ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,220, issued on April 14, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Coil component" was invented by Hanako Yoshino (Tokyo), Keigo Higashida (Tokyo), Daisuke Urabe (Tokyo), Takashi Arasawa (Tokyo) and Yugo Asai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a drum core; a terminal fitting fixed respectively to the flange part of the drum core; and a wire wound around the winding core part of the drum core. The terminal fitting has a wire connecting part to which the wire is connected and a mounting part having springiness with respect to the drum core. The distance between the flange part and the mo...