A method for manufacturing a coil component includes: a first winding step to wind a first conductive wire around a winding core in a single layer from a first flange part toward a second flange part; and a second winding step to wind a second conductive wire around the winding core on the first conductive wire by the same number of turns and in the same direction as in the first winding step in a single layer in a manner that center B of the cross-section of the second conductive wire closest to the first flange part is positioned closer to the first flange part than is center A of the cross-section of the first conductive wire closest to the first flange part, and that the distance in the axial direction, between centers A and B is smaller than the radius of the wire.

The present invention relates to an installation and method for winding an elongated flexible inductor, the proposed installation comprising a first conveyor (11) for moving the elongated flexible inductor (1) in a conveyance direction, supported on a conveyance surface (12); a retaining device (13) for fixing the flexible inductor (1) to said conveyance surface (12); winding means for winding a metallic lead wire (30) around a section of the flexible inductor (1) not supported on said conveyance surface (12), comprising at least one lead wire reel (31), a lead wire feed device (32) and a turning device (33), a holding device (20) provided for holding a portion of the already wound flexible inductor (1), being located opposite and spaced from the end of the first conveyor by a minimum predetermined distance, defining a winding area (50) susceptible to being accessed by said lead wire feed device (32); said turning device (33) causing the simultaneous turning of the first conveyor and of said holding device.

In one aspect a support member is provided. The support member is for forming an inductor coil of an aerosol provision device, and defines an axis about which a multistrand wire of the inductor coil is windable. An outer surface of the support member comprises a channel to receive the wire. In another aspect there is provided a method of forming an inductor coil for an aerosol provision device. The method comprises providing a multi-strand wire comprising a plurality of wire strands, wherein at least one of the plurality of wire strands comprises a bondable coating; winding the multi-strand wire around a support member defining an axis; activating the bondable coating such that the multi-strand wire substantially retains a shape determined by the support member; reducing a cross-sectional width of the support member in a direction perpendicular to the axis; and removing the multistrand wire from the support member.

According to an embodiment, a scanning coil includes a bobbin, a conducting wire, and a resin for fixing the conducting wire. The bobbin includes a main body having a truncated conical cylindrical outer shape in an integrated or assembled state and made of an electrically insulating material, a wire-laying path which is formed in the main body and in which a conducting wire is installed, and a plurality of holding parts formed along the wire-laying path on an inner peripheral surface side of the main body and with axial intervals therebetween.

A method for producing a guidewire, the method includes producing a position sensor by providing a shaft-section having a solid profile, which is sized and shaped to move in an anatomical material transportation system. A wire is wound around an axis of the shaft-section and first and second ends of the wire are coupled to respective first and second locations on an outer surface of the shaft-section. A guidewire-shaft is provided, and the position sensor is coupled to a distal end of the guidewire-shaft.

A common-mode choke coil includes a core having a winding core portion, a first winding and a second winding. A winding start side region ranges from one end portion to a position where a first winding is brought into contact with the winding core portion, and a winding finish side region ranges from the other end portion to a position where a second winding is brought into contact with the winding core portion. The first winding is wound on the winding core portion such that the first winding is positioned on a negative direction side in an x axis direction with respect to the second winding at the same turn in the winding start side region and the second winding is interposed between the first winding and the winding core portion in the winding finish side region.

A common-mode choke coil includes a core having a winding core portion, a first winding and a second winding. A winding start side region ranges from one end portion to a position where a first winding is brought into contact with the winding core portion, and a winding finish side region ranges from the other end portion to a position where a second winding is brought into contact with the winding core portion. The first winding is wound on the winding core portion such that the first winding is positioned on a negative direction side in an x axis direction with respect to the second winding at the same turn in the winding start side region and the second winding is interposed between the first winding and the winding core portion in the winding finish side region.

A coil winding apparatus includes: a cylindrical core rod nozzle configured to allow insertion of a narrowed core rod; a wire rod feeding unit configured to feeding a wire rod to the core rod nozzle; a wire rod holding tool configured to hold the wire rod fed from the wire rod feeding unit; a core rod winding unit configured to wind the wire rod drawn from the wire rod feeding unit by rotating the wire rod holding tool around the core rod nozzle; a core rod drawing unit configured to draw the core rod from the core rod nozzle; and a coil drawing unit configured to draw a wound wire formed by winding the wire rod on an outer periphery of the core rod nozzle from the core rod nozzle.

The present invention relates to a coil (1) for an inductor (6), comprised by metal wire (2) wound circular around a centre axis (C), wherein the wire has an electrically insulating layer (3) insulating each turn of the wire in the winding from neighbouring turns, the shape of the complete winding, building up the coil (1), is substantially toroidal having a substantially elliptic cross section, wherein the thermal heat conductivity is above 1 W/m*K more preferably above 1.2 and most preferably above 1.5. The invention further relates to a magnetic core (7) suitable for an inductor (6), where in the core is made of a soft magnetic composite material made of metallic particles and a binder material, said particles are in the range of 1 m-1000 m, particles that are larger than 150 m are coated with a ceramic surface to provide particle to particle electrical insulation, wherein the volume of magnetic, metallic particles to total core volume is 0.5-0.9. The invention still further relates to an inductor (6) being a combination of said coil (1) and core (7), wherein the substantially all of said particles in the core are magnetically aligned with the magnetic field of the coil. The invention still further relates to the manufacturing methods of such a coil (1) and core (7).

The present invention relates to a coil (1) for an inductor (6), comprised by metal wire (2) wound circular around a centre axis (C), wherein the wire has an electrically insulating layer (3) insulating each turn of the wire in the winding from neighbouring turns, the shape of the complete winding, building up the coil (1), is substantially toroidal having a substantially elliptic cross section, wherein the thermal heat conductivity is above 1 W/m*K more preferably above 1.2 and most preferably above 1.5. The invention further relates to a magnetic core (7) suitable for an inductor (6), where in the core is made of a soft magnetic composite material made of metallic particles and a binder material, said particles are in the range of 1 m-1000 m, particles that are larger than 150 m are coated with a ceramic surface to provide particle to particle electrical insulation, wherein the volume of magnetic, metallic particles to total core volume is 0.5-0.9. The invention still further relates to an inductor (6) being a combination of said coil (1) and core (7), wherein the substantially all of said particles in the core are magnetically aligned with the magnetic field of the coil. The invention still further relates to the manufacturing methods of such a coil (1) and core (7).