An apparatus for treating a metal strip after it has exited from a coating container with a liquid coating material, for example zinc is provided. The apparatus includes a blow-off device arranged above the coating container having an air outlet gap for blowing off excess parts of the still liquid coating material from the surface of the metal strip after the passing of the metal strip through the coating container. An electromagnetic stabilizer is arranged above the blow-off device and has a plurality of individual magnets for stabilizing the metal strip after leaving the coating container and the blow-off device. In order to further increase the efficiency of the apparatus, at least some of the magnets of the stabilizer are formed as pot magnets with pot coils.

An oriented magnetic core lamination technique and a method of producing circular lamination cores. The method includes cutting rectangular strips with teeth pointing in a single direction (may not be the traverse or rolling direction) from the steel sheet plane, as opposed to directly punching circular laminates from the steel sheet with the teeth pointing in all directions. The strips are cut in such a way that the short side is aligned to the direction that has the best magnetic properties. The strips can then be bent into a donut or toroidal shape, either inwardly (with teeth pointing to the circle center) or outwardly (with teeth pointing out of the center) depending on the design of the lamination core. The direction with the best magnetic properties may be determined by non-destructive methods such as magnetic Barkhausen noise (MBN) analysis, x-ray diffraction (XRD), or electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD).

A soft magnetic alloy includes a composition of (Fe.sub.(1-(α+β))X1.sub.αX2.sub.β).sub.(1-(a+b+c+d+e+f+g))M.sub.aTi.sub.bB.sub.cP.sub.dSi.sub.eS.sub.fC.sub.g. X1 is one or more of Co and Ni. X2 is one or more of Al, Mn, Ag, Zn, Sn, As, Sb, Cu, Cr, Bi, N, O, and rare earth elements. M is one or more of Nb, Hf, Zr, Ta, Mo, W, and V. 0.020≤a+b≤0.140, 0.001≤b≤0.140, 0.020<c≤0.200, 0.010≤d≤0.150, 0≤e≤0.060, a≥0, f≥0, g≥0, a+b+c+d+e+f+g<1, α≥0, β≥0, and 0≤α+β≤0.50 are satisfied. The soft magnetic alloy has a nanohetero structure or a structure of Fe-based nanocrystalline.

The invention relates to a device (11) and a method for producing transformer cores (12), the device comprising a retaining system (19) having a stacking table (18) for collecting sheets of metal (16) from which a transformer core (12) is constructed and having at least two positioning aids for the sheets, the stacking table forming a positioning surface (26) for the positioning aids and being equipped with the positioning aids, the stacking table and the positioning aids being realized such that a free positioning and a location-independent fastening of the positioning aids within the positioning surface is possible, the device having a positioning system (25) by means of which the positioning aids can be disposed on and/or be removed from the stacking table.

A method for manufacturing a laminated iron core includes providing a plurality of annular iron core piece rows, each of which is configured by annularly arranging a plurality of divided iron core pieces including yokes and teeth, and the yokes of the annularly-adjacent divided iron core pieces in the annular iron core piece row are mutually different in shape. In the method, the annular iron core piece rows are laminated by changing a rotational angle of the newly laminated annular iron core piece row relatively to the lastly laminated annular iron core piece row laminated so that the divided iron core piece with a shape different from that of the divided iron core piece is laminated on the lastly laminated divided iron core piece.

A method for manufacturing a non-circular wound magnetic core composed of a nano-crystallized soft magnetic alloy thin strip comprises: a step for acquiring a multilayer body by winding a soft magnetic alloy thin strip; a step for nano-crystallizing the soft magnetic alloy thin strip by inserting a heat treatment inner peripheral jig to the inner peripheral side of the multilayer body, maintaining the multilayer body in a non-circular shape, and subjecting the multilayer body to a heat treatment; and a step for maintaining the nano-crystallized multilayer body in the non-circular shape by using outer and inner peripheral jigs and impregnating resin between the layers of the multilayer body. The resin impregnation inner and outer peripheral jigs are shaped so as to not contact the inner peripheral surface and/or the outer peripheral surface of the multilayer body at a part where the multilayer body has a large degree of curvature.

The present disclosure provides a transformer module and a power module, wherein the transformer module comprises: a magnetic core, where a first insulating layer and a second wiring layer are sequentially disposed on the magnetic core from inside to outside; a first metal winding, wound around the magnetic core in a foil structure, and comprising a first winding segment formed in the first wiring layer and a second winding segment formed in the second wiring layer; and a second metal winding, wound around the magnetic core in a foil structure, comprising a third winding segment formed in the first wiring layer and a fourth winding segment formed in the second wiring.

Disclosed is a basic module of a magnetic core of a wound electrical transformer. The basic module includes first and second windings placed atop one another and made of first and second materials, respectively. The first material is a crystal having a saturation magnetization ≧1.5 T and magnetic losses less than 20 W/kg in sine waves having a frequency of 400 Hz, for maximum induction of 1 T, and the second material is a material having an apparent saturation magnetostriction less than or equal to 5 ppm and magnetic losses less than 20 W/kg in sine waves having a frequency of 400 Hz, for maximum induction of 1 T. The cross-sections of the first winding and cross-sections of the second winding satisfy (S.sub.1/(S.sub.1+S.sub.3); S.sub.2/(S.sub.2+S.sub.4)) of the first material, having a high saturation magnetization, compared to the cross-section of both materials together, is 2%-50%.

An electrical device includes an electromagnetic component configured to generate a magnetic flux. The electromagnetic component includes a soft magnetically-conductive material configured to pass magnetic flux therethrough along a flux path. The soft magnetically-conductive material includes at least one grain oriented portion having metal grains that are oriented parallel with respect to the magnetic flux.

There is provided a method for producing metal foils, capable of easily crystalizing amorphous soft magnetic material of a plurality of metal foils into nano-crystal magnetic by uniformly heating the metal foils. Separating members (magnets) are disposed on the opposite sides of a laminate, which has been obtained by laminating a plurality of metal foils made of amorphous soft magnetic material, in the laminated direction of the laminate, and the metal foils forming the laminate are magnetized with the magnets. Thus, the adjacent metal foils are separated from each other in the laminated direction and a gap is formed between the metal foils. The metal foils are heated with the gap formed therebetween so that the amorphous soft magnetic material of each metal foil is crystalized into nano-crystal magnetic material.