ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,925, issued on June 24, was assigned to KOA Corp. (Ina, Japan).
"Chip resistor and method of producing thereof" was invented by Taro Kimura (Ina, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chip resistor 10 comprises: a insulating substrate 1; a pair of upper surface electrodes 2; a resistor 3; a pair of lower surface electrodes 5; a pair of resin electrode layers 6 made of synthetic resin materials containing conductive particles and laminated on the pair of lower surface electrodes 5; a pair of end face electrodes 7; and a pair of external electrodes 8, wherein the pair of the lower surface electrodes 5 is made of metal thin film layers...