Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a noise removing filter, including preparing at least one conductive pattern, an insulating layer for covering the at least one conductive pattern, and a lower magnetic body including input/output stud terminals for electrically inputting and outputting electricity to and from the at least one conductive pattern; disposing a recognizable portion on upper surfaces of the input/output stud terminals; disposing an upper magnetic body on the recognizable portion and the insulating layer; polishing the upper magnetic body; and removing the recognizable portion such that a level of an upper surface of the upper magnetic body is higher than levels of the upper surfaces of the input/output stud terminals.

Abstract: Methods for preparing an electrode comprise: providing a mixture of carbon particles and a solvent and shearing the mixture to form a dispersion of the carbon particles in the solvent; adding non-fibrillated POLY(TETRAFLUOROETHYLENE) to the dispersion to provide a resultant mixture and shearing the resultant mixture until at least a portion of the poly(tetrafluoroethylene) has been fibrillated; processing the resultant mixture into a sheet; and attaching the sheet onto a current collector. Methods for preparing sheet for the electrode and composition for the sheet are also provided.

Abstract: Systems for reducing magnetic coupling in integrated circuits (ICs) are disclosed. Related components and methods are also disclosed. The ICs have a plurality of inductors. Each inductor generates a magnetic flux that has a discernible axis. To reduce magnetic coupling between the inductors, the flux axes are designed so as to be non-parallel. In particular, by making the flux axes of the inductors non-parallel to one another, magnetic coupling between the inductors is reduced relative to the situation where the flux axes are parallel. This arrangement may be particularly well suited for use in diplexers having a low pass and a high pass filter.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a testing head of a non-destructive testing sensor based on eddy currents includes: optimizing a geometric design of coils of the testing head based on a criterion for minimizing an electromotive force induced in at least one coil having a receiving function and/or maximizing a variation, due to presence of a standard defect to be detected in a part to be inspected, of the induced electromotive force; optimizing the geometric design of the coils further based on at least one criterion for optimizing a further variation, due to a variation in distance between the testing head and the part to be inspected, of the induced electromotive force; optimizing geometric dimensions of each of the coils; and manufacturing the testing head in accordance with the geometric design of the coils carrying out the optimization.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave propagation disruption device with a metamaterial structure including: a plurality of conductive elements arranged on a top face of a substrate; a plurality of interconnection networks electrically interconnecting at least some of these conductive elements, wherein these networks are not electrically connected to each other. At least two of these networks are dimensioned differently to each other, thus involving that distances between interconnected conductive elements are different from one network to another, to generate phase shifts, between the conductive elements interconnected thereby, different from one network to the other. A ground plane with holes is arranged on a bottom face of the substrate and metallic vias are formed in the substrate, each of them including an upper end in contact with a conductive elements and a lower end arranged facing one of the holes of the ground plane, with no electrical contact with the ground plane.

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to electronic modules for electronic components and methods for manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, an electronic module is formed using a first substrate having a first component area and a second substrate having a second component area. One or more electronic components may be attached to both the first component area and the second component area. The second substrate is mounted over the first substrate such that the second component area faces the first component area. An overmold covers the first component area and the second component area so as to cover the electronic components on both the first component area and the second component area. In this manner, the number of electronic components within the electronic module that can be mounted on an area of a printed circuit board (PCB) is increased.

Abstract: A method for producing a laminated ceramic electronic component includes the steps of preparing ceramic green sheets, transferring an inner conductor pattern layer and a lead conductor pattern layer formed on a support on the ceramic green sheets to form the inner conductor and the lead conductor on the ceramic green sheets, laminating the ceramic green sheets to cover the inner conductor and the lead conductor, and firing the ceramic laminated product. In the step of forming the inner conductor and the lead conductor, the inner conductor pattern layer is transferred onto the ceramic green sheet a plurality of times so as to overlap each other, thereby forming the inner conductor, and the lead conductor pattern layer is transferred onto the ceramic green sheet, wherein the number of times of the transferring is less than the number of times of the transferring of the inner conductor pattern layer.

