Material for electric contacts taking silver-tin oxide or silver-zinc oxide as basis

US5610347A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Doduco GmbH & Co., Dr. Eugen Durrwachter · DE

Inventors

• Volker Behrens · Bretten, DE
• Thomas Honig · Tiefenbronn, DE
• Andreas Kraus · Waldenbuch, DE
• Karl E. Saeger · Pforzheim, DE
• Rainer Schmidberger · Bermatingen, DE
• Theodor Staneff · Bermatingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 21, 1995
• Grant date: Mar 11, 1997
• Expiry date: Feb 21, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C22C32/0021
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a material for electric contacts taking silver tin-oxide as basis, consisting of silver or mainly silver-containing alloy, tin oxide and other oxides or carbides of tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, bismuth, titanium, and/or copper.