Patents Examined by Xiaowei Su
  • Patent number: 11710586
    Abstract: Provided are a SmFeN magnetic powder which is superior not only in water resistance and corrosion resistance but also in hot water resistance, and a method of preparing the powder. The present invention relates to a method of preparing a magnetic powder, comprising: plasma-treating a gas; surface-treating a SmFeN magnetic powder with the plasma-treated gas; and forming a coat layer on the surface of the surface-treated SmFeN magnetic powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rieko Yoshimoto, Satoshi Yamanaka, Shuichi Tada, Hideaki Yoshiwara
  • Patent number: 11705257
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an R-T-B sintered magnet and a preparation method thereof. The sintered magnet includes a grain boundary region T1, a shell layer region T2 and an R2Fe14B grain region T3; at 10 ?m to 60 ?m from a surface of the sintered magnet toward a center thereof, an area ratio of the shell layer region T2 to the R2Fe14B grain region T3 is 0.1 to 0.3, and a thickness of the shell layer region T2 is 0.5 ?m to 1.2 ?m; and an average coating percent of the shell layer region T2 on the R2Fe14B grain region T3 is 80% or more. In the present invention, by optimizing a preparation process and a microstructure of a traditional rare earth permanent magnet, diffusion efficiency of heavy rare earth in the magnet is improved, such that coercivity of the magnet is greatly improved, and manufacturing cost is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignees: GRIREM ADVANCED MATERIALS CO., LTD., Rare Earth Functional Materials (Xiong'an) Innovation Center Co., Ltd., Griceon (Rongcheng) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Luo, Dunbo Yu, Wei Zhu, Xinyuan Bai, Xiao Lin, Shengjie Zhu, Zilong Wang, Haijun Peng
  • Patent number: 11697154
    Abstract: A polishing method for an inner wall of a hollow metal part, including: firstly, placing a coaxial cathode in an inner hole of a metal part when a metal part model is designed, and printing the metal part model and the coaxial cathode together; then, sealing two ends of an inner hole cavity of the metal part by using a light curing part, fixing the coaxial cathode, filling the cavity with a polishing solution, and performing polishing treatment by using an electrochemical polishing method; and finally, reversing an electrode to break the coaxial cathode and take out the broken coaxial cathode to obtain a polished metal part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING
    Inventor: Baicheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11688534
    Abstract: A process for producing R-T-B-based rare earth magnet powder having excellent coercive force and high remanent flux density. A process for producing R-T-B-based rare earth magnet powder by HDDR treatment, in which a raw material alloy for the R-T-B-based rare earth magnet powder includes R (wherein R represents at least one rare earth element including Y), T (wherein T represents Fe, or Fe and Co) and B (wherein B represents boron), and has a composition including R in an amount of between 12.0 atom % and 17.0 atom %, and B in an amount of between 4.5 atom % and 7.5 atom %; the HDDR treatment includes a DR step including a preliminary evacuation step and a complete evacuation step; and a rate of pressure reduction caused by evacuation in the preliminary evacuation step is not less than 1 kPa/min and not more than 30 kPa/min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TODA KOGYO CORP.
