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Electrical contacts and methods of making contacts by electrodeposition

US4628165A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 11, 1985
Grant dateDec 9, 1986
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Expiry dateSep 11, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/12944
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods for increasing the ductility and reducing the porosity and cracking tendency of a palladium or palladium-silver electrodeposit which comprises providing an underlayer of a palladium/nickel or palladium/cobalt alloy electrodeposit. Also dual layer composite electroplated deposits and their use in electrical contacts or connectors.

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