Abstract: A ferrite sintered magnet 100 comprises M-type ferrite crystal grains 4 and multiple-crystal grain boundaries 6b surrounded by three or more of the M-type ferrite crystal grains 4. The ferrite sintered magnet 100 contains at least Fe, Ca, B, and Si, and contains 0.005 to 0.9 mass % of B in terms of B2O3. The multiple-crystal grain boundaries 6b contain Si and Ca, and in a case where the molar ratio of Ca to Si in the multiple-crystal grain boundaries 6b is represented by (Ca/Si)G, the following formula is satisfied. 0.1<(Ca/Si)G<0.

Abstract: A ferrite sintered magnet 100 comprises M-type ferrite crystal grains 4 and multiple-crystal grain boundaries 6b surrounded by three or more of the M-type ferrite crystal grains 4. The ferrite sintered magnet 100 contains at least Fe, Ca, B, and Si, and contains 0.005 to 0.9 mass % of B in terms of B2O3. The multiple-crystal grain boundaries 6b contain Si and Ca, and in a case where the molar ratio of Ca to Si in the multiple-crystal grain boundaries 6b is represented by (Ca/Si)G, the following formula is satisfied. 0.1<(Ca/Si)G<0.

Abstract: This ferrite magnet has a ferrite phase having a magnetoplumbite structure, and an orthoferrite phase, and is characterized in that the composition ratios of the total of each metal element A, R, Fe and Me is represented by expression (1) A1-xRx(Fe12-yMey)z, (in expression (1), A is at least one element selected from Sr, Ba, Ca and Pb; R is at least one element selected from the rare-earth elements (including Y) and Bi, and includes at least La, and Me is Co, or Co and Zn) and in that the content (m) of the orthoferrite phase is 0<m<28.0 in mol %. The invention makes it possible to achieve a ferrite magnet with increased Br.

Abstract: A bath or shower storage system which offers customizable storage solutions for a bath or shower. The bath or shower storage system includes a bath or shower wall having a magnet-friendly zone formed by an integrated panel within the bath or shower wall, and one or more magnetic shelves which can be attached to the magnet-friendly zone. The magnetic shelves include an attachment member that includes one or more magnets, and a storage member to store bath products. The bath or shower storage system may include a variety of storage solutions such as shallow trays, shelves, washcloth holders, and hooks.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing Sr ferrite particles for sintered magnets, the method includes: a mixing step of mixing an iron compound, a strontium compound, and an alkali metal compound which includes at least one of K and Na as a constituent element and which does not include Cl and S as the constituent element to prepare a mixture; and a calcining step of firing the mixture at 850° C. to 1100° C. to obtain Sr ferrite particles in which an average particle size of primary particles is 0.2 to 1.0 ?m. In the mixing step, the alkali metal compound is mixed in such a manner that a total amount of K and Na becomes 0.03 to 1.05% by mass in terms of K2O and Na2O with respect to a total amount of a powder of the iron compound and a powder of the strontium compound.

Abstract: There are provided a rare-earth permanent magnet, and a method for manufacturing a rare-earth permanent magnet and a system for manufacturing a rare-earth permanent magnet, capable of achieving improved shape uniformity. Magnet material is milled into magnet powder, and the milled magnet powder is formed into a formed body 40. The formed body 40 is calcined and then sintered using a spark plasma sintering apparatus 45, so that a permanent magnet 1 is manufactured. A die unit 46 included in the spark plasma sintering apparatus 45 that performs spark plasma sintering at least includes in one direction an inflow hole 50 configured to receive inflow of part of the pressurized formed body.

Abstract: A substrate having a pattern of magnetic properties may be formed by forming a magnetically inactive layer on the substrate, forming a magnetic precursor on the magnetically inactive layer, and forming magnetically active domains separated by magnetically inactive domains in the magnetic precursor by applying thermal energy to the magnetic precursor. The thermal energy may be applied using a laser, which may be pulsed. Forming the magnetically active domains may include crystallizing portions of the magnetic precursor.

