US Patent Issued to TDK on Sept. 8 for "Transient voltage protection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,705, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transient voltage protection device" was invented by Shunsuke Takahashi (Tokyo), Masato Hayatsu (Tokyo), Sota Hiraba (Tokyo) and Naoyoshi Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transient voltage protection device includes an element body formed with a cavity inside, a pair of internal electrodes, and a discharge assistance portion. The pair of internal electrodes are disposed in the element body and include edges. The edges include parts opposing each other in a first direction in the cavity. The discharge assistance portion is in contact with the parts of the edges...