ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,988, issued on March 25, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Coil device" was invented by Katsuhiro Ishigaki (Tokyo), Hideaki Harata (Tokyo) and Shoichi Tani (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil device includes a coil portion and a bobbin. The coil portion includes wires connectable to terminals. The bobbin includes a first terminal block and a second terminal block formed on both sides in a winding axis direction of a cylindrical portion for forming the coil portion around the cylindrical portion. A length of the first terminal block in a width direction perpendicular to the winding axis direction is larger than that of the...