Patents Examined by Xiaowei Su
  • Patent number: 11842832
    Abstract: A continuous method of manufacturing permanent magnets and the permanent magnets created thereby. A fine powder is created from a combination of magnetic metals. The powder (a metal alloy) is placed in a non-magnetic container of any desired shape which could be, for example, a tube. The metal alloy and tube are swaged while a magnetic field is applied. Once swaging is complete, the metal alloy and tube are sintered and then cooled. Instead of sintering, a bonding agent can mixed into the powder. Following cooling, the metal alloy is magnetized by placing it between poles of powerful electromagnets with the desired field direction. The process of the invention enables mass-produced, cost-effective PM products, which are more robust, easily assembled into products, enables new “wire like” shapes with arbitrary magnetization direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc.
    Inventor: Rainer Meinke
  • Patent number: 11837391
    Abstract: A sintered R2M17 magnet is provided that comprises at least 70 Vol % of a Sm2M17 phase, wherein R is at least one of the group consisting of Ce, La, Nd, Pr, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yt, Lu and Y, and M comprises Co, Fe, Cu and Zr. In an area of the R2M17 sintered magnet of 200 by 200 ?m viewed in a Kerr micrograph, an areal proportion of demagnetised regions after application of an internal opposing field of 1200 kA/m is less than 5% or less than 2%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kaan Üstüner, Matthias Katter, Christoph Brombacher
  • Patent number: 11837390
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an R-T-B based permanent magnet material, having a composition of RxTyTmqBz (at. %), wherein 13?x?15.5, 0.5?q?3, 0.85?z?1, y=100?x?q?z; wherein R is LRaHR1-a, LR is one selected from the group consisting of Pr, Nd, PrNd, or a combination thereof, HR is one selected from the group consisting of Dy and Tb, or a combination thereof, and 0.95?a?1; wherein T is one selected from the group consisting of Fe and Co, or a combination thereof; and Tm is a transition metal. The advantage of the method is that: plating a heavy rare earth film on alloy flakes using a magnetron sputtering device, and the coercivity of the magnet is significantly increased simply by having a “core-shell” structure without long time diffusion heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NINGBO KETIAN MAGNET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changjiang Yan, Nijian Qian, Wancheng Fu
  • Patent number: 11827965
    Abstract: A metallic glass coating material is composed of an alloy of Fe, B, and one of the metals Nb, Mo, Zr, or W. The ratios of Fe, B, and the metal are predetermined using machine learning predictions and high-throughput experiments. In one example, the material is an alloy of Fe, Nb, Mo and B, of the form Fex(Nb, Mo)yBz, where x is in the range 18-28, y is in the range 35-45, and z is in the range 32-42. In another example, the material may be the alloy Fe23(Nb, Mo)40B37. The alloy may be doped with Zr and/or W, where the Zr and/or W comprises at most 10% of the alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Colorado School of Mines
    Inventors: Apurva Mehta, Suchismita Sarker, Corinne E. Packard, Rachel Schoeppner
  • Patent number: 11821066
    Abstract: Systems and methods of non-contact tensioning of a metal strip during metal processing include passing the metal strip adjacent a magnetic rotor. The magnetic rotor is spaced apart from the metal strip by a first distance. The systems and methods also include tensioning the metal strip through the magnetic rotor by rotating the magnetic rotor. Rotating the magnetic rotor induces a magnetic field into the metal strip such that the metal strip is tensioned in an upstream direction or a downstream direction. In other aspects, rotating the magnetic rotor induces a magnetic field into the metal strip such that a force normal to a surface of the metal strip is applied to the metal strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Novelis Inc.
