With Titanium, Zirconium, Silicon, Hafnium, Germanium, Or Tin Patents (Class 252/62.59)
  • Patent number: 8404338
    Abstract: An article and thermoplastic composition including polycarbonate, a polysiloxane-polycarbonate and an x-ray detectable or metal detectable agent having good magnetic permeability and/or electrical conductivity wherein the composition may be used in articles for food preparation. The thermoplastic compositions are useful in forming molds for manufacturing a food product, such as chocolate molds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Christopher Luke Hein, Jan-Pleun Lens, Vandita Pai-Paranjape, Constant Peek, Robert Dirk van de Grampel
  • Patent number: 8404142
    Abstract: A MnZn ferrite having excellent characteristics of an incremental permeability ?? value of 250 or greater in a wide temperature range of 0 to 85° C. and an incremental permeability ?? value of 400 or greater at 65° C. when an 80 A/m direct current magnetic field is applied is provided. The MnZn ferrite has basic components that comprise: ferric oxide (in terms of Fe2O3): 51.0 to 54.5 mol %, zinc oxide (in terms of ZnO): 8.0 to 12.0 mol %, and manganese oxide (in terms of MnO): the balance, sub components that comprise: silicon oxide (in terms of SiO2): 50 to 400 mass ppm, and calcium oxide (in terms of CaO): 50 to 400 mass ppm, and unavoidable impurities phosphorous, boron, sulfur and chlorine that are restricted to phosphorous: less than 3 mass ppm, boron: less than 3 mass ppm, sulfur: less than 5 mass ppm, and chlorine: less than 10 mass ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: JFE Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Yoshida, Yukiko Nakamura, Satoshi Goto
  • Publication number: 20130050041
    Abstract: Disclosed are synthetic garnets and related devices that can be used in radio-frequency (RF) applications. In some embodiments, such RF devices can include garnets having reduced or substantially nil Yttrium or other rare earth metals. Such garnets can be configured to yield high dielectric constants, and ferrite devices, such as TM-mode circulators/isolators, formed from such garnets can benefit from reduced dimensions. Further, reduced or nil rare earth content of such garnets can allow cost-effective fabrication of ferrite-based RF devices. In some embodiments, such ferrite devices can include other desirable properties such as low magnetic resonance linewidths. Examples of fabrication methods and RF-related properties are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: David Bowie CRUICKSHANK, Rickard Paul O'DONOVAN, Iain Alexander MACFARLANE, Brian MURRAY, Michael David HILL
  • Publication number: 20130033354
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a ferrite powder having a core-shell structure, the core being made of iron (Fe) or iron-based compounds comprising iron (Fe) and the shell being made of metal oxides, a ferrite material comprising the ferrite powder and the glass, and multilayered chip components including the ferrite layer using the ferrite material, inner electrodes, and outer electrodes. According to the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to provide the ferrite material capable of improving the change in the inductance L value in response to applied current by suppressing magnetization at high current. The multilayered chip components including the ferrite material according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention can also be used in a band of MHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Sung Yong An, Myeong Gi Kim, Ic Seob Kim
  • Patent number: 8337714
    Abstract: The present invention provides ferrite powders for bonded magnet capable of suppressing increase of SFD, while widening a particle size distribution for obtaining flowability and compressed density, and also capable of suppressing deterioration of orientation and magnetizability, and provides a process for a production magnetoplumbite-type ferrite powders containing an oxide of at least one or more kinds of transition metals selected from a group consisting of Zr, Ti, Zn, Co, Mn, and Ni, having a mean particle size of 0.20 ?m or more and less than 5.00 ?m, being the ferrite powders for bonded magnet with the ratio of particles having particle size of 1 ?m or less being 20 mass % or more in the magnetoplumbite-type ferrite powder size distribution obtained by a laser diffraction type particle size distribution analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd., Dowa F-Tec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Nakaue, Shinichi Suenaga, Masahiro Kojima, Hiroya Ikeda, Satoru Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20120319030
