Patents Examined by Xiaowei Su
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Patent number: 10923256Abstract: To provide an R-T-B based sintered magnet including R: 27.5 to 34.0% by mass, RH: 2 to 10% by mass, B: 0.89 to 0.95% by mass, Ti: 0.1 to 0.2% by mass, Ga: 0.3 to 0.7% by mass, Cu: 0.07 to 0.50% by mass, Al: 0.05 to 0.50% by mass, M (M is Nb and/or Zr): 0 to 0.3% by mass, balance T, and inevitable impurities, the following inequality expressions (1), (2), and (3) being satisfied: [T]?72.3([B]?0.45[Ti])>0??(1) ([T]?72.3([B]?0.45[Ti]))/55.85<13[Ga]/69.72??(2) [Ga]?[Cu]??(3).Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Teppei Satoh, Futoshi Kuniyoshi, Rintaro Ishii, Takeshi Nishiuchi, Noriyuki Nozawa
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Patent number: 10923254Abstract: A permanent magnet expressed by a composition formula: RpFeqMrCutCo100-p-q-r-t. The magnet comprises a metallic structure including crystal grains which constitutes a main phase having a Th2Zn17 crystal phase. An average value of Fe concentrations in the crystal grains of 20 or more is 28 atomic percent or more and an average value of R element concentrations in the crystal grains of 20 or more is 10 atomic percent or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yosuke Horiuchi, Shinya Sakurada, Masaya Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Tadahiko Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10913992Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a crystalline aluminum-iron-silicon alloy, and optionally an automotive component comprising the same, comprising forming a composite ingot including a plurality of crystalline phases by melting aluminum, iron, and silicon raw materials in an inert environment to form a substantially homogenous melt, subsequently solidifying the melt, and annealing the ingot under vacuum by heating at a temperature in the range of 850° C. to 1000° C. yield an annealed crystalline ingot wherein the predominant crystalline phase is FCC Al3Fe2Si. The raw materials can further include one or more additives such as zinc, zirconium, tin, and chromium. Melting can occur above the FCC Al3Fe2Si crystalline phase melting point, or at a temperature of about 1100° C. to about 1400° C. Annealing can occur under vacuum conditions.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Zhongyi Liu, Tengjiao Qi, James R. Salvador, Ratandeep S. Kukreja
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Patent number: 10916373Abstract: A sintered R-T-B based magnet composition includes: R: not less than 27 mass % and not more than 37 mass % (R is at least one rare-earth element which always includes at least one of Nd and Pr), B: not less than 0.75 mass % and not more than 0.97 mass %, Ga: not less than 0.1 mass % and not more than 1.0 mass %, Cu: not less than 0 mass % and not more than 1.0 mass %, and T: 61.03 mass % or more (where T is at least one selected from Fe, Co, Al, Mn and Si and always includes Fe, such that the Fe content is 80 mass % or more in the entire T). [T]/[B] is greater than 14.0. An R amount is greater in the surface than in the center, and a Ga amount is greater in the surface than in the center. [T]/[B] in the surface is higher than [T]/[B] in the center.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Nozawa, Yasutaka Shigemoto, Takeshi Nishiuchi
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Patent number: 10900106Abstract: Disclosed herein is a ferritic steel having decreased specific gravity and having excellent mechanical strength by suppressing formation of ?-carbide. The ferrite steel may include: carbon (C) in an amount of about 0.05 to 0.12 wt %; aluminum (Al) in an amount of about 3.0 to 7.0 wt %; manganese (Mn) in an amount of about 0.5 wt % or less (not 0%); nickel (Ni) in an amount of about 0.5 wt % or less (not 0%); chromium (Cr) in an amount of about 0.75 wt % or less (not 0%); silicon (Si) in an amount of about 0.3 to 0.75 wt %; a combined amount of titanium (Ti) and vanadium (V) in an amount of about 0.25 to 0.7 wt %; and a balance being iron (Fe), all the wt % are based on the total weight of the ferritic steel.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Dong Hwi Kim, Bong Lae Jo
