US Patent Issued to TDK on Oct. 27 for "Multilayer coil component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,437, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coil component includes an element body including a main surface, a coil disposed in the element body, and an external electrode electrically connected to the coil. The external electrode includes an underlying metal layer disposed on the element body and a plated layer in contact with a surface of the underlying metal laye...