Patents by Inventor Chonghu Wu

Chonghu Wu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10717131
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of manufacturing, powder making device for rare earth magnet alloy powder, and a rare earth magnet. The method comprises a process of fine grinding at least one kind of rare earth magnet alloy or at least one kind of rare earth magnet alloy coarse powder in inert jet stream with an oxygen content below 1000 ppm to obtain powder that has a grain size smaller than 50 ?m. Low oxygen content ultra-fine powder having a grain size smaller than 1 ?m is not separated from the pulverizer, and the oxygen content of the atmosphere is reduced to below 1000 ppm in the pulverizer when crushing the powder. Therefore, abnormal grain growth (AGG) rarely happens in the sintering process. A low oxygen content sintered magnet is obtained and the advantages of a simplified process and reduced manufacturing cost are realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: XIAMEN TUNGSTEN CO., LTD., FUJIAN CHANGTING GOLDEN DRAGON RARE-EARTH CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Chonghu Wu
  • Patent number: 10381141
    Abstract: The present invention discloses manufacturing methods of a powder for compacting rare earth magnet powder and rare earth magnet that omit jet milling process, which comprises the steps as follows: 1) casting: casting the molten alloy of rare earth magnet raw material by strip casting method to obtain a quenched alloy with average thickness in a range of 0.2˜0.4 mm; 2) hydrogen decrepitation: decrepitating the quenched alloy and a plurality of rigid balls into a rotating hydrogen decrepitation container simultaneously, the quenched alloy is crushed under a hydrogen pressure between 0.01˜1 MPa, cooling the alloy and the balls, then screening the mixture to remove the rigid balls and obtain the powder. As the jet milling process is omitted, the oxygenation during the process of the jet milling may be avoided, therefore the process may be non-oxide, and the mass production of magnet with super high property may be possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd., Fujian Changting Golden Dragon Rare-Earth Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Chonghu Wu
  • Patent number: 10242778
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of rare earth magnet based on heat treatment of fine powder includes the following: an alloy for the rare earth magnet is firstly coarsely crushed and then finely crushed by jet milling to obtain a fine powder; the fine powder is heated in vacuum or in inert gas atmosphere at a temperature of 100° C.˜1000° C. for 6 minutes to 24 hours; then the fine powder is compacted under a magnet field and is sintered in vacuum or in inert gas atmosphere at a temperature of 950° C.˜1140° C. to obtain a sintered magnet; and machining the sintered magnet to obtain a magnet; then the magnet performs a RH grain boundary diffusion at a temperature of 700° C.˜1020° C. An oxidation film forms on the surface of all of the powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: XIAMEN TUNGSTEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Chonghu Wu
  • Patent number: 10242779
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an alloy powder for rare earth magnet and the rare earth magnet based on heat treatment includes the following: an alloy of the rare earth magnet is firstly coarsely crushed and then finely crushed by jet milling to obtain a fine powder; the fine powder is obtained by being heated in vacuum or in inert gas atmosphere at a temperature of 100° C.˜1000° C. for 6 minutes to 24 hours. The heat treatment of fine powder is performed after the process of finely crushed jet milling before the process of compacting under a magnetic field, so that the sintering property of the powder is changed drastically, and it obtains a magnet with a high coercivity, a high squareness and a high heat resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: XIAMEN TUNGSTEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Chonghu Wu
  • Publication number: 20180281072
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of manufacturing, powder making device for rare earth magnet alloy powder, and a rare earth magnet. The method comprises a process of fine grinding at least one kind of rare earth magnet alloy or at least one kind of rare earth magnet alloy coarse powder in inert jet stream with an oxygen content below 1000 ppm to obtain powder that has a grain size smaller than 50 ?m. Low oxygen content ultra-fine powder having a grain size smaller than 1 ?m is not separated from the pulverizer, and the oxygen content of the atmosphere is reduced to below 1000 ppm in the pulverizer when crushing the powder. Therefore, abnormal grain growth (AGG) rarely happens in the sintering process. A low oxygen content sintered magnet is obtained and the advantages of a simplified process and reduced manufacturing cost are realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Chonghu Wu
  • Patent number: 10062503
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a manufacturing method of green compacts of rare earth alloy magnetic powder and a manufacturing method of rare earth magnet, it is a manufacturing method that pressing the rare earth alloy magnetic powder added with organic additive in a closed space filled with inert gases to manufacture the green compacts, wherein the rare earth alloy magnetic powder is compacted under magnetic field in a temperature atmosphere of 25° C.-50° C. and a relative humidity atmosphere of 10%-40%. This method is to set the temperature of the inert atmosphere in a fully closed space, inhibiting bad forming phenomenon of the magnet with low oxygen content (broken, corner-breakage, crack) after sintering, and increasing the degree of orientation, Br and (BH)max.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: XIAMEN TUNGSTEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Chonghu Wu
  • Publication number: 20150364234
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of rare earth magnet based on heat treatment of fine powder includes the following: an alloy for the rare earth magnet is firstly coarsely crushed and then finely crushed by jet milling to obtain a fine powder; the fine powder is heated in vacuum or in inert gas atmosphere at a temperature of 100° C.˜1000° C. for 6 minutes to 24 hours; then the fine powder is compacted under a magnet field and is sintered in vacuum or in inert gas atmosphere at a temperature of 950° C.˜1140° C. to obtain a sintered magnet; and machining the sintered magnet to obtain a magnet; then the magnet performs a RH grain boundary diffusion at a temperature of 700° C.˜1020° C. An oxidation film forms on the surface of all of the powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: XIAMEN TUNGSTEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAGATA, Chonghu WU
  • Publication number: 20150357119
