Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet having a heat dissipation characteristic that is applicable to a large-size lithium ion battery container, excellent in formability and shape freezability and excellent in laser weldability is provided. An aluminum alloy sheet comprising a cold rolled, annealed material containing Fe: 0.05 to less than 0.3 mass %, Mn: 0.6 to 1.5 mass %, and Si: 0.05 to 0.6 mass %, has a balance of Al and impurities Cu: less than 0.35 mass % and Mg: less than 0.05 mass %, has a conductivity exceeding 45% IACS, has a 0.2% proof strength of 40 to less than 60 MPa, and displays a 20% or more value of elongation is also provided. An aluminum alloy sheet comprising an as-cold-rolled material having a conductivity exceeding 45% IACS, a 0.2% proof strength of 60 to less than 150 MPa, and displaying 3% or more value of elongation is also provided.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for motor vehicles is produced by casting a melt, containing 3.0-3.5 mass % Mg, 0.05-0.3 mass % Fe, 0.05-0.15 mass % Si, and less than 0.1 mass % Mn, a balance substantially being inevitable impurities and Al, into a slab having a thickness of 5 to 15 mm in a twin-belt caster so that cooling rate at ¼ depth of thickness of the slab is 20 to 200° C./sec; winding the cast thin slab into a coiled thin slab subjected to cold rolling with a roll having a surface roughness of 0.2 to 0.7 ?m Ra at a cold rolling reduction of 50 to 98%; subjecting the cold rolled sheet to final annealing either continuously in a CAL at a holding temperature of 400 to 520° C. within 5 minutes or in a batch annealing furnace at a holding temperature of 300 to 400° C. for 1 to 8 hours; and subjecting the resulting sheet to straightening with a leveler.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet having a heat dissipation characteristic that is applicable to a large-size lithium ion battery container, excellent in formability and shape freezability and excellent in laser weldability is provided. An aluminum alloy sheet comprising a cold rolled, annealed material containing Fe: 0.05 to less than 0.3 mass %, Mn: 0.6 to 1.5 mass %, and Si: 0.05 to 0.6 mass %, has a balance of Al and impurities Cu: less than 0.35 mass % and Mg: less than 0.05 mass %, has a conductivity exceeding 45% IACS, has a 0.2% proof strength of 40 to less than 60 MPa, and displays a 20% or more value of elongation is also provided. An aluminum alloy sheet comprising an as-cold-rolled material having a conductivity exceeding 45% IACS, a 0.2% proof strength of 60 to less than 150 MPa, and displaying 3% or more value of elongation is also provided.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for motor vehicles is produced by casting a melt, containing 3.0-3.5 mass % Mg, 0.05-0.3 mass % Fe, 0.05-0.15 mass % Si, and less than 0.1 mass % Mn, a balance substantially being inevitable impurities and Al, into a slab having a thickness of 5 to 15 mm in a twin-belt caster so that cooling rate at ¼ depth of thickness of the slab is 20 to 200° C./sec; winding the cast thin slab into a coiled thin slab subjected to cold rolling with a roll having a surface roughness of 0.2 to 0.7 ?m Ra at a cold rolling reduction of 50 to 98%; subjecting the cold rolled sheet to final annealing either continuously in a CAL at a holding temperature of 400 to 520° C. within 5 minutes or in a batch annealing furnace at a holding temperature of 300 to 400° C. for 1 to 8 hours; and subjecting the resulting sheet to straightening with a leveler.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for motor vehicles is produced by casting a melt, containing 3.0-3.5 mass % Mg, 0.05-0.3 mass % Fe, 0.05-0.15 mass % Si, and less than 0.1 mass % Mn, a balance substantially being inevitable impurities and Al, into a slab having a thickness of 5 to 15 mm in a twin-belt caster so that cooling rate at ¼ depth of thickness of the slab is 20 to 200° C./sec; winding the cast thin slab into a coiled thin slab subjected to cold rolling with a roll having a surface roughness of 0.2 to 0.7 ?m Ra at a cold rolling reduction of 50 to 98%; subjecting the cold rolled sheet to final annealing either continuously in a CAL at a holding temperature of 400 to 520° C. or in a batch annealing furnace at a holding temperature of 300 to 400° C.; and subjecting the resulting sheet to straightening with a leveler.

Abstract: A process for producing an aluminum alloy substrate for a lithographic printing plate is provided, wherein an excellent grained surface can be realized even when the heat treatment time and alkali etching are shortened. The method includes the steps of preparing an ingot composed of specific ranges of Fe, Si, Cu, Ti, B, and unavoidable impurities; subjecting the ingot to a homogenization treatment composed of the first stage of holding at 510° C. to 560° C. for 30 minutes to 2 hours and the latter stage of holding at 460° C. to 500° C. for 30 minutes to 2 hours; starting hot rolling, followed by finishing at 360° C. or more; conducting cold rolling; conducting intermediate annealing at a heating temperature of X° C. for a holding time of Y sec in an inert gas atmosphere, where X is 400° C. to 620° C. and Y?2×108×exp(?0.0284X) is satisfied; and conducting final cold rolling.

Abstract: In order to produce an aluminum alloy substrate for a lithographic printing plate wherein grain structure refining and homogenizing are promoted, and the uniformity of the appearance of the grained surface is particularly improved, the process of the present invention comprises the steps of: homogenizing an aluminum alloy ingot comprising 0.10 to 0.40 wt % of Fe, 0.03 to 0.30 wt % of Si, 0.004 to 0.050 wt % of Cu, 0.01 to 0.05 wt % of Ti, 0.0001 to 0.02 wt % of B and the balance of Al and unavoidable impurities, at temperatures of 350 to 480° C., successively hot-rolling the ingot with a plurality of passes in such a manner that the aluminum alloy is not recrystallized prior to the hot rolling of the final pass and recrystallized at least in the surface layer of the hot-rolled plate by only the hot rolling thereof to form a recrystallized structure having an average recrystallized grain size of less than 50 &mgr;m in a direction normal to the rolling direction, and cold-rolling the hot-rolled plate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a support for a lithographic printing plate prepared by cold rolling a sheet while intermediate annealing is omitted to save energy and the number of the cold rolling steps are decreased to simplify the sheet production steps and to give a desired strength of the sheet, and by inhibiting precipitation of Si particles in the substrate to give extremely excellent resistance to ink staining in the nonimage areas during printing, and a process for producing a substrate therefore. The production process comprises homogenization heat-treating an aluminum alloy slab comprising 0.10 to 0.40 wt % of Fe, 0.03 to 0.15 wt % of Si, 0.004 to 0.