Mitsubishi Aluminum Company, Ltd.

Denso Corporation

Ma Aluminum Corporation

Shohei Iwao

Michihide Yoshino

Masakazu Edo

Hideyuki Miyake

Yoshiki Mori

Hayaki Teramoto

Naoki Sugimoto

Taketoshi Toyama

Shogo Yamada

Nobuhiro Honma

Michiyasu Yamamoto

Shoei Teshima

Manabu Hasegawa

Shigeki Nakanishi

Sho Ishigami

Shun Maruno

An aluminum brazing sheet has a multilayer structure of two or more layers of at least a core material and a brazing material, wherein an Al—Si—Mg—Bi-based brazing material containing, by mass %, 0.01% to 2.0% of Mg, 1.5% to 14.0% of Si, and 0.005% to 1.5% of Bi is clad on one surface or both surfaces of the core material to be located at an outermost surface of the aluminum brazing sheet, in the Al—Si—Mg—Bi based brazing material, there are more than 10 Mg—Bi-based compounds having a diameter of 0.01 μm or more and less than 5.0 μm when observed in a surface layer plane direction and there are less than 2 Mg—Bi-based compounds having a diameter of 5.0 μm or more, and in the brazing material, there are less than 5 Bi particles having a diameter of 5.0 μm or more when observed in the surface layer plane direction.

Aluminum brazing sheet for flux-free brazing

An aluminum alloy for flux-free brazing provided for brazing performed via an Al&#x2014;Si-based brazing material without a flux in a non-oxidizing atmosphere without depressurization, includes: by mass %, 0.01% to 2.0% of Mg; and 0.005% to 1.5% of Bi, wherein in the aluminum alloy, there are more than 10 Mg&#x2014;Bi-based compounds having a diameter of 0.01 &#x3bc;m or more and less than 5.0 &#x3bc;m in terms of equivalent circle diameter per 10,000-&#x3bc;mvisual field and there are less than 2 Mg&#x2014;Bi-based compounds having a diameter of 5.0 &#x3bc;m or more per 10,000-&#x3bc;mvisual field in a cross section parallel to a rolling direction, and in the aluminum alloy, there are less than 5 Bi particles having a diameter of 5.0 &#x3bc;m or more in terms of equivalent circle diameter per 10,000-&#x3bc;mvisual field in the cross section parallel to the rolling direction.

Aluminum alloy for brazing and aluminum brazing sheet

An aluminum alloy brazing sheet may include a sacrificial material having a function of a brazing material on at least one surface of a core material, wherein the sacrificial material has a composition containing: in a mass %, 2% to 5% of Si; 3% to 5% of Zn; and an Al balance with inevitable impurities the core material is made of an Al&#x2014;Mn-based alloy, an in the core material before brazing, Al&#x2014;Mn based secondary particles having an equivalent circle diameter of 100 to 400 nm are distributed with a number density of 0.3 to 5 particles/&#x3bc;m.

Aluminum alloy brazing sheet

A sacrificial material on one surface of a core material, a Al brazing material containing Si: 6.0% to 14.0%, Mg: 0.05% to 1.5%, Bi: 0.05% to 0.25%, Sr: 0.0001% to 0.1%, and Al balance and satisfying (Bi+Mg)&#xd7;Sr&#x2264;0.1 is disposed on the other surface, Mg&#x2014;Bi-based compounds of the brazing material with a diameter of 0.1-5.0 &#x3bc;m are more than 20 per 10,000-&#x3bc;mand the Mg&#x2014;Bi-based compounds with a diameter of 5.0 &#x3bc;m or more are less than 2 before brazing, the core material contains Mn: 1.0% to 1.7%, Si: 0.2% to 1.0%, Fe: 0.1% to 0.5%, Cu: 0.08% to 1.0%, Mg: 0.1% to 0.7%, and Al balance, the sacrificial material contains Zn: 0.5% to 6.0% and Mg of which a content is limited to 0.1% or less, and a Mg concentration on a surface of the sacrificial material after brazing is 0.15% or less.

