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(11) EP 0 171 817 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
09.11.1988 Bulletin 1988/45

(43) Date of publication A2:
19.02.1986 Bulletin 1986/08

(21) Application number: 85110271

(22) Date of filing: 16.08.1985
(84) Designated Contracting States:
BE DE FR GB IT LU NL SE

(30) Priority: 16.08.1984 US 641557
10.07.1985 US 753420
25.07.1985 US 757721

(71) Applicant: KOLLMORGEN TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
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(72) Inventors:
  • Teng, Yu-Ling
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  • McCoy, Charles
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  • DeFalco, Francis
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  • Mayernick, Richard
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  • Liu, Chong Tan
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(54) Composition and process for electrodepositing a Zn or Zn/Si/P coating on metal substrates


(57) The present invention provides an aqueous composition and process for electrodepositing a layer of a ductile, strongly adhering, adsorptive and/or absorptive zinc coating or zinc coating comprising silicon and phosphorous on a metal substrate. The electrodeposition composition is prepared by reacting metallic silicon and zinc with phosphoric acid and an alkali metal hydroxide in the ratio of between 0,4 and 1,3 moles of alkali metal hydroxide per mole of phosphorus acid, and adjusting the solution to a pH of 1 or higher after completion of the reaction. The coating is deposited on the metal substrate by electrodeposition and comprises about 70 to 99,5% by weight of zinc, and about 0,1 to 10% by weight of silicon, and about 0,5 to 20% by weight of phosphorus.
The resulting Zn/Si/P coating improves the resistance of the metal substrate to corrosion, wear, galling, stress corrosion cracking and cracking during mechanical forming operations. While essentially all metals of industrial importance may be coated, this process is especially important for ferrous metals, steels, stainless steels, copper, aluminium, chromium and titanium.







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