ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,666, issued on May 27, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Coil component" was invented by Ryo Fukuoka (Tokyo), Hironori Kimata (Tokyo), Masataro Saito (Tokyo), Masazumi Arata (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Ohkubo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the coil component, the maximum reference surface height of the entire wall of the outermost wall and the innermost wall is the same as the reference surface height of the winding part of the coil, that is, equal to or less than the reference surface height of the winding part of the coil. In addition, in both the outermost wall and the innermost wall, the reference surface height of the second...