Metal treatment – Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical... – Magnetic materials
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-14
2010-11-02
Sheehan, John P (Department: 1793)
Metal treatment
Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical...
Magnetic materials
C148S101000, C148S302000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07824506
ABSTRACT:
In known methods, an improvement of the coercive force is realized by allowing the Dy metal or the like to present selectively in crystal grain boundary portions of a sintered magnet. However, since these are based on a physical film formation method, e.g., sputtering, through the use of a vacuum vessel, there is a mass productivity problem when a large number of magnets are treated. Furthermore, there is a magnet cost problem from the viewpoint that, for example, an expensive, high-purity Dy metal or the like must be used as a raw material for film formation. The method for modifying grain boundaries of a Nd—Fe—B base magnet includes the step of allowing an M metal component to diffuse and penetrate from a surface of a Nd—Fe—B base sintered magnet body having a Nd-rich crystal grain boundary phase surrounding principal Nd2Fe14B crystals to the grain boundary phase through a reduction treatment of a fluoride, an oxide, or a chloride of an M metal element (where M is Pr, Dy, Tb, or Ho).
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Machida Kenichi
Suzuki Shunji
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Osaka University
Sheehan John P
Westerman Hattori Daniels & Adrian LLP
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