ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,287, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Manufacturing method for multilayer ceramic electronic component" was invented by Yasunari Kato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: forming a pair of side margin portions on side surfaces of each of a plurality of unfired laminates, respectively, by thermocompression bonding a ceramic sheet containing 10% by mass or more of a binder resin to one of the side surfaces of the laminate for forming each of the side margin portions, performing a first heat treatment on the plurality of la...