Tinned copper terminal material, terminal, and electrical wire end part structure
AssigneeMitsubishi Materials Corporation
InventorsKenji Kubota, Yoshie Tarutani, Kiyotaka Nakaya
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AssigneeMitsubishi Materials Corporation
InventorsKenji Kubota, Yoshie Tarutani, Kiyotaka Nakaya
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A terminal material in which galvanic corrosion is not occurred using a copper or copper alloy base material as a terminal crimped to an end part of an electrical wire formed from an aluminum wire material: an intermediate zinc layer 4 formed from zinc or zinc alloy and a tin layer 5 formed from tin or tin alloy are layered in this order on a base material 2 formed from copper or copper alloy; the intermediate zinc layer 4 has a thickness of 0.1 μm to 5.0 μm inclusive and a zinc concentration equal to or more than 5 mass %; and the tin layer 5 has a zinc concentration of 0.4 mass % to 15 mass % inclusive and a grain size of the tin layer 5 is 0.1 μm to 3.0 μm inclusive preferably.
A tinned copper terminal material comprising an intermediate zinc layer formed from zinc or zinc alloy and a tin layer formed from tin or tin alloy which are layered in this order on a base material formed from copper or copper alloy, wherein
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