ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,855, issued on May 12, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Coil component" was invented by Shota Otsuka (Tokyo), Takashi Kudo (Tokyo), Kyohei Tonoyama (Tokyo), Taiji Matsui (Tokyo), Ken Satoh (Tokyo) and Miyuki Asai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the coil component, the external terminal and the metal magnetic powder-containing resin constituting the element body are not in direct contact with each other, and thus high ESD resistance is obtained. That is, even when a high transient voltage is applied between the pair of external terminals, insulation breakdown is less likely to occur, and an improvement in breakdown voltage ...