US Patent Issued to TDK on Jan. 13 for "Multilayer coil component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,381, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer coil component" was invented by Yusuke Nagai (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Ebina (Tokyo), Kunihiko Kawasaki (Tokyo), Shinichi Kondo (Tokyo), Yuya Ishima (Tokyo), Shinichi Sato (Tokyo), Seiichi Nakagawa (Tokyo), Kosuke Ito (Tokyo), Keito Yasuda (Tokyo) and Youhei Iida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coil component includes an element body including an end surface, a coil disposed in the element body, and an external electrode disposed on an end portion of the element body and connected to the coil. The external electrode includes a conductive resin layer. Th...