JPH09171933A - Coil component - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coil component excellent in characteristics. SOLUTION: The coil component comprises a conductor 2 having a plurality of turns disposed on the outer circumferential surface of a conical or pyramidal insulator 1. The diameter of each turn of the conductor 2 varies gradually from one end toward the other end with at least each turn part thereof being located in different planes and an end face layer 7, 8 is provided at least one of upper and lower ends of the insulator 1. This structure realizes a coil component having structure being manufactured easily while reducing the labor and excellent electrical characteristics where stray capacitance between the conductors can be reduced along with the DC resistance of the conductor.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a coil component used in various electronic devices, communication devices and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Coil components are widely used as coils and transformers for various electronic devices and communication devices. In recent years, small or thin coil components have been increasingly required. As a result, coil components as noise suppression components are becoming more and more important.

As a conventional coil component satisfying these demands, a laminated coil component obtained by alternately laminating a ferrite magnetic layer and a coil conductor layer (for example, Japanese Patent Publication No.
39521).

In this laminated coil component, as shown in FIGS. 11 and 12, a ferrite layer 12 is formed on one half of a ferrite green sheet 16 by printing, and a portion without the ferrite layer 12 and a portion of the ferrite layer 12 are formed. An L-shaped conductor pattern 13 is formed by printing on the conductor pattern 13, and about half the ferrite layer 14 of the green sheet 16 is printed on the conductor pattern 13, and the ferrite layer 12 and the ferrite layer 12 are continuous so as to be continuous with the conductor pattern 13. A U-shaped conductor pattern 15 is printed on a part of 14 and this process is repeated several times to collectively fire one in which a ferrite green sheet 16 is laminated on the uppermost layer, and end face electrodes 17 are formed on both ends of this laminated body. Formed and configured.

[0005]

With the above-mentioned structure, it is necessary to increase the number of turns of the conductor pattern in order to obtain a large inductance, and an extremely large number of ferrite layers 12 and 14 and conductor patterns 13 and 15 are laminated. Since it is necessary to print, the number of production steps is increased, and there is a problem in terms of productivity.
Since they are formed so as to face each other via the electrodes 2 and 14, there is a problem that the stray capacitance between the conductor patterns becomes large, and the self-resonance frequency of the coil component becomes small and the breakdown voltage is small.

Further, in this laminated coil component, since the conductor pattern is formed on a part of the ferrite layer, if the thickness of the conductor pattern is increased in order to reduce the resistance of the coil conductor, the entire thickness of the conductor pattern 13 is reduced. , 15 and the part where there is no marked difference, and cracks were generated even if fired, and a coil component of stable quality could not be obtained.

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks and to provide a coil component which is excellent in productivity and has a small stray capacitance and excellent electric characteristics.

[0008]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the coil component of the present invention comprises a conductor having a plurality of turns on the outer peripheral surface of a cone-shaped or pyramidal-shaped insulator. The diameter is gradually changed from one end to the other end, at least the respective turn portions are located in different planes, and the end face layer is provided on at least one of the upper and lower ends of the insulator.

According to the present invention, a coil component having excellent productivity and excellent electrical characteristics can be obtained.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION According to the first aspect of the present invention, a conductor having a plurality of turns is provided on the outer peripheral surface of a conical or pyramidal insulator, and the diameter of each turn portion of the conductor is from one end. It has a structure in which at least one turn portion is gradually different from the other end, and at least each turn portion is located in a different plane, and an end face layer is provided on at least one of the upper and lower ends of the insulator. The stray capacitance between the turn parts is small and the electrical characteristics can be excellent.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, each turn portion of the conductor is formed in the same plane from one end to the other end, and is connected to the adjacent turn portion at the terminal end or the starting end of each turn. Therefore, it is possible to easily form the extraction lead.

According to the third aspect of the invention, the conductor has a three-dimensional spiral winding shape from one end to the other end, and the conductor can be formed extremely easily.

