Common mode filter and method of manufacturing the same

• US 8,928,451 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2013
• Issued: 01/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Sim, Won Chul, Yoo, Young Seuck, Wi, Sung Kwon, Yoon, Chan
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Tsz
• Application Number:
  US14/073,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20140125445A1
• Time in Patent Office: 426 Days
• Field of Search: 336/200, 336/232
• US Class Current: 336/200
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 17/0013 with stacked layers
• 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 2017/0073 with a special conductive pattern, e.g. flat spiral
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 41/041 Printed circuit coils apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits in general H05K3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 41/046 structurally combined with ferromagnetic material
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49016 Antenna or wave energy "plumbing" making

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a common mode filter and a method of manufacturing the same. The common mode filter includes: a primary coil that includes a primary coil body forming a plane in a vortex structure; and a secondary coil that includes a secondary coil body forming a co-plane in the same vortex structure as the primary coil body and forms a 180° rotational symmetry with the primary coil body, having the same length, width, and turn number as the primary coil body. Further, the method of manufacturing a common mode filter is proposed.

Claims

1. A common mode filter, comprising:

a primary coil that includes a primary coil body forming a plane in a vortex structure; and

a secondary coil that includes a secondary coil body forming a co-plane in the same vortex structure as the primary coil body and forms a 180°

rotational symmetry with the primary coil body, having the same length, width, and turn number as the primary coil body; and

wherein when an interval between the primary and secondary coil bodies is S and the width of the primary and secondary coil bodies is W, the primary and secondary coil patterns are formed so as to meet 0.25≦

S/(W+S)≦

0.75.

2. The common mode filter according to claim 1, wherein a basic shape of the vortex structure of the primary and secondary coil bodies is a shape of a figure having a half structure in which the primary and secondary coil bodies form the 180°

rotational symmetry with each other.

3. The common mode filter according to claim 2, wherein the figure in which the half structure forms the 180°

rotational symmetry is any one of an oval, a circle, and a polygon.

4. The common mode filter of claim 1, wherein the primary coil is formed on a plane different from the primary coil body and further includes a primary inner connection portion that is connected with a vortex inner end of the primary coil body and a primary outer connection portion that is connected with the other end of the primary coil body, and

the secondary coil is formed on the same plane as the primary inner connection portion and further includes a secondary inner connection portion that is connected with a vortex inner end of the secondary coil body and a secondary outer connection portion that is connected with the other end of the secondary coil body.

5. The common mode filter according to claim 4, further comprising:

a non-magnetic insulating layer in which the primary and secondary coils are embedded;

magnetic layers formed above and under the non-magnetic insulating layer; and

a plurality of external electrodes that are formed outside a laminate of the insulating layer and the magnetic layers and connected with the outer and inner connection portions of the primary and secondary coils.

6. The common mode filter of claim 1, wherein the primary and secondary coils are laminated in a multilayer structure of at least two layers,

the primary and secondary coil bodies form the 180°

rotational symmetry in each layer of the multilayer structure, and

the vortex inner ends or the other ends are each connected between the primary coil bodies and the secondary coil bodies on an upper layer and a lower layer adjacent to each other in the multilayer structure through vias.

7. The common mode filter according to claim 6, wherein the primary coil bodies and the secondary coil bodies on the upper and lower layers adjacent to each other have upper and lower structures forming a linear symmetry in a plan view, and

the second coil body is formed under the primary coil body on the upper layer and the primary coil body is formed under the secondary coil body on the upper layer.

8. The common mode filter according to claim 6, further comprising:

a non-magnetic insulating layer in which the multilayer structure of the primary and secondary coils and the vias are embedded;

magnetic layers formed above and under the non-magnetic insulating layer; and

a plurality of external electrodes that are formed outside a laminate of the insulating layer and the magnetic layers and are connected with connection portions connected with the rest not connected with the ends of the primary and secondary coil bodies on the adjacent layers among the inner and other ends of the primary and secondary coil bodies formed on an outermost layer in the multilayer structure.

9. A method of manufacturing a common mode filter, comprising:

forming a primary coil pattern including a primary coil body having a vortex structure and a secondary coil pattern including a secondary coil body having the same vortex structure as the primary coil body and having the same length, width, and turn number as the primary coil body and forming the primary and secondary coil patterns so that the primary and secondary coil patterns form the same plane and has a 180°

rotational symmetry with each other; and

wherein when an interval between the primary and secondary coil bodies is S and the width of the primary and secondary coil bodies is W, the primary and secondary coil patterns are formed so as to meet 0.25≦

S/(W+S)≦

0.75.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

laminating an upper non-magnetic insulating layer on a lower non-magnetic insulating layer on which the primary and secondary coil patterns are formed and forming inner connection portions connected with the vias connected with the vertex inner ends of the primary and secondary coil bodies by penetrating through the lower or upper non-magnetic insulating layer on the lower or upper non-magnetic insulating layer to form a non-magnetic insulating layer in which the primary and secondary coil patterns are embedded;

forming a laminate by laminating a magnetic layer above and under the non-magnetic insulating layer; and

forming outer connection portions connected with the other ends of the primary and secondary coil bodies and a plurality of external electrodes connected with the inner connection portions outside the laminate.

11. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

forming the primary and secondary coil patterns on a N−

1-th layer on a N−

1-th non-magnetic insulating layer and then, laminating a N-th non-magnetic insulating layer on the primary and secondary coil patterns, wherein when the N−

1 is 2 or more, the vias are connected with the rest ends that are not connected with primary and secondary coil patterns on the other layer and forming a multilayer repeatedly forming an N-th layer N−

1 times in which vias connected with ends of the primary and secondary coil patterns on the N−

1-th layer by penetrating through the N-th non-magnetic insulating layer and the primary and secondary coil patterns on a N-th-layer connected with ends of the primary and secondary coil patterns on the N−

1-th layer through the vias are formed on the N-th non-magnetic insulating layer, when the N is a natural number of 2 or more;

laminating a N+1-th non-magnetic insulating layer on the primary and secondary coil patterns on the top N-th layer formed in the forming of the multilayer to form a non-magnetic laminated insulating layer in which the primary and secondary coil patterns having the N-layer structure are embedded;

forming a laminate by laminating a magnetic layer above and under the non-magnetic layered insulating layer, respectively; and

forming the plurality of external electrodes connected with connection portions connected with the rest that are not connected with ends of the primary and secondary coil bodies of the adjacent layers among the vortex inner ends and the other ends of the primary and secondary coil bodies formed on an outermost layer having the N-layer structure outside the laminate.