ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,728, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Inductor" was invented by Ken Koyama (Hyogo, Japan), Takashi Inoue (Hyogo, Japan), Satoru Shimomura (Hyogo, Japan) and Jun Kuroiwa (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a small and highly reliable inductor capable of handling a large current. The inductor includes: magnetic core formed by pressing a mixture of a powdered magnetic material and a binder; coil part disposed inside magnetic core; and external electrode formed by bending end portion of coil part protruding from magnetic core. Coil par...