US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on April 1 for "Coil component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,461, issued on April 1, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Coil component" was invented by Haruki Nakashima (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Ryuta Uematsu (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuki Kanbe (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes a core including a winding core portion and a pair of flange portions provided at both ends of the winding core portion, electrode portions provided in the flange portions, a wire wound around the winding core portion, and a magnetic plate fixed to the flange portions. The magnetic plate includes an annular first planar portion, a second planar portion t...