IP Library Granted Patent US 8,430,972
Granted Patent B2
US 8,430,972 · App. 12/876,612 · Granted Apr 30, 2013

Metal surface treatment composition, metal surface treatment method, and metal material

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Patent No.
US 8,430,972
App. No.
12/876,612
Granted
Apr 30, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A metal surface treatment composition including at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a zirconium compound and a titanium compound, and an organosiloxane, which is a polycondensate of organosilane and has in a molecule thereof of at least two amino groups, in which the Degree of polycondensation of the organosiloxane is at least 40%, the content of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of the zirconium compound and the titanium compound is predetermined content, the content of the organosiloxane in the metal surface treatment composition is predetermined content, and the mass ratio of at least one element selected from the group consisting of the zirconium element and the titanium element contained in the zirconium compound and the titanium compound, respectively, to the silicon element contained in the organosiloxane is a predetermined ratio.

Claims (35)

1. A metal surface treatment composition for use in metal surface treatment, containing

at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a zirconium compound and a titanium compound;

a fluorine compound; and

an organosiloxane having at least two amino groups in an end terminal thereof, which is a polycondensate of an organosilane composition comprising organosilane, wherein the organosilane has an amino group at an end thereof, wherein a silicon atom of a silyl group is linked to a nitrogen atom of the end amino group with four or more atoms in between,

the Degree of polycondensation of the organosiloxane represented by the following formula (1) is at least 40%,

the content of compound selected from at least one compound of the group consisting of the zirconium compound and titanium compound in the metal surface treatment composition is from 10 ppm to 10000 ppm with respect to the metal element,

the content of the organosiloxane in the metal surface treatment composition is from 1 ppm to 2000 ppm with respect to the silicon element,

the mass ratio of at least one element selected from the group consisting of a zirconium element and a titanium element contained in the zirconium compound and the titanium compound, respectively, to a silicon element contained in the organosiloxane is from 0.5 to 500, and

the content of free fluorine element in the metal surface treatment composition being from 0.01 ppm to 100 ppm.:

[Formula 1]

Degree of polycondensation %=mass of organosiloxane×100/(mass of unreacted organosilane+mass of organosiloxane)  Formula (1)

wherein, the mass of organosiloxane refers to the mass of total of dimers and larger multimers of the organosilane, and does not include the mass of unreacted organosilane.

2. The metal surface treatment composition according to claim 1 , wherein the mass ratio of total of trimers and larger multimers of the organosilane, to total of the unreacted organosilane and the dimmers of the organosilane, is greater than or equal to one in the organosiloxane.

3. The metal surface treatment composition according to claim 1 , wherein the organosilane has two or more groups in total selected from amino groups and imino groups.

4. The metal surface treatment composition according to claim 2 , wherein the organosilane has two or more groups in total selected from amino groups and imino groups.

5. The metal surface treatment composition according to any one of claim 1 , wherein the organosiloxane is resistant to dissociation into organosilane.

6. The metal surface treatment composition according to claim 1 , wherein the organosilane is a monocondensate or cocondensate of the organosilane.

7. The metal surface treatment composition according to claim 5 , wherein the organosiloxane has one or more branched structure(s).

8. The metal surface treatment composition according to claim 5 , wherein the ratio of silicon atoms bound to two or more other silicon atoms via oxygen atoms constituting the siloxane bond, to the total amount of silicon atoms in the organosiloxane and the unreacted organosilane contained in the metal surface treatment composition is at least 20 mole %, in the organosiloxane.

9. The metal surface treatment composition according to claim 8 , wherein the ratio of silicon atoms which bound to at least three other silicon atoms via oxygen atoms constituting the siloxane bond, to the total amount of silicon atoms in the organosiloxane and the unreacted organosilane contained in metal surface treatment composition, is at least 10 mole %, in the organosiloxane.

10. The metal surface treatment composition according to claim 1 , wherein the metal surface treatment composition has a pH from 1.5 to 6.5.

11. The metal surface treatment composition according to claim 1 , further containing at least one oxidizing agent selected from the group consisting of nitric acid, nitrous acid, sulfuric acid, sulfurous acid, persulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, carboxylic acid group-containing compound, sulfonic acid group-containing compound, hydrochloric acid, bromic acid, chloric acid, hydrogen peroxide, HMnO 4 , HVO 3 , H 2 W0 4 , H 2 Mo 4 , and salts thereof.

12. The metal surface treatment composition according to claim 1 , further containing at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of magnesium, zinc, calcium, aluminum, gallium, indium, copper, iron, manganese, nickel, cobalt, cerium, strontium, rare earth elements, tin, bismuth, and silver.

13. The metal surface treatment composition according to claim 1 , further containing at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of nonionic surfactants, anionic surfactants, cationic surfactants, and ampholytic surfactants.

14. A metal surface treatment method for treating the surface of a metal material, comprising:

a treatment solution contact step of contacting a metal surface treatment solution containing the metal surface treatment composition according to claim 1 with the metal material; and

a water washing step of washing with water the metal material after the treatment solution contact step.

15. The metal surface treatment method according to claim 14 , wherein the metal material is simultaneously subjected to degreasing treatment in the treatment solution contact step.

16. A metal surface treatment method for treating the surface of a metal material, comprising:

a treatment solution contact step of contacting a metal surface treatment solution containing the metal surface treatment composition according to claim 1 with the metal material; and

a water washing step of washing with water the metal material after the treatment solution contact step,

wherein the metal material is electrolyzed as a cathode in the treatment solution contact step.

17. The metal surface treatment method according to claim 14 , comprising an acid contact step of contacting the metal material after the water washing step with an acidic aqueous solution containing at least one selected from the group consisting of cobalt, nickel, tin, copper, titanium, and zirconium.

18. The metal surface treatment method according to claim 14 , comprising a polymer-containing solution contact step of contacting the metal material after the water washing step with a polymer-containing solution containing at least one of a water-soluble polymer compound and a water-dispersible polymer compound.

19. A coating method for a metal material, wherein a metal material is subjected to surface treatment by the metal surface treatment method according to claim 14 , and then subjected to coating.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 27, 2016
From: NIPPON PAINT CO., LTD.
To: NIPPON PAINT HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 040775/0377 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 27, 2016
From: NIPPON PAINT HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
To: NIPPON PAINT SURF CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 040775/0936 →