A voltage regulator module includes a circuit board, a positive input terminal, a negative input terminal, a positive output terminal, a negative output terminal, a switching circuit, a magnetic element and an input capacitor. The switching circuit is disposed on a top surface of the circuit board, and comprises two switches connected in series to form a midpoint, wherein the switching circuit is connected to the positive input terminal. The magnetic element comprises a magnetic core and a conductive structure in the circuit board, wherein the magnetic element and the switching circuit are arranged on the circuit board along a first direction, the conductive structure is connected to the midpoint of the corresponding switching circuit and the positive output terminal. The input capacitor is connected to the positive input terminal and the negative input terminal, and disposed on a bottom surface of the circuit board.

A power module includes a printed circuit board, a magnetic element, a secondary side switching circuit and at least two groups of external terminals. The magnetic element is disposed on the printed circuit board. The magnetic element includes at least one primary winding and plural secondary windings. The secondary side switching circuit includes a plurality of secondary switching units. Each secondary switching unit includes a plurality of switches connected in parallel. The switches of each secondary switching unit are evenly distributed on a first surface and a second surface of the printed circuit board. The switches of the secondary switching unit on the first surface and the second surface of the printed circuit board are at least partially overlapped with each other. The at least two groups of external terminals are disposed on the second surface of the printed circuit board, and electrically connected with the secondary side switching circuit.

A magnetic and electrical circuit element including magnetic-flux-conducting posts, and a multi-layer structure formed with an electrically-conductive material. The multi-layer structure includes multiple layers forming a stack of layers along a length of the posts, said multi-layer structure configured as primary and secondary windings of a transformer. The primary winding is embedded in the multi-layer structure and wound around the magnetic-flux-conducting posts in such a way that a magnetic field induced in each of the magnetic-flux-conducting posts has a magnetic field polarity opposite to a polarity of the respective magnetic field of the magnetic-flux-conducting post adjacent the respective magnetic-flux-conducting post. Around each of the magnetic-flux-conducting posts, there is a respective one of the secondary windings connected to a semiconductor device. The magnetic-flux-conducting posts are connected magnetically by continuous magnetic-flux-conducting plates, each of which is shaped to ensure a continuous flow of the magnetic field successively through adjacent magnetic-flux-conducting posts.

The present invention relates to a planar converter, comprising: a magnetic unit comprising a first planar winding and two second planar windings magnetically coupled to each other and a magnetic core assembly; two closed circuits each comprises the first planar winding, a switch, and has a first connection point and a second connection point; two PCBs each provided with at least one of the closed circuits thereon; and two first connectors each comprising two welding ends opposite to each other, wherein the two welding ends of one of the two first connectors are connected to the first connection points of the two closed circuits, respectively, and the two welding ends of another one of the two first connectors are connected to the second connection points of the two closed circuits, respectively, and the two closed circuits are connected in parallel.

The semiconductor device of the present invention includes an insulating layer, a high voltage coil and a low voltage coil which are disposed in the insulating layer at an interval in the vertical direction, a low potential portion which is provided in a low voltage region disposed around a high voltage region for the high voltage coil in planar view and is connected with potential lower than the high voltage coil, and an electric field shield portion which is disposed between the high voltage coil and the low voltage region and includes an electrically floated metal member.

A transformer respectively includes a first isolation barrier, a first inductive element, a second isolation barrier, and a second inductive element. The first isolation barrier and second isolation barrier each comprise multiple isolation layers. The transformer also includes magnetic material including a top magnetic portion disposed above the first isolation barrier. The transformer also includes a bottom magnetic portion disposed below the second inductive element; The transformer further includes an intermediary magnetic portion extending from the top magnetic portion to the bottom magnetic portion via a through-hole within the first isolation barrier, first inductive element, second isolation barrier, and second inductive element. The transformer yet further includes at least one lateral magnetic portion extending from the top magnetic portion to the bottom magnetic portion. The at least one lateral magnetic portion is disposed laterally from the first isolation barrier, first inductive element, second isolation barrier, and second inductive element.

A planar transformer includes a coil substrate including a flexible substrate and multiple coils formed on the flexible substrate. The coil substrate is formed to have coil parts and coilless parts such that the coil parts have the coils and that the coilless parts do not have the coils, and the coil substrate is folded such that at least one of the coilless parts is sandwiched between two of the coil parts.

A device including a first voltage domain and a second voltage domain is provided, the voltage domains being separated by an isolation barrier. In addition, the device includes a scratch detection circuit including a first and a second electrode at a distance of less than 2 μm.

A laminate transformer includes a multilayer substrate having at least first, second, third, and fourth metal layers. The second metal layer and the third metal layer are separated by a voltage barrier having a thickness. A first multiloop coil has at least a first loop on the first metal layer and at least a second loop on the second metal layer. A second multiloop coil has at least a third loop on the third metal layer and at least a fourth loop on the fourth metal layer. A partial EMI shield for the first multiloop coil is on the second metal layer. A partial EMI shield for the second multiloop coil is on the third metal layer.

A broadside coupled coplanar inductor device includes first and second coplanar inductors in which the conductors of the first and second coplanar inductors are broadside coupled. The conductors are located one above the other at a first distance and the return paths are located to the side of the respective first and second conductor signal paths at a second distance. One or both of the dimensions of the first and second first distances is defined so as to maximize a mutual inductance between the conductors. First and second driver circuit apply voltages across each conductor. The input pulse width modulation signals applied to the first and second driver circuits are 180 degrees out of phase.