Patent ID: 11929201
Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A surface mount inductor, comprising:
a coil including a wound portion and at least one feeder end portion drawn out from the wound portion;
a compact having a plurality of surfaces including a mount surface; and
an external terminal on the compact and connected to the coil,
wherein
the feeder end portion has an exposed portion which is exposed from the mount surface of the compact,
the external terminal is on at least one of the plurality of surfaces of the compact and connected to the feeder end portion,
the mount surface of the compact includes an irregular interface,
the coil has two feeder end portions each corresponding to the feeder end portion, and
the irregular interface includes multiple gaps that are arranged irregularly from a corner of the exposed portion of one of the feeder end portions exposed from the mount surface to a corner of the exposed portion of the other feeder end portion exposed from the mount surface.