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

The present invention relates to a soft magnetic metal powder which contains B and has Fe and Ni as the main components, wherein the content of Ni in the soft magnetic metal powder is 30 to 80 mass %, the total content of Fe and Ni in the soft magnetic metal powder is 90 mass % or more, the content of B inside the metal particle of the soft magnetic metal powder is 10 to 150 ppm, and the particle has a film of boron nitride on the surface. The present invention also relates to a soft magnetic metal powder core prepared by using the soft magnetic metal powder.

The invention provides high coercivity magnetic materials based on FeNi alloys having an L1.sub.0 phase structure, and methods for making the materials.

In order to provide a soft magnetic flaky powder having high electrical resistance and high corrosion resistance, and a magnetic sheet including the same, the present invention provides a soft magnetic flaky powder, including a plurality of soft magnetic flaky particles. Each of the plurality of soft magnetic flaky particles contains an Fe-based alloy flaky particle and a coating layer formed on a surface of the Fe-based alloy flaky particle. The coating layer contains one or two or more components selected from chromic acid and a hydrate thereof, and a metal salt of an inorganic acid and a hydrate thereof. The inorganic acid is selected from sulfuric acid, nitric acid, chromic acid, phosphoric acid, hydrofluoric acid and acetic acid. The metal salt is selected from a Na salt, an Al salt, a Ti salt, a Cr salt, a Ni salt, a Ga salt and a Zr salt. The coating layer has a thickness of 10 nm or more.

A multilayer coil component including: a magnetic part that contains Fe, Zn, V, and Ni and optionally contains Mn and/or Cu; and a conductor part that contains copper. In the magnetic part, Fe is in an amount of 34.0 to 48.5 mol % expressed as Fe.sub.2O.sub.3 equivalent, Zn is in an amount of 6.0 to 45.0 mol % expressed as ZnO equivalent, Mn is in an amount of 0 to 7.5 mol % expressed as Mn.sub.2O.sub.3 equivalent, Cu is in an amount of 0 to 5.0 mol % expressed as CuO equivalent, and V is in an amount of 0.5 to 5.0 mol % expressed as V.sub.2O.sub.5 equivalent, with respect to the total amount of Fe expressed as Fe.sub.2O.sub.3 equivalent, Zn expressed as ZnO equivalent, V expressed as V.sub.2O.sub.5 equivalent, and Ni expressed as NiO equivalent, and optionally present Cu expressed as CuO equivalent and optionally present Mn expressed as Mn.sub.2O.sub.3 equivalent.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a wireless power transmitting apparatus of a wireless charging system includes a substrate, a first bonding layer formed on the substrate, a soft magnetic layer formed on the first bonding layer, a second bonding layer formed on the soft magnetic layer and a transmitting coil formed on the second bonding layer, wherein at least one of the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer includes a magnetic substance.

Nanocomposite magnetic materials, methods of manufacturing nanocomposite magnetic materials, and magnetic devices and systems using these nanocomposite magnetic materials are described. A nanocomposite magnetic material can be formed using an electro-infiltration process where nanomaterials (synthesized with tailored size, shape, magnetic properties, and surface chemistries) are infiltrated by electroplated magnetic metals after consolidating the nanomaterials into porous microstructures on planar substrates. The nanomaterials may be considered the inclusion phase, and the magnetic metals may be considered the matrix phase of the multi-phase nanocomposite.

A composite particle includes: a particle composed of a soft magnetic metallic material, and a coating layer composed of a soft magnetic metallic material having a different composition from that of the particle and fusion-bonded to the particle so as to cover the particle, wherein when the Vickers hardness of the particle is represented by HV1 and the Vickers hardness of the coating layer is represented by HV2, HV1 and HV2 satisfy the following relationship: 100≦HV1−HV2, and when half of the projected area circle equivalent diameter of the particle is represented by r and the average thickness of the coating layer is represented by t, r and t satisfy the following relationship: 0.05≦t/r≦1.

Provided is an alloy powder capable of obtaining a magnetic member therefrom in which the frequency FR is extremely high. The powder for the magnetic member is composed of a plurality of flaky particles. These flaky particles are composed of an Fe-based alloy including: 6.5% by mass or more and 32.0% by mass or less of Ni; 6.0% by mass or more and 14.0% by mass or less of Al; 0% by mass or more and 17.0% by mass or less of Co; and 0% by mass or more and 7.0% by mass or less of Cu; the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The average thickness Tav of this powder is 3.0 μm or less. The saturation magnetization Ms of this powder is 0.9 T or more. The coercive force iHc of this powder is 16 kA/m or more. This Fe-based alloy has a structure resulting from spinodal decomposition.

A nanogranular magnetic film comprises a structure including first phases comprised of nano-domains dispersed in a second phase. A ratio of a volume of the first phases to a total volume of the first phases and the second phase is 65% or less. A largest one of A(Fe1)/A(Fe2), A(Co1)/A(Co2), and A(Ni1)/A(Ni2) has a value of 1.20 or more and 8.00 or less, provided that a percentage of Fe in the first phases is A(Fe1), a percentage of Fe in the second phase is A(Fe2), a percentage of Co in the first phases is A(Co1), a percentage of Co in the second phase is A(Co2), a percentage of Ni in the first phases is A(Ni1), and a percentage of Ni in the second phase is A(Ni2). The first phases comprised of the nano-domains have an average size of 2 nm or more and 30 nm or less.