Silicon Containing Patents (Class 148/307)
  • Patent number: 6063209
    Abstract: A magnetic core of a compressed compact comprises a mixture of magnetic powder and a spacing material, wherein the distance between adjacent magnetic powder particles is controlled by the spacing material. In this constitution, a magnetic core low in core loss, high in magnetic permeability, and excellent in direct-current superposing characteristic is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuya Matsutani, Yuji Mido
  • Patent number: 6060172
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rapidly quenched metal strip used as a core material for transformers, magnetic shields, choke coils, etc., and to an Fe-based rapidly quenched metal strip having a strip thickness exceeding 20 .mu.m and up to 70 .mu.m, wherein nonmetallic inclusions contained in said metal strip have a maximum particle size up to 50% of the strip thickness, and densities of the nonmetallic inclusions are up to 10 nonmetallic inclusions/mm.sup.3 for nonmetallic inclusions having a particle size exceeding 10 .mu.m and up to 50% of the strip thickness, up to 3.times.10.sup.3 nonmetallic inclusions/mm.sup.3 for nonmetallic inclusions having a particle size of at least 3 .mu.m to up to 10 .mu.m, and up to 5.times.10.sup.5 nonmetallic inclusions/mm.sup.3 for nonmetallic inclusions having a particle size of at least 0.3 .mu.m to less than 3 .mu.m, and showing the following average value <.epsilon..sub.f > of a bending fracture strain .epsilon..sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Inoue, Hiroaki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6053989
    Abstract: The present invention provides an amorphous or amorphous/microcrystalline metal alloy comprising Fe.sub.a Cr.sub.b V.sub.c P.sub.d Si.sub.e C.sub.f M.sub.g X.sub.h wherein M is selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ni, and mixtures thereof; X is selected from the group consisting of Mo, W, and mixtures thereof; a is about 66 to about 80; b is about 0.5 to about 5.0; c is about 0.5 to about 5.0; d is about 7.0 to about 13.0; e is about 0.2 to about 3.0; f is about 4.5 to about 8.0; g is about 0.1 to about 0.9; h is about 0.1 to about 3.0; and a, b, c, d, e, f, g, and h represent atomic percent where the total is nominally equal to 100 atomic percent. Such metal alloys have desirable magnetic properties such as high saturation induction, low coercivity and high normal permeability. Significantly cost-effective methods of producing such alloys using by-product ferrophosphorus from phosphorus production and impure sources of alloying elements are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Orillion, Johan Pfeiffer, Yulig K. Kovneristy
  • Patent number: 6039818
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet is provided which has a low ratio of iron loss in a weaker magnetic field to that in a stronger magnetic field and has special advantage in EI cores and the like. Also provided is a process for producing that steel sheet. The grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet is characterized in that its crystal grains of important components are specified in terms of their proportions in number, and the contents of Al, Ti and B, with a forsterite film formed on a surface of the steel sheet. In the process a low-Al silicon slab is heated at below 1,250.degree. C. before hot rolling and the hot-rolled sheet is annealed with a temperature rise in the range of from 5 to 25.degree. C./sec and at a temperature of from about 800 to 1,000 for a period of time of shorter than about 100 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Toge, Michiro Komatsubara, Atsuhito Honda, Kenichi Sadahiro, Kunihiro Senda
  • Patent number: 6033792
    Abstract: A recording head for recording data onto a recording medium is provided with a thin film formed of the following compound Fe.sub.100-a-b-c X.sub.a Y.sub.b Z.sub.c, wherein X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Ta, Hf and Zr, Y is one or two elements selected from the group consisting of Cr, Ru, Al, Si, Ti and Rh, and Z is at least one element selected from the group consisting of C and N, and wherein 5.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.20, 0.5.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.15, 1.ltoreq.c.ltoreq.20, and 0.5.ltoreq.a/c.ltoreq.0.7, the carbide or the nitride of the element X having an average grain size of not larger than 3 nm. This way, increased corrosion resistance is provided without substantially reducing magnetic characteristics such as saturation and coercive force. A recording apparatus, such as a VTR, including such a recording head is disclosed as well as a recording medium formed using this thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi Kirino, Shigekazu Otomo, Nagatugu Koiso, Noriyuki Kumasaka, Takeshi Miura
  • Patent number: 6018296
    Abstract: A resonator for use in a marker in a magnetomechanical electronic article surveillance system is formed by a planar strip of an amorphous magnetostrictive alloy having a composition Fe.sub.a Co.sub.b Ni.sub.c Si.sub.x B.sub.y M.sub.z wherein a, b, c, x, y, and z are at % and a+b+c+x+y+z=100, a+b+c>75, a>15, b<20, c>5 and z<3, wherein M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of C, P, Ge, Nb, Mo, Cr and Mn, the amorphous magnetostrictive alloy having a resonant frequency f.sub.r which is a minimum at a field strength H.sub.min and having a linear B-H loop up to at least a field strength which is about 0.8 H.sub.min and a uniaxial anisotropy perpendicular to the plane of the strip with an anisotropy field strength H.sub.k which is at least as large as H.sub.min and, when driven by an alternating signal burst in the presence of a bias field H.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Vacuumschmelze GmbH