The invention described in claims 4 and 5 is
The shape of each turn portion of the conductor is circular or rectangular, which facilitates formation of the conductor pattern and can obtain a large inductance in the same volume.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, a conductor is formed so that a gap between the conductors cannot be seen between the turn portions when viewed from the side of the large-diameter turn portion. Since a conductor having a large width can be formed in a limited space, excellent characteristics can be obtained.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, the conductor has a rectangular cross section, a circular shape, or a semicircular cross section, whereby the conductor cross section can be increased and the DC conductor resistance can be reduced.
It can also be used for high power.

According to the invention of claim 8, a non-magnetic material is used as an insulator, and the self-resonant frequency is increased and the frequency band used is widened.

According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, a magnetic body is used as an insulator, and a large inductance value can be obtained.

According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, the insulator is composed of two or more kinds having different magnetic properties, and the coil component having the same conductor structure and various inductance values or various DC superposition characteristics. Can be realized.

The invention according to claim 11 uses a non-magnetic material and a magnetic material having different magnetic properties, and can improve the DC superimposition characteristics, various inductance values, or the frequency band used. it can.

According to the twelfth aspect of the present invention, the end face electrode layer electrically connected to one end or the other end of the conductor is provided on the surface of the end face layer, and can be a surface mountable coil component. .

According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, an end face layer is provided on each of the upper and lower ends of the insulator, and the coil component is excellent in mountability, that is, capable of being picked up by a mounter or confirming mounting. be able to.

According to a fourteenth aspect of the present invention, the end face layers provided on the upper and lower ends of the insulator are made of an insulating material.
The end face electrode can be formed on the end face layer, and the surface mountable coil component is excellent in mountability or stability.

According to a fifteenth aspect of the present invention, the end face layers provided on the upper and lower ends of the insulator are made of a conductive material.
The end face layer is a coil component that can also serve as an end face electrode.

According to a sixteenth aspect of the present invention, the end face layers provided on the upper and lower ends of the insulator are made of a magnetic material, and the leakage magnetic flux is reduced to provide a coil component having good electric characteristics.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, FIG. 1 is a perspective view schematically seeing through a typical example of the coil component of the present invention. That is, a conductor 2 having a plurality of turns is provided on the outer peripheral surface of a conical (or pyramidal) insulator 1, and the conductor 2 is formed by a circle in which the diameter of each turn portion gradually increases from one end to the other end. Moreover, the positions of the respective turn portions are located in different planes. That is, one end of the conductor 2 is formed of a small diameter circle, and the diameter is gradually increased toward the other end, and each turn portion thereof rises or falls at the end or the start end and is adjacent to the adjacent turn. Connected to the department.

Therefore, the respective turn parts are located on the same plane, and the adjacent turn parts are located on different plane parts depending on the rising and falling parts, and the diameters thereof are set to be different. In the example of FIG. 1, the number of turns is about one in the same plane, but the number of turns may be the same as in a generally known planar spiral coil.

Lead-out electrodes 3 and 4 provided on the end face layers 7 and 8 are connected to both ends of the conductor 2, and the lead-out electrodes 3 and 4 are end face electrodes 5 provided on different side portions of the end face layers 7 and 8. , 6 respectively.

Each turn in this case is as shown in FIG.
It means a conductor existing in the same plane. That is, in the example shown in FIG. 1, it can be said that each turn is formed on four planes.

The coil component shown in FIG. 2 has a three-dimensional spiral shape in which the diameter of the conductor 2 gradually increases from one end to the other end and the positions thereof are all located in different planes. Has the same configuration as in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the coil component shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, in which the conductor 2 is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the conical or pyramidal insulator 1. There is. Further, the end surface layers 7 and 8 are provided on both the upper and lower ends of the insulator 1. Here, insulator 1, end face layer 7
Alternatively, the end surface layer 8 is made of one kind of material, and the insulator 1, the end surface layer 7, or the end surface layer 8 may be a non-magnetic material or a magnetic material.

As the non-magnetic substance, any electrically insulating material such as an organic insulating material such as glass epoxy or polyimide, an inorganic insulating material such as glass, glass ceramics or ceramics, and the like can be used. May be.

As the magnetic material, NiZn system or NiZnC is used.
Any ferrite material having a generally high magnetic permeability, such as a u-based material, may be used.

When the insulator 1 is made of a magnetic material, the inductance value can be increased, and when the insulator 1 is made of a non-magnetic material, a large inductance value cannot be obtained. However, the self-resonant frequency becomes high and the usable frequency band is increased. Becomes wider.

