Nissan Motor Company Limited

Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.

Yusuke Nagaishi

Yukihiro Hamada

Koji Itakura

Shigeyuki Nakagawa

Toshiya Anami

Pizhi Zhao

Takeshi Handa

Tomoyuki Hirayama

Satoru Suzuki

Tsutomu Hattori

Hirokazu Miyagawa

Shigenori Yoshizawa

Akio Yoshizawa

Haruyasu Katto

A vehicle door structure includes an outer door panel made of resin, etc. The outer door panel has an attenuated portion. The attenuated portion is provided along a boundary line that divides the outer door panel into at least a first region that includes the outer door handle and other regions.

Vehicle door structure

A vehicle door structure includes a reinforcing member that is extended along a side sill on an inner door panel side of a lower portion of an outer door panel. The reinforcing member has a first side surface that faces the side sill in the vehicle width direction, and a second side surface that extends from the first side surface to the outer door panel, and the first side surface and the second side surface are joined to the inner door panel.

An aluminum alloy sheet includes an aluminum alloy substrate having a composition containing, by mass percentage, 3.0 to 4.0% of magnesium, 0.2 to 0.4% of manganese, 0.1 to 0.5% of iron, not less than 0.03% but less than 0.10% of copper, and less than 0.20% of silicon, with the remainder being aluminum and unavoidable impurities. A peak concentration of a copper concentration distribution in a thickness direction in a region at a depth of 15 nm to 200 nm from the surface of the aluminum alloy substrate is equal to or more than 0.15%, and the aluminum alloy substrate has a recrystallized structure with an average grain size of 15 &#x3bc;m or less.

Aluminum alloy sheet and method for manufacturing same

There is provided an aluminum alloy casting consisting essentially of 7.0 to 11.5 mass % of Si, 0.9 to 4.0 mass % of Mg, 0.1 to 0.65 mass % of Fe, 0.1 to 0.8 mass % of Mn and the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, or consisting essentially of 7.0 to 11.5 mass % of Si, 0.9 to 4.0 mass % of Mg, 0.1 to 0.65 mass % of Fe, 0.1 to 0.8 mass % of Mn, 0.3 to 1.0 mass % of Cu and the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, and containing eutectic Si grains having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or smaller and an average grain size of 1.0 micrometer or smaller. There is also provided an automotive part formed with the aluminum alloy casting and a production method of the aluminum alloy casting.

Aluminum alloy casting and production method thereof

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Yusuke Nagaishi