Patent 8493167 was granted and assigned to Samsung on July, 2013 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed herein is a transformer having a heat radiation function. The transformer includes a pair of cores having an E-shape and facing and contacting each other to form central pillars and outer peripheral parts, a transforming coil part wound on the central pillars of the pair of cores and dropping voltage, and a heat radiation pipe formed to have a cylindrical shape and positioned inward from the transforming coil part to radiate heat generated from the transforming coil part, thereby well discharging heat generated from the coil.