ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,987, issued on March 25, was assigned to Taiyo Yuden Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Method of manufacturing coil component" was invented by Takayuki Arai (Tokyo) and Tomoo Kashiwa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a coil component includes providing an intermediate body, heating the intermediate body at a first temperature ranging from 100 to 350deg C., and after the heating at the first temperature, heating the intermediate body at a higher second temperature ranging from 600 to 900deg C. The providing of the intermediate body including (i) preparing a base material having a flat plate shape or a wire shape, (ii) ...