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multifunctional colloidal nanocomposite derived from nucleophilic substitution-induced layer-by-layer assembly in organic media. The multifunctional colloidal nanocomposite includes: silica colloids coated with aminopropyltrimethoxysilane; and a plurality of nanoparticle layers highly densely adsorbed onto the coated silica colloids. The multifunctional colloidal nanocomposite has a highly dense multilayer structure in which 2-bromo-2-methylpropionic acid (BMPA)-stabilized quantum dot nanoparticles and an amine-functionalized polymer are adsorbed onto silica colloids using a nucleophilic substitution reaction-based layer-by-layer assembly method. Due to this structure, the multifunctional colloidal nanocomposite can be dispersed in various organic solvents, including polar and nonpolar organic solvents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventor: Jin Han CHO
  • Patent number: 8335037
    Abstract: [Problem] When a nonreciprocal device operating at 100 GHz to 300 GHz is to be realized by using a conventional magnetic material of garnet-type ferrite or spinel-type ferrite, a huge permanent magnet is required and, therefore, it is very difficult to achieve a millimeter-wave band nonreciprocal device for practical use. [Solving means] To solve this problem, there is provided a millimeter-wave band nonreciprocal device composed of a magnetic material represented by a formula ?-MxFe2-xO3 (0<x<2), wherein M is at least one of elements In, Ga, Al, Sc, Cr, Sm, Yb, Ce, Ru, Rh, Ti, Co, Ni, Mn, Zn, Zr, and Y and the magnetic material having ?-phase hematite as a principal phase exhibits strong coercive force and anisotropic magnetic field at room temperature. Dimensions of a magnetic circuit containing a permanent magnet for operations of the nonreciprocal device can be made remarkably small and, by optimum design, the use of the magnetic circuit can be made unnecessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignees: The University of Tokyo, Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Takeda, Shin-Ichi Ohkoshi
  • Publication number: 20120264111
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stable mixture comprising surface-modified particles which are obtained by reacting metal oxide or semimetal oxide particles with at least one compound selected from among silicon-comprising compounds bearing at least one metaloxy radical and optionally further alkoxy and/or hydroxy radical(s) and at least one solvent, at least one surface-active substance or a mixture thereof, a process for producing the mixture, the use of these particles in systems in which they are brought into contact with at least one solvent, where the mass ratio of solvent to modified particle is greater than 500, and also the use of these particles in agglomeration-deagglomeration cycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicants: BASF CORPORATION, BASF SE
    Inventors: Stephan DEUERLEIN, Imme Domke, Alexej Michailovski, Reinhold Rieger, Piyada Charoensirisomboon, David F. Blackwood, Christian Eichholz, Robert Bayer, Dennis Lösch, Igor Shishkov
  • Publication number: 20120261606
    Abstract: A pearlescent pigment and a process for enhancing the magnetic properties of a pearlescent pigment. The pearlescent pigment has a layer with regions of ?-Fe2O3 and regions of ?-Fe2O3. The magnetic properties of a pearlescent pigment may be enhanced by the steps of: providing a platelet pigment with a layer of Fe2O3, with a magnetic susceptibility less than 0.1×10?5 m3/kg; reducing some or all of the Fe2O3 to Fe3O4; and oxidizing some or all of the Fe3O4 to ?-Fe2O3. The color difference (?E*) between the provided pigment and the resultant pigment is not more than about 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Aaron M. Hollman, Philippe Schottland
  • Patent number: 8282853
    Abstract: A novel NiMnZn-based ferrite which can reduce magnetic loss (core loss) at a high frequency of about 2 MHz or higher and achieve higher saturated magnetic flux density while forming high sintered density is provided. The NiMnZn-based ferrite contains a main component comprising 54.0 to 57.5 mol % of iron oxide in terms of Fe2O3, 2.0 to 7.0 mol % of zinc oxide in terms of ZnO, 0.5 to 4.7 mol % of nickel oxide in terms of NiO, and a remainder of manganese oxide (in terms of MnO); and an accessory component comprising 100 to 1000 ppm by weight of Si in terms of SiO2, 800 to 3000 ppm by weight of Ca in terms of CaCO3, and 520 to 1000 ppm by weight of Nb in terms of Nb2O5 with respect to the main component; while having an average ferrite crystal particle size of 2.1 to 8.5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Mori, Takuya Aoki
  • Publication number: 20120248368
    Abstract: This invention relates to a magnetic ceramic material comprising, as main components, (a) at least one magnetic iron oxide selected from the group consisting of Fe3O4 and ?-Fe2O3, and (b) an amorphous phase, and a process for producing a magnetic ceramic material, comprising (1) heating a microorganism-derived iron oxide ceramic material containing an iron atom, and (2) reducing the iron oxide ceramic material obtained in Step (1) by heating in the presence of hydrogen gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Jun Takada, Hideki Hashimoto, Tatsuo Fujii, Makoto Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 8263224
