US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 23 for "Rare earth magnet and manufacturing method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,940, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Rare earth magnet and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Noritsugu Sakuma (Mishima, Japan), Tetsuya Shoji (Susono, Japan), Akihito Kinoshita (Mishima, Japan), Katsunori Danno (Obu, Japan), Daisuke Ichigozaki (Toyota, Japan), Masaaki Ito (Anjo, Japan) and Reimi Sakaguchi (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a rare earth magnet having a main phase and a grain boundary phase and a manufacturing method therefor. In the rare earth magnet of the present disclosure, the overall composition is represented by a f...