Abstract: An electromagnetic induction panel structure includes a multilayer substrate, a first cover unit and a second cover unit. The multilayer substrate includes a first outermost lateral conductive layer and a second outermost lateral conductive layer respectively disposed on two opposite outermost surfaces thereof. The first cover unit is disposed on the first outermost lateral conductive layer. The second cover unit is disposed on the second outermost lateral conductive layer. For example, the first cover unit includes a first insulating layer directly formed on the first outermost lateral conductive layer for directly contacting the first outermost lateral conductive layer. The second cover unit includes a second insulating layer directly formed on the second outermost lateral conductive layer for directly contacting the second outermost lateral conductive layer.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a nanomagnetic structure and method of making the same, comprising a device substrate, a plurality of nanomagnetic composite layers disposed on the device substrate, wherein an adhesive layer is interposed between each of the plurality of nanomagnetic composite layers. Metal windings are integrated within the plurality of nanomagnetic composite layers to form an inductor core, wherein the nanomagnetic structure has a thickness ranging from about 5 to about 100 microns.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solenoid valve or a fuel injector, including a sleeve, a valve needle situated inside the sleeve in a radial direction and guided so as to slide, a solenoid coil situated outside of the sleeve in a radial direction, a magnetic core situated inside the sleeve in a radial direction, and a magnet armature situated inside the sleeve in a radial direction, axially opposite to the magnetic core; the magnet armature being situated on the valve needle, the sleeve having a low wall thickness in a thin-walled region situated between the magnet armature and the solenoid coil, the thin-walled region strengthened by a reinforcing element for absorbing radial forces; and a method step, during which, the reinforcing element is deposited onto the sleeve, in the thin-walled region, in a radial direction, outside of the sleeve, using a molten bath or cold gas spraying method.

Abstract: A multi-turn electrical coil and fabrication method uses a plurality of identically constructed flat electrical conductors, alternating ones of which carry an electrically insulating material layer on one major surface. The bare conductors and the insulated conductors are alternatingly stacked about mounting posts in partially overlapped and partially laterally offset pairs of conductors, with each conductor in each conductor pair reoriented relative to the other conductor in the respective conductive pair, and alternating conductor pairs reoriented relative to adjacent conductor pairs, to form a spiral winding turn for the coil.

Abstract: Air circuit breaker coil adapter for adapting an air circuit breaker, comprises: a coil unit housing for releasably receiving an air circuit breaker coil unit, the coil unit housing having a coil retainer element for preventing or limiting upward movement of an air circuit breaker coil unit therein; a locator at a bottom end of the coil unit housing for positively locating the coil unit housing in a plunger aperture of an air circuit breaker housing, the locator having a plunger aperture therethrough by which an interior of the coil unit housing is in-use communicable with an interior of the air circuit breaker housing; and a housing retainer element for at least in part preventing or limiting vertical displacement of the coil unit housing. An air circuit breaker using such an adapter and a method of adapting an air circuit breaker are also provided.

Abstract: An assembly method suitable for assembling a portable electronic device having a housing with an undercut portion is disclosed. The method includes aligning a non-display portion of a display assembly with the undercut portion of the housing, the display assembly comprising a display, a protective top layer covering a top side of the display portion and the non-display portion and a battery module attached to an underside of the display assembly, electrically connecting the battery to a circuit previously installed in the housing, angling the display assembly in relation to a front opening of the housing in a tilted configuration such that the non-display portion is partially inserted into the undercut portion of the housing, and in the tilted configuration, performing a pre-install functional test on the display and fully inserting the display assembly into the housing only when the pre-install functional test is successfully completed.

Abstract: A solenoid (30) is provided. The solenoid (30) includes a magnetic core (304). The solenoid (30) also includes a pole piece (305) positioned substantially coaxially with the magnetic core (304). An over-molded component (303) is provided that is over-molded around at least a portion of the magnetic core (304) and at least a portion of the pole piece (305).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a common mode filter. A common mode filter in accordance with the present invention includes a magnetic substrate formed of a magnetic ceramic material; a first coil pattern and a second coil pattern sequentially formed on the magnetic substrate; an external electrode laminated on the second coil pattern; a via for connecting the first coil pattern and the second coil pattern; and a second insulating layer formed between the first coil pattern and the second coil pattern, wherein the height of the second insulating layer is 5 ?m to 20 ?m while being proportional to the height of the via and thus it is possible to improve SRF and insertion loss characteristics by adjusting the height of the second insulating layer.

