Patents Assigned to Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11935689
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coil component having a coil part with a flat-shaped connection end parts, includes step of physically and electrically connecting ends of the coil part and terminal electrodes, respectively, by thermocompression bonding wherein the ends of the coil part are heated and compressed, thereby deforming the ends of the coil part into the flat-shaped connection end parts and bonding the flat-shaped connection end parts to the terminal electrodes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11937510
    Abstract: A piezoelectric ceramic containing no lead as a constituent element is provided. Coefficient of variation C.V. of grain size of grains contained in the piezoelectric ceramic is 35% or less, and an image quality (IQ) image obtained by analyzing a cross section of the piezoelectric ceramic by an electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) method shows that at least one of the grains has a grain size of 3 ?m to 5 ?m and an area ratio of a domain in said at least one of the grains is 85% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Harada, Yuuhei Ueyama
  • Patent number: 11935686
    Abstract: A coil element includes a core member, a plate portion connected to one end of the columnar portion, a coil conductor wire, and a terminal electrode. The core member has a flat-shaped connection end portion provided in each of both end portions of the coil portion. The plate portion has a principal surface, a first surface connected to the principal surface, and a second surface connected to the principal surface and the first surface. The terminal electrode has an electrode layer and a joint layer. The electrode layer is formed on either the first surface or the second surface of the plate portion. The joint layer includes a cavity portion locally provided between the connection end portion and the electrode layer and joins the connection end portion and the electrode layer to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11935688
    Abstract: A coil component includes: a substrate body; a winding part formed by a conductive wire wound around a part of the substrate body; and terminal electrodes, each having a foundation part constituted by a metal plate provided to the substrate body, and a welded part formed on the foundation part wherein a part of the metal plate is welded to the conductive wire at a lead part led out from the winding part; wherein, based on a vertical line which passes through the peak point of the welded part where its height becomes the highest and which also intersects at right angles the foundation part, the distance from the vertical line to the surface of the welded part as viewed in a direction parallel with the foundation part is longer at a point closer to the foundation part when viewed at least in one direction from the vertical line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Asa Yamamoto, Tetsuo Kumahora, Tsutomu Kojima
  • Patent number: 11929210
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a main surface, an end surface, and a side surface respectively perpendicular to a first axis, a second axis, and a third axis orthogonal to one another, a top portion that connects the main surface, the end surface, and the side surface to one another, and a plurality of internal electrodes laminated in a direction of the first axis; and an end external electrode including a corner portion located on the top portion, a base portion that covers the end surface and extends from the end surface to the main surface and the side surface, and a protrusion that protrudes from the base portion in a thickness direction, the protrusion including an L-shaped main surface protrusion located on the main surface and extending in directions of the second axis and the third axis from the corner portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Zaima, Takashi Sasaki, Kunihiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11923126
    Abstract: Provided is a coil component and a method of manufacturing the coil component less prone to aggregation of metal fillers contained in an external electrode. The coil component includes: a base body; a conductor wound around a coil axis; and an external electrode provided on a surface of the base body and electrically connected to an end portion of the conductor, wherein the external electrode includes an electrode layer containing a plurality of first fillers, a plurality of second fillers, and a resin, wherein at least a part of the plurality of second fillers is bonded by metallic bond to at least adjacent one of the plurality of first fillers and/or at least adjacent one of the others of the plurality of second fillers, and wherein each of the plurality of second fillers has a flat shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20240071688
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip having a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers facing each other through each of the plurality of dielectric layers, an external electrode that is provided on an end face of the multilayer chip in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which the plurality of internal electrode layers face each other, and has a plurality of glass portions that are spaced from each other on a surface of the external electrode, and a plated layer that is provided on the external electrode and has discontinuous portions on the plurality of glass portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Mikio TAHARA, Hiroki SHIMIZU, Masaru SAITO, Tomio INOUE
  • Patent number: 11916531
