EP0242283B1 - Alliage à base de terres rares pour aimant permanent - Google Patents

Alliage à base de terres rares pour aimant permanent Download PDF

Info

Publication number
EP0242283B1
EP0242283B1 EP87400808A EP87400808A EP0242283B1 EP 0242283 B1 EP0242283 B1 EP 0242283B1 EP 87400808 A EP87400808 A EP 87400808A EP 87400808 A EP87400808 A EP 87400808A EP 0242283 B1 EP0242283 B1 EP 0242283B1
Authority
EP
European Patent Office
Prior art keywords
rare earth
iron
permanent magnet
cobalt
titanium
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Expired - Lifetime
Application number
EP87400808A
Other languages
German (de)
English (en)
Other versions
EP0242283A1 (fr
Inventor
Ken Ohashi
Toshikazu Yokoyama
Yoshio Tawara
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co Ltd
Original Assignee
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co Ltd
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Priority claimed from JP61084723A external-priority patent/JPS62241302A/ja
Priority claimed from JP61084724A external-priority patent/JPS62241303A/ja
Application filed by Shin-Etsu Chemical Co Ltd filed Critical Shin-Etsu Chemical Co Ltd
Publication of EP0242283A1 publication Critical patent/EP0242283A1/fr
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of EP0242283B1 publication Critical patent/EP0242283B1/fr
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical
Expired - Lifetime legal-status Critical Current

Links

Images

Classifications

    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22C—ALLOYS
    • C22C38/00—Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys
    • C22C38/14—Ferrous alloys, e.g. steel alloys containing titanium or zirconium
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01F—MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
    • H01F1/00—Magnets or magnetic bodies characterised by the magnetic materials therefor; Selection of materials for their magnetic properties
    • H01F1/01—Magnets or magnetic bodies characterised by the magnetic materials therefor; Selection of materials for their magnetic properties of inorganic materials
    • H01F1/03—Magnets or magnetic bodies characterised by the magnetic materials therefor; Selection of materials for their magnetic properties of inorganic materials characterised by their coercivity
    • H01F1/032—Magnets or magnetic bodies characterised by the magnetic materials therefor; Selection of materials for their magnetic properties of inorganic materials characterised by their coercivity of hard-magnetic materials
    • H01F1/04—Magnets or magnetic bodies characterised by the magnetic materials therefor; Selection of materials for their magnetic properties of inorganic materials characterised by their coercivity of hard-magnetic materials metals or alloys
    • H01F1/047—Alloys characterised by their composition
    • H01F1/053—Alloys characterised by their composition containing rare earth metals
    • H01F1/055—Alloys characterised by their composition containing rare earth metals and magnetic transition metals, e.g. SmCo5
    • H01F1/0555—Alloys characterised by their composition containing rare earth metals and magnetic transition metals, e.g. SmCo5 pressed, sintered or bonded together
    • H01F1/0557—Alloys characterised by their composition containing rare earth metals and magnetic transition metals, e.g. SmCo5 pressed, sintered or bonded together sintered

