Patent ID: 7029760
Filing Date: 2006-04-18
Classification: B32B,H01R,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A plated material comprising a metal substrate, a metal plating layer formed on the surface of the substrate, and a soft region spreading in a network-shape and a hard region surrounded by the network of the soft region coexisting in the metal plating layer, wherein the soft region has a Vickers hardness of 20 to 250, the hard region has a Vickers hardness of 60 to 700, which is at least 30 higher than that of the soft region, and an average size of the network of the soft region is from 5 to 500 μm, and wherein the surface of the soft region is located at the position which is 0.2 to 10 μm higher than the surface of the hard region.