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Patent number: 10900099Abstract: Provided is a steel H-shape for low temperature service including a predetermined chemical composition. A CEV obtained by CEV=C+Mn/6+(Cr+Mo+V)/5+(Ni+Cu)/15 is 0.40 or less. A sum of an area ratio of one or both of ferrite and bainite at a 1/4 position from an outer side across a thickness of a flange and a 1/6 position from an outer side across a flange width is 90% or more, and an area ratio of a hard phase is 10% or less. An effective grain size is 20.0 ?m or less, and a grain size of the hard phase is 10.0 ?m or less. 30 pieces/mm2 or more Ti oxides having an equivalent circle diameter ranging from 0.01 to 3.0 ?m are included. The thickness of the flange ranges from 12 to 50 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetoshi Ito, Kazutoshi Ichikawa
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Patent number: 10892076Abstract: A rare earth magnet includes a main phase, a grain boundary phase present around the main phase and an intermediate phase interposed between the main phase and the grain boundary phase, and has an overall composition that is represented by the formula ((Ce(1-x)Lax)(1-y)R1y)pT(100-p-q-r)BqM1r?(R21-zM2z)s (where, R1 and R2 are rare earth elements other than Ce and La, T is at least one selected from among Fe, Ni, and Co, M1 is an element having a small amount that does not influence magnetic characteristics, and M2 is an alloy element for which a melting point of R21-zM2z is lower than a melting point of R2). A total concentration of Ce and La is higher in the main phase than in the intermediate phase, and a concentration of R2 is higher in the intermediate phase than in the main phase.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki Ito, Noritsugu Sakuma, Tetsuya Shoji, Hidefumi Kishimoto, Masao Yano
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Patent number: 10892090Abstract: A magnet core for low-frequency applications and method for producing a magnet core for low-frequency applications is provided. The magnet core is made of a spiral-wound, soft-magnetic, nanocrystalline strip. The strip essentially has the alloy composition FeRestCoaCubNbcSidBeCf, wherein a, b, c, d, e and f are stated in atomic percent and 0?a?1; 0.7?b?1.4; 2.5?c?3.5; 14.5?d?16.5; 5.5?e?8 and 0?f?1, and cobalt may wholly or partially be replaced by nickel. The magnet core has a saturation magnetostriction ?s of ?s<2 ppm, a starting permeability ?1 of ?1>100 000 and a maximum permeability ?max of ?max>400 000. In addition, a sealing metal oxide coating is provided on the surfaces of the strip.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Jörg Petzold
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Patent number: 10878981Abstract: Provided is an R-T-B based permanent magnet including main phase grains including an R2T14B compound and a grain boundary. R is one or more rare earth elements essentially including Nd, T is Fe or Fe and Co and B is boron. the R-T-B based permanent magnet further includes X, Z and M. X is one or more selected from Ti, V, Zr, Nb, Hf and Ta, Z is one or more selected from C and N, M essentially includes Ga and further includes one or more selected from Al, Si, Ge, Cu, Bi and Sn. The grain boundary includes an XZ phase having a face-centered cubic structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Hidaka, Hidetake Kitaoka, Eiji Kato
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Patent number: 10876180Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hot rolled steel sheet for a square column for building structural members includes a hot rolling step, a cooling step, and a coiling step performed on a steel to form a hot rolled steel sheet, wherein the steel has a composition containing, in terms of % by mass, C: 0.07 to 0.18%, Mn: 0.3 to 1.5%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.015% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.06%, N: 0.0006% or less, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Chikara Kami, Yuta Tamura, Takato Tamai, Shuji Kawamura
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Patent number: 10854380Abstract: A method for producing an NdFeB sintered includes forming a layer containing Dy and/or Tb on the surface of an NdFeB sintered magnet base material and then performing a grain boundary diffusion process for diffusing Dy and/or Tb from the aforementioned layer through the crystal grain boundaries of the magnet base material into the magnet base material by heating the magnet base material to a temperature equal to or lower than the sintering temperature thereof. In this method: a) the content of a rare earth in a metallic state in the magnet base material is equal to or higher than 12.7 at %; b) the aforementioned layer is a powder layer formed by depositing a powder; and c) the powder layer contains Dy and/or Tb in a metallic state by an amount equal to or higher than 50 mass %.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Masato Sagawa, Naoki Fujimoto