    Abstract: Disclosed is a resin composition containing a hexagonal ferrite and a resin, which is characterized in that the hexagonal ferrite is contained in an amount of 50-98 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the total of the resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuji Tokiwa
  • Patent number: 8246849
    Abstract: To provide a magnetic powder production method, a magnetic sheet production method, and an antenna module production method that are capable of reducing a size of magnetic particles, achieving thinning and a low loss, and improving magnetic permeability without lowering it. At least two oxide-based magnetic materials are mixed, preliminarily calcined, and pulverized. The pulverized magnetic materials are typically formed into a paste by being dispersed in an organic solvent, and the magnetic materials are applied onto a film after being subjected to defoaming processing. Accordingly, a sheet-like magnetic material is formed. The sheet-like magnetic material is cut into predetermined sizes so as to be fragmented into particles, with the result that magnetic particles are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiraku Akiho
  • Publication number: 20120135080
    Abstract: The invention provides core-shell magnetic particles comprising a magnetic core and a functional shell, methods for making same, methods of separation using same, methods for using same, and devices comprising same. The particles and methods of the invention are useful for targeting and removing substances of interest that may be found in complex mixtures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Lev E. Bromberg, Emily P. Chang, Trevor Alan Hatton
  • Publication number: 20120132847
    Abstract: A magnetic material composition for ceramic electronic components that is excellent in sintering properties and magnetic properties (in particular, a Q-factor) and a manufacturing method thereof, and a ceramic electronic component using the magnetic material composition are provided. The magnetic material composition includes Ni—Zn—Cu ferrite powder formed of 47.0 to 49.5 parts by mole of a mixture of iron oxide (Fe2O3), cobalt oxide (CoO), and titanium oxide (TiO2), 16.0 to 24.0 parts by mole of nickel oxide (NiO), 18.0 to 25.0 parts by mole of zinc oxide (ZnO), and 7.0 to 13.0 parts by mole of copper oxide (CuO). A ceramic electronic component manufactured using the magnetic material composition has an excellent Q-factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventors: SUNG YONG AN, Jeoung Wook Kim, Sung Lyoung Kim, Soo Hwan Son, Jin Woo Hahn, Ic Seob Kim
  • Publication number: 20120130023
    Abstract: Composite material comprising—one or more heat-activatable free-radical initiators selected from the group consisting of organic peroxides and/or initiators having labile carbon-carbon bonds and particles which have a core-shell structure and the core of which comprises one or more magnetic materials, while the shell comprises silicon dioxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicants: UNITED INITIATORS GMBH & CO. KG, EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH
    Inventors: Harald Herzog, Konrad Rockstein, Stipan Katusic, Martin Kunz, Iris Nagl, Hanno Wolf
  • Patent number: 8164410
    Abstract: A low-loss ferrite comprising as main components 46.5-49.5% by mol of Fe2O3, 17-26% by mol of ZnO, 4-12% by mol of CuO, and 0.2% or more and less than 1.2% by mol of CoO, the balance being NiO, and 0.03-1.4% by mass (as SnO2) of Sn based on 100% by mass of the main components, and having an average crystal grain size of 0.7-2.5 ?m, and an electronic device obtained by integrally sintering pluralities of layers of this low-loss ferrite and coil-shaped electrodes formed in the laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Tanaka, Takeshi Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20120091702
    Abstract: The present invention is related to magnetic pigments comprising a transparent flaky homogeneously composed substrate having two parallel major surfaces and a coating comprising maghemite, to a process for the production of said pigments as well as to their use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Merck Patent Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Kaiman Shimizu, Tamio Noguchi, Fumiko Sasaki, Yukitaka Watanabe, Masahiko Yazawa
  • Patent number: 8158018
    Abstract: The ferrite sintered body of the present invention contains main components consisting of 52 to 54 mol % Fe2O3, 35 to 42 mol % MnO and 6 to 11 mol % ZnO as oxide equivalents and additives including Co, Ti, Si and Ca in specified amounts, and has a temperature at which the power loss is a minimal value (bottom temperature) of higher than 120° C. in a magnetic field with an excitation magnetic flux density of 200 mT and a frequency of 100 kHz, and a power loss of 350 kW/m3 or less at the bottom temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Nakahata, Tomokazu Ishikura, Takuya Aoki
