ALUMINUM CONDUCTING WIRE

• US 20080196923A1
• Filed: 08/08/2007
• Published: 08/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Furukawa Electric Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Furukawa Electric Company Limited
• Inventors: SUSAI, Kyota, YOSHIDA, Kazuo
• Granted Patent: US 7,550,675 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 174/110.00R
• CPC Class Codes: C22C 21/00 Alloys based on aluminium
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 1/023 Alloys based on aluminium

Abstract

An aluminum conducting wire, containing a stranded conductor that is formed by stranding solid conductors of an aluminum alloy, in which the aluminum alloy comprises 0.1 to 1.0 mass % of Fe, 0.05 to 0.5 mass % of Cu, and 0.05 to 0.4 mass % of Mg, in which the total amount of Cu and Mg is 0.3 to 0.8 mass %, with the balance being aluminum and inevitable impurities, and a solid conductor of an aluminum alloy for the aluminum conducting wire.

Claims

1. An aluminum conducting wire, comprising a stranded conductor that is formed by stranding solid conductors of an aluminum alloy,

wherein the aluminum alloy comprises 0.1 to 1.0 mass % of Fe, 0.05 to 0.5 mass % of Cu, and 0.05 to 0.4 mass % of Mg, in which the total amount of Cu and Mg is 0.3 to 0.8 mass %, with the balance being aluminum and inevitable impurities;

and

wherein the solid conductors of an aluminum alloy show resistance against bending of 50,000 times or more.

2. The aluminum conducting wire according to claim 1, wherein a tensile strength of the aluminum conducting wire is 110 MPa or more.

3. An electric wire for automobile wiring, comprising:

a conductor, and

a coating layer formed on the periphery of the conductor,

wherein the conductor is the aluminum conducting wire according to claim 1.

4. An electric wire for automobile wiring, comprising:

a conductor, and

a coating layer formed on the periphery of the conductor,

wherein the conductor is the aluminum conducting wire according to claim 2.

5. An aluminum conducting wire comprising:

a stranded conductor that is formed by stranding solid conductors of an aluminum alloy; and

a resin layer coating the stranded conductor;

wherein the aluminum alloy comprises 0.1 to 1.0 mass % of Fe, 0.05 to 0.5 mass % of Cu, and 0.05 to 0.4 mass % of Mg, in which the total amount of Cu and Mg is 0.3 to 0.8 mass %, with the balance being aluminum and inevitable impurities;

wherein the solid conductors have a wire diameter of from 0.07 to 1.50 mm, and

wherein the solid conductors of an aluminum alloy show resistance against bending of 50,000 times or more.

6. The aluminum conducting wire according to claim 5, wherein a tensile strength of the aluminum conducting wire is 110 MPa or more.

7. An electric wire for automobile wiring, comprising:

a conductor, and

a coating layer formed on the periphery of the conductor,

wherein the conductor is the aluminum conducting wire according to claim 5.

8. An electric wire for automobile wiring, comprising:

a conductor, and

a coating layer formed on the periphery of the conductor,

wherein the conductor is the aluminum conducting wire according to claim 6.

9. A solid conductor of an aluminum alloy for a conducting wire, comprising 0.1 to 1.0 mass % of Fe, 0.05 to 0.5 mass % of Cu, and 0.05 to 0.4 mass % of Mg, in which the total amount of Cu and Mg is 0.3 to 0.8 mass %, with the balance being aluminum and inevitable impurities;

wherein the solid conductor of an aluminum alloy shows resistance against bending of 50,000 times or more.