US Patent Issued to TDK on July 1 for "Multi-layer coil component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,607, issued on July 1, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multi-layer coil component" was invented by Yuya Oshima (Tokyo), Kenji Komorita (Tokyo), Masayuki Suzuki (Yurihonjo, Japan), Yuudai Katou (Yurihonjo, Japan), Takeru Sasaki (Tokyo), Shigeshi Osawa (Yurihonjo, Japan), Takehiro Ishii (Tokyo), Kouichi Kakuda (Tokyo), Yukio Takahashi (Tokyo), Tsubasa Ozawa (Tokyo) and Makoto Yoshino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the multi-layer coil component, the hole portion is provided in the vicinity of the side surface of the element body, and the distance from the tip position of the external electrode to the hole portion is shorte...