An electronic component includes: an element body in which a plurality of insulator layers are stacked; a coil in which a plurality of inner conductors installed in the element body are electrically connected to each other; and an outer electrode that is disposed on an outer surface of the element body, is electrically connected to the coil, and includes at least a baked electrode layer. The inner conductor connected to the outer electrode includes a connection conductor that electrically connects the baked electrode layer to the inner conductor. The connection conductor includes a protruding portion that protrudes from the outer surface of the element body to the outer electrode. The protruding portion includes a metal having a smaller diffusion coefficient than a metal of a main component included in the baked electrode layer. The inner conductors have a lower electric resistance value than the metal included in the protruding portion.

A coil electronic component includes a body comprising a magnetic material, an insulating substrate comprising a support portion disposed inside the body, and a tip extending from the support portion and exposed from an external surface of the body, a coil portion disposed on the support portion, and a lead-out portion extending from one end of the coil portion, disposed on the tip, and exposed from the external surface of the body. The lead-out portion has a slit exposed from the external surface of the body.

A coupled inductor has two coils made by film processes, wherein a first coil is disposed on a top surface of a magnetic sheet and a second coil is disposed on a bottom surface of the magnetic sheet, for controlling the variations of the gap between the two coils in a smaller range.

Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a coil part having a structure in which a plurality of conductor layers each having a coil pattern are stacked in a coil axis direction through a plurality of interlayer insulating films, a first magnetic layer covering the coil part in the coil axis direction, and a second magnetic layer positioned in an inner diameter area of the coil part. The plurality of interlayer insulating films include a first interlayer insulating film positioned closest to the first magnetic layer. The first and second magnetic layers contact each other through an opening formed in the first interlayer insulating film. The opening has a shape whose diameter increases as a distance from an interface between the first and second magnetic layers increases.

There are provided an inductor and a method of manufacturing the same. The inductor includes: a body including a plurality of coil layers and high-rigidity insulating layers disposed on and beneath the plurality of coil layers; and external electrodes disposed on external surfaces of the body and connected to the coil layers. Build-up insulating layers are disposed between the high-rigidity insulating layers to cover the coil layers, and the high-rigidity insulating layers have a Young's modulus greater than that of the build-up insulating layers.

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.

In an exemplary embodiment, a coil component includes: an element body part 10 and a coil 30 of spiral shape constituted by multiple turn units 32 connected in a coil axial direction; wherein each turn unit 32 has, in a cross-sectional view in the width direction of the turn unit 32, a flat side 40 that extends in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the coil axis of the coil 30; and the point of intersection 48 between a figure line 42 corresponding to the longest part in a first direction, and a figure line 44 corresponding to the longest part in the second direction, with respect to the coil axis, is positioned on the figure line 42 within one-quarter of the figure line away from one end 50 on the side 40 or from the other end 52 opposing the side 40.

Disclosed are a waterproof transformer coil structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The waterproof transformer coil structure includes: an insulating cylinder configured for supporting a transformer coil; a strut configured for being wound with the transformer coil, where the strut is mounted on the insulating cylinder, and the strut is provided with strip-shaped notches; and a winding wire, where the winding wire is wound on the strip-shaped notches.

A mixture for making a multilayer inductor, wherein the mixture comprises a first magnetic powder, a second magnetic powder, and a glass material, wherein each of the first magnetic powder and the second magnetic powder comprises an amorphous or nanocrystalline magnetic powder, wherein a softening point temperature of the glass material is in a range of 300°˜430° C.

A coil component includes: a body having one surface and the other surface opposing each other and a plurality of walls connecting the one surface and the other surface to each other; a coil portion disposed within the body; first and second external electrodes disposed on the one surface of the body while being spaced apart from each other and connected to the coil portion; a first insulating layer disposed on the other surface of the body and extending to at least a portion of each of the plurality of walls of the body; and a second insulating layer disposed on the one surface of the body.