US Patent Issued to TAIYO YUDEN on Dec. 16 for "Multilayer ceramic capacitor with internal electrodes having narrowed portion and method of manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,034, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer ceramic capacitor with internal electrodes having narrowed portion and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Hitoshi Kikuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body including a multilayer body and a pair of side margin portions, the multilayer body including ceramic layers stacked in a direction of a first axis, internal electrodes interposed between the ceramic layers, a pair of end surfaces perpendicular to a second axis orthogonal to the first axis, and a pair of side surfaces perpendic...