  • Publication number: 20120085963
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a ferrite composition for a high frequency bead in that a part of Fe in M-type hexagonal ferrite represented by BaFe12O19 is substituted with at least one metal selected from a group consisting of 2-valence, 3-valence and 4-valence metals, as well as a chip bead material using the same. According to embodiments of the present invention, the dielectric composition is characterized in that a part of Fe as a constituent of M-type hexagonal barium ferrite is substituted by other metals, to thus decrease a sintering temperature to 920° C. or less without using any additive for low temperature sintering. Moreover, because of high SRF properties, the inventive composition is applicable to a multilayer type chip bead used at a high frequency of more than several hundreds MHz and a magnetic antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventors: Sung Yong AN, Jin Woo HAHN, Jeong Wook KIM, Sung Lyoung KIM, So Yeon SONG, Soo Hwan SON, Ic Seob KIM
  • Patent number: 8153097
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing ferrite powder comprises a step (a) of causing a precursor, obtained by a liquid-phase reaction method, to pass through a sieve with openings of 2 mm or less, and a step (b) of causing free fall, through the interior of a furnace tube heated to the range 750 to 1250° C. by a heater, of the precursor which has passed through the sieve. In the process of causing free fall through the interior of the furnace tube heated by the heater, ferrite powder, which is a single phase of hexagonal ferrite, is obtained by heating the precursor to a prescribed temperature and holding the precursor at the prescribed temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Satoh
  • Patent number: 8142676
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic garnet single crystal and an optical element using the same, for the purpose of providing a magnetic garnet single crystal at a reduced Pb content, and an optical element using the same, where the magnetic garnet single crystal is represented by the chemical formula Bi?M13-?Fe5-?-?M2?M3?O12 (M1 is at least one element selected from Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu; and M2 is Si; and M3 is at least one element selected from Zn, Ni, Cu and Mg, provided that 0.5<??2.0, 0<?, and 0<y).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Ohido
  • Publication number: 20120061609
    Abstract: A method of assembling superparamagnetic colloids into ordered structures with magnetically tunable photonic properties in nonpolar solvents by establishing long-range electrostatic repulsive forces using charge control agents. Reverse micelles resulted from the introduction of charge control agents such as AOT molecules can enhance the charge separation on the surfaces of n-octadecyltrimethoxysilane modified Fe3O4@SiO2 particles. The significantly improved long-range electrostatic repulsion can counterbalance the magnetically induced attraction and therefore allow ordering of superparamagnetic colloids in nonpolar solvents. This system possesses fast and fully reversible optical response to the external magnetic fields, long-term stability in performance, and good diffraction intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Yadong Yin, Jianping Ge
  • Patent number: 8133405
    Abstract: Spinel-type ferrimagnetic particles having a composition represented by the formula: (MO)·n/2(Fe2O3) where M is a divalent metal and n is a molar ratio of Fe to M (n=Fe/M) which is from more than 2.05 to less than 2.5 (2.05<n<2.5). They contain a superparamagnetic component in an amount of not more than 2% by mass, has an average particle diameter of 5 to 30 nm. The particles are respectively coated on surface with a hydroxide of at least one metal Si, Al, P and Zn in an amount of not more than 10% by mass, calculated as the metal. The spinel-type ferrimagnetic particles can exhibit a high coercive force irrespective of fine particles, and are excellent in dispersibility and chemical stability, as well as the magnetic recording medium for high-density recording can exhibit not only excellent frequency characteristics and high output characteristics, but also an excellent weather resistance and a high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Toda Kogyo Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Tsutomu Katamoto
  • Patent number: 8133613
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries and durable anode materials and anodes for use in nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries. The present invention also relates to methods for producing these anode materials. In the present invention, a metal-semiconductor alloy layer is formed on an anode material by contacting a portion of the anode material with a displacement solution. The displacement solution contains ions of the metal to be deposited and a dissolution component for dissolving a part of the semiconductor in the anode material. When the anode material is contacted with the displacement solution, the dissolution component dissolves a part of the semiconductor in the anode material thereby providing electrons to reduce the metal ions and deposit the metal on the anode material. After deposition, the anode material and metal are annealed to form a uniform metal-semiconductor alloy layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Enovix Corporation