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to a rare earth-based alloy for permanent magnet having excellent magnetic properties and suitable as a component of various kinds of electric and electronic instruments.
  • the only permanent magnet based on a rare earth-iron binary compound so far reported is the magnet in a metastable phase prepared by the quenched thin-film method disclosed by Croat, et al. in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, volume MAG 18, page 1442 (November, 1982).
  • the quenched thin-film magnet prepared by this method is isotropic and based on a metastable phase so that the magnet is not free from the problem of low stability so that the magnets of this type are not in practical use.
  • neodymium-iron-boron magnets formed of a ternary compound of a chemical composition of the formula R 2 F 14 B, they are promising as a high-performance permanent magnet since the base components are inexpensive neodymium and iron and the magnetic properties thereof are even better than those of the samarium-cobalt magnets.
  • These neodymium-iron-boron magnets are, however, not free from a very serious problem that they are highly susceptible to rusting so that the magnets cannot be used practically without providing a protective coating. This disadvantage can hardly be overcome and no practical solution of the problem has yet been obtained to give a possibility of industrial production of the magnets of this type.
  • An object of the present invention is therefore to provide a rare earth-based permanent magnet having magnetic properties equivalent to or even better than those of the samarium-cobalt permanent magnets without using or by decreasing the amount of expensive cobalt as well as to provide a rare earth-based alloy as a base material of such a permanent magnet.
  • the permanent magnet alloy of the present invention consists of:
  • the permanent magnet of the invention is a sintered body of a powder of the above defined rare earth-based alloy having magnetic anisotropy.
  • the inventors have conducted extensive investigations on a third additive element to be added to the rare earth-iron binary magnet alloys and arrived at discoveries that addition of titanium would give a quite satisfactory result and a hitherto unknown ternary intermetallic compound of samarium, titanium and iron can exist in a bulky form by the optimization of the amount of substitution of titanium for the rare earth element or, in particular, samarium.
  • a ternary alloy of samarium, titanium and iron was prepared in such a proportion as to correspond to the formula of SmTiFeio and the alloy was subjected to the measurement of the magnetization as a function of temperature and X-ray diffractometry to give the results shown in FIGURES 1 and 2, respectively.
  • the present invention provides, as an embodiment, a ternary alloy composed of (a) from 12 to 45% by weight of a rare earth element or a combination of rare earth elements; (b) from 0.1 to 10% by wieght of titanium; and (c) the balance of iron including unavoidable impurities.
  • the magnet alloy can be obtained by melting the component metals together and the alloy is finely pulverized followed by the powder metallurgical processing of the powder by compression molding and sintering.
  • the ternary compound When the amount of the rare earth component in the alloy formulation is outside the above specified range, the ternary compound would be less stable and, therefore, any amounts thereof smaller than 12% by weight and larger than 45% may result in a disadvantageously rapid decrease in the coercive force iH c and saturation magnetization 4nM s , respectively.
  • the above mentioned range for titanium is also critical because the ternary compound is less stable when the amount of titanium is smaller than 0.1% by weight while the fraction of the phase of the ternary compound is decreased when the amount of titanium is larger than 10% by weight.
  • the rare earth element here implied include the so-called lanthanoid elements having atomic munbers of 57 to 71 and yttrium. Any of these rare earth elements can be used either singly or as a combination of two kinds or more according to need.
  • the rare earth-based permanent magnet of the invention prepared of the ternary alloy contains the stable phase of the ternary compound as a result of the introduction of titanium so that the Curie point thereof is about 310 ° C when the rare earth element is samarium which is much higher than 120°C of the Sm 2 Fe 17 phase.
  • the saturation magnetization is also greatly increased so that the thus obtained permanent magnet has very high magnetic properties.
  • the rare earth-titanium-iron permanent magnet of the invention can be imparted with magnetic anistropy by the powder metallurgical method so that the overall magnetic performance of the inventive permanent magnet can be almost equivalent to or even better than the samarium-cobalt based magnets.
  • the inventive permanent mgnet is highly corrosion-resistant and free from rusting in clear contrast to the neodymium-iron based magnets. Accordingly, the inventive permanent magnets can be used in practical applications without any prtective coating on the surface although the corrosion resistance thereof can of course be further increased by a protective coating or surface treatment by forming a resinous layer or a metallic layer formed by electrolytic or electroless plating, vacuum vapor deposition, sputtering or ion plating.
  • the ternary alloy can be processed into a thin film having a high coerqive force by the quenched thin-film method and the thin film can be finely pulverized into fine particles of which magnetically isotropic permanent magnets can be prepared. It is of course that the magnetically anisotropic sintered magnet is pulverized into fine particles of which anisotropic plastic magnets can be prepared.
  • the permanent magnet of the ternary alloy of samarium, titanium and iron has a Curie point of about 310°G. Although this Curie point is well within the practically acceptable range, it is of course desirable to have a higher Curie point when comparison is made with the SmCos permanent magnets having a Curie point at about 740 ° C.
  • the inventors have further continued extensive investigations and arrived at a discovery that a magnetic alloy suitable for the purpose can be obtained when a solid solution is formed of the above described ternary compound of rare earth, titanium and iron with cobalt.
  • an increase by about 40 to 100°C can be obtained in the Curie point of the ternary alloy when 10 atomic % of iron in the alloy is replaced with cobalt although the increment depends on the kind of the rare earth element.
  • the Curie point T c is increased approximately linearly with the increase in the amount of replacement of iron with cobalt up to 50% replacement by weight but thereafter the increment in the Curie point is relatively small with further increased replacement of iron with cobalt to finally level off.
  • the saturation magnetization of the magnet is increased as a trend though dependent on the kind of the rare earth element by the substitution of cobalt for a part of iron in the ternary magnet alloy of rare earth, titanium and iron to level off with increase of the proportion of cobalt relative to iron.
  • the rare earth-based alloy for permanent magnets and the sintered permanent magnet of the alloy accor ing to the invention are described in more detail by way of examples.
  • Metals of samarium, titanium and iron each having a purity of 99.9% were taken by weighing in the proportion indicated in Table 1 below and melted together in a high-frequency induction furnace. The melt was cast into a water-cooled, copper-made casting mold to form an ingot of the alloy. The ingot was crushed and then pulverized in a jet mill using nitrogen gas as the ject gas to give a fine powder having an average particle diameter in the range from 2 to 10 ⁇ m.
  • the powder was compression-molded under a pressure of 1.5 tons/cm 2 with the particles oriented in a static magnetic field of 15 KOe into a green body, which was sintered by heating in an atmosphere of argon gas for 1 hour at a temperature in the range form 1000 to 1200 ° C and then subjected to thermal aging for 4 hours at a temperature in the range from 500 to 900 ° C followed by quenching.
  • Table 1 also includes the results of the magnetic measurement of a sintered body of a samarium-iron al loy corresponding to SmFe s (No. 4) prepared in the same manner as above. As is shown in the table, this comparative sintered body had only negligibly small values of coercive force and maximum energy product.
  • Magnetically anisotropic sintered permanent magnets No. 1 to No. 4 were prepared each in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the magnetic alloy was prepared from metals of neodymium, titanium, iron and cobalt each having a purity of 99.9% taken by weighing in the proportion indicated in Table 3.
  • Magnetically anisotropic sintered permanent magnets No. 1 and No. 2 were prepared in the same manner as in the preceding examples from metals of samarium, cerium, titanium, iron and cobalt taken by weighing in the proportion indicated in Table 4 below. These sintered permanent magnets were subjected to the measurement of the magnetic properties to give the results shown in the table.

