Abstract: A meander inductor is disclosed, the inductor is disposed on a substrate or embedded therein. The meander inductor includes a conductive layer composed of a plurality of sinusoidal coils with different amplitudes and in series connection to each other, wherein the sinusoidal coils with different amplitudes are laid out according to a periphery outline. The profile of the meander inductor is designed according to an outer frame range available for accommodating the meander inductor and is formed by coils with different amplitudes. Therefore, under a same area condition, the present invention enables the Q factor and the resonant frequency fr of the novel inductor to be advanced, and further expands the applicable range of the inductor.

Abstract: An isolation magnetic device produced by inserting a first end of a wire through a first hole of a core, wrapping the first end of the wire around a first side of the core and inserting the first end of the wire through a second hole of the core. The second hole of the core is spaced from the first hole and has a longitudinal axis extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the first hole. The device is further produced by inserting a second end of the wire through the second hole of the core, wrapping the second end of the wire around the first side of the core and inserting the second end of the wire through the first hole of the core.

Abstract: A Nb3Sn superconducting coil can be formed from a wire including multiple unreacted strands comprising tin in contact with niobium. The strands are wound into a cable, which is then heated to react the tin and niobium to form a cable comprising reacted Nb3Sn strands. The cable comprising the reacted Nb3Sn strands are then mounted in and soldered into an electrically conductive channel to form a reacted cable-in-channel of Nb3Sn strands. The cable-in-channel of reacted Nb3Sn strands are then wound to fabricate a superconducting coil. The Nb3Sn superconducting coil can be used, for example, in a magnet structure for particle acceleration. In one example, the superconducting coil is used in a high-field superconducting synchrocyclotron.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a field coil assembly of an electromagnetic clutch for a compressor. The present invention comprises a core 210, and a coil 240 installed to the core 210 and formed by winding a unit wire 250. At this time, the unit wire 250 wound on the coil 240 is made of aluminum, and an area ratio R of an inner sectional area M of the core 210 to a cross-sectional area of the unit wire 250 is 400 to 640. According to the present invention as above, since the unit wire 250 used for the coil 240 is made of aluminum with a small specific weight and low price rather than copper, the weight of the field coil assembly 200 is decreased to improve fuel efficiency of a vehicle and decrease a production cost of the field coil assembly 200.

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.

Abstract: A coil is specified which has at least four electrical conductors, wherein the electrical conductors are wound around a common winding center. Each of the at least four electrical conductors is at a constant distance from the winding center of the coil over the entire length of the coil.

Abstract: In order to additionally furnish the transformer with the reactor capability easily without having to change the structure of the transformer, a transformer is formed by winding an input-side coil 1b and output-side coils 1a and 1c around a shell-type iron core 2 so that voltages are induced in the output-side coils 1a and 1c by magnetic fluxes generated by a voltage applied on the input-side coil 1b, and two reactor coils 3a and 3b having the same winding number in the opposite winding directions and making a pair are wound around the shell-type iron core 2. A shared reactor transformer as a whole is thus formed.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a switching power converter with low common mode noise. The switching power converter comprises at least a switch with at least a terminal wherein said switch turning on and off alternatively which generates a plurality of noise voltages, and the noise voltage having a jump point and a static point wherein the jump point is one of said inductive component terminals, the capacitive component terminals and the second and third terminal of the switch; and an additional impedance connected between the static point and the jump point of different noise voltage to neutralize common noise current. In addition, another switching power converter having primary side and secondary side can be used to reduce the common mode noise by adding some additional impedance between the static points and jump points of the primary side and secondary side.

Abstract: A zigzag autotransformer includes a zigzag transformer including first, second and third magnetic cores and an auxiliary winding set including respective pairs of series-connected windings on respective pairs of the first, second and third magnetic cores, the pairs of series-connected windings having respective first terminals connected to respective AC input phase terminals of the zigzag autotransformer and respective second terminals configured to provide respective AC output phases.

Abstract: A flux sharing magnetic circuit has a parallel arrangement of secondary electromagnetic circuits with independent loads. An AC driven primary delivers current to the secondary circuits to maintain charge in their batteries. The batteries deliver DC current to the loads while secondary coils provide battery charging currents to maintain charge in the batteries. When current is not drawn by the battery or the load, flux is delivered to a flux pool in the magnetic circuit so that input AC power drain is reduced.

