This application claims benefit of priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2019-0081383 filed on Jul. 5, 2019 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to a coil component.
An inductor is a coil component and is a representative passive electronic component used in electronic devices, together with resistors and capacitors.
A high frequency (HF) inductor is a kind of coil component that is used in a high frequency band of 100 MHz or more, and is used for noise reduction of a signal terminal or impedance matching.
Such a HF inductor is typically formed by stacking a plurality of dielectric ceramic green sheets in which a conductor paste is printed in a coil shape and sintering the stack. In this case, each turn of the coil is formed in a three-dimensional helix formed in a stacking direction of the green sheet, which may be disadvantageous in efforts to thin the component.
An aspect of the present disclosure is to provide a coil component for high frequency capable of having a low-profile.
Another aspect of the present disclosure is to provide a coil component with improved component characteristics in a high frequency band.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a coil component includes a nonmagnetic body having a cured product of a polymer resin, an insulating substrate embedded in the body and having a thickness of 30 μm or less, a coil portion including first and second coil patterns respectively disposed on first and second opposing surfaces of the insulating substrate, and first and second external electrodes disposed on a surface of the body to be respectively connected to the first and second coil patterns exposed to the surface of the body.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a coil component includes an insulating substrate having a thickness of 30 μm or less, a coil portion including a planar spiral coil pattern having a plurality turns disposed on at least one surface of the insulating substrate, and a body including nonmagnetic powder and a polymer resin, the body having the insulating substrate and the coil portion embedded therein and having a thickness of 0.65 mm or less. The body is in contact with the coil planar spiral pattern and fills spaces between adjacent turns of the plurality of turns of the planar spiral coil pattern.
According to a further aspect of the present disclosure, a coil component includes a support substrate having a through-hole extending therethrough, a coil portion including a spiral shaped coil pattern disposed on at least one surface of the support member to extend around the through-hole, and a nonmagnetic body having the support substrate and coil portion embedded therein, extending through the through-hole of the support substrate, and extending between adjacent windings of the spiral shaped coil pattern.
The above and other aspects, features, and advantages of the present disclosure will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described as follows with reference to the attached drawings. The terms used in the example embodiments are used to simply describe an example embodiment, and are not intended to limit the present disclosure. A singular term includes a plural form unless otherwise indicated. The terms, “include,” “comprise,” “is configured to,” etc. of the description are used to indicate the presence of features, numbers, steps, operations, elements, parts or combination thereof, and do not exclude the possibilities of combination or addition of one or more other features, numbers, steps, operations, elements, parts or combination thereof. Also, the term “disposed on,” “positioned on,” and the like, may indicate that an element is positioned below an object, and does not necessarily mean that the element is positioned on the object with reference to a gravity direction.
The term “coupled to,” “combined to,” and the like, may not only indicate that elements are directly and physically in contact with each other, but also include configurations in which one or more other elements are interposed between the elements such that the elements are also in contact with the other elements.
Sizes and thicknesses of elements illustrated in the drawings are indicated as examples for ease of description, and example embodiments in the present disclosure are not limited thereto.
In the drawings, an L direction is a first direction or a length direction, a W direction is a second direction and a width direction, and a T direction is a third direction or a thickness direction.
In the descriptions and the accompanied drawings, the same elements or elements corresponding to each other will be described using the same reference numerals, and overlapped descriptions will not be repeated.
In electronic devices, various types of electronic components may be used, and various types of coil components may be used between the electronic components to remove noise, or for other purposes. In other words, in electronic devices, a coil component may be used as a power inductor, a high frequency inductor, a general bead, a high frequency bead, a common mode filter, and the like.
Meanwhile, hereinafter, it will be described that the coil component according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a high frequency inductor used in a high frequency band (100 MHz or more), but the scope of the present disclosure is not limited thereto.
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The body 100 forms an exterior of the coil component 1000 according to the present embodiment, and the body 100 embeds the insulating substrate 200 and the coil portion 300 therein.
The body 100 may have a substantially hexahedral shape as a whole.
