A multilayer coil component includes an inner conductor, a component element assembly including the inner conductor, and outer conductors disposed at respective end portions of the component element assembly. The component element assembly has a first region in which the primary component is composed of a magnetic material and which may contain a nonmagnetic material and second regions which are disposed at respective end portions of the first region and which contain at least a nonmagnetic material. Each second region is disposed having a greater volume content of the nonmagnetic material than the first region such that, for example, the difference in the volume content results about 25% by volume or more. The coil portion of the inner conductor is embedded in the first region, and the length of the second region is greater than or equal to the length of the side-surface folded portion of the outer conductor.

A printed circuit board module comprises: a first printed circuit board; a second printed circuit board arranged on one surface of the first printed circuit board; a third printed circuit board arranged on the other surface of the first printed circuit board; and a core passing through the first printed circuit board to the third printed circuit board, wherein the second printed circuit board includes a first coil, the third printed circuit board includes a second coil, and the cross-sectional area of the second printed circuit board and the third printed circuit board is less than the cross-sectional area of the first printed circuit board.

A coil component includes a base body containing metal magnetic particles and a binder binding together the metal magnetic particles and having a first surface extending along a coil axis and a second surface opposing the first surface, a first external electrode provided on the base body, a second external electrode provided on the base body, and a coil conductor electrically connected to the first and second external electrodes and extending around the coil axis. In one embodiment, the coil conductor has a winding portion, the winding portion has first conductor portions and one or more second conductor portions smaller in number than the first conductor portions, and the first and second conductor portions alternate with and are connected to each other, and a distance between the first conductor portions and the first surface is less than a distance between the second conductor portions and the second surface.

A multilayer electronic device may include a plurality of dielectric layers and a signal path having an input and an output. An inductor may include a conductive layer formed on one of the plurality of dielectric layers and may be electrically connected at a first location with the signal path and electrically connected at a second location with at least one of the signal path or a ground. The inductor may include an outer perimeter that includes a first straight edge facing outward in a first direction and a second straight edge parallel to the first straight edge and facing outward in the first direction. The second straight edge may be offset from the first straight edge by an offset distance that is less than about 500 microns and less than about 90% of a first width of the inductor in the first direction at the first straight edge.

Auto balancing transformers are disclosed for balancing a multi-phase electrical system by varying the degree of electromagnetic coupling between primary and secondary winding. The auto-balancing transformer includes a movable to selectively couple primary phases with two or fewer phases of the secondary system.

Zinc is added to a metal magnetic alloy powder including iron and silicon. An element is formed using this magnetic material, and a coil is formed inside or on the surface of the element.

A band pass filter includes parallel resonators. An inductor of a first parallel resonator at an intermediate stage is divided into a first inductor and a second inductor connected in parallel with each other. The first inductor and an inductor of a second parallel resonator are in magnetic coupling with each other, and the second inductor and an inductor of a third parallel resonator are in magnetic coupling with each other.

An electronic component includes a second inductor including a second inductor conductor that includes a first coupling portion electrically coupled to a second capacitor conductor and a second coupling portion electrically coupled to a second ground conductor, and when viewed in a plan view from a lamination direction, a first region surrounded by a first inductor conductor and the second inductor conductor is smaller in area than a second region surrounded by a third inductor conductor layer and the second inductor conductor, and a second region forming portion, which is included in the second inductor conductor and surrounds the second region, and a first region forming portion, which is included in the second inductor conductor and surrounds the first region, are electrically coupled in series in this order on a path from the first coupling portion to the second coupling portion.

A laminated electronic component in which magnetic body layers and conductor patterns are laminated, and the conductor patterns between the magnetic body layers are connected to form a coil within a laminated body. The magnetic body layers are formed from a metal magnetic body. At least one lead-out conductor pattern of the coil is connected with an external terminal formed on an undersurface of the laminated body through a conductor formed at a corner of the laminated body.

An axial field rotary energy device has a PCB stator panel assembly between rotors with an axis of rotation. Each rotor has a magnet. The PCB stator panel assembly includes PCB panels. Each PCB panel can have layers, and each layer can have conductive coils. The PCB stator panel assembly can have a thermally conductive layer that extends from an inner diameter portion to an outer diameter portion thereof. Each PCB panel comprises discrete, PCB radial segments that are mechanically and electrically coupled together to form the respective PCB panels.