Razor blade and manufacturing method thereof
The present disclosure provides an improvement to razor blade coating by a physical vapor deposition method, by forming a hard coating layer as a thin coating layer in which chromium boride, which is a nanocrystalline structure having high hardness, is dispersed in an amorphous mixture of chromium and boron, thereby improving the strength and hardness of the thin coating layer and securing the bonding force by chromium in the amorphous mixture between the hard coating layer and a blade substrate on which an edge of the razor blade is formed.
1. A razor blade for a wet razor, comprising:
a blade substrate on which a blade edge is formed;
a coating layer coated directly on the blade substrate and comprising one or more nanocrystalline structures, the coating layer including an amorphous region in which chromium and boron are mixed,
wherein the one or more nanocrystalline structures are dispersed in the amorphous region, and
wherein the one or more nanocrystalline structures comprise chromium boride.
2. The razor blade of claim 1 , wherein the coating layer is a single layer.
3. The razor blade of claim 1 , wherein the coating layer is configured to have the one or more nanocrystalline structures at a ratio that varies gradually from an inner side to an outer side of the coating layer.
4. The razor blade of claim 1 , wherein the one or more nanocrystalline structures comprise particles with a diameter in a range of 3 to 100 nm.
5. The razor blade of claim 1 , further comprising a polymer coating formed on the coating layer.
6. The razor blade of claim 1 , wherein the coating layer is a hard coating layer.
7. The razor blade of claim 1 , wherein the one or more nanocrystalline structures further comprise Cr crystals.
8. A method for manufacturing a razor blade for a wet razor, the method comprising:
performing a heat treatment on a blade substrate to create a heat-treated blade substrate;
forming a blade edge on the heat-treated blade substrate by polishing the heat-treated blade substrate;
forming a coating layer directly on the heat-treated blade substrate comprising one or more nanocrystalline structures by performing physical vapor deposition (PVD) on the heat-treated blade substrate, on which the blade edge is formed, by using a single composite target including chromium and boron that are mechanically combined and mixed to provide the coating layer including an amorphous region in which the chromium and the boron are mixed,
wherein the one or more nanocrystalline structures are dispersed in the amorphous region, and
wherein the one or more nanocrystalline structures comprise chromium boride.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the coating layer is a single layer.
10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more nanocrystalline structures comprise particles with a diameter in a range of 3 to 100 nm.
11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the physical vapor deposition is performed for sputtering by a collision cascade process under a sputtering condition that the blade substrate has a bias in a range of −50 to −750 V, a temperature in a range of 0 to 200° C., and a direct current (DC) power density in a range of 1 to 12 W/cm2.
12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the physical vapor deposition that forms the coating layer is performed for sputtering by a collision cascade process under a sputtering condition that the blade substrate has a bias in a range of −200 to −600 V, a temperature in a range of 100 to 150° C., and a DC power density in a range of 4 to 8 W/cm2.
13. The method of claim 8 , wherein the single composite target further includes: a material in which the chromium and the boron are crystallographically combined.
14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the coating layer is configured to have the one or more nanocrystalline structures of chromium boride at a volume ratio that is changed in a thickness direction by adjusting an area ratio of the chromium to the boron in the single composite target in a direction in which the blade substrate moves through a deposition with respect to the single composite target.
15. The razor blade of claim 1 , wherein the chromium in the amorphous region is configured to secure the adhesion between the coating layer and the blade substrate.
16. The razor blade of claim 1 , wherein the one or more nanocrystalline structures are configured to secure the strength and durability of the coating layer.
17. The razor blade of claim 1 , wherein the amorphous region is configured to disperse and absorb stress applied to the one or more nanocrystalline structures.
18. The razor blade of claim 1 , wherein the one or more nanocrystalline structures comprise chromium boride as CrB, CrB2, Cr2B, or CrB4.