US Patent Issued to TAIYO YUDEN on April 29 for "Capacitor with connection conductor contacting a surface of a substrate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,646, issued on April 29, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Capacitor with connection conductor contacting a surface of a substrate" was invented by Yoshinari Take (Tokyo), Yoshio Aoyagi (Tokyo) and Hidetoshi Masuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor that can make a failure mode into an open mode even when a short circuit caused by insulation breakdown occurs in a dielectric layer is provided. The capacitor includes: a substrate; an MIM structure disposed on the Substrate, the MIM structure including a dielectric layer, a bottom electrode layer disposed on one side of the dielectric layer and composed of a f...