Coil device and switching power supply apparatus using the same

• US 6,281,779 B1
• Filed: 02/23/2000
• Issued: 08/28/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Nagai, Jun, Matsumoto, Tadahiko
• Primary Examiner(s): MAI, ANH T
• Application Number:
  US09/511,346
• Time in Patent Office: 552 Days
• Field of Search: 336/200, 336/223, 336/232, 336/83, 336/183, 336/192, 336/84.R, 296/05, 29/25
• US Class Current: 336/200
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 19/04 Transformers or mutual inductances suitable for handling frequencies considerably beyond the audio range resonant circuits H03H
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/2804 Printed windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0064 Magnetic structures combining different functions, e.g. storage, filtering or transformation
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/335 using semiconductor devices only
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33576 having at least one active switching element at the secondary side of an isolation transformer
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33592 having a synchronous rectifier circuit or a synchronous freewheeling circuit at the secondary side of an isolation transformer
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/144 Stacked arrangements of planar printed circuit boards
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/165 incorporating printed inductors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/10 Technologies improving the efficiency by using switched-mode power supplies [SMPS], i.e. efficient power electronics conversion e.g. power factor correction or reduction of losses in power supplies or efficient standby modes

Abstract

A coil device having a core having an intermediate leg and at least a pair of external legs arranged at equal intervals from the intermediate leg; a first printed coil provided on a first substrate which has an intermediate hole and a pair of external holes respectively inserted in the intermediate leg and the pair of external legs of the core, the first printed coil being wound around the intermediate hole; and a second printed coil provided on a second substrate which has an intermediate hole and a pair of external holes respectively inserted in the intermediate leg and the pair of external legs of the core, the second printed coil including a pair of external printed coils which are connected in series and are respectively wound around the pair of the external holes with the same number of turns but in opposite directions.

Claims

1. A coil device comprising:

a core having an intermediate leg and at least a pair of external legs arranged at equal intervals from the intermediate leg;

a first printed coil provided on a first substrate which has an intermediate hole and a pair of external holes respectively inserted in the intermediate leg and the pair of external legs of the core, the first printed coil being wound around the intermediate hole; and

a second printed coil provided on a second substrate which has an intermediate hole and a pair of external holes respectively inserted in the intermediate leg and the pair of external legs of the core, the second printed coil including a pair of external printed coils which are connected in series and are respectively wound around the pair of the external holes and each having the same number of turns but wound in opposite directions.

2. The coil device of claim 1, wherein the pair of external printed coils of the second printed coil generate magnetic fields in opposite directions to each other in the intermediate leg such that the magnetic fields in the intermediate leg cancel each other and induce no induction voltage in the first printed coil, and induction voltages induced in the external printed coils of the second printed coil by magnetic flux generated by the first printed coil are substantially canceled, whereby the first printed coil and the second printed coil form separate inductors which are not magnetically coupled.

3. The coil device of claim 2, further comprising a third printed coil provided on a third substrate which has an intermediate hole and a pair of external holes respectively inserted in the intermediate leg and the pair of external legs of the core, the third printed coil being wound around the intermediate hole, whereby the first printed coil is magnetically coupled with the third printed coil to form a first transformer.

4. The coil device of claim 2, further comprising a fourth printed coil provided on a fourth substrate which has an intermediate hole and a pair of external holes respectively inserted in the intermediate leg and the pair of external legs of the core, the fourth printed coil including a pair of external printed coils which are connected in series and are respectively wound around the pair of the external holes and each having the same number of turns but being wound in opposite directions, whereby the second printed coil is magnetically coupled with the fourth printed coil to form a second transformer.

5. The coil device of claim 3, further comprising a fourth printed coil provided on a fourth substrate which has an intermediate hole and a pair of external holes respectively inserted in the intermediate leg and the pair of external legs of the core, the fourth printed coil including a pair of external printed coils which are connected in series and are respectively wound around the pair of the external holes and each having the same number of turns but having wound in the opposite directions, whereby the second printed coil is magnetically coupled with the fourth printed coil to form a second transformer.