US Patent Issued to TAIYO YUDEN on April 8 for "Coil component and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,005, issued on April 8, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"Coil component and electronic device" was invented by Osamu Takahashi (Takasaki, Japan) and Yasuyuki Taki (Takasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes: a substrate body containing metal magnetic grains whose primary component is iron and which contains silicon and a metal that oxidizes more easily than iron, and an oxide layer covering the surfaces of the metal magnetic grains and joining multiple numbers of the metal magnetic grains together; a coil conductor provided in the substrate body; external electrodes provided on the surface o...