Abstract: A flexible current sensor arrangement comprises a plurality of discrete current sensing elements distributed along an elongate flexible carrier. An elongate flexible member for a current sensor arrangement comprises a plurality of carrying portions linked to one another by hinge portions, each carrying portion being configured for receiving a discrete current sensing element. A method of manufacturing a flexible current sensor arrangement comprises providing an elongate flexible carrier, and distributing a plurality of discrete sensing elements along the elongate flexible carrier.

Abstract: At least one shield member interposed between primary and secondary windings of a transformer and connected to the primary and/or secondary windings forms a distributed parasitic capacitance between the shield member and either the winding to which it is not connected or another shield member connected to that winding. Connections are made to the respective transformer windings such that the voltage distributions thus developed cause complementary common mode noise to be conducted in opposite directions in respective portions of the parasitic capacitance such that net common mode current can be made arbitrarily small without requiring that both sides of the distributed parasitic capacitance have complementary or equal voltage distributions. Such complementary common mode currents can be achieved by dividing opposing shield members or developing a voltage distribution in a single shield member in accordance with Faraday's Law.

Abstract: A corona igniter (20) comprises a central electrode (22) surrounded by an insulator (24), which is surrounded by a metal shell (26). A ceramic combustion seal (30) is disposed along the gap (32) between a shell lower end shell (52) and the insulator nose region (48) to provide a hermetic seal therebetween. The ceramic combustion seal (30) is typically a bushing, cylinder, or ring formed of sintered alumina. A glass material or glass/ceramic mixture (60) typically adheres the ceramic combustion seal (30) to the shell (26) and the insulator (24). Alternatively, the ceramic combustion seal (30) is brazed to the shell (26), and the glass material or glass/ceramic mixture (60) adheres the ceramic combustion seal (30) to the insulator (24).

Abstract: An inductor includes a magnetizable core with a winding axis and at least one winding. The winding is formed by a conductor which at least partly surrounds the winding axis of the core. The winding is formed in one layer and a cross section of the conductor is rectangular, in particular square.

Abstract: By supplying power from the power-supplying resonator to the power-receiving resonator by means of resonance, an electromagnetic space having a relatively low magnetic field strength is formed between the power-supplying resonator and the power-receiving resonator. In so doing, the position where the electromagnetic space is formed is changed by setting the frequency of the AC power supplied from an AC power source to the power-supplying module to an antiphase resonance mode or an inphase resonance mode, and the size of the electromagnetic space is changed by changing the distance between the power-supplying coil and the power-supplying resonator and the distance between the power-receiving resonator and the power-receiving coil.

Abstract: A transformer (1) includes: an input-side primary coil (21); an output-side secondary coil (22); a core (20) around which the primary and secondary coils (21, 22) are coiled; a casting case (3) housing a transformer body (2) provided by the primary and secondary coils (21, 22) and the core (20); and a mold resin (4) filling a clearance between the case (3) and the transformer body (2). The case (3) includes: a bottom portion (31) attached with the transformer body (2); a side wall (32) surrounding the bottom portion (31); and an opening (30) provided opposite to the bottom portion (31), the transformer body (2) being housed and the mold resin (4) being filled through the opening (30).

Abstract: An electromagnetic coil having an insulating coating formed by alternately laminating, on a coil conductor, a mica layer including mica and a reinforcing layer including fiber reinforcing material, inorganic particles and resin, wherein the inorganic particles include secondary agglomerate particles formed by agglomeration of primary particles of hexagonal crystal boron nitride. The electromagnetic coil is provided with an insulating coating that suppresses external outflow of inorganic particles and ensures favorable thermal conductivity. Furthermore, the invention also provides an insulating tape having a mica layer including mica and a reinforcing layer including fiber reinforcing material, inorganic particles and resin, which is layered on the mica layer, wherein the inorganic particles include secondary agglomerate particles formed by agglomeration of primary particles of hexagonal crystal boron nitride.

Abstract: An electrical device including a cellulose based electrically insulating composite material in the form of a paper or pressboard, the composite material having cellulose fibres; and an electrically insulating thermoplastic polymer material; wherein the polymer material is arranged around and between the cellulose fibres, and binds the fibres to each other.

