Coil part

• US 9,672,971 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2015
• Issued: 06/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ohtsubo, Mutsuyasu, Teramoto, Ryusuke
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TUYEN T
• Application Number:
  US15/103,430
• Publication Number:
  US 20160307694A1
• Time in Patent Office: 881 Days
• Field of Search: 336 65, 336 83, 336192, 336200, 336220-223, 336232
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 17/04 with magnetic core
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 2017/048 with encapsulating core, e.g. made of resin and magnetic powder
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/29 Terminals; Tapping arrangements for signal inductances
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/292 Surface mounted devices

Abstract

A coil component includes a coil section and an outer package made of magnetic material in which the coil section is embedded. Both ends of the coil section are drawn out as outer electrodes from a first lateral face of the outer package, and the drawn-out sections are bent toward a bottom face of the outer package, and further bent along the bottom face and a second lateral face, then bent toward a cut-out section provided to the top face of the outer package before engaged with the cut-out section. Recesses are provided on the bottom face at places where the outer electrodes overly, and the outer electrodes are bent toward the recesses, respectively. Inside the bent section of each of the outer electrodes, a notch is formed and the notch includes an opening that spreads over the two faces. A vertex portion of the bent section inside the notch is curved.

Claims

1. A coil component comprising:

a coil section;

an outer package in which the coil section is embedded, the outer package being made of magnetic material, and having a bottom face, a top face opposite the bottom face, a first lateral face, and a second lateral face opposite the first lateral face, the top face being provided with cut-out sections; and

a pair of outer electrodes extending from both ends of the coil section respectively, drawn out from the first lateral face, bent at a first bending section toward the bottom face and extending along the first lateral face, further bent at a second bending section toward the second lateral face and extending along the bottom face, further bent at a third bending section toward the top face and extending along the second lateral face, and further bent at a fourth bending section toward the cut-out section formed on the top face, then engaged with the cut-out sections,

wherein the bottom face is provided with recesses at places overlapped with the pair of outer electrodes, respectively, and each one of pair of the outer electrodes is bent to form a projection protruding toward inside of one of the recesses,

wherein a notch is disposed inside the second bending section, and the notch includes an opening that spreads over the first lateral face and the bottom face,

wherein a notch is disposed inside the third bending section, and the notch of the third bending section includes an opening that spreads over the bottom face and the second lateral face, and

wherein a vertex portion of the second bending section inside the notch of the second bending section is curved and a vertex portion of the third bending section inside the notch of the third bending section is curved.

2. The coil component according to claim 1,

wherein a plurality of recesses including one of the recesses is provided on the bottom face at places overlapped with each of the pair of outer electrodes, and

wherein each of the pair of outer electrodes has a plurality of projection including the projection and curved to protrude toward inside of the plurality of the recesses.

3. The coil component according to claim 1,

wherein each of the recesses is asymmetric with respect to a plane perpendicular to an extending direction of the pair of outer electrodes.

4. The coil component according to claim 1,

wherein a width of each of the pair of outer electrodes on the first lateral face at a drawn-out section from the outer package is smaller than a width of the second bending section.

5. The coil component according to claim 4,

wherein each of the pair of outer electrodes includes a narrowed section on the first lateral face between the drawn-out section from the outer package and the second bending section.

6. The coil component according to claim 5,

wherein the narrowed section is located closer to the second bending section than to a center section along an extending direction of each of the pair of outer electrodes on the first lateral face.

7. The coil component according to claim 1,

wherein the outer package further has a third lateral face and a fourth lateral face between the first lateral face and the second lateral face, and

wherein steps are formed on the bottom face of the outer package at sections in contact with the pair of outer electrodes, and a height of each of the steps is greater at a closer side to a center section of the bottom face than at a closer side to the third lateral face or the fourth lateral face.

8. The coil component according to claim 7,

wherein the recesses are formed in the steps, and the projection protrudes into one of the recesses deeper at a closer side to the center section of the bottom face than at a closer side to the third lateral face or the fourth lateral face.

9. The coil component according to claim 7,

wherein each of the pair of outer electrode has a portion in contact with the bottom face, and the portion is thicker at a side closer to the center section than at a side closer to the third lateral face or the fourth lateral face.

10. The coil component according to claim 1,

wherein surfaces of the pair of outer electrodes are plated with solder, and a solder lump thicker than other portions is formed inside each of the notches.

11. The coil component according to claim 10,

wherein a melting point of solder forming the solder lump falls within a range from 195°

C. to 215°

C., inclusive.

12. The coil component according to claim 10,

wherein a void is provided between the solder lump and the outer package.

13. The coil component according to claim 1,

wherein the notches are formed by bending thinner parts provided at least at a corner between the first lateral face and the bottom face, and at a corner between the bottom face and the second lateral face, before each of the pair of outer electrodes is bent, and

wherein a length of the thinner part along an extending direction of each of the pair of outer electrodes falls within a range from 0.05 times to 0.20 times, inclusive, of a distance between the top face and the bottom face of the outer package.