Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

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Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.

Akinori Kojima

Akihiro Makino

Yutaka Yamamoto

Akihisa Inoue

Takashi Hatanai

Keiichiro Sato

Ryo Nakabayashi

Akira Sato

Takao Mizushima

Tsuyoshi Masumoto

Shoji Yoshida

Masahiro Iizuka

Seiichi Abiko

Mikio Nakashima

Katsuaki Hangai

Junichi Murakami

Seisaku Imai

Akihsia Inoue

Ysuo Hayakawa

A compression molded core contains a plurality of soft magnetic material powders. A first powder and a second powder in the plurality of powders satisfy D1>D2, 0.23≤(D1−D2)/D1<0.6, D1≤7 μm, and 3 μm≤DT≤5.7 μm. D1 is the median diameter, which is a particle size at which the integrated particle diameter distribution from the small particle size side is 50% in a volume-based particle size distribution measured by a laser diffraction/scattering method, of the first powder and is maximum among median diameters; D2 is the median diameter D2 of the second powder and is minimum among median diameters; and DT is determined using the weight rate R1 of the first powder and the weight rate R2 of the second powder by R1×D1+R2×D2.

Compression molded core, method for manufacturing the compression molded core, inductor including the compression molded core, and electric/electronic equipment mounted with the inductor

In a coil-embedded dust core constituting an inductance element, a winding body of a coil disposed inside a coil-embedded dust core and a dust core have a relationship that the inner core volume ratio RV defined below is 3 or more and 5 or less: RV=(V1/V2)/(1−V/Vp), where V1 represents a volume of a region in the dust core located on an inner side of the winding body of the coil when the coil-embedded dust core is viewed in a first direction, which is a direction along a winding axis of the coil, V2 represents a volume of a region in the dust core located on an outer side of the winding body of the coil when the coil-embedded dust core is viewed in the first direction, V represents a volume of the dust core, and Vp represents a volume of the coil-embedded dust core.

Coil-embedded dust core, inductance element, and electric or electronic device

An inductance element includes a magnetic core and a coil having a portion embedded in the magnetic core. This portion includes a wound portion formed by winging a wire-shaped coil material including a wire-shaped conductive material and an insulating coating. The insulating coating includes a thin-walled portion reduced in thickness. A biting ratio R is defined by formula: R=ds/B, which is from 0.4 to 0.85 inclusive, where B is the average thickness of inter-coil insulating coatings, and ds is an upper biting limit obtained by measuring a biting depth, approximating a frequency distribution of the results by a normal distribution, and computing, as the upper biting limit, the sum of the mean da of the normal distribution and the product of 3.99 and the standard deviation &#x3c3;. The biting depth is obtained by subtracting, from the average thickness B, the thickness of the thin-walled portion.

Inductance element

A powder core includes: a powder of a crystalline magnetic material; and a powder of an amorphous magnetic material, in which a median diameter D50A of the powder of the amorphous magnetic material is 15 &#x3bc;m or less, and satisfies the expression: 1&#x2264;D50A/D50C&#x2264;3.5 with respect to a median diameter D50C of the powder of the crystalline magnetic material.

Powder core, manufacturing method of powder core, inductor including powder core, and electronic/electric device having inductor mounted therein

A hard magnetic alloy in accordance with the present invention is composed of at least element T selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co and Ni, at least one rare earth element R, and boron (B). The hard magnetic alloy has an absolute value of the temperature coefficient of magnetization of 0.15%/&deg; C. or less and a coercive force of 1 kOe, when being used in a shape causing a permeance factor of 2 or more. A hard magnetic alloy compact in accordance with the present invention has a texture, in which at least a part or all of the texture comprises an amorphous phase or fine crystalline phase having an average crystal grain size of 100 nm or less, is subjected to crystallization or grain growth under stress, such that a mixed phase composed of a soft magnetic or semi-hard magnetic phase and a hard magnetic phase is formed in the texture, and anisotropy is imparted to the crystal axis of the hard magnetic phase.

Hard magnetic alloy, hard magnetic alloy compact and method for producing the same

An apparatus for producing a metallic ribbon includes a cooling roll, a melt nozzle, and an air-cutoff unit provided to cover at least a portion of the periphery of the cooling roll and at least the melt blowout end of the melt nozzle, for preventing an inflow of air due to rotation of the cooing roll. The air-cutoff unit has a roll top air-cutoff plate provided above the cooling roll to extent from the front side to the rear side in the rotation direction of the cooling roll in such a manner that it approaches the cooling surface in the direction opposite to the rotation direction of the cooling roll. The melt blowout end of the melt nozzle is arranged to pass through a nozzle mounting hole provided in the roll top air-cutoff plate and face the cooling surface of the cooling roll.

