Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Beyer Wearver & Thomas LLP
  • Thermistor elements
    Patent number: 6433666
    Abstract: A thermistor element has a pair of electrodes formed in ohmic contact with and mutually opposite to each other on one of the surfaces of a thermistor body. These electrodes each have a thin-film contact layer and an external electrode layer which is formed either directly or indirectly over the contact layer and only on the surface on which these electrodes are formed opposite each other and is of a metallic material such as Au, Ag, Pd, Pt, Sn and their alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehiro Inoue, Yuichi Takaoka