US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 15 for "Method for manufacturing multilayer varistor and multilayer varistor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,030, issued on April 15, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing multilayer varistor and multilayer varistor" was invented by Naoki Mutou (Hokkaido, Japan), Yoshiyuki Satou (Hokkaido, Japan), Yuji Yamagishi (Hokkaido, Japan) and Ken Yanai (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a multilayer varistor includes: a first step including providing a multilayer stack in which a plurality of green sheet layers, each containing a Zn oxide powder as a main component and a Pr oxide powder as a sub-component, and a plurality of internal electr...