    Inventor: Giselher Herzer
  • Patent number: 5993568
    Abstract: A soft magnetic alloy sheet has low residual magnetic flux density. The alloy sheet comprises a base element and an alloying element having a concentration gradient in a thickness direction of the alloy sheet. The alloying element is selected from Si, Al, Ni, Co and Fe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Takada, Hironori Ninomiya, Misao Namikawa, Koichiro Fujita, Shoji Kasai, Tatsuhiko Hiratani
  • Patent number: 5993569
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing silicon-containing iron powders by thermal decomposition of a gas mixture comprising iron pentacarbonyl and, as a volatile silicon compound, a silane or a halogen-free organosilane in which the gas mixture flows through a heated reaction chamber and heating of the gas mixture is effected by thermal conduction. The silicon-containing iron powders obtained are distinguished by a particularly low impurity element content. The silicon-containing iron powders can be used for the fabrication of cores, magnets and radar-absorbing materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Simon, Reinhold Schlegel, Bernd Leutner
  • Patent number: 5966064
    Abstract: A nanocrystalline alloy wherein at least 50 volume % of an alloy structure consists of a crystal grain mainly comprising bcc-phase having a grain size of 50 nm or less, a saturation magnetic flux density of the alloy is 1 T or more, a remanent flux density of the alloy is 0.4 T or less, and an Fe--B compound phase is partially formed in the alloy. The nanocrystalline alloy produced by heat treatment without applying any magnetic field shows pulse attenuation characteristics comparable to or more excellent than those of a nanocrystalline alloy obtained by heat treatment in a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Yoshizawa, Yoshio Bizen, Shunsuke Arakawa
  • Patent number: 5951788
    Abstract: A stainless steel alloy useful as a construction material in superconducting magnetic components, said alloy containing in weight percent 0.05-0.25% C, 0.1-1.5% Si, 3.5-7.5% Mn, 17-21% Cr, 6-10% Ni, 0.10-0.50% N, the remainder being Fe and normal impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Sandvik AB
    Inventor: H.ang.kan Holmberg
  • Patent number: 5919319
    Abstract: An Iron-cobalt alloy, whose chemical composition contains, by weight:5%.ltoreq.Co.ltoreq.40%0%.ltoreq.Si.ltoreq.5%0.2%.ltoreq.Al.ltoreq.5%0.5%.ltoreq.Si+Al.ltoreq.5%the balance being iron and impurities resulting from the smelting. Process for manufacturing a strip and strip obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Imphy S.A.
    Inventor: Georges Couderchon
  • Patent number: 5902419
    Abstract: A silicon steel sheet contains 0.01 wt. % or less C, 4 to 10 wt. % Si, 0.5 wt. % or less Mn, 0.01 wt. % or less P, 0.01 wt. % or less S, 0.2 wt. % or less sol. Al, 0.01 wt. % or less N, 0.02 wt. % or less 0 and the balance being Fe. The silicon steel sheet has grain boundaries and carbides which are precipitated on the grain boundaries. The carbides have an area of 20% or less to an area of the grain boundaries. The steel sheet is cooled at a cooling speed of 5.degree. C./sec. or more in a temperature range of from 300 to 700.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Fujita, Yasushi Tanaka, Hironori Ninomiya, Tatsuhiko Hiratani, Shoji Kasai
  • Patent number: 5873955
    Abstract: A recording head for recording data onto a recording medium is provided with a thin film formed of the following compound Fe.sub.100-a-b-c X.sub.a Y.sub.b Z.sub.c, wherein X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Ta, Hf and Zr, Y is one or two elements selected from the group consisting of Cr, Ru, Al, Si, Ti and Rh, and Z is at least one element selected from the group consisting of C and N, and wherein 5.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.20, 0.5.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.15, 1.ltoreq.c.ltoreq.20, and 0.5.ltoreq.a/c.ltoreq.0.7, the carbide or the nitride of the element X having an average grain size of not larger than 3 nm. This way, increased corrosion resistance is provided without substantially reducing magnetic characteristics such as saturation and coercive force. A recording apparatus, such as a VTR, including such a recording head is disclosed as well as a recording medium formed using this thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi Kirino, Shigekazu Otomo, Nagatugu Koiso, Noriyuki Kumasaka, Takeshi Miura
  • Patent number: 5873954
    Abstract: A ferromagnetic amorphous metallic alloy strip is annealed to minimize exciting power rather than core loss. The strip has an exciting power less than 0.5 VA/kg when measured at 60 Hz and an operating induction of 1.40 to 1.45 Tesla, the measurement being carried out at ambient temperature. Cores composed of the strip can be run at higher operating induction than those annealed to minimize core loss. The physical size of the transformer's magnetic components, including the core, is significantly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.
