A manufacturing method for a cylinder device which includes a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, a seal member, and an installing member, the method includes: a welding step for fixing the installing member to the cylinder through electrical resistance welding; a demagnetizing step for demagnetizing at least an opening portion of the cylinder; and an assembling step for assembling the piston, the piston rod, and the seal member in the cylinder through the opening portion.

A welding quality inspection apparatus for inspecting the welding quality of a plurality of welding parts formed on the material through the upper electrode and the lower electrode of the welding gun includes a position detection unit for detecting a position of the upper electrode, a control unit generating a position table based on a signal detected by the position detection unit during a total welding time of welding the plurality of welding parts of the material, generating first position data for a first welding time and second position data for a second welding time of a spot welding time of each of the welding parts based on the position table, checking whether the welding parts are defective by using the first position data, the second position data, and reference data, and generating result data based on whether the welding parts are detective, and an output unit for outputting the result data.

A galvannealed steel sheet having a steel substrate coated with a first alloy layer with iron and nickel directly topped by a second alloy layer based on zinc, the first and second alloyed layers being alloyed through diffusion such that the second alloy layer includes from 5 to 15 wt.% of iron, from 0 to 15 wt.% of nickel, a balance being zinc.

A galvannealed steel sheet having a steel substrate coated with a first alloy layer with iron and nickel directly topped by a second alloy layer based on zinc, the first and second alloyed layers being alloyed through diffusion such that the second alloy layer includes from 5 to 15 wt.% of iron, from 0 to 15 wt.% of nickel, a balance being zinc.

The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a galvannealed steel sheet including the steps of A.) coating of the steel sheet with a first coating consisting of nickel and having a thickness between 150 nm and 650 nm, the steel sheet having the following composition in weight percentage 0.10<C<0.40%, 1.5<Mn<3.0%, 0.7<Si<3.0%, 0.05<Al<1.0%, 0.75<(Si+Al)<3.0%, and on a purely optional basis, one or more elements such as Nb≤0.5%, B≤0.010%, Cr≤1.0%, Mo≤0.50%, Ni≤1.0%, Ti≤0.5%, the remainder of the composition is made up of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the elaboration, B.) annealing of the coated steel sheet being annealed at a temperature between 600 to 1200° C., C.) coating of the steel sheet obtained in step B.) with a second coating based on zinc and D.) an alloying heat treatment to form a galvannealed steel sheet.

The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a galvannealed steel sheet including the steps of A.) coating of the steel sheet with a first coating consisting of nickel and having a thickness between 150 nm and 650 nm, the steel sheet having the following composition in weight percentage 0.10<C<0.40%, 1.5<Mn<3.0%, 0.7<Si<3.0%, 0.05<Al<1.0%, 0.75<(Si+Al)<3.0%, and on a purely optional basis, one or more elements such as Nb≤0.5%, B≤0.010%, Cr≤1.0%, Mo≤0.50%, Ni≤1.0%, Ti≤0.5%, the remainder of the composition is made up of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the elaboration, B.) annealing of the coated steel sheet being annealed at a temperature between 600 to 1200° C., C.) coating of the steel sheet obtained in step B.) with a second coating based on zinc and D.) an alloying heat treatment to form a galvannealed steel sheet.

A battery manufacturing method includes: winding positive and negative electrode plates and a separator to form a wound electrode assembly; cutting unwound portions of the positive and negative electrode plates and the separator such that the separator constitutes an outermost layer of the wound electrode assembly when the winding is completed; further winding around the wound electrode assembly the cut unwound portions; fixing a part of a terminal end of the separator in a lateral direction to the wound electrode assembly; and performing heat welding on parts of both lateral ends of an outermost portion of the separator in the wound electrode assembly, which are located above an electrode active material-uncoated portion of the positive or negative electrode plate to fix the lateral ends to the wound electrode assembly.

A resistance spot welding method comprises: performing test welding; and performing actual welding after the test welding. The test welding is performed under each of two or more welding conditions. In the actual welding, preliminary current passage is performed by constant current control in the same current pattern as in the preliminary current passage of the test welding, an electrical property between the electrodes in the preliminary current passage in the actual welding and an electrical property between the electrodes stored in the preliminary current passage in the test welding are compared for each welding condition to set a target in main current passage in the actual welding, and thereafter adaptive control welding is performed to control a current passage amount as the main current passage.

A resistance spot welding method comprises: performing test welding; and performing actual welding after the test welding. The test welding is performed under each of two or more welding conditions. In the actual welding, preliminary current passage is performed by constant current control in the same current pattern as in the preliminary current passage of the test welding, an electrical property between the electrodes in the preliminary current passage in the actual welding and an electrical property between the electrodes stored in the preliminary current passage in the test welding are compared for each welding condition to set a target in main current passage in the actual welding, and thereafter adaptive control welding is performed to control a current passage amount as the main current passage.

An indirect spot welding apparatus includes a welding electrode that is brought into pressure contact with one of surfaces of a plurality of plate-shaped members that are objects to be welded in one side in a stacking direction of the plate-shaped members, a ground electrode that is brought into pressure contact with the one of the surfaces in the one side or another one of the surfaces in the other side in the stacking direction in a position shifted from an axial center of the welding electrode, and an opposed member disposed coaxially with the ground electrode to be opposed to the ground electrode so as to hold at least one of the plate-shaped members between the opposed member and the ground electrode, and the welding electrode is mechanically integrated with the ground electrode to be movable in a direction parallel to an axial direction of the ground electrode.