    Inventors: Antoine Jean Willy Pralong, David Anthony Gaensbauer, Rodger Brown, William Beck, Andrew James Hobbis
  • Patent number: 11817241
    Abstract: A magnet structure includes a first sintered magnet, a second sintered magnet, and an intermediate layer disposed between the first sintered magnet and the second sintered magnet. Each of the first sintered magnet and the second sintered magnet independently includes crystal grains containing a rare earth element, a transition metal element, and boron. The intermediate layer contains rare earth element oxide phases and crystal grains containing a rare earth element, transition metal element, and boron. Each of the transition metal elements independently includes Fe or a combination of Fe and Co. An average coverage factor of the rare earth element oxide phases measured on the basis of a cross section perpendicular to the intermediate layer of the magnet structure is within a range of 10% to 69%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Taeko Tsubokura, Toshihiro Kuroshima, Koji Mitake, Takeshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 11817245
    Abstract: A soft magnetic powder according to the present disclosure comprises a particle having no hollow part as a main component, wherein a number of hollow particle present in a region of 2.5 mm square is 40 or less in a cross section of a molded body obtained by powder-compacting and molding the soft magnetic powder so as to have a volume filling rate of 75% or more and 77% or less (i.e., from 75% to 77%).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Kazuhiro Henmi, Noriharu Yodoshi, Akihiro Makino
  • Patent number: 11798739
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes, in a samarium-iron-nitrogen based magnet powder, a main phase containing samarium and iron, and a sub-phase containing samarium, iron, and at least one or more elements selected from the group consisting of zirconium, molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten, and titanium, wherein an atomic ratio of a rare earth element to an iron group element is greater than an atomic ratio of the rare earth element to the iron group element of the main phase, wherein at least a part of a surface of the main phase is coated with the sub-phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Hashimoto, Yasushi Enokido, Shusuke Okada, Kenta Takagi
  • Patent number: 11798715
    Abstract: Disclosed are a Mn—Bi—Sb-based magnetic substance and a method of manufacturing the same. Particularly, the Mn—Bi—Sb-based magnetic substance includes Mn and Bi forming a hexagonal crystal structure, and a portion of Bi elements forming the crystal structure is substituted with Sb so as to improve the magnetic properties thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University ERICA Campus
    Inventors: Tae Gyu Lee, Jin Hyeok Cha, Jong Ryoul Kim, Min Kyu Kang
  • Patent number: 11794244
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a dust core, including: a step of preparing a raw material powder including a coated pure iron powder composed of a plurality of pure iron particles each having an insulating coating layer, a coated iron alloy powder composed of a plurality of iron alloy particles each having an insulating coating layer, and a metal soap; a step of manufacturing a molded article by performing a compression molding of the raw material powder filled in a mold; and a step of performing a heat treatment of the molded article to eliminate distortions in the coated pure iron powder and the coated iron alloy powder, wherein a difference Tm?Td between a melting point Tm of the metal soap and a temperature Td of the mold in the step of manufacturing the molded article is greater than or equal to 90° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Saito, Asako Watanabe, Tomoyuki Ueno, Hijiri Tsuruta
  • Patent number: 11791093
    Abstract: A sintered magnet body (RaT1bMcBd) coated with a powder mixture of an intermetallic compound (R1iM1j, R1xT2yM1z, R1iM1jHk), alloy (M1dM2e) or metal (M1) powder and a rare earth (R2) oxide is diffusion treated. The R2 oxide is partially reduced during the diffusion treatment, so a significant amount of R2 can be introduced near interfaces of primary phase grains within the magnet through the passages in the form of grain boundaries. The coercive force is increased while minimizing a decline of remanence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nagata, Tadao Nomura, Takehisa Minowa
  • Patent number: 11788163
    Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet includes a steel structure with: ferrite being 35% to 80% and tempered martensite being greater than 5% and 20% or less in terms of area fraction; retained austenite being 8% or more in terms of volume fraction; an average grain size of: the ferrite being 6 ?m or less; and the retained austenite being 3 ?m or less; a value obtained by dividing an area fraction of blocky austenite by a sum of area fractions of lath-like austenite and the blocky austenite being 0.6 or more; a value obtained by dividing, by mass %, an average Mn content in the retained austenite by an average Mn content in the ferrite being 1.5 or more; and a value obtained by dividing, by mass %, an average C content in the retained austenite by an average C content in the ferrite being 3.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Endo, Yoshiyasu Kawasaki, Yuki Toji, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Mai Aoyama
  • Patent number: 11783972
    Abstract: The present application relates to a preparation method of neodymium iron boron products and the neodymium iron boron product prepared by using the same. The preparation method of neodymium iron boron products includes the following steps: Step S1: preparing blank magnet; Step S2: obtaining preprocessed sheets; Step S3: surface treating; Step S4: heavy rare earth coating; Step S5: stacking: stacking a plurality of preprocessed sheets to give stacked magnets; and Step S6: grain boundary diffusion: successively subjecting the stacked magnets to a primary heat treatment for 2-40 min, a secondary heat treatment at 700-1000° C. for 4-40 h, and then tempering at 450-700° C., in which the primary heat treatment is induction heat treatment or electric spark sintering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: Hangzhou Magmax Technology Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Foresee Group Holding Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinghui Di, Qifeng Wei, Shujun Shen, Shengli Jia, Lichun Zhan, Pengfei Ge
  • Patent number: 11776719
