ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,117, issued on March 17, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Multilayer coil component" was invented by Youichi Kazuta (Tokyo), Kazuya Tobita (Tokyo), Yuto Shiga (Tokyo), Yuichi Takubo (Tokyo), Junichiro Urabe (Tokyo), Noriaki Hamachi (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 5, a first terminal electrode 3, a second terminal electrode 4, a first connecting conductor 6, and a second connecting conductor 7. The first connecting conductor 6 extends along a first direction D1 and has a third side 6c intersecting with a second direction D2 and a ...