ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,037, issued on April 15, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Coil component" was invented by Masaki Endo (Tokyo), Tomonaga Nishikawa (Tokyo), Masaki Yoneyama (Tokyo), Liyi Chen (Tokyo) and Azuma Satoh (Minami-Alps, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a a coil area in which first to third coil patterns are disposed and a terminal area positioned outside the coil area. The outer peripheral end of the first coil pattern is connected to the first terminal electrode. The inner peripheral end of the first coil pattern is connected to an inner peripheral end of the second coil pattern. The ...