Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Murata Manufacturingco., Ltd.

Sumie Arai

Takuya Ishida

Yoshiharu Satou

An inductor is provided so that reduction in DC superposition characteristics can be suppressed even when a filling rate of a magnetic powder is increased. The inductor includes a coil including a winding portion and a pair of extended portions extended from the winding portion, and a body having the coil embedded therein and containing a magnetic powder containing a first magnetic powder and a second magnetic powder, in which an average particle diameter of the first magnetic powder is larger than an average particle diameter of the second magnetic powder. In a cross section of the body including a winding axis of the winding portion and extending in a long side direction of the body, Voronoi partition is performed with a center of gravity of each magnetic powder as a generating point. When a standard deviation of an area of a Voronoi partition region with a magnetic powder having a particle diameter of equal to or more than 6 μm as a generating point is calculated, the standard deviation is equal to or less than 300.

Inductor

An inductor includes a body having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and a pair of outer electrodes. The body includes a core having a base and a columnar portion formed on an upper surface of the base, includes a coil including a pair of extended portions and a wound portion having an upper stage portion and a lower stage portion, and includes a magnetic material containing magnetic powder and covering a part of the core, a part of the pair of extended portions, and the wound portion. The pair of outer electrodes are disposed on a mounting surface of the body and are connected to the pair of respective extended portions. A shape in plan view of the wound portion is hollow and a substantially circular shape having a short direction and a long direction, and the upper stage portion includes a protruding portion protruding in the short direction.

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Nagaokakyo, Japan

Sumie Arai