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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2011
Shinichi Terashima, Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Masamoto Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Masami Fujishima, Iruma, JP;
Masao Kurosaki, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Maki, Tokyo, JP;
Hideaki Suda, Tokyo, JP;
Shuji Nagasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Terashima, Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Masamoto Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Masami Fujishima, Iruma, JP;
Masao Kurosaki, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Maki, Tokyo, JP;
Hideaki Suda, Tokyo, JP;
Shuji Nagasaki, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON STELL & SUMIKIN MATERIALS CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A metal foil including: a steel layer whose thickness is 10 to 200 μm; an alloy layer which contains Fe and Al and which is formed on the steel layer; and an Al-containing metal layer arranged on the alloy layer, wherein, when a cutting-plane line of a surface of the Al-containing metal layer is defined as a contour curve and an approximation straight line of the contour curve is defined as a contour average straight line, a maximum point, whose distance from the contour average straight line is more than 10 μm, is absent on the contour curve, and a thickness of the alloy layer is 0.1 to 8 μm and the alloy layer contains an AlCuFe intermetallic compound or FeAlbased intermetallic compounds.