US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Aug. 5 for "Methods of producing bonded magnet and compound for bonded magnets" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,023, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Methods of producing bonded magnet and compound for bonded magnets" was invented by Satoshi Yamanaka (Tokushima, Japan) and Takayuki Yano (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Included is a method of preparing a compound for bonded magnets, the method including: coating a magnetic material having an average particle size of 10 micro metre or less with a thermosetting resin and a curing agent at a ratio of the equivalent weight of the curing agent to the equivalent weight of the thermosetting resin of 2 or higher and 10 or lower to obtain a coated material; granu...