Aleris Rolled Products Germany Gmbh

Novelis Koblenz Gmbh

Aleris Aluminium Gmbh

Steven Kirkham

Bernd Jacoby

Adrianus Jacobus Wittebrood

Klaus Vieregge

Achim Bürger

Arne Schlegel

Fabian Ritz

Axel Alexander Maria Smeyers

Henricus Matheus Van Der Donk

Lawrence Stevenson Kramer

Achim Burger

Achim BÜRGER

Andrianus Jacobus Wittebrood

David Ian Warby

Florian Landgraf

Axel Alexander Smeyers

An aluminium alloy multi-layered brazing sheet product for brazing in an inert-gas atmosphere without a flux includes a core layer made of a 3xxx alloy including 0.20-0.75 wt. % Mg, and provided with a covering clad layer including 2-5 wt. % Si on one or both sides of said 3xxx alloy core layer and a Al—Si brazing clad layer including 7-13 wt. % Si positioned between the 3xxx alloy core layer and the covering clad layer. The covering clad layer has a thickness Xand the Al—Si brazing clad layer has a thickness Xand wherein X≥2X. The aluminium alloy multi-layered brazing sheet product can be used in a fluxfree controlled atmosphere brazing (CAB) operation to produce a heat exchanger apparatus.

Aluminum alloy multi-layered brazing sheet material for fluxfree brazing

A multi-layered brazing sheet product having an aluminium core alloy layer provided on one or both sides with a brazing clad layer material, and an inter-layer material positioned between the aluminium core alloy layer and at least one of the brazing clad layer materials, wherein the brazing layer material(s) is made from an 4xxx-series aluminium alloy having 5% to 15% Si and up to 3% Mg, and wherein the inter-layer material is made from a 1xxx-series aluminium alloy having a purposive addition of Mg of 0.10% to 2.0%. The invention relates also to the use of the brazing sheet product in a fluxless controlled atmosphere brazing process.

Aluminium multi-layered brazing sheet product and fluxless brazing method

Brazing sheet material having an aluminium core alloy layer, a first brazing clad layer on one face of the core layer and an inter-layer between the core layer and the first clad layer material. The core layer of aluminium alloy including, up to 0.6% Si, up to 0.45% Fe, 0.6% to 1.25% Cu, 0.6% to 1.4% Mn, 0.08% to 0.4% Mg, up to 0.2% Cr, up to 0.25% Zr, up to 0.25% Ti, up to 0.3% Zn, balance aluminium. The first clad layer is made from 4xxx-series aluminium alloy having 6% to 14% Si and up to 2% Mg, balance aluminium. The inter-layer is made from 3xxx-series aluminium alloy including, up to 0.4% Si, up to 0.5% Fe, up to 0.8% Cu, 0.4% to 1.1% Mn, up to 0.04% Mg, up to 0.2% Cr, up to 0.25% Zr, up to 0.25% Ti, up to 0.3% Zn, balance aluminium.

Multi-layered aluminium brazing sheet material

A multi-layered brazing sheet material including an aluminum core alloy layer, a brazing clad layer material on one face of the core layer, an inter-layer between the core layer and brazing clad layer material, and a water-side layer on the other face of the core layer. The core layer made from aluminum alloy having, in wt. %, up to 0.6% Si, up to 0.45% Fe, 0.6% to 1.25% Cu, 0.6% to 1.4% Mn, 0.08% to 0.4% Mg, up to 0.2% Cr, up to 0.25% Zr, up to 0.2% Ti, up to 0.3% Zn, balance aluminum and impurities. The brazing layer made from aluminum alloy having 6% to 14% Si and up to 2% Mg, balance aluminum and impurities. The inter-layer made from 1xxx-series aluminum alloy. The water-side layer made from 3xxx-series aluminum alloy having 0.5% to 1.8% Mn and 1% to 3.5% Zn.

