Silver-plated product and method for producing same
AssigneeDowa Metaltech Co., Ltd.
InventorsShunki Sadamori, Hiroshi Miyazawa, Masafumi Ogata, Keisuke Shinohara
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Abstract
A silver-plated product is produced by forming a surface layer of silver on a base material by electroplating at a liquid temperature of 10 to 35° C. and a current density of 3 to 15 A/dm2 in a silver plating solution so as to satisfy (32.6x−300)≤y≤(32.6x+200) assuming that a product of a concentration of potassium cyanide in the silver plating solution and a current density is y (g·A/L·dm2) and that a liquid temperature of the silver plating solution is x (° C.), the silver plating solution containing 80 to 110 g/L of silver, 70 to 160 g/L of potassium cyanide and 55 to 70 mg/L of selenium.
Claims6
A silver-plated product comprising:
- a base material;
- and
- a surface layer of silver which is formed on the base material and which has a purity of Ag of not less than 99.9% by weight,
- wherein the silver-plated product has a reflection density of not less than 0.3, and
- wherein the silver-plated product has a Vickers hardness Hv of not less than 110 after heating the silver-plated product at 50° C. for 168 hours as a heat-proof test.
A silver-plated product comprising:
- a base material;
- an underlying layer of nickel formed on the base material;
- and
- a surface layer of silver which is formed on the underlying layer and which has a purity of Ag of not less than 99.9% by weight,
- wherein the silver-plated product has a reflection density of not less than 0.3, and
- wherein the silver-plated product has a Vickers hardness Hv of not less than 110 after heating the silver-plated product at 50° C. for 168 hours as a heat-proof test.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.