RAPIDLY QUENCHED FE-BASED SOFT-MAGNETIC ALLOY RIBBON AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD AND CORE
A rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon having wave-like undulations on a free surface, the wave-like undulations having transverse troughs arranged at substantially constant intervals in a longitudinal direction, and the troughs having an average amplitude D of 20 mm or less, is produced by a method comprising (a) keeping a transverse temperature distribution in a melt nozzle within ±15° C. to have as small a temperature distribution as possible in a melt paddle of the alloy, and (b) forming numerous fine linear scratches on a cooling roll surface by a wire brush, thereby providing a ground surface of the cooling roll with an arithmetical mean (average) roughness Ra of 0.1-1 μm and a maximum roughness depth Rmax of 0.5-10 μm.
1 . A rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon having wave-like undulations on a free surface, said wave-like undulations having transverse troughs arranged at substantially constant intervals in a longitudinal direction, and said troughs having an average amplitude D of 20 mm or less.
2 . The rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon according to claim 1 , which have ridges extending in a transverse direction in regions longitudinally adjacent to said troughs.
3 . The rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon according to claim 1 , wherein regions having said troughs occupy 70% or more of the width of said ribbon.
4 . The rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon according to claim 1 , wherein said troughs continuously extend fully between both side ends of said ribbon.
5 . The rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon according to claim 1 , wherein said troughs have longitudinal intervals L in a range of 1-5 mm; wherein said ribbon has a thickness T in a range of 15-35 μm; and wherein a ratio t/T of an average height difference t between said troughs and said ridges to the thickness of said ribbon is in a range of 0.02-0.2.
6 . The rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon according to claim 1 , which is formed by an Fe-based amorphous alloy or an Fe-based fine-crystalline alloy partially having crystal phases.
7 . A method for producing a rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon having wave-like undulations on a free surface, said wave-like undulations having transverse troughs arranged at substantially constant intervals in a longitudinal direction, and said troughs having an average amplitude D of 20 mm or less, the method comprising the steps of (a) keeping a transverse temperature distribution in a melt nozzle within ±15° C. to have as small a temperature distribution as possible in a melt paddle of said alloy; and (b) forming numerous fine linear scratches on a cooling roll surface by a wire brush, thereby providing a ground surface of said cooling roll with an arithmetical mean (average) roughness Ra of 0.1-1 μm and a maximum roughness depth Rmax of 0.5-10 μm.
8 . The method for producing a rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon according to claim 7 , wherein a heating nozzle having a slit-shaped opening for blowing a heating gas onto said nozzle for the melt is used, the length of the slit-shaped opening of said heating nozzle being 1.2-2 times the horizontal length of a slit-shaped orifice of said melt nozzle.
9 . A core obtained by laminating or winding the rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon recited in claim 1 .
10 . The core according to claim 9 , which is heat-treated in a magnetic field applied in a magnetic path direction.