Abstract: A hot-dip plated steel material has a plating layer on a surface of a steel material, in which the plating layer contains Al: more than 22.5% and 50.0% or less, Mg: more than 3.0% and 15.0% or less, Ca: 0.03 to 0.6%, Si: 0.03 to 1.0%, Fe: 2 to 25%, and a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities, and, in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plating layer, measured under conditions in which an X-ray output is a voltage of 50 kV and a current of 300 mA using a Cu-K? ray, I1 obtained from an X-ray diffraction peak of Al0.5Fe1.5 is 1.1 or more, and I2 obtained from X-ray diffraction peaks of Zn, Al, and MgZn2 is 0.25 or less.

Abstract: A hot-dip plated steel sheet has a plating layer, in which the plating layer contains Al: more than 30.0% and 50.0% or less, Mg: more than 5.0% and 15.0% or less, Si: more than 0.5% and 1.0% or less when Al is more than 30.0% and less than 35.0%, and 0.03% or more and 1.0% or less when Al is 35.0% or more and 50.0% or less, Fe: 0% or more and 5.0% or less, and a remainder consisting of Zn and impurities, and, in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plating layer, I1 obtained from X-ray diffraction peaks of Zn, Al, and MgZn2 is 0.10 or less and I2 obtained from an X-ray diffraction peak of Al2O5Si is 1.05 or more.

Abstract: This metallic coated steel includes a steel material and a metallic coating layer. The metallic coating layer has an average chemical composition including Al: 0.2% to less than 4.0%, Mg: more than 4.0% and less than 12.5%, Ca: 0.15% to less than 3.00%, Zn: 65% or more, and impurities. In an any perpendicular cross section (in a thickness direction) in the metallic coating layer, a metallurgical structure observed in a scanning electron microscope observed visual field contains, in terms of area fraction, an MgZn2 phase: 10 to 40%, an Al—Zn phase: 0 to 15%, an Al phase: (Zn<10%): 0 to 5%, a CaZn13 phase: 1.0 to 15%, and a total of a [ternary eutectic structure of Al/MgZn2/Zn] and a [binary eutectic structure of MgZn2/Zn]: 30% or more.

Abstract: A vehicle armrest includes an opening/closing body, a switch knob and an operation transmission mechanism. The opening/closing body opens and closes an upper side of a storage section. The switch knob is configured to open the opening/closing body. The operation transmission mechanism opens the opening/closing body in response to an operation of the switch knob. The opening/closing body includes an inner base portion and an outer lid portion. The outer lid portion is movably connected to the base portion to move forward and rearward in a front-rear direction. The switch knob is disposed in a fixed position in a main box body farther forward than the front end of the opening/closing body when the lid portion has been moved to the forwardmost position.

Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet which has excellent rigidity along with high strength, excellent workability, and excellent LME resistance is provided. A hot-rolled steel sheet of the present embodiment consists of, in mass %, C: 0.040 to 0.120%, Si: 0.01 to 0.60%, Mn: 0.50 to 1.50%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.010 to 0.070%, N: 0.0070% or less, Ti: 0.055 to 0.200%, and B: 0.0010 to 0.0050%, with the balance being Fe and impurities. In the microstructure of the hot-rolled steel sheet, an area fraction of bainitic ferrite is 85% or more and the dislocation density is 8.0×1013 to 100.0×1013/m2. The average equivalent circular diameter of Ti carbides in the hot-rolled steel sheet is 10 nm or less, and the average equivalent circular diameter of grains of the bainitic ferrite is 15 ?m or less.

Abstract: A plated steel sheet comprises a plated layer on a surface of a steel sheet, in which in the plated layer, the total amount ?A of Sn, Bi, and In is less than 0.75%, the total amount ?B of Ca, Y, La, and Ce is 0.03 to 0.60%, the total amount ?C of Cr, Ti, Ni, Co, V, Nb, Cu, and Mn is 0 to 1.00%, Sn?Si, and 20.0?Mg/Si are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plated layer, an X-ray diffraction peak of Al2.15Zn1.85Ca, an X-ray diffraction peak of CaZn2, and an X-ray diffraction peak of ??-MgZn2 satisfy a predetermined relationship.

