Abstract: A terminal electrode has a flat surface to which an end portion of a wire is connected, a low surface lower in a thickness direction of the terminal electrode than the flat surface, and a shift surface connects the flat surface and the low surface and increases a height in the thickness direction from the low surface to the flat surface. The wire has a first portion, a second portion and a third portion opposing the flat surface, the shift surface and the low surface, respectively. The first portion has a flattened cross-sectional shape, and the second portion has a semi-flattened cross-sectional shape.

Abstract: A terminal electrode has a flat surface to which an end portion of a wire is connected, a low surface lower in a thickness direction of the terminal electrode than the flat surface, and a shift surface connects the flat surface and the low surface and increases a height in the thickness direction from the low surface to the flat surface. The wire has a first portion, a second portion and a third portion opposing the flat surface, the shift surface and the low surface, respectively. The first portion has a flattened cross-sectional shape, and the second portion has a semi-flattened cross-sectional shape.

Abstract: A coil component includes a drum core including a winding core portion and a flange portion disposed on an end portion thereof the winding core portion in its axial direction, a planar core having a lower principal surface, and a wire wound around the winding core portion. The flange portion includes an inner end surface, an outer end surface, a bottom surface, and a top surface. The inner end surface positions the end portion of the winding core portion. The bottom surface links the inner end surface and the outer end surface and placed so as to face a mounting substrate side when being mounted. The lower principal surface of the planar core is fixed to the top surface with an adhesive interposed therebetween. The top surface includes a protrusion with a vertex positioned closer to the inner end surface than to the outer end surface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coil component including a step of welding a wire to a metal terminal by laser welding capable of making positional displacement of the wire only minimally occur. As a metal terminal, a metal terminal having a connecting portion on which a positioning groove for receiving and positioning a portion of the wire is formed is prepared. The wire is temporarily fixed to the connecting portion in a state where the wire is positioned by being fitted in the positioning groove, and the wire and the metal terminal are welded to each other by irradiating a laser beam. The positioning groove is preferably formed into a V shape in cross section.

Abstract: A weld nugget portion that is obtained by welding a central conductor of a wire and a receiving portion of a metal terminal is formed on the receiving portion that receives an end portion of the wire with the weld nugget portion expanding from a surface of the receiving portion along which the wire is disposed. An area ratio of a blowhole to a section of the weld nugget portion that is along an imaginary cut plane that is perpendicular to the surface of the receiving portion along which the wire is disposed is no less than 0% and no more than 8.4% (i.e., from 0% to 8.4%), preferably no less than 0% and no more than 1.3% (i.e., from 0% to 1.3%). A central axis of the central conductor of the wire in the weld nugget portion extends along the imaginary cut plane.

Abstract: A common-mode choke coil comprises a ferrite core including a winding core portion and first and second flange portions. The common-mode choke coil also comprises first and second wires, each of which is helically wound around the winding core portion. The common-mode choke coil further comprises first and second terminal electrodes to which a first end of the first wire and a second end of the first wire, that is opposite the first end, are electrically connected, respectively. In addition, the common-mode choke coil comprises third and fourth terminal electrodes to which a first end of the second wire and a second end of the second wire, that is opposite the first end, are electrically connected, respectively. A common-mode inductance value at 150° C. and 100 kHz is 160 ?H or more, and a return loss at 20° C. and 10 MHz is ?27.1 dB or less.

Abstract: A direct-current superimposing circuit includes differential signal lines, capacitors, a common mode choke coil, a winding-type coil component, and a DC power supply which are disposed at a circuit board. The winding-type coil component includes a core, two pairs of terminal electrodes, and two windings (a first winding and a second winding). On the end surface of a flange portion, the terminal electrodes in one of the two pairs and the terminal electrodes in the other one of the two pairs are placed to face each other across the winding center of a winding core. The winding start and winding end of the first winding are connected to the terminal electrodes in one of the two pairs. The winding start and winding end of the second winding are connected to the terminal electrodes in the other one of the two pairs.

Abstract: A coil component comprises a wire and a terminal electrode. The wire includes a linear central conductor and an insulating coating layer that covers a circumferential surface of the central conductor. The terminal electrode is electrically connected to the central conductor at an end portion of the wire, and includes a metallic plate. The terminal electrode also includes an edge portion in contact with the wire. The edge portion is chamfered.

Abstract: A coil component includes a wire; a core having a winding core around which the wire is wound and a flange portion provided at an end portion of the winding core in an axial direction; and a terminal electrode to which the wire is connected and that is provided on the flange portion. The terminal electrode has a projecting portion that sticks out in the axial direction relative to the flange portion. The projecting portion has a flat surface along which the wire is thermocompression-bonded. Thermocompression bonding of the wire is performed in a state where an interval between a head surface of a heater chip and the flat surface becomes narrower from a flange portion side toward a front end side of the projecting portion. A degree of crushing of the wire decreases from the front end side toward the flange portion side of the projecting portion.