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Patent number: 10847289Abstract: An article for magnetic heat exchange includes a functionally-graded monolithic sintered working component including La1-aRa(Fe1-x-yTyMx)13HzCb with a NaZn13-type structure. M is one or more of the elements from the group consisting of Si and Al, T is one or more of the elements from the group consisting of Mn, Co, Ni, Ti, V and Cr and R is one or more of the elements from the group consisting of Ce, Nd, Y and Pr. A content of the one or more elements T and R, if present, a C content, if present, and a content of M varies in a working direction of the working component and provides a functionally-graded Curie temperature. The functionally-graded Curie temperature monotonically decreases or monotonically increases in the working direction of the working component.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: VACUUMSCHMELZE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Matthias Katter, Alexander Barcza, Volker Zellmann
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Patent number: 10847290Abstract: To provide an R-T-B based sintered magnet having high Br and high HcJ while suppressing the content of Dy. Disclosed is an R-T-B based sintered magnet represented by the formula: uRwBxGayCuzAlqM(balance)T, where R is composed of light rare-earth element(s) RL and heavy rare-earth element(s) RH, RL is Nd and/or Pr, RH is Dy and/or Tb, T is Fe, and 10% by mass or less of Fe is capable of being replaced with Co, M is Nb and/or Zr, inevitable impurities being included, and u, w, x, y, z and q are expressed in terms of % by mass; RH accounts for 5% by mass or less of the R-T-B based sintered magnet, 0.4?x?1.0, 0.07?y?1.0, 0.05?z?0.5, 0?q?0.1, and 0.100?y/(x+y)?0.340; v=u?(6?+10?+8?), where the amount of oxygen (% by mass) is ?, the amount of nitrogen (% by mass) is ?, and the amount of carbon (% by mass) is ?; and v and w satisfy the following inequality expressions: v?32.0, 0.84?w?0.93, and ?12.5w+38.75?v??62.5w+86.125.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Nishiuchi, Takayuki Kanda, Rintaro Ishii, Futoshi Kuniyoshi, Teppei Satoh
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Patent number: 10844451Abstract: Disclosed is a non-oriented electrical steel plate having a good surface state, a high magnetic induction and a low iron loss, the contents of various chemical elements of the non-oriented electrical steel plate in mass percentage being: 0<C?0.004%, 0.1%?Si?1.6%, 0.1%?Mn?0.8%, 0.1%?Al?0.6%, Ti?0.0015%, and the balance being Fe and other inevitable impurities, with 0.2%?(Si+Al)?2.0% being met. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing the above-mentioned steel plate, comprising the steps: a liquid iron pretreatment, smelting with a converter, RH refining, casting into slabs, hot rolling, acid pickling, cold rolling, annealing and coating. The non-oriented electrical steel plate of the present invention has an excellent magnetic property, an ultralow iron loss and a higher steel purity; in addition the surface quality of the steel plate is good and the production cost is low.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Feng Zhang, Bo Wang, Yanli Song, Xuejun Lv, Aihua Ma, Changguo Huang
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Patent number: 10837071Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hollow element which has an internal space and of which the internal space is cryogenically used, the method comprising a base material forming step of forming a base material which has a space to serve as the internal space; a filling step of filling the internal space of the formed base material with fluid having a temperature equal to or lower than a temperature at which the base material is subjected to solid-phase transformation and causing the base material to be subjected to the solid-phase transformation; and a finishing step of finishing the base material after the base material is subjected to phase transformation.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Ishibashi, Shugo Iwasaki, Shinichiro Tokuyama, Yuji Masuda, Kosei Kawahara
