Abstract: Provided are: a magnetic wedge having high strength stability against temperature rise, and being compatible even with complex shapes; a stator for a rotating electric machine; a rotating electric machine; and a method for manufacturing the magnetic wedge. The method has: a first step for obtaining a mixture by mixing a binder and powder of Fe-based soft magnetic particles containing an element M that is more likely to be oxidized than Fe; a second step for obtaining a green compact by pressing the mixture; a third step for subjecting the green compact to machining; and a fourth step for heat-treating the green compact, which has been subjected to the third step, to form surface oxide phases of the Fe-based soft magnetic particles that bind the Fe-based soft magnetic particles together between the particles of the Fe-based soft magnetic particles.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a laminated magnetic material for a motor, the material having low core loss characteristics even in a high-frequency band; and a method for manufacturing said laminated magnetic material for a motor. Provided is a laminated magnetic material provided with a plurality of quenched alloy strips and a resin layer made of resin and disposed between the quenched alloy strips. The laminated magnetic material is characterized in that the adhesive stress ? [MPa] represented by the following equation is 1.

Abstract: Provided are a magnetic wedge in which insertion of a magnetic wedge in a tooth tip of a dynamo-electric machine can be performed more smoothly, and a method for manufacturing the magnetic wedge. This magnetic wedge is installed in a slot opening of a stator of the dynamo-electric machine, and defining that the dimension of the magnetic wedge in the circumferential direction of the dynamo-electric machine is the width, the projection shape of the magnetic wedge projected on a plane perpendicular to the width direction is a rectangle, parallelogram, or a right angle trapezoid, and the corners of the rectangle, parallelogram, or right angle trapezoid have a rounded shape.

Abstract: The invention provides a powder magnetic core and a method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core through simple compression molding and capable of manufacturing a complicatedly shaped powder magnetic core with reliable high strength and insulating properties. A method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core with a metallic soft magnetic material powder includes: a first step including mixing a soft magnetic material powder and a binder; a second step including compression molding the mixture obtained after the first step; a third step including performing at least one of grinding and cutting on the compact obtained after the second step; and a fourth step including heat-treating the compact after the third step, wherein in the fourth step, the compact is heat-treated so that an oxide layer containing an element constituting the soft magnetic material powder is formed on the surface of the soft magnetic material powder.

Abstract: A crystalline Fe-based alloy powder composed of Fe-based alloy particles containing, within a structure thereof, nanocrystal grains having an average grain size of 30 nm or less, and in which d50, which is a particle diameter corresponding to a cumulative frequency of 50% by volume, is from 3.5 ?m to 35.0 ?m in a cumulative distribution curve that is obtained by laser diffractometry and that shows the relationship between the particle diameter and the cumulative frequency from the small particle diameter side, and a ratio of Fe-based alloy particles having a particle diameter of 2 ?m or less to the total of the Fe-based alloy particles, which is determined by laser diffractometry, is from 0% by volume to 8% by volume.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core through simple compression molding and capable of manufacturing a complicatedly shaped powder magnetic core with reliable high strength and insulating properties. The invention is directed to a method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core with a metallic soft magnetic material powder, the method including: a first step including mixing a soft magnetic material powder and a binder; a second step including compression molding the mixture obtained after the first step; a third step including performing at least one of grinding and cutting on the compact obtained after the second step; and a fourth step including heat-treating the compact after the third step, wherein in the fourth step, the compact is heat-treated so that an oxide layer containing an element constituting the soft magnetic material powder is formed on the surface of the soft magnetic material powder.

Abstract: A magnetic wedge has high electrical resistance and bending strength, a rotary electric machine employs the magnetic wedge, and a method is for manufacturing the magnetic wedge. The magnetic wedge includes Fe-based soft magnetic particles, which contain an element M that is more readily oxidized than Fe and are bound by an oxide phase including the element M.

Abstract: A manufacturing system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a molding apparatus configured to uniaxially press raw material powder containing metal powder to fabricate a powder compact whose whole or part has a relative density of 93% or more; a robot processing apparatus including an articulated robot configured to machine the powder compact to fabricate a processed molded article; and an induction heating sintering furnace configured to sinter the processed molded article by high frequency induction heating to fabricate a sintered product.

