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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
May. 07, 2001
Adrianus Jacobus Wittebrood, Velserbroek, NL;
Jacques Hubert Olga Joseph Wijenberg, Amsterdam, NL;
Joop Nicolaas Mooij, Castricum, NL;
Corus Aluminium Walzprodukte GmbH, Koblenz, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method of manufacturing an Al or Al alloy workpiece, including the steps of (a) providing an Al or Al alloy workpiece, (b) pre-treating of the outersurface of the Al or Al alloy workpiece, and (c) plating a metal layer including nickel onto the outersurface of the pre-treated Al or Al alloy workpiece. During step (c) the metal layer including nickel is deposited by electroplating both nickel and bismuth using an aqueous bath comprising a nickel-ion concentration in a range of 10 to 100 g/l and a bismuth-ion concentration in the range of 0.01 to 10 g/l. The invention further relates to an aqueous plating bath for use in the method of this invention.