Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for producing a long and large-sized rare earth sintered magnet having a large size in a magnetic field application direction in which a single magnet body in each portion has uniform and high magnetic characteristics. Disclosed is a method for producing a rare earth sintered magnet, including the steps of: 1) preparing a slurry that contains an alloy powder containing a rare earth element, iron, and boron, and a dispersion medium at a predetermined ratio; 2) preparing a cavity that is enclosed with a mold, and an upper punch and a lower punch, at least one of which is movable toward and away from the other one in the mold, and also includes an outlet for discharging the dispersion medium of the slurry; 3) applying a magnetic field of 1.5 T or more in the cavity in the direction parallel to the direction in which at least one of the upper punch and the lower punch is movable, and supplying the slurry at a flow rate of 20 to 600 cm 3 /second in a state where the upper punch and the lower punch remain stationary, to fill the cavity with the slurry; 4) producing a molded body of the alloy powder by press molding in the magnetic field in which the upper punch and the lower punch come closer to each other while applying the magnetic field; and 5) sintering the molded body.
Abstract:
Provided is a production method and a production device for producing each of the rare earth sintered magnet sintered bodies without carrying a mold in a sintering furnace. The production method comprises a powder feeding step of feeding an alloy powder into a mold having side walls divided into two or more sections; a filling step of filling the alloy powder into the mold to prepare a filled molded-body; an orienting step of orienting the alloy powder in the filled molded-body by applying a magnetic field to the filled molded-body to prepare an oriented filled-molded-body; a retrieving step of detaching the side walls of the mold from the oriented filled-molded-body and retrieving the oriented filled-molded-body from the mold; and a sintering step of sintering the retrieved oriented filled-molded-body, wherein the filling step and the orienting step are performed at different locations, and it is preferred that a pulsed magnetic field is applied in the orienting step and inside of the mold is partitioned into a plurality of cavities by partitions.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a powder for a magnet which can form a rare earth magnet having excellent magnetic characteristics and which has excellent moldability, a method for producing the powder for a magnet, a powder compact, and a rare earth-iron-boron-based alloy material. Magnetic particles constituting a powder for a magnet each include a structure in which a particle of a phase 3 of a hydrogen compound of a rare earth element is dispersed in a phase 2 of an iron-containing material. Since the phase 2 of the iron-containing material is uniformly present in each of the magnetic particles 1, the powder has excellent moldability and easily increases the density of a powder compact 4. The powder for a magnet can be produced by heat-treating a powder of a rare earth-iron-boron-based alloy (R-Fe-B-based alloy) in a hydrogen atmosphere at a temperature equal to or higher than the disproportionation temperature of the R-Fe-B-based alloy to separate the powder into the rare earth element and the iron-containing material and to produce the hydrogen compound of the rare earth element. The powder compact 4 is produced by compacting the powder for a magnet. The powder compact 4 is heat-treated in a vacuum to produce a R-Fe-B-based alloy material 5, and the R-Fe-B-based alloy 5 is magnetized to produce a R-Fe-B-based alloy magnet 6.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a novel method for producing magnets (especially applicable to the production of magnets containing rare earths). The novelty of the method lies in its use of a type of electrical consolidation (such as so-called electrical resistance sintering, ERS, or so-called electrical discharge consolidation, EDC, but not necessarily one of the these) as a substitute for the conventional cold pressing and sintering method which is usually used. The method according to the invention achieves: (1) combining the compacting/sintering steps, significantly cutting the duration thereof and reducing the magnitude of the working pressures; (2) implementing the steps of magnetic aligning, pressing/sintering, heat treatment and magnetising in the same matrix; and (3) rendering superfluous the use of protective atmospheres during the sintering process.