Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Nobuo Shiga

Masao Yukumoto

Kiyoshi Shibuya

Toru Sato

Kensuke Matsuki

Fumio Kogiku

Michiharu Ozawa

Tomohiro Marui

Hitoshi Ogo

An amorphous alloy having a boron content of about 6 to 10 at %, cast into a plate, wherein the plate thickness is about 15 to 25 &mgr;m, and the surface roughness Ra,of the plate is about 0.8 &mgr;m or less.

Low boron amorphous alloy and process for producing same

A method and apparatus for manufacturing an amorphous metal ribbon provides the following: jetting a molten metal from a nozzle, which has a slit-shaped opening, to a cooling roll, which rotates at a high speed, so as to form a puddle on the cooling roll; and spreading the puddle for rapid solidification. Additionally, the present invention provides at a position upstream from the puddle in a direction opposite the direction of rotation of the cooling roll, cleaning the surface of the cooling roll by blowing carbon dioxide gas to which ultrasonic vibration is applied.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing amorphous metal ribbon

A continuous thin metal strip formed by quenching on a single quenching roll is separated from the quenching roll and conveyed along a fly path to a coiling system directly or via pinch rolls. The path along which the thin metal strip flies is stabilized by a jet of a fluid jetted from a slit and biased to flow along a convex curved surface, whereby the time until the strip is taken up or nipped by the pinch rolls is shortened.

Method of and apparatus for conveying and guiding thin metal strip

A method of producing amorphous alloy thin strip suitable for use in commercial frequency band transformers utilizes a high-quality molten steel suitable for electromagnetic silicon steel plates but containing insufficient silicon and boron. The molten steel is divided when tapped out of a converter or after a vacuum degasifying steel making process, and silicon and boron are added with heating to create the desired composition. The molten steel is formed into thin amorphous alloy strip by quenching.

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Chiba, Japan

Nobuo Shiga