US Patent Issued to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL on Oct. 14 for "Rare earth magnet assembly and preparation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,523, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Rare earth magnet assembly and preparation method" was invented by Yuta Kuribara (Echizen, Japan) and Kazuhito Akada (Echizen, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly of rare earth magnet pieces is prepared by placing two rare earth magnet pieces at their side surfaces in abutment so that top surfaces of magnet pieces are disposed adjacent to each other across the abutment interface, and forming a coating on the adjacent surfaces of magnet pieces, the coating continuously extending across abutment interface and over adjacent surfaces for thereby ti...