Abstract: A powder magnetic core manufacturing method includes: a first step of mixing a binder with a soft magnetic material powder containing Fe-M (M: Al or Cr)-based alloy particles on which an insulating layer is formed; a second step of filling a pressing die with a mixture obtained through the first step, subjecting the mixture to pressing to obtain a green compact, and slidingly demolding the green compact from the pressing die; a third step of processing the green compact after the second step and removing expansion deformed matter of the alloy particles present in a region of pressing flaws formed on a surface of the green compact during the slidingly demolding; and a fourth step of subjecting the green compact after the third step to heat treatment to oxidize surfaces of the Fe-M (M: Al or Cr)-based alloy particles at high temperature, so that the oxide phase is formed.

Abstract: A method of producing an atomized powder includes: an atomizing step of forming magnetic alloy particles from a molten metal by an atomizing method, to obtain a slurry in which the magnetic alloy particles are dispersed in an aqueous dispersion medium; a slurry concentration step of causing magnetic separation means to separate the magnetic alloy particles from the slurry to form a concentrated slurry having the magnetic alloy particles of more than 80% by mass, the magnetic separation means using a rotary drum including a magnetic circuit part fixedly disposed at a position where at least a part of the magnetic circuit part is immersed in the slurry and an outer sleeve capable of rotating outside the magnetic circuit part; and a drying step of causing drying means using an air flow dryer to dry the concentrated slurry to form a magnetic alloy powder.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core using a soft magnetic material powder, wherein the method has: a first step of mixing the soft magnetic material powder with a binder, a second step of subjecting a mixture obtained through the first step to pressure forming, and a third step of subjecting a formed body obtained through the second step to heat treatment. The soft magnetic material powder is an Fe—Cr—Al based alloy powder comprising Fe, Cr and Al. An oxide layer is formed on a surface of the soft magnetic material powder by the heat treatment. The oxide layer has a higher ratio by mass of Al to the sum of Fe, Cr and Al than an alloy phase inside the powder.

Abstract: A crystalline Fe-based alloy powder composed of Fe-based alloy particles containing, within a structure thereof, nanocrystal grains having an average grain size of 30 nm or less, and in which d50, which is a particle diameter corresponding to a cumulative frequency of 50% by volume, is from 3.5 ?m to 35.0 ?m in a cumulative distribution curve that is obtained by laser diffractometry and that shows the relationship between the particle diameter and the cumulative frequency from the small particle diameter side, and a ratio of Fe-based alloy particles having a particle diameter of 2 ?m or less to the total of the Fe-based alloy particles, which is determined by laser diffractometry, is from 0% by volume to 8% by volume.

Abstract: A powder magnetic core manufacturing method includes: a first step of mixing a binder with a soft magnetic material powder containing Fe-M (M: Al or Cr)-based alloy particles on which an insulating layer is formed; a second step of filling a pressing die with a mixture obtained through the first step, subjecting the mixture to pressing to obtain a green compact, and slidingly demolding the green compact from the pressing die; a third step of processing the green compact after the second step and removing expansion deformed matter of the alloy particles present in a region of pressing flaws formed on a surface of the green compact during the slidingly demolding; and a fourth step of subjecting the green compact after the third step to heat treatment to oxidize surfaces of the Fe-M (M: Al or Cr)-based alloy particles at high temperature, so that the oxide phase is formed.

Abstract: A magnetic core has a high initial permeability and a small core loss, reducing a core loss at high frequencies; and a coil component including the same. This magnetic core is formed by binding a plurality of Fe-based alloy particles containing Al via an oxide layer containing an Fe oxide. In an X-ray diffraction spectrum of the magnetic core measured using Cu-K? characteristic X-rays, a peak intensity ratio (P1/P2) of peak intensity P1 of a diffraction peak derived from the Fe oxide having a corundum structure appearing in the vicinity of 2?=33.2° to peak intensity P2 of a diffraction peak derived from the Fe-based alloy having a bcc structure appearing in the vicinity of 2?=44.7° is 0.010 or less (excluding 0). A superlattice peak intensity of an Fe3Al ordered structure is at most a noise level within a range of 2?=20° to 40°.

