ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,449, issued on May 19, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Chip-type coil component" was invented by Yuuichi Kawaguchi (Tokyo), Masanori Suzuki (Tokyo), Tomonaga Nishikawa (Tokyo), Mitsuo Natori (Tokyo) and Osamu Nakada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a chip-type coil component that includes a magnetic element body, a coil pattern embedded in the magnetic element body, and a terminal electrode connected to the coil pattern and exposed to a mounting surface of the magnetic element body. A recessed part obtained by removing a part of the magnetic element body is formed in an upper surface of the magnetic elemen...