    Inventors: Murali Ramasubramanian, Robert M. Spotnitz
  • Publication number: 20120037840
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for removing a contaminant from its environment. The method includes forming a magnetic composition comprising the contaminant and an amphiphilic substance, and applying a magnetic field to the magnetic composition so as to separate the magnetic composition from the environment. One composition includes a micelle array confined in a magnetic mesoporous framework. Another composition is formed by adhering an amphiphilic material comprising functional surface groups to a contaminant, then interacting a magnetic material with the functional surface groups of the amphiphilic material. In various versions, the contaminant can be a hydrophobic organic compound, or a fullerene-related nanoparticle. The methods can also be used to purify hydrophobic organic compounds or fullerene-related nanoparticles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Galen Stucky, Arturo A. Keller, Yifeng Shi, Peng Wang, Qihui Shi, Hongjun Liang
  • Publication number: 20120007015
    Abstract: A ferrite material and an electronic component which employs sintered ferrite formed from the ferrite material. The ferrite material is obtained by adding, as minor ingredients, 0.06-0.50 parts by weight of bismuth oxide in terms of Bi2O3, 0.11-0.90 parts by weight of titanium oxide in terms of TiO2, and 0.06-0.46 parts by weight of barium oxide in terms of BaO to a ferrite powder comprising iron oxide, copper oxide, zinc oxide, and nickel oxide as major ingredients. The weight ratio among the bismuth oxide, the titanium oxide, and the barium oxide is as follows: when the proportion of the bismuth oxide in terms of Bi2O3 is taken as 1.00, then the proportion of the titanium oxide in terms of TiO2 is 1.08-2.72 and that of the barium oxide in terms of BaO is 0.72-1.20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicants: NGK Insulators, Ltd., Soshin Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yui Kumura, Yukio Isowaki, Tadashi Otagiri
  • Publication number: 20120003689
    Abstract: A process for making a particulate material comprising mesoporous particles having granules of a metal containing species in at least some of the pores thereof, said process comprising: allowing a compound of the metal to enter pores of hydrophobic mesoporous particles, said compound being thermally decomposable at a decomposition temperature to form a metal containing species and said particles being substantially thermally stable at said decomposition temperature; and heating the hydrophobic mesoporous particles having the compound in the pores thereof to the decomposition temperature so as to decompose the compound and to form the mesoporous particles having granules of the metal containing species in at least some of the pores thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Jackie Y. Ying, Su Seong Lee, Siti Nurhanna Binte Riduan, yu Han
  • Publication number: 20110278491
    Abstract: Disclosed is a MnZnCo-based ferrite consisting of base constituents, accessory constituents, and inevitable impurities, which MnZnCo-based ferrite is characterized by adding silicon oxide (SiO2 conversion): 50-400 mass ppm and calcium oxide (CaO conversion): 1000-4000 mass ppm as secondary constituents to base constituents consisting of iron oxide (Fe2O3 conversion): 51.0-53.0 mol %, zinc oxide (ZnO conversion): greater than 12.0 mol % and less than 18.0 mol %, cobalt oxide (CoO conversion): 0.04-0.60 mol %, and manganese oxide (MnO conversion): remainder, and keeping phosphorus, boron, sulfur, and chlorine of the inevitable impurities to phosphorous: less than 3 mass ppm, boron: less than 3 mass ppm, sulfur: less than 5 mass ppm, and chlorine: less than 10 mass ppm. This MnZnCo-based ferrite has the superior characteristics of always having incremental permeability [mu]? of 2000 or greater across a wide temperature range of ?40 DEG C. to 85 DEG C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: JFE CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Yoshida, Yukiko Nakamura, Satoshi Goto
  • Patent number: 7947191
