Copper alloy material and a method for fabricating the same
AssigneeHitachi Cable, Ltd.
InventorsTakemi Muroga, Noboru Hagiwara, Yoshiki Yamamoto
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Abstract
A copper alloy material has a rolled surface having a plurality of crystal faces parallel to the rolled surface. The crystal faces includes at least one crystal face selected from a group consisted of {011}, {1nn} (n is an integer, n≧1), {11m} (m is an integer, m≧1), {023}, {012}, and {135}. Diffraction intensities of the crystal faces in an inverse pole figure obtained by crystal diffraction measurement of the rolled surface as a reference satisfy the relationships of: {011}>{155}>{133}, {011}>{023}>{012}, and {011}>{135}>{112}.
Claims10
A copper alloy material comprising:
- a surface comprising a plurality of crystal faces parallel to the surface, the crystal faces including at least one crystal face selected from the group consisting of {011}, {1nn} (n is an integer, n≧1), {11m} (m is an integer, m≧1), {023}, {012}, and {135},
- wherein diffraction intensities of the crystal faces in an inverse pole figure obtained by crystal diffraction measurement of the surface as a reference satisfy the relationships of:
- {011}>{155}>{133},
- {011}>{023}>{012}, and
- {011}>{135}>{112}.
A method for fabricating a copper alloy material comprising:
- hot rolling process of hot rolling an ingot comprising a copper alloy to manufacture a sheet of the copper alloy;
- cold rolling process of cold rolling the sheet;
- solution treatment process of carrying out a solution treatment on the sheet after the cold rolling process;
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- finish cold rolling process of cold rolling the sheet after the solution treatment process,
- wherein the cold rolling process comprising cold rolling passes for plural times,
- wherein an area reduction ratio of the sheet in an initial cold rolling pass is greater than any of area reduction ratios of other cold rolling passes to produce a copper alloy material wherein diffraction intensities of the crystal faces in an inverse pole figure obtained by crystal diffraction measurement of the rolled surface as a reference satisfy the relationships of:
- {011}>{155}>{133},
- {011}>{023}>{012}, and
- {011}>{135}>{112}.
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