Method to manufacture soft magnetic pressed bodies

Abstract

To permit use of less expensive iron powder material and manufacture of more complex shapes, a mixture of iron powder, of an approximate grain size of between 30 to 450 .mu.m, and containing preferably 5 to 50% of carbonyl iron powder or from 5 to 50%, by weight, of soft ferrite powder of a grain size of from 10 to 200 .mu.m, and a thermosetting resin, in which the thermosetting resin is about 50% by volume of the overall mixture, is filled into a die. Pressure is built up in the die, which is heated, permitting excess binder to escape during the build-up phase thereof, the pressure then being held so that the resin can set in the heated die. The pressures needed are substantially less than heretofore required, in the order of from between 500 to 5000 bar.

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