    Inventors: Shohei Kaneko, Kuniyoshi Shigeoka, Nobuhiro Katayama, Koichiro Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11688552
    Abstract: A method for assembling a magnetic inductor for an electromagnetic pump comprising the following steps: providing a plurality of magnetic laminations having a cross section of an involute of a circle; assembling the plurality of magnetic laminations by fitting same into an inductor core; cutting out at least one housing for an elementary coil; providing and placing an elementary coil inside each housing formed in the cutting step and thereby forming the magnetic inductor. Further, a magnetic inductor formed by implementing such a method and an electromagnetic pump including at least one magnetic inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Sylvain Vitry
  • Patent number: 11682506
    Abstract: Disclosed are a rare-earth permanent magnet having improved magnetic properties and a method of manufacturing the same. A method of manufacturing a rare-earth permanent magnet may include: preparing a mixed powder including i) a first alloy represented by R1aR2bBcMdFebal and ii) a second alloy represented by R2bBcMdFebal where R1 is one or two or more of La, Ce, and Y; R2 is a rare-earth element except for La, Ce, and Y; and M is a metal element; press-forming and sintering the prepared mixed powder in a magnetic field to prepare a sintered body; and performing a heat treatment based on diffusion temperature conditions of an R1 component and an R2 component contained in the prepared sintered body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Star Group Ind. Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Do Hoon Kim, Hyung Ju Lee, Jae Hyuk Jang, Young Beom Kim, Dong Hwan Kim, Koon Seung Kong
  • Patent number: 11680303
    Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a steel structure of an inside of the steel sheet contains, by volume fraction, soft ferrite: 0% to 30%, retained austenite: 3% to 40%, fresh martensite: 0% to 30%, a sum of pearlite and cementite: 0% to 10%, and a remainder includes hard ferrite, a number proportion of the retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more in the total retained austenite is 50% or more, a soft layer having a thickness of 1 to 100 ?m from a surface in a sheet thickness direction is present, in ferrite contained in the soft layer, a volume fraction of grains having an aspect ratio of 3.0 or more is 50% or more, a volume fraction of retained austenite in the soft layer is 80% or less of the volume fraction of the retained austenite in the inside of the steel sheet, and a peak of an emission intensity at a wavelength indicating Si appears in a range of more than 0.2 ?m and 10.0 ?m or less from the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Yokoyama, Riki Okamoto, Kohichi Sano, Hiroyuki Kawata, Kohei Ueda, Eisaku Sakurada
  • Patent number: 11664140
    Abstract: A rare earth magnet includes a main phase and a particle boundary phase and in which an overall composition is represented by a formula, (R2(1-x)R1x)yFe(100-y-w-z-v)CowBzM1v.(R3(1-p)M2p)q.(R4(1-s)M3s)t, where R1 is a light rare earth element, R2 and R3 are a medium rare earth element, R4 is a heavy rare earth element, M1, M2, M3 are a predetermined metal element. The main phase includes a core portion, a first shell portion, and a second shell portion. The content proportion of medium rare earth element is higher in the first shell portion than in the core portion, the content proportion of medium rare earth element is lower in the second shell portion than in the first shell portion. The second shell portion contains heavy rare earth elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noritsugu Sakuma, Tetsuya Shoji, Akihito Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11636963
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core, including a step of compacting a raw material powder to form a compact, a step of performing a first heat treatment on the compact to obtain a first heat-treated body, and a step of performing a second heat treatment on the first heat-treated body to obtain a second heat-treated body, wherein the raw material powder contains a soft magnetic powder and a lubricant that has a melting point Tm, the first heat treatment is performed in a temperature range from Tm to Tm+50° C. inclusive for a time longer than 10 minutes, and the second heat treatment is performed in a temperature range from 400° C. to 900° C. inclusive for a time of 3 minutes to 90 minutes inclusive, the temperature range of the second heat treatment being higher than the temperature range of the first heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Saito, Hijiri Tsuruta, Tomoyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 11636974
