Abstract: An electronic component feeding apparatus comprises a feeding rotor having a recess for forming a parallel space with a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis. By oscillating a feeding rotor within a predetermined angular range, the apparatus takes the electronic components stored in bulk in a storeroom into the parallel space, and move the electronic components in the parallel space toward a feeding path each time the bottom of the parallel space tilts down toward the feeding path during an oscillation of the feeding rotor, and take the electronic components into the feeding path one by one, and allow the electronic component taken into the feeding path to move downward by gravity.

Abstract: The multilayer ceramic capacitor has a plurality of dielectric layers and inner layers laminated alternately laminated on one another. In each of the dielectric layers, the rate of ceramic grain which form the dielectric layers and present singly in one dielectric layer over its entire longitudinal thickness is set to amount to 20% or more. The multilayer ceramic capacitor can prevent a decrease in a CR product to a value lower than a desired level even if the dielectric layer becomes as thin as 5 &mgr;m or less. This can comply with demands for a multilayer ceramic capacitor that the number of the dielectric layers to be laminated on the inner electrodes should be increased yet the thickness of the dielectric layers should be made thinner in order to meet requirements for making electronic circuit more compact in size and higher in density.