ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,717, issued on Feb. 17, 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), Takamasa Iwasaki (Tokyo), Manabu Ohta (Tokyo) and Kenei Onuma (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the coil component, since the contact area between the external terminal electrode and the element body is increased by the protrusion of the external terminal electrode, the external terminal electrode and the element body are more closely attached to each other. Therefore, the attachment strength between the external terminal...