) * 1993-12-03 1995-07-25 Motorola, Inc. Immersion plating of tin-bismuth solder
WO2003021008A1 (fr) * 2000-02-29 2003-03-13 Learonal Japan Inc. Solution galvanoplastique d'etain et procede de galvanoplastie
US20090145765A1 (en) * 2007-12-11 2009-06-11 Enthone Inc. Composite coatings for whisker reduction
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