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The body 100 may be formed such that the coil component 1000, in which the external electrodes 400 and 500 to be described later are formed, has a length of 2.0 mm, a width of 1.2 mm, and a thickness of 0.65 mm, but is not limited thereto. Alternately, the body 100 may be formed such that the coil component 1000 according to the present embodiment in which the external electrodes 400 and 500 are formed, has a length of 2.0 mm, a width of 1.6 mm, and a thickness of 0.55 mm. Alternately, the body 100 may be formed such that the coil component 1000 according to the present embodiment in which the external electrodes 400 and 500 are formed, has a length of 2.0 mm, a width of 1.2 mm, and a thickness of 0.55 mm. Alternately, the body 100 may be formed such that the coil component 1000 according to the present embodiment in which the external electrodes 400 and 500 are formed, has a length of 1.2 mm, a width of 1.0 mm, and a thickness of 0.55 mm. However, since the size of the coil component 1000 according to the present embodiment as described above is merely an example, it is not excluded from the scope of the present disclosure that the coil component 1000 may be formed to have a size less than or equal to the size described above.
The body 100 may be formed of a nonmagnetic material, such as a material including a cured product R of a polymer resin. As an example, in the present embodiment, the body 100 may be formed by stacking at least one or more insulating sheets including a thermosetting polymer resin, a curing agent, a curing accelerator, and the like formed of a nonmagnetic material on both surfaces of the insulating substrate 200 on which the coil portion 300 to be described later is formed, and then thermosetting the stacked insulating sheets. In the present specification, the nonmagnetic material may refer to a material having relative magnetic permeability close to 1 (e.g., a relative magnetic permeability of 1.5 or less, a relative magnetic permeability of 1.05 or less, or the like) and hardly affected by an external magnetic field. Therefore, the nonmagnetic in this specification may include a paramagnetic material and a diamagnetic material.
The cured product R of the polymer resin may be formed by thermosetting a thermosetting polymer resin, one of an epoxy, a polyimide, a liquid crystal polymer, or the like, alone or in combination thereof, but a material of the cured product is not limited thereto.
The body 100 includes a core 110 penetrating the coil portion 300 to be described later. The core 110 may be formed by filling at least a portion of composite sheets in a through hole of the coil portion 300, in a process of stacking and curing the composite sheets, but is not limited thereto.
The insulating substrate 200 is embedded in the body 100. The insulating substrate 200 is configured to support the coil portion 300 to be described later.
The insulating layer 200 may be formed of an insulating material including a thermosetting insulating resin such as an epoxy resin, a thermoplastic insulating resin such as a polyimide, or a photosensitive insulating resin, or may be formed of an insulating material in which a reinforcing material such as a glass fiber or an inorganic filler is impregnated with such an insulating resin. For example, the insulating layer 200 may be formed of an insulating material such as prepreg, Ajinomoto build-up film (ABF), FR-4, a bismaleimide triazine (BT) resin, a photoimageable dielectric (PID) film, and the like, but is not limited thereto.
As an inorganic filler, at least one or more materials selected from a group consisting of silica (SiO2), alumina (Al2O3), silicon carbide (SiC), barium sulfate (BaSO4), talc, mud, a mica powder, aluminium hydroxide (Al(OH)3), magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)2), calcium carbonate (CaCO3), magnesium carbonate (MgCO3), magnesium oxide (MgO), boron nitride (BN), aluminum borate (AlBO3), barium titanate (BaTiO3), and calcium zirconate (CaZrO3) may be used.
When the insulating layer 200 is formed of an insulating material including a reinforcing material, the insulating layer 200 may provide improved stiffness. When the insulating layer 200 is formed of an insulating material which does not include a glass fiber, the insulating layer 200 may be advantageous in reducing an overall thickness of the coil portion 300. When the insulating layer 200 is formed of an insulating material including a photosensitive insulating resin, the number of processes for forming the coil portion 300 may be reduced such that manufacturing costs may be reduced, and a fine via may be formed.
