Iron powder for iron powder cores and method for selecting iron powder for iron powder cores

摘要

Provided is an iron powder for iron powder cores, and a method for selecting the same. The following powder is an iron powder in which orientations are measured in a cross section of a compact formed with a molding pressure of 0.98 GN/m2 by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and the average of KAMs calculated using EBSD analysis software is to 3.00° or less. The Iron powder has a particle size distribution in which particles with a size of 45 μm or less are adjusted to 10% by mass or less, in which the average hardness of powder particles is 80 HV 0.025 or less in Vickers hardness, in which the product of the number (inclusions/m2) of inclusions per unit area and the median size D50 (m) of the inclusions is 10,000 (inclusions/m) or less, and which has an apparent density of 4.0 Mg/m3 or more.