Abstract: Three-phase AC or two-phase DC choke arrangement of a frequency converter, in which is a magnetic core, in which are the phase-specific pillars of the AC choke arrangement or the branch-specific pillars of the DC choke arrangement (1a, 1b), around which are arranged the phase-specific windings of the AC choke arrangement or the branch-specific windings of the DC choke arrangement (Ldc1+, Ldc1?) to filter difference-mode currents, and in which an additional pillar (3) for damping common-mode currents is arranged in the magnetic core of the choke. The additional pillar (3) is arranged without the phase-specific or branch-specific windings fitted around it, in which case damping of the common-mode currents is achieved by means of the common-mode impedance formed by the windings arranged around the additional pillar and around the phase-specific or the branch-specific pillars.

Abstract: An electromagnetic winding assembly includes first and second housing halves and first and second conductive units provided on the first and second housing halves, respectively. The first and second housing halves are detachably connected to each other so as to define cooperatively a core-receiving space therebetween and to connect electrically the first conductive unit with the second conductive unit such that the first conductive unit cooperates with the second conductive unit to form at least one coil-like electrical conductor configured to be wound around a core received in the core-receiving space.

Abstract: Disclosed is a signal transmitter including a primary winding, a first and at least one second secondary winding which are arranged at a distance from the primary winding in a first direction and are in each case inductively coupled to the primary winding, and each of which has at least two series-connected winding sections, with the at least two winding sections of each of the first and second secondary windings being arranged in at least two different winding levels, and a signal transmission apparatus having a signal transmitter such as this.

Abstract: An inductor is disclosed that comprises a magnetic core that includes at least one core segment. The inductor further comprises a plurality of separate conductive wire segments that together form a current path around at least a portion of the magnetic core. Each segment forms a turn around a portion of the magnetic core and the segments are connected end-to-end to form the current path. A first of the plurality of wire segments includes a first leg and a second leg. A second of the plurality of wire segments includes a first leg adjacent the first leg of the first wire segment but not in electrical contact therewith. The second wire segment further includes a second leg adjacent the second leg of the first wire segment but not in electrical contact therewith. The second leg of the second wire segment is in electrical contact with the first leg of the first wire segment to electrically connect the first and second wire segments.

Abstract: A magnetic element includes a first wire, a second wire, a third wire, a fourth wire and a first single-strand wire. The first wire is disposed at a first side of the magnetic element, and has a first end and a second end. The second wire is disposed at the first side of the magnetic element, and has a third end and a fourth end. The third wire is disposed at a second side of the magnetic element, and has a fifth end and a sixth end. The fourth wire is disposed at the second side of the magnetic element, and has a seventh end an eighth end. The first single-strand wire has one terminal simultaneously connected to the second end and the fourth end.

Abstract: Coil frames and transformers are provided. A coil frame includes a sub-coil-frame and an extended frame. The sub-coil-frame is utilized for winding a metal coil thereon. The extended frame is attached to the sub-coil-frame. The extended frame has a hole and a protrusion. The hole of the coil frame can be connected with the protrusion of another coil frame.

Abstract: Disclosed is a saddle-shaped coil winding which is formed onto an outer tube surface from a planar race track-type coil shape so as to be provided with axially extending winding sections on the longitudinal side and winding sections that extend therebetween, are located on the front side, and form winding overhangs. The individual windings of the coil winding are to be formed with at least one band-shaped superconductor which comprises especially high Tc superconductor material and whose narrow side faces the outer tube surface. In order to prevent unacceptable mechanical stresses of the conductor when forming the coil, the windings in the saddle shape have a circumferential length which is virtually unchanged from the length in the planar oil shape.

Abstract: A current transformer comprises a magnetic core having a closed central opening, at least two conductors extending through the central opening and positioned symmetrically within the magnetic core, and at least one set of winding turns wound around the core in a balanced configuration with respect to the at least two conductors.

Abstract: A linear motor coil includes a first coil portion, a second coil portion, the first coil portion and the second coil portion being arranged across a partition wall, a first connecting portion provided between the first coil portion and the second coil portion and by means of which the conductive wire crosses to the first coil portion from the second coil portion while a winding direction of the conductive wire is reversed, and a second connecting portion by means of which the conductive wire crosses to the second coil portion from the first coil portion while the winding direction of the conductive wire is reversed. The conductive wire is formed by a single wire and of which a winding start point and a winding end point are provided at an end portion of the first coil portion at a side opposite from a side where the partition wall is provided.