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a non-circular wound magnetic core composed of a nano-crystallized soft magnetic alloy thin strip comprises: a step for acquiring a multilayer body by winding a soft magnetic alloy thin strip; a step for nano-crystallizing the soft magnetic alloy thin strip by inserting a heat treatment inner peripheral jig to the inner peripheral side of the multilayer body, maintaining the multilayer body in a non-circular shape, and subjecting the multilayer body to a heat treatment; and a step for maintaining the nano-crystallized multilayer body in the non-circular shape by using outer and inner peripheral jigs and impregnating resin between the layers of the multilayer body. The resin impregnation inner and outer peripheral jigs are shaped so as to not contact the inner peripheral surface and/or the outer peripheral surface of the multilayer body at a part where the multilayer body has a large degree of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Satake, Tomoki Ono, Tetsuya Takiyama
  • Patent number: 11626234
    Abstract: A transformer core includes two stacks, each of first thickness with ?1 flat parts, the cutting directions rectilinear and parallel or perpendicular to one another, the stacks facing across a gap, the flat parts made of an austenitic FeNi alloy 30-80% Ni and 10% alloying elements, with a sharp {100} <001> cubic texture, the cutting directions of the flat parts parallel to the rolling or transverse direction, the flat parts having magnetic losses, for a maximum induction of 1 T, <20 W/kg at 400 Hz, producing apparent magnetostriction for maximum induction values and field directions as follows: 1.2 T<5 ppm, large side of the sample parallel to rolling direction; 1.2 T<5 ppm, large side of the sample parallel to transverse direction in the rolling plane; and 1.2 T<10 ppm, length direction parallel to intermediate direction 45° to rolling and transverse directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: APERAM
    Inventors: Thierry Waeckerle, Olivier Hubert
  • Patent number: 11600414
    Abstract: Provided is a soft magnetic powder that can produce a dust core having excellent magnetic properties. The soft magnetic powder has a chemical composition, excluding inevitable impurities, represented by a composition formula of FeaSibBcPdCueMf, where the M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Mo, Zr, Ta, W, Hf, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, C, Al, S, O, and N, 79 at %?a?84.5 at %, 0 at %?b<6 at %, 0 at %<c?10 at %, 4 at %<d?11 at %, 0.2 at %?e?0.53 at %, 0 at %?f?4 at %, a+b+c+d+e+f=100 at %, a particle size is 1 mm or less, and a median of circularity of particles constituting the soft magnetic powder is 0.4 or more and 1.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamoto, Takuya Takashita, Makoto Nakaseko, Akio Kobayashi, Akiri Urata, Miho Chiba
  • Patent number: 11600417
    Abstract: A permanent magnet for a motor, a rotor assembly having the permanent magnet, a motor, and a compressor are disclosed. The permanent magnet has a Nd—Fe—B-based main phase. The main phase has a grain size of smaller than or equal to 4 micrometers. The mass ratio of dysprosium and/or terbium in the permanent magnet is less than or equal to 0.5%. The intrinsic coercivity Hcj of the permanent magnet at 25° C. satisfies Hcj?1500 kA/m. The permanent magnet according to embodiments of the present disclosure can have fewer or no heavy rare-earth elements, and meanwhile exhibit excellent performance, which improves the cost performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ANHUI MEIZHI PRECISION MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengzhong Qiao, Liyu Zheng, Xiaohua Qiu
  • Patent number: 11591668
    Abstract: Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties and excellent in adhesion of a primary coating to the steel sheet is provided. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is provided with a base steel sheet having a chemical composition containing C: 0.005% or less, Si: 2.5 to 4.5%, Mn: 0.050 to 1.000%, a total of S and Se: 0.005% or less, sol. Al: 0.005% or less, and N: 0.005% or less and having a balance of Fe and impurities and a primary coating having Mg2 SiO4 as a main constituent formed on a surface of the base steel sheet. A peak position of Al emission intensity obtained when conducting elemental analysis by glow discharge spectrometry from a surface of the primary coating in a thickness direction is present in a range of 2.0 to 12.0 ?m from a surface of the primary coating to the thickness direction. A sum of perimeters of the Al oxides at the peak position of Al emission intensity is 0.20 to 1.00 ?m/?m2, and a number density of Al oxides is 0.02 to 0.20/?m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Tanaka, Ryutaro Yamagata, Nobusato Morishige, Takashi Kataoka, Masaru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11571744
