US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on Sept. 8 for "Integrated bottom sunken surface mount and/or swing inductor and fabrication methods" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,723, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Integrated bottom sunken surface mount and/or swing inductor and fabrication methods" was invented by Yipeng Yan (Shanghai), Dengyan Zhou (Shanghai) and Kyle Yun-Su Kim (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surface mount inductor components include pre-formed coils with integrated bottom sunken features and simply shaped core pieces configured to create magnetic gaps in an assembled core structure around the coils when desired. The magnetic gaps interrupt flux paths in the operating components and provide swing-inductor functionality. The mag...