ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,867, issued on July 29, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Transient voltage protection device" was invented by Yoshihiro Shinkai (Tokyo), Naoyoshi Yoshida (Tokyo), Masato Hayatsu (Tokyo), Shunsuke Takahashi (Tokyo) and Sota Hiraba (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transient voltage protection device comprises a pair of discharge electrodes opposing each other with a gap therebetween and a discharge inducing portion in contact with the pair of discharge electrodes. The discharge inducing portion comprises a ceramic component, metal particles, and pores discontinuously scattered. The pores have an average size of 0.05 micro met...