Multilayered brazing sheet including aluminium core alloy layer of 3xxx-series aluminium alloy having, in wt. %, up to 0.4% Si, up to 0.5% Fe, 0.4% to 0.75% Cu, 0.6% to 1.1% Mn, up to 0.07% Mg, up to 0.2% Cr, up to 0.25% Zr, up to 0.2% Ti, up to 0.15% Zn, balance aluminium and impurities, first and second brazing clad layers on opposed faces of core layer, and an inter-layer on either or both sides of core layer between the core layer and first or second brazing clad layer. The first and second brazing layers are 4xxx-series aluminium alloy. The inter-layer(s) is 3xxx-series aluminium alloy, having, in wt. %, up to 0.6% Si, 0.2% to 0.7% Fe, up to 0.2% Cu, 1.0% to 1.6% Mn, up to 0.25% Zn, up to 0.04% Mg, up to 0.2% Cr, up to 0.2% Zr, up to 0.07% Ti, balance aluminium and impurities.

Multilayered brazing sheet material including an aluminum core alloy layer having a first brazing clad layer material on one face of the core layer and a second brazing clad layer material on the other face of the core material, and an inter-layer between the core layer and the first brazing clad layer material, wherein the core layer is 3xxx-series aluminum alloy having, in wt. %, up to 0.4% Si, up to 0.5% Fe, 0.4% to 0.75% Cu, 0.6% to 1.1% Mn, up to 0.04% Mg, up to 0.2% Cr, up to 0.25% Zr, up to 0.2% Ti, up to 0.15% Zn, balance aluminum and impurities, wherein the first brazing layer and the second brazing layer are 4xxx-series aluminum alloy having 7% to 14% Si and up to 2% Mg, balance aluminum and impurities, and wherein the inter-layer is aluminum alloy of the 1xxx-series alloys.

An aluminum alloy sheet product or extruded product for fluxless brazing, including an aluminum alloy core having on at least one face an aluminum filler clad layer containing 4% to 15% of Si, the filler clad layer having an inner-surface and an outer-surface, the inner-surface is facing the aluminum alloy core and the outer-surface is facing a coating layer of 2 to 45 mg/sq&#xb7;m of Bi or of a Bi-based alloy. Furthermore, a method of brazing a brazed assembly incorporating at least one member made from the brazing sheet material.

Aluminium alloy sheet product or extruded product for fluxless brazing

A fin stock material from an 3xxx-series aluminum alloy and including at least 0.5% to 2.0% Mn, and furthermore a purposive addition of one or more wetting elements selected from the group of: Bi 0.03% to 0.5%, Pb 0.03% to 0.5%, Sb 0.03% to 0.5%, Li 0.03% to 0.5%, Se 0.03% to 0.5%, Y 0.03% to 0.05%, Th 0.03% to 0.05%, and the sum of these elements being 0.5% or less, with the remainder including aluminum and tolerable impurities. Also provided is a method for manufacturing a heat exchanger assembly incorporating such a fin stock material.

Fin stock material

An aluminum alloy extruded tube product for a heat exchanger assembly and made from an 1xxx-series aluminum alloys and including furthermore a purposive addition of one or more wetting elements selected from the group of: Bi 0.03% to 0.5%, Pb 0.03% to 0.5%, Sb 0.03% to 0.5%, Li 0.03% to 0.5%, Se 0.03% to 0.5%, Y 0.03% to 0.05%, Th 0.03% to 0.05%, and the sum of these elements being 0.5% or less.

Extruded 1XXX-series aluminium alloy tube product

An aluminum alloy extruded tube product for a heat exchanger assembly and made from a 3xxx-series aluminum alloys and including furthermore a purposive addition of one or more wetting elements selected from the group of: Bi 0.03% to 0.5%, Pb 0.03% to 0.5%, Sb 0.03% to 0.5%, Li 0.03% to 0.5%, Se 0.03% to 0.5%, Y 0.03% to 0.05%, Th 0.03% to 0.05%, and the sum of these elements being 0.5% or less.

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