In the present embodiment, the insulating substrate 200 includes an insulating resin 210 and a glass cloth 220 impregnated in the insulating resin 210. As an example without limitation, the insulating substrate 200 may be formed by using a copper clad laminate CCL. The glass cloth 220 may mean that a plurality of glass fibers are woven.
The glass cloth may be formed of a plurality of layers. When the glass cloth is formed of a plurality of layers, rigidity of the insulating substrate 200 may be further improved. In addition, even if the insulating substrate 200 is damaged in a process of removing portions of first conductive layers 311a and 312a to be described later, a shape of the insulating substrate 200 may be maintained to reduce a defect rate.
A thickness T1 of the insulating substrate 200 may be 10 μm or more and 30 μm or less. When the thickness T1 of the insulating substrate 200 is less than 10 μm, it may be difficult to secure sufficient rigidity in the insulating substrate 200, and thus it may be difficult to support the coil portion 300 to be described later in a manufacturing process. When the thickness T1 of the insulating substrate 200 exceeds 30 μm, it may be disadvantageous to thinning the coil component, and in the body 100 having the same volume, a volume occupied by the insulating substrate 200 may increase and the volume that can be occupied by the coil portion 300 may be reduced.
The coil portion 300 includes planar spiral coil patterns 311 and 312 disposed on the insulating substrate 200, and is embedded in the body 100 to exhibit characteristics of the coil component. For example, when the coil component 1000 of the present embodiment is utilized as a high frequency (HF) inductor, used in the high frequency band (100 MHz or more), the coil portion 300 may serve to remove noise of a signal terminal or matching impedance.
The coil portion 300 includes first and second coil patterns 311 and 312, and a via 320. Specifically, based on directions of
The first and second coil patterns 311 and 312 each have a planar spiral shape in which a plurality of turns are formed around the core 110 as a central axis thereof. As an example, the first coil pattern 311 may be wound around the core 110 as a central axis on a lower surface of the insulating substrate 200 based on the direction of
End portions of the first and second coil patterns 311 and 312 are connected to first and second external electrodes 400 and 500 to be described later. That is, the end portion of the first coil pattern 311 is connected to the first external electrode 400, and the end portion of the second coil pattern 312 is connected to the second external electrode 500.
As an example, the end portion of the first coil pattern 311 may be exposed to the first surface 101 of the body 100, and end portion of the second coil pattern 312 may be exposed to the second surface 102 of the body 100. Each end portion may thus be connected to be in contact with a respective one of the first and second external electrodes 400 and 500 disposed on the first and second surfaces 101 and 102 of the body.
Each of the first and second coil patterns 311 and 312 includes first conductive layers 311a and 312a formed in contact with the insulating substrate 200 and second conductive layers 311b and 312b disposed in the first and second conductive layers 311a and 312a. The first coil pattern 311 includes the first conductive layer 311a formed in contact with the lower surface of the insulating substrate 200 and the second conductive layer 311b disposed to cover the first conductive layer 311a, based on directions of
The first conductive layers 311a and 312a may be seed layers for forming the second conductive layers 311b and 312b by electroplating. The first conductive layers 311a and 312a, serving as the seed layers of the second conductive layers 311b and 312b, may be formed to be thinner than the second conductive layers 311b and 312b. The first conductive layers 311a and 312a may be formed by a thin film process such as sputtering or the like, or an electroless plating process. When the first conductive layers 311a and 312a are formed by the thin film process such as sputtering or the like, at least a portion of a material constituting the first conductive layers 311a and 312a may have a shape penetrating into the insulating substrate 200. It can be confirmed that a difference occurs in concentrations of a metal material constituting the first conductive layers 311a and 312a in a thickness direction T of the body 100.
