Abstract: In the method for manufacturing ferrite type permanent magnets according to the formula M1-xRxFe12-yTyO19: a) a mixture of the raw materials PM, PF, PR and PT of elements M, Fe, R and T, respectively, is formed, Fe and M being the main raw materials and R and T being substitute raw materials; b) the mixture is roasted to form a clinker; c) wet grinding of said clinker is carried out; d) the particles are concentrated and compressed in an orientation magnetic field to form an anisotropic, easy to handle green compact of a predetermined shape; and e) the anisotropic green compact D is sintered to obtain a sintered element. The surface are GS and percentage of at least one of the substitute raw materials is selected according to the surface area and percentage of the iron raw material to obtain magnets with high squareness and overall performance index properties.

Abstract: A method is presented for manufacturing laminate tile metal pole pieces for an MRI. Each laminate tile has a trapezoidal or annular sector shape. The trapezoidal shape allows the tiles to be attached side by side to form a multiple concentric annular array pole piece without using oddly shaped edge filler tiles needed to fill a circular pole piece with square tiles. The pole piece is made by placing a plurality of tiles into a mold and filling the mold with an adhesive substance to bind the plurality of tiles into a unitary tile body. The unitary tile body is then removed from the mold and attached to a pole piece base to form the pole piece. The mold cavity surface preferably has a non-uniform contour. The bottom surface of the unitary tile body forms a substantially inverse contour of the mold cavity surface contour.

Abstract: A conductive seal that is formed on a first sealing surface by extruding an elastically curing material intermixed with conductive particles is in addition intermixed with magnetic particles. After applying the material to the first sealing surface, its cross section profile is expanded to an adjustable level towards a second sealing surface and/or sealing rims are molded to it by a magnetic force from an electromagnetic plate. The magnetic and conductive particles are preferably concentrated in the marginal sections, particularly due to magnetic forces that act on the sealing roving in the extrusion process.

Abstract: An oxide magnetic material is prepared by wet molding in a magnetic field a slurry containing a particulate oxide magnetic material, water and a polyhydric alcohol having the formula: Cn(OH)nHn+2 wherein n is from 4 to 100 as a dispersant. By improving the orientation in a magnetic field upon wet molding using water, an oxide magnetic material having a high degree of orientation, typically an anisotropic ferrite magnet, is obtained at a high rate of productivity. The method is advantageous from the environmental and economical standpoints.

Abstract: The invention relates to hard magnetic films made of a polymer matrix and hard magnetic powder particles distributed therein. The films have a thickness of preferably 100 to 500 &mgr;m and are flexible. They can be produced by using a casting method and are suited, for example, as hard magnetic components in miniature motors, polarized relays or sensors.

Abstract: A method of producing magnetic recording disks includes positioning the disks between flat plates and increasing the temperature and pressure on the disks. Servo tracks are embossed on the disks by an embossing pattern on the flat plate. Servo tracks may be applied by a printing pattern on the flat plates. The flat plates are rotated during the process to relieve directional differences in the modulus of elasticity of the disk.

Abstract: A method of inducing biaxial particle alignment in a body of crystalline particles of a material such as a high temperature superconducting material, having anisotropic magnetic susceptibility so that at least a major portion of the crystalline particles have at least two crystalline axes generally parallel, comprises subjecting the particles to a magnetic field which varies cyclically relative to the body of crystalline particles with time, and which has an average magnitude which is a maximum in a first direction, a lower average magnitude in a second direction generally orthogonal to said first direction and a minimum or zero average magnitude in a third direction generally orthogonal to said first and second directions. Alignment of the axis of maximum magnetic susceptibility of the particles generally with the direction of maximum average magnitude and the axis of minimum magnetic susceptibility of the particles generally with the minimum or zero average magnitude direction is induced.

Abstract: Provided are a method for preparing an Ni—Cu—Zn ferrite powder having excellent sinterability at a lower temperature, and a method for producing a laminated chip inductor from the above ferrite powder. The method for preparing the ferrite powder is a method for the preparation of a soft magnetic ferrite powder composed of Fe, Ni, Cu and Zn as main components, and comprises the step of allowing an organic additive to be present in a slurry containing a calcined product of a starting powder and water, wherein the organic additive is an organic compound having a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group or a neutralization salt or lactone thereof, or the organic additive is an organic compound having a hydroxymethylcarbonyl group, an organic compound having an enol type hydroxyl group dissociable as an acid or a salt thereof.

