US Patent Issued to TDK on April 8 for "Multilayer coil component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,487, issued on April 8, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer coil component" was invented by Hajime Kato (Tokyo), Junichiro Urabe (Tokyo), Yuto Shiga (Tokyo), Kazuya Tobita (Tokyo), Youichi Kazuta (Tokyo), Noriaki Hamachi (Tokyo), Toshinori Matsuura (Tokyo), Yuichi Takubo (Tokyo) and Munehiro Takaku (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coil component includes an element body, a coil, and a terminal electrode. The element body includes a first main face, second main face, first end face, second end face, first side face and second side face. The terminal electrode is connected to the coil. The terminal electrod...