Abstract: An integrated structure of passive elements in an LLC resonance converter realized by flexible circuit boards includes a closed magnetic circuit formed by first and second magnetic cores, a tubular, double-sided, flexible circuit board, tubular magnetic-material layer and tubular, single-sided, flexible circuit board. The single-sided circuit board is coaxially sleeved in turn from inside outwards on a magnetic core column of the closed magnetic circuit. The tubular, double-sided, circuit board is a laminated plate material formed in turn of a first insulating layer, first copper foil, insulating medium layer, second copper foil and second insulating layer. The tubular, single-sided, circuit board is a laminated plate material formed in turn of a third insulating layer, third copper foil and fourth insulating layer. The integration of a resonance capacitor, resonance inductor, shunt inductor and transformer in a LLC resonance converter is realized by using these flexible circuit boards.

Abstract: A filter inductor assembly is provided. The filter inductor assembly of this invention comprises a magnetic body and a coil. The magnetic body has an even number of winding sections. The winding sections comprise a first section and a second section, while the second section is adjacent to the first section. The first coil is wound onto the first section on a surface of the magnetic body in a first direction, while the second coil is wound onto the second section on the surface of the magnetic body in a second direction, wherein the first direction is substantially opposite to the second direction. By using an even number of winding sections, the impedance frequency bandwidth of each winding section of the coil is increased.

Abstract: A toroidal power transformer is disclosed. The toroidal power transformer comprises a circular core composed of plurality of laminated electrically conductive materials, a plurality of multi-layered first windings radially wound around the circular core, said winding arranged with an angular spacing of 2? and a number of windings in each winding layer is less than a number of windings in each previous layer, a multi-layered second winding radially wound around the circular core covering a corresponding one of said plurality of first windings, wherein the layers of each of said second windings are arranged to form a substantially triangular cross-section; and an insulating layer between each of said first and second windings.

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.

Abstract: A multilayer winding inductor. The inductor at least includes multi-level interconnect and single-level interconnect structures. The multi-level interconnect structure includes a plurality of conductive plugs and a plurality of looped conductive traces overlapping and separated from each other. Each looped conductive trace has a gap to define first and second ends and at least two conductive plugs disposed between the neighboring looped conductive traces. The single-level interconnect structure is located over the multi-level interconnect structure, comprising an uppermost looped conductive trace and a second conductive plug. The uppermost looped conductive trace has a gap to define first and second ends, and the second conductive plug is disposed between the second end of the uppermost looped conductive trace and the first end of the looped conductive trace adjacent thereto, thereby electrically connecting the multi-level and single-level interconnect structures.

Abstract: An alpha-turn coil includes: a plurality of coil main bodies made by winding a wire rod having a desired diameter; and lead wire having a start part and a stop part formed integrally with outer peripheries of the coil main bodies, and connecting the coil main bodies to each other. The stop part of the lead wire of a forward coil main body is extended to the start part of the lead wire of a backward coil main body, and the lead wire is extended to compose the coil main body.

Abstract: A broadband transmission line impedance transformer performs impedance transformation with improved frequency response and efficiency across a wide operational bandwidth. In particular, the bandwidth of a transmission line 2:1 impedance transformer may be significantly increased by adding an additional compensating capacitor as an internal component between interconnected transmission lines. This capacitor effectively improves low frequency response for a given length of transmission lines and decreases mismatch in an entire frequency range. The overall bandwidth ratio increases at least twice and mismatch decreases.

Abstract: A transformer having input and output windings. A sample transformer includes an input winding wound around a core. The input winding has a first end and a second end. An output winding is also wound around the core. The output winding has a first end and a second end. The input winding is capacitively coupled to the output winding to provide a transfer of energy from the input winding to the output winding. A balancing winding is also wound around the core. The balancing winding has a first end and a second end. The first end of the balancing winding is electrically coupled to the first end of the input winding. The second end of the balancing winding is uncoupled such that a dot polarity of the balancing winding is to oppose an electrostatic field to be generated by the input winding relative to the output winding.