Abstract: A method includes: a laminate block preparing step of preparing a laminate block as an assembly of a number of laminates, by alternately laminating magnetic layers containing, as their main constituent, a magnetic metal material containing a glass material and conductor layers containing a conductive material so that the conductor layers are electrically connected to each other to form a coil pattern; a dividing step of dividing the laminate block by cutting the laminate block for each of the laminates; a magnetic material applying step of applying a magnetic material containing the magnetic metal material to side surfaces of the laminates; and a firing step of firing the laminates with the magnetic material applied thereto, thereby preparing a component body. This achieves a method for manufacturing a laminated coil component preferred for a power inductor with improved reliability, without impairing direct-current superimposition characteristics.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sintered cobalt ferrite composite material comprising of nano and micron sized powders of cobalt ferrite with high magnetostriction. The present invention further discloses preparation of nano and micron sized powders of cobalt ferrite, in particular, the auto combustion process using glycine as fuel for preparing nano sized cobalt ferrite powders.

Abstract: Thermally annealed superparamagnetic core shell nanoparticles of an iron-cobalt ternary alloy core and a silicon dioxide shell having high magnetic saturation are provided. A magnetic core of high magnetic moment obtained by compression sintering the thermally annealed superparamagnetic core shell nanoparticles is also provided. The magnetic core has little core loss due to hysteresis or eddy current flow.

Abstract: There is provided a magnet manufacturing method with which a high residual magnetic flux density is obtained without using dysprosium (Dy) and without using a bonding agent. Magnetic powders made of a hard magnetic material formed of a R—Fe—N compound containing a rare earth element as R or formed of a Fe—N compound are used. In a pressurizing step, the magnetic powders are pressurized by molds multiple times to form a primary compact. In a baking step, a secondary compact is formed by heating the primary compact in an oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature lower than a decomposition temperature of the magnetic powders to bond together the outer surfaces of the adjacent magnetic powders with oxide films formed on the outer surfaces of the magnetic powders.

Abstract: When firing a composite substrate structured to have stacked ceramic dielectric and ceramic magnetic layers, a glass constituent is diffused from the ceramic dielectric layer to the ceramic magnetic layer to, as a result, decrease sinterability of the ceramic dielectric layer or degrade insulation resistance characteristics thereof. When the ceramic dielectric includes 40 to 80% by weight of glass formed from 35 to 50% by weight of CaO, 0 to 20% by weight of Al2O3, 5 to 20% by weight of B2O3, and 30 to 50% by weight of SiO2; and 20 to 60% by weight of at least of alumina, forsterite, and/or quartz, this problem is avoided. The dielectric composition increases the viscosity of the glass, and suppresses constituent diffusion from the ceramic dielectric layer to the ceramic magnetic layer, because the glass is partially crystallized to form wollastonite during firing.

Abstract: Medical devices and related methods are disclosed.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetron sputtering target having a ferromagnetic metal element. This magnetron sputtering target includes: a magnetic phase containing the ferromagnetic metal element; a plurality of non-magnetic phases that each contain the ferromagnetic metal element and that are different in constituent elements or a content ratio of constituent elements; and an oxide phase. At least one of the plurality of non-magnetic phases is more finely interdispersed with the oxide phase than the magnetic phase.

Abstract: Provided is an oxide-containing magnetic material sputtering target wherein the oxides have an average grain diameter of 400 nm or less. Also provided is a method of producing an oxide-containing magnetic material sputtering target. The method involves depositing a magnetic material on a substrate by the PVD or CVD method, then removing the substrate from the deposited magnetic material, pulverizing the material to obtain a raw material for the target, and further sintering the raw material. An object of the present invention is to provide a magnetic material target, in particular a nonmagnetic grain-dispersed ferromagnetic sputtering target capable of suppressing discharge abnormalities of oxides that are the cause of particle generation during sputtering.

Abstract: Piezoelectric oriented ceramics containing a Pb(Ti, Zr)O3-based compound having a high degree of orientation not lower than 0.64, which was calculated with the Lotgering method based on an X-ray diffraction pattern in a prescribed cross-section thereof, and having a sintered density not lower than 85% of a theoretical density.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a core-shell structured nanoparticle having hard-soft heterostructure, magnet prepared from the nanoparticle, and preparing method thereof. The core-shell structured nanoparticle having hard-soft magnetic heterostructure of present invention has some merits such as independence from resource supply problem of rare earth elements and low price and can overcome physical and magnetic limitations possessed by the conventional ferrite mono-phased material.

