US Patent Issued to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL on July 7 for "Anisotropic rare earth sintered magnet and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,253, issued on July 7, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Anisotropic rare earth sintered magnet and method for producing same" was invented by Tadao Nomura (Fukui, Japan), Kazuki Otsuka (Echizen, Japan) and Masayuki Kamata (Tsuruga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anisotropic rare earth sintered magnet represented by the formula (R1-aZra)x(Fe1-bCOb)100-x-y(M11-cM2c)y. R is Sm and at least one element selected from rare earth elements, M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of V, Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Al, and Si, M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Nb...