Abstract: A hot-rolled steel sheet which has excellent rigidity along with high strength, excellent workability, and excellent LME resistance is provided. A hot-rolled steel sheet of the present embodiment consists of, in mass %, C: 0.040 to 0.120%, Si: 0.01 to 0.60%, Mn: 0.50 to 1.50%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.010 to 0.070%, N: 0.0070% or less, Ti: 0.055 to 0.200%, and B: 0.0010 to 0.0050%, with the balance being Fe and impurities. In the microstructure of the hot-rolled steel sheet, an area fraction of bainitic ferrite is 85% or more and the dislocation density is 8.0×1013 to 100.0×1013/m2. The average equivalent circular diameter of Ti carbides in the hot-rolled steel sheet is 10 nm or less, and the average equivalent circular diameter of grains of the bainitic ferrite is 15 ?m or less.

Abstract: A plated steel sheet comprises a plated layer on a surface of a steel sheet, in which in the plated layer, the total amount ?A of Sn, Bi, and In is less than 0.75%, the total amount ?B of Ca, Y, La, and Ce is 0.03 to 0.60%, the total amount ?C of Cr, Ti, Ni, Co, V, Nb, Cu, and Mn is 0 to 1.00%, Sn?Si, and 20.0?Mg/Si are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of a surface of the plated layer, an X-ray diffraction peak of Al2.15Zn1.85Ca, an X-ray diffraction peak of CaZn2, and an X-ray diffraction peak of ??-MgZn2 satisfy a predetermined relationship.

Abstract: A plated steel material having a plating layer having an average chemical composition containing, in mass %, Zn: more than 50.00%, Al: more than 15.0% and less than 30.0%, Mg: more than 5.0% and less than 15.0%, and Si: 0.25% or more and less than 3.50%, and impurities, and wherein a total amount (?A) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Sn, Bi and In is less than 1.00%, a total amount (?B) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Y, La, Ce and Sr is 0.02% or more and less than 0.60%, 2.0?SMg/Si<20.0 (Formula 1), 3.0?Si/?B<24.0 (Formula 2), and 26.0?(Si/?B)×(Mg/Si)<375.0 (Formula 3) are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the surface of the plating layer, a diffraction intensity ratio R1 defined by R1={I(16.18°)+I(32.69°)}/I(27.0°) (Formula 4) satisfies 2.5<R1 (Formula 5) is used.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus includes: a battery replacement station where removal of a first battery from the electrically powered vehicle and attachment of a second battery to the electrically powered vehicle are performed; a storage that stores the second battery, and a storage space that is provided at a position separate from the storage and stores the first battery.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus replaces a first battery attached to a vehicle body of an electrically powered vehicle with a charged second battery. The battery replacement apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, based on a fact that a size of the second battery is specified, size information indicating the specified size; a mounting table that moves relative to the vehicle body, with the second battery mounted on the mounting table, for attaching the second battery of the specified size to the vehicle body; and an adjustment unit that adjusts, based on the size information, a mount position where the second battery is mounted on the mounting table.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus includes: a battery replacement station including a floor on which an electrically powered vehicle can be stopped; a battery mounting table on which the first battery and the second battery can be mounted and which is movable below the electrically powered vehicle in a vertical direction; and a raising and lowering unit movable below the electrically powered vehicle in the vertical direction independently of the battery mounting table. The raising and lowering unit is movable between a raised position to which at least a part of the electrically powered vehicle has been moved upward from the floor, and a separated position separated downward from the electrically powered vehicle. The battery mounting table is capable of moving up to a position where the battery mounting table contacts a bottom surface of the first battery when the raising and lowering unit is located at the raised position.

