IP Library Granted Patent US 10,685,769
Granted Patent B2
US 10,685,769 · App. 15/092,629 · Granted Jun 16, 2020

Integrated inductor and integrated inductor magnetic core of the same

Inventors: Rui Wu (Taoyuan, TW); Jin-Ping Zhou (Taoyuan, TW); Yu Zhang (Taoyuan, TW); Jian-Hong Zeng (Taoyuan, TW); Min Zhou (Taoyuan, TW)
Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
H01F3/10H01F37/00H01F2003/106
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Patent No.
US 10,685,769
App. No.
15/092,629
Granted
Jun 16, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

An integrated inductor apparatus integrated to be a plurality of inductors is provided. The integrated inductor apparatus includes inductor windings to form inductors and includes at least two windows each having at least one of the inductor windings disposed therein and magnetic core units, each having a closed geometrical structure to form one of the at least two windows, wherein two of the neighboring magnetic core units have a shared magnetic core part. The magnetic core units comprise at least two kinds of material having different magnetic permeability corresponding to different sections of the magnetic core units, wherein the reluctance of the shared magnetic core part is smaller than the reluctance of a non-shared magnetic core part of the magnetic core units.

Claims (24)

1. An integrated magnetic core, integrated with a plurality of inductor windings to form a plurality of inductors comprising:

at least two windows, each having at least one of the inductor windings disposed therein; and

a plurality of magnetic core units, each having a closed geometrical structure to form one of the at least two windows, wherein two of the neighboring magnetic core units have a shared magnetic core part, wherein the closed geometrical structure is a quadrangle formed by the shared magnetic core part, two non-shared magnetic core parts for respectively connecting two ends of the shared magnetic core part, and a connecting magnetic core part for connecting the two non-shared magnetic core parts;

wherein each of the magnetic core units comprise a first material section, and a magnetic permeability of the first material section is less than that of the shared magnetic core part, wherein the permeability of the first material section is smaller than or equal to 50, and

wherein the first material section is only disposed at one of the two non-shared magnetic core parts to make the reluctance of the shared magnetic core part be smaller than the reluctance of the non-shared magnetic core part of the magnetic core units, and each of the inductor windings is disposed respectively at another one of the two non-shared magnetic core parts to form a distance between the inductor winding and the first material section.

2. The integrated magnetic core of claim 1 , wherein the number of the first material section is larger than one.

3. The integrated magnetic core of claim 2 , wherein the first material section is disposed discretely or intensively at the two non-shared magnetic core part of the magnetic core units.

4. The integrated magnetic core of claim 1 , wherein the shared magnetic core part comprises a second material section, wherein the reluctance of the second material section is smaller than or equal to the reluctance of the first material section.

5. The integrated magnetic core of claim 1 , wherein the magnetic core units comprise a magnetic core top cover and a magnetic core base, wherein the magnetic core top cover is disposed above the magnetic core base to form the closed geometrical structure.

6. The integrated magnetic core of claim 5 , wherein the first material section is disposed at the magnetic core top cover.

7. An integrated inductor apparatus to integrate a plurality of inductors, wherein the integrated inductor apparatus comprises:

a plurality of inductor windings; and

an integrated magnetic core integrated with the inductor windings to form the inductors, wherein the integrated magnetic core comprises:

at least two windows each having at least one of the inductor windings disposed therein; and

a plurality of magnetic core units each having a closed geometrical structure to form one of the at least two windows, wherein two of the neighboring magnetic core units have a shared magnetic core part, wherein the closed geometrical structure is a quadrangle formed by the shared magnetic core part, two non-shared magnetic core parts for respectively connecting two ends of the shared magnetic core part, and a connecting magnetic core part for connecting the two non-shared magnetic core parts;

wherein the magnetic core units comprise a first material section, and a magnetic permeability of the first material section is less than that of the shared magnetic core part, wherein the permeability of the first material section is smaller than or equal to 50, and

wherein the first material section is only disposed at one of the two non-shared magnetic core parts, and each of the inductor windings is disposed respectively at another one of the two non-shared magnetic core parts to form a distance between the inductor winding and the first material section.

8. The integrated inductor apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the shared magnetic core part comprises a second material section, wherein the reluctance of the second material section is smaller than or equal to the reluctance of the first material section.

9. The integrated inductor apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the magnetic core units comprise a magnetic core top cover and a magnetic core base, wherein the magnetic core top cover is disposed above the magnetic core base to form the closed geometrical structure.

10. The integrated inductor apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the first material section is disposed at the magnetic core top cover.

11. The integrated inductor apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the reluctance of the first material section of one of the magnetic core units is larger than reluctance of the first material section of another one of the magnetic core units.

12. The integrated inductor apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the reluctance of the first material section of the magnetic core units having two of the neighboring magnetic core units is larger than the reluctance of the first material section of the magnetic core units having only one of the neighboring magnetic core units.

13. The integrated inductor apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the inductors are disposed in a switching mode power supply and are connected to a multi-path common input terminal or a multi-path common output terminal of the switching mode power supply.

14. The integrated inductor apparatus of claim 7 , wherein current directions of the inductor windings are same and have a predetermined phase difference.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 10, 2016
From: WU, RUI; ZHOU, JIN-PING; ZHANG, YU; ZENG, JIAN-HONG; ZHOU, MIN
To: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
Reel/Frame 038238/0463 →
Priority Claims (2)
CN 2015 1 0169368 · Apr 10, 2015 · national
CN 2015 1 0446385 · Jul 27, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
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