US Patent Issued to TDK on Dec. 30 for "Multilayer coil component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,242, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer coil component" was invented by Yuya Oshima (Tokyo), Kenji Komorita (Tokyo), Takehiro Ishii (Tokyo), Kouichi Kakuda (Tokyo), Shigeshi Osawa (Yurihonjo, Japan), Yusaku Abe (Tokyo), Tsubasa Ozawa (Tokyo), Midori Kishimoto (Tokyo), Makoto Yoshino (Tokyo), Koki Ito (Tokyo) and Masato Kudou (Yurihonjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multilayer coil component, a plurality of coil conductors are stacked in a coil axis direction. A connecting conductor connects the coil conductors adjacent to each other in the coil axis direction. First, second, and third coil ...