Any material may be used as the material of the conductor 2 or the extraction electrodes 3 and 4 as long as it is an electrically good conductor. However, since a material having a low resistivity and a low resistance is required for the coil component, copper and silver are used. Conductive materials such as palladium alloy or silver are effective.

The end electrodes 5 and 6 may be made of a conductive material, but it is generally preferable that the end electrodes 5 and 6 are composed of a plurality of layers instead of a single layer, and in the case of surface mounting, they are mounted on a printed wiring board. It is necessary to consider the mounting strength at the time of soldering, the wettability of solder at the time of mounting, solder cracking, etc. Specifically, use the same conductive material as the extraction electrodes 3 and 4 for the lowermost layer, and to the solder for the intermediate layer. And nickel having high resistance to the solder, and solder or tin having good wettability to solder are used for the outermost layer.

However, this is an example, and it is not always necessary to adopt this configuration, and a conductive resin material may be contained in addition to a material having excellent conductivity such as metal.

Further, a predetermined wiring pattern is formed on a ceramic substrate such as alumina or ferrite, a window is provided on the ceramic substrate to insert a coil component, and the wiring pattern and the end face electrodes 5, 6 of the coil component are brought into contact with each other to form a thick film. Since it is fired using the formation process and electrically connected, heat resistance can be improved and a structure corresponding to this thick film formation process can be considered.

The end face layers 7 and 8 provided on the upper and lower ends of the insulator 1 may be made of any insulating material, conductive material or magnetic material. When it is made of an insulating material, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, it becomes a coil component capable of forming one end face electrode 5 on the two end face layers 7 and 8.
When the end face layers 7 and 8 are made of a conductive material, the end face layers 7 and 8 serve as coil components that can also serve as the end face electrodes 5 and 6. That is, in FIG. 3, the end face electrodes 5 and 6 are removed, and the end face layers 7 and 8 are used as end face electrodes. When the end surface layers 7 and 8 are made of a magnetic material, it is possible to reduce the leakage magnetic flux generated from the conductor 2 or the extraction electrodes 3 and 4 to form a coil component having electric characteristics.

When the end face layers 7 or 8 provided on the upper and lower ends of the insulator 1 are provided on both the upper and lower ends, the end face layers 7 and 8 become, for example, flat coil components, and the coil components are mounted on the substrate. It becomes possible to pick up with the mounting machine used when
Moreover, it is possible to make a coil component that enables confirmation of mounting. Further, as described above, when the end face layers 7 and 8 are provided on both the upper and lower ends of the insulator 1, if the end face layers 7 and 8 and the insulator 1 are both made of a magnetic material, a coil component having excellent magnetic shielding properties. Becomes

Next, the coil component shown in FIG. 4 will be described. The structure shown in FIG. 4 is composed of insulators 1 having different magnetic properties at the top and bottom of the drawing. That is, in FIG. 4, the insulator A1a is made of a non-magnetic material, and the insulator A1a is made lower and the upper side is made insulator B1b with respect to the winding direction of the conductor 2 in the vertical direction of the drawing.
In the case of a magnetic material, the coil component has a smaller inductance value than the case where the insulator 1 is made of a magnetic material, but the DC superposition characteristic can be significantly improved. That is, even if the current value is changed, the change in the inductance value can be reduced, and the allowable current value can be increased.

Further, both the insulator A1a and the insulator B1b are magnetic bodies, and the magnetic flux density is magnetically different, so that the DC superposition characteristic can be improved.

Further, by making both the insulator A1a and the insulator B1b magnetic and having magnetically different magnetic permeability, coil components having the same conductor structure but different inductance values can be obtained. . In this case, there is no particular limitation on the magnitude relationship of the magnetic permeability between the insulator A1a and the insulator B1b.

As described above, the insulator A1a and the insulator B1b
By appropriately selecting the magnetic properties of the above, the inductance value of the coil component can be arbitrarily selected, and the leakage flux or the DC superimposition characteristics can be controlled freely.

