Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps – Working fluid passage or distributing means associated with... – Specific casing or vane material
Reexamination Certificate
1999-03-03
2001-12-11
Verdier, Christopher (Department: 3746)
Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps
Working fluid passage or distributing means associated with...
Specific casing or vane material
C415S208300, C416S18600A, C416S24100B, C428S421000, C428S422000, C428S469000, C148S243000, C148S275000, C359S819000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06328530
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a process for forming a novel anticorrosive coating on Mg alloy, to an MG alloy member and household electrical appliances, audio systems, etc. using materials with such an anticorrosive coating, and more particularly to a Mg alloy member having a good corrosion resistance given by an environmentally harmless chemical conversion treatment, its use, a solution for chemical conversion treatment and a process for anticorrosive coating.
Mg alloy materials have the lightest weight among the practical metallic materials and also have a large specific strength and a good castability, and thus their wider application to cases, structural bodies, various parts, etc. of household appliances, audio systems, aircrafts, automobiles, etc. has been desired. Particularly, Al-containing AZ91D (Al: 8.3-9.7wt. %) and AM60B (Al: 5.5-6.5 wt. %) have a good fluidity in die casting and thixo molding and thus are most desirable alloys.
However, Mg has the basest normal electrode potential among the practical metallic materials, resulting in a high corrosion susceptibility when the metal is brought into contact with other metals and a considerably poor anticorrosiveness in an aqueous acidic, neutral or chloride solution. Thus, for its application to corrosion-excluding positions, e.g. good appearance-maintaining positions etc., it is necessary to provide an anticorrosive treatment. Coating is the most popular anticorrosion means, but it is hard to apply coating to Mg alloy materials per se because of the disadvantage that the resulting coating film, even if obtained has a poor adhesiveness. Sometimes, corrosion may occur under the coating film, and thus it is the ordinary practice to conduct a substrate surface treatment in advance of the coating process.
The substrate surface treatment technology includes, for example, substrate surface treatments of forming a metal oxide film or a sparingly soluble salt film by chemical conversion treatment or anodizing using such heavy metal oxo acid salts as chromates, permanganates etc., or phosphates so as to improve the corrosion resistance and the adhesiveness of coating films.
It is also the ordinary coating practice to use oil paints and synthetic resin paints which contain lead compounds, zinc powder and its compounds, chromates, etc. as an anticorrosive pigment.
Processes for forming an anticorrosive film on a Mg alloy are disclosed in JP-A-9-176894 and JP-A-9-228062.
Surface treatments using specific chemical compounds such as chromates, permanganates, etc. however have problems relating to environmental friendliness, such as effluent water pollution problems and skin allergy problems to operators. The use of such surface treatments is increasingly subject to strict regulations. Phosphates are also more or less harmful to the environment, and the corrosion resistance of resulting phosphate films is not satisfactory. Substitute processes for such substrate surface treatments are now under development but still have problems with respect to corrosion resistance, etc.
Lead compounds or chromates contained as anticorrosive pigments in coating technology also have problems relating to environmental friendliness. Furthermore, there are occasionally problems relating to corrosions probably due to diffusion of oxygen or water generated by corrosion under the coating film or by coating film defects.
The invention disclosed in said JP-A-9-176894 relates to an electrolytic treatment. Anodizing requires a power source of high voltage. An entirely uniform film is also hard to obtain. In the invention disclosed in said JP-A-9-228062, treatments using an organometal are highly reactive and thus an entirely uniform film is likewise hard to obtain.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide a Mg alloy member having a chemical conversion film with a good corrosion resistance obtained by using an evironmentally harmless aqueous solution, its use, a solution for the chemical conversion treatment and its process.
Another object of the present invention is to form a super-water-repellent film on the chemical conversion film.
The present invention provides a Mg alloy member comprising a Mg alloy and formed thereon an oxide film comprising 15 to 35% by atom of Mg and 5 to 2% by atom of Mo, and if necessary 30% by atom or less of Al or a metallic Al-containing oxide film.
The present invention also provides a Mg alloy member comprising a Mg alloy and formed thereon a noble oxide film having a corrosion potential of −1,500 mV or more in 1 M-Na
2
SO
4
and 0.01 M-Na
2
B
4
O
7
(pH 9.18).
The present invention further provides a Mg alloy member comprising a Mg alloy and formed thereon the oxide film mentioned above or the noble oxide film mentioned above, and formed on the oxide film a fluorine-containing super-water-repellent organic film.
The present invention still further provides use of the Mg alloy member mentioned above as a blade wheel in an electrically driven blower, as a casing of a personal computer, as a casing of a video camera, cases for various electrically driven tools, a portable telephone case, a television case, automobile sheet parts, etc.
The present invention also provides a solution for chemical conversion treatment for anticorrosive coating, characterized by comprising 0.05 to 1 M of a heavy metal oxo acid compound comprising at least one of heavy metal atoms selected from Mo, W and V in terms of the heavy metal atom and having a pH of 2 to 6 adjusted by sulfuric acid or nitric acid.
The present invention further provides a process for producing a Mg alloy member, characterized by contacting a Mg alloy with an aqueous acidic solution containing a heavy metal oxo acid compound of at least one of heavy metals selected from Mo, W and V, thereby forming an oxide film on the surface of the Mg alloy.
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Fujii Kazumi
Kato Tomoya
Obana Takeshi
Ohashi Kenya
Shouji Mitsuyoshi
Antonelli Terry Stout & Kraus LLP
Hitachi , Ltd.
Verdier Christopher
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