Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Tadashi Tanaka

Hiromichi Tokuda

A multilayer inductor includes first and second conductive coil patterns which are disposed in two layers in an upper portion of a multi-layered body and are electrically connected consecutively in series to third and fourth conductive coil patterns disposed in a lower portion of the multi-layered body through via-holes formed in an insulation sheet, thereby forming a spiral coil. The first conductive coil patterns and the second conductive coil patterns overlap each other at edges thereof. The fourth conductive coil patterns and the third conductive coil patterns overlap each other at edges thereof.

Multilayer inductor

A small-sized laminated inductor made via a simple firing process includes insulating magnetic sheets made of high permeability materials in which first coil conductors are provided on the surfaces thereof, insulating magnetic sheets made of low permeability materials in which second coil conductors are provided on the surfaces thereof, and other suitable materials. The first and second coil conductors are electrically connected in series through via holes provided in the magnetic sheets to define a spiral coil. In the spiral coil, the first coil conductors are wound in the counter-clockwise direction, while the second coil conductors are wound in the clockwise direction.

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Shiga-ken, Japan

Tadashi Tanaka