ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,061, issued on March 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Flux resin composition, electronic component, method for manufacturing the electronic component, mounting structure, and method for manufacturing the mounting structure" was invented by Shohei Sanada (Hyogo, Japan) and Shigeru Yamatsu (Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flux resin composition includes an epoxy resin, an imidazole compound, a thixo agent, and an activator. The epoxy resin includes at least one resin selected from the group consisting of naphthalene epoxy resins, biphenyl aralkyl epoxy resins, trispheno...