Abstract:
In a process of cooling and solidifying molten metal particles, gas substantially free from nascent and molecular oxygen (argon, helium, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide) is bubbled through a liquid, thereby creating at the surface of the liquid a layer of foam of bubbles containing some of the gas. Additional gas is retained in the space adjacent the foam. Molten metal particles are formed by being centrifugally projected through holes extending through a side wall of a rotating pot disposed within the space. The molten particles are decelerated and cooled by passing into said foam, and rupture some of the bubbles, so that the gas contained within them flows into the space. The particles then leave the foam and pass into the liquid, becoming further cooled, and are thereafter recovered solidified, substantially unoxidized, and with a minimum of distortion, thereby being suitable for forming into strip. New gas-containing bubbles are created by bubbling additional gas through the liquid, so as to maintain the layer of foam.
Abstract:
An insulator-coated magnetic alloy powder particle includes a magnetic alloy powder particle and an insulator that coats a surface of the magnetic alloy powder particle and that has a plurality of protrusions at a surface thereof, wherein the insulator includes a first insulator in a particulate form enclosed in the protrusion, and a second insulator in a film form that coats at least a part of a surface of the first insulator.
Abstract:
A green compact according to the present invention is a green compact, which is obtained by compaction-molding raw material powder containing metal powder as a main raw material, the green compact including an oxide film formed between particles of the raw material powder forming the green compact, the oxide film binding the particles of the raw material powder to each other, in which the metal powder to toe used includes metal powder showing a circularity R at a cumulative frequency of 80% of 0.75 or more, the circularity R being expressed by Equation (1), where S represents a two-dimensional projected area of the metal powder and L represents a two-dimensional projected circumferential length of the metal powder. R = 4 π × S L 2 ( 1 )
Abstract:
A method of making a worm gear is provided. The method comprises forming a gear hub from a powdered metal material. Thereafter an outer surface of the gear hub is sealed.
Abstract:
It is an objective of the invention to provide a dust core made of an Fe-based amorphous metal powder having excellent magnetic properties, in which the dust core has a higher-than-conventional density, excellent magnetic properties and a high mechanical strength. There is provided a dust core including a mixture powder compacted, the mixture powder including: an Fe-based amorphous metal powder having a crystallization temperature Tx (unit: K), the Fe-based amorphous metal powder being plastically deformed, the plastically deformed metal Fe-based amorphous metal powder having a filling factor in the dust core higher than 80% and not higher than 99%; and a resin binder having a melting point Tm (unit: K), in which the Tx and Tm satisfy a relationship of “Tm/Tx≧0.70”.
Abstract:
A combustion device includes a combustion chamber having an exhaust gas opening. The combustion chamber has a first region having a plurality of circular-segment-shaped cross-sections, which are parallel to each other and each have a circle centre point. A connection of the circle centre points lies substantially on an axis. A gas supply line is connected to the combustion chamber in such a way that a discharge point is formed, that the combustion chamber has a mixing region in the region of the discharge point for mixing gas supplied via the gas supply line with gas rotating in the combustion chamber, and that the discharge point is arranged on a bottom side of the combustion chamber in an operating position, wherein gas supplied via the gas supply line flows against the first region tangentially from below.
Abstract:
A method for producing a metal powder product involves: Providing a supply of a precursor metal powder; combining the precursor metal powder with a liquid to form a slurry; feeding the slurry into a pulsating stream of hot gas; and recovering the metal powder product.
Abstract:
An improved method of reducing a mixed metal oxide composition comprising oxides of nickel, cobalt, copper and iron in a hydrogen atmosphere to produce a mixture of the respective metals, the improvement wherein the atmosphere further comprises water vapour at a concentration, temperature and time to effect selective reduction of the oxides of nickel cobalt and copper relative to the iron oxide to produce the metallic mixture having a reduced ratio of metallic iron relative to metallic nickel, cobalt and copper.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to ferromagnetic metal particles having an average major axis diameter (L) of 10 to 100 nm which satisfy a relationship between the average major axis diameter (L) and a particle SFD represented by the following formula: Particle SFD≦0.0001 L2−0.0217 L+1.75; a process for producing the ferromagnetic metal particles; and a magnetic recording medium using the ferromagnetic metal particles.
Abstract:
Methods for sintering aluminum powder comprise providing aluminum powder and heating the aluminum powder in a nitrogen atmosphere containing a partial pressure of water vapor in the range of about 0.001 kPa to about 0.020 kPa to sinter the aluminum powder to a transverse rupture strength of at least about 13.8 MPa. The aluminum powder is not pressed together by a mechanical force that substantially deforms particles of said aluminum powder either prior to or during the step of heating. Articles comprising sintered aluminum powder. The sintered aluminum powder has a transverse rupture strength of at least about 13.8 MPa. The microstructure of the sintered aluminum powder contains no compositional concentration gradients indicative of the use of a sintering aid and no evidence of particle deformation having occurred by an application of a mechanical force prior to or during the sintering of the aluminum powder.