Sm-Co alloy ribbons in the concentration range, 10-22 at%, were fabricated by a rapidly quenching from the melt using a single roller method. The hard magnetic properties were systematically examined for these ribbons. The continuous ribbons about 1 m in average length, 20-150 μm in thickness and 1-2 mm in width, were obtained by varing the ejection pressure of Ar gas in the range of 0.03-0.20 MPa, and the roll velocity,
VR, in the range of 4.3-42.7 m/s. Magnetic hysteresis loops were measured using the V.S.M. for two kinds of specimens; (1) the ribbons with the same composition of alloy fabricated under various different preparation conditions and (2) the ribbons consisting of different alloy compositions produced in the same fabrication conditions. The dependences of the coercive force
iHc and the maximum energy product (
BH)
max on the Sm concentration and also on the roll velocity were systematically clarified. In the cace of the SmCo
5 alloy ribbons,
iHc takes a maximum value, about 1200 kA/m, at
VR≈18 m/s. This maximum value of
iHc is nearly the same as that of the commercially used sintered SmCo
5 magnets. The maximum value of (
BH)
max, about 70 kJ/m
3, is obtained at
VR≈10 m/s. This maximum value of (
BH)
max experimentally obtained is nealy one half of that for the sintered magnets. The concentration dependence of
iHc and (
BH)
max revealed that the Sm concentration at which the maximum values of
iHc and (
BH)
max were realized was about 18 at%. This content of Sm is about 2 at% more than the stoichiometric composition of SmCo
5 compound. Experiments for the high field magnetizing using a pulse magnet (5570 kA/m) were carried out for these ribbons. Increment of (
BH)
max, about 20%, is observed in the case of the ribbons with the concentration about 18 at%Sm.
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