Patents Examined by Tszfung Chan
  • Patent number: 10074473
    Abstract: A coil component includes a body in which a coil portion is embedded. The coil portion includes a support member; first insulators formed on first and second main surfaces of the support member, respectively, and having an opening having a planar coil shape; coils filling the openings; and second insulators covering the coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hun Kim, Hwa Sung Hwang, Young Ku Lyu, Boum Seock Kim
  • Patent number: 9741485
    Abstract: A reconfigurable multi-stack inductor formed within a semiconductor structure may include a first inductor structure located within a first metal layer of the semiconductor structure, a first ground shielding structure located within the first metal layer that is electrically isolated from and circumferentially bounds the first inductor structure, and a second inductor structure located within a second metal layer of the semiconductor structure, whereby the second inductor structure is electrically coupled to the first inductor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pinping Sun, Chengwen Pei, Zheng Xu
  • Patent number: 8928447
    Abstract: A reactor 1? includes one coil 2, a magnetic core 3 to which the coil 2 is arranged, and a case 4 containing an assembly 10 of the coil 2 and the magnetic core 3. The magnetic core 3 includes an inner core portion 31 inserted into the coil 2, and a coupling core portion 32 disposed around the coil 2. The coupling core portion 32 is made of a mixture of magnetic powder and resin. The coil 2 is covered with the coupling core portion 32 and is enclosed within the case 4 in a sealed state. The reactor 1? includes, in an outermost surface region exposed at an opening of the case 4, a magnetic shield layer 5 made of non-magnetic powder, having smaller specific gravity than the magnetic powder and having electrical conductivity, and the resin. A small reactor capable of reducing magnetic flux leaked to the outside is thereby provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Inaba
  • Patent number: 8854167
    Abstract: A magnetic assembly is formed by a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and a cover. A plurality of magnetic elements is electrically disposed on the PCB, and the magnetic elements are connected to one another through an electric circuit on the PCB. An accommodation space is formed on the cover for receiving the magnetic elements. During the manufacturing of the magnetic assembly, a cover with an appropriate space is selected according to the size, quantity, and specification type of the magnetic elements. After the two components are assembled, adhesive is injected into the cover, so that the cover and the PCB are fixedly disposed, and the elements in the accommodation space are protected. Therefore, in a process of manufacturing the magnetic assembly, covers with different accommodation spaces are selected for collocation according to requirements of the assembled electrical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Mag. Layers Scientific-Technics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ching Tzung Lin, Wen Cheng Yu, Ching Yuan Cheng
  • Patent number: 7999647
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for combining multiple windings on a magnetic core. An integrated winding structure has a winding base and multiple winding extensions. The multiple winding extensions and the winding base are formed from a single sheet of electrically conductive material. Each of the multiple winding extensions has a base portion that extends from the winding base, a wrapping portion that extends from the base portion, and a connection portion that extends from the wrapping portion. The connection portions and the winding base each have electrical connection surfaces. Each of the multiple winding extensions forms one or more windings on the magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chu T. Chung, Chien H. Lin, Randhir S. Malik, Robert Wei
  • Patent number: 7973630
    Abstract: A thin film magnetic device is provided, in which magnetic permeability in a high frequency range can be easily improved. Scratch-like grooves extending along an extending direction of a coil (for example, a Y-axis direction being an extending direction of a second coil part) are formed at least one side of a surface and a back of each of a lower magnetic film and an upper magnetic film. A magnetization direction of anisotropic magnetization is controlled in each of formation areas of the scratch-like grooves (formation areas of lower magnetic films and upper magnetic films), and therefore displacement (rotation) of the magnetization direction of the anisotropic magnetization is pinned by the scratch-like grooves. Consequently, certain magnetic permeability is kept even in a high frequency range. Moreover, such formation of the scratch-like grooves may not cause complexity in manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Masai, Ryuji Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7965163
    Abstract: Provided is an annular reactor core formed of a U-shaped core and core legs. Core joints including end portions and two protrusions form the U-shaped core. Between the protrusions of these core joints, a plurality of (two) core legs 6 formed of core blocks are arranged so as to have gaps and the protrusions. The ratio A/B, which is a ratio of the length A of the protrusions of the core joint to the average length B of the core blocks constituting the core legs in a magnetic path direction, is optimized so as to be not less than 0.3 but not more than 8.0, whereby an increase in copper loss due to leak magnetic fluxes of the gap portions is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Abe, Hiroki Hamakake, Keiko Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 7961071
