Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090304833 | MOLDING APPARATUS - By arranging such that the crystal fractures of alloy raw meal powder having crystal orientational relationship with one another get combined in the magnetic field, there is provided a molding apparatus which is capable of molding a molded body having an extremely high orientation. The molding apparatus of this invention has: a cavity for filling thereinto a powder that is polarized in magnetic field or electric field; means for generating magnetic field or electric field capable of charging the powder filled in the cavity with the magnetic field or electric field; an agitating means for agitating the powder in a state of being charged with the magnetic field or the electric field, thereby orienting the powder; and a pressurizing means for applying a compression force in the magnetic field or electric field to the agitated and oriented product. | 12-10-2009 |
20090322459 | PERMANENT MAGNET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A permanent magnet is provided which has formed a Dy, Tb film on a surface of an iron-boron-rare earth sintered magnet of a predetermined shape, with diffusion thereof into grain boundary phases, having a higher coercive force. The method of manufacturing a permanent magnet includes a film-forming step of evaporating metal evaporating material containing at least one of Dy and Tb and adhering evaporated metal atoms to a surface of the iron-boron-rare earth sintered magnet, and a diffusing step of performing heat treatment to diffuse metal atoms adhered to the surface into grain boundary phases of the sintered magnet. The metal evaporating material contains at least one of Nd and Pr. | 12-31-2009 |
20100012035 | VACUUM VAPOR PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided a vacuum evaporating apparatus which is suitable for performing a process in which a metal vapor atmosphere is formed in a processing chamber, the metal atoms in this metal vapor atmosphere are caused to be adhered to the surface of an object to be processed, and the metal atoms adhered to the surface of the object to be processed are diffused into grain boundary phases thereof. The apparatus comprises: a processing furnace ( | 01-21-2010 |
20100026432 | PERMANENT MAGNET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - There is provided a method of manufacturing a permanent magnet which has an extremely high coercive force and high magnetic properties is manufactured at high productivity There are executed: a first step of causing at least one of Dy and Tb to adhere to at least part of a surface of iron-boron-rare-earth based sintered magnet; and a second step of diffusing, through heat-treatment at a predetermined temperature, at least one of Dy and Tb adhered to the surface of the sintered magnet into grain boundary phase of the sintered magnet. As the sintered magnet, there is used one which is manufactured by: mixing each powder of principal phase alloy (constituted primarily by R | 02-04-2010 |
20100034688 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ORIENTED BODY, MOLDED BODY AND SINTERED BODY AS WELL AS METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PERMENANT MAGNET - There is provided a method of manufacturing a permanent magnet having extremely high orientation by arranging such that the crystal fractures of alloy raw meal powder having more equal crystal orientational relationship are combined in magnetic field. In this invention, alloy raw meal powder is filled into a cavity and, while agitating the alloy raw meal powder inside the cavity, is oriented in the magnetic field. This oriented body is then compression molded in the magnetic field into a predetermined shape. | 02-11-2010 |
20100037826 | VACUUM VAPOR PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided a vacuum vapor processing apparatus which is capable of adjusting the amount of supply of metal atoms to an object to be processed and which has a simple construction. The vacuum vapor processing apparatus is provided with: a vacuum chamber ( | 02-18-2010 |
20100051139 | PERMANENT MAGNET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - There is provided a method of manufacturing a permanent magnet in which Dy and/or Tb adhered to the surface of a sintered magnet containing a lubricant can be efficiently diffused and in which the permanent magnet having high magnetic properties can be manufactured at good productivity. The permanent magnet is manufactured by executing a first step of adhering at least one of Dy and Tb to at least a part of a surface of a sintered magnet made by sintering iron-boron-rare earth based alloy raw meal powder containing a lubricant; and a second step of heat-treating the sintered magnet at a predetermined temperature to thereby disperse at least one of Dy and Tb adhered to the surface of the sintered magnet into grain boundary phase of the sintered magnet. At this time, as the sintered magnet, there is used one manufactured in an average grain size within a range of 4 μm˜8 μm. | 03-04-2010 |
20100051140 | PERMANENT MAGNET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - By causing at least one of Dy and Tb to be adhered to the surface of an iron-boron-rare earth based sintered magnet of a predetermined shape, and is then to be diffused into grain boundary phase, a permanent magnet can be manufactured at high workability and low cost. An iron-boron-rare earth based sintered magnet is disposed in a processing chamber and is heated to a predetermined temperature. Also, an evaporating material made up of a fluoride containing at least one of Dy and Tb disposed in the same or another processing chamber is evaporated, and the evaporated evaporating material is caused to be adhered to the surface of the sintered magnet. The Dy and/or Tb metal atoms of the adhered evaporating material are diffused into the grain particle phase of the sintered magnet before a thin film made of the evaporated material is formed on the surface of the sintered magnet. | 03-04-2010 |