Abstract: A method for coating a surface with a magnetic composite material exhibiting distinct flux properties due to gradient interfaces within the composite. Surfaces coated with such a composite can be used to improve fuel cells and to effect improved transport and separation of different species of materials. A wide variety of devices can incorporate such composite-coated surfaces, including separators, fuel cells, electrochemical cells, and electrodes for channeling flux of, or for effecting electrolysis of, magnetic species.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing density enhanced, bonded permanent magnets having the following properties:

Abstract: Magnetic sculptures are formed by placing a ferrofluid in a shaped magnetic field. In response to the field, the ferrofluid forms fanciful sculptures as determined by the magnetic field lines. In one embodiment, a low viscosity and surface tension ferrofluid is used in a sealed housing to prevent the ferrofluid from evaporating. The housing is filled with a nonmagnetic liquid that is immiscible with the ferrofluid and contains a ferrofluid globule. In order to prevent the ferrofluid from wetting the inside surface of the housing and degrading the apparatus, the housing is comprised of a boro-silicate glass and the ferrofluid comprises a fluorocarbon carrier liquid. Magnetic sculptures can be formed by applying an external magnetic field of sufficient strength to the apparatus. In another embodiment, the aforementioned apparatus may contain a small permanent magnetic located within the ferrofluid globule.

Abstract: Self-tuning materials which can efficiently emit or receive radio waves in spite of being simple in their construction and small in their dimension, and are applied to patch antenna, wave directors or the like. Metallic chips containing two or more kinds of ingredients which are distributed in a layered, net-like or needle-shaped configuration, and an organic or inorganic bonding material which is small in dissipation of electric power under radio waves of high frequencies are mixed with each other, and are pressurized under a high pressure while being highly electrified in the direction perpendicular to the pressurizing direction to mold the metallic chips and the bonding material in a plate-shaped configuration while being heated.

Abstract: A ferrite powder for bonded magnets having a substantially magnetoplumbite-type crystal structure and an average diameter of 0.9-2 &mgr;m, the ferrite powder having a basic composition represented by the following general formula: (A1-xRxO.n[Fe1-yMy)2O3] by atomic ratio, wherein A is Sr and/or Ba; R is at least one of rare earth elements including Y, La being indispensable; M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn, Ni and Zn; and x, y and n are numbers meeting the conditions of 0.01≦x≦0.4, [x/(2.6n)]≦y≦[x/(1.6n)], and 5≦n≦6, (Si+Ca) being 0.2 weight % or less, and (Al+Cr) being 0.13 weight % or less, can be produced by mixing iron oxide containing 0.06 weight % or less of (Si+Ca) and 0.

Abstract: A method of making rotating element sheet material utilizing magnetic latching is disclosed. First a plurality of rotating elements having a magnetized segment are mixed with magnetic particles to attract the magnetic particles to the magnetized segments. Then the rotating elements with the attached magnetic particles are mixed with a liquid elastomer. A magnetic field is applied to orient the rotating elements in a common direction. When the rotating elements and the attached magnetic particles have all been oriented the elastomer is cured to form an elastomer substrate with trapped rotating elements and magnetic particles. The elastomer substrate is then immersed into a bath of dielectric plasticizer which is absorbed more readily by elastomer than by the rotating elements. The elastomer substrate swells to create plasticizer-filled voids around the rotating elements. The magnetic particles remain incorporated within the elastomer to form magnetic material pads which are associated with an element.

Abstract: Printing techniques are used to build three dimensional structures by depositing successive layers of the device onto a substrate. The layers and/or portions thereof are different materials, e.g., conductors and insulators, which provide the desired functional characteristics of the device. The substrate may be used only to provide a support for the printing process, in which case it will usually be removed after the device is fabricated, or may instead be a functioning part of the fabricated device.

Abstract: A brushless permanent-magnet direct current motor has a permanent magnet which is magnetized to create an offset angle between detent and mutual torques for providing sufficient starting torque for all relative orientations between the stator and the rotor of the motor. This is accomplished by providing a permanent magnet in which the global magnetization of the magnet has been disrupted by the application of a local magnetic field to a portion of the magnet, thereby to provide a magnetic anomaly in the global magnetization. Also, a method of magnetization of the magnet is described.

Abstract: A molding assembly for producing a magnetic development roller having relatively precise magnetic development fields for use in an electrostatographic reproduction machine to develop a latent image recorded on a photoconductive member of the machine. The molding assembly includes a cylindrical member having a first end, a second end, a first radius, and a shell portion. The shell portion includes an outer surface, and an inner surface defining a molding cavity that has a second radius corresponding to an outer radius of a magnetic development roller molded within the molding cavity. The molding assembly also includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced channels formed within the shell portion, with each channel of the plurality having generally parallel walls, and being located immediately adjacent the inner surface of the shell portion for containing a permanent magnet suitable for inducing a magnetic field in a magnetic development roller molded within the molding cavity.

Abstract: A method of the invention for manufacturing a rare earth bonded magnet has the steps of mixing a rare earth magnet powder, binder resin and an additive at a predetermined ratio, kneading the mixture at a temperature not lower than the thermal deformation temperature of the binder resin, granulating or graining the kneaded blend to granules of an average size ranging from 0.01 mm to 2 mm or so, conducting a compacting molding of the granulated material at a first temperature at which the binder resin is softened or molten, and cooling the molded body while keeping the molded body under pressure at least over a period in which the molded body cools down to a second temperature which s below the first temperature, whereby a rare earth bonded magnet is obtained having a low porosity, high dimensional precision and superior magnetic characteristic.

