Fe--Cr--Co Magnets by powder metallurgy processing
AssigneeBell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
InventorsMartin L. Green, Richard C. Sherwood
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Abstract
Fe--Cr--Co alloys have found application in the manufacture of permanent magnets on account of magnetic properties such as, high coercive force, remanent magnetization, and energy product. A method is disclosed for producing magnetic articles comprising Fe, Cr, and Co from powders comprising elemental or pre-alloyed particles. A powder is mixed with an essentially noncarbonizing organic binder, compressed, heated to remove binder, sintered, and aged. Heating results in essentially complete removal of binder prior to sintering. Magnetic bodies produced according to the disclosed method typically comprise less than 1 weight percent of undesirable nonmagnetic phases and have a maximum energy product of at least 1 million gauss oersted.
Claims7
Method for producing a magnetic body, said method comprising sintering and aging a compact, said compact having been obtained by compressing a mixture, said mixture comprising metallic particles and a binder material, said method comprising heating prior to sintering to remove said binder from said compact,
- said mixture comprising at least 50 weight percent Fe, at least 10 weight percent Cr, at least 1 percent Co, and at least 0.1 weight percent of said binder, and
- said binder consisting essentially of at least one binder material which is selected from the group consisting of fatty acids, amides of fatty acids, and esters of fatty acids,
- whereby the presence of detrimental nonmagnetic phases in said body is minimized.
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