ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,236, issued on April 21, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Coil component" was invented by Hokuto Eda (Tokyo), Hitoshi Ohkubo (Tokyo), Masazumi Arata (Tokyo), Masataro Saito (Tokyo), Kohei Takahashi (Tokyo) and Takamasa Iwasaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a coil component, heat radiation around a through conductor is improved. In the coil component, since the cross-sectional area of the inner end portion of the planar coil is designed to be relatively large, heat generated in the through conductor is easily transferred to the inner end portion. Since heat is efficiently transferred from the through conductor to the in...