US3657025A - Nickel-iron base magnetic material with high initial permeability at low temperatures - Google Patents

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US3657025A
US3657025A US807652A US3657025DA US3657025A US 3657025 A US3657025 A US 3657025A US 807652 A US807652 A US 807652A US 3657025D A US3657025D A US 3657025DA US 3657025 A US3657025 A US 3657025A
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  • the magnetically soft material must have as high as possible an initial permeability in the range of low temperatures. In magnetic shielding, the high initial permeability is a desirable condition for highly effective shielding against extremely weak extraneous magnetic fields.
  • the indication or measuring error becomes smaller with increasing permeability of the transformer material, while in case of low current transmitters a very high inductivity can be obtained with a small number of turns if the transmitter material has a high permeability at small field intensities.
  • the high permeability magnetically soft materials which have been heretofore known have not met the above stated requirements.
  • the relative permeability of the magnetically softest alloys with 70 to 80% of nickel when measured at room temperature and at a field intensity of 0.5 mOe (millioersted) is over 100,000 and decreases sharply with lower temperatures to about 10,000 to 15,000 at a temperature of -1 20 C.
  • sendust alloys that is, the ternary iron base alloys with about 7 to 14% of silicon and with about 2 to 7% of aluminum and which also fall into this category of the technology, reach higher permeability values even slightly below C. but these higher permeability values are achieved in a relatively narrow range of temperature and these values are obtained only for field intensities of about 40 to 200 mOe, that is, for relatively high field intensities.
  • the point of maximum permeability depends specifically on the respective silicon and aluminum content of the alloy. For example, an iron-silicon-aluminum alloy with 9.9% of silicon and 5.6% of aluminum has at 1 00 C. a sharply defined maximum with a peak value of permeability of about 64,000 at a field intensity of 100 mOe.
  • iron-silicon-aluminum alloys of the above specified composition are not suitable for many applications not only on the basis of their unfavorable dependency of their permeability on the field intensity but also because of their technological characteristics, that is, their high degree of brittleness (see C. Heck: Magnetic Materials and Their Technical Applications, 1967, pages 403 and 404) does not permit any of the usual forming or cutting operations (other than grinding) and correspondingly there cannot be produced from these materials any strips, core laminations, or deep-drawn parts.
  • the purpose of this invention is to obtain in ductile alloys the best possible magnetically soft properties at low temperatures.
  • the invention is based specifically on the problem of preparing a nickel-iron base magnetic material which has, at temperatures below 180 C., a relative initial permeability of more than 40,000 in weak magnetic fields.
  • this is accomplished by selecting the alloying components such that there is present between about 8.9% and 27.6% iron, up to 12.5% copper, up to 4.6% molybdenum, from about 0.2% to about 1.0% manganese and the balance essentially nickel with incidental impurities.
  • the alloy is thereafter processed by hot and cold working and the finish gauge material is thereafter annealed at a temperature within the range between about 1,050" and about l250 C. for a time period of between about 2 hours, and, about 8 hours followed by cooling to room temperature.
  • the annealed material is then subjected to a final heat treatment at a temperature between the Curie temperature and 550 C. for a time period of between about 1 hour and about 5 hours followed by quenching to room temperature.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a ductile nickel-iron base alloy having high initial permeability at cryogenic temperatures and at low field intensities.
  • a specific object of the present invention is to provide a ductile nickel-iron base magnetic material and a heat treatment therefor whereby the material will exhibit an initial permeability of at least 40,000 in a field intensity of 0.5 mOe at a temperature of less than 180 C.
  • FIG. 1 is a ternary diagram illustrating the broad and preferred limits of the alloying components
  • FIG. 2 is a ternary diagram illustrating the relation of the copper content with respect to the balance of the alloying components
  • FIG. 3 is similar to FIG. 1 but illustrating the actual composition of alloys made and tested as set forth in Table I;
  • FIGS. 4 through 9 inclusive illustrate the relationship between initial permeability and temperature for alloys 3, 8, l9, l5, 9 and 17 respectively of Table I.
  • the alloy of the present invention is a nickel-iron base alloy to which controlled amounts of at least one of copper, manganese and molybdenum are added. While in broad general terms the alloy contains, in percent by weight, from about 8.9% to about 27.6% iron, up to 12.5% copper, up to 4.6% molybdenum, from about 0.2% to about 1.0% manganese and the balance nickel incidental impurities, the alloying components must be balanced in accordance with the circumscribed areas of FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • the actual composition of the magnetic material lies within or in immediate vicinity of a range of multicomponent system nickel- (iron copper manganese)-molybdenum which is defined in FIG. 1 by the polygon A (73.3% Ni; 26.7% (Fe+Cu+Mn); 0% Mo)- B (80.5% Ni; 16.9% (Fe+Cu+Mn); 2.6% Mo) C (80.5% Ni; 14.9% (Fe+Cu+Mn); 4.6% Mo) D (72.2% Ni; 26.3% (Fe+Cu+Mn); 1.5% Mo) E (72.2% Ni; 27.8% (Fe+Cu+Mn); 0% Mo)-A.