    Abstract: The current invention discloses a type of micronized powder for manufacturing sintered Neodymium magnetic material, a target type jet mill pulverization method to prepare the micronized powder, and the resulting pulverized powder. The Neodymium magnet powder created under the method is of sphericity of greater than or equal to 90% and of particle adhesion rate of less than or equal to 10%. A is the diameter of the target center, B is the diameter of the side nozzle, and C is the distance between the target center and the nozzle. The relationship amongst A, B and C is A/B=m×(C/A+B), where m ranges from 1 to 7. A velocity of the jet stream from side nozzle is between about 320 m/s to about 580 m/s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: SANVAC (BEIJING) MAGNETICS CO., LTD., BEIJING ZHONG KE SAN HUAN HI-TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoan Chen, Bin Fang, Libai Sun, Yugang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11569012
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a method for improving the performance of sintered NdFeB magnet. A method of preparing a sintered NdFeB magnet therefore comprises the steps of: a) preparing alloy flakes from a raw material of the NdFeB magnet by a strip casting process; and b) preparing a coarse alloy powder from the alloy flakes by a hydrogen decrepitation process, the hydrogen decrepitation process including treatment of the alloy flakes under a hydrogen pressure of 0.10 MPa to 0.25 MPa for a duration of 1 to 3.5 hours, then degassing the hydrogen at a predetermined temperature between 300° C. to 400° C. for a duration time of 0.5 to 5 hours, and then mixing the resulting coarse alloy powder with a lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Yantai Dongxing Magnetic Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Xiulei Chen, Zhongjie Peng, Xiaonan Zhu, Chunjie Xiang, Kaihong Ding
  • Patent number: 11566303
    Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to one embodiment of the invention has a chemical composition represented by C: 0.0030% or less, Si: 2.00% or less, Al: 1.00% or less, Mn: 0.10% to 2.00%, S: 0.0030% or less, one or more selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Nd, Pr, La, Ce, Zn, and Cd: 0.0003% or greater and less than 0.0015% in total, a parameter Q represented by Q=[Si]+2×[Al]?[Mn]: 2.00 or less; Sn: 0.00% to 0.40%, Cu: 0.00% to 1.00%, and a remainder: Fe and impurities, and a parameter R represented by R?(I100+I310+I411+I521)/(I111+I211+I332+I221) is 0.80 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Kubota, Takeaki Wakisaka, Masafumi Miyazaki, Takashi Morohoshi
  • Patent number: 11538611
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for the magnetism stabilizing treatment of a permanent magnet material. The method can include the following steps: providing a permanent magnet material having a positive temperature coefficient of coercivity; magnetizing the permanent magnet material at a temperature T3 with a range of ?200 degree centigrades to 200 degree centigrades; and performing a magnetism stabilizing treatment towards the permanent magnet material with temperature decreased in a range of the temperature T3 to a temperature T4, or at the temperature T3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Lei Liu, Aru Yan, Zhuang Liu, Xin Zhang, Yingli Sun
  • Patent number: 11522420
    Abstract: A method of producing a motor core includes preparing a soft magnetic plate containing a transition metal element, preparing a modifying member containing an alloy having a melting point lower than a melting point of the soft magnetic plate, bringing the modifying member into contact with a part of a plate surface of the soft magnetic plate, causing the modifying member to diffuse and penetrate into the soft magnetic plate from a contact surface between the soft magnetic plate and the modifying member and forming a hard magnetic phase-containing part in a part of the soft magnetic plate, and laminating a plurality of soft magnetic plates on each other after the modifying member is brought into contact with the part of the plate surface of the soft magnetic plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Kinoshita, Noritsugu Sakuma, Tetsuya Shoji, Kosuke Yonekawa
  • Patent number: 11515066
    Abstract: Improved manufacturing processes and resulting anisotropic permanent magnets, such as for example alnico permanent magnets, having highly controlled and aligned microstructure in the solid state are provided. A certain process embodiment involves applying a particular orientation and strength of magnetic field to loose, binder-coated magnet alloy powder particles in a compact-forming device as they are being formed into a compact in order to preferentially align the magnet alloy powder particles in the compact. The preferential alignment of the magnet alloy powder particle is locked in place in the compact by the binder after compact forming is complete. After removal from the device, the compact can be subjected to a subsequent sintering or other heat treating operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron G. Kassen, Iver E. Anderson, Emma Marie Hamilton White, Matthew J. Kramer, David J. Byrd, Liangfa Hu