Apparatus for electrodepositing aluminum

US4053383A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Richard Dotzer · Nuremberg, DE
• Klaus Stoger · Nuremberg, DE
• Josef Stadter

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 12, 1976
• Grant date: Oct 11, 1977
• Expiry date: Aug 12, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C25D3/44
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Apparatus for electrodepositing aluminum in which an electroplating trough, which contains aprotic oxygen-free and water-free organo-aluminum electrolyte, is closed off in an airtight manner and is accessible only via a lock chamber disposed thereabove and which uses, for inserting and removing the work pieces, a detachable coupling rod carrying a frame with the articles to be electroplated permitting a strongly adhering aluminum layer to be deposited onto work pieces of any design desired with the exclusion of air.