US Patent Issued to TDK on June 3 for "Multilayer inductor and mounting structure of multilayer inductor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,538, issued on June 3, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer inductor and mounting structure of multilayer inductor" was invented by Noriaki Hamachi (Tokyo), Toshinori Matsuura (Tokyo), Junichiro Urabe (Tokyo), Kazuya Tobita (Tokyo), Yuto Shiga (Tokyo), Youichi Kazuta (Tokyo) and Yuichi Takubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer inductor includes: an element body formed by stacking a plurality of layers of insulators in a stacking direction; a terminal electrode provided on at least one side surface of the element body; and a linear conductor portion provided in the element body and extending in a first directi...