US Patent Issued to TDK on Sept. 16 for "Electronic device having first and second metal terminals" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,880, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device having first and second metal terminals" was invented by Akihiro Masuda (Tokyo), Shinya Ito (Tokyo), Norihisa Ando (Tokyo), Hideki Kaneko (Tokyo), Ken Aburakawa (Tokyo), Kenya Tamaki (Tokyo) and Akitoshi Yoshii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a case, a ceramic element, a first metal terminal, and a second metal terminal. The case includes a recess and a case lower surface facing opposite to its opening. The ceramic element is disposed in the recess and includes first and second main surfaces opposing to each other, a fi...