    Inventors: Howard H. Liebermann, Nicholas J. DeCristofaro
  • Patent number: 5871593
    Abstract: A rapidly solidified amorphous metallic alloy is composed of iron, boron, silicon and carbon. The alloy exhibits in combination high saturation induction, high Curie temperature, high crystallization temperature, low core loss and low exciting power at line frequencies and is particularly suited for use in cores of transformers for an electrical power distribution network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.
    Inventors: Gordon Edward Fish, Howard Horst Liebermann, John Silgailis, V. R.V. Ramanan
  • Patent number: 5858548
    Abstract: Corrosion resistance of a magnetic film composed mainly of Fe is maintained while keeping its magnetic properties. A magnetic head having a magnetic core is formed in part of the magnetic thin film, which contains not only an alloy of Fe-metalloid series but also (Al, Ru) or (Al, Rh) and which is thermally treated at a constant temperature to develop the soft magnetic properties. The deterioration of the saturation magnetization and the soft magnetic properties is suppressed by adding (Al, Ru) or (Al, Rh) together. The magnetic film has a high saturation magnetization and excellent soft magnetic properties and is excellent in corrosion resistance and hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi Kirino, Shigeharu Otomo, Nagatugu Koiso, Noriyuki Kumasaka, Takeshi Miura
  • Patent number: 5850336
    Abstract: A small-sized apparatus having an inverter which can satisfy EMC standards by providing a small zero phase-sequence reactor which has a high noise attenuation rate over a wide frequency range and wide working temperature range. The apparatus having an inverter comprising a line-noise filter connected between a power supply and the inverter and a zero phase-sequence reactor connected between the inverter and a load is characterized in that the zero phase-sequence reactor connected between the inverter and the load comprises a tape-wound magnetic core formed by winding a nanocrystalline soft-magnetic alloy tape in which nanocrystalline grains not larger than 50 nm in grain size account for at least 50% in volume of the structure; the tape-wound core having the AC relative initial permeability .mu.ri (10 kHz) at the magnetizing force peak value of 0.05 A/m and the frequency of 10 kHz of 20,000 to 200,000, and the AC relative initial permeability .mu.ri (100 kHz) at the magnetizing force peak value of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignees: Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Hitachi Ferrite Electronics Ltd.
