US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on March 24 for "Single phase surface mount swing inductor component and methods of fabrication" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,713, issued on March 24, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Single phase surface mount swing inductor component and methods of fabrication" was invented by Yipeng Yan (Shanghai) and Dengyan Zhou (Pudong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component includes a single conductive coil configured to establish surface mount connections with a circuit board. A magnetic core structure receives and encloses first and second legs of the single conductive coil, and first and second physical gaps are respectively formed in the magnetic core structure and are located to respectively intersect a flux path gener...