WO1996030144A1 - Soft magnetic anisotropic composite materials - Google Patents
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- C22C32/00—Non-ferrous alloys containing at least 5% by weight but less than 50% by weight of oxides, carbides, borides, nitrides, silicides or other metal compounds, e.g. oxynitrides, sulfides, whether added as such or formed in situ
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- 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
- H01F1/12—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 soft-magnetic materials
- H01F1/14—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 soft-magnetic materials metals or alloys
- H01F1/20—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 soft-magnetic materials metals or alloys in the form of particles, e.g. powder
- H01F1/22—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 soft-magnetic materials metals or alloys in the form of particles, e.g. powder pressed, sintered, or bound together
- H01F1/24—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 soft-magnetic materials metals or alloys in the form of particles, e.g. powder pressed, sintered, or bound together the particles being insulated
- H01F1/26—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 soft-magnetic materials metals or alloys in the form of particles, e.g. powder pressed, sintered, or bound together the particles being insulated by macromolecular organic substances
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- the present invention concerns a new soft magnetic anisotropic composite material as well as a process for the preparation of this material.
- the new composite material is characterized by high saturation flux density, high maximum permeability and low eddy current losses. These properties are the result of a considerably improved green density and indicate that the new composite material would be suitable for devices operating at power frequencies between 5.0 and 5000 Hz, e.g. relays, transformers, inductors and for magnetic shielding as well as for certain types of mo ⁇ tors. The material can also be used for devices opera ⁇ ting up to 50 kHz without significant eddy current losses.
- the new high density composite material consists of compacted, flaky shaped iron particles bonded together by a non-magnetic organic resin, whereby the particles are aligned in an essentially parallel re ⁇ lationship.
- the high density which in this context means a density above 7.4 q/crY , is mainly the result of the flaky form of the particles in combination with cer ⁇ tain process steps such as the soft annealing step de ⁇ scribed below.
- the new material is a soft magnetic, amsotropic composite material, which essentially consists of compacted, essentially flaky shaped, electrically insulared particles, which have been prepared by cold rolling and disintegration of an essentially pure iron powder.
- the particles are aligned in an essentially parallel relationship and bonded together by an organic polymer resin in an amount of 0.15 to 0.75 % by weight.
- the diameter of the parti ⁇ cles is 3 to 35 times the thickness, preferably 5 to 20.
- a characterizing feature of the new material is the high density of at least 7.4 g/cm 3 .
- the present invention also concerns a process for the preparation of the composite material comprising the following steps:
- the starting material for the process is suitably an iron powder prepared by a conventional method, such as atomisation or direct reduction of iron ore partic ⁇ les.
- This powder is then annealed in order to reduce the content of impurities, such as carbon and oxygen, and to soften the iron.
- This operation is preferably carried out in a reducing atmosphere at a temperature of about 750-1000°C.
- the obtained powder contains less than C... % by weight of carbon. Powders of this type are avail ⁇ able from Hoganas AB, Sweden as ASC 100.29, which is ar. atomised powder containing less than 0.005 % by weight of carbon and NC 100.24 which is a sponge iron powder containing less than 0.01 % by weight of carbon.
- the oxygen contents are approximately 0.09 and 0.40% by weight, respectively.
- the annealed particles are ther. cold rolled into essentially flaky shape and disinte ⁇ grated such that the diameter of the particles are 3 tc 35 times the thickness and the maximum (diameter) par ⁇ ticle size is about 500 ⁇ m.
- the flaky shaped particles thus obtained are then soft annealed at a temperature lr. the range of 700-900°C in a reducing e.g. H2 atmosphere. In contrast to previously used soft annealing processes
- the annealing process according to the invention is carried out at lower temperature and no inert inorganic powder material, such as aluminia, has to be added before the heating in order to prevent sin- tering. As a consequence no step for removing the inert material is included in the process according to the present invention.
- the carbon and oxygen contents of the annealed products are essentially the same as before this step.
- the annea ⁇ led particles are subjected to an additional disintegra ⁇ tion step.
- the iron flakes are then subjected to a phos ⁇ phoric acid treatment in aqueous solution.
- the iron particles are subjected to the phosphoric acid at a temperature and for a time sufficient to form a thin electrically insulation layer around the individual iron flakes .