The above description has been made on the case where the insulator 1 is made of two or more kinds of materials. Similarly, when the end face layers 7 and 8 are made of magnetic materials, the end face layer 7 and the end face layers are also formed. The layer 8 may be composed of magnetic materials having different magnetic properties, or the individual end face layers 7 and 8 may be composed of two layers.
Similar effects can be obtained even if the material is made of at least one kind of material. That is, it is possible to control the inductance of the coil component, the DC superposition characteristic, and the like.

Next, the coil components shown in FIGS. 5 to 8 will be described. This coil component basically provides a conductor 2 having a large cross-sectional area to reduce the conductor resistance and can be used for a large current.

First, in the structure shown in FIG. 5, all the cross sections of the conductor 2 are triangular, and the cross sectional area is remarkably increased as compared with the flat film-shaped structure. In order to obtain this structure, a step-like step portion is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the insulator 1, a conductive paste is applied to the step portion and hardened, and then sintered to realize the conductor 2 having a triangular cross section. be able to.

In the structure shown in FIG. 6, any cross section of the conductor 2 has a rectangular shape to increase the cross-sectional area. To obtain this structure, a step-like step portion is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the insulator 1. ,
A conductor 2 having a rectangular cross section is obtained by molding or transfer molding the conductor 2 using a die in which the triangular conductor paste applied here is meshed with the outer peripheral surface of the insulator 1.
And can be realized by sintering.

In the structure shown in FIG. 7, the conductor 2 has a circular cross section, and this structure also has a semicircular concave portion on the outer peripheral surface of the insulator 1 as described with reference to FIG. It is possible to obtain a coil component having the conductor 2 having a circular cross section by filling the recess with the conductor paste and molding the conductor 2 using a mold having a semicircular recess.

In FIG. 8, the conductor 2 has a semicircular cross section, and the conductor 2 has a semicircular concave portion formed on the outer peripheral surface thereof and filled with a conductor paste. Can be sintered to form a coil component having the conductor 2 having a semicircular cross-sectional area.

Although FIGS. 7 and 8 are circular or semi-circular, it is needless to say that the shape is not limited to a perfect circle and may be an ellipse or an ellipse. Further, in addition to the rectangular cross section shown in FIG. 6, a polygonal cross section such as a pentagon or a hexagon may be used.

Next, the coil component shown in FIG. 9 will be described. This coil component is configured such that no gap is visible between the turn portions of the conductor 2 when viewed from the large diameter side as the conductor 2, and by adopting this configuration, the magnetic flux that turns around only each turn portion of the conductor 2 is reduced. In addition, the proportion of the conductor 2 in the limited area forming the conductor 2 can be increased, the DC resistance can be reduced, and as a result, a coil component having a large inductance value can be obtained.

1 and 2, the conductor 2 is shown to be composed of a circular turn portion. However, a prismatic shape is preferred as a surface mount type coil component, and a prismatic shape is preferable. The coil component is formed by the angular turn portion, and it is possible to form the angular turn portion that fills the outer shape of the coil component. This can be configured by forming the pyramidal insulator 1 and forming the conductor 2 on the outer peripheral surface of the insulator 1.

In this rectangular conductor 2 as well, in addition to the rectangular solid spiral-shaped conductor, each rectangular turn portion is in the same plane and is connected to the adjacent turn portion at its end or start end. It is also possible to adopt a configuration.

As a final example, the coil component shown in FIG. 10 will be described. The conductor shown in FIG. 10 has a conductor structure in which both ends have a large diameter and an intermediate portion has a small diameter, and the conductor 2 has a structure in which two conductors described so far are combined.

This is because there is a possibility that stray capacitances will be generated by a pair of conductors having the same diameter as the turn portions, but the turn portions having the same diameter are located far apart from each other, so that they occur between them. The stray capacitance generated is almost negligible.

As described in a number of examples above, the conductor 2 is formed continuously on the outer peripheral surface (slope or step slope) of the conical or pyramidal insulator 1, so that the conventional Unlike the laminated structure, it is easy to produce, the yield can be improved, and since the neighboring turn parts do not face each other with the insulator 1 in between, the occurrence of stray capacitance can be minimized, and thus self-resonance can be suppressed. It is possible to prevent that a high attenuation amount cannot be obtained in a wide band when the frequency is reduced and the filter is used as a filter, so that the coil component can be remarkably excellent in terms of quality and performance.

