ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,030, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Electronic component" was invented by Hokuto Eda (Tokyo), Hitoshi Ohkubo (Tokyo), Masazumi Arata (Tokyo), Masataro Saito (Tokyo), Kohei Takahashi (Yokohama, Japan), Takamasa Iwasaki (Tokyo), Manabu Ohta (Tokyo) and Kenei Onuma (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component preventing peeling of an external terminal is provided. Since each of the external terminal electrodes on the upper face has a U-shaped outline, stress concentration is less likely to occur at an inner end portion than in the external terminal electrode having a corner at the inner end porti...