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a powder for rare earth magnet and the rare earth magnet based on evaporation treatment, includes the steps of: coarsely crushing an alloy for the rare earth magnet and then finely crushing to obtain a fine powder; and evaporating the fine powder and an evaporation material in vacuum or in inert gas atmosphere; wherein the weight ratio of the evaporation material evaporated to the fine powder and the fine powder is 10-6˜0.05:1. By adding the process of evaporation treatment of fine powder before the process of compacting under a magnetic field and after the process of fine crushing, the sintering property of the powder is changed drastically; a magnet with a high coercivity, a high squareness and a high heat resistance is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: XIAMEN TUNGSTEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAGATA, Chonghu WU
  • Publication number: 20150340136
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an alloy powder for rare earth magnet and the rare earth magnet based on heat treatment includes the following: an alloy of the rare earth magnet is firstly coarsely crushed and then finely crushed by jet milling to obtain a fine powder; the fine powder is obtained by being heated in vacuum or in inert gas atmosphere at a temperature of 100° C.˜1000° C. for 6 minutes to 24 hours. The heat treatment of fine powder is performed after the process of finely crushed jet milling before the process of compacting under a magnetic field, so that the sintering property of the powder is changed drastically, and it obtains a magnet with a high coercivity, a high squareness and a high heat resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: XIAMEN TUNGSTEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAGATA, Chonghu WU
  • Publication number: 20150302960
    Abstract: The present invention discloses manufacturing methods of a powder for compacting rare earth magnet and rare earth magnet that omit jet milling process, which comprise the steps as follows: 1) casting: casting the molten alloy of rare earth magnet raw material by strip casting method to obtain a quenched alloy with average thickness in a range of 0.2˜0.4 mm; 2) hydrogen decrepitation: decrepitating the quenched alloy hydrogen under a hydrogen pressure between 0.01˜1 MPa for 0.5˜24 h to obtain the powder. The present invention improves the manufacturing processes which are before the process of jet milling for omitting the process of jet milling, thus simplifying the process; which may also acquire a low cost production by efficiently using the precious rare earth resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: XIAMEN TUNGSTEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAGATA, Chonghu WU
  • Publication number: 20150287529
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a manufacturing method of green compacts of rare earth alloy magnetic powder and a manufacturing method of rare earth magnet, it is a manufacturing method that pressing the rare earth alloy magnetic powder added with organic additive in a closed space filled with inert gases to manufacture the green compacts, wherein the rare earth alloy magnetic powder is compacted under magnetic field in a temperature atmosphere of 25° C.-50° C. and a relative humidity atmosphere of 10%-40%. This method is to set the temperature of the inert atmosphere in a fully closed space, inhibiting bad forming phenomenon of the magnet with low oxygen content (broken, corner-breakage, crack) after sintering, and increasing the degree of orientation, Br and (BH)max.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: XIAMEN TUNGSTEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Chonghu Wu
  • Publication number: 20150279530
    Abstract: The present invention discloses manufacturing methods of a powder for compacting rare earth magnet powder and rare earth magnet that omit jet milling process, which comprises the steps as follows: 1) casting: casting the molten alloy of rare earth magnet raw material by strip casting method to obtain a quenched alloy with average thickness in a range of 0.2˜0.4 mm; 2) hydrogen decrepitation: decrepitating the quenched alloy and a plurality of rigid balls into a rotating hydrogen decrepitation container simultaneously, the quenched alloy is crushed under a hydrogen pressure between 0.01˜1 MPa, cooling the alloy and the balls, then screening the mixture to remove the rigid balls and obtain the powder. As the jet milling process is omitted, the oxygenation during the process of the jet milling may be avoided, therefore the process may be non-oxide, and the mass production of magnet with super high property may be possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: XIAMEN TUNGSTEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Chonghu Wu
  • Publication number: 20150239048
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a manufacturing method and device of rare earth magnet alloy powder and rare earth magnet. The method comprises a process of fine grinding at least one kind of rare earth magnet alloy or at least one kind of rare earth magnet alloy coarse powder in inert jet stream with oxygen content below 1000 ppm to obtain powder with grain size smaller than 50 ?m. Low oxygen content ultra fine powder with grain size smaller than 1 ?m is not separated from the pulverizer, the oxygen content of the atmosphere is reduced to below 1000 ppm in the pulverizer when crushing the powder, thereby abnormal grain growth (AGG) rarely happens in the sintering process to get low oxygen content sintered magnet, it has advantages of simplifying process and reducing manufacturing cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: XIAMEN TUNGSTEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Chonghu Wu
  • Publication number: 20140014875
    Abstract: In an industrial purple nano-needle tungsten oxide preparation method, ammonium paratungstate 5(NH4)2O.12WO3.5H2O, tungstic acid mWO3.nH2O (m?1, n?1), or tungsten oxide WOx (2?x?3) is used as a raw material for preparing the purple nano-needle tungsten oxide in an inclined rotating furnace pipe. At an inlet of the furnace pipe, the raw material is pushed from a feed inlet of a feeding device into the heated furnace pipe. The inclined furnace pipe is rotated to gradually move the raw material from a low temperature area to a high temperature area. The raw material at the high temperature area inside the furnace pipe is reduced by H2 to form the nano-needle purple tungsten oxide. The inclined furnace pipe is rotated to move the WO2.72 towards a discharging end, and the purple tungsten oxide WO2.72 is discharged from a discharge outlet of a discharging device and cooled to room temperature by the discharging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Chonghu Wu, Qishan Wu, Xiao Wen, Gaoan Lin, Mandou Xiao, Hongbo Nie, Guanjin Gao, Chaoying Fan, Lili Ma