Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet, including: a steel sheet; and a nickel-cobalt-iron diffusion layer formed as an outermost surface layer on the steel sheet. When a content of Ni, a content of Co and a content of Fe of the nickel-cobalt-iron diffusion layer are determined based on a Ni intensity, a Co intensity and a Fe intensity each sequentially measured in the depth direction from the surface side of the nickel-cobalt-iron diffusion layer by a radio frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometry, a content of Co at a specific depth position D, InCo_D, is 5% by mass or higher and a content of Fe at the specific depth position D, InFe_D, is 11% by mass or higher, the specific depth position D being a position where the Ni intensity is 0.5% of the maximum value of the Ni intensity. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing the surface-treated steel sheet.

Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container, including a steel sheet, an iron-nickel diffusion layer formed on the steel sheet, and a nickel layer formed on the iron-nickel diffusion layer (and constituting the outermost layer, wherein when the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured from the surface of the surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container along the depth direction with a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, the thickness of the iron-nickel diffusion layer being the difference between the depth at which the Fe intensity exhibits a first predetermined value and the depth at which the Ni intensity exhibits a second predetermined value is 0.04 to 0.31 ?m; and the total amount of the nickel contained in the iron-nickel diffusion layer and the nickel contained in the nickel layer is 4.4 g/m2 or more and less than 10.8 g/m2.

Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container includes a steel sheet, an iron-nickel diffusion layer formed on the steel sheet, and a nickel layer formed on the iron-nickel diffusion layer and constituting the outermost layer. When the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured from the surface of the surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container along the depth direction with a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, the thickness of the iron-nickel diffusion layer being the difference (D2?D1) between the depth (D1) at which the Fe intensity exhibits a first predetermined value and the depth (D2) at which the Ni intensity exhibits a second predetermined value is 0.04 to 0.31 ?m; and the total amount of the nickel contained in the iron-nickel diffusion layer and the nickel contained in the nickel layer is 10.8 to 26.7 g/m2.

Abstract: Provided is a battery container (1) including a can body (2) and a can lid (3), each being made of a metal. A peripheral edge portion of the can lid (3) is joined to a peripheral edge of an opening portion of the can body (2) formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape. A bottom portion (21) of the can body (2) is formed so as to include a curved surface, and the can lid (3) is formed so as to include a curved surface that is curved in the same manner as an area of the bottom portion (21) of the can body (2) that is formed as the curved surface.

Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet including a tin-plated steel sheet having a tin plating on a steel sheet; a tin oxide layer formed on the tin-plated steel sheet and containing tin oxide as a main component; a composite oxide layer formed on the tin oxide layer and containing phosphoric acid and aluminum as main components; and an aluminum-oxygen compound layer formed on the composite oxide layer and containing an aluminum-oxygen compound as a main component, wherein the tin oxide layer has a thickness of 8 to 20 nm.

Abstract: A roughened plated sheet including a roughened plated layer having a roughened nickel plated layer and a zinc plated layer formed on at least one surface of a metal substrate in this order from the metal substrate side, wherein a ten-point average roughness RZjis of a surface of the roughened plated layer, according to laser microscope measurement, is 3 ?m or more, an adhesion amount of the roughened nickel plated layer is 0.4 to 14.0 g/m2, and an adhesion amount of the zinc plated layer is 3 g/m2 or more.

Abstract: Provided is a surface-treated metal sheet for batteries, the surface-treated metal sheet comprising a base material which is a metal sheet based on iron or nickel, and a nickel-tin alloy layer on at least one side of the metal sheet.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide: a resin-coated metallic plate which cannot undergo the occurrence of a retort brushing phenomenon (the formation of white spots) or the delamination of a film under retort sterilization treatment conditions; and others. [Solution] A resin-coated metallic plate having a resin layer (A) and a resin layer (B) is characterized in that the resin layer (A) contains 50 to 80 wt % of a polyethylene terephthalate-based resin (I) and 20 to 50 wt % of a polybutylene terephthalate-based resin (II), wherein the resin layer (B) contains 50 to 80 wt % of a polyethylene terephthalate-based resin (III) and 20 to 50 wt % of a polybutylene terephthalate-based resin (II), the polyethylene terephthalate-based resin (I) has a melting point of 210 to 230° C. inclusive, the polybutylene terephthalate-based resin (II) has a melting point of 215 to 225° C. inclusive, and the polyethylene terephthalate-based resin (III) has a melting point of higher than 230° C. and 205° C. or lower.

Abstract: A roughened plated sheet including a roughened plated layer having a roughened nickel plated layer and a zinc plated layer formed on at least one surface of a metal substrate in this order from the metal substrate side, wherein a ten-point average roughness Rzjis of a surface of the roughened plated layer, according to laser microscope measurement, is 3 ?m or more, and the metal substrate is a steel sheet.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a substrate for epitaxial growth having a metal base material laminated with a copper layer. On a surface of the copper layer, an area occupied by crystal grains having crystal orientations other than a (200) plane present within 3 ?m from the surface can be less than 1.5%. A surface roughness along a same direction as a rolling direction per unit length of 60 ?m when measured by AFM can be Ra1<10 nm.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multilayered polyester resin-coated metal sheet having a metal substrate, a lower layer formed on at least one side of the metal substrate and made from a polyester resin (A) modified with 2 to 30 mol % of a first copolymerizable component, and an upper layer that is formed on the lower layer and that contains a polyester resin (B) and a soft component (C) incompatible with the polyester resin (B), the soft component (C) being contained at a content of 2 to 50 mass % when the polyester resin (B) and the soft component (C) are assumed to amount to 100 mass % in total.

