US Patent Issued to Hitachi on Sept. 1 for "Soft magnetic material, method for producing soft magnetic material, and electric motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,294, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Soft magnetic material, method for producing soft magnetic material, and electric motor" was invented by Kazuya Shinagawa (Tokyo), Matahiro Komuro (Tokyo), Yusuke Asari (Tokyo) and Shohei Terada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Soft magnetic materials containing Fe and Co in a total amount of 90 mass % or more are provided herein. The soft magnetic materials contain 50 mass % or more of Fe, 40 mass % or less of Co, 0.1 mass % or less of C, 2.0 mass % or less of Ni, 0.2 mass % or less of Mn, Si, Cr, Ti, Nb, and V, and inevitable impurities; and a precipitate of a comp...