ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,591, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Coil component" was invented by Masataro Saito (Tokyo), Masazumi Arata (Tokyo), Hokuto Eda (Tokyo), Kohei Takahashi (Tokyo) and Takamasa Iwasaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a coil component, a non-magnetic part is bridged between a first coil and a second coil in a cross section of an element body. Therefore, a magnetic flux in a direction along a magnetic core of the first coil and a magnetic core of the second coil is hindered by the non-magnetic part between the first coil and the second coil. Accordingly, a magnetic flux of the first coil and a magnetic flux...