    Abstract: A multiphase inductor assembly includes an elongate conductor assembly including a plurality of bus bars that are arranged in parallel. A plurality of magnetic core material rings (e.g., ferrite or mu metal rings) surround the conductor assembly and are distributed along a length thereof. Terminals are electrically coupled to the bus bars and disposed between spaced apart ones of the magnetic core material rings. In some embodiments, the conductor assembly, in cross-section, includes respective ones of the bus bars disposed in respective quadrants. For example, each of bus bars may have a quarter-cylinder shape and may be arranged such that the conductor assembly has a circular cross-section. In other embodiments, each of the bus bars may have a polygonal cross-section, e.g., may be formed from standard rectangular bar stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: John K. Earle
  • Patent number: 7961070
    Abstract: An inductor has a case having an opening, a core accommodated in the case, a coil wound on a part of the core and a fixing member fixed to the case. The fixing member fixes the core by contacting a top surface of the core facing the opening and elastically biasing the core toward a bottom surface of the case. The fixing member further includes a first plate portion and a first contacting portion. The first plate portion is disposed between the top surface of the core and the opening of the case and extending in parallel with the top surface of the core. The first contacting portion extends from a fore-end portion of the first plate portion so as to be U-shaped and having a distal end portion elastically push-contacting the top surface of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Tamura Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro Suzuki, Ryo Nakatsu
  • Patent number: 7961072
    Abstract: An inductive element comprises at least two core-parts including a magnetically permeable material and at least one winding of an electrical conductor which can be a foil winding, a stranded wire (litz) winding or a conventional wire winding. Each core-part has an elongated center piece with an outer winding surface. At each of its longitudinal ends, the center piece has a contact element with a lateral contact surface. The winding is wound directly on the core-parts without a bobbin or the-like. The core-parts of the inductive element are arranged with their longitudinal axes essentially in parallel in a manner that the lateral contact surfaces of each contact element abut on a lateral contact surface of another core-part. Such an inductive element can be manufactured by co-axially arranging the core-parts and using them as a roll-shaft. After the windings have been applied to the core-parts, they can be rearranged, i.e. “flipped over,” in a stack-like arrangement in order to form an inductive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: DET International Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jurgen Pilniak, Peter Wallmeier
  • Patent number: 7956715
    Abstract: An inductor structure comprising a substrate and a planar conductor structure on a surface of the substrate, and methods for fabricating an inductor structure. The planar conductor structure may comprise a vertical stack of three or more multilayer films. Each multilayer film may comprise a first layer of a first metal, defining a first vertical thickness, and a second layer of a second metal, defining a second vertical thickness. The metals and thicknesses are chosen such that the inductor exhibits a negative electrical self-inductance when an electrical signal is transmitted from a first contact point to a second contact point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: University of Dayton
    Inventors: Agus Widjaja, Andrew Sarangan
  • Patent number: 7952458
    Abstract: A mode-switching transformer with a 1-to-4 impedance ratio having a first planar winding formed in a first conductive level from a first differential mode terminal outside of the winding; a second planar winding formed in a second conductive level from a second differential mode terminal outside of the winding; a via of interconnection of the central ends of the first and second windings intended to be connected to ground; and at least one third planar winding in one of the two conductive levels, interdigited with the first or the second winding from a first common-mode terminal outside of the winding, the internal end of the third winding being connected to the via for direct grounding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventor: Hilal Ezzeddine
  • Patent number: 7932799
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transformer (12) with a planar primary winding and a planar secondary winding. In order to support the heat dissipation during operation, each winding is integrated on a substrate in at least one dedicated PCB (30, 40). The PCBs (30, 40) are separated from each other by a non-ferromagnetic and electrically insulating material (50). The material: (50) transfers heat better than the substrates. The invention relates equally to an apparatus comprising such a transformer (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Christoph Loef, Bernd Ackermann