Abstract: Methods of manufacturing a fluid flow measuring device are provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, shields are disposed to prevent or reduce circulating electrical currents from causing a voltage difference that would adversely affect the measured voltage difference between two adjacent electrodes. Groups of sensors, e.g., two or more, may be placed within the shield. The shields may have any cross-section shape. A magnetic field source is disposed proximate the electrodes such that the magnetic field source is oriented to generate a magnetic field substantially orthogonal to an imaginary line intersecting each pair of electrodes. A voltage measuring circuit is electrically coupled to the plurality of electrodes and configured to measure a voltage difference between each pair of electrodes.

Abstract: The invention relates to an inductive plasma torch comprising: a cylindrical metal containment cage (1); a metal element solidly connected to the containment cage (1), extending radially from the periphery of one end thereof; and an inductor (5) surrounding the containment cage (1). The aforementioned containment cage (1) and element are divided along axial planes into regularly distributed sectors, and the sectors are rigidly connected to one another alternately by: a portion of the containment cage (1) on the side opposite the element, or by a portion of the element on the side opposite the containment cage (1).

Abstract: An apparatus includes a narrow elongate probe is adapted for insertion into the body of a living subject. The probe may be flexible and has a plurality of sensors consisting of single coils of very fine wire wound about a backbone of the probe, which transmit signals proximally via fine connecting wires to a position processor. The position processor analyzes the signals to determine position coordinates at multiple points along the length of the probe.

Abstract: A circulator includes a ferrite disposed above a PCB, a metal cover that covers above the ferrite and is formed integrally, a plurality of connection parts that electrically connect the metal cover to a plurality of respective signal transmission lines above the PCB, and a permanent magnet that applies a magnetic field to the ferrite. Thus, it is possible to provide, for example, a non-reciprocal circuit element that is composed of a small number of parts and can be easily mounted on a circuit board, a communication apparatus equipped with a circuit including the non-reciprocal circuit element, and a manufacturing method of a non-reciprocal circuit element.

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus and methods related to low loss impedance transformers implemented as integrated passive devices (IPDs). In some embodiments, an IPD can include an autotransformer implemented within a body. The autotransformer can include primary and secondary metal traces implemented in respective planes separated by a distance. The autotransformer can be configured to, for example, facilitate impedance matching of radio-frequency (RF) signals. In some embodiments, the IPD can include a surface that allows mounting of one or more components thereon to provide space savings in RF modules. Examples of fabrication methods as well as products that can benefit from such IPDs are disclosed.

Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to a low-profile transformer and methods of providing the transformer. The transformer in accordance with the present invention comprises a core unit having a pair of opposingly arranged base portions, an inserting portion, and at least a primary coil and a secondary coil wound around the inserting portion. The top-facing edge of the lateral portions is chamfered to enable tighter fitment into a receiving housing, such as a light tube. The transformer may also include a frame unit having a rounded flange that conforms to the shape of the wound coil. The instant disclosure further provides a method for providing a low-profile transformer that is particularly suitable for adapting in a tubular light device. The physical features and dimension of the transformer may be determined by methods that utilize the analysis of a characteristic equation in accordance with specific operating requirements.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a suspension for a disk drive includes providing and assembling an actuator coupling plate, a bend region, a load beam, and a head receiving gimbal. The load beam has a first end and a second end and defines a longitudinal axis that bisects the first end and the second end. The load beam is coupled to the gimbal proximate the first end and includes a base region proximate the second end, the base region having a first lateral section to one side of the longitudinal axis and a second lateral section to another side of the longitudinal axis. The first and the second lateral sections define a gap therebetween, and the base region has a bridge extending across the gap. A constraint layer overlays the gap and the bridge.

Abstract: A magnetics assembly (100) including a transformer (1) made of litz wire. The transformer includes a toroid core (2) and a bundle of wires (3) winding around the toroid core. The bundle of wires includes first to eighth wires, and has a central portion with all eight wires twisted together and winding around the toroid core. First and second ends of the bundle of wires oppositely extend out from the toroidal core. The ends of the first to eighth wires are connected to form a primary and a secondary coils of the transformer, wherein the second ends of the first wire and the second wire, and the first ends of the third wire and the fourth wire are sorted out to form central taps (35, 36) of the primary and secondary coils, respectively.

