US Patent Issued to TDK on Sept. 1 for "Electronic component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,737, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic component" was invented by Takaaki Sato (Tokyo), Akihiro Masuda (Tokyo), Norihisa Ando (Tokyo), Shinya Ito (Yurihonjo-city, Japan) and Masahiro Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component includes: a ceramic body having principal surfaces; electrode parts respectively provided on the principal surfaces; lead terminals electrically connected to the respective electrode parts; and an exterior resin provided so as to cover the ceramic body, the electrode parts, and base end portions of the lead terminals, in which the exterior resin has a two-l...