Abstract: To provide ferrite magnetic powders for bond magnet capable of surely suppressing residual hexavalent chrome, being an environmental load substance, having no adverse influence on the magnetic characteristics, which is an obstacle in use, and without damaging productivity and at a low cost. The method includes the steps of obtaining sintered powders by sintering raw material powders; wet-pulverizing the sintered powders; wet-cleaning the sintered powders; and annealing the cleaned sintered powders, wherein in the step of the wet-pulverization and in the step of wet-cleaning, generation of the hexavalent chrome, being an environmental load substance, is suppressed by performing the pulverization and cleaning while maintaining pH of a dispersion solvent at 8.5 or less, at the time of pulverization and cleaning.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include methods of modifying synthetic garnets used in RF applications to reduce or eliminate Yttrium or other rare earth metals in the garnets without adversely affecting the magnetic properties of the material. Some embodiments include substituting Bismuth for some of the Yttrium on the dodecahedral sites and introducing one or more high valency ions to the octahedral and tetrahedral sites. Calcium may also be added to the dodecahedral sites for valency compensation induced by the high valency ions, which could effectively displace all or most of the Yttrium (Y) in microwave device garnets. The modified synthetic garnets with substituted Yttrium (Y) can be used in various microwave magnetic devices such as circulators, isolators and resonators.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a coil, including: preparing a mold having vertically movable fixing pins disposed therein and slidable left and right sidewalls; seating a magnetic plate on an inner bottom of the mold; loading the coil on the magnetic plate so that lead parts of the coil are disposed between the fixing pins and the sidewalls of the mold; sliding the left and right sidewalls of the mold into the mold to closely adhere the lead parts of the coil to the fixing pins; filling a magnetic slurry in the mold and primarily pressing the magnetic slurry; and lowering the fixing pins to perform secondary pressing, in order to prevent deformation or position deviation of the coil at the time of molding the coil.

Abstract: A method for producing a metal detectible ceramic, including mixing a first amount of ceramic material with a second metal oxide to define an admixture, forming the admixture into a green body, sintering the green body to yield a densified body, wherein the densified body has a plurality of metallic particles distributed therethrough, and wherein the densified body is detectible by a metal detector.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a magnetic sheet capable of having flexibility and being folded, and a method for manufacturing the same. The magnetic sheet made of a magnetic material includes prominence and depression parts continuously formed over one surface of the magnetic sheet; and cracks formed between a bottom surface of the prominence part and a lower surface of the magnetic sheet.

Abstract: The method of manufacturing hexagonal ferrite magnetic particles, which includes providing hexagonal ferrite magnetic particles by conducting calcination of particles comprising an alkaline earth metal salt and an iron salt to cause ferritization; and further includes causing a glass component to adhere to the particles and then conducting the calcination of the particles to form a calcined product in which hexagonal ferrite is detected as a principal component in X-ray diffraction analysis; and removing the glass component from a surface of the calcined product that has been formed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a ferrite powder not including pores in a surface thereof, a method for preparing the same, and a common mode noise filter including the same as a material for a magnetic layer. The spherical ferrite powder in which the pores in the surface thereof are removed as a magnetic layer of the common mode noise filter has high density, such that dispersibility is improved, thereby making it possible to improve adhesive strength with a polymer binder to be mixed. In addition, the adhesive strength between the polymer binder and the ferrite powder is improved, such that at the time of manufacturing or mounting of a chip, a defect such as a crack generated by a thermal impact due to a lack of adhesive strength between the ferrite powder and the polymer binder may be suppressed, thereby securing the reliability with respect to the thermal impact.

Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for preferentially-oriented oxide ceramics having a high degree of crystal orientation. The manufacturing method includes: obtaining slurry containing an oxide crystal B having magnetic anisotropy; applying a magnetic field to the oxide crystal B, and obtaining a compact of the oxide crystal B; and subjecting the compact to oxidation treatment to obtain preferentially-oriented oxide ceramics including a compact of an oxide crystal C having a crystal system that is different from a crystal system of one of a part and a whole of the oxide crystal B. By (1) reacting raw materials, (2) reducing the oxide crystal A, or (3) keeping the oxide crystal A at high temperature and quenching the oxide crystal A, the oxide crystal B is obtained to be used in the slurry.

Abstract: A magnetic core of superparamagnetic core shell nanoparticles having a particle size of less than 50 nm; wherein the core is an iron oxide and the shell is a silicon oxide is provided. The magnetic core is a monolithic structure of superparamagnetic core grains of iron oxide directly bonded by the silicon dioxide shells. A method to prepare the magnetic core which allows maintenance of the superparamagnetic state of the nanoparticles is also provided. The magnetic core has little core loss due to hysteresis or eddy current flow.