    Abstract: A composite material composed of nanoparticles of transition metal(s) and magnetic ferric oxide, a method of preparing the same, and uses of the same are provided. The composite material is substantially composed of nanoparticles of transition metal(s) or alloy thereof and nanoparticles of magnetic ferric oxide, the size of nanoparticles of transition metal(s) or alloy thereof is in the range of 0.7 to 5 nm, the size of nanoparticles of magnetic ferric oxide is in the range of 5 to 50 nm, and the amount of transition metal(s) or alloy thereof is in the range of 0.1 to 30 wt %, based on the total weight of composite material, the magnetic ferric oxide is gamma-Fe2O3, Fe3O4, complex obtained from gamma-Fe2O3 by partial reduction, or complex obtained from Fe3O4 by partial reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Peiking University
    Inventors: Yuan Wang, Junling Zhang, Minghui Liang, Xiaodong Wang, Yongge Wei, Linlin Gui
  • Patent number: 7922917
    Abstract: Porous, ferro- or ferrimagnetic, glass particles are described that selectively bind molecules of interest, especially nucleic acid molecules, under appropriate conditions. Methods of preparing the porous, ferro- or ferrimagnetic, glass particles and their use for identifying or separating molecules of interest are also described. Kits comprising the porous, ferro- or ferrimagnetic, glass particles are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: QIAGEN GmbH
    Inventors: Philippe Sauer, Bernd Springer, Thomas Manz, Christoph Ritt, Roland Fabis
  • Patent number: 7892446
    Abstract: A ferrite material in which Bi2O3 is added at 6% by weight or less, and preferably 4% by weight or less, to a ferrite of Li—Zn—(Mn, Fe) containing a specified amount of Mn. In the ferrite material, change of magnetic permeability under high external stress is extremely small, and a core loss under a compression stress is small. By using this ferrite material, an inductor and transformer having small loss even in a state of being molded with resin can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Miyoshi, Tomoyuki Tada
  • Patent number: 7883637
    Abstract: A composite sintered body of dielectric substance and magnetic substance comprises a hexagonal Ba ferrite crystal, a perovskite type crystal containing at least one element selected from Ca, Sr, and Ba, and Ti, and Li element, and the relative magnetic permeability is 1.4 or more at 1 GHz. LC composite electronic component comprises the composite sintered body, a condenser circuit formed in the inside or the surface of the composite sintered body, and an inductor circuit formed in the inside or the surface of the composite sintered body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Terazono, Takeshi Matsui
  • Publication number: 20110006247
    Abstract: Hydrophobized silicon-iron mixed oxide powder, characterized in that it has the following physicochemical characteristics: BET surface area 20 to 75 mVg; Carbon content 0.5 to 10% by weight; Tamped density 150 to 600 g/l; Chlorine content 0.1 to 3.0%; Drying loss 0.1 to 4% by weight; DVS isotherm (60%) 0.5 to 1.5% by weight; Heating rate (Is, 10%) 50 to 550° C./s; 90% range (number) 5 to 50 nm; 90% range (weight) 5 to 150 nm; Overall range 2 to 200 nm, is prepared by treating a silicon-iron mixed oxide powder with the surface modifier either in spray form or in vapour form, and then heat treating it. The surface-modified oxidic particles can be used as a filler in adhesives. Further fields of use are use for data carriers, as a contrast agent in imaging processes, for biochemical separation and analysis processes, for medical applications, as an abrasive, as a catalyst or as a catalyst support, as a thickener, for thermal insulation, as a dispersing aid, as a flow aid and in ferrofluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH
    Inventors: Stipan Katusic, Juergen Meyer
  • Patent number: 7837893
    Abstract: A sintered ferrite magnet having an M-type ferrite structure and comprising Ca, an R element which is at least one rare earth element indispensably including La, Ba, Fe and Co as indispensable elements, which is represented by Ca1-x-yRxBayFe2n-zCoz, wherein (1-x-y), x, y, z and n are numbers representing the amounts of Ca, the R element, Ba and Co and a molar ratio, meeting 0.2?x?0.65, 0.001?y?0.2, 0.03?z?0.65, and 4?n?7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Takami, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Naoki Mochi
  • Patent number: 7837807
    Abstract: A magnetic core for a current transformer, and a current transformer and a watt hour meter used thereof, which is preferred the detection of a alternate current with a large asymmetrical waveform and a alternate current which a direct current is superimposed are realized. A magnetic core for a current transformer comprising the composition represented by the general formula: Fe100-x-a-y-cMxCuaM?yX?c (atomic %), wherein M is at least one element selected from Co and Ni, M? is at least one element selected from V, Ti, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta, X? is at least one element selected from Si and B, and x, a, y, and c meets the composition of 3?x?50, 0.1?a?3, 1?y?10, 2?c?30, and also 7?y+c?30, and an alloy comprising a crystal grain consisting of at least a part or all of the composition with a mean particle size of less than or equal to 50 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihito Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20100288964