20100164663 | PERMANENT MAGNET AND A MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - [Object] One object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a permanent magnet which can effectively improving the magnetizing properties and coercive force with efficiently diffusing Dy into grain boundary phases without deteriorating a surface of sintered magnet of Nd—Fe—B family and does not require any subsequent working process. | 07-01-2010 |
20100239878 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PERMANENT MAGNET AND PERMANENT MAGNET - High-performance magnets are obtained by: housing metal evaporating materials (v) containing at least one of Dy and Tb and sintered magnets (S) inside a processing box; disposing the processing box inside a vacuum chamber; thereafter, heating the processing box to a predetermined temperature in a vacuum atmosphere to thereby evaporate the metal evaporating materials and cause them to be adhered to the sintered magnets. The metal atoms of the adhered Dy or Tb are diffused into grain boundaries and/or grain boundary phases of the sintered magnets. A method of manufacturing a permanent magnet is provided in which, even if the sintered magnets and the metal evaporating materials are disposed in close proximity to each other, the squareness of demagnetization curve is not impaired and in which high feasibility of mass production can be attained. While the metal evaporating materials are being evaporated, an inert gas is introduced into the processing chamber in which the sintered magnets are disposed. | 09-23-2010 |
20100310408 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PERMANENT MAGNET - Crystal fractured surfaces of raw meal powder having more equal crystal orientation relationship in the magnetic field are arranged to be assembled together so that a method of manufacturing a permanent magnet which has an extremely high degree of orientation can be provided. In this invention, raw meal powder (P) is filled into a cavity, the raw meal powder (P) is oriented in the magnetic field while being pressed or urged by pressing means that has a smaller area than the cross-sectional area of the cavity. Semi-finished product thus oriented is compression-molded into a predetermined shape in the magnetic field. | 12-09-2010 |
20110001593 | PERMANENT MAGNET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - By eliminating the necessity of a prior step for cleaning a sintered magnet before adhering Dy and/or Tb to the surface of the sintered magnet S, the productivity of a permanent magnet having diffused Dy and/or Tb into grain boundary phase is improved. Iron-boron-rare earth based sintered magnet (S) disposed in a processing chamber ( | 01-06-2011 |
20110052799 | METHOD OF RECYCLING SCRAP MAGNET - The method has the steps of: grinding a recovered scrap magnet which is an iron-boron-rare earth-based sintered magnet, thereby obtaining a scrap-derived recovered raw material powder; obtaining a sintered body from the scrap-derived recovered raw material powder by a powder metallurgy method; and processing the sintered body. The processing includes the steps of: heating the sintered body disposed in a processing chamber; evaporating a metal evaporating material containing at least one of Dy and Tb in which the metal evaporating material is disposed in the same or another processing chamber; adhering metal atoms evaporated in the evaporating step to a surface of the sintered body while controlling a supply amount of the evaporated metal atoms; and diffusing the adhered metal atoms into grain boundaries and/or grain boundary phases of the sintered body. | 03-03-2011 |
20110189498 | EVAPORATING MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - There is provided an evaporating material of thin plate shape which can be manufactured at a reduced cost and at high productivity, the evaporating material being adapted for use in enhancing the coercive force of neodymium-iron-boron sintered magnet by heat treatment while evaporating Dy in vacuum or in reduced-pressure inert gas atmosphere. The evaporating material of this invention has a core member la made of a fire-resistant metal having a multiplicity of through holes, and is made by melting a rare-earth metal or an alloy thereof so as to get adhered to, and solidified on, the core member. In this case, the above-mentioned adhesion is performed by dipping the core member into a molten bath of the rare-earth metal or an alloy thereof, and pulling it out of the molten bath. | 08-04-2011 |
20120086531 | PERMANENT MAGNET AND A MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A method for manufacturing a permanent magnet can effectively improve the magnetizing properties and coercive force with efficiently diffusing Dy into grain boundary phases without deteriorating a surface of sintered magnet of Nd—Fe—B family and does not require any subsequent working process. Sintered magnet S of Nd—Fe—B family and Dy are arranged in a processing chamber apart from each other. Then Dy is evaporated by heating the processing chamber under a reduced pressure condition to evaporate Dy with elevating the temperature of sintered magnet S to a predetermined temperature and to supply and deposit evaporated Dy atoms onto the surface of sintered magnet S. During which the supplying amount of Dy atoms onto the sintered magnet S is controlled so as to diffuse and homogeneously penetrate them into the grain boundary phases of sintered magnet before Dy layer is formed on the surface of sintered magnet. | 04-12-2012 |