    Inventor: Shin Nakajima
  • Patent number: 5825290
    Abstract: A self-biasing magnetostrictive element for use in a magnetomechanical EAS marker is a strip of amorphous alloy with crystalline particles of semi-hard or hard magnetic material distributed throughout the bulk of the amorphous alloy strip. The crystalline particles are magnetized to bias the amorphous alloy strip to resonate in response to an interrogation signal. The crystalline particles are formed by heat-treating the amorphous alloy strip at a temperature above the Curie temperature of the amorphous alloy in the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field. The alloy strip is then cross-field annealed at a temperature below the Curie temperature of the amorphous alloy to form a transverse anisotropy in the amorphous bulk of the alloy strip. A preferred alloy composition includes iron, cobalt, niobium, copper, boron and silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Ren Lian, Robert C. O'Handley
  • Patent number: 5821000
    Abstract: A composite magnetic member formed of a single material having a ferromagnetic section with high soft magnetism and a non-magnetic or the like section with sufficiently low magnetic (feebly magnetized or non-magnetic) and sufficient low MS temperature and a process for producing the member are provided. A composite magnetic member made of a single material of martensitic stainless steel including Ni having two sections of a ferromagnetic section having maximum permeability not less than 200 and coercive force not more than 2000 A/m and a feebly magnetized section having permeability not more than 2 and MS temperature not more than -30.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd. and Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Inui, Jun Sunakawa, Masaki Shimizu, Keizo Takeuchi, Shinya Sugiura
  • Patent number: 5804912
    Abstract: A magnetic cathode ray tube (CRT) which has an iron or cobalt based amorphous alloy layer on the surface of a glass bulb shows an excellent magnetic shielding effect and has simple structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Samsung Display Devices Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Min Park
  • Patent number: 5766375
    Abstract: A non-oriented magnetic steel sheet having excellent bending workability and magnetic characteristics is obtained by continuous annealing. The non-oriented magnetic steel sheet is obtained by the method comprising cold rolling a hot-rolled steel sheet, continuously annealing the steel sheet, and then performing skin pass rolling; the steel has a composition comprising about 0.005 mass % or less of C, about 0.05 to 0.30 mass % of Si, about 0.10 to 0.50 mass % of Mn, about 0.15 to 0.50 mass % of Al, and about 0.0050 mass % or less of N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Okamura, Etsuji Hino, Yoshinori Fujita, Masaki Shimizu, Tetsuya Aoki, Shoichi Takenouchi
  • Patent number: 5730810
    Abstract: In a non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet including about 0.01 wt % or less of C, about 1.0 wt % or less of Si, Mn in a range of about 0.1 wt % to 1.5 wt %, Al in a range of about 0.2 wt % to 1.5 wt %; the steel sheet having a critical amount of about 2 to 80 ppm rare earth metal, and the quantities of Ti and Zr in the steel sheet being limited to about 15 ppm or less of Ti, and about 80 ppm or less of Zr. The sheet exhibits excellent magnetic characteristics, such as iron loss, even when punched and laminated sheets are stress relief annealed at a low temperature for a short period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Takashima, Keiji Sato, Takashi Obara
  • Patent number: 5728237
    Abstract: Amorphous alloys having the formulaFe.sub.a Co.sub.b Ni.sub.c Si.sub.x B.sub.y M.sub.zare employed as monitoring strips for mechanically oscillating tags, for example for anti-theft protection, together with a source of a pre-magnetization field in which the strip is disposed so as to place the strip in an activated state. In the formula, M denotes one or more elements of groups IV through VII of the periodic table, including C, Ge and P, and the constituents in at % meet the following conditions: a lies between 20 and 74, b lies between 4 and 23, c lies between 5 and 50, with the criterion that b+c>14, x lies between 0 and 10, y lies between 10 and 20, and z lies between 0 and 5 with the sum x+y+z being between 12 and 21. These alloys have a resonant frequency associated therewith and when passed through an alternating field whose alternation frequency coincides with the resonant frequency, a pulse having a signal amplitude is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Vacuumschmelze GmbH
    Inventor: Giselher Herzer
  • Patent number: 5725686
    Abstract: A pulse transformer comprising a magnetic core formed of a thin strip of nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloy in which fine nanocrystalline grains having a grain size of not more than 50 nm occupy at least 50 volume % of the structure, characterized in that the AC relative initial magnetic permeability at -20.degree. C. and 50.degree. C. is not less than 50000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Yoshizawa, Yoshio Bizen, Shin Nakajima, Shunsuke Arakawa
  • Patent number: 5720829
    Abstract: A maraging type magnetic hot work implement, such as a forging die, or a tool, such as a turbine blade, having Ni.sub.3 Mo, Ni.sub.3 Al and, preferably, Ni.sub.3 Ti strengthening precipitates dispersed uniformly, and being substantially Co free, said product having the following approximate composition by weight percent:______________________________________ C less than .20 Mn .80 max P .015 max S .010 max Si .15-.35 Ni 6.00-16.00 Cr 6.00-14.00 Mo 2.00-6.00 V 0.3-.15 Ti 0.00-4.00 Al .20-8.00 Fe balance together with incidental impurities and other elements not significantly adversely affecting performance ______________________________________and methods of manufacture thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: A. Finkl & Sons Co.