Thicknesses of the first conductive layers 311a and 312a may be 0.5 μm or more and 3 μm or less. When the thicknesses of the first conductive layers 311a and 312a are less than 0.5 μm, it may be difficult to implement the first conductive layers 311a and 312a. When the thicknesses of the first conductive layers 311a and 312a exceed 3 μm, at least portions of the first conductive layers 311a and 312a may remain even after the first conductive layers 311a and 312a is removed by etching from regions other than (or except for) a region in which the second conductive layers 311b and 312b are to be formed by plating. Additionally or alternatively, when the thicknesses of the first conductive layers 311a and 312a exceed 3 μm, removal of the first conductive layers 311a and 312a from regions other than a region in which the second conductive layers 311b and 312b are to be formed may necessitate excessive etching which may result in the second conductive layers 311b and 312b themselves also being etched and removed.
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Meanwhile, in the present embodiment, as described above, the coil component 1000 is formed by first forming the coil portion 300 on the insulating substrate 200, and then laminating and curing the insulating sheet on the insulating substrate 200. Therefore, the present embodiment is distinguished from a technique in which an insulating layer that serves as a body is first formed on the insulating substrate, the insulating layer is patterned into a coil-shaped form having an opening portion, and then the coil portion is formed in the opening portion of the coil-shaped form with plating by a conductive material. In a latter case, a seed layer for electroplating is formed along an inner surface (inner wall and bottom) of the opening portion of the coil-shaped opening. Meanwhile, due to the difference in the method described above, in the present embodiment, in comparison with the latter case, the first conductive layers 311a and 312a of each turn are not formed on the side surfaces of the second conductive layers 311b and 312b. That is, in the present embodiment compared with the latter case, the side surfaces of the second conductive layers 311b and 312b of each turn come into direct contact with the body 100. In the latter technique, as a result of the seed layer being formed along the inner surfaces of the opening, plating growth occurs from the inner surface and the bottom of the opening which may give rise to a void occurring and a defect occurring and provide a limit to increasing an aspect ratio of the opening (AR, substantially similar to the aspect ratio of a turn of the coil since the turn of the coil is formed in the opening). In the present embodiment, since the first conductive layers 311a and 312a (i.e., the seed layers of the second conductive layers 311b and 312b) are only disposed on a lower side of the second conductive layers 311b and 312b, the above-described problem may be solved. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the aspect ratio AR of each turn of the coil patterns 311 and 312 may be higher.
A via 320 may include at least one conductive layer. For example, when the via 320 is formed by electroplating, the via 320 may include a seed layer formed on an inner wall of the via hole penetrating through the insulating substrate 200 and an electroplating layer filling the via hole on which the seed layer is formed. The seed layer of the via 320 is formed together with the first conductive layers 311a and 312a in the same process to be integrally formed, or the seed layer of the via 320 is formed in a different process from that of the first conductive layers 311a and 312a, such that a boundary therebetween may be formed.
When a line width of each turn of the coil patterns 311 and 312 is too small and/or the thickness of each turn is too large, a coupling force between the body 100 and the coil patterns 311 and 312 may be a problem. As a non-limiting example, an aspect ratio AR of each turn of the coil patterns 311 and 312 may be 3:1 to 9:1.
Each of the coil patterns 311 and 312 and the via 320 may be formed of a conductive material such as copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), silver (Ag), tin (Sn), gold (Au), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), titanium (Ti), chromium (Cr), molybdenum (Mo) or alloys thereof, but a material thereof is not limited thereto. As a non-limiting example, when the first conductive layers 311a and 312a are formed by sputtering and the second conductive layers 311b and 312b are formed by electroplating, the first conductive layers 311a and 312a may include at least one of molybdenum (Mo), chromium (Cr), and titanium (Ti), and the second conductive layers 311b and 312b may include copper (Cu). As another non-limiting example, when the first conductive layers 311a and 312a are formed by electroless plating while the second conductive layers 311b and 312b are formed by electroplating, each of the first conductive layers 311a and 312a and the second conductive layers 311b and 312b may include copper (Cu). In this case, density of copper (Cu) in the first conductive layers 311a and 312a may be lower than density of copper (Cu) in the second conductive layers 311b and 312b. As another non-limiting example, the first conductive layers 311a and 312a may be formed of a plurality of layers by arbitrarily combining a sputtering method and an electroless plating method.
