Patent ID: 6950006

Claim:
A composite inductor element comprising: a block made of at least either resin or rubber having a magnetic material dispersed therein, external electrodes being provided on said block; and at least three spirally wound coils buried in said block, end portions of each of the at least three coils being electrically connected to said external electrodes; wherein the at least three coils are arranged such that axes of all of the at least three coils are different from each other and extend substantially parallel to one another; and at least one of said at least three coils has a different electrical characteristic produced by at least one of (1) a different number of windings of said at least one of said at least three coils from that of the remainder of said at least three coils, (2) a different thickness of said at least one of said at least three coils from that of the remainder of said at least three coils, and (3) a different space between wound sections of said at least one of said at least three coils from that of the remainder of said at least three coils.