    Inventors: Charles W. Finkl, Guy A. Brada, Algirdas A. Underys
  • Patent number: 5718775
    Abstract: Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a very low iron loss with controlled area ratio of fine grains, average grain size of coarse grains, obliquity of the grain boundary line of coarse grains, permeability under 1.0 T, and film tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Michiro Komatsubara, Kunihiro Senda, Takafumi Suzuki, Hiroaki Toda, Hiroi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5676771
    Abstract: A non-oriented silicon steel sheet having a low core loss contains Si in an amount of about 2.5-5.0 wt % and S restricted to about 0.003 wt % or less and inclusions; the volume ratio of those inclusions having a particle size of about 4 .mu.m or higher to the total volume of inclusions is about 5-60%, and the volume ratio of inclusions having a particle size less than about 1 .mu.m to the total volume of inclusions is about 1-15%; when the sheet contains Mn in an amount of about 0.4-1.5%, and the volume ratio of particles less than 1 .mu.m is about 1-5%, the silicon steel sheet also has a low rotation core loss.The method of manufacturing comprises controlling the change of a cooling speed to about 5.degree. C./s.sup.2 or less in the cooling process of such steel sheet in a finish annealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Yano, Atsuhito Honda, Takashi Obara, Minoru Takashima
  • Patent number: 5676770
    Abstract: This invention relates to a non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet with low leakage flux for a compact transformer and a method for making the same. After stress relief annealing, the magnetic permeability .mu..sub.C of the sheet in the direction transverse to the sheet rolling direction is.mu..sub.C .gtoreq.about 2.5.times.10.sup.-3 (H/m)and magnetic permeability .mu..sub.D of the sheet in the direction 45.degree. to the sheet rolling direction is.mu..sub.D .gtoreq.about 1.5.times.10.sup.-3 (H/m).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Sato, Kouji Yano, Minoru Takashima, Masaki Kawano, Takashi Obara
  • Patent number: 5658397
    Abstract: An iron-based amorphous alloy thin strip for wound transformers has a composition expressed by a chemical formula:Fe.sub.a B.sub.b Si.sub.c Mn.sub.dwhere about 78.ltoreq.a.ltoreq. about 82 at %, about 8.ltoreq.b.ltoreq. about 15 at %, 4.ltoreq.c.ltoreq. about 14 at %, and about 0.2.ltoreq.d.ltoreq. about 1.0 at %. The ratio (building factor) of the iron loss of a wound core obtained from the above-described alloy thin strip to the iron loss of a single strip is about 1.5 or below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Fumio Kogiku, Masao Yukumoto, Kensuke Matsuki
  • Patent number: 5653824
    Abstract: Methods for preparing magnetic strips are provided in which the strips are manufactured to a thickness of less than about 0.005 inches and are made of a ferrous alloy having a carbon content of from about 0.4 to about 1.2 weight percent. The strips can be prepared by first manufacturing an alloy having a carbon content below about 0.5 weight percent to the desired thickness and then subjecting the strip to a carburizing step to raise the carbon content in the strip. The strips can also be prepared by controlling the chemistry of the initial alloy and controlling the processing of that alloy until the desired thickness and requisite magnetic properties are obtained. The strips are particularly useful in EAS systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: The Arnold Engineering Company
    Inventors: Neil R. Manning, Richard L. Anderson
  • Patent number: 5645652
    Abstract: The disclosure describes spindle-shaped magnetic iron-based alloy particles containing cobalt and iron as the main ingredients in which the Co content is 1.0 to 50.0 atm % (calculated as Co) based on the total Fe in the spindle-shaped magnetic iron-based alloy particles, and which the spindle-shaped magnetic iron-based alloy particles have an average major axis diameter of 0.05 to 0.18 .mu.m, a size distribution (standard deviation/major axis diameter) of not more than 0.25, an average minor axis diameter of 0.010 to 0.020 .mu.m, an aspect ratio (major axis diameter/minor axis diameter) of 4 to 15, an X-ray crystallite size D.sub.110 of 120 to 180 .ANG., a coercive force of 1720 to 2500 Oe, a saturation magnetization of not less than 110 emu/g, and a saturation magnetization decrement percentage of not more than 17%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Toda Kogyo Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Okinaka, Yasutaka Ota
  • Patent number: 5611872
    Abstract: Methods for preparing magnetic strips are provided in which the strips are manufactured to a thickness of less than about 0.003 inches and are made of a ferrous alloy having a carbon content of from about 0.4 to about 1.2 weight percent. The strips are prepared by first manufacturing an alloy having a carbon content below about 0.5 weight percent to the desired thickness and then subjecting the strip to a carburizing step to raise the carbon content in the strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: The Arnold Engineering Company
    Inventors: Neil R. Manning, Richard L. Anderson
  • Patent number: 5601664
    Abstract: A ferritic, stainless steel alloy containing in weight percent about 0.05% max. C, 2.0% max. Mn, 0.70-1.5% Si, 0.1-0.5% S, 15-20% Or, 0.80-3.00% Mo, 0.10-1.0% Nb, 0.06% max. N, and the balance iron and impurities, provides a unique combination of magnetic properties, corrosion resistance, and machinability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: CRS Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore Kosa, Stephen M. Lukes, Douglas W. Dietrich, Terry A. DeBold
  • Patent number: 5593513
    Abstract: A rapidly solidified amorphous metallic alloy is composed of iron, boron, silicon and carbon. The alloy exhibits in combination high saturation induction, high Curie temperature, high crystallization temperature, low core loss and low exciting power at line frequencies and is particularly suited for use in cores of transformers for an electrical power distribution network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.
