ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,377, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Coil device" was invented by Takashi Arasawa (Tokyo), Kouyu Ohi (Tsuruoka, Japan), Yusuke Kimoto (Tokyo) and Tomoya Tsubai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil device includes a core having a flange portion connected to winding core portions; wires wound around the winding core portions; and terminal electrodes fixed to the core. The terminal electrodes have wire connectable portions to which lead portions of the wires are connected. In the wire connectable portions, the lead portions are connected to the terminal electrodes at positions separated from an upper sur...