A caster assembly configured to process and store a material includes a reaction chamber, a storage assembly configured to store material processed in the reaction chamber, and a blower configured to process and store the material. The reaction chamber includes a vessel configured to hold the material in a melted state prior to processing and a powder generating assembly configured to receive the material from the melting vessel. The powder generating assembly includes a feeding chamber and a feeding device disposed at least partially within the feeding chamber. The feeding device includes at least one nozzle configured to inject inert fluid, where the fluid is a gas, liquid, or combination of the two into the feeding chamber and a material inlet through which the material is configured to flow into the feeding chamber to be exposed to the inert fluid, where the fluid is a gas, liquid, or combination of the two.

A method for improving magnetic properties of a Ce—Y-rich rare earth permanent magnet is provided, and the Ce—Y-rich rare earth permanent magnet is subjected to pressurized heat treatment to improve magnetic properties. The method includes: preparing a pristine magnet through a sintering process; and placing the pristine magnet into a pressurized heat treatment device and performing pressurized heat treatment under the protection of an argon atmosphere. By regulating parameters such as pressure, temperature and holding time in the heat treatment process, element diffusion in the Ce—Y-rich permanent magnet is promoted, and coercivity, remanence, magnetic energy product and temperature stability of the Ce—Y-rich permanent magnet are improved. The method has advantages of a simple process with low energy consumption, a substitution amount of rare earths Ce—Y up to 90 wt % while having excellent magnetic performance, so that a way for efficient utilization of high-abundance rare earths Ce and Y is provided.

Disclosed is a segmented magnet which may adjust the application direction of a heavy rare earth element for grain boundary diffusion depending on the magnetization direction of the segmented magnet so as to simplify the manufacturing process of the segmented magnet while reducing eddy current loss, and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes preparing a plurality of permanent magnet parent bodies having a constant magnetization direction, diffusing a diffusion material into the prepared permanent magnet parent bodies via a pair of planes thereof opposite each other and parallel to the magnetization direction along grain boundaries so as to form a pair of diffusing surfaces, preparing a permanent magnet assembly by stacking the permanent magnet parent bodies in a line such that the diffusing surfaces thereof face each other, and segmenting the permanent magnet assembly into a plurality of pieces along planes perpendicular to the magnetization direction.

A sintered magnet body (R.sub.aT.sup.1.sub.bM.sub.cB.sub.d) coated with a powder mixture of an intermetallic compound (R.sup.1.sub.iM.sup.1.sub.j, R.sup.1.sub.xT.sup.2.sub.yM.sup.1.sub.z, R.sup.1.sub.iM.sup.1.sub.jH.sub.k), alloy (M.sup.1.sub.dM.sup.2.sub.e) or metal (M.sup.1) powder and a rare earth (R.sup.2) oxide is diffusion treated. The R.sup.2 oxide is partially reduced during the diffusion treatment, so a significant amount of R.sup.2 can be introduced near interfaces of primary phase grains within the magnet through the passages in the form of grain boundaries. The coercive force is increased while minimizing a decline of remanence.

A rare earth sintered magnet according to the present disclosure includes: a main phase satisfying general formula (Nd, La, Sm)—Fe—B and including crystal grains based on R.sub.2Fe.sub.14B crystal structures; and a crystalline subphase based on an oxide phase represented by (Nd, La, Sm)—O. The subphase has a higher concentration of Sm than the main phase.

Disclosed are a neodymium-iron-boron magnet material, a raw material composition, a preparation method therefor and a use thereof. The raw material composition of the neodymium-iron-boron magnet material comprises the following components by mass percentage: 29.5-32.8% of R′, wherein R′ includes Pr and Nd, and Pr≥17.15%; Al≥0.5%; 0.90-1.2% of B; and 60-68% of Fe. The percentages are the mass percentages relative to the total mass of the raw material composition of the neodymium-iron-boron magnet material. Without adding a heavy rare earth element to the neodymium-iron-boron magnet material, the performance of the neodymium-iron-boron magnet material can still be significantly improved.

Disclosed are a stirring process and a stirring system for a neodymium-iron-boron powder and a process for manufacturing a neodymium-iron-boron magnetic steel. The stirring process for the neodymium-iron-boron powder mainly comprises the following aeration, feeding and stirring. Specifically, the aeration refers to filling a mixer with nitrogen and/or an inert gas, with the internal space of the mixer closed; the feeding refers to placing a neodymium-iron-boron powder to be stirred into the mixer and keeping the internal space of the mixer closed; and the stirring refers to introducing the mixer with a pulsed air stream, which is an intermittently jetted air stream formed by nitrogen and/or an inert gas, and by which the neodymium-iron-boron powder can be repeatedly blown up and down to mix and stir the neodymium-iron-boron powder.

The present application relates to a preparation method of neodymium iron boron products and the neodymium iron boron product prepared by using the same. The preparation method of neodymium iron boron products includes the following steps: Step S1: preparing blank magnet; Step S2: obtaining preprocessed sheets; Step S3: surface treating; Step S4: heavy rare earth coating; Step S5: stacking: stacking a plurality of preprocessed sheets to give stacked magnets; and Step S6: grain boundary diffusion: successively subjecting the stacked magnets to a primary heat treatment for 2-40 min, a secondary heat treatment at 700-1000° C. for 4-40 h, and then tempering at 450-700° C., in which the primary heat treatment is induction heat treatment or electric spark sintering.

To provide a rare earth magnet having excellent coercive force and a production method thereof. A rare earth magnet, wherein the rare earth magnet comprises a magnetic phase containing Sm, Fe, and N, a Zn phase present around the magnetic phase, and an intermediate phase present between the magnetic phase and the Zn phase, wherein the intermediate phase contains Zn and the oxygen content of the intermediate phase is higher than the oxygen content of the Zn phase; and a method for producing a rare earth magnet, including mixing a magnetic raw material powder having an oxygen content of 1.0 mass % or less and an improving agent powder containing metallic Zn and/or a Zn alloy, and heat-treating the mixed powder.

R—Fe—B sintered magnet has a main phase containing R.sub.2(Fe,(Co)).sub.14B intermetallic compound and a grain boundary phase. The inter-particle grain boundary includes an expanded width part that is surrounded by a narrow width part at which the inter-particle width is 10 nm or less and that has a structure distended in the inter-particle width direction as compared with the grain boundary width of the narrow width part; the inter-particle width at the expanded width part is at least 30 nm; Fe/R ratio in the expanded width part is 0.01-2.5; the main phase includes, in the surface part thereof, an HR-rich phase represented by (R′,HR).sub.2(Fe,(Co)).sub.14B (R′ represents rare-earth elements excluding Dy, Tb, and Ho, and that essentially include Nd; and HR represents Dy, Tb, and Ho); the contained amount of HR in the HR-rich phase is higher than that in the central part of the main phase.