Degussa Aktiengesellschaft

Wolfgang Bohm

Roger Wolmer

Andreas Szulczyk

Willi Malikowski

Malikowski, Willi

There is described an electrical contact piece made of a silver-metal oxide material as contact coating, a carrier made of copper, or iron and an intermediate layer which furnishes a high adhesive strength of the contact coating to the contact carrier even at a high number of switchings. The intermediate layer consist essentially of a silver alloy having 2 to 12 weight % of tin, indium, and/or germanium.

Electrical contact piece

There is described a material for electrical contacts based on silver having 5 to 20 weight % tin oxide and 0.5 to 5 weight % tungsten oxide which has the welding strength reduced further without producing an increased switching temperature. The material contains additionally 0.1 to 5 weight % of bismuth oxide.

Material for electrical contacts

There are needed materials based on Ag/SnO.sub.2 to replace the known Ag/CdO materials for electrical contact on switches, which replacement materials contain an additional metal oxide component, without having to take into account an undesired temperature increase in the switching device. This is attained according to the invention with a material that contains 8-20 weight % tin oxide SnO.sub.2, 0.05-5 weight % tungsten oxide, balance silver.

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Alzenau, Germany

Wolfgang Bohm