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US 12,205,744 · App. 17/437,671 · Granted Jan 21, 2025

Inductor

Inventors: Keisuke Okumura (Osaka, JP); Yoshihiro Furukawa (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
H01F27/255H01F27/2823H01F17/04H01F2017/048Y10T428/32
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Patent No.
US 12,205,744
App. No.
17/437,671
Granted
Jan 21, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An inductor includes a wire, and a magnetic layer covering the wire. The wire includes a conducting line, and an insulating layer covering the conducting line. The magnetic layer includes a magnetic particle and a binder. In a peripheral region of the wire, a filling rate of the magnetic particle is 40% by volume or more. The peripheral region is a region of the magnetic layer traveling outwardly from an outer peripheral surface of the wire by 1.5 times an average of the longest length and the shortest length from the center of gravity C of the wire to an outer surface of the wire in a cross-sectional view.

Claims (19)

1. An inductor comprising:

a wire and a magnetic layer covering the wire, wherein

the wire includes a conducting line and an insulating layer covering the conducting line;

the magnetic layer contains a magnetic particle and a binder;

the magnetic particle includes an anisotropic magnetic particle;

in a peripheral region of the wire, a filling rate of the magnetic particle is 40% by volume or more;

the peripheral region is a region traveling outwardly from an outer surface of the wire by 1.5 times an average of the longest length and the shortest length from the center of gravity of the wire to the outer surface of the wire in a cross-sectional view;

the peripheral region includes:

a first region in which the anisotropic magnetic particle is orientated along an outer peripheral direction of the wire, and

a second region in which another anisotropic magnetic particle is not orientated along the outer peripheral direction of the wire;

the first region includes two first regions disposed at spaced intervals to each other in the outer peripheral direction of the wire; and

the two first regions are separated from each other by the second region in the outer peripheral direction of the wire.

2. The inductor according to claim 1 , wherein

the anisotropic magnetic particle is orientated in a portion adjacent to the wire in the magnetic layer.

3. The inductor according to claim 1 , wherein:

the two first regions are a third region and a fourth region, and

the total angle of an angle α 1 of the third region and an angle α 2 of the fourth region is above 180° and below 360°.

4. The inductor according to claim 1 , wherein

the binder contains a cured product of thermosetting component in a B-stage state.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 16, 2022
From: OKUMURA, KEISUKE; FURUKAWA, YOSHIHIRO
To: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 059284/0909 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-044773 · Mar 12, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220165472A1 · May 26, 2022
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