IP Library Granted Patent US 10,386,134
Granted Patent B2
US 10,386,134 · App. 15/819,415 · Granted Aug 20, 2019

Heat transfer tube and method for producing same

Inventors: Hiroki Furumura (Susono, JP); Yasunori Hyogo (Izu, JP)
Assignee: Mitsubishi Aluminum Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 10,386,134
App. No.
15/819,415
Granted
Aug 20, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A heat transfer tube includes: a tube body made of an extruded material of an aluminum alloy having a composition including: 0.3 mass % or more and less than 0.8 mass % of Mn; more than 0.1 mass % and less than 0.32 mass % of Si; 0.3 mass % or less of Fe; 0.06 mass % or more and 0.3 mass % or less of Ti; and Al balance including inevitable impurities, a ratio of a Mn content to a Si content, Mn %/Si %, exceeding 2.5; and a Zn-containing layer provided to an outer surface of the tube body.

Claims (12)

1. An extruded heat transfer tube with internal passages, the heat transfer tube comprising:

a tube body made of an extruded material of an aluminum alloy having a composition including: 0.3 mass % or more and less than 0.8 mass % of Mn; more than 0.1 mass % and less than 0.32 mass % of Si; 0.3 mass % or less of Fe; 0.06 mass % or more and 0.3 mass % or less of Ti; and Al balance including inevitable impurities, a ratio of a Mn content to a Si content, Mn %/Si %, exceeding 2.5; and

a Zn-containing layer provided to an outer surface of the tube body, wherein the internal passages are divided by a wall with a thickness of 1.5 mm or less, the heat transfer tube has an extrusion weld part by being formed by extruding works,

selective corrosion at the extrusion weld part is suppressed,

wherein 2200/mm 2 or less of intermetallic compound precipitates whose size is 1.0 μm or more in a circle equivalent diameter are precipitated in the heat transfer tube after a brazing heat treatment or a Zn diffusing treatment of the heat transfer tube,

the aluminum alloy constituting the tube body is an alloy subjected to a homogenization treatment in which an ingot of the aluminum alloy after casting is kept at 450-650° C. for 2-24 hours,

a heating rate from a room temperature to 450° C. is 50-180° C./h; a heating rate from 450° C. to a temperature of the homogenization treatment is 10-80° C./h; and a cooling rate from the temperature of the homogenization treatment to 200° C. is 50-400° C./h, in the homogenization treatment, and

a brazing heat treatment or a Zn diffusing treatment is performed on the heat transfer tube at 610° C. or lower.

2. The heat transfer tube according to claim 1 , wherein the aluminum alloy further includes: 0.05 mass % or less of Cu; less than 0.05 mass % of Mg; and less than 0.03 mass % of Cr.

3. The heat transfer tube according to claim 1 , wherein the aluminum alloy constituting the tube body is an alloy subjected to a homogenization treatment in which an ingot of the aluminum alloy after casting is kept at 450-650° C. for 2-24 hours.

4. The heat transfer tube according claim 1 , wherein a brazing heat treatment or a Zn diffusing treatment is performed on the heat transfer tube at 610° C. or lower.

5. The heat transfer tube according to claim 1 , wherein a refrigerant that is flowing inside the heat transfer tube is fluorocarbon.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 11, 2023
From: ALTEMIRA CO., LTD.
To: MA ALUMINUM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 065185/0895 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 10, 2023
From: MMA COMPANY, LTD.
To: ALTEMIRA CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 065164/0726 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 21, 2022
From: MITSUBISHI ALUMINUM CO., LTD.
To: MMA COMPANY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 062202/0216 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-072302 · Mar 27, 2012 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 14387990
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