Patent ID: 10161693

Abstract:
An aluminum alloy fin material for heat exchangers, containing 0.5 to 1.5 mass % of Si; more than 1.0 mass % but not more than 2.0 mass % of Fe; 0.4 to 1.0 mass % of Mn; and 0.4 to 1.0 mass % of Zn, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein a metallographic microstructure before braze-heating is such that a density of second phase particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of less than 0.1 μm is less than 1×107 particles/mm2, and that a density of second phase particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.1 μm or more is 1×105 particles/mm2 or more, wherein a tensile strength before braze-heating, TSB (N/mm2), a tensile strength after braze-heating, TSA (N/mm2), and a fin sheet thickness, t (μm), satisfy: 0.4≤(TSB−TSA)/t≤2.1, and wherein the sheet thickness is 150 μm or less; and a method of producing the same.