Coil Component Insulating Layer for Heat Dissipation and Adhesion

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Solution Overview

Problem

The increasing current in coil components leads to a need for improved heat dissipation and prevents defects such as peeling of the coating layer and chip adhering, which are not adequately addressed by existing technologies.

Innovation Solution

A coil component design incorporating a body with a coil portion, external electrodes, and a surface insulating layer containing fillers with a specific ratio of cross-sectional area, enhancing heat dissipation while preventing defects.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Temperature

If the filler ratio in the surface insulating layer is increased to improve heat dissipation, then thermal conductivity is improved, but the coating layer may peel off

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheat dissipation performanceVSAvoidcoating layer adhesion
Core Design Contradiction:
TemperatureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent optimizes the filler ratio parameter within a specific range (25%-40% cross-sectional area ratio) to achieve the best balance between heat dissipation performance and coating adhesion. This parameter optimization prevents both peeling defects and chip adhering defects while maximizing thermal conductivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The surface insulating layer uses a composite material system combining insulating resin with thermally conductive fillers (such as aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride, or boron nitride). This composite structure enables simultaneous achievement of electrical insulation, thermal conduction, and mechanical adhesion properties.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Temperature

If the filler ratio in the surface insulating layer is increased to improve heat dissipation, then thermal conductivity is improved, but chip adhering defects occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheat dissipation performanceVSAvoidchip adhesion
Core Design Contradiction:
TemperatureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent optimizes the filler ratio parameter within a specific range (25%-40% cross-sectional area ratio) to achieve the best balance between heat dissipation performance and chip adhesion. This parameter optimization prevents both peeling defects and chip adhering defects while maximizing thermal conductivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of manufacture

If a conventional surface insulating layer is used, then manufacturing is simple, but heat dissipation performance is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing simplicityVSAvoidheat dissipation performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSTemperature

Solution Approach 1:

The surface insulating layer uses a composite material system combining insulating resin with thermally conductive fillers (such as aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride, or boron nitride). This composite structure enables simultaneous achievement of electrical insulation, thermal conduction, and mechanical adhesion properties.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The design effectively dissipates heat and prevents defects like peeling and chip adhering, ensuring reliable operation of the coil component.

Implementation Method 1

a surface insulating layer disposed on the body and including fillers, in which a ratio of a cross-sectional area of the fillers to a cross-sectional area of the entire surface insulating layer is 25% or more and 40% or less

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectThermal conduction: Conduction (thermal)

Data Source

PatentUS12603211B2Coil component
Publication Date: 2026.04.14 SAMSUNG ELECTRO MECHANICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A coil component includes a body, a coil portion disposed in the body and including lead-out portions exposed to one surface of the body; external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the lead-out portions, and a surface insulating layer disposed on the body and including fillers, in which a ratio of a cross-sectional area of the fillers to a cross-sectional area of the entire surface insulating layer is 25% or more and 40% or less in a cross section of the surface insulating layer.