  • Patent number: 7932801
    Abstract: A winding arrangement for a planar transformer, e.g., for high frequency AC transformation, or for an inductor includes at least two conduction layers. Each conduction layer has an inner hole and conductor paths which are electrically insulated from each other and which lead from an outer circumference to an inner circumference of the conduction layer adjacent to the inner hole in a spiral form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Christoph Loef
  • Patent number: 7924135
    Abstract: A transformer, adapted for being configured in a wiring substrate, is provided. The transformer includes a first plane coil and a second plane coil. The first plane coil includes a plurality of first loops. The second plane coil includes a plurality of second loops. A first bundle constituted by at least two adjacent first loops and a second bundle constituted by at least two adjacent second loops are stridden one over another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Chi-Han Chen, Pao-Nan Lee
  • Patent number: 7920041
    Abstract: In a coil device for an antenna, a wide surface of a connector connecting section and a mounting surface of a fixing section are substantially vertically arranged. A connecter terminal can take a first arrangement or a second arrangement to a resin member. In the first arrangement the connector terminal can take, the connector connecting section is positioned on one end side in the width direction of the resin member, and in the second arrangement, the connector connecting section is positioned on the other end side in the width direction of the resin member by turning the connector connecting section in the first arrangement 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Sumida Corporation
    Inventors: Takanobu Rokuka, Shigeru Mahara
  • Patent number: 7915990
    Abstract: A conductor assembly and method for constructing an assembly of the type which, when conducting current, generates a magnetic field or which, in the presence of a changing magnetic field, induces a voltage. In one embodiment the method includes providing a first insulative layer having a curved surface along which a conductor segment may be positioned, and forming a channel in the insulative layer, which defines a first conductor path. The channel includes first and second opposing channel surfaces each extending from the surface of the insulative layer into the insulative layer and a third channel surface extending between the first and second channel surfaces. Each of the first and second channel surfaces includes a substantially flat surface portion with the surface portion of the first channel surface parallel with the surface portion of the second channel surface. A first segment of conductor is placed in the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Stelzer, Rainer Meinke, Mark Senti
  • Patent number: 7915989
    Abstract: A magnetic element includes a magnetic core assembly and multiple winding coils. The magnetic core assembly is used for proving a closed magnetic flux path and includes a first side plate, a second side plate, a first side pillar, a second side pillar and at least two middle pillars. The first and second side pillars are arranged between the first and second side plates and respectively disposed on bilateral edges of the first and second side plates. The at least two middle pillars are arranged between the first and second side pillars and includes a first middle pillar and a second middle pillar. The winding coils are wound around the at least two middle pillars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen-Hua Li, Gui-Song Huang, Hai-Feng Fan, Jui-Chu Cheng, Su-Chiung Hsu
  • Patent number: 7911306
    Abstract: A transformer board is disclosed. In some embodiments, the transformer board includes a base, a circuit board, a transformer having a first and second winding, a first and a second connector, a ribbon cable and a nonconductive fill material. The base has a recess within which the circuit board is positioned. The transformer is mechanically coupled to the circuit board. The first connector is configured to electrically couple to transducers within a pressure boundary of an ultrasonic flow meter and is electrically coupled to the second winding of the transformer. The ribbon cable is electrically coupled between the first winding of the transformer and the second connector. The nonconductive fill material is contained by the recess and encases the circuit board, the transformer, the coupling of the first connector to the second winding of the transformer, and the coupling of the ribbon cable to the first winding of the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Daniel Measurement and Control, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Robert Allen
  • Patent number: 7907040
    Abstract: An ignition coil includes a coil body, a primary resin molded body, and a secondary resin molded body. The coil body has a primary coil and a secondary coil. The primary resin molded body has the coil body therein in a fixed relation, and the primary resin molded body has a plurality of exposed side portions that hold the coil body therebetween. The secondary resin molded body is molded to have the coil body and the primary resin molded body embedded therein. The secondary resin molded body is configured to allow the plurality of exposed side portions of the primary resin molded body to be exposed to an exterior of the secondary resin molded body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Wada