Abstract: A toroidal power transformer is disclosed. The toroidal power transformer comprises a circular core composed of plurality of laminated electrically conductive materials, a plurality of multi-layered first windings radially wound around the circular core, said winding arranged with an angular spacing of 2? and a number of windings in each winding layer is less than a number of windings in each previous layer, a multi-layered second winding radially wound around the circular core covering a corresponding one of said plurality of first windings, wherein the layers of each of said second windings are arranged to form a substantially triangular cross-section; and an insulating layer between each of said first and section windings.

Abstract: An adjustable-inductance (AI) filter, a tape distribution substrate including the filter, and a display panel assembly including the tape distribution substrate are provided. The adjustable-inductance (AI) filter includes a filter distribution line including first and second end portions each having a first line width, at least one repair pattern having a second line width and disposed between the first and second end portions, and at least one unit filter bank connected in parallel to the at least one repair pattern, respectively.

Abstract: A conductive winding module includes a plurality of conductive parts and at least one connecting part. Each conductive part includes a conductive body, a first terminal and a second terminal. The conductive body is interconnected between the first terminal and the second terminal and having a hollow portion therein. The connecting part has a first end and a second end for interconnecting any two adjacent conductive parts. A first connecting line is defined between the first end of the connecting part and the first terminal of an adjacent conductive part. A second connecting line is defined between the second end of the connecting part and the second terminal of an adjacent conductive part. The conductive parts are folded with respect to the first connecting line and the second connecting line such that the first hollow portions of the conductive parts are aligned with each other to define a through-hole.

Abstract: A conductive winding module includes a plurality of conductive parts and at least one connecting part. Each conductive part includes a conductive body, a first terminal and a second terminal. The conductive body is interconnected between the first terminal and the second terminal and having a hollow portion therein. The connecting part has a first end and a second end for interconnecting any two adjacent conductive parts. A first connecting line is defined between the first end of the connecting part and the first terminal of an adjacent conductive part. A second connecting line is defined between the second end of the connecting part and the second terminal of an adjacent conductive part. The conductive parts are folded with respect to the first connecting line and the second connecting line such that the first hollow portions of the conductive parts are aligned with each other to define a through-hole.

Abstract: There is provided an isolated power converter. More particularly, in one embodiment, there is provided a power converter including a first magnetic core having a primary winding and a secondary winding around the first magnetic core. The power converter also includes a second magnetic core having a first leg, a second leg coupled to the first leg, and a third leg coupled to the first and second legs, wherein a part of the third leg is equidistant from the first leg and the second leg. The power converter also has a first winding encircling the first leg, a first end of the first winding coupled to the secondary winding, a second winding encircling the second leg, a first end of the second winding coupled to the secondary winding, and a third winding encircling the third leg, a first end of the third winding coupled to a second end of the first wining and to a second end of the second winding.

Abstract: A monolithic integrated inductor and a method for configuring the monolithic integrated inductor are provided. The monolithic integrated inductor includes a first coil having a first inductance value, at least one second coil connected in parallel to the first coil and having a second inductance value to form a total inductance, and lines to the first coil and to the second coil. The first coil has at least two first loops spaced at a distance with a path width. The second coil has at least two second loops spaced at the distance with the path width. The first loops form a magnetic coupling, and the second loops form a magnetic coupling.

Abstract: An electrical winding contains a metallic winding conductor forming individual windings. The metallic winding conductor contains a metallic conductor and an electrically insulating material surrounding the metallic conductor. An insulation inside the electrical winding can be ensured in a targeted manner by combining an electrically insulating material with a metal oxide layer surrounding the metallic winding conductor, according to the maximum electric strength required inside the electrical winding. In this way, a reduced-size electrical winding can be produced with improved heat properties. An electrical insulation of a metallic electric conductor is further described.

Abstract: Electrical power supply for electronic circuits arranged in a high voltage environment, which supply includes an isolating device interconnecting the low voltage side (secondary side) and the high voltage side (primary side) and including a primary side magnetic circuit (13a) coupled via a primary coil (14) to a power supply (12) of the electronic circuit in the high voltage environment, a secondary side magnetic circuit (13c) coupled via a secondary coil (15) to a low voltage side voltage source (10), and at least one intermediate magnetic circuit (13b) located between the primary and secondary magnetic circuits and coupled thereto via intermediate coils (16, 17) that include coil turn portions in the form of U-shaped conductors mounted to at least one circuit board (18, 19) that includes conducting tracks interconnecting the U-shaped conductors to close the turn portions of the intermediate coils.

