US Patent Issued to TDK on April 21 for "Multilayer inductor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,229, issued on April 21, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer inductor" was invented by Youichi Kazuta (Tokyo), Junichiro Urabe (Tokyo), Toshinori Matsuura (Tokyo), Noriaki Hamachi (Tokyo), Yuichi Takubo (Tokyo), Yuto Shiga (Tokyo) and Kazuya Tobita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The element body includes a main surface, and a side surface located on imaginary planes orthogonal to the main surface. The external electrode includes first, second and third electrode portions. The first electrode portion is exposed at the main surface. The second electrode portion is continuous with the first electrode portion and expos...