Electronic card comprising magnetic elements

• US 9,831,788 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2014
• Issued: 11/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thales SA
• Original Assignee: Thales SA
• Inventors: Guepratte, Kevin, Stephan, Herv
• Primary Examiner(s): Finch, III, Fred E
• Application Number:
  US15/034,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20160276944A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,103 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 2027/2819 Planar transformers with printed windings, e.g. surrounded by two cores and to be mounted on printed circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/24 Magnetic cores
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 27/2804 Printed windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/28 using discharge tubes with control electrode or semiconductor devices with control electrode to produce the intermediate ac
• 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: H05K 1/0233 Filters, inductors or a magnetic substance
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/165 incorporating printed inductors
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/181 associated with surface mounted components
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/086 for inductive purposes, e.g. printed inductor with ferrite core

Abstract

An electronic board, in particular for a power electronics circuit such as a converter, comprises: a planar substrate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side; at least two magnetic core elements, called the first elements, arranged on the first side of the substrate and each having at least two legs passing through the substrate; and at least two windings, arranged around at least one leg of each first magnetic core; wherein: it also comprises a second magnetic core element in the form of a plate, arranged on the second side of the substrate and in contact with respective ends of the legs of at least two first elements; the first elements, the windings and the second element forming at least two mutually decoupled magnetic circuits.

Claims

1. An electronic board comprising:

a planar substrate having a first side and a second side opposite said first side;

at least a first magnetic core element and a second magnetic core element arranged on said first side of said substrate and each of said first magnetic core element and second magnetic core element having at least two legs passing through said substrate; and

at least two windings, arranged around at least one leg of each of said first magnetic core element and said second magnetic core element;

a third magnetic core element in the form of a plate, arranged on said second side of said substrate and in contact with respective ends of said at least one leg of said first magnetic core element and said second magnetic core element;

wherein a spacing between said first magnetic core element and said second magnetic core element prevents mutual magnetic coupling via said third magnetic core element;

whereby said first magnetic core element and said second magnetic core element, said at least two windings and said third magnetic core element form at least two mutually decoupled magnetic circuits.

2. The electronic board of claim 1, wherein said planar substrate is a printed circuit board substrate.

3. The electronic board of claim 2, wherein said windings are planar windings, formed by the deposition of conductive tracks on said planar substrate.

4. The electronic board of claim 1, comprising a power electronics circuit that is implemented on said substrate and that includes said mutually decoupled magnetic circuits.

5. The electronic board of claim 4, wherein said power electronics circuit is a DC/DC or AC/DC converter.

6. The electronic board of claim 4, wherein at least one of said first magnetic core element and said second magnetic core element is an “

E-shaped”

type element forming, with two said at least two windings and said third magnetic core element, a transformer, and at least one other of said first magnetic core element and said second magnetic core element is a “

U-shaped”

type element forming, with one of said at least two windings and said third magnetic core element, a coil.

7. The electronic board of claim 6, wherein said coil is connected in series with a winding of said transformer.

8. The electronic board of claim 4, wherein said second side of said substrate bears at least one electric or electronic component, a height of said third magnetic core element, with respect to said second side, being less than or equal to a height of said component.

9. The electronic board of claim 4, wherein said power electronics circuit is implemented using surface-mount technology.

10. The electronic board of claim 1, wherein said third magnetic core element has a magnetic permeability that is greater by at least a factor of 10 than that of said first magnetic core element and said second magnetic core element.

11. The electronic board of claim 1, wherein said third magnetic core element has a magnetic permeability that is greater by at least a factor of 100 than that of said first magnetic core element and said second magnetic core element.