A converter using a planar transformer includes an input device that receives a first voltage, a transformer including a first planar transformer and a second planar transformer that reduce the first voltage, and an output device that outputs the first voltage as a second voltage, wherein the first voltage is greater than the second voltage, and the input device provides a current to a primary winding coil of each of the first planar transformer and the second planar transformer through a first current path and a second current path in which current directions are different with each other, and includes a plurality of inductors connected in parallel with the primary winding coil of each of the first planar transformer and the second planar transformer.

A planar transformer may include a primary printed circuit board (PCB) having at least a hole in which a first core and a second core are inserted and including a coil pattern, a secondary PCB having at least a hole in which the first core and the second core are inserted and including a coil pattern, and a heat dissipation plate disposed between the primary PCB and the secondary PCB and including at least a hole in which the first core and the second core are inserted.

An electronic device includes a magnetic assembly with a multilevel lamination or metallization structure having a core layer, dielectric layers and conductive features formed in metal layers on or between the dielectric layers in respective planes of orthogonal first and second directions and stacked along an orthogonal third direction. The conductive features include first and second patterned conductive features forming first and second windings, first and second conductive capacitor plates, and first and second conductive field plates, in which the first conductive capacitor plate is between the first conductive field plate and the core layer along the third direction and the second conductive capacitor plate is between the second conductive field plate and the core layer along the third direction.

An electric current transformer including a first coil and a second coil, which are produced with a first printed circuit including a first positioning device, and a second positioning device; and a first magnetic part including a first holding device and a second magnetic part including a second holding device, the positioning device being arranged to join together with the holding device so as to hold reference faces of the magnetic parts a predetermined distance away from the turns of the first and second coils. A current measurement unit includes such a current transformer.

An inductive component has at least one conductor loop arranged on a printed circuit board and at least one core made of inductive material that cooperates inductively with the conductor loop. The printed circuit board comprises an upper face, a lower face and narrow faces, and moreover at least two printed circuit board parts. Each printed circuit board part has a part of the at least one conductor loop. At least one of the printed circuit board parts comprises a first and a second contact portion. The first contact portion is connected to a first face, in particular the upper face, of the second printed circuit board part and the second contact portion is connected to a second face, in particular the lower face, of the second printed circuit board part, which second face is different from the first face.

A connection system for exchanging electrical signals, includes a first symmetrical connector, and a second symmetrical connector. Each symmetrical connector has at least one magnetic core provided with at least one turn. The symmetrical connectors are produced in a substrate made of insulating material so as to form a half of a coupling transformer At least one half of the coupling transformer of each connector is arranged opposite one another so as to be able to exchange a magnetic flux. The electrical signals are emitted by the first connector in the form of a magnetic flux, and the second connector generates the electrical signals on receiving the magnetic flux.

An electronic structure comprising: a circuit board, wherein electronic devices and a transformer are disposed on the circuit board, wherein the transformer comprises a first coil, a second coil, and a magnetic body comprising a pillar with at least one portion of the pillar being disposed in a through-opening of the circuit board, wherein the first coil is wound around an upper portion of the pillar and the second coil is wound around a lower portion of the pillar for forming the transformer.

Described is a hybrid electronic and magnetic structure that enables a transformer with fractional and reconfigurable effective turns ratios (e.g. 12:0.5, 12:⅔, 12:1, and 12:2) and hereinafter referred to as a Variable-Inverter-Rectifier-Transformer (VIRT). A VIRT is valuable in converters having wide operating voltage ranges and high step-up/down, as it offers a means to reduce turns count and copper loss within a transformer while facilitating voltage doubling and quadrupling. Such characteristics are beneficial for reducing the size of a transformer stage in many power electronics applications, such as USB wall chargers. In embodiments, a VIRT comprises a plurality of switching cells distributed around a magnetic core and coupled to half-turns wound through that core. By controlling operating modes of the switching cells, it is possible to gain control over flux paths and current paths in the transformer.

A magnetic assembly includes a first magnetic core, a second magnetic core, at least one circuit board, and multiple pillars. The second magnetic core and the first magnetic core are assembled with each other to define an internal space. The circuit board is disposed in the internal space. The circuit board has multiple through holes separated from each other. The pillars are located in the internal space and respectively correspond to the through holes passing through the circuit board, and multiple air gaps are formed between the pillars or between the pillars and at least one of the first magnetic core and the second magnetic core.

An Isolating Transmission Line Transformer (ITLT) for use in a data communications system is provided, the transformer comprising: a substantially planar substrate formed of electrically insulative material having opposed first and second surfaces; a first port formed of two separate terminals provided at one part of the substrate; a second port formed of two separate terminals provided at a second part of the substrate; a first conductor connected in series to the first port and arranged as a single loop; a second conductor which is electrically isolated from the first conductor and connected in series to the second port, the second conductor being arranged as a single loop in a substantially opposite orientation to the first conductor; wherein the first and second ports and at least part of the first and second conductors are provided on the substrate surface (s); and a core arranged between the first and second ports to cover the majority of the first and second conductors.