A punch processing method for a laminated iron core includes sequentially feeding the steel sheets to a mold; and performing a plurality of processes in the mold, the plurality of processes includes fixing the steel sheets being stacked to each other at a first fixing part that is positioned outside a closed curved line corresponding to an outermost periphery of the laminated iron core and a second fixing part that is positioned in a portion that finally serves as the laminated iron core; and performing punch processing on the outermost periphery of the laminated iron core while the steel sheets are stacked.

A method for assembling a magnetic inductor for an electromagnetic pump comprising the following steps: providing a plurality of magnetic laminations having a cross section of an involute of a circle; assembling the plurality of magnetic laminations by fitting same into an inductor core; cutting out at least one housing for an elementary coil; providing and placing an elementary coil inside each housing formed in the cutting step and thereby forming the magnetic inductor. Further, a magnetic inductor formed by implementing such a method and an electromagnetic pump including at least one magnetic inductor.

Provided is an electromagnetic field shielding plate, etc., in which it is possible to reduce weight while achieving high shielding performance from relatively high-frequency electromagnetic fields. The electromagnetic field shielding plate is configured by layering a permalloy layer 3 comprising a plate or sheet of permalloy, and an amorphous layer 1 comprising an Fe—Si—B—Cu—Nb-based amorphous plate or sheet.

A coil component that can be made thinner while ensuring sufficient magnetic characteristics includes a magnetic part, a conductor part, and multiple insulator parts. The magnetic part is constituted by magnetic alloy grains. The conductor part has multiple winding parts and is wound around one axis inside the magnetic part. The multiple insulator parts are each placed between the multiple winding parts, each having a winding shape that includes two joining surfaces that are respectively joined to two winding parts facing each other at least partially in the direction of the one axis, and are each constituted by electrically insulating grains.

An inductor component comprises an element body; first and second inductors in the body; first and second columnar wirings in the body with end surfaces exposed from a first principal surface of the body and electrically connected to the first inductor; third and fourth columnar wirings in the body with end surfaces exposed from the first principal surface and electrically connected to the second inductor; first through fourth external terminals contacting the end surfaces of the first through fourth columnar wirings, respectively; and an insulating film on the first principal surface covering a portion of the end surface of the first and third columnar wiring not contacting the first and third terminals, respectively. The first terminal is closer to the third terminal than the fourth terminal, and a shortest distance between the first and third terminals is longer than a shortest distance between the first and third columnar wirings.

A material for laminated iron cores is used as plural steel sheets to be overlapped with one another and punched when a laminated iron core is manufactured. A surface roughness of the steel sheets forming the material for laminated iron cores is at an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 0.40 [μm] or less, and a sheet thickness deviation in a sheet width direction of at least a portion used as the laminated iron core is 3 [μm] or less per 500 [mm], the portion being of the steel sheets forming the material for laminated iron cores.

A glass-ceramic-ferrite composition containing a glass, a ferrite, and a ceramic filler, in which the glass contains, by weight, about 0.5% to about 5.0% R.sub.2O (R represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, and K), about 5.0% or less Al.sub.2O.sub.3, about 10.0% to about 25.0% B.sub.2O.sub.3, and about 70.0% to 85.0% SiO.sub.2 with respect to the total weight of the glass, the percentage by weight of the ferrite is about 10% to 80% with respect to the total weight of the composition, the ceramic filler contains at least forsterite selected from forsterite and quartz, the percentage by weight of the forsterite is about 1% to about 10% with respect to the total weight of the composition, and the percentage by weight of the quartz is about 40% or less with respect to the total weight of the composition.

A chip inductor comprises a laminate including a plurality of sheets stacked therein; a coil disposed in the laminate and including an exposed portion, in which a portion of the coil is exposed outwardly of at least one surface of the laminate; and a non-magnetic insulating layer disposed on an external surface of the laminate to cover the exposed portion of the coil.

A method for manufacturing a magnetic flux concentrator structure comprises the steps of: providing a first stack comprising a plurality of laminated layers, each of said laminated layers being of a first soft ferromagnetic material; providing a second stack comprising a plurality of laminated layers, each of said laminated layers being of a second soft ferromagnetic material having a different magnetic hysteresis from said first soft ferromagnetic material; annealing separately said first and said second stack; assembling said annealed first stack and said annealed second stack to obtain said magnetic flux concentrator structure.

A device and a method for connecting sheet metal parts to form lamination stacks in which sheet metal parts are separated from an electrical steel strip using a stamping stage equipped with a punch, wherein the electrical steel strip has a thermally activatable hot-melt adhesive varnish layer on at least one of its flat sides, the separated sheet metal parts are stacked and integrally bonded to one another to form multiple lamination stacks through activation of the hot-melt adhesive varnish layer, wherein a parting compound is applied to the electrical steel strip and/or separated sheet metal part in order to make it easier to divide the stacked sheet metal parts into lamination stacks. In order to achieve advantageous conditions, it is proposed for the punch of the stamping stage to apply a liquid fluid as a parting compound onto the electrical steel strip and/or separated sheet metal part.