Abstract: There is provided a magnetic core having both high strength and high resistivity, a coil component produced with such a magnetic core, and a magnetic core manufacturing method capable of easily manufacturing a magnetic core with high strength and high resistivity. A method for manufacturing a magnetic core having a structure including dispersed Fe-based soft magnetic alloy particles includes: a first step including mixing a first Fe-based soft magnetic alloy powder containing Al and Cr, a second Fe-based soft magnetic alloy powder containing Cr and Si, and a binder; a second step including pressing the mixture obtained after the first step; and a third step including heat-treating the compact obtained after the second step, wherein the heat treatment forms an oxide layer on the surface of Fe-based soft magnetic alloy particles and bonds the Fe-based soft magnetic alloy particles together through the oxide layer.

Abstract: A method of producing an atomized powder includes: an atomizing step of forming magnetic alloy particles from a molten metal by an atomizing method, to obtain a slurry in which the magnetic alloy particles are dispersed in an aqueous dispersion medium; a slurry concentration step of causing magnetic separation means to separate the magnetic alloy particles from the slurry to form a concentrated slurry having the magnetic alloy particles of more than 80% by mass, the magnetic separation means using a rotary drum including a magnetic circuit part fixedly disposed at a position where at least a part of the magnetic circuit part is immersed in the slurry and an outer sleeve capable of rotating outside the magnetic circuit part; and a drying step of causing drying means using an air flow dryer to dry the concentrated slurry to form a magnetic alloy powder.

Abstract: The invention provides a powder magnetic core and a method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core through simple compression molding and capable of manufacturing a complicatedly shaped powder magnetic core with reliable high strength and insulating properties. A method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core with a metallic soft magnetic material powder includes: a first step including mixing a soft magnetic material powder and a binder; a second step including compression molding the mixture obtained after the first step; a third step including performing at least one of grinding and cutting on the compact obtained after the second step; and a fourth step including heat-treating the compact after the third step, wherein in the fourth step, the compact is heat-treated so that an oxide layer containing an element constituting the soft magnetic material powder is formed on the surface of the soft magnetic material powder.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core through simple compression molding and capable of manufacturing a complicatedly shaped powder magnetic core with reliable high strength and insulating properties. The invention is directed to a method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core with a metallic soft magnetic material powder, the method including: a first step including mixing a soft magnetic material powder and a binder; a second step including compression molding the mixture obtained after the first step; a third step including performing at least one of grinding and cutting on the compact obtained after the second step; and a fourth step including heat-treating the compact after the third step, wherein in the fourth step, the compact is heat-treated so that an oxide layer containing an element constituting the soft magnetic material powder is formed on the surface of the soft magnetic material powder.

Abstract: Provided are a magnetic core having a high initial permeability and a coil component including the same. The magnetic core has an X-ray diffraction spectrum of the magnetic core measured using Cu-K? characteristic X-rays, wherein a peak intensity ratio (P1/P2) of a peak intensity P1 of a diffraction peak of an Fe oxide having a corundum structure appearing in a vicinity of 2?=33.2° to a peak intensity P2 of a diffraction peak of the Fe-based alloy having a bcc structure appearing in a vicinity of 2?=44.7° is 0.015 or less; and in the X-ray diffraction spectrum, a peak intensity ratio (P3/P2) of a peak intensity P3 of a superlattice peak of an Fe3Al ordered structure appearing in a vicinity of 2?=26.6° to the peak intensity P2 is 0.015 or more and 0.050 or less.

Abstract: There is provided a magnetic core having high manufacturability and high magnetic permeability, to provide a method for manufacturing such a magnetic core, and to provide a coil component having such a magnetic core. The invention is directed to a magnetic core including: Fe-based soft magnetic alloy particles; and an oxide phase existing between the Fe-based soft magnetic alloy particles, wherein the Fe-based soft magnetic alloy particles include Fe—Al—Cr alloy particles and Fe—Si—Al alloy particles.