Abstract: Advantage is taken of the fact that tin has a higher efficiency of absorption of a laser beam than, for example, copper. A method of manufacturing a coil component includes preparing a wire that includes a linear, central conductor and an insulating coating that covers a circumferential surface of the central conductor, preparing a metal terminal that is to be electrically connected to the central conductor at an end portion of the wire and that has a surface on which a tin-containing film that contains tin is disposed and above which at least the end portion of the wire is to be disposed, and welding the central conductor of the wire to the metal terminal by irradiating at least the tin-containing film with a laser beam with the end portion of the wire disposed along the tin-containing film.

Abstract: An adhesive layer is in contact with a rising portion of a metal terminal and an outer end surface of a flange portion of a drum-shaped core. A surface of the rising portion that faces the outer end surface is an inclined surface that inclines with respect to the outer end surface. The thickest portion of the adhesive layer is located near a position at which a distance between the inclined surface and the outer end surface is largest. The thickness of the thickest portion of the adhesive layer is 13 ?m or more.

Abstract: A coil component includes first and second wires wound around a winding core portion of a core, and third and fourth wires wound around outside a portion of the first and the second wires wound around the winding core portion in an opposite direction to a winding direction of the first and second wires. The portion of the first and second wires wound around the winding core portion has a first twisted wire portion twisted together. A length of the first wire or a length of the second wire of the portion of the first and second wires wound around the winding core portion is configured to be equal to a length of the third wire or a length of the fourth wire of the portion of the third and fourth wires wound around outside the portion of the first and second wires wound around the winding core portion.

Abstract: A coil component includes a core including a winding core portion, a first wire, a second wire, a third wire, and a fourth wire that are wound around the winding core portion. A winding portion is formed by winding the respective first to fourth wires around the winding core portion. The winding portion includes a twisted wire portion in which the first wire, the second wire, the third wire, and the fourth wire are collectively twisted.

Abstract: A coil component includes a wire including a linear central conductor and an insulating coating layer that covers a circumferential surface of the central conductor, and a terminal electrode that is electrically connected to the central conductor at an end portion of the wire. The terminal electrode includes a receiving portion to which the central conductor is welded. A weld nugget portion that is produced when the central conductor is welded and the receiving portion are welded to each other.

Abstract: A terminal electrode is secured to a flange portion with an adhesive and includes a base disposed on an outer surface of the flange portion and a mounting portion disposed above a bottom surface of the flange portion and extending from a bent portion extending from the base and covering a ridge line along which the outer surface and the bottom surface meet. The mounting portion is not secured to the flange portion.

Abstract: A coil component includes a drum-shaped core that includes a flange portion, a metal terminal that is mounted on the flange portion and that is formed from a metal plate, and an adhesive layer that contacts both a rising portion of the metal terminal and a rising surface of the flange portion. The adhesive layer includes a thick-walled portion and a thin-walled portion having different thicknesses.

Abstract: A coil component includes a first alignment winding region in which a second wire is continuously wound so as to have turns such that the turns of the second wire are aligned with turns of a first wire having the same ordinal number outside the first wire in a direction perpendicular to a central axis. The ordinal number is counted from the turn nearest to the first flange portion.

Abstract: A coil component includes a drum-shaped core including a winding core portion and first and second flange portions. A base of a terminal electrode disposed on the first flange portion and a base of an other terminal electrode disposed on the first flange portion are adjacent to each other in the direction in which first and second side surfaces oppose each other, and are along a flat surface of an outer end surface. A clearance between the base of the terminal electrode and the base of the other terminal electrode on a side near a lower surface is larger than that on a side near an upper surface.

Abstract: A metal terminal where a connecting portion has a receiving portion which receives a wire and a contact segment which extends from the receiving portion by way of a bending scheduled portion is prepared. By applying heat and pressure in a state where the wire is placed on the receiving portion for temporarily fixing the wire, the wire is adhered to the receiving portion using a molten or softened insulating resin coating as an adhesive agent. Next, the connecting portion is bent by way of the bending scheduled portion such that the contact segment faces the receiving portion by way of the wire and the contact segment is brought into contact with the wire. Next, by irradiating a laser beam to a portion of the metal terminal, the wire and the metal terminal are welded to each other.

Abstract: A coil component includes a blocking material that contains a resin and that blocks a route that leads to a gap between turns of a wire from an outside at portions of the wire that are in close contact with each other between adjoining turns.