Abstract: Processing techniques for forming a textured hexagonal ferrite materials such as Z-phase barium cobalt ferrite Ba3Co2Fe24O41 (Co2Z) to enhance the resonant frequency and other magnetic properties of the material for high frequency applications are provided. The processing techniques include magnetic texturing by using fine grain particles and sintering the material at a lower temperature than conventional firing temperatures to inhibit reduction of iron. The processing techniques also may include aligning M-phase (BaFe12O19 uniaxial magnetization) with non-magnetic additives in a static magnetic field and reacting with BaO source and CoO to form Z-phase (Ba3Me2Fe24O42). In some implementations, processing techniques includes aligning Co2Z phase (planar magnetization) with magnetic texturing occurring in a rotating magnetic field.

Abstract: Embodiments and aspects of the present invention relate to an enhanced hexagonal ferrite magnetic material doped with an alkali metal. The material retains substantial magnetic permeability up to frequencies in the GHz range with low losses. The material may be used in high frequency applications in devices such as transformers, inductors, circulators, and absorbers.

Abstract: A sintered ferrite magnet having a main phase composed of ferrite having a hexagonal, M-type magnetoplumbite structure, a grain boundary phase containing Si and Ca with a lower atomic ratio of La than in said main phase, and a third phase containing La at a higher atomic ratio than in said main phase, and a method for producing a sintered ferrite magnet having said third phase by calcining starting materials with more La than Ca, adding more than 1% and 1.8% or less by mass of SiO2 and 1-2% by mass (calculated as CaO) of CaCO3 to the calcined body, and pulverizing, molding and sintering it.

Abstract: Disclosed are an R—Fe—B sintered magnet and a method for producing the same. More specifically, provided is an R—Fe—B (R=Nd, Dy, Pr, Tb, Ho, La, Ce, Sm, Gd, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu or Th) sintered magnet having a structure in which R2Fe14B crystal grains as major phases are surrounded with R-rich phases, wherein a dihedral angle between two adjacent R2Fe14B crystal grains and the R-rich phase contacting the R2Fe14B crystal grains is 70° or less in a triple junction formed by the R2Fe14B crystal grains. The sintered magnet maintains a high coercive force and exhibits improved mechanical properties and is thus applicable to motors or permanent magnets used at high temperatures.

Abstract: Disclosed is a MnZn ferrite core comprising basic components, subcomponents and unavoidable impurities. To the basic components comprising: iron oxide (as Fe2O3): 51.0-54.5 mol %, zinc oxide (as ZnO): 8.0-12.0 mol % and manganese oxide (as MnO): remainder, are added silicon oxide (as SiO2): 50-400 mass ppm and calcium oxide (as CaO): 50-4000 ppm as subcomponents and in the unavoidable impurities, phosphorous, boron, sulfur and chlorine are respectively kept to: less than 3 mass ppm, less than 3 mass ppm, less than 5 mass ppm, and less than 10 mass ppm. The ratio of the measure specific surface area to the ideal specific surface area of the MnZn ferrite core satisfies the formula: Measured specific surface area/ideal specific surface area<1500.

Abstract: A method for producing a sintered ferrite magnet having an M-type ferrite structure and represented by: Ca1?x?yRxBayFe2n-zCoz, (by atomic ratio), where 0.3?1?x?y?0.65, 0.2?x?0.65, 0.001?y?0.2, 0.03?z?0.65, 4?n?7, and 1?x?y>y. The method includes mixing a Ca compound, an R element compound, a Ba compound, an iron compound and a Co compound as starting materials; calcining the starting materials to obtain calcined bodies; pulverizing the calcined bodies to obtain a calcined powder; providing recycled materials having an M-type ferrite structure and being represented by the above formula; pulverizing the recycled materials to obtain a recycled material powder; mixing the recycled material powder with the calcined powder to form a moldable material; molding the moldable material to obtain green bodies; and sintering the green bodies to obtain the sintered ferrite magnet.

Abstract: An article for magnetic heat exchange includes a functionally-graded monolithic sintered working component including La1-aRa(Fe1-x-yTyMx)13HzCb with a NaZn13-type structure. M is one or more of the elements from the group consisting of Si and Al, T is one or more of the elements from the group consisting of Mn, Co, Ni, Ti, V and Cr and R is one or more of the elements from the group consisting of Ce, Nd, Y and Pr. A content of the one or more elements T and R, if present, a C content, if present, and a content of M varies in a working direction of the working component and provides a functionally-graded Curie temperature. The functionally-graded Curie temperature monotonically decreases or monotonically increases in the working direction of the working component.