    Inventors: V. R. V. Ramanan, Gordon E. Fish, Howard H. Liebermann, John Silgailis
  • Patent number: 5593518
    Abstract: A rapidly solidified amorphous metallic alloy is composed of iron, boron, silicon and carbon. The alloy exhibits in combination high saturation induction, high Curie temperature, high crystallization temperature, low core loss and low exciting power at line frequencies and is particularly suited for use in cores of transformers for an electrical power distribution network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.
    Inventor: V. R. V. Ramanan
  • Patent number: 5522947
    Abstract: Disclosed are an amorphous iron based alloy having excellent magnetic characteristics as well as bendability and a method of manufacturing the amorphous iron based alloy.The amorphous iron based alloy has a mean centerline Ra surface roughness of about 0.8 .mu.m or less and the formula Fe.sub.X B.sub.Y Si.sub.Z Mn.sub.a in approximate proportions wherein:75<X<82 at %7<Y<15 at %,7<Z<17 at %, and0.2<a<0.5 at %.The method of manufacturing the amorphous iron based alloy comprises quenching and solidifying a molten alloy having the formula Fe.sub.X B.sub.Y Si.sub.Z Mn.sub.a in approximate proportions wherein:75<X<82 at %7<Y<15 at %,7<Z<17 at %, and0.2<a<0.5 at %, andeffecting the quenching and solidifying steps in a Co.sub.2. atmosphere containing H.sub.2 in an amount of about 1-4% by volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Fumio Kogiku, Masao Yukumoto, Seiji Okabe
  • Patent number: 5522948
    Abstract: An Fe-based soft magnetic alloy is consisted essentially of fine crystal grains constituting 50% or more of the alloy structure by area %. The Fe-based soft magnetic alloy has the composition substantially represented by the general formula: Fe.sub.100-a-b-c-d-e-f X.sub.a M.sub.b M'.sub.c A.sub.d Si.sub.e Z.sub.f (wherein X is at least one compound selected from the ceramic materials fusible when the composition is fused and rapidly quenched to form a rapidly cooled alloy, M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo and W, M' is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mn, elements in the platinum group, Ag, Au, Zn, Al, Ga, In, Sn, Cu and rare each elements, A is at least one element selected from among Co and Ni, Z is at least one element selected from the group consisting of B, C, P and Ge. Said a, b, c, d, e and f respectively satisfy 0.1.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.5, 0.1.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.10, 0.ltoreq.c.ltoreq.10, 0.ltoreq.d.ltoreq.40, 5.ltoreq.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takao Sawa, Yumiko Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5496418
    Abstract: This invention is directed to metallic alloy consisting essentially of iron, boron and silicon and having a composition in the region A, B, C, D, E, F, A of FIG. 1, said alloy having a crystallization temperature of at least about 490.degree. C., a saturation magnetization value of at least about 174 emu/g at 25.degree. C., a core loss not greater than about 0.3 W/kg, measured at 25.degree. C., 60 Hz and 1.4 T after having been annealed at 360.degree. C. for about 2000 seconds, a core loss not greater than about 0.3 W/kg, measured at 25.degree. C., 60 Hz and 1.4 T after having been annealed at about 380.degree. C. for a time ranging from about 1000 to about 2000 seconds, an exciting power requirement not greater than about 1 VA/kg, measured at 25.degree. C., 60 Hz and 1.4 T after having been annealed at 360.degree. C. for about 2000 seconds, an exciting power requirement not greater than about 1 VA/kg, measured at 25.degree. C., 60 Hz and 1.4 T after having been annealed at 380.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.