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Patent number: 10811175Abstract: An alloy material, a bonded magnet, and a modification method of a rare-earth permanent magnetic powder are provided by the present application. A melting point of the alloy material is lower than 600° C. and a composition of the alloy material by an atomic part is RE100-x-yMxNy, wherein RE is one or more of non-heavy rare-earth Nd, Pr, Sm, La and Ce, M is one or more of Cu, Al, Zn and Mg, N is one or more of Ga, In and Sn, x=10-35 and y=1-15.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: GRIREM ADVANCED MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yang Luo, Chao Yuan, Kuo Men, Ningtao Quan, Hongbin Zhang, Wenlong Yan, Dunbo Yu, Yuanfei Yang
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Patent number: 10790076Abstract: A fixed beam 2 along which magnet-body holding sections 22 are consecutively provided is disposed so as to pass through a slurry 1. Sintered magnet bodies m placed in the magnet-body holding sections 22 by movable beams 3 are conveyed by repeating an operation in which the sintered magnet bodies m are moved to the following magnet-body holding sections 22. While being conveyed, the sintered magnet bodies m are passed through the slurry 1 to apply the slurry thereto, and are subsequently dried to remove a solvent in the slurry and affix a powder in the slurry thereto, and, as a result, the powder is continuously applied to the plurality of sintered magnet bodies. Accordingly, a rare-earth-compound powder can be uniformly applied to the surfaces of the sintered magnet bodies, and the amount of the slurry taken from a coating tank can be reduced to effectively decrease wasteful consumption.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukihiro Kuribayashi, Shogo Kamiya, Harukazu Maegawa, Shintaro Tanaka
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Patent number: 10784028Abstract: An R-T-B based permanent magnet includes main phase grains composed of R2T14B type compound. R is a rare earth element. T is iron group element(s) essentially including Fe or Fe and Co. B is boron. An average grain size of the main phase grains is 0.8 ?m to 2.8 ?m. The R-T-B based permanent magnet contains at least C and Ga in addition to R, T, and B. B is contained at 0.71 mass % to 0.86 mass %. C is contained at 0.13 mass % to 0.34 mass %. Ga is contained at 0.40 mass % to 1.80 mass %. A formula (1) of 0.14?[C]/([B]+[C])?0.30 is satisfied, where [B] is a B content represented by atom %, and [C] is a C content represented by atom %.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Tamotsu Ishiyama, Masashi Miwa, Takashi Watanabe
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Patent number: 10784029Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an R-T-B based permanent magnet having a low coercive force and a low magnetizing field, and having a high residual magnetic flux density and a high minor curve flatness even in the low magnetizing field. Provided is an R-T-B based permanent magnet including a main phase including a compound having an R2T14B type tetragonal structure and a grain boundary phase existing between the main phases, in which R is at least one rare earth element including scandium and yttrium, T is at least one transition metal element including iron, or at least two transition metal elements including iron and cobalt, the grain boundary includes an R-T-B—C based compound having a higher R concentration, B concentration and C concentration than that of the main phase and having a lower T concentration than that of the main phase.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Keiji Takeda, Shota Miyazaki
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Patent number: 10770208Abstract: A high performance permanent magnet is provided. The permanent magnet includes a composition represented by a composition formula: RpFeqMrCutCo100-p-q-r-t, and a metallic structure including cell phases having a Th2Zn17 crystal phase and Cu-rich phases having higher Cu concentration than the cell phases. An average diameter of the cell phases is 220 nm or less, and in a numeric value range from a minimum diameter to a maximum diameter of the cell phases, a ratio of a number of cell phases having a diameter in a numeric value range of less than upper 20% from the maximum diameter is 20% or less of all the cell phases.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yosuke Horiuchi, Shinya Sakurada, Keiko Okamoto, Masaya Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Masaki Endo, Tadahiko Kobayashi, Naoyuki Sanada