DE3010539

• Main Authors: TAKATSU, KIYOSHI, TAKEUCHI, TAKESHI, FUNABASHI, CHIBA, JP, SHIBATA, HIDEHIRO, FUNABASHI, CHIBA, JP, TAKAMURA, HISAO, CHIBA, JP
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.04.1982
• Subjects: CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; CHEMISTRY; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATIONOR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY IONIMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION INGENERAL; METALLURGY; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THESURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION

This invention relates to a method for coloring stainless steel by controlling the potential difference between the surface of the stainless steel being colored and a reference electrode in a coloring liquor, characterized by differentiating a potential-time curve showing the variation with time of the potential difference between the surface of the stainless steel and the reference electrode by time to prepare the differentiation curve thereof and removing the stainless steel from the coloring liquor when the potential difference has changed from the coloring starting point that is the inflexion point on this differentiation curve, at which the variation amount of the potential per unit time changes from a falling tendency to a rising tendency, by a predetermined amount associated with the desired color.