Thermal treatment of Fe-Co-V as an instrument to improve soft-magnetic material devices quality
The process of optimizing the thermal treatment Fe-Co-V alloys used in the magnetic torque motors is studied in order to improve the magnetic properties. It is shown that to achieve high and stable magnetic properties of the alloy it must be annealed in vacuum using inactive coatings. Regime of the annealing process depends on the quality of the original alloy. Quality verification is carried out by measuring the magnetic properties of the control samples . Identifying optimal annealing regime is based on the analysis of a phase diagram of Fe-Co alloy. In connection with that the research of influence of the heating rate , maximum temperature and holding time , cooling rate on the behavior of the magnetic parameters of the control samples is carried out. It was found that the improvement of the magnetic properties is achieved by increasing the exposure time to 6h at the cooling rate of 100 °/hr. As a result a reduction of the coercive force (60 ÷ 50 ) A / m to (28 ÷ 32 ) A / m and increased magnetic induction of technical saturation from (2,0 ÷ 2,10) Т to (2,20 ÷ 2.26 ) T. for Fe-Co-V alloy are achieved. Research of the exposure time and the cooling regime caused a decrease in coercive force of the Fe-Co alloy.

Keywords: Heat treatment , the annealing conditions , Fe-Co-V, technical saturation induction , the coercive force