    Abstract: Methods of producing a multiferroic thin film material. The method includes the steps of providing a multiferroic precursor solution, subjecting the precursor solution to spin casting to produce a spin cast film, and heating the spin cast film. The precursor solution may include Bi(NO3)3.5H2O and Fe(NO3)3.9H2O in ethylene glycol to produce a bismuth ferrite film. Further, the thin film may be utilized in varied technological areas, including memory devices for information storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Ronald Pirich, Nan-Loh Yang, Kai Su, I-Wei Chu
  • Patent number: 7811465
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic garnet single crystal prepared by the liquid phase epitaxial (LPE) process and an optical element using the same as well as a method of producing the single crystal, for the purpose of providing a magnetic garnet single crystal at a reduced Pb content and an optical element using the same, as well as a method of producing the single crystal. The magnetic garnet single crystal is grown by the liquid phase epitaxial process and is represented by the chemical formula BixNayPbzM13?x?y?zFe5?wM2wO12 (M1 is at least one element selected from Y, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu; and M2 is at least one element selected from Ga, Al, In, Ti, Ge, Si and Pt, provided that 0.5<x?2.0, 0<y?0.8, 0?z<0.01, 0.19?3?x?y?z<2.5, and 0?w?1.6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Ohido
  • Patent number: 7758766
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a magnetic garnet single crystal capable of reducing the optical loss of the resulting rotator even when the magnetic garnet single crystal is grown using a solvent containing Na by the liquid phase epitaxial process, as well as a Faraday rotator using the same. A magnetic garnet single crystal represented by the chemical formula Bi?Na?M13-?-?-?M2?Fe5-?-?Mg?M3?O12 (M1 is at least one element or more selected from Y, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Yb and Lu; and M2 is at least one element or more selected from Ca and Sr; M3 is at least one element or more selected from Si, Ge, Ti, Pt, Ru, Sn, Hf and Zr, provided that 0.60<??1.50, 0<??0.05, 1.35<3??????<2.40, 0???0.10, 0???0.10, 0<??0.10, 0<?+??0.10, 0<?+??0.10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Ohido
  • Patent number: 7754094
    Abstract: A sintered ferrite body having a main composition comprising 63-80% by mol of Fe2O3, and 3-15% by mol of ZnO, the balance being manganese oxide; Rcal determined from the Fe2O3 content X (% by mol) by the formula (1) of Rcal=[200(X?50)]/(3X), and the ratio R (%) of Fe2+ per the total amount of Fe in the sintered body meeting the condition of Rcal?2.0?R?Rcal+0.3; and the sintered body having a density of 4.9 g/cm3 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Syuichi Takano
  • Publication number: 20100171066
    Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic material having high Hc and High Curie point, which is capable of controlling such magnetic characteristics without requiring rare or expensive raw materials. Specifically disclosed is a magnetic material composed of particles of a magnetic iron oxide which is represented by the following general formula: ?-AxByFe2?x?yO3 or ?-AxByCzFe2?x?y?zO3 (wherein A, B and C each represents a metal excluding Fe and different from each other, satisfying 0<x, y, z<1), with ?-Fe2O3 as a main phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicants: The University of Tokyo, Dowa Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, Shunsuke Sakurai, Takenori Yorinaga, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Shinya Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20100140535
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing magnetic material is described hereinafter. Firstly, Fe(NO3)3.9H2O and other metal nitrate compounds are dissolved in an alcohol solvent to form a mixed solution. Secondly, the mixed solution is heated to 60˜100 degrees Centigrade. Next, citric acid is added into the mixed solution for being reacted with each other under the temperature of 60˜100 degrees Centigrade so that can make the alcohol solvent volatilized and further obtain brown solid powder. Lastly, the solid powder is further heated for a period of time so as to obtain the magnetic material having a fluffy powdery form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventor: Chih-Hao HUANG
  • Publication number: 20100124644
    Abstract: An article and thermoplastic composition including polycarbonate, a polysiloxane-polycarbonate and an x-ray detectable or metal detectable agent having good magnetic permeability and/or electrical conductivity wherein the composition may be used in articles for food preparation. The thermoplastic compositions are useful in forming molds for manufacturing a food product, such as chocolate molds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS IP B.V.
