Abstract:
A magnet manufacturing method in which a calcinated hexagonal-system Ba ferrite is pulverized, formed in a magnetic field, and sintered. The ferrite contains Si components such as SiO2 and Sr components such as SrCO3, and consequently the structure of the sintered body has a main phase of Ba ferrite and contains Sr and Si as intercrystalline components. The anisotropy of shrinkage factor is low, deformation during sintering is small, grinding after sintering can be simplified or omitted, and the density after sintering is high. The coercive force of the magnet is much improved.
Abstract:
A slurry containing ferrite particles and an organic solvent is wet molded in a magnetic field while removing the organic solvent, to obtain a molded article. This molded article is sintered to provide an anisotropic ferrite magnet. In this case, a surfactant is added to the slurry during wet molding. In addition to the surfactant or in place thereof, the ferrite particles are pulverized so as to impart at least 1 x 10 of strain of a (206) plane measured by X-ray diffraction, and to reduce iHc preferably below 3.5 kOe. In these ways, orientation of the molded article can be drastically improved, and extremely high magnetic characteristics can be obtained.
Abstract:
When a single-crystal magnetostrictive material containing R (rare earth metal element) and TM (transition metal element) and having a dendrite structure is produced, the present invention is directed to eliminate the limitation of a continuously producible length, to suppress wastes of materials and useless power, and to facilitate regulation of a feed current to a heater. Furthermore, the present invention is directed to produce a high quality crystalline member devoid of disorder of a crystal arrangement and having a great magnetostrictive quantity at a low cost. The present invention uses a single-crystal magnetostrictive material production apparatus including a hopper (10) for accommodating starting materials (1), means (20) for continuously feeding the starting materials (1) in a unit quantity per unit time into a casting mold (30), a heater (40) for melting the starting materials (1) in the casting mold (30), elevation means for relatively raising the heater (40) with respect to the starting materials (1) fed, and means for radiating the heat of the molten starting materials.