US Patent Issued to TDK on July 21 for "Multilayer coil component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,964, issued on July 21, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coil component 1 includes an element body 2, a coil 10, and a pair of terminal electrodes 3. The element body 2 has a groove portion 20 provided on a main surface 2c. The groove portion 20 is disposed between the pair of terminal electrodes 3 and extends over one side surface 2e and the other side ...