Abstract: Provided is a Zn—Al—Mg alloy coated checkered steel sheet having on the sheet surface thereof convex part and flat part, wherein: the coating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, and when observing a cross section of cutting edge orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the convex part and taken along a sheet thickness direction at a central part in the longitudinal direction of the convex part, a layer thickness ratio of the coating layer of the flat part on left and right of the convex part (layer thickness of left coating layer/layer thickness of right coating layer) is from 0.2 to 5.

Abstract: An electrically powered vehicle includes: a vehicle body including a power converter that operates a motor; and a first battery that is attached in a replaceable manner to the vehicle body and supplies electric power to the power converter. The vehicle body includes a first connector for connecting to the first battery. The first battery includes a second connector to be connected to the first connector. The electrically powered vehicle further includes a lock mechanism that locks connection between the first connector and the second connector when the connection between the first connector and the second connector is completed.

Abstract: An electrically powered vehicle includes: an accessory device capable of communicating with an external device; a power converter that operates a motor; a first relay and a second relay; a control device that controls operation of the first relay and the second relay; a first battery that supplies electric power to the accessory device when the first relay is in ON state; and a second battery that supplies electric power to the power converter when the second relay is in ON state. When the second relay is in ON state and the electrically powered vehicle receives a battery replacement instruction to replace the second battery with a charged battery, the control device controls the first relay into ON state and controls the second relay into OFF state.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus includes a drive device (drive unit), a processor (controller) that controls the drive device, and a communication unit that acquires, through communication, information about an electric vehicle and a battery (first battery). The processor adjusts a position of the drive device based on the information that is acquired through the communication unit, and performs control of replacing the battery with a battery (second battery) by controlling the drive device whose position is adjusted.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus includes a detection device that detects position and orientation of a battery (first battery), a battery mount where a battery (second battery) is placed, the battery mount being capable of being raised, and an adjuster that adjusts position and orientation of the battery that is placed on the battery mount. The battery mount allows the battery to be attached to a vehicle body from below the vehicle body, by being raised below the vehicle body in a state where the battery is placed on the battery mount. The adjuster adjusts the position and the orientation of the battery placed on the battery mount, based on the position and the orientation of the battery detected by the detection device.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus includes a detection device (detector) that detects position and orientation of a battery (first battery), a battery mount where the battery that is removed from an electric vehicle is placed, the battery mount being driven below the electric vehicle, and a processor (controller) that controls driving of the battery mount. The processor controls position and orientation of the battery mount based on the position and the orientation of the battery detected by the detection device. Furthermore, the processor performs control of removing the battery from the electric vehicle, in a state where the position and the orientation of the battery mount are controlled.

Abstract: A container filling and sealing apparatus includes a first conveyor having m lanes and configured to convey articles in the m lanes; a container supply device configured to place containers over the articles, respectively; a container reverser configured to reverse the containers so as to insert the articles inside the containers while the containers are covering the articles; a second conveyor arranged downstream of the first conveyor and configured to convey the containers containing the articles in n lanes which are less than the m lanes, n being a natural number of 2 or more; a delivery conveyor provided between the first conveyor and the second conveyor and configured to receive from upstream m containers as a unit containing the articles and deliver downstream n containers as a unit; and a sealing device configured to seal an opening in each of the containers conveyed by the second conveyor.

Abstract: A surface-treated metal material includes a metal sheet, a plating layer formed on the metal sheet and containing aluminum, magnesium, and zinc, and a composite coating formed on a surface of the plating layer, the composite coating including an organic silicon compound, one or two of a zirconium compound and a titanium compound, a phosphoric acid compound, a fluorine compound, and a vanadium compound, wherein, when a surface of the composite coating is analyzed at a spot size of ?30 ?m using micro-fluorescent X-rays, a maximum value of V/Zn, which is a mass ratio of a V content to a Zn content, is 0.010 to 0.100.