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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 1986
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1985
Vince Opaskar, Cleveland Hts., OH (US);
Valerie Canaris, Parma, OH (US);
William J Willis, North Royalton, OH (US);
McGean-Rohco, Inc., Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
An aqueous acidic plating bath for electrodeposition of tin, lead or tin-lead alloys on a substrate is described. The plating baths are free of fluoborate and comprise (a) at least one bath-soluble metal salt selected from the group consisting of a stannous salt, a lead salt, or a mixture of stannous and lead salts, (b) at least one alkane sulfonic acid or alkanolsulfonic acid, (c) at least one nonionic, cationic or amphoteric surfactant, (d) an effective amount of at least one primary brightening agent selected from the group consisting of aromatic aldehydes, acetophenones, and carbonyl compounds having the general formula