US Patent Issued to TDK on April 22 for "Ceramic electronic device having a copper-containing baked electrode layer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,430, issued on April 22, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ceramic electronic device having a copper-containing baked electrode layer" was invented by Toshihiro Iguchi (Tokyo), Tetsuhiro Takahashi (Tokyo) and Tomohisa Fukuoka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic electronic device includes an element body including a ceramic layer and an internal electrode layer, and an external electrode formed on an end surface of the element body and electrically connected to at least one end of the internal electrode layer. The external electrode includes a baked electrode layer. The baked electrode layer includes a main component comp...