US 12,293,866 B2
Inductor
Takumi Arai, Nagaokakyo (JP); and Motoki Toyama, Nagaokakyo (JP)
Assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto-fu (JP)
Filed by Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto-fu (JP)
Filed on Mar. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/703,932.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-054099 (JP), filed on Mar. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0310315 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H01F 27/29 (2006.01); H01F 27/25 (2006.01); H01F 27/255 (2006.01); H01F 27/26 (2006.01)
CPC H01F 27/292 (2013.01) [H01F 27/255 (2013.01); H01F 27/266 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inductor comprising:
a core containing magnetic powder, and
a conductor having a plate thickness which is embedded in the core,
wherein
the core includes a mounting surface facing a mounting substrate side at a time of mounting, an upper surface facing the mounting surface, and a pair of end surfaces orthogonal to the mounting surface,
the conductor includes a conductive wire extending inside the core over the pair of end surfaces, and a pair of electrode terminals,
each of the electrode terminals includes an electrode portion at a respective one of end portions of the conductive wire and exposed to the mounting surface, a first bent portion having a first bend and a second bent portion having a second bend, the first bent portion and the second bent portion being between the respective one of the end portions of the conductive wire and the electrode portion, and
each of the first bend and the second bend is from 2.0 times to 3.0 times the plate thickness of the conductor, and when one of the first bend and the second bend is 2.0 times or more the plate thickness of the conductor, the other of the first bend and the second bend is less than 3.0 times the plate thickness of the conductor.