Thermomagnetically patterned magnets and method of making same
US5089060A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 28, 1990 |
| Grant date | Feb 18, 1992 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 28, 2010 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T428/31993
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A permanent magnet is heated in a pattern by a laser beam to a localized temperature above the Curie point or a temperature sufficient to reduce the magnet coercivity sufficiently for the field of the magnet or an external field to remagnetize the pattern in the reverse direction. Magnets so produced can have very high pole density, digital encoding and analog patterns having gradually varying local field strength.
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