An electronic component comprising a main body part including an insulating layer and a conductor layer laminated alternately. The insulating layer and the conductor layer are partially exposed on a side surface of the main body part in a direction orthogonal to a lamination direction. Also, the side surface of the main body part is provided with a metal film extending in the lamination direction to cover the insulating layer and the conductor layer exposed on the side surface.

A coil electronic component includes a body having a coil portion embedded therein, and external electrodes connected to the coil portion, wherein the body includes a plurality of magnetic portions having a form in which magnetic particles are dispersed in an insulator and one or more insulating portions disposed between the plurality of magnetic portions.

A coil component includes a coil and external electrodes electrically connected to the coil. The coil may include a plurality of coil patterns. A distal end of an outermost coil pattern may include a gap filling portion. A through via directly connected to an innermost coil pattern may also include a gap filling portion.

An inductor includes: a body including a support member including a through-hole and a via hole, an insulator disposed on the support member and including a first opening exposing portions of the support member, and a coil pattern disposed in the first opening, and including a plurality of layers including a seed layer in contact with the support member; and an external electrode disposed on an external surface of the body and electrically connected to the coil pattern. The support member may have a multilayer structure of at least first and second insulating layers, and the via hole may penetrate through both of the first and second insulating layers.

An electrically insulated electric conductor strip (1), in particular for electric motors and transformers, having a strip-like electric conductor (2) which has an upper cover surface (2a) and a lower cover surface (2b), two side edge surfaces (2c) and, at each end, an end edge surface, and having electrical insulation (3), which is arranged on at least one cover surface of the strip (2a, 2b). In order to create a conductor strip (1) of this kind which can be produced with reduced effort but has a high electrical insulation effect, the insulation comprises a paint layer (3a) and an adhesive strip (3b), which is adhered to the lower cover surface (2b) and/or the upper cover surface (2a) of the strip-like electrical conductor (2), more specifically at least in a region (4) in each case which borders a side edge surface (2c), the paint layer (3a) being beneath the adhesive tape (3b) and at least directly on the lower cover surface (2b) and/or on the upper surface (2a).

An inductance element includes a magnetic core and a coil having a portion embedded in the magnetic core. This portion includes a wound portion formed by winging a wire-shaped coil material including a wire-shaped conductive material and an insulating coating. The insulating coating includes a thin-walled portion reduced in thickness. A biting ratio R is defined by formula: R=ds/B, which is from 0.4 to 0.85 inclusive, where B is the average thickness of inter-coil insulating coatings, and ds is an upper biting limit obtained by measuring a biting depth, approximating a frequency distribution of the results by a normal distribution, and computing, as the upper biting limit, the sum of the mean da of the normal distribution and the product of 3.99 and the standard deviation σ. The biting depth is obtained by subtracting, from the average thickness B, the thickness of the thin-walled portion.

A coil component includes a body, a support substrate disposed within the body, a coil unit disposed on the support substrate, a noise removal unit disposed to be spaced apart from the coil unit within the body and having an end exposed to one side surface of the body, first and second external electrodes disposed to be spaced apart from each other at the body and OPP-2020-2741-US connected to both ends of the coil unit, and a third external electrode disposed to be spaced apart from each of the first and second external electrodes within the body and connected to the noise removal unit, wherein the noise removal unit includes a wall portion disposed outside of an outermost side turn of the coil unit at the support substrate and surrounding the outermost side turn of the coil unit and a cover portion disposed on the coil unit.

A coil component includes a body, a support substrate disposed within the body, a coil disposed on at least one surface of the support substrate, and first and second external electrodes disposed to be spaced apart from each other on the body and connected to the coil. The coil unit includes a first conductive layer disposed on the support substrate, a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer and spaced apart from the support substrate, and a third conductive layer disposed on the second conductive layer to cover at least a portion of a side surface of the second conductive layer and spaced apart from the support substrate to expose a side surface of the first conductive layer.

A coil component includes: a body; an insulating layer disposed in the body; a coil portion including a first coil pattern embedded in the insulating layer and having a first surface exposed to a first surface of the insulating layer and a second coil pattern disposed on a second surface of the insulating layer, facing the first surface of the insulating layer; and a noise removing portion disposed in the insulating layer and spaced apart from the first and second coil patterns, respectively.

A multilayer substrate includes a stacked body of insulating base material layers and conductor patterns on the insulating base material layers. A thickness adjustment base material layer includes a frame portion, an opening portion inside the frame portion, and an island shaped portion inside the frame portion, and connection portions to connect the island shaped portion to the frame portion. The conductor patterns, in a stacking direction of the insulating base material layers, are wound around the island shaped portion. A line width of the connection portions is smaller than the width of the island shaped portion connected to the frame portion through the connection portions. An area overlapped with the conductor patterns is larger in the opening portion than in the frame portion and the island shaped portion.