ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,129, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Coil component" was invented by Yukinobu Masuda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takuma Sagara (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Shingo Nakamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Ryota Hashimoto (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 flange portions; wires wound around the winding core portion; and terminal electrodes on the respective flange portions. The wires respectively have flattened portions connected to the terminal electrodes. The flattened portions each have a shape that becomes thinner fro...