    Inventors: V. R. V. Ramanan, Howard H. Liebermann
  • Patent number: 5443664
    Abstract: A surge current-suppressing circuit for an accelerator comprising a magnetic device inserted between a high-voltage DC power supply and an ion source for suppressing surge current generated when electric charge stored in a stray capacitance existing between the high-voltage DC power supply and the load is released at the time of short-circuiting of the load. The magnetic device comprises a magnetic core constituted by interlaminar-insulated thin ribbons of an iron-base amorphous or fine crystalline soft magnetic alloy. The iron-base fine crystalline soft magnetic alloy has the composition represented by the general formula:(Fe.sub.1-a M.sub.a).sub.100-x-y-z-.alpha. Cu.sub.x Si.sub.y.sub.B.sub.z M'.sub..alpha.wherein M is Co and/or Ni, M' is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, W, Ta, Zr, Hf, Ti and Mo, and a, x, y, z and .alpha. respectively satisfy 0.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.0.5, 0.1.ltoreq..times..ltoreq.3, 0.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.30, 0.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.25, 5.ltoreq.y+z.ltoreq.30 and 0.1.ltoreq..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Nakajima, Noriyoshi Hirao, Kiyotaka Yamauchi, Osamu Shimoe
  • Patent number: 5425820
    Abstract: An oriented magnetic steel sheet with a very low core loss and a process for manufacturing it at a lower cost are disclosed. The steel sheet consists essentially of Si: greater than 3.0% and at most 6.0%, Mn: greater than 2.0% and at moat 8.0%, sol. Al: 0.003-0.015%, with Si (%)-0.5.times.Mn (%).ltoreq.2.0 and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, The amounts of C, N, and S as impurities are respectively at most 0.005%, at most 0.006%, and at most 0.01%. This steel sheet can be produced from a slab containing up to 0.01% C., up to 0.01% S and 0.001-0.010% N by (i) hot rolling the slab to obtain a hot-rolled steel sheet, (ii) cold rolling the hot-rolled steel sheet, as hot-rolled or after being subsequently annealed, one or more times with an intermediate annealing performed between successive stages of cold rolling to prepare a cold-rolled sheet, (iii) causing primary recrystallization by continuous annealing of the cold-rolled sheet, and (iv) finish annealing the continuously annealed steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Yashiki, Teruo Kaneko, Takashi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5411813
    Abstract: A magnetic material comprised of FeRhGaSi containing Rhodium at a concentration of 1.0 to 6.0 atomic percent, has improved saturation magnetization and permeability acquired by magnetic annealing of sputtered FeRhGaSi in thin film form between 350.degree. C. and 600.degree. C. The FeRhGaSi material has an increased Curie temperature compared to FeGaSi material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Alexander M. Zeltser
  • Patent number: 5411605
    Abstract: This invention is intended for providing a soft magnetic steel material having excellent DC magnetization properties and corrosion resistance, and capable of being manufactured at a low cost, and a method of manufacturing the same.The soft magnetic steel material of this invention contains 0.8 to 3.5% by weight of soluble aluminum, as well as limited amounts of C, total nitrogen, Si, Mn, P, S and total oxygen, and has an average ferrite crystal diameter of which the minimum has a specific relation to the thickness or diameter of the material. The material has a surface covered densely with aluminum oxide particles having a diameter of 0.01 to 5 microns. It exhibits a coercive force not exceeding 0.4 Oe in the absence of any strain and a magnetic flux density of 15,000 G or more at a magnetomotive force of 25 Oe. The aluminum oxide particles formed on the surface of the material are preferably formed with a density of 1.times.10.sup.12 to 1.times.10.sup.16 particles, or more preferably 1.times.10.sup.13 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Toshimichi Omori, Haruo Suzuki, Tetsuya Sampei, Takahiro Kanero, Masayoshi Nakagawa, Masayoshi Kurihara
  • Patent number: 5401332
    Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel having superior magnetic properties and for use in transformers and electrical generators, and a manufacturing process thereof are disclosed. Cu and P are mixedly added in the melting stage of a silicon steel containing MnS and AlN as grain growth inhibitors, and in this way, the magnetic properties are improved. The chemical composition of the steel sheet of the present invention are: 2.50-4.00% of Si, 0.03-0.15% of Mn, 0.030-0.300% of Cu, and 0.020-0.200% of P, the balance being Fe, all in weight %. The grain oriented electrical steel sheet of the present invention shows a low iron loss and a high magnetic flux density, and is cold-rolled to a thickness range of 0.15-0.27 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignees: Pohang Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology
