US Patent Issued to TDK on June 23 for "Coil component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,124, issued on June 23, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Coil component" was invented by Yusuke Nagai (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Ebina (Tokyo), Kunihiko Kawasaki (Tokyo), Shinichi Kondo (Tokyo), Yuya Ishima (Tokyo), Shinichi Sato (Tokyo) and Kosuke Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes: an element body; a coil including a plurality of coil conductors disposed in the element body and electrically connected to each other; an external electrode disposed on the element body; and a connection conductor that connects the coil and the external electrode. The connection conductor has an end portion exposed from an out...