Abstract: A new magnetic substance having a high magnetic permeability and a low magnetic permeability loss over a wide frequency bandwidth, a composite material for antennas using the new magnetic substance and a polymer, and an antenna using the composite material for antennas.

Abstract: Processing techniques for forming a textured hexagonal ferrite materials such as Z-phase barium cobalt ferrite Ba3Co2Fe24O41 (Co2Z) to enhance the resonant frequency and other magnetic properties of the material for high frequency applications are provided. The processing techniques include magnetic texturing by using fine grain particles and sintering the material at a lower temperature than conventional firing temperatures to inhibit reduction of iron. The processing techniques also may include aligning M-phase (BaFe12O19 uniaxial magnetization) with non-magnetic additives in a static magnetic field and reacting with BaO source and CoO to form Z-phase (Ba3Me2Fe24O42). In some implementations, processing techniques includes aligning Co2Z phase (planar magnetization) with magnetic texturing occurring in a rotating magnetic field.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a ferrite ceramic composition, a ceramic electronic component including the ceramic composition, and a process of producing a ceramic electronic component including the ferrite ceramic composition, of which the insulation performance can be secured even when fired simultaneously with a metal wire material containing Cu as the main component, and which can have good electric properties. The ferrite ceramic composition includes an Ni—Mn—Zn-based ferrite having a molar content of CuO of 5 mol % or less and in which, when the molar content (x) of Fe2O3 and the molar content (y) of Mn2O3 are expressed by a coordinate point (x,y), the coordinate point (x,y) is located in an area bounded by coordinate points A (25,1), B (47,1), C (47,7.5), D (45,7.5), E (45,10), F (35,10), G (35,7.5) and H (25,7.5).

Abstract: A sintered ferrite magnet comprising a first granular ferrite compound phase containing Ca, La, Fe and Co and having a Curie temperature Tc1 between 415° C. and 430° C., and a second granular ferrite compound phase containing Sr, La, Fe and Co and having a Curie temperature Tc2 between 437° C. and 455° C., the volume ratio of the first ferrite compound phase being 50-90%, and the volume ratio of the second ferrite compound phase being 10-50%, with their total volume ratio being 95% or more.

Abstract: A composite material can include a grain component and a nanostructured grain boundary component. The nanostructured grain boundary component can be insulating and magnetic, so as to provide greater continuity of magnetization of the composite material. The grain component can have an average grain size of about 0.5-50 micrometers. The grain boundary component can have an average grain size of about 1-100 nanometers. The nanostructured magnetic grain boundary material has a magnetic flux density of at least about 250 mT. The grain component can comprise MnZn ferrite particles. The nanostructured grain boundary component can comprise NiZn ferrite nanoparticles. Core components and systems thereof can be manufactured from the composite material.

Abstract: A ferromagnetic powder composition is provided comprising soft magnetic iron-based core particles having an apparent density of 3.2-3.7 g/ml, and wherein the surface of the core particles is provided with a phosphorus-based inorganic insulating layer and at least one metal-organic layer, located outside the first phosphorus-based inorganic insulating layer. A process further is provided for producing the composition and a method for the manufacturing of soft magnetic composite components prepared from the composition, as well as the obtained component.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a composite ferrite sheet including the steps of: (a) forming a grooved green ferrite sheet having a non-intersecting grid pattern by pressing a groove forming die including a plurality of first protrusions and a plurality of second protrusions having a triangular cross sectional shape, each protrusion of at least one of the plurality of first protrusions and the plurality of second protrusions being discontinuous at each imaginary intersecting portion at which extension lines of the respective first and second protrusions intersect each other, (b) firing the grooved ferrite green sheet to obtain a sintered ferrite sheet, (c) bonding at least one supporting sheet to at least one of opposite major surfaces of the sintered ferrite sheet, and (d) rupturing the sintered ferrite sheet along the grooves into a multiplicity of separate and independent rectangular planar ferrite segments which are bonded to the supporting sheet.

Abstract: A process for producing an anisotropic magnetic material includes: preparing a feebly magnetic material capable of transforming into a magnetic material by a prescribed reaction, orienting the feebly magnetic material by imparting an external field to the feebly magnetic material, and transforming the oriented feebly magnetic material to a magnetic substance by the prescribed reaction.

