ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,414, issued on April 22, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Coil component" was invented by Ryota Hashimoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Shigeto Yamamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hiroyuki Honda (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes a terminal electrode and a terminal of a wire connected by thermocompression bonding on a bottom surface of a flange portion, to achieve a strong fixing force without the terminal of the wire protruding from the terminal electrode. A terminal of a wire extends along a main surface of a terminal electrode while at least a part of the terminal is dis...