Abstract: The method of the invention uses a molding slurry containing a particulate oxide magnetic material and water and having a dispersant added thereto. The dispersant is an organic compound having a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group or a neutralized salt thereof or a lactone thereof, an organic compound having a hydroxymethylcarbonyl group, or an organic compound having an enol form hydroxyl group dissociable as an acid or a neutralized salt thereof. The organic compound has 3 to 20 carbon atoms, with the hydroxyl group being attached to at least 50% of carbon atoms other than the carbon atom forming a double bond with an oxygen atom. Citric acid or a neutralized salt thereof is also useful as the dispersant. The addition of the dispersant facilitates the wetting of the particulate oxide magnetic material with water and improves the dispersion of primary particles and a degree of orientation upon molding.

Abstract: A mold for use in a molding machine for manufacturing a magnetic roll for use in an electrophotographic printing machine of the type having an electrostatic latent image recorded on a photoconductive member is provided. The mold includes a body and an insert. The body defines a surface of the body. The insert is positioned at least partially against the surface of the body. The insert defines an inner surface of the insert. The inner surface is adapted to conform to at least a portion of the periphery of the roll. The insert may be replaced when worn and the body may be reused with a replacement insert.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substrate having a surface with projections. A printing plate, with a least one part formed from a ferromagnetic material, and which has viscous material penetrating portions for forming projections on a flat surface, is brought into contact with the surface of a substrate. The printing plate is then clamped to the substrate by means of attraction by a magnetic force from behind the substrate. The viscous material penetrating portions of the printing plate are filled up with a viscous material for forming projections. The viscous material forms a layer on the substrate in a shape that is the same as that of the projections. The printing plate is separated from the substrate and the viscous material printed onto the substrate solidifies to form the projections.

Abstract: A method of making a conductive fiber in which the conductive fiber is formed from a mixture including at least one fiber forming material and conductive magnetic materials, and the conductive magnetic materials are migrated toward the periphery of the fiber by application of a magnetic field to the fiber. The conductive fibers having the conductive magnetic materials located at the periphery of the fiber are preferably incorporated into an electrostatic cleaning device for use in an electrostatographic printing device.

Abstract: Chiral composite material is made using an apertured plate (2) having apertures (3) therethrough corresponding to the desired locations of chiral elements (4) in the composite material. The plate (2) is located to overlie a substrate (1) with or without the intermission of spacer (10) which may be apertured in correspondence with the plate (2) or which may be ring like in form. The chiral elements (4) are held in position by locating means such as a tab (5) which may be magnetic in, on or associated with the plate (2) and a first layer (8) of liquid host material is placed in the apertures (3) around the elements (4) against the substrate (1), allowed to set and the plate (2) removed. A second layer (9) of liquid host material is then applied to the set first layer (8) and allowed to set to produce the desired composite material.

Abstract: A slurry containing ferrite magnet raw material particles and a non-aqueous solvent is compacted wet in a magnetic field, while said non-aqueous solvent is removed therefrom, to obtain a compact, and the compact is sintered to obtain an anisotropic ferrite magnet. In this case, a surface active agent is allowed to exist in the slurry during the wet compaction. Alternatively, in addition to or in place of this, the raw material particles are pulverized to apply strains thereto, thereby reducing the iHc values to preferably 3.5 kOe or less. This makes some considerable improvement in the degree of orientation of the compact, thus achieving much more improved magnet properties.

Abstract: A hollow member, which serves as a cylinder having an inner configuration which matches the outer configuration of a magnet roller to be manufactured, is mounted in a metallic mold, and then the metallic mold is clamped. A molten resin containing magnetic particles is injected into the mold cavity of hollow member through a runner. Magnetic lines of force are applied to a roller type resin magnet, and such an application is continued. Before the roller type magnetic resin is fully cured, the mold is opened. Then, the magnetic members of a movable mold member 1 are separated from the magnetic members of a stationary mold member, so that the distribution of the magnetic flux passing through the hollow member is changed. When the roller type resin magnet is fully cured by cooling, a magnet roller having two pairs of magnetic poles with different surface magnetic flux densities can be obtained.

Abstract: Disclosed are paucilamellar lipid vesicles reinforced with polyacrylamide, and methods of producing the same. The vesicles include about 2-10 lipid bilayers in the form of substantially spherical shells separated by a plurality of aqueous layers. Each of the bilayers have a layer of polyacrylamide lining its innermost side. The bilayers and the aqueous layers surround a large, substantially amorphous central cavity containing a water-immiscible oily phase or a polyacrylamide core.