US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Nov. 4 for "Method of producing phosphate-coated SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder and phosphate-coated SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,958, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Method of producing phosphate-coated SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder and phosphate-coated SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder" was invented by Masahiro Abe (Tokushima, Japan), Satoshi Yamanaka (Tokushima, Japan), Shuichi Tada (Komatsushima, Japan) and Kenta Iwai (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a phosphate-coated SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder, the method including performing a phosphate treatment including adding an inorganic acid to a slurry containing a raw material SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder, water...