Line transformer and manufacturing process thereof

• US 5,363,081 A
• Filed: 07/08/1993
• Issued: 11/08/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Misaki, Katsuhiro, Bando, Masahiro, Kaneko, Toshimi
• Primary Examiner(s): Kozma, Thomas J.
• Application Number:
  US08/087,287
• Time in Patent Office: 488 Days
• Field of Search: 336/200, 336/232, 336/225, 336/220, 29/602.1, 29/605
• US Class Current: 336/200
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 17/0006 Printed inductances printed coils for dynamo-electric machines H02K3/26; printed circuits H05K
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 41/041 Printed circuit coils apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits in general H05K3/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/4902 Electromagnet, transformer or inductor

Abstract

A laminate type line transformer. On one side of an insulating substrate, a primary coil section which is a laminate of a first coil pattern layer and a second coil pattern layer with an insulating layer in-between is provided. On the other side of the insulating substrate, a secondary coil section which is a laminate of a first coil pattern layer and a second coil pattern layer with an insulating layer in-between is provided. Both in the primary coil section and in the secondary coil section, conductors of the first coil pattern layer and conductors of the second coil pattern layer are electrically connected alternately via a hole made in the insulating layer.

Claims

1. A line transformer comprising:

an insulating substrate having two major surfaces;

a primary coil section provided on one surface of the insulating substrate; and

a secondary coil section provided on the other surface of the insulating substrate;

wherein each of the primary and the secondary coil sections comprises a first coil pattern layer having a plurality of conductors, a second coil pattern layer having a plurality of conductors and an insulating layer between the first and the second coil pattern layers, and the conductors of the first coil pattern layer and the conductors of the second coil pattern layer are electrically connected alternately via a hole made in the insulating layer.

2. A line transformer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the conductors of the first and the second coil pattern layers of the primary coil section and the secondary coil section are made of copper.

3. A line transformer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the conductors of the first and the second coil pattern layers of the primary coil section and the secondary coil section are made of silver.

4. A line transformer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the conductors of the first and the second coil pattern layers of the primary coil section and the secondary coil section are made of silver palladium.

5. A line transformer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the insulating layers of the primary coil section and the secondary coil section are made of polyimide resin.

6. A line transformer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the insulating layers of the primary coil section and the secondary coil section are made of polyamide resin.

7. A method of producing a line transformer, comprising the steps of:

forming a plurality of conductors which form a first coil pattern layer of a primary coil section on a first surface of an insulating substrate and a plurality of conductors which form a first coil pattern layer of a secondary coil section on a second surface of the insulating substrate;

forming an insulating layer of the primary coil section on the first surface of the substrate such that the insulating layer will have a hole at a specified place and an insulating layer of the secondary coil section on the second surface of the substrate such that the insulating layer will have a hole at a specified place;

forming a plurality of conductors which form a second coil pattern layer of the primary coil section on the first surface of the insulating substrate and a plurality of conductors which form a second coil pattern layer of the secondary coil section on the second surface of the insulating substrate; and

electrically connecting, in each of the primary coil section and the secondary coil section, the conductors of the first coil pattern layer with the conductors of the second coil pattern layer alternately via the hole made in the insulating layer to form a coil.

8. A method of producing a line transformer as claimed in claim 7, wherein the insulating layers are formed by printing.

9. A method of producing a line transformer as claimed in claim 7, wherein, both in the primary coil section and the secondary coil section, the conductors of the first and the second coil pattern layers are formed by spattering.

10. A method of producing a line transformer as claimed in claim 7, wherein, both in the primary coil section and the secondary coil section, the conductors of the first and the second coil pattern layers are formed by vapor deposition.