    Inventors: Christopher Luke Hein, Jan-Pleun Lens, Vandita Pai-Paranjape, Constant Peek, Robert Dirk van de Grampel
  • Patent number: 7713433
    Abstract: W-type ferrite has improved magnetic properties, in particular, coercive force. A high coercive force (HcJ) and a high residual magnetic flux density (Br) can be simultaneously attained by a ferrite magnetic material comprising an oxide having a composition wherein metal elements Sr, Ba and Fe in total have a composition ratio represented by the formula Sr(1?x)BaxFe2+aFe3+b in which 0.03 ?x?0.80, 1.1?a?2.4, and 12.3?b?16.1. The ferrite magnetic material can form any of a ferrite sintered magnet, a ferrite magnet powder, a bonded magnet as a ferrite magnet powder dispersed in a resin, and a magnetic recording medium as a film-type magnetic phase. As for the ferrite sintered magnet, there can be attained a fine sintered structure that has a mean grain size of 0.6 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Minachi, Noboru Ito, Junichi Nagaoka, Shunsuke Kurasawa, Taku Murase
  • Publication number: 20100085140
    Abstract: A low-loss ferrite comprising as main components 46.5-49.5% by mol of Fe2O3, 17-26% by mol of ZnO, 4-12% by mol of CuO, and 0.2% or more and less than 1.2% by mol of CoO, the balance being NiO, and 0.03-1.4% by mass (as SnO2) of Sn based on 100% by mass of the main components, and having an average crystal grain size of 0.7-2.5 ?um, and an electronic device obtained by integrally sintering pluralities of layers of this low-loss ferrite and coil-shaped electrodes formed in the laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Tanaka, Takeshi Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20090242827
    Abstract: The ferrite sintered body of the present invention contains main components consisting of 52 to 54 mol % Fe2O3, 35 to 42 mol % MnO and 6 to 11 mol % ZnO as oxide equivalents and additives including Co, Ti, Si and Ca in specified amounts, and has a temperature at which the power loss is a minimal value (bottom temperature) of higher than 120° C. in a magnetic field with an excitation magnetic flux density of 200 mT and a frequency of 100 kHz, and a power loss of 350 kW/m3 or less at the bottom temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Isao NAKAHATA, Tomokazu Ishikura, Takuya Aoki
  • Publication number: 20090140384
    Abstract: A thin soft magnetic film combines a high magnetization with an insulating character. The film is formed by nitriding Fe-rich ferromagnetic nanograins immersed in an amorphous substrate. A selective oxidation of the amorphous substrate is then performed. The result is a thin, insulating, soft magnetic film of high magnetization. Many types of integrated circuits can be made which include a component using a membrane incorporating the above-mentioned thin film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicants: STMicroelectronics S.A., Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique Batiment LE PONAND D
    Inventors: Guillaume Bouche, Pascal Ancey, Bernard Viala, Sandrine Couderc
  • Patent number: 7540972
    Abstract: For the purpose of providing a Mn—Zn based ferrite material that is small in magnetic field degradation in high frequency bands of 1 MHz or more, the Mn—Zn based ferrite material includes: as main constituents, Fe2O3: 53 to 56 mol %, ZnO: 7 mol % or less (inclusive of 0 mol %), and the balance: MnO; and as additives, Co: 0.15 to 0.65% by weight in terms of Co3O4, Si: 0.01 to 0.045% by weight in terms of SiO2 and Ca: 0.05 to 0.40% by weight in terms of CaCO3; wherein the ? value (the cation defect amount) defined in the present specification satisfies the relation 3×10?3???7×10?3; and the mean grain size is larger than 8 ?m and 15 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Tomokazu Ishikura, Shinichi Sakano, Masahiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7527744
    Abstract: An NiCuZn-base ferrite of the invention comprises as main components an iron oxide in an amount of 45.0 to 49.0 mol % on Fe2O3 basis, an copper oxide in an amount of 5.0 to 14.0 mol % on CuO basis and a zinc oxide in an amount of 1.0 to 32.0 mol % on ZnO basis with a nickel oxide accounting for the rest mol % on NiO basis. With respect to the main components, a bismuth oxide is contained in an amount of 0.25 exclusive to 0.40% by weight on Bi2O3 basis, and a tin oxide is contained in an amount of 1.00 to 2.50% by weight on SnO2 basis. The invention ensures a leap upward in direct-current bias characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi Wada, Takuya Aoki, Hiroshi Momoi, Yukio Takahashi, Takahiro Satoh
  • Publication number: 20090050839
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a metal oxide nano-composite magnetic material, fabrication method, and method for linkage, enrichment, and isolation of phosphorylated species. The metal oxide nano-composite magnetic material comprises the magnetic iron oxide nanoparticle, a silica layer immobilized onto the magnetic iron oxide nanoparticle and a metal oxide layer coated onto the silica layer. The magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles can be used for absorbing microwave radiation to accelerate the enrichment and linkage for phosphorylated species onto the metal oxide nano-composite magnetic material. Furthermore, the magnetic property of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles leads to isolation of the metal oxide nano-composite magnetic material-target species conjugates by simply employing an external magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: YU-CHIE CHEN, CHENG-TAI CHEN, WEI-YU CHEN, CHUN-YUEN LO, HONG-YI LIN, CHIH CHI LIU