Abstract: A component coil for constructing transformers and the transformer constructed therefrom are disclosed. The component coil includes a substrate having an insulating layer of material having top and bottom surfaces. First and second traces are included on the top and bottom surfaces. Each trace includes a spiral conductor. The inner ends of the spiral conductors are connected by a conductor that passes through the insulating layer. The first and second spiral conductors are oriented such that magnetic fields generated by the first and second spiral conductors have components perpendicular to the top surface and in the same direction. The component coils can be used to construct a power transformer or a galvanic isolator.

Abstract: Interleaved three-dimensional (3D) on-chip differential inductors 110, 120 and transformer 100 are disclosed. The interleaved 3D on-chip differential inductors 110, 120 and transformer 100 make the best use of multiple metal layers in mainstream standard processes, such as CMOS, BiCMOS and SiGe technologies.

Abstract: A galvanic isolated digital output circuit of a digital system is provided herein, which utilizes an electromagnetic coupling device for galvanically isolating the system side and the output side of the digital output circuit. The digital output circuit contains a system-side driving circuit, an electromagnetic coupling device, and an output-side control circuit. The electromagnetic coupling device contains at least a system-side electromagnetic coupling element, a first output-side electromagnetic coupling element, and a second output-side electromagnetic coupling element. The system-side driving circuit is connected to the system-side electromagnetic coupling element, and takes the ON/OFF digital control signals from the digital system as input to turn on and off its driving to the system-side electromagnetic coupling element.

Abstract: A transformer includes at least two magnetically coupled cores with a common axis. The cores have cross sectional configurations transverse to the common axis which are not rectangular. An exciting voltage is to be applied across a first winding provided on one of the cores. A second winding provided on one of the cores includes first and second terminals across which a voltage is to be induced in response to the exciting voltage. A first device provides a relatively higher impedance between the first and second terminals of the second winding. The first device is coupled between the first and second terminals. Third, fourth and fifth windings have respective first and second terminals. The third and fourth windings are wound on one of the cores with a first polarity. The fifth winding is wound on one of the cores with a second polarity opposite to the first polarity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high voltage transformer having a double symmetric winding arrangement. The transformer comprises a closed core (10) having a first and a second leg (12, 14), a first and a second coil member (16; 18) having a first end, a second end and a middle section. Each coil member (16; 18) is wound with a first and a second primary winding (Prim 1, Prim 2 and Prim 3, Prim 4) and a first and a second secondary winding (Sec 1, Sec 2 and Sec 3, Sec 4), the first primary winding (Prim 1, Prim 2) being disposed at the first end and the second primary winding (Prim 3, Prim 4) at the second end of each coil member (16; 18) respectively.

Abstract: A multi-turn coil device comprising a flexible circuit board and a plurality of serially electrically coupled coils coupled to both sides of the flexible circuit board. The coils are formed such that when the circuit board is folded in an accordion manner, the coils are substantially aligned and have the same direction of current flow. The coils are serially coupled sequentially from front to back and back to front wherein the coupling of the coils is through a plated through hole in the flexible circuit board.

Abstract: A high-efficiency independent planar transformer comprises a pair of up-and-down symmetrical soft ferrite magnetic cores; a primary winding comprising at least one printed circuit board each having a multi-layer structure having at least two layers to form the inductor winding with at least four turns; and two secondary windings comprising at least two planar copper plates or two printed circuit boards. The primary winding and the secondary windings are electrically connected to the main circuit board via terminals. By means of the unique output structure, in the primary winding, two kinds of different output connection structures of the inductor winding can be formed by upward disposing the component side or the solder side of the printed circuit board. In the secondary winding, the inductor winding outputs in series and parallel connections can be accomplished by means of the output terminals or the short-circuit connection with the main circuit board.

Abstract: A high voltage transformer is small-sized, lightweight and less costly to fabricate. The high voltage transformer is designed to maintain equal the potential difference between the components of two transforming component groups and also to keep the components of the respective transforming component groups equipotential at the same distance in the direction extending from a first end to a second end. This eliminates the need to dispose an insulating body between the components of the first and second transforming component groups. This also makes it possible to fabricate the high voltage transformer with a small size and in a cost-effective manner.

