Showa Aluminum Corporation

Showa Aluminum Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Showa Denko K.k.

Kdk Corporation

Ichizo Tsukuda

Tadayoshi Hayashi

Ichiro Iwai

Shunta Ushioda

Tsuyoshi Kawabe

Ryotatsu Otsuka

Eizo Isoyama

Koichiro Fukui

Tadao Fujihira

Makoto Tanio

Toshihiro Takeuchi

Noboru Ohneda

Minobu Sukimoto

Nobuaki Yamamoto

Ryosuke Shimao

Shigeru Endo

Tomoaki Yamanoi

Kenji Higashi

Kyohei Taguchi

Tadakazu Ohnishi

Masao Yokoyama

Masakazu Furukawa

Takashi Atsumi

Kazuo Kimura

Hidenori Uchi

An Al&mdash;Mg&mdash;Si series alloy ingot consisting essentially of Si:0.2-0.8 wt %, Mg:0.3-0.9 wt %, Fe:0.35 wt % or less, Cu:0.20 wt % or less and the balance of aluminum and inevitable impurities is prepared. The alloy ingot is homogenized, then subjected to rough hot rolling and finish hot rolling, and finally to cold rolling. One of the rough hot rolling is controlled such that material temperature immediately before one of the rough hot rolling is from 350 to 440&deg; C., cooling rate between one of the rough hot rolling and rough hot rolling subsequent thereto is 50&deg; C./min or more, material temperature immediately after one of the rough hot rolling is from 250 to 340&deg; C. and plate thickness immediately after one of the rough hot rolling is 10 mm or less. The cold rolling is controlled such that rolling reduction is 30% or more.

Method of manufacturing Al-Mg-Si series alloy plate excellent in thermal conductivity and intensity

Method of manufacturing a heat sink made of aluminum

Personal computer keyboard

An aluminum electrode foil for an electrolytic capacitor has a sponge-like etching layer formed on at least one of the surfaces thereof, and the sponge-like etching layer is reduced in a direction of thickness. The aluminum density of the reduced sponge-like etching layer `d2` is set from 0.8 to 2.2 g/cm.sup.3.

Aluminum electrode foil for electrolytic capacitor and electrolytic

A raw aluminum foil for use to prepare electrolytic condenser electrodes has an aluminum purity of 99.9% or higher and contains 50-500 ppm of Mg. A method of etching the raw foil to prepare the electrodes consists of a primary etching step and a secondary etching step, and the primary etching is conducted in an aqueous bath containing 3-10% by weight of HCl and 10-40% by weight of H.sub.2 SO.sub.4, at 70.degree.-90.degree. C. and with a current density of 10-40 A/dm.sup.2. The secondary etching is conducted electrolytically or chemically in a further bath containing 3-10% by weight of HCl, with or without 1% or less of H.sub.2 C.sub.2 O.sub.4 added to the further bath, at a bath temperature of 70.degree.-95.degree. C. and with a current density of 0-10 A/dm.sup.2.

Electrolytic condenser electrode and aluminum foil therefor

An aluminum alloy for heat exchangers, the alloy, comprising a base compostion selected from a group consisting of Al-Mg-Si composition containing 0.1 to 0.8 wt % of Mg, 0.2 to 1.0 wt % of Si and 0.3 to 1.5 wt % of Mn; pure-Al composition; Al-Mg composition containing 0.05 to 1.0 wt % of Mg; and a Al-Zn composition containing 0.05 to 2.0 wt % of Zn. The alloy further comprises 0.01 to 0.3 wt % of Fe and/or 0.01 to 0.3 wt % of Ni, wherein the balance are aluminum of purity of 99.9% or higher and unavoidable impurities contained therein, and content of Cu as one of the impurities is controlled to be 0.05 wt % or less.

Aluminum alloy for heat exchangers

A corrosion-resistant clad material is made of aluminum alloys, and in a preferable mode, comprises: a core which is either formed of an Al-Mn alloy containing 0.5-1.5% by weight of Mn; or alternatively formed of an Al-Mg-Si alloy containing 0.05-1.0% by weight of Mg and 0.05-0.3% by weight of Si. The Al-Mn alloy and Al-Mg-Si alloy further contain, as additional components, 0.05-0.3% by weight of Ti and/or 0.05-0.4% by weight of Zr. The clad material further comprises a skin layer which is formed of an Al-Zn alloy clad onto at least one surface of the core. In another preferable mode, the clad material comprises: a core formed of an Al-Mn alloy containing 0.5-1.5% by weight of Mn; and a skin layer clad onto at least one surface of the core and formed of an aluminum alloy containing 1.3-5.0% by weight of Zn, with or without 0.2-1.0% by weight of Mg, and a balance of aluminum and unavoidable impurities. Cu content as one of the impurities is controlled to 0.05% by weight or less, with the skin layer having a thickness of 30 .mu.m or less.

Corrosion-resistant clad material made of aluminum alloys

A heat exchanger comprises tubular elements and fin members. The tubular elements are made of an aluminum alloy containing 0.05 to 1.0 wt % of Mg, 0.2 to 1.2 wt % of Si, 0.2 to 1.5 wt % of Mn, 0.01 to 0.5 wt % of Fe, as necessary components, and further containing at least one of 0.05 to 0.3 wt % of Cr and 0.01 to 0.05 wt % of Ti, as optional auxiliary components, and 0.05 or less wt % of Cu as a controlled impurity, the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities. The fin members are made of another aluminum alloy containing 0.05 to 1.0 wt % of Mg, 0.2 to 1.2 wt % of Si, 0.2 to 1.5 wt % of Mn, 0.01 to 0.5 wt % of Fe, and further containing at least one of 0.01 to 0.1 wt % of In and 0.1 to 2.0 wt % of Zn as necessary components, and still further containing at least one or of 0.05 to 0.3 wt % of Cr and 0.01 to 0.05 wt % of Ti as optional auxiliary components, and 0.05 wt % or less of Cu as a controlled impurity, the balance being aluminum and unavoidable impurities.

Heat exchanger

A process for producing a chassis for vehicles, which includes the steps of fabricating a single frame element of aluminum alloy, the frame element having an upper beam, a lower beam and a web portion connecting between the two beams, removing some of the web portion to a desired length, pulling the upper beam and lower beam of the web vacant portion in opposite directions so that the web vacant portion becomes an expanded opening, bending the frame element in accordance with the size and shape of the body of a vehicle to be placed on the chassis, and welding the terminating ends of the frame element to form an endless frame.

Process for producing a chassis for vehicles

A photosensitive drum adapted for use in electronic copying machines and laser beam printers, the drum made of aluminum-based alloy and supporting a photosensitive recepter thereon, the aluminum-based alloy having a composition consisting essentially of 0.5 to 8.0% of Ni, and preferably, one or more additives selected from a group of 0.05 to 1.5% of Mn, 0.05 to 1.0% of Cr, 0.05 to 0.5% of Zr, 0.5% or less of Ti, 0.1% or less of B, 0.05 to 7.0% of Cu, 0.05 to 7.0% of Mg, 0.05 to 8.0% of Zn, 0.05 to 12.0% of Si, and 0.05 to 2.0% of Fe, and the balance being substantially aluminum.

Photosensitive drums

An aluminum alloy having excellent properties including extrusibility, forgeability and malleability, the alloy containing 4.0 to 12% of zinc, 0.3 to 5.0% of magnesium, and one or more elements selected from the rare earth elements, wherein the content of the selected element is in the range of 0.5 to 10.0%, and the balance being substantially aluminum and unavoidable impurities.

Aluminum alloys having high strength and resistance to stress and

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