A storage choke is disclosed. In an embodiment a storage choke includes at least two coils and a core, wherein the core couples the coils to one another, and wherein the core comprises a first region comprising a first material and a second region comprising a second material that is different from the first material.

Iron core vibration and transformer noise can be reduced by using, as a transformer iron core, an iron core formed by a stack of at least two types of grain-oriented electrical steel sheets that differ in magnetostriction by 2×10.sup.−7 or more when excited from 0 T to 1.7 T.

An inductor magnetic core and an inductor using the same are disclosed. The inductor magnetic core includes a middle column, an upper yoke, a lower yoke, and at least two high magnetically-permeable side columns. The middle column is disposed between a middle part of the upper yoke and a middle part of the lower yoke, a coil is wound the middle column, and a saturation magnetic flux density of the middle column is higher than that of the upper yoke and the lower yoke. The at least two high magnetically-permeable side columns are disposed in interval between the upper yoke and the lower yoke, and two ends of each high magnetically-permeable side column are connected to outer edges of the upper yoke and the lower yoke, respectively. The inductor magnetic core and the inductor of the present invention improves utilization of the yoke, and also provide compact structure and simple production.

An inductor includes a core including a multilayer part in which magnetic layers and insulating layers are alternately stacked; a coil including a wound part having a winding axis substantially perpendicular to a stacking direction of the multilayer part; and an element body. The multilayer part includes a first multilayer part in which first magnetic layers and insulating layers are alternately stacked and second and third multilayer parts in which second magnetic layers and insulating layers are alternately stacked, the electrical resistivity and/or relative magnetic permeability of the second magnetic layers being larger than those of the first magnetic layers. The first multilayer part has first and second surfaces that are perpendicular to the stacking direction and face each other and third and fourth surfaces that are parallel to the stacking and winding axis directions. The second and third multilayer parts are arranged on the first and second surfaces.

An ignition coil system is configured for use with a spark ignition internal combustion engine. The system includes a first switching circuit electrically connected to the primary coil that provides electrical power to the primary coil. The system includes a second switching circuit connected to the primary coil that is configured to short the terminals of the primary coil after the secondary current has been induced in the secondary coil, whereby the secondary coil induces a current in the primary coil, thereby reducing the secondary current in the secondary wire coil. A controller in communication with the first and second switching circuits is configured to receive a single electronic spark timing (EST) signal and to control the conductive states and the non-conductive states of the first and second switching circuits based on this single EST signal.

Multiple methods are provided to paint a body of an inductor so that there is no residual glue remained in the lead that may cause extra cleaning work and soldering issues when the lead is soldered with an external circuit.

Soft magnetic core, in which permeabilities that occur at least two different locations of the core are different.

Provided are a composite material having low iron loss, high saturation magnetization, and high strength, and a magnetic component and a reactor that include the composite material. A composite material contains a soft magnetic powder and a resin having the soft magnetic powder dispersed therein, the soft magnetic powder including a coarse powder having an average particle size D.sub.1 of not less than 50 μm nor more than 500 μm and a fine powder having an average particle size D.sub.2 of not less than 0.1 μm but less than 30 wherein the soft magnetic powder is contained in an amount of not less than 60 vol % nor more than 80 vol % with respect to the composite material as a whole.

A reactor including a coil including a first winding portion and a second winding portion arranged parallel to each other, and a magnetic core that forms a ring-shaped closed magnetic circuit, the magnetic core including an inner core portion respectively disposed inside the first winding portion and the second winding portion, and an outer core portion that forms a ring-shaped magnetic circuit with the inner core portions. The outer core portion includes an inner face that faces the coil; and an inward protruding portion provided on the inner face and protruding toward a space between the first winding portion and the second winding portion.

A reactor includes a coil, a magnetic core, and a resin molded portion. The coil includes two winding portions and a linking portion connecting the two winding portions to each other. The magnetic core includes inner core portions disposed inside the winding portions, and outer core portions disposed outside the winding portions. At least one of the two outer core portions includes a composite core. The composite core has a portion protruding upward in the height direction relative to a virtual surface obtained by extending an outer circumferential surface of the inner core portions, and includes a first composite core in which the compact made of the composite material is disposed on an upper side in the height direction, and the powder compact is stacked on a lower side in the height direction. The resin molded portion includes a first outer resin portion covering the first composite core.