ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,048, issued on July 14, was assigned to ORANO PROJETS (Chatillon, France).
"Method for manufacturing a magnet from recycled magnets" was invented by Cyril Rado (Grenoble, France) and Sorana Luca (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a method for manufacturing a magnet from recycled magnets comprising the following steps of: providing: a 1st powder comprising grains of a magnetic phase TR2Fe14B, metal-based compounds and a grain boundary phase rich in rare earth, said 1st powder being free of heavy rare earth, a 2nd powder obtained from recycled magnets comprising heavy rare earths, the 2nd powder is ...