ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,632, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Multilayer coil component" was invented by Kazuya Tobita (Tokyo), Youichi Kazuta (Tokyo), Yuto Shiga (Tokyo), Yuichi Takubo (Tokyo), Junichiro Urabe (Tokyo), Noriaki Hamachi (Tokyo) and Toshinori Matsuura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coil component 1 includes an element body 2, a coil 5, a first terminal electrode 3, a second terminal electrode 4, a first connection conductor 6, and a second connection conductor 7. The coil 5 includes a first coil portion 8 that has one end of the coil 5 and is disposed on a side of a main surface 2c and a second coil p...