ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,261, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ELNA Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Surface-mount capacitor" was invented by Tadahiro Nakamura (Fukushima, Japan), Kaori Matsumura (Fukushima, Japan) and Naozumi Kimura (Kuroishi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a chip type capacitor formed by attaching a seat plate to a capacitor, generation of voids or cracks due to flux gas generated at the time of soldering is suppressed. When providing auxiliary terminals for increasing the soldering strength on a seat plate for chipping, which enables a lead same direction type capacitor to be surface mounted, a gas release groove, preferably formed as a slit...