US Patent Issued to TDK on July 7 for "Coil component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,261, issued on July 7, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes: an element body including a main surface; a pair of external electrodes disposed on the main surface; and a coil including a coil part positioned in the element body and a pair of connecting parts exposed from the element body and each connected to a corresponding external electrode of the pair of external electrodes. Each...