Landscapes

  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Crystallography & Structural Chemistry (AREA)
  • Inorganic Chemistry (AREA)
  • Power Engineering (AREA)
  • Materials Engineering (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Metallurgy (AREA)
  • Organic Chemistry (AREA)
  • Hard Magnetic Materials (AREA)

Claims (3)

1. Alliage à base de terres rares pour aimant permanent, constitué de:
(a) 12 à 45% en poids d'un élément des terres rares, ou d'une combinaison d'éléments des terres rares;
(b) 0,1 à 10% en poids de titane; et
(c) le reste étant du fer ou une combinaison de fer et de cobalt, la proportion en fer étant d'au moins 60% en poids, y compris les impuretés inévitables.
2. Alliage à base de terres rares pour aimant permanent, selon la revendication 1, dans lequel l'élément des terres rares est choisi dans le groupe constitué des éléments dont les numéros atomiques sont compris entre 57 et 71, et l'yttrium.
3. Aimant permanent qui est un corps fritté formé d'une poudre d'un alliage à base de terres rares, constitué de:
(a) 12 à 45% en poids d'un élément des terres rares, ou d'une combinaison d'éléments des terres rares;
(b) 0,1 à 10% en poids de titane; et
(c) le reste étant du fer ou une combinaison de fer et de cobalt, la proportion en fer étant d'au moins 60% en poids, y compris les impuretés inévitables.
EP87400808A 1986-04-12 1987-04-09 Alliage à base de terres rares pour aimant permanent Expired - Lifetime EP0242283B1 (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (4)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
JP61084723A JPS62241302A (ja) 1986-04-12 1986-04-12 希土類永久磁石
JP84724/86 1986-04-12
JP61084724A JPS62241303A (ja) 1986-04-12 1986-04-12 希土類永久磁石
JP84723/86 1986-04-12