External electrodes 400 and 500 are disposed on the surface of the body 100 and are connected to the coil portion 300 exposed to the surface of the body 100. In the present embodiment, one end portion of the first coil pattern 311 is exposed to the first surface 101 of the body 100, and one end portion of the second coil pattern 312 is exposed to the second surface 102 of the body 100. Therefore, the first external electrode 400 is disposed on the first surface 101 and is connected to be in contact with the end portion of the first coil pattern 311 exposed to the first surface 101 of the body 100, and the second external electrode 500 is disposed on the second surface 102 and is connected to be in contact with the end portion of the second coil pattern 312 exposed to the second surface 102 of the body 100.
The external electrodes 400 and 500 may each be formed as a single layer or a plurality of layers. For example, the first external electrode 400 may be comprised of a first layer including copper (Cu), a second layer disposed on the first layer and including nickel (Ni), and a third layer disposed on the second layer and including tin (Sn). Here, the first layer may include a seed layer formed by a vapor deposition method such as electroless plating or sputtering. Each of the second and third layers may be formed by electroplating, but is not limited thereto. As another example, the first external electrode 400 may include a resin electrode including conductive powder and a resin, and a plating layer plated and formed on the resin electrode. The resin electrode may be formed by screen printing or applying a conductive paste containing conductive powder and a resin and then curing the conductive paste.
The external electrodes 400 and 500 may include a conductive material such as copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), silver (Ag), tin (Sn), gold (Au), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), titanium (Ti), or alloys thereof, but a material thereof is not limited thereto.
The external electrodes 400 and 500 may cover the first and second surfaces 101 and 102 of the body 100, respectively, and may both extend to the sixth surface 106 of the body. That is, the first external electrode 400 may cover the first surface 101 of the body 100 and extend to the sixth surface 106 of the body 100, and the second external electrode 500 may cover the second surface 102 of the body 100 and extend to the sixth surface 106 of the body 100. Since the external electrodes 400 and 500 cover the first and second surfaces 101 and 102 of the body 100, coupling force between the external electrodes 400 and 500 and the body 100 may be improved.
Although not shown, in the present embodiment, an insulating film disposed between the coil portion 300 and the body 100 may be further included. The insulating film may include an insulating material such as parylene, but is not limited thereto, and any insulating material may be used. The insulating film may be formed by a method such as vapor deposition, but is not limited thereto, and may be formed by a method in which the insulating film is laminated on both surfaces of the insulating substrate 200. In a former case, the insulating film may be formed in a form of a conformal film along the surfaces of the insulating substrate and the coil portion. In a latter case, the insulating film may be formed in a form of filling a space between adjacent turns of the coil patterns 311 and 312. Meanwhile, as described above, a plating resist for forming the second conductive layers 311b and 312b may be formed on the insulating substrate 200, and the plating resist may be a permanent resist that is not removed. In this case, the insulating film may be a plating resist functioning as a permanent resist. Meanwhile, in the present disclosure, the insulating film is only an optional configuration when forming the insulating film, and it is possible to manufacture the coil component 1000 according to the present embodiment by changing a typical thin film power inductor manufacturing process to a minimum, thus advantageously maintaining manufacturing efficiency and lowering costs. That is, in the case of the typical power inductor, a coil portion and an insulating film may be formed on an insulating substrate to form a coil substrate, and then a magnetic composite sheet for forming a body is laminated on both surfaces of the coil substrate. In the case of forming the insulating film in the present embodiment, a remaining process except for only the process for forming the body may be the same as the manufacturing process of the thin film power inductor. Therefore, a high frequency inductor and a power inductor may be selectively manufactured using the same coil substrate formed up to the insulating film.
In the experimental example, the thickness T1 of the insulating substrate was 30 μm, and in the comparative example, the thickness of the insulating substrate was 60 μm. Table 1 shows inductance values of each of the experimental and comparative examples when the frequency is 100 MHz, 500 MHz, 1.0 GHz, and 2.4 GHz.
