US 7,601,433 B2
Highly corrosion-resistant/highly workable plated steel wire, plating bath composition, method for producing the plated steel wire and wire netting product
Tomio Kitsuwa, Osaka (Japan)
Assigned to Sakuratech Co., Ltd., Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Dec. 06, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/294,483.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-378626 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0141280 A1, Jun. 29, 2006
Int. Cl. B32B 15/02 (2006.01); C23C 2/06 (2006.01); C23C 2/38 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 428—607  [428/659; 428/939] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A corrosion-resistant and workable plated steel wire comprising: a steel wire; a plated layer comprising zinc, aluminum and manganese; and an intermediate layer comprising zinc, aluminum and manganese, intermediate layer being sandwiched between the steel wire and the plated layer, wherein a content of manganese contained in both the plated layer and the intermediate layer is 0.02-0.30% in terms of average mass percentage, a content of aluminum is 8-25% in terms of average mass percentage, and a content of zinc and inevitable components is 74.70-91.98% in terms of average mass percentage.