Patent ID: 8269591

Claim:
An electric coil having (i) a coil core; (ii) a main winding which surrounds the coil core and has an electrically conductive coil wire; (iii) a start winding which surrounds the coil core and has an electrically conductive coil wire which is meant to be connected with a first contact; and (iv) an end winding which surrounds the coil core and has an electrically conductive coil wire which is meant to be connected with a second contact, wherein the coil wire of the main winding, the coil wire of the start winding and the coil wire of the end winding are formed by a continuous winding wire and at least the main winding, preferably also the start winding, is wound directly onto the coil core, whereby the coil wire has a diameter of at most 50 μm.