Abstract: The invention relates to a heavy-current transformer (12), in particular for a power source (10) in order to provide a welding current of a resistance welding device (1), with at least one primary winding (13) and at least one secondary winding (14) with center tapping, and to a transformer element, a contact plate (29) and a secondary winding (14) for such a heavy-current transformer (12) as well as a method for the manufacturing thereof. For reduction of losses and improvement of efficiency, at least four contacts (20, 21, 22, 23) are provided to form a multi-point contacting, said contacts (20, 21, 22, 23) being formed by four contact faces within which the at least one primary winding (13) and the at least one secondary winding (14) are arranged in a series/parallel connection.

Abstract: An electromagnetic clutch includes an armature 42 having a rotor contact surface 46a segmented in the radial direction by an annular groove 44 to form a plurality of rings, the groove being formed concentrically with the armature 42 for obstructing magnetic flux; and a rotor 43 having a contact surface, wherein the armature 42 is attracted toward the contact surface of the rotor 43 by magnetic force caused by an electromagnetic coil to couple the armature with the rotor for transmitting power. The armature 42 is formed by the steps of: preparing an armature material 42 with a groove 44 formed thereon, the groove having a width of w1; and narrowing the groove width from w1 to w2 by applying pressure on a pressed portion 47 in a peripheral edge region of the groove 44 to cause plastic flow in a horizontal direction along the material 42.

Abstract: A transformer has first and second transformer windings including multiple differential ports. Each of the first and second transformer windings include a first transformer half-winding coupled to a first differential port of the differential ports. Each of the first and second transformer windings also include a second transformer half-winding coupled to a second differential port of the differential ports. Each of the first and second transformer windings is divided symmetrically at a common node to form the respective first and second transformer half-windings. The first transformer half-winding is configured to form one half of an inductance in each of the first and second transformer windings. The second transformer half-winding is configured to form another half of the inductance in each of the first and second transformer windings. The common node of the first transformer winding is configured to receive a supply voltage.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a leadless marker for localizing the position of a target within a patient. According to one embodiment, the method includes providing a ferromagnetic element; positioning a coil of an inductor at least around a portion of the ferromagnetic element, wherein the coil comprises a plurality of windings of a conductor; and positioning the ferromagnetic element such that the radiographic and magnetic centroids of the marker are at least substantially coincident. The marker does not have external electrical lead lines extending through the casing. The ferromagnetic element is at least partially within the inductor. The ferromagnetic element has a volume such that when the marker is in an imaging magnetic field having a field strength of 1.5 T and a gradient of 3 T/m, then the force exerted on the marker by the imaging magnetic field is not greater than gravitational force exerted on the marker.

Abstract: A probe apparatus may include a plurality of probe pins attached to a probe head portion. Each of the probe pins may be independently movable relative to the probe head portion.

Abstract: A device is disclosed to include: a first set of windings and a second set of windings that are formed in a printed wiring board (PWB) and that are to be magnetically coupled, wherein upon receiving an applied voltage, the first set of windings generates a first uniform external field and induces the second set of windings to generate a second uniform external field; a first conductor formed in the PWB and positioned at a first location that is within the first uniform external field; and a second conductor formed in the PWB and positioned at a second location that is within the second uniform external field; wherein the first conductor and the second conductor are galvanically coupled.

Abstract: A transformer for switched-mode power supplies includes a magnetizable core having a winding axis, at least one primary winding, which is formed by a primary winding conductor which at least partly surrounds the winding axis of the core, and at least one secondary winding, which is formed by a secondary winding conductor. The secondary winding conductor surrounds the primary winding conductor. The secondary winding is formed in one layer, and a cross section of the secondary winding conductor is rectangular, in particular square.

Abstract: An induction cooking utensil is constructed such that it cooks food within its chamber while maintaining a relatively cool outer surface (e.g., preferably an outer surface that is cool enough to pick up with one's bare hands). The cooking utensil includes an inner wall that is made at least in part of an electrically conductive material and an outer wall that is made at least in part of the electrically non-conductive material. A reflective layer, a vacuum-sealed thermal insulator and/or a gas more resistant to conducting heat than air is disposed between the inner and outer walls to resist the transfer of heat from the inner wall to the outer wall.

