Inductor devices – Coil or coil turn supports or spacers – Printed circuit-type coil
Reexamination Certificate
2002-12-27
2003-09-30
Mai, Anh (Department: 2832)
Inductor devices
Coil or coil turn supports or spacers
Printed circuit-type coil
C336S223000, C336S232000, C336S090000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06628190
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to multilayer chip components such as multilayer chip beads or multilayer chip inductors, magnetic ferrite and multilayer ferrite components to be used to composite multilayer components represented by LC composite multilayer components, as well as a method for producing the same.
Multilayer chip ferrite components and composite multilayer components (called generically as “multilayer ferrite component or components” in the present description) have been employed to various kinds of electric, electrical or electronic devices because of small volume and high reliability. The multilayer ferrite component is in general produced by laminating sheets or pastes for magnetic layers comprising magnetic ferrite and pastes for internal electrodes into a unitary one-body through a thick film laminating technique, sintering it, printing or transcribing pastes for external electrodes on the surface of the sintered body, and carrying out a sintering thereon. By the way, the sintering after laminating in one body is called as a co-firing. As a material for the internal electrode, Ag or Ag alloys are used because of low resistivity, and therefore as a magnetic ferrite material for composing magnetic layers, it is an absolute condition to enable the co-firing, in other words, enable the sintering at temperature below melting points of Ag or Ag alloys. Accordingly, for providing multilayer ferrite components of high density and high magnetic characteristics, it will be a key whether or not the magnetic ferrite can be sintered at the temperature below the melting points of Ag or Ag alloys.
NiCuZn ferrite is known as the magnetic ferrite which can be sintered at the temperature below the melting point of Ag or Ag alloys. In short, NiCuZn ferrite including powder of specific surface area rendered to be about 6 m
2
/g or more by a milling can be sintered at the temperature below the melting point of Ag (960° C.), and it has broadly been used to multilayer ferrite components. However, since NiCuZn ferrite has the magnetic characteristic, particularly permeability &mgr; which are sensitive to external stress or thermal shock (refer to, for example, “Powder and Powder Metallurgy” vol. 39 & 8, pp. 612 to 617 (1992)), problems arise as mentioned under during producing multilayer ferrite components. That is, the permeability &mgr; is deteriorated by stress caused by barrel polishing and plating in a producing procedure, stress caused by difference in coefficients of linear expansion between the magnetic layers and the internal electrodes, and stress caused when mounting members on a base board, and inductance L is deviated from a designed value.
For solving the problems, two resolutions have been proposed. One of them is to face the magnetic layer and the internal electrodes to be opposite via a space therebetween (JP-A-4-65807). This proposal is to avoid the stress caused by the difference in the coefficients of the linear expansion between the magnetic layers and the internal electrodes. The other one is to cause Bi to exist in crystal grain boundaries of NiCuZn ferrite, thereby to generate tensile stress in crystal grains after sintering so as to make the sensitivity of the magnetic characteristic insensitive to the external stress (JP-A-10-223424). These two proposals were the effective measures for deterioration of the magnetic characteristic of NiCuZn ferrite against the stress.
However, NiCuZn ferrite will be naturally an expensive material, because NiO as a raw material therefor is at high cost. Having paid attentions to MgCuZn ferrite using MgO, Mg(OH)
2
or MgCO
3
which are cheaper than NiO, there have been made various improvements. For example, JP-A-10-324564 proposes an amount of B (boron) to be 2 to 70 ppm in MgCuZn ferrite.
However, MgCuZn ferrite of this publication is sintered at 1200° C. according to examples, and it is difficult to apply this MgCuZn ferrite to the multilayer ferrite components directed by the invention. Because the co-firing cannot be carried out together with Ag or Ag alloys.
Japanese Patent No. 2,747,403 discloses the magnetic ferrite containing MgO, but does not refer to any sintering condition, and it is assumed not to satisfy the co-firing with Ag.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the invention to offer magnetic ferrite of less deterioration of magnetic characteristic to stress, particularly of permeability &mgr;, enabling the low temperature sintering, that is, to sinter at temperature below melting points of Ag or Ag alloys to be used as materials for electrodes, and multilayer ferrite components employing such magnetic ferrite. It is another object of the invention to offer a method of producing magnetic ferrite and multilayer ferrite components.
Powder for magnetic ferrite of the invention has the composition of Fe
2
O
3
: 40 to 51 mol %, CuO: 7 to 30 mol %, ZnO: 0.5 to 35 mol % and MgO: 5 to 35 mol %, in which a peak position of particle size distribution ranges 0.3 to 1.2 &mgr;m. In powder for magnetic ferrite, one part of MgO may be replaced with NiO. Actually, a total amount of MgO and NiO is enough with 5 to 35 mol %.
Powder for magnetic ferrite of the invention has the composition of Fe
2
O
3
: 40 to 51 mol %, CuO: 7 to 30 mol %, ZnO: 0.5 to 35 mol % and MgO: 5 to 35 mol %, and is sintered at temperature below 940° C. Depending on this magnetic ferrite, the sintering is available at temperature below 940° C., and it is possible to obtain multilayer ferrite components of satisfied properties.
When the magnetic ferrite of the invention is sintered at temperature range of 940° C. or lower, a shrinkage is 10% or higher. This fact shows that the sintering below 940° C. is possible.
In the magnetic ferrite of the invention, the composition is desirable to be Fe
2
O
3
: 45 to 49.8 mol %, CuO: 8 to 25 mol %, ZnO: 15 to 25 mol % and MgO: 7 to 26 mol %.
The multilayer ferrite component of the invention uses the magnetic ferrite mentioned above and has external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrodes which are alternately multilayer with the magnetic ferrite layer, said magnetic ferrite layer being composed of the sintered magnetic ferrite of Fe
2
O
3
: 40 to 51 mol %, CuO: 7 to 30 mol %, ZnO: 0.5 to 35 mol % and MgO: 5 to 35 mol % and also the internal electrodes being composed of Ag or Ag alloys.
The multilayer ferrite component of the invention has the alternate lamination of the dielectric layers and the internal electrodes, and may be integrally composed with the multilayer capacitor components having external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrodes. In short, the composite multilayer components such as LC composite multilayer components are also defined as the multilayer ferrite components in the invention.
The multilayer ferrite component of the invention has the alternate lamination of the magnetic ferrite layers and the internal electrode layers and has external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrodes, said magnetic ferrite layer being composed of the sintered ferrite of magnetostriction being 10×10
−6
or lower, and said internal electrode being composed of Ag or Ag alloys. In this multilayer ferrite components, it is preferable that the sintered ferrite is MgCuZn based ferrite having the composition of Fe
2
O
3
: 40 to 51 mol %, CuO: 5 to 30 mol %, ZnO: 0.5 to 35 mol % and MgO: 5 to 50 mol %.
The multilayer ferrite component of the invention is integrally united of inductor components having the alternate laminations of the magnetic ferrite layers and the internal electrode layers and capacitor components having the alternate laminations of the dielectric layers and the internal electrodes, and has the external electrode electrically connected to the internal electrode of the multilayer inductors and the multilayer capacitors. The magnetic ferrite layer of the multilayer inductor components is composed of the sintered MgCuZn based ferrite of the magnetostriction being 10×10
−6
or lower, and the int
Nakahata Isao
Nakano Atsuyuki
Mai Anh
Oblon & Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C.
TDK Corporation
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