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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2019
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Matahiro Komuro, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Satsu, Tokyo, JP;
Hisamitsu Hatou, Tokyo, JP;
Seunghwan Park, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A soft magnetic material that is sheet-shaped or foil-shaped and has a high saturation magnetic flux density, contains iron, carbon, and nitrogen, and includes a martensite containing carbon and nitrogen, and γ-Fe, wherein the γ-Fe includes a nitrogen-containing phase. The soft magnetic material is produced by steps of heating an iron-based material that is sheet-shaped or foil-shaped, carburizing the iron-based material with a carburizing gas, dispersing a granular carbide in α-Fe in the iron-based material at a temperature equal to or lower than a eutectoid temperature, transforming the α-Fe into γ-Fe at a temperature higher than the eutectoid temperature, diffusing nitrogen into the γ-Fe using a nitrogen supply gas to form γ-Fe—N—C, and rapidly heating and then rapidly cooling the γ-Fe—N—C to transform the γ-Fe—N—C into a martensite. The result is a thermally stable soft magnetic material having a saturation magnetic flux density higher than that of pure iron.