ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,256, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Coil component" was invented by Hokuto Eda (Tokyo), Hitoshi Ohkubo (Tokyo), Masazumi Arata (Tokyo), Masataro Saito (Tokyo), Kohei Takahashi (Tokyo) and Takamasa Iwasaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a coil component, fixing strength of an external terminal is improved. In the coil component, on the end face of the element body, the center position of the external terminal electrode in the first direction is biased toward the center position of the end face with respect to the center position of the outer end portion. Therefore, the fixing area between the external...