The present invention relates to a method of fabricating a programmable and/or reprogrammable magnetic soft device having a Young's modulus of less than 500 MPa in a part of the device. The invention further relates to an untethered programmable and/or reprogrammable, in particular 3D, magnetic soft device having a part with Young's modulus of less than 500 MP, to a method of encoding a programmable and/or reprogrammable magnetic soft device, and to a use of a programmable and/or reprogrammable magnetic soft device.

The present invention relates to a method of fabricating a programmable and/or reprogrammable magnetic soft device having a Young's modulus of less than 500 MPa in a part of the device. The invention further relates to an untethered programmable and/or reprogrammable, in particular 3D, magnetic soft device having a part with Young's modulus of less than 500 MP, to a method of encoding a programmable and/or reprogrammable magnetic soft device, and to a use of a programmable and/or reprogrammable magnetic soft device.

Wireless charging devices and wireless charging systems are provided. The wireless charging devices may include a receiving part coil and an electromagnetic-wave shielding sheet on the receiving part coil. The electromagnetic-wave shielding sheet may have a specific magnetic permeability of 100 or greater from 100 kHz to 300 kHz and may include a metal foam including a soft magnetic metal component.

Compositions including hard magnetic photoresists, soft photoresists, hard magnetic elastomers and soft magnetic elastomers are provided.

In an embodiment, a magnetic body includes: multiple soft magnetic alloy grains 11, 12 each containing Fe, element L (where element L is Si, Zr or Ti), and element M (where Element M is an element other than Si, Zr, and Ti, and which oxidizes more easily than Fe); oxide films 21, 22 covering the soft magnetic alloy grains, respectively; a bonding material 30 constituted by an oxide that exists separately from the oxide films 21 (21A, 21B), 22 (22A, 22B); first bonds where adjacent soft magnetic alloy grains 11, 12 are bonded together via the oxide films 21, 22; and second bonds where adjacent soft magnetic alloy grains 11, 12 are bonded together via the bonding material 30, without the oxide films 21, 22 that respectively cover these grains making direct contact with each other.

A coil component has a magnetic body of rectangular solid shape, a coil with N turns (N is a positive number of 2 or greater) provided inside the magnetic body, an insulating intermediate part, and external electrodes. The coil has a first conductor layer, a second conductor layer, and an inter-layer connection part. The first conductor layer has a first multiple winding part which is wound around one axis with a first spacing. The second conductor layer has a second multiple winding part which is wound around the one axis with the first spacing and faces the first conductor layer. The insulating intermediate part is provided inside the magnetic body and forms, between the first conductor layer and second conductor layer, a second spacing corresponding to a thickness equal to or less than the product of the first spacing and (N−1).

There is provided a one-pack type room-temperature-curable 2-cyanoacrylate based composition having magnetism. The 2-cyanoacrylate based composition having magnetism is characterized by containing (a) a 2-cyanoacrylic acid ester and (b) a magnetic powder dispersible in the 2-cyanoacrylic acid ester, wherein the content of the magnetic powder (b) is 5 to 500 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the 2-cyanoacrylic acid ester (a). The magnetic powder (b) is preferably a stainless steel.

The present invention provides a composite magnetic body comprising metal particles containing Fe or Fe and Co as a main component and a resin, wherein an average major axis diameter of the metal particles is 30 to 500 nm, an average of the aspect ratios of the metal particles is 1.5 to 10, and a CV value of the aspect ratios is 0.40 or less.

The present invention provides a composite magnetic body comprising metal particles containing Fe or Fe and Co as a main component and a resin, wherein an average major axis diameter of the metal particles is 30 to 500 nm, an average of the aspect ratios of the metal particles is 1.5 to 10, and a CV value of the aspect ratios is 0.40 or less.

A method for producing a cermet composition, including mixing a first predetermined amount of a yttria stabilized zirconia powder with between 2 and 8 weight percent mu-metal powder to define a homogeneous admixture, oxidizing the mu-metal in the admixture, forming the homogeneous admixture into a green body, calcining the green body in a first reducing atmosphere to remove oxygen from the oxidized mu-metal to yield a calcined body, and sintering the calcined body in a second reducing atmosphere to yield a densified body having no more than 0.8% porosity. The densified body has a plurality of mu-metal particles distributed therethrough, a hardness of at least 1450 HV, flexural strength of at least 200 kPSI, and a relative permeability μ/μ.sub.o of at least 850.