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Precious Metal Clad Materials

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Precious Metal Clad Materials

Multi-layer and multi-strip tapes available.
Your choice of width and thickness in long lengths.

Precious metals clad on strips of copper and iron based alloys. Multi-layer and multi-strip tapes of variable widths and thicknesses are produced using TANAKA’s own unique continuous bonding process. These materials demonstrate the highest level of performance while utilizing a minimum amount of precious metals. Beryllium copper based tapes and solder clad materials are also available.

Precious Metal Clad Materials

Features

  • Available in a wide range of thicknesses, from 0.5 µm to 50% of total thickness.
  • High bonding strength allows a high degree of bending.
  • We supply a long length tapes with a high precision finish.
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Dimensional precision

Total plate
thickness (㎜)		 Tolerance (㎜)
Thickness Width
< 0.05 ±0.003 ±0.05
0.05 – < 0.10 ±0.005 ±0.05
0.10 – < 0.30 ±0.01 ±0.1
0.30 – < 0.60 ±0.02 ±0.15
0.60 – ≤1.00 ±0.03 ±0.2

Cross-section of bond part

[Cross-section of bond part] Gold alloys, Silver alloys, Copper alloys

Examples of material combinations

Precious
metals		 Base
material		 Shape Total
thickness (㎜)		 Total width
(㎜)		 Cladding
width (㎜)		 Cladding
thickness
ratio
AgPd
AgPdCu
SP-1
SP-2		 C7701
GMX215
GMX96
CuNi20
C5212		 I 0.025-0.5 7-30 0.5-5.0 1/20-1/2
AgCuNi
CDF-2
AgNi		 C1020
C2680
C5212		 I 0.1-1.0 7-50 1.0-10.0 1/20-2/3
Ag BFM* KOV O 0.05-0.6 7-30 7-30 1/15-1/3

*Brazing Filler Metals

  1. For shapes, “1” indicates an inlay type and “0” indicates an overlay type.
  2. Contact us regarding materials, shapes and dimensions.

Width Precision　Cladding thickness ratio

Explanatory diagram of Width Precision and Cladding Thickness Ratio

  1. W1,W2 = ±0.3
  2. Contact us regarding tolerance and metrics.

Applications

  • Micro-motor brushes, commutator
  • sensors, switches, relays, connectors, etc.
＜Cladding for sliding contacts＞ Cladding for sliding contacts
＜Cladding for sealing＞ Cladding for sealing
＜Cladding for switching contacts＞ Cladding for switching contacts
＜Cladding for heat dissipation＞ Cladding for heat dissipation

Types of Bonding Materials

Main Applications: Micro-motor brushes, sensors
Product name Composition (wt%) Vickers hardness
(reference value)
Pt Au Ag Pd Other
SP-1 10 10 30 35 Cu, others 270-360
SP-3 0.5 － 40 43 Cu 230-320
AgPd50 － － 50 50 － 160-230
AgPd30 － － 70 30 － 140-210
Main Applications: Micro-motor commutators, slide switches
Product name Composition (wt%) Vickers hardness
(reference value)
Pt Au Ag Pd Other
SP-2 5 70 10 － Cu, others 170-210
CDF-2 － － 92.5 － Cu, others 120-170
AgCuNi － － 95.5 － Cu, others 110-160
CDF-4 － － 98.2 0.5 Cu, others 85-140

Types of base materials

  • TANAKA provides clad products with a base material tailored to the application including C1020, C5210, C7701, CuNiSn alloys, BeCu, Kovar, and Corson alloys. Please inquire regarding combinations with bonding materials.

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