An air-wound, coil-type, passive inductor includes a surface which allows the coil to be picked-up using a vacuum probe of a head of a pick-an-place machine and the surface does not interfere with adjusting the spacing between the loops of the coil for tuning the coil after the coil is attached to a...http://www.google.com/patents/US6205646?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6205646 - Method for air-wound coil vacuum pick-up, surface mounting, and adjusting
