US Patent Issued to TAIYO YUDEN on May 20 for "Coil component using magnetic body and circuit board carrying same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,149, issued on May 20, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"Coil component using magnetic body and circuit board carrying same" was invented by Yoko Orimo (Takasaki, Japan) and Shinsuke Takeoka (Takasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic body is constituted by grains of a soft magnetic alloy bonded together via an oxide layer, wherein: the soft magnetic alloy is an alloy containing Si by 1 to 5.5 percent by mass, and Cr and/or Al by 0.2 to 4 percent by mass in total, as constituent elements, with Fe and unavoidable impurities accounting for the remainder, wherein a content of Si is more than a content of Cr an...