    Abstract: The present disclosure refers to a method for preparing sintered NdFeB magnets, including: a) Preparing alloy flakes from a raw material by strip casting, performing a hydrogen decrepitation to produce alloy pieces, pulverization the alloy pieces to an alloy powder, performing molding and orientation, cold isostatic pressing, and getting a green compact; b) Putting the green compact into a vacuum furnace and performing a first sintering step in 830 to 880° C. for 2 to 10 hours and 5×10?1 Pa or less; c) Performing a second sintering step while applying a pressure to the green compact achieved by step b), the pressure is 1 MPa to 5 MPa and the sintering temperature is 720 to 850° C. for 15 to 60 minutes, and the temperature of the first sintering step is at least 10° C. higher than that of the second sintering step; d) Subjecting the sintered magnet of step c) to an annealing treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Yantai Dongxing Magnetic Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Xiulei Chen, Zhongjie Peng, Xiaonan Zhu, Zhanji Dong, Kaihong Ding
  • Patent number: 11770022
    Abstract: A nanocrystalline magnetic conductive sheet for wireless charging and a preparation method therefor are provided. The nanocrystalline magnetic conductive sheet includes a composition of Fe(100-x-y-z-?-?-?)MxCuyM?zSi?B?X?, saturation magnetic induction is greater than or equal to 1.25T. The preparation method includes preparing an alloy with a preset composition of into an alloy strip with an initial state of amorphousness by a single roll rapid quenching method, annealing an amorphous alloy strip according to a preset annealing process, to obtain a nanocrystalline strip, performing a magnetic fragmentation process on the nanocrystalline strip, to obtain the nanocrystalline magnetic conductive sheet for wireless charging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventors: Kevin Li, James Wang, Jeff Zhang, Danny Ma, Lavin Li, Terrence Zeng
  • Patent number: 11756729
    Abstract: A compression-molding method for a permanent includes: providing a drive coil to generate an electromagnetic force when a transient current is passed into the drive coil, so as to apply a molding compression force to magnetic powder under compression, and providing an orientation coil to generate an orientation magnetic field when a transient current is passed into the orientation coil, thereby providing the magnetic powder under compression with an anisotropic property; and synchronously passing the transient currents to the drive coil and the orientation coil to synchronously generate the electromagnetic force and the orientation magnetic field, thereby completing compression-molding of the permanent magnet, wherein a magnitude of the electromagnetic force and an intensity of the orientation magnetic field are respectively changed by changing peak values of the transient currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Liang Li, Yiliang Lv
  • Patent number: 11742119
    Abstract: Provided is a permanent magnet including a rare-earth element R (such as Nd), a transition metal element T (such as Fe), B, Zr, and Cu. The permanent magnet contains a plurality of main phase grains including Nd, T, and B, and grain boundary multiple junctions, the one grain boundary multiple junction is a grain boundary surrounded by three or more of the main phase grains, one of the grain boundary multiple junctions contains a ZrB2 crystal and an R—Cu-rich phase including R and Cu, Fe is contained in the ZrB2 crystal, a total concentration of Nd and Pr in the one grain boundary multiple junction containing both the ZrB2 crystal and the R—Cu-rich phase is higher than a total concentration of Nd and Pr in the main phase grain, a concentration of Cu in the one grain boundary multiple junction containing both the ZrB2 crystal and the R—Cu-rich phase is higher than a concentration of Cu in the main phase grain, and a unit of the concentration of each of Nd, Pr, and Cu is atomic %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Miwa, Yoshitomo Tanaka, Koji Miura, Taeko Tsubokura
  • Patent number: 11732338
    Abstract: A magnetic body of the coil component contains, as soft magnetic alloy grains, first grains whose alloy components are substantially Fe, Si, and Cr, and second grains which contain, as alloy components, Fe, Si, and an element other than Si or Cr that oxidizes more easily than Fe; the average grain size of the second grains is smaller than the average grain size of the first grains; the first grains have, on their surface, an amorphous oxide film containing Si and Cr; the second grains have, on their surface, a crystalline oxide layer containing the element other than Si or Cr that oxidizes more easily than Fe; and the crystalline oxide forms adhesion parts, each contacting a multiple number of the first grains via the amorphous oxide film thereof and coupling or bridging the multiple number of the first grains. The coil component can offer improved mechanical strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoko Orimo, Tomoo Kashiwa
  • Patent number: 11735341
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an R-T-B-based sintered magnet including: a rare earth element R; a metal element T which is Fe, or includes Fe and Co with which a part of Fe is substituted; boron; and a boride forming element M which is a metal element other than rare earth elements and the metal element T and forms a boride, in which the R-T-B-based sintered magnet includes: a main phase which includes a crystal grain of an R-T-B-based alloy; and a boride phase which includes a compound phase based on the boride of the boride forming element M, and is generated on a preferential growth plane of the crystal grain of the main phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michihide Nakamura, Masaru Itakura
  • Patent number: 11721479
    Abstract: A rare earth magnet including a magnetic phase having the composition represented by (Nd(1?x?y)LaxCey)2(Fe(1?z)Coz)14B. When the saturation magnetization at absolute zero and the Curie temperature calculated by Kuzmin's formula based on the measured values at finite temperature and the saturation magnetization at absolute zero and the Curie temperature calculated by first principles calculation are respectively subjected to data assimilation. The saturation magnetization M(x, y, z, T=0) at absolute zero and the Curie temperature obtained by machine learning using the assimilated data group are applied again to Kuzmin's formula and the saturation magnetization at finite temperature is represented by a function M(x, y, z, T), x, y, and z of the formula in an atomic ratio are in a range of satisfying M(x, y, z, T)>M(x, y, z=0, T) and 400?T?453.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Kazuya Yokota, Tetsuya Syoji, Noritsugu Sakuma, Takashi Miyake, Yosuke Harashima, Hisazumi Akai, Naoki Kawashima, Keiichi Tamai, Munehisa Matsumoto