Meanwhile, in the experimental example and the comparative example, remaining conditions except for the thickness T1 of the insulating substrate 200, for example, the number of turns of the coil portion, the line width and the thickness of each turn, the space between each turn, and the length, width, and the thickness of the body were equal.
Referring to Table 1 and
Comparing
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For example, in the present embodiment, the body 100 may be formed by laminating one or more composite sheets including a nonmagnetic thermosetting polymer resin and nonmagnetic powder P dispersed in the thermosetting polymer resin on both surfaces of the insulating substrate 200 on which the coil portion 300 is formed, and then thermosetting the composite sheets. The nonmagnetic powder P is dispersed and disposed in the cured product R of the polymer resin in order to control at least one of magnetic, electrical, mechanical and thermal characteristics of the coil component 2000 according to the present embodiment, and the content of nonmagnetic powder P in the body 100 may be adjusted in order to control at least one of the characteristics described above.
The nonmagnetic powder P may include at least one of an organic filler and an inorganic filler.
The organic filler may include, for example, at least one of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS), Cellulose acetate, Nylon, Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), Polybenzimidazole, Polycarbonate, Polyether sulfone, Polyetherether ketone (PEEK), Polyetherimide (PEI), Polyethylene, Polylactic acid, Polyoxymethylene, Polyphenylene oxide, Polyphenylene sulfide, Polypropylene, Polystyrene, Polyvinyl chloride, Ethylene vinyl acetate, Polyvinyl alcohol, Polyethylene oxide, Epoxy, and Polyimide.
The inorganic filler may include at least one or more selected from a group consisting of silica (SiO2), alumina (Al2O3), silicon carbide (SiC), titanium oxide (TiO2), barium sulfate (BaSO4), aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH)3), magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)2), calcium carbonate (CaCO3), magnesium carbonate (MgCO3), magnesium oxide (MgO), boron nitride (BN), aluminum borate (AlBO3), barium titanate (BaTiO3), and calcium zirconate (CaZrO3). Meanwhile, a range of the inorganic filler of the present embodiment is not limited to the above-described example, as long as it is a ceramic material which has a value whose specific permeability is close to 1, it is included in the inorganic filler of the present embodiment.
The nonmagnetic powder P may have an average diameter of about 0.1 μm to 30 μm, but is not limited thereto.
The body 100 may include two or more kinds of nonmagnetic powder P dispersed in the cured product R of the polymer resin. Here, the nonmagnetic powder P has different types, which means that the types of nonmagnetic powder P dispersed in the cured product R of the polymer resin are distinguished from each other by any one of a diameter, composition, crystallinity, and a shape. As an example, the body 100 may include two or more nonmagnetic powder P types having different diameters. The diameter of the nonmagnetic powder P may mean a particle size distribution of the powder according to D50 or D90.
A volume of the nonmagnetic powder P with respect to a total volume of the cured product R of the polymer resin may be 50 vol % or more. In the present embodiment, since the cure product R of the polymer resin is formed by thermosetting a thermosetting polymer resin, a volume ratio (vol %) of the nonmagnetic powder P dispersed in the cured product R of the polymer resin may be increased. On the contrary, as an example, when the body is a cured product of a photocurable polymer resin, light is scattered by the nonmagnetic powder P during photocuring, and thus photocurability is lowered. Therefore, there may be a limit of increasing the volume ratio of the nonmagnetic powder Pin such examples. In the present embodiment, since the body 100 is formed using a thermosetting resin, the above-described problem may be solved. Therefore, in the present embodiment, in adjusting the content of nonmagnetic powder P in a composite sheet, it is not necessary to consider a problem that may occur due to the content of the nonmagnetic powder P in a curing process of the composite sheet. As a result, in the present embodiment, a degree of freedom in a manufacturing process and design may be increased to easily control magnetic, electrical, mechanical, and thermal characteristics of the coil component 2000 according to the present embodiment. As an example, by containing 50 vol % or more of silica (SiO2) having a relatively low coefficient of thermal expansion in the body 100, a difference of the coefficient of thermal expansion between the coil component 2000 of the present embodiment and a mounting substrate or a semiconductor component mounted together on the mounting substrate may be significantly reduced. Thus, a defect of an electronic component package, for example, warpage of the package or the occurrence of voids in the package, due to a difference in coefficients of thermal expansion between the coil component 2000 according to the present embodiment packaged together in the electronic package and other electronic components may be prevented. In addition, it is possible to reduce the problem of connection reliability between the component and the mounting substrate (for example, crack in solder) caused by the difference in the coefficients of thermal expansion between the component and the mounting substrate.