In the above embodiment, only the surface mount type having the end face electrodes 5 and 6 provided at both ends has been described. However, the insulator 1 having the pin terminals planted therein and the end face electrodes having the end face electrodes are provided. Alternatively, a lead-type coil component in which cap-shaped electrodes having terminals are fitted and coupled to both ends of an insulator can be used.

Since the coil component of the present invention is a coil component having excellent heat resistance, it can be easily modularized.
For example, a predetermined wiring layer may be formed on a ceramic substrate such as an alumina substrate or a ferrite substrate, and wiring of the substrate and wiring of the end surface electrodes 5 to 6 of the coil component may be simultaneously performed to integrate or assemble them. In this case, a window is opened at a predetermined place on the substrate and the end surface electrode 5 on the side surface of the coil component
Since it is possible to connect wirings 6 to 6 to the wiring on the ceramic substrate, a thin module can be obtained. In this case, an ordinary thick film forming process using a generally known ceramic substrate can be applied. The end face electrodes 5 to 6 of the coil component are not based on the assumption of soldering, but may be fired to be electrically connected.

The two terminals of the conductor 2 forming the above coil are formed on the end face of the chip part and end face electrodes 5 to 6 are formed.
It is in a state of being electrically connected to. That is, the uppermost and lowermost parts of the conductor 2 have the extraction electrodes 3 to 4 for electrically connecting to the end face electrodes 5 to 6, and the end face electrode 5
Connected to 6

[0060]

As is apparent from the above description, the coil component of the present invention is excellent in productivity because it does not have a laminated structure, and also has a conical or pyramidal outer peripheral surface (slope or step slope). Since the conductor is located on the top, the height can be kept low, and the stray capacitance between the turn parts of the conductor hardly occurs. It is great.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view schematically showing a coil component according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of another embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the same.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of another embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of still another embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view of still another embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a sectional view of still another embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a sectional view of still another embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a sectional view of still another embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a sectional view of still another embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a schematic perspective view showing a conventional coil component.

FIG. 12 is an exploded perspective view of the same.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Insulator 1a Insulator A 1b Insulator B 2 Conductor 3,4 Extraction electrode 5,6 End face electrode 7,8 End face layer

Claims (16)

[Claims] 1. A flat surface in which a conductor having a plurality of turns is provided on the outer peripheral surface of a conical or pyramidal insulator, and the diameter of each turn portion of the conductor gradually changes from one end to the other end and at least each turn portion is different. A coil component which is located inside and has an end face layer provided on at least one of the upper and lower ends of an insulator. 2. A structure in which each turn portion of the conductor is formed in the same plane from one end to the other end and is connected to an adjacent turn portion at a terminal end or a starting end of each turn portion.
Described coil parts. 3. The coil component according to claim 1, wherein the conductor has a three-dimensional spiral shape from one end to the other end. 4. The coil component according to claim 1, wherein each of the turns of the conductor has a circular shape. 5. The coil component according to claim 1, wherein each of the turns of the conductor has a rectangular shape. 6. The coil component according to claim 1, wherein the conductors are formed such that the conductor gaps are not visible between the turn portions when viewed from the large diameter turn portion side. 7. The coil component according to claim 1, wherein the cross-sectional shape of the conductor is rectangular, circular or semicircular. 8. The coil component according to claim 1, wherein the insulator is a non-magnetic substance. 9. The coil component according to claim 1, wherein the insulator is a magnetic substance. 10. The coil component according to claim 1, wherein the insulator is composed of two or more kinds having different magnetic properties. 11. The coil component according to claim 10, wherein a non-magnetic material and a magnetic material are used as those having different magnetic properties. 12. The coil component according to claim 1, further comprising an end face electrode layer electrically connected to one end or the other end of the conductor on the surface of the end face layer. 13. The coil component according to claim 1, wherein end face layers are provided on the upper and lower ends of the insulator, respectively. 14. The coil component according to claim 1, wherein the end face layer is made of an insulating material. 15. The coil component according to claim 1, wherein the end face layer is made of a conductive material. 16. The end surface layer is made of a magnetic material.
Described coil parts.