    Inventors: Chung S. Lee, Jong S. Wo
  • Patent number: 5386332
    Abstract: A composite magnetic head has a media-contact surface defined by a gapped magnetic core sandwiched between a pair of ceramic substrates. The core is laminated and comprises thin layers of sputter-deposited FeRuGaSiX uniaxial anisotropic magnetic material alternating with even thinner layers of a dielectric material, where X is selected from the group consisting of Zr, Re, Ni and Co.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Tomasz M. Jagielinski, Charles F. Brucker
  • Patent number: 5350628
    Abstract: A magnetic material is provided which includes a discrete phase including grains made of a first substance which comprises a magnetic metal; and a continuous phase including a thin coating film made of a second substance which comprises a dielectric or insulating substance. The thin coating film is formed on the surface of the grains and has a mean thickness smaller than the mean particle size of the grains. The grains are separated substantially from each other by the thin coating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi Kugimiya, Yasuhiro Sugaya, Osamu Inoue, Ken Hirota, Mitsuo Satomi
  • Patent number: 5350463
    Abstract: A magnetically graduated steel bar is provided with a magnetic scale that has a steel composition consisting, on a weight basis, of 0.02-0.10% C, 0.50-1.0% Mn, 0.50-1.0% Si, 17-20% Cr, 5-8% Ni, 0.05-0.20% C plus N, and a balance of Fe and incidental impurities. The steel contains 30-60 vol % of a cold working induced martensite and is given a nonmagnetic austenitic structure by local melting. The steel bar has a tensile strength of at least 130 kgf/mm.sup.2 and a fatigue strength of at least 60 kgf/mm.sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignees: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Tsukamoto, Masakazu Nakazato
  • Patent number: 5260132
    Abstract: An acicular alloy base magnetic powder comprising iron and cobalt, which has an average particle long axis size of not larger than 0.25 .mu.m, an axial ratio of from 4 to 8, a cobalt content of from 8 to 50% by weight based on the weight of iron and saturation magnetization of at least 120 emu/g after being kept standing at the temperature of 60.degree. C. and relative humidity of 90% for a week, which has improved corrosion resistance and can provide a magnetic recording medium suitable for recording in the short wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetuya Nakazumi, Mikio Kishimoto, Toshinobu Sueyoshi, Seigi Kawarai
  • Patent number: 5258080
    Abstract: The invention relates to a non-oriented electrical strip having high proportions of cube or cube on face texture, a polarization of J 2500>1.7 T and a low core loss, and also to a process for its production. A steel slab, containing max. 0.025% C, less than 0.1% Mn, 0 to 0.15% boundary-surface-active elements and Si and Al in such a way that the relations (% Si)+2(% Al)>1.6% and (% Si)+(% Al)<4.5% are met, balance iron, is hot rolled to a thickness not lower than 3.5 mm. The resulting hot rolled strip is then cold rolled with a degree of reduction of at least 86% without intermediate recrystallization annealing and, if necessary, final annealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: EBG Gesellschaft fur Elektromagnetische Werkstoffe
    Inventors: Rolf Burger, Gert Lehmann, Wolfgang Lindner, Harry Wich, Jochen Wieting
  • Patent number: 5252148
    Abstract: A soft magnetic alloy having a composition of general formula:(Fe.sub.1-a Ni.sub.a).sub.100-x-y-z-p-q Cu.sub.x Si.sub.y B.sub.z Cr.sub.p M.sup.1.sub.q (I)wherein M.sup.1 is V or Mn or a mixture of V and Mn, 0.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.0.5, 0.1.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.5, 6.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.20, 6.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.20, 15.ltoreq.y+z.ltoreq.30, 0.5.ltoreq.p.ltoreq.10, and 0.5.ltoreq.q.ltoreq.10 and possessing a fine crystalline phase is suitable as a core, especially a wound core and a compressed powder core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1993
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Shigeta, Asako Kajita, Ippo Hirai, Tsutomu Choh
  • Patent number: 5238507
    Abstract: A magnetic material is provided which includes a discrete phase including grains made of a first substance which comprises a magnetic metal; and a continuous phase including a thin coating film made of a second substance which comprises a dielectric or insulating substance. The thin coating film is formed on the surface of the grains and has a mean thickness smaller than the mean particle size of the grains. The grains are separated substantially from each other by the thin coating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Kugimiya, Yasuhiro Sugaya, Osamu Inoue, Ken Hirota, Mitsuo Satomi