ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,532, issued on March 3, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor" was invented by Shu Hamada (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hiroya Ueyama (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor includes a housing composed of an insulating material and a conical coil provided inside the housing. The conical coil is formed of a spirally wound coil conductor. The winding diameter of the conical coil increases in a continuous manner. The coil conductor has a rectangular cross section. Parts of the coil conductor that are adjacent to each other in a winding axis direction of the conical coil are disposed s...