Meanwhile, an inorganic filler included in the insulating substrate 200 described in the first embodiment of the present disclosure and an inorganic filler included in the body 100 of the present embodiment may be the same material, but is not limited thereto. As a non-limiting example, by the difference in the coefficient of thermal expansion between the body 100 and the insulating substrate 200, to prevent the body 100 and the insulating substrate 200 from being separated from each other, the inorganic filler included in the insulating substrate 200 and the inorganic filler included in the body 100 may be made of the same material as a main ingredient and the different materials as an accessory ingredient.
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The coil portion 300 is disposed to be perpendicular to the sixth surface 106 of the body 100, which means, as shown in
As electronic devices gain higher performance, more electronic components are mounted on mounting boards such as printed circuit boards, or the like disposed in the electronic devices. To this end, it is desirable to maintain or improve the performance of the electronic component while reducing any one of a length and a width of the body that determines a mounting area of each electronic component. In the present embodiment, by disposing the coil portion 300 to be perpendicular to the sixth surface 106 of the body 100, an area of the sixth surface 106 of the body 100 (which may correspond to a mounting surface of the coil component 3000 according to the present embodiment) may be reduced. In addition, by disposing the coil portion 300 to be perpendicular to the sixth surface 106 of the body 100, changes can be made to the number of turns, a line width, and thickness of each turn of the coil patterns 311 and 312 without changing a mounting area thereof by providing different characteristics to the coil component. In addition, by disposing the coil portion 300 to be perpendicular to the sixth surface 106 of the body 100, a direction of a magnetic field formed by the coil portion 300 is parallel to the sixth surface 106 of the body 100. Thus, an induction current in the mounting board such as a printed circuit board, or the like, may be reduced due to the magnetic field.
In the present embodiment, each of the end portions 311′ and 312′ of the coil portion 300 may be exposed to two surfaces connected to each other among the first to sixth surfaces 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, and 106. That is, as illustrated in
In the present embodiment, the exposed area of both end portions 311′ and 312′ of the coil portion 300 exposed to the surface of the body 100 may be increased to improve the coupling force between the coil portion 300 and the external electrodes 400 and 500. In the present embodiment, the coil portion 300 may further include auxiliary patterns 331 and 332 corresponding to both end portions 311′ and 312′ of the coil patterns 311 and 312, respectively. Specifically, the coil portion 300 may include a first auxiliary pattern 331 disposed on one surface (a front surface of the insulating substrate 200 based on the direction of
Each of the first and second coil patterns CP1 and CP2 may be formed as a plurality thereof to be spaced apart from each other. In the case of a structure in which an end portion of the coil pattern is connected in a single pattern, a coupling force between the coil pattern and the body may be weakened due to coupling between different materials. In the present modified example, connection patterns CP1 and CP2 for connecting the coil patterns 311 and 312 and end portions 311′ and 312′ of the coil patterns 311 and 312 may be formed as a plurality thereof to be spaced apart from each other, respectively, such that the body 100 may be extended and disposed in a space between separate parts of the connection patterns CP1 and CP2 adjacent to each other. As a result, the coupling force between the body 100 and the coil portion 300 may be improved. That is, the plurality of connection patterns CP1 and CP2 spaced from each other may function as anchors. Meanwhile, in this case, as shown in
As set forth above, according to the present disclosure, a high frequency coil component may be provided with a low-profile.
In addition, according to the present disclosure, component characteristics may be improved in a high frequency band.
While example embodiments have been shown and described above, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications and variations could be made without departing from the scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appended claims.
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