Abstract: Abstract: The invention relates to a winding arrangement (31) for a planar transformer, in particular for high frequency AC transformation, or for an inductor. In order to provide a winding arrangement (31) for a planar transformer or for an inductor which exhibits the advantages of planar winding arrangements and reduces or avoids the skin-effect, a winding arrangement (31) for a planar transformer, in particular for high frequency AC transformation, or for an inductor is proposed including at least two conduction layers (37, 39), each conduction layer (37, 39) having an inner hole (45) and comprising a plurality of conductor paths (19, 27), which are electrically insulated from each other and which lead from an outer circumference (21) of said conduction layer (37, 39) to an inner circumference (23) of said conduction layer (37, 39) adjacent to said inner hole (45) in a spiral form.

Abstract: The hybrid junction includes four electrically conductive planar windings, circular or rectangular, arranged so as to lie along an imaginary spherical or cylindrical surface. Each of the four electrically conductive windings is rotated from adjacent windings by about forty-five degrees. The four electrically conductive windings are electrically insulated from each other and each include a respective signal port. The hybrid junction automatically splits and/or sorts signals. Signals applied to any port will split equally between the opposite port pairs. One output signal will be in-phase with the input signal, and the other output signal will be shifted by 0 or 180 degrees from the input signal. The input signal is split equally, output coupling may be half power or loose, and there is isolation between the output ports. The hybrid junction operates over a broad bandwidth.

Abstract: An inductance element includes: a first conductor formed into a rectangle spiral shape; and a second conductor formed into a rectangle spiral shape corresponding to the first conductor and provided to correspond to the first conductor element via a dielectric layer, wherein a first inner peripheral end of the first conductor and a second inner peripheral end of the second conductor are connected electrically in vicinity of a corner portion of a rectangle shape that the first conductor and the second conductor constitute.

Abstract: An electromagnetic device and a high-voltage generating device which are thin and improved in the characteristics are provided in which a magnetic core is made of a cylindrical form of a ferrite material having a higher intrinsic resistance. A winding is provided by winding a flat rectangular wire conductor in an edge-wise winding form directly on substantially the entire length of the magnetic core. As any insulator such as a coil bobbin is not needed between the flat rectangular wire conductor and the magnetic core, the winding can be decreased in the overall size or thickness thus contributing to the dimensional reduction of the electromagnetic device. Also, as its flat rectangular wire conductor is wound directly on the magnetic core, the winding can be minimized in the length and thus the overall resistance. Moreover, as there is no gap between the winding and the magnetic core, the self-inductance can be reduced while the size and the number of turns of the winding remain unchanged.

Abstract: Provided is an inductor of a semiconductor device. The inductor may include a current entrance section, multiple layered ring-shaped conductive wires, and a via plug. Each of the ring-shaped conductive wires may be a helical type multi turn ring-shaped wire formed in one plane. The via plug may be connected to at least one of the ring-shaped conductive wires in order to transmit an electrical signal to another ring-shaped conductive wire.

Abstract: The differences in characteristics among parts or the fluctuations of the inductance value of a coil due to temperature variation is lessened by reducing the stray capacitance components induced among the layers of wound conductor, and size reduction and cost reduction are achieved. A winding portion (30) between two flange portions (22a, 22b) is divided into a plurality of sections (30a, 30b, 30c, 30d). One layer of conductor is wound from one end to the other end in each section, and then layers of conductor are wound in the alternately reversed directions to form the multilayer winding portion (30) by solenoid winding. The conductor is preferably wound in such a way that the boundary surface between adjacent sections inclines to a flange portion, which is the winding start, and the boundary surface of an upper layer is closer to the flange portion than that of a lower layer.

Abstract: An inverter circuit includes plural pairs of third coils, in which adjacent third coils are serially connected to each other so as to offset AC voltage generated from the paired third coils, one end of the paired third coils being connected to ground. Input terminals of plural diodes are connected to one end of the paired third coils so as to generate the voltage detection value by detecting voltage generated from the paired third coils. A fault detector compares the voltage detection value generated from the diodes with a predetermined threshold value to detect a fault and generates the comparison result.