Abstract: The present invention improves characteristics of a tag antenna for RFID with a ceramic material exhibiting characteristics of a relaxor ferroelectric substance. More specifically, the present invention relates to an RFID tag that is formed of a relaxor ferroelectric substance having a dielectric constant of 3,000 or more and comprising a non-lead based oxide to have an expanded usage, and to exhibit improved orientation by forming the non-lead based relaxor ferroelectric substance in a planar disc or other shapes by a general dry-forming method or by forming the non-lead based relaxor ferroelectric substance in various shapes by powder injection molding.

Abstract: A flexible sheet with high magnetic permeability is disclosed, including a magnetic ferrite sintering sheet including a plurality of pieces separated by micro gaps and a first flexible layer attached to a first side of the magnetic ferrite sintering sheet, wherein the pieces of the magnetic ferrite sintering sheet include a first protruding and recessing structure and a second protruding and recessing structure at opposite sides of one of the micro gaps, and the first protruding and recessing structure and the second protruding and recessing structure are matched with each other.

Abstract: A magnet comprising magnetic powder containing at least one rare earth metal element, and an oxide binder for binding the magnetic powder, wherein an inter-face distance of the binder determined by diffraction analysis is 0.25 to 2.94 nm. The disclosure also discloses a method of manufacturing a magnet comprising; compacting magnetic powder containing at least one rare earth element under pressure in a mold; impregnating the compacted magnetic powder molding with a precursor solution of an oxide material; and heat-treating the compacted magnetic molding impregnated with the precursor thereby to impart an inter-face distance determined by diffraction analysis to the binder in the compacted molding. The distance is 0.25 to 2.94 nm.

Abstract: A process for mechanically strengthening a permanent magnet includes providing nanofibers or nanotubes, providing a ferromagnetic metal, defining a mixture by mixing the ferromagnetic metal with the nanofibers or nanotubes and sintering the mixture.

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.

Abstract: A sintered ferrite material, which is obtained by adding Bi2O3 in a range from 0.5% by mass to 3% by mass against 100% by mass of a material having a composition formula of (1-x-y-z)(Li0.5Fe0.5)O.xZnO.yFe2O3.zCuO wherein x, y and z satisfy 0.14?x?0.19, 0.48?y<0.5 and 0?z?0.03 and satisfies resistivity equal to or higher than 106 ?m, initial permeability equal to or higher than 200 and saturation magnetic flux density equal to or higher than 430 mT at 23° C. and equal to or higher than 380 mT at 100° C.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a monolithic inductive component is provided. The method may include providing a green body comprising a green sheet composite for forming a multilayer ceramic body with an integrated winding and a shaped body of terrific core material, the green sheet composite being combined with an encapsulation so as to create a cavity with a cavity opening between the encapsulation and the green sheet composite, and the cavity being filled with the ferritic core material through the cavity opening; and heat-treating the green body, a multilayer ceramic body with an integrated winding being created from the green sheet composite and a magnetic core comprising the ferritic core material being created from the green sheet composite.

Abstract: An insulating magnetic metal particle includes a magnetic metal particle containing at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Co, Fe, and Ni and having a diameter of 5 to 500 nm, a first inorganic insulating layer made of an oxide that covers the surface of the magnetic metal particle, and a second inorganic insulating layer made of an oxide that produces a eutectic crystal by reacting together with the first inorganic insulating layer at the time of heating them, the second inorganic insulating layer being coated on the first inorganic insulating layer. A thickness ratio of the second inorganic insulating layer with respect to the first inorganic insulating layer is set so that the first inorganic insulating layer remains on the surface of the magnetic metal particle after producing the eutectic crystal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate material for an AlTiC-based magnetic head, which is excellent in ultra-low flying-related properties as a material for a magnetic head, such as a TPC or AAB type for use as a thin-film magnetic head slider for HDD devices and a thin-film magnetic head for tape recording devices, where a flying height between a magnetic head element and a recording medium is extremely reduced, and usable in perpendicular recording heads, HAMR heads or the like. The magnetic head substrate material consists of a sintered body which contains 10 to 50 mass % of TiCxOyNz (wherein: 0.70?x<1.0; 0<y?0.30; 0?z?0.1; and 0.70<x+y+z?1.0) having an NaCl-type crystal structure, with the remainder being ?-Al2O3, wherein compounds of Fe, Cr and Co are contained in an amount of no more than 0.02 mass % in total.