A method for manufacturing appliques on a dial for a timepiece.

The present disclosure provides a hot-press formed part comprising a plated steel sheet and an aluminum alloy plated layer formed on the plated steel sheet, wherein the aluminum alloy plated layer comprises: an alloying layer (I) formed on the plated steel sheet and containing, by weight %, 5-30% of Al; an alloying layer (II) formed on the alloying layer (I) and containing, by weight %, 30 to 60% of Al; an alloying layer (III) formed on the alloying layer (II) and containing, by weight %, 20-50% of Al and 5-20% of Si; and an alloying layer (IV) formed continuously or discontinuously on at least a part of the surface of the alloying layer (III), and containing 30-60% of Al, wherein the rate of the alloying layer (III) exposed on the outermost surface of the aluminum alloy plated layer is 10% or more.

A method that forms a metal plating film having a thick film thickness by a solid phase method is provided. The present disclosure is a method that forms the metal plating films of a first metal and a second metal having an ionization tendency larger than an ionization tendency of the first metal. The method includes: depositing the second metal on a surface of a copper base material to form the plating film of the second metal; and depositing the first metal on a surface of the second metal by a solid electroless plating method to form the plating film of the first metal. The solid electroless plating method in the depositing of the first metal is performed using a laminated complex. The laminated complex includes a first substitution-type electroless plating bath, a solid electrolyte membrane, a copper base material, a third metal, a second substitution-type electroless plating bath, and an insulating polymer. The first substitution-type electroless plating bath contains ions of the first metal. The second metal is plated on the copper base material. The third metal has an ionization tendency larger than the ionization tendency of the first metal. The second substitution-type electroless plating bath contains ions of the first metal.

A field device for processing and automation technology includes a first and a second component that can each be mechanically connected at a joining surface by means of a joining point. Two metal surface layers are each applied at least to the joining surface of the first component and the joining surface of the second component. The metal of the surface layers is different from the metal of the first and/or the metal of the second component. A joining material is applied between the respective joining surfaces of the two components, wherein the joining material includes particles at least partially consisting of a metal that corresponds with the metal of the surface layers The joining of the two components occurs at a joining temperature below 300° C.

The present disclosure relates to an aluminum-based alloy-coated steel sheet and a method of manufacturing the same and, more particularly, to an aluminum-based alloy-coated steel sheet that can be preferably applied to automotive steel sheets, etc., and a method of manufacturing the same.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an aluminum-based alloy-coated steel sheet that includes: a base steel sheet; an Al-based alloy-coated layer formed on at least one surface of the base steel sheet; and a Zn-Al-based coated layer formed on the Al-based alloy-coated layer, including Al: 0.5˜1.0%, and a balance of Zn and unavoidable impurities in percentage by weight, and having an adhesion amount of 3˜12 g/m.sup.2, and a method of manufacturing the aluminum-based alloy-coated steel sheet.

The present disclosure relates to an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet having excellent workability and corrosion resistance and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet preventing microcracks generated during hot forming and has excellent seizure resistance and corrosion resistance, and a method for manufacturing the same.

Plated metallic substrates and methods of manufacture are provided. The method comprises depositing a first layer onto at least a portion of the metallic substrate to create a coated substrate utilizing physical vapor deposition. The method comprises electroplating a second layer comprising chromium, a chromium alloy, or a combination thereof onto at least a portion of the first layer to create a plated substrate.

A welding system includes a welding power source configured to provide pulsed electropositive direct current (DCEP), a gas supply system configured to provide a shielding gas flow that is at least 90% argon (Ar), a welding wire feeder configured to provide tubular welding wire. The DCEP, the tubular welding wire, and the shielding gas flow are combined to form a weld deposit on a zinc-coated workpiece, wherein less than approximately 10 wt % of the tubular welding wire is converted to spatter while forming the weld deposit on the zinc-coated workpiece.

The present invention provides a nickel-plated heat-treated steel sheet for a battery can (1), having a nickel layer with a nickel amount of 4.4 to 26.7 g/m.sup.2 on a steel sheet (11), wherein when the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured along the depth direction from the surface of the nickel-plated heat-treated steel sheet for a battery can, by using a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, 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 less than 0.04 μm.

The present invention provides a nickel-plated heat-treated steel sheet for a battery can (1), having a nickel layer with a nickel amount of 4.4 to 26.7 g/m.sup.2 on a steel sheet (11), wherein when the Fe intensity and the Ni intensity are continuously measured along the depth direction from the surface of the nickel-plated heat-treated steel sheet for a battery can, by using a high frequency glow discharge optical emission spectrometric analyzer, 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 less than 0.04 μm.