This invention presents a new packaging technique that allows for the use of a wider range of isolating materials for inductive conductivity sensors, thereby significantly reducing the cost of producing the sensors, improving their precision and accuracy, and increasing their sensitivity.

An inductor includes a body including a support member including a through-hole, an internal coil disposed on the support member, and an encapsulant encapsulating the support member and the internal coil; and an external electrode disposed on an external surface of the body and connected to the internal coil. The external electrode includes a conductive resin layer and a double conductive layer of a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, disposed between the conductive resin layer and the internal coil.

A surface mount inductor includes a coil including a winding portion and extension portions that extend from the outer circumference of the winding portion, a molded body which contains a metal magnetic powder and in which the coil is embedded, and outer terminals. The molded body is a rectangular parallelepiped. Each end portion in the longitudinal direction of the principal surface has an outer terminal connected to the extension portion. A resin coating is formed on the molded body except regions in which the outer terminals are provided, and W.sub.1 is less than W.sub.0, where the width between ridges opposite to each other in a lateral direction of the principal surface is denoted as W.sub.0 and the width of each outer terminal in the lateral direction is denoted as W.sub.1, and neither end in the width direction of each outer terminal is in contact with the ridges.

An inductor includes a body including a plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of coil patterns are disposed on each of the plurality of insulating layers, and first and second external electrodes disposed on an external surface of the body. The plurality of coil patterns are connected to each other by coil connecting portions and both end portions thereof are electrically connected to the first and second external electrodes through coil lead portions, respectively, to form a coil. The plurality of coil patterns include coil patterns disposed on an outer portion of the body and coil patterns disposed on an inner portion of the body, the coil patterns disposed on the inner portion of the body include first coil patterns electrically connected in parallel, and at least one of the first coil patterns includes an internal side portion having a shape different from shapes of remaining coil patterns.

A transformer comprising a primary winding and a secondary winding. The primary winding has N.sub.2 number turns and having a first terminal and a second terminal. The secondary winding has having N.sub.1 fractional portions, which together form a full turn, are in close proximity to the primary winding to establish coupling between the primary winding and the N.sub.1 fractional coil portions, the transformer turn ratio from the primary winding to the secondary winding is N.sub.2:(N.sub.3/N.sub.1) where N.sub.2 is an integer equal to or greater than 1, N.sub.1 is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and N.sub.3 is an integer greater than or equal to 1. Also disclosed is a stacked integrated transformer having a primary winding and secondary winding of which one or both have a waterfall structure and a portion of which functions as a ground connected shield between the secondary winding and the primary winding.

A transformer comprising a primary winding and a secondary winding. The primary winding has N.sub.2 number turns and having a first terminal and a second terminal. The secondary winding has having N.sub.1 fractional portions, which together form a full turn, are in close proximity to the primary winding to establish coupling between the primary winding and the N.sub.1 fractional coil portions, the transformer turn ratio from the primary winding to the secondary winding is N.sub.2:(N.sub.3/N.sub.1) where N.sub.2 is an integer equal to or greater than 1, N.sub.1 is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and N.sub.3 is an integer greater than or equal to 1. Also disclosed is a stacked integrated transformer having a primary winding and secondary winding of which one or both have a waterfall structure and a portion of which functions as a ground connected shield between the secondary winding and the primary winding.

A coil electronic component includes a body including a laminate structure including a plurality of coil layers, and external electrodes disposed externally on the body. Each of the plurality of coil layers includes an insulating layer, a base pattern, and a coil pattern disposed on the base pattern, and a conductive via connecting the coil pattern to an adjacent coil layer, and the base pattern includes an intermetallic compound of Cu and Sn, and the coil pattern includes a Cu component.

A coil component includes a multilayer body in which a plurality of resin insulating layers are laminated in a lamination direction and coil conductive layers disposed inside the multilayer body. The plurality of resin insulating layers includes non-photosensitive first resin insulating layers and photosensitive second resin insulating layers. The multilayer body has a section where the first resin insulating layers and the second resin insulating layers are alternately laminated.

A magnet comprising a center disc having a center disposed as a center of the magnet, a face of the center disc is substantially perpendicular to a central axis of the magnet. The magnet further comprises a first plurality of outer discs disposed around the center disc in a bundled rod construction, a face of each of the first plurality of outer discs substantially perpendicular to the central axis of the magnet, wherein the center disc and each disc of the first plurality of outer discs is electrically insulated from every other disc.

Provided is a reactor including a coil and a magnetic core. The coil includes a winding portion, the number of winding portions is one, the winding portion has a rectangular tubular shape, the magnetic core is an assembly obtained by combining a first core portion and a second core portion, and the first core portion and the second core portion are constituted by compacts made of different materials.