Eyewear (100) comprising at least one lens (110,120), a lens frame (111,121), a battery (170) and means for wireless charging of said battery (170), which wireless charging means comprises a receiver coil (181) arranged to be remotely powered by a corresponding transmitter coil (340) in a separate charging device (300). The invention is characterised in that the receiver coil (181) is arranged so that it encircles at least one of said one or several lenses (110,120), forming part of or being enclosed in said lens frame (111,121), whereby light passing through the at least one lens (110,120) will also pass through a coil hole.

A laminated electronic component includes an element body and a conductor. The element body is formed by laminating a plurality of element-body layers. The element body has a first face, a second face, and a pair of third faces. The conductor is disposed on the element body and has an L shape. The conductor has an exposed face exposed on the first face and the second face. The exposed face includes a plurality of divided regions divided by the element body. The length of each divided region in a dividing direction is longer than a distance with which the plurality of divided regions is separated from each other and longer than a distance with which the exposed face and the pair of third faces are separated from each other.

An antenna for transfer of information or energy is described. The antenna includes an electrically conductive first layer having a width in a thickness direction of the antenna and extending longitudinally along a length of the first layer between first and second longitudinal ends of the first layer, and an electrically insulative thermally conductive second layer bonded to the first layer along the length of the first layer. The first and second layers are wound to form a plurality of substantially concentric loops. A width and a length of the second layer are substantially co-extensive with the respective width and length of the first layer so as to expose opposing longitudinal edge surfaces of the first layer along the length of the first layer. Coils and assemblies useful for making coils are also described.

An inductive charging system for inductive charging of electronic devices is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes a substantially planar inductive charging coil parallel to the surface of the inductive charger or the electronic device. The system further includes a metallic layer positioned proximate to and substantially parallel to the inductive coil to cover a surface of the inductive coil. The metallic layer comprises multiple substantially concentric rings or polygons, with each of the concentric rings or polygons having multiple sections separated by gaps such that each concentric ring or polygon is discontinuous. Adjacent sections of each concentric ring or polygon are electrically isolated from one another to avoid eddy current generation and heating of the metallic layer during inductive power transfer.

Disclosed herein is a differential probe, a testing device having at least one such differential probe, and a method for producing the same. The differential probe has a first half-probe and a second half-probe, at least one conductor loop pair having a conductor loop of each half-probe being shaped mirror-inverted relative to each other and, in respect of a mirror-inverted arrangement thereof on respective sides of a mirror plane. The conductor loops are oriented parallel to the mirror plane, are arranged offset relative to each other in an offset direction, also parallel to the mirror plane, wherein the conductor loops overlap in part in the direction normal to the mirror plane.

Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes an insulating substrate, a first coil part formed on the first surface of the insulating substrate, and a second coil part formed on the second surface of the insulating substrate. At least an innermost turn of the first coil part is radially separated by spiral-shaped slits into three or more conductor parts. At least an innermost turn of the second coil part is radially separated by spiral-shaped slits into three or more conductor parts. Inner peripheral ends of respective innermost to outermost conductor parts of the three or more conductor parts of the first coil part are connected to inner peripheral ends of the respective outermost to innermost conductor parts of the three or more conductor parts of the second coil part.

Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a first coil part spirally wound in a plurality of turns, the first coil part including a first turn positioned at an innermost periphery and a second turn positioned on an outer peripheral side relative to the first turn; and a second coil part spirally wound in a plurality of turns, the second coil part including a third turn positioned at an innermost periphery and a fourth turn positioned on an outer peripheral side relative to the third turn. The first turn and the fourth turn are connected to each other, and the second turn and the third turn are connected to each other.

An inductor component includes a rectangular parallelepiped shaped element body and an inductor wiring extending inside the element body. The body has a first electrode exposed to outside the body in a region from a bottom surface to a first end surface. The inductor wiring includes a first wiring portion extending parallel to a first main surface from a first end and a via extending perpendicular to the first main surface from the first wiring portion. In a direction perpendicular to the first main surface, a first wiring layer is a layer having the first wiring portion and a first via layer is a layer having the via. A first wiring layer height, which is the maximum height of the first electrode in the first wiring layer, is larger than a first via layer height, which is the maximum height of the first electrode in the first via layer.

New types of circuit elements for integrated circuits include structures wherein a thickness dimension is much greater than a width dimension and is more closely spaced than the width dimension in order to attain a tight coupling condition. The structure is suitable to form inductors, capacitors, transmission lines and low impedance power distribution networks in integrated circuits. The width dimension is on the same order of magnitude as skin depth. Embodiments include a spiral winding disposed in a silicon substrate formed of a deep, narrow, conductor-covered spiral ridge separated by a narrow spiral trench. Other embodiments include a wide, thin conductor formed in or on a flexible insulative ribbon and wound with turns adjacent one another, or a conductor in or on a flexible insulative sheet folded into layers with windings adjacent one another Further, a method of manufacture includes directional etching of the deep, narrow spiral trench to form a winding in silicon.

A magnetic component is configured to be used with a coil wound about a center axis along an axis direction. A first magnetic member is configured such that magnetic flux generated by the coil passes therethrough, extends in the axis direction to have first and second ends, and has a portion overlapping with the coil viewed perpendicular to the axis direction. A second magnetic member is disposed on an opposite side to the coil with respect to the first end of the first magnetic member, in the axis direction. A third magnetic member is disposed on an opposite side to the coil with respect to the second magnetic member, in the axis direction. The third magnetic member is larger in magnetic anisotropy than each of the first magnetic member and the second magnetic member, and has an easy direction of magnetization oriented perpendicular to the axis direction.