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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2014
Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yoshikatsu Nishida, Osaka, JP;
Masayoshi Tatano, Osaka, JP;
Takahiro Fujii, Osaka, JP;
Masashi Hiraoka, Osaka, JP;
Masao Nagao, Osaka, JP;
NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A tin-plated stainless steel sheet which has a tin plating layer having good adhesion to a stainless steel sheet and exhibits excellent whisker resistance in various environments, and wherein a nickel plating layer having a thickness of 0.3-3 μm is formed on a stainless steel sheet, and a tin plating layer having a thickness of 0.3-5 μm is formed on the nickel plating layer. This tin-plated stainless steel sheet is characterized in that nickel crystals in the nickel plating layer have a lattice distortion of 0.5% or less.