Patent ID: 7042324

Claim:
A surface mount inductor having a drum core, a winding to be wound around a winding shaft section of said drum core, a case body of a nonconductive material to be disposed so as to surround said winding, comprising: a metal terminal member having a binding terminal and a planar terminal; said metal terminal member being adhesively fixed to said case body; said binding terminal bound by a terminal end of said winding; an undersurface side of said planar terminal to be a contact portion for contact with a substrate; a hidden surface of said planar terminal to be a contact portion for contact with said case body; and an extended portion protruding radially outward from said case body and having a wider width than or approximately the same width as that of said binding terminal, said extended portion being disposed at an overlapping position with said binding terminal in a height direction of the drum core, wherein the terminal of said winding is wound around from the outer peripheral side of both said binding terminal and said extended portion.