IP Library Granted Patent US 9,604,278
Granted Patent B2
US 9,604,278 · App. 14/384,537 · Granted Mar 28, 2017

Amorphous alloy ribbon and method of producing the same

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,604,278
App. No.
14/384,537
Filed
Sep 11, 2014
Granted
Mar 28, 2017
Kind
B2
Art Unit
1733
USPC
148/403
Abstract

The invention provides a method of producing an amorphous alloy ribbon, the method including a step of producing an amorphous alloy ribbon by discharging a molten alloy through a rectangular opening of a molten metal nozzle having a molten metal flow channel along which the molten alloy flows, the opening being an end of the molten metal flow channel, onto a surface of a rotating chill roll, in which, among wall surfaces of the molten metal flow channel, a maximum height Rz(t) of a surface t, which is a wall surface parallel to a flow direction of the molten alloy and to a short side direction of the opening, is 10.5 μm or less.

Claims (8)

1. A method of producing an amorphous alloy ribbon, comprising:

a step of producing an amorphous alloy ribbon by discharging a molten alloy through a rectangular opening of a molten metal nozzle having a molten metal flow channel along which the molten alloy flows, the opening being an end of the molten metal flow channel, onto a surface of a rotating chill roll,

wherein, among wall surfaces of the molten metal flow channel, a maximum height Rz(t) of a surface t, which is a wall surface that is parallel to a flow direction of the molten alloy and to a short side direction of the opening, is 10.5 μm or less, and

wherein, among wall surfaces of the molten metal flow channel, a maximum height Rz(s) of a surface s, which is a wall surface that is parallel to a flow direction of the molten alloy and to a long side direction of the opening, is from 20.0 μm to 60.0 μm.

2. The method of producing amorphous alloy ribbon according to claim 1 , wherein the molten alloy is discharged onto a surface of the chill roll rotating at a circumferential speed of from 10 m/s to 40 m/s in the step of producing the amorphous alloy ribbon.

3. The method of producing an amorphous alloy ribbon according to claim 1 , wherein the molten alloy is discharged at a discharge pressure of from 10 kPa to 30 kPa in the step of producing the amorphous alloy ribbon.

4. The method of producing an amorphous alloy ribbon according to claim 1 , wherein the length of a long side of the opening is from 100 mm to 300 mm.

5. The method of producing an amorphous alloy ribbon according to claim 1 , wherein the length of a short side of the opening is from 0.1 mm to 1.0 mm.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 27, 2023
From: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
To: PROTERIAL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 066130/0563 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 11, 2014
From: SHIBASAKI, HIROSHI; MOTEGI, TAKAYUKI; ITAGAKI, HAJIME; SUNAKAWA, JUN; BIZEN, YOSHIO
To: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033723/0915 →