Publications (2)

Publication Number Publication Date
EP0242283A1 EP0242283A1 (fr) 1987-10-21
EP0242283B1 true EP0242283B1 (fr) 1990-11-07

Family

ID=26425714

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
EP87400808A Expired - Lifetime EP0242283B1 (fr) 1986-04-12 1987-04-09 Alliage à base de terres rares pour aimant permanent

Country Status (2)

Country Link
EP (1) EP0242283B1 (fr)
DE (1) DE3765980D1 (fr)

Families Citing this family (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0386286B1 (fr) * 1987-09-17 1995-10-18 Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. Aimant permanent à base de métal de terre rare et de fer
DE102013009940A1 (de) * 2013-06-13 2014-12-18 Hochschule Aalen Magnetisches Material, seine Verwendung und Verfahren zu dessen Herstellung

Family Cites Families (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JPS54104408A (en) * 1978-02-03 1979-08-16 Namiki Precision Jewel Co Ltd Rare earthhcobalt base permanent magnet alloy

Non-Patent Citations (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Title
Ullmanns Encyklopädie der technischen Chemie, 4, Band 21, S. 236 *
Webster's Third New International Dictionary *

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
DE3765980D1 (de) 1990-12-13
EP0242283A1 (fr) 1987-10-21

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
EP0134304B1 (fr) Aimants permanents
EP0106948B1 (fr) alliages magnétisables permanentement, matériaux magnétiques et aimant permanent contenant FeBR ou (Fe,Co)BR (R=terre rare)
EP0134305B1 (fr) Aimant permanent
EP0126179B1 (fr) Procédé de fabrication de matériaux magnétiques permanents
US4684406A (en) Permanent magnet materials
US4792368A (en) Magnetic materials and permanent magnets
US5645651A (en) Magnetic materials and permanent magnets
US5096512A (en) Magnetic materials and permanent magnets
EP0153744B1 (fr) Procédé de fabrication d'aimants permanents
EP0344018B1 (fr) Aimant permanent de terre rare
HK75390A (en) Process for producing of a permanent magnet
US5230749A (en) Permanent magnets
EP0397264B1 (fr) Matériau magnétique dur et aimant réalisé en ce matériau
EP0323125A1 (fr) Aimant permanent en terre rare
EP0386286B1 (fr) Aimant permanent à base de métal de terre rare et de fer
US5194098A (en) Magnetic materials
JPH056322B2 (fr)
EP0242283A1 (fr) Alliage à base de terres rares pour aimant permanent
US5183516A (en) Magnetic materials and permanent magnets
EP0196123B1 (fr) Aimant permanent comprenant un composé intermétallique du type terre rare/métal de transition/boron
EP0510578A2 (fr) Alliage à base de terre rare pour aimant permanent
JPH0536495B2 (fr)
JPH0450722B2 (fr)
JPH0450723B2 (fr)
JPH05112852A (ja) 永久磁石合金

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
PUAI Public reference made under article 153(3) epc to a published international application that has entered the european phase

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009012

AK Designated contracting states

Kind code of ref document: A1

Designated state(s): DE FR GB

17P Request for examination filed

Effective date: 19880311

17Q First examination report despatched

Effective date: 19890602

GRAA (expected) grant

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009210

AK Designated contracting states

Kind code of ref document: B1

Designated state(s): DE FR GB

REF Corresponds to:

Ref document number: 3765980

Country of ref document: DE

Date of ref document: 19901213

ET Fr: translation filed
PLBE No opposition filed within time limit

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009261

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: NO OPPOSITION FILED WITHIN TIME LIMIT

26N No opposition filed
PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: DE

Payment date: 20010402

Year of fee payment: 15

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: GB

Payment date: 20010404

Year of fee payment: 15

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: FR

Payment date: 20010409

Year of fee payment: 15

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: GB

Ref legal event code: IF02

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: GB

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20020409

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: DE

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20021101

GBPC Gb: european patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee

Effective date: 20020409

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: FR

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20021231

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: FR

Ref legal event code: ST