Apparatus and method for producing metallic ribbon

The present invention provides a method for producing a composite hard magnetic material, wherein a composite powder&mdash;prepared by mixing; a composite hard magnetic material produced by consolidating a composite powder prepared by mixing an alloy powder having an amorphous phase containing a main component Co and at least Sm, and an alloy powder comprising an amorphous phase as a principal phase and containing at least Fe and/or Co, rare earth elements R and B; an alloy powder having an amorphous phase containing a main component Co and at least Sm; and an alloy powder having an amorphous phase containing at least Fe and/or Co, rare earth elements R and B&mdash;is consolidated by taking advantage of softening phenomenon caused by crystallization of the amorphous phase in the alloy powder comprising an amorphous phase as a principal phase.

Composite hard magnetic material and method for producing the same

A magnetostrictive material is produced by annealing an alloy consisting essentially of an amorphous phase and comprising Fe, Dy, and Tb as primary components, at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ta, Nb, Zr, Hf, V, W, Mo, Si and B and/or at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cr, Al, Ga, Ge, Cu, Au, Ag, Pt, Pd, Os, Ir, and Rh.

Magnetostrictive material

A hard magnetic material contains Co as a main component, at least one element Q of P, C, Si and B, and Sm, and an amorphous phase and a fine crystalline phase. The texture of the hard magnetic material contains 50% by volume or more of fine crystalline phase having an average crystal grain size of 100 nm or less, and has a mixed phase state containing a soft magnetic phase and a hard magnetic phase. Further, anisotropy is imparted to the crystal axis of the hard magnetic phase.

Hard magnetic material

Hard magnetic alloy, hard magnetic alloy compact, and method for producing the same

In a stepping motor having a stator provided with an electromagnet and a rotor composed of a hard magnetic alloy, the hard magnetic alloy comprises at least one element T of Fe and Co, at least one element R of rare earth elements and B, has a remanence ratio of at least 0.7, remanent magnetization (Ir) of at least 120 emu/g and coercive force (iHc) of at least 1 kOe and includes a fine crystalline phase having an average crystal grain size of 100 nm or less as a main phase. The hard magnetic alloy is solidified and compacted by making use of a softening phenomenon which arises when the amorphous phase contained in the structure of the hard magnetic alloy is crystallized. A method of manufacturing the hard magnetic alloy used to the stepping motor is also disclosed.

Stepping motor and method of manufacturing hard magnetic alloy therefor

A method of producing a hard magnetic alloy compact at low cost, in which an alloy that contains not less than 50% by weight of an amorphous phase and exhibits hard magnetism in a crystallized state is solidified and molded at around its crystallization temperature under applied pressure by utilizing the softening phenomenon occurring during a crystallization process. The resulting compact has high hard magnetic characteristics and can be applied as permanent magnet members such as in motors, actuators, and speakers.

Hard magnetic alloy compact and method of producing the same

A soft magnetic alloy film includes: a fine crystalline phase having an average grain size of 10 nm or less and essentially consisting of Fe of b-c-c structure; and an amorphous phase containing a rare earth element or at least one of the elements, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta and W, and O (oxygen) in a large amount, the fine crystalline phase and amorphous phase existing in a mixed state, with the proportion of the fine crystalline phase of Fe of b-c-c structure to the entire structure being 50% or less. A plane magnetic element employs such a soft magnetic alloy.

Soft magnetic alloy and plane magnetic element

A soft magnetic bulky alloy according to the present invention is obtained by forming under pressure a powder and granule material mainly made of a Fe-M-B based amorphous alloy containing Fe, B and M where M is at least one element selected from a group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Mo and W. In the soft magnetic bulky alloy, an amorphous alloy phase and a bcc phase with fine grain sizes of 30 nm or below are present in a mixed state, or the bcc phase with fine grain sizes of 30 nm or below is mainly present. The present invention also discloses a method of manufacturing such a soft magnetic bulky alloy.

Soft magnetic bulky alloy and method of manufacturing the same

A soft magnetic amorphous ternary alloy of Co-Ta-Hf which comprises a composition represented by Co.sub.x Ta.sub.y Hf.sub.z, wherein the composition ratio of x, y and z ranges, in atomic %,

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Niigata-ken, Japan

Akinori Kojima