ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,273, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor component and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Tatsuya Sasaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Shinya Hirai (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yuuji Igarashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Shin Hasegawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component having such a characteristic property that the assembly of the inductor component can be made simple and the welded state in the inductor component can be made stable. The inductor component comprises a ring-shaped core; a coil which comprises a plurality of pin members, and in which...