Abstract: A power inductor and its fabrication method are disclosed. The power inductor comprises a lower substrate, a coil provided on the lower substrate, and an intermediate layer which encloses the coil, wherein the lower substrate can be a soft magnetic entrainer or a non-magnetic entrainer. The coil is made of a conductive wire coated with insulated layer, and the intermediate layer is a material consisting of magnetic properties. The steps of fabrication consists of: forming a base conductive pole on the upper surface of the lower substrate, putting the coil connected to said base conductive pole, and enveloping said coil with magnetic material.

Abstract: An atomic oscillator includes an atomic cell in which an atom is enclosed, a magnetic field generation part to apply a magnetic field to the atomic cell, a reference oscillator which is controlled based on an atomic resonance signal outputted from the atomic cell and generates a reference signal, and a fractional N-PLL which receives the reference signal to generate a signal including a resonance frequency of the atom, in which when a maximum digit of the resonance frequency adjustable by the magnetic field generation part is a boundary digit, the fractional N-PLL can adjust at least a digit one digit higher than the boundary digit.

Abstract: A magnetic biosensor can include a magnetic stack comprising a free layer, a fixed layer, and a nonmagnetic layer between the free layer and the fixed layer. At least one of the free layer or the fixed layer may have a magnetic moment oriented out of a major plane of the free layer or the fixed layer, respectively, in an absence of an external magnetic field. The magnetic biosensor also may include a sample container disposed over the magnetic stack, a plurality of capture antibodies attached to a bottom surface of the sample container above the magnetic stack, and a magnetic field generator configured to generate a magnetic field substantially perpendicular to the major plane of the free layer or fixed layer.

Abstract: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties correspond to a desired spatial force function where spatial forces between field emission structures correspond to relative alignment, separation distance, and the spatial force function.

Abstract: There is provided a multilayered inductor, including: an inductor body; a coil part formed on the inductor body and having a conductive circuit and a conductive via; and external electrodes formed on both end surfaces of the inductor body, wherein the inductor body includes 65 to 95 wt % of a metallic magnetic material and 5 to 35 wt % of an organic material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an inductor. An inductor in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: an insulating layer having a hole; a conductive pattern disposed on both surfaces of the insulating layer and having a structure in which portions disposed on the both surfaces are electrically connected to each other through the hole; and a magnetic layer disposed on the insulating layer to cover the conductive pattern, wherein the conductive pattern has a plating pattern formed by performing a plating process.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a thin film common mode filter and a method of manufacturing the same. The thin film common mode filter according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a magnetic substrate made of a magnetic ceramic material; and coil patterns formed on the magnetic substrate, wherein external electrodes connected with the coil patterns are sequentially stacked and insulating layers formed on and beneath the coil pattern are made of a composite of ferrite powder and thermosetting resin.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnet assembly that includes surrounding a bonded magnet with a sleeve, heating the magnet, and compressing the magnet in an axial direction such that the magnet and sleeve expand in a radial direction.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a first conductor layer including a first conductor pattern P1, a first insulating layer covering the first conductor layer, a first opening h1 passing through the first insulting layer to expose top and side surfaces of the first conductor pattern P1 therethrough, and a second conductor layer formed on the first insulating layer and including a second conductor pattern P2 connected to the first conductor pattern P1 through the first opening h1. A first opening region which is a planar region inside the first opening h1 includes a first region in which the first conductor pattern P1 is formed and a second region in which the first conductor pattern P1 is not formed. The second conductor pattern P2 is embedded in both the first and second regions of the first opening h1.

Abstract: A stack-type inductor element includes a stack including a magnetic element layer, a coil conductor pattern provided in the stack and the magnetic element layer defines a magnetic element core, a plurality of first pad electrodes provided on one main surface of the stack, and a plurality of second pad electrodes provided on the other main surface of the stack so as to be symmetric to the plurality of first pad electrodes. One end and the other end of the coil conductor pattern are electrically connected to two of the plurality of first pad electrodes, respectively, and the plurality of second pad electrodes are all electrically open.

Abstract: A system and method for creating one or more magnetically conditioned regions on a rotatable shaft or disk-shaped torque sensing element, wherein rotation noise produced by the element due to magnetic field variations is substantially negated. Upon magnetization of the torque sensing element, rotation noise produced by the magnetically conditioned region is measured. Adjustment factors are calculated based on the measured rotation noise, and the adjustment factors are used to adjust a magnetic field source during subsequent magnetization of the torque sensing element.