  • the preferred range of alloying components is defined by the polygon F (75.4% Ni; 23.2% (Fe+Cu+Mn); 1.4% Mo) G (78.0% Ni; 19.7% (Fe+Cu+Mn); 2.3% Mo) H (78.0% Ni; 18.5% (Fe+Cu+Mn); 3.5% Mo) J (75.4% Ni; 22.1% (Fe+Cu+Mn); 2.5% Mo)-F with the restriction that the content of manganese is 0.2 to 1.0% in each instance. Moreover, the content of copper associated with the content of nickel must be within the range which in FIG.
  • the material is annealed during its manufacture in a non-oxidizing atmosphere for several hours, specifically 2 to 8 hours, at 1,050 to 1,250 C. and afterwards it is subjected to final heat treatment for several hours, specifically l to hours, at a temperature in a vacuum fumace there were produced nickel-iron alloys with the chemical composition given in per cent by weight in Table l and indicated by the same numbers in the nickel- (iron copper manganese)-molybdenum alloying diagram in FIG. 3. After forging, the ingots were hot rolled to a thickness of 2.5 mm followed by annealing at l,050 C.
  • the material was cold rolled to a final thickness of 0.1 mm with intermediate annealing where necessary.
  • the cores were placed in a suitable TABLE I protective copper casing, cooled in a cryostat to the tempera- [Chemlcal composmo by Weghm ture of liquid helium (i.e. 268.9 C.) or liquid nitrogen (i.e. Ni Fe Cu Mo Mn Si 25 195.8 C.) and then permitted to warm naturally while the 75. 00 20 L 63 Trace permeability and temperatures were moni tored.
  • the measure- 70.05 17.25 4. 37 1.75 0.50 0.02 ments of the temperatures below 200 C. were made by g" g" 8 ⁇ means of a goldiron-chromel thermocouple and above -200 77. 50 15. 30 4. 5g 2. 23 8. 01 T 3 3 C.
  • Another relationship found to exist in the alloy of the present invention is that where the molybdenum content increases toward the upper limit at any given nickel level the final heat treatment temperature must decrease toward the Curie temperature in order to achieve the high initial permeability. Also, where the alloy has a composition near the line F-G of FIG. 1 increasing nickel contents require higher final heat treatment temperatures approaching 550 C. in order to obtain the high initial permeability at low temperatures.
  • the advantage obtained with the invention consists in making available a more ductile magnetically soft material which has a very high permeability at the low temperatures, especially in the range between l80 and 269 C.
  • the relationships which have been found permit the selection of the alloy and the final heat treatment so that the highest possible permeability or a permeability of predetermined value in a given range may be selected at will.
  • the magnetic materials according to this invention with the nickel-iron base with high permeability at low temperatures are suitable above all for the low temperature cooled magnetic shields, current transformers, and transmitters as well as for relays, magnetic switches, memories, and multipliers.
  • a heat treated ductile nickel-iron base magnetic alloy consisting essentially of, by weight, from about 8.9% to about 27.6% iron, up to about 12.5% copper, up to about 4.6% molybdenum, from about 0.2% to about 1.0% manganese and the balance essentially nickel, the alloy exhibiting maximum initial permeability at subzero temperatures when the alloying components within the ranges set forth hereinbefore are balanced to provide an alloy having a composition within the area ABCDEA of FIG. 1 and in which the copper content is balanced with respect to the remainder of the alloying components to provide an alloy having the composition falling within the area KQLMNSOPK of FIG. 2, and the alloy has been given a final heat treatment at a temperature within the range between the Curie temperature and 5 50 C.
  • a readily workable heat treated nickel-iron base alloy containing copper, molybdenum and manganese the alloying components being selected to provide an alloy having a composition falling within the area FGHJF of FIG. 1, the copper content is selected with respect to the remaining elements to provide a composition within the area QRSTQ of FIG. 2 and the alloy has been given a final heat treatment at a temperature within the range between the Curie temperature and 5 50 C, said alloy being characterized by exhibiting its maximum initial permeability at a temperature of below about l 00 C.
  • a heat treated ductile nickel-iron base magnetic alloy consisting essentially of, by weight, from 8.9 to 27.6% iron, up to 12.5% copper, up to 9.6% molybdenum, from 0.2% to 1.0% manganese and the balance nickel with incidental impurities, the alloy exhibiting maximum initial permeability at a temperature below I 00 C. when the alloying components within the ranges set forth hereinbefore are balanced to provide an alloy havin a composition withinthe area FGHJF of FIG. 1 and in whrc the copper content s balanced with respect to the remainder of the alloying components to provide an alloy having the composition falling within the area KQLMNSOPK of FIG. 2 and the alloy has been given a final heat treatment at a temperature within the range between about 440 C. and about 550 C.

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