- the powder is dried and mixed with an organic binder resin in an amount of less than 1 % by weight, preferably between 0.15 and 0.75% by weight and most preferably between 0.30 and 0.70 % by weight of the iron powder. If the binder content is less than 0.3 % the edge brittleness increases rapidly and makes the material hard to ma ⁇ chine.
- the organic binder could be selected from ther- mosetting or thermoplastic resins and is preferably se ⁇ lected from the group consisting of epoxy resins such as Araldite, PPS (polyphenylene sulphide) or PEEK (polyetherether ketone) .
- the mixture of iron flakes and organic binder is then fed into a pressing tool such that the flakes are aligned in the tool in a substantially parallel rela ⁇ tionship. This can be accomplished by allowing the flakes to fall freely into the die from a funnel which is positioned over the die, by vibrations, by magnetic alignment or combinations thereof.
- the pressing tool could optionally be evacuated before the compaction of the flaky material, and, if the organic binder used is a thermoplastic resin, the material should be heated to a temperature above the melting point of the thermoplastic resin before the compacting step.
- the evacuation step is especially preferred if very high densities are re ⁇ quired, and it has been found that va-cuum pressing in ⁇ creases the density by about 0.1 g/cm 3 which under cer- tain circumstances is of great importance.
- the compacting step is carried out as a high-pressure isostatic or uniaxial pressing at pressures in the range of 400-1000 MPa.
- the compacting temperatures vary depending on the type of binder and the intended use of the final product.
- the compacting step could e.g. be carried out at 70°C and a curing step might be carried out at 70-100°C.
- PPS and PEEK type of resins the compacting could be carried out at 300°C and the crosslinking at 400-450°C.
- the compacting times are not critical but should be relatively short, such as 5-20 s, for economical reasons.
- the compacted material When removed from the pressing tool, the compacted material is either stress relieved at an elevated tem ⁇ perature or subjected to an elevated temperature and subsequently to a controlled cooling.
- the properties of the new material are unique and similar to those of stacked 35-50 ⁇ m thick sheets of pure iron separated by very thin electric isolators.
- the mechanical properties of new material seem to have an optimum of about 150 MPa at a binder content of 0.35-0.50% by weight.
- the invention is further illustrated by the follow ⁇ ing non-limiting example:
- An atomised iron powder, ASC 100.29 (commercially available from Hoganas AB, Sweden) was used as base ma- terial for the new material according to the invention.
- the base powder consisted of irregularly, uniaxially shaped particles, which were rolled between two steel rolls in such a way that virtually each particle without contact with other particles was subjected to a press force corresponding to 3 ton/cm. After rolling the pow ⁇ der was disintegrated in order to separate particles which have stuck to each other during rolling, in order to obtain a powder having a maximum particle size of 42C ⁇ m.
- the obtained powder was in the form of flaky shape ⁇ particles having an average diameter of 250 ⁇ m and a thickness of 35 ⁇ m.
- the powder was very hard as it has been subjected to strong deformation and, as a consequence, it was dif ⁇ ficult to compact.
- the density when compacting at 800 MPa was 6.8 g/cm 3 .
- the powder was soft annealed m a re ⁇ ducing H2 atmosphere at 750°C during 45 minutes. At th_r temperature the iron powder could be soft annealed es ⁇ sentially without risking that the powder particles s_* - tered together.
- another disintegrating c the powder was carried out in order to restore its par ⁇ ticle size distribution without deforming the particle which would once more result in hardening due to defor ⁇ mation.
- Bodies compacted with this powder had a densit y of 7.45 g/cm 3 (800 MPa) , which can be compared with thr_ density of the base material of 7.3 g/cm 3 .
- a thin insulating layer on the ron flakes was prc- vided by subjecting the powder to a treatment with aque ⁇ ous phosphoric acid.
- the oxygen and phosphorus contents of the obtained flakes were 0.41 and 0.02 % by weight, respectively.
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| GB2331859A (en) * | 1997-11-28 | 1999-06-02 | Asea Brown Boveri | Magnetic cores for rotating electric machines |
| EP0997915A3 (en) * | 1998-10-30 | 2000-06-21 | Kawasaki Steel Corporation | Flat-paticle iron powder, method for making the same and powder magnetic core using the same |
| WO2002100580A1 (en) * | 2001-06-13 | 2002-12-19 | Höganäs Ab | Method of preparation of high density soft magnetic products |
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| WO2005023464A1 (en) * | 2003-09-09 | 2005-03-17 | Höganäs Ab | Iron based soft magnetic powder |
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