US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Feb. 24 for "Rare earth magnet alloy, method of manufacturing same, rare earth magnet, rotor, and rotating machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,296, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Rare earth magnet alloy, method of manufacturing same, rare earth magnet, rotor, and rotating machine" was invented by Akito Iwasaki (Tokyo), Yoshikazu Nakano (Tokyo) and Yasutaka Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a rare earth magnet alloy having a tetragonal R2Fe14B crystal structure, including: a main phase containing, as main constituent elements, at least one kind selected from the group consisting of: Nd; La; and Sm, Fe, and B; and a sub-phase containing, as main constituent elements, at least one kind selected from the group con...