Patent 7397335 was granted and assigned to Sumida on July, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The superimposition characteristics are improved in an inductance device provided with coils having sections with different numbers of windings. The inductance device includes a ring-shaped coil having n winding section 31 in which the number of windings is n and n+1, magnetic circuit materials mounted within and without the ring of aforementioned coil through which magnetic flux is passed to form a magnetic circuit, and a magnetic gap that blocks either the magnetic flux that was formed so as to surround aforementioned n winding section 31 or the magnetic flux that was formed so as to surround aforementioned n+1 winding section 32.