Aluminum alloy clad material

An aluminum alloy clad material includes: a sacrificial material on one surface of a core material; and an Al&#x2014;Si&#x2014;Mg&#x2014;Bi-based brazing material disposed on other surface of the core material, contains, by mass %, Si: 6.0% to 14.0%, Mg: 0.05% to 1.5%, Bi: 0.05% to 0.25%, Sr: 0.0001% to 0.1%, and a balance consisting of Al and inevitable impurities, and satisfies a relationship of (Bi+Mg)&#xd7;Sr&#x2264;0.1 by mass %, in which Mg&#x2014;Bi-based compounds contained in the Al&#x2014;Si&#x2014;Mg&#x2014;Bi-based brazing material with a diameter of 0.1 &#x3bc;m or more and less than 5.0 &#x3bc;m are more than 20 in number per 10,000-&#x3bc;mand the Mg&#x2014;Bi-based compounds with a diameter of 5.0 &#x3bc;m or more are less than 2 in number, and the core material contains Mn: 0.9% to 1.7%, Si: 0.2% to 1.0%, Fe: 0.1% to 0.5%, Cu: 0.08% to 1.0%, and a balance consisting of Al and inevitable impurities.

An Al&#x2014;Si&#x2014;Mg&#x2014;Bi-based brazing material containing Si: 6.0% to 14.0%, Fe: 0.05% to 0.3%, Mg: 0.02% to 1.5%, Bi: 0.05% to 0.25%, Sr: 0.0001% to 0.1%, and a balance of Al and inevitable impurities, and satisfies (Bi+Mg)&#xd7;Sr&#x2264;0.1, is disposed on both surfaces of a core material, Mg&#x2014;Bi-based compounds of the brazing material with a diameter of 0.1 &#x3bc;m or more and less than 5.0 &#x3bc;m in terms of equivalent circle diameter are more than 20 in number in 10,000 &#x3bc;mand the Mg&#x2014;Bi-based compounds with diameter of 5.0 &#x3bc;m or more are less than 2 in number in 10,000 &#x3bc;m, the core material contains Mn: 0.8% to 1.8%, Si: 0.01% to 1.0%, Fe: 0.1% to 0.5%, and a balance of Al and inevitable impurities, and a cathode current density of a brazing material layer after a brazing heat treatment is 0.1 mA/cmor less.

An aluminum alloy fin material for a heat exchanger in the present invention comprises an aluminum alloy having a composition containing Mn: 1.2 to 2.0%, Cu: 0.05 to 0.20%, Si: 0.5 to 1.30%, Fe: 0.05 to 0.5%, and Zn: 1.0 to 3.0% by mass and a remainder comprising Al and an unavoidable impurity, further containing one or two or more of Ti: 0.01 to 0.20%, Cr: 0.01 to 0.20% and Mg: 0.01 to 0.20% by mass as desired, and, after heating in brazing, has a tensile strength of 140 MPa or more, a proof stress of 50 MPa or more, an electrical conductivity of 42% IACS or more, an average grain diameter of 150 &#x3bc;m or more and less than 700 &#x3bc;m, and a potential of &#x2212;800 mV or more and &#x2212;720 mV or less.

Aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchanger excellent in strength, electrical conductivity, and brazeability, method for manufacturing aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchanger, and heat exchanger comprising aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchanger

The present invention relates to an aluminum alloy brazing sheet with a thickness of 0.30 nm or less, including: a core material; a sacrificial material cladding one surface of the core material; and a brazing material cladding the other surface of the core material, in which the core material is made of A1&#x2014;Mn&#x2014;Si-based aluminum alloy containing by mass %, Cu: 0.5 to 1.3%, the sacrificial material is made of aluminum alloy containing, by mass %, Zn: 4.0 to 7.0%, the brazing material is made of aluminum alloy containing, by mass %, Si: 6.0 to 11.0% and Zn: 0.1 to 3.0%, in a pitting potential after brazing beat treatment, a thickness of a region in which a potential difference from the noblest potential in the core material is 100 mV or more is 10% to 50% of the thickness of the brazing sheet.

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