US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Sept. 29 for "Multilayer ceramic electronic component including metal terminals including intermetallic compound" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,624, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multilayer ceramic electronic component including metal terminals including intermetallic compound" was invented by Satoshi Miyauchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer ceramic capacitor main body, metal terminals connected to external electrodes via a bonding material, and an exterior material that covers the multilayer ceramic capacitor main body. The metal terminals include bonding surfaces that bond the bonding material and contact surfaces in contact with the exterior materia...