Abstract: The problem solved by the present invention is to provide a pinhole detection device with an improved accuracy of detecting pinholes. The detection unit of the pinhole detection device includes a plurality of optical fibers that transmit light that has passed through the object to be inspected. The plurality of optical fibers are arranged side by side while facing a light source. When a maximum detectable angle at which the pinhole with respect to an optical axis of the light source is detectable is defined as ?, a maximum angle of incidence of light that can be transmitted by the optical fiber with respect to the optical axis of the light source is set in a range of ?+0° to ?+5°.

Abstract: Provided is a sulfide all-solid battery having an anode current collector of powerful adhesiveness which is difficult to be sulfurized. The sulfide all-solid-state battery including: a cathode layer; an anode layer; and a sulfide solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, wherein the anode layer has an anode mixture layer, and an anode current collector on a face of the anode mixture layer, the face being on an opposite side of the sulfide solid electrolyte layer, the anode current collector is electrolytic iron foil that does not substantially contain other elements, and the anode current collector has surface roughness Ra of 0.2 ?m to 0.6 ?m, and surface roughness Rz of 2 ?m to 6 ?m.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a roughened nickel-plated material in which the formation unevenness such as generation of the unevenness or grooves in a roughened nickel plated layer is restrained. [Solving Means] A roughened nickel-plated material including a base material that is a rolled material, and a roughened nickel plated layer formed on at least one surface of the base material, in which SRzjis of the surface of the roughened nickel plated layer is equal to or more than 2 ?m, and, letting a maximum height of the roughened nickel plated layer be SRz, a valley region B in a given virtual planer region A as observed at a height position of SRz×0.25 satisfies the following (i). (i) The length of the valley region B in the rolling direction RD of the base material is less than 40 ?m in a direct distance.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a roll-bonded laminate, in which an ultrathin metal layer is laminated on another metal without generation of wrinkles, cracks and the like. A roll-bonded laminate formed by lamination of at least three layers, which comprises a peelable carrier layer 10, an ultrathin metal layer 20 and a metallic foil 30, wherein the thickness of the ultrathin metal layer 20 is 0.5 ?m or more and 20 ?m or less.

Abstract: There is provided a surface-treated steel sheet (1) comprising: a tin-plated steel sheet (10) obtained by tin-plating a steel sheet (11); a phosphate compound layer (20) containing tin phosphate formed on the tin-plated steel sheet (10); and an aluminum-oxygen compound layer (30) on the phosphate compound layer (20), a main constituent of the aluminum-oxygen compound layer (30) being an aluminum-oxygen compound; wherein, when the 3d5/2 spectrum of tin in the aluminum-oxygen compound layer (30) is determined using an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the ratio of the integration value of the profile derived from tin oxide to the integration value of the profile derived from tin phosphate (tin oxide/tin phosphate) is 6.9 or more.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a roll-bonded laminate controlled in warping and a method for producing the same. The method produces the roll-bonded laminate having a two-layer structure of a first metal layer and a second metal layer, by roll-bonding a first metal plate and a second metal plate, wherein the surface hardness Hv of the first metal plate is lower than the surface hardness Hv of the second metal plate; and the method comprises roll-bonding so as to satisfy the following expression (1): 0<(?L1/?L2)/T?38??(1) wherein ?L1 (mm) represents an elongation amount of the first metal layer with respect to the first metal plate; ?L2 (mm) represents an elongation amount of the second metal layer with respect to the second metal plate; and T (mm) represents the total thickness of the roll-bonded laminate.

Abstract: This invention provides a relatively thick roll-bonded laminate that exhibits a high Erichsen value and excellent molding workability. Such roll-bonded laminate is composed of a stainless steel layer and a non-stainless steel metal layer, and it is characterized in that thickness T is 0.2 mm to 3 mm and a correlation between a proportion PSUS of thickness TSUS of the stainless steel layer relative to thickness T and a half width FWHM200 of a peak exhibiting a crystal plane orientation (200) determined by X-ray diffraction analysis of the stainless steel layer side satisfies the correlation represented by the formula: FWHM200?0.0057PSUS+0.4.

Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container, including a steel sheet, an iron-nickel diffusion layer formed on the steel sheet, and a nickel layer formed on the iron-nickel diffusion layer (and constituting the outermost layer, wherein when the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured from the surface of the surface-treated steel sheet for a battery container along the depth direction with a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, the thickness of the iron-nickel diffusion layer being the difference between the depth at which the Fe intensity exhibits a first predetermined value and the depth at which the Ni intensity exhibits a second predetermined value is 0.04 to 0.31 ?m; and the total amount of the nickel contained in the iron-nickel diffusion layer and the nickel contained in the nickel layer is 4.4 g/m2 or more and less than 10.8 g/m2.

Abstract: A roughened plated sheet including a roughened plated layer having a roughened nickel plated layer and a zinc plated layer formed on at least one surface of a metal substrate in this order from the metal substrate side, wherein a ten-point average roughness Rzjis of a surface of the roughened plated layer, according to laser microscope measurement, is 3 ?m or more, and the metal substrate is a steel sheet.