High-strength galvanized steel sheet and method of manufacturing the same

1. A high-strength galvanized steel sheet comprising:

a base steel sheet having a chemical composition, by mass %, C.:0.06% to 0.30%, Si: 0. 01% to 1.5%, Mn: 0.1% to 3.0%, P: 0.003% to 0.1%, S: not more than 0.01%, Al: 0.001% to 0.20%, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and

a zinc coating layer disposed on a surface of the base steel sheet at a coating weight per side of 20 g/m 2 to 120 g/m 2 ,

wherein an amount of hydrogen atoms measured by Method (1) in the base steel sheet is 0.05 mass parts per million to 0.40 mass parts per million, and

I Si sur /I Si bulk and I Mn sur /I Mn bulk as calculated by Method (2) is not more than 2.0(I Si sur /I Si bulk ≦2.0) and not more than 3.0(I Mn sur /I Mn bulk≦ 3.0), respectively,

and such that Method (1) requires cooling a section of the high-strength galvanized steel sheet in liquid nitrogen, removing the zinc coating layer from the high-strength galvanized steel sheet, then heating the base steel sheet from room temperature to 250° C. at a heating rate of 200° C./hr and holding at 250° C. for 30 minutes, and measuring the amount of hydrogen released from the base steel sheet during the heating,

such that Method (2) requires that, after the zinc coating layer is removed from the high-strength galvanized steel sheet, the base steel sheet is analyzed by glow discharge spectrometry (GDS) and sputtered at an Ar gas flow rate of 250 cc and a current of 20 mA for 500 seconds to determine the maximum intensity of silicon (I Si sur ) and the maximum intensity of manganese (I Mn sur ) in the surface portion of the base steel sheet and the average intensity of silicon (I Si bulk ) and the average intensity of manganese (I Mn bulk ) inside the base steel sheet, wherein the surface portion extends to a depth where the Si and Mn concentrations are constant, and I Si sur /I Si bulk and I Mn sur /I Mn bulk are calculated.

2. A method of manufacturing a high-strength galvanized steel sheet according to claim 1 comprising:

annealing a base steel sheet having the chemical composition described in claim 1 under conditions in which hydrogen partial pressure (P H2 ) is 0.10 to 0.50 relative to a total pressure in a furnace atmosphere taken as 1 and a ratio log(P H2 /P H2O ) is 2.5 to 4.0 wherein P H2O is vapor partial pressure and P H2 is hydrogen partial pressure relative to the total pressure in the furnace atmosphere taken as 1,

cooling the annealed base steel sheet and holding the cooled base steel sheet under conditions in which the hydrogen partial pressure (P H2 ) is 0.10 to 0.30 relative to the total pressure in atmosphere taken as 1, the steel sheet temperature is 400° C. to 600° C. and the holding time is 30 seconds or more, and

galvanizing the base steel sheet in a galvanizing bath having an amount of Al of not less than 0.15%.