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided over the support substrate, comb-shaped electrodes disposed on the piezoelectric layer, each of the comb-shaped electrodes including electrode fingers exciting an acoustic wave, a temperature compensation film interposed between the support substrate and the piezoelectric layer and having a temperature coefficient of an elastic constant opposite in sign to that of the piezoelectric layer, a boundary layer interposed between the support substrate and the temperature compensation film, an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating through the boundary layer being higher than an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating through the temperature compensation film and being lower than an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating through the support substrate, and an intermediate layer interposed between the support substrate and the boundary layer and having a Q factor less than a Q factor of the boundary layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Nakazato, Shinji Yamamoto, Ryouta Iwabuchi, Naoki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11915879
    Abstract: An electronic component includes an element body and at least one external electrode thereon. The element body has a dielectric and inner electrodes. Each external electrode includes a base layer connected to at least one the inner electrode. The base layer is formed on a plurality of surfaces of the element body and contains a metal and a first co-material mixed with the metal. Each external electrode also includes a plating layer formed on at least one face of the base layer. Each external electrode also includes an oxide layer formed on one or more faces of the base layer other than those faces of the base layer on which the plating layer is formed. The oxide layer has a surface layer made from an oxide film of the metal of the base layer and a second co-material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Anju Okada, Mina Amano, Kiyoshiro Yatagawa, Takahisa Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11916188
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer including a glass component, a main component of the solid electrolyte layer being phosphoric acid salt-based solid electrolyte; and electrode layers that are provided on both main faces of the solid electrolyte layer, wherein the electrode layers include a carbon material having an average particle diameter of 40 nm or more and 120 nm or less, wherein a DBP oil absorption of the carbon material is 200 mL/100 g or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sachie Tomizawa, Daigo Ito, Chie Kawamura, Masashi Sekiguchi, Takato Satoh
  • Patent number: 11915881
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes an element body and at least one external electrode. The element body includes a dielectric and at least one internal electrode therein. The element body has a plurality of surfaces that includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. Two end regions are defined on the second surface at opposite ends of the second surface, and an intermediate region is defined on the second surface between the two end regions. The intermediate region has a surface roughness smaller than each of the two end regions. The respective external electrode is formed on the element body at a position away from the second surface. The respective external electrode includes a base layer formed on the element body and a plating layer formed on the base layer. The base layer is connected to the respective internal electrode and contains at least one metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Shimada
  • Patent number: 11915882
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip in which a dielectric layer and an internal electrode layer are alternately stacked. Concentration peaks of two or more types of metals different from a main component metal of the internal electrode layer exist at different positions in a stacking direction of the dielectric layer and the internal electrode layer, between the dielectric layer and the internal electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Masuda, Kotaro Mizuno, Koichi Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 11908995
    Abstract: An all solid battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer; a positive electrode layer provided on a first face of the solid electrolyte layer, a part of the positive electrode layer extending to a first edge portion of the solid electrolyte layer; a first margin layer that is provided on an area of the solid electrolyte layer where the positive electrode is not provided; a negative electrolyte layer provided on a second face of the solid electrolyte layer, a part of the negative electrolyte layer extending to a second edge portion of the solid electrolyte layer; a second margin layer that is provided on an area of the second face of the solid electrolyte layer where the negative electrolyte layer is not provided; wherein a main component of the first margin layer and the second margin layer is solid electrolyte of which ionic conductivity is lower than that of the solid electrolyte layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo Ito, Takato Satoh, Sachie Tomizawa, Chie Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20240055187
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer structure having a parallelepiped shape in which a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked in a vertical direction, the plurality of internal electrode layers being alternately exposed to two end faces of the parallelepiped shape. A side margin section is a section covering edges of the plurality of internal electrode layers in an extension direction toward two side faces of the parallelepiped shape. The side margin section has a structure in which a plurality of dielectric layers, each containing a ceramic as a main component, and a plurality of conductive layers, each containing a metal as a main component, are alternately stacked in the vertical direction. The plurality of conductive layers are respectively spaced and separated from the plurality of internal electrode layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoichi KATO
  • Publication number: 20240056052
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a substrate, a lower electrode provided on the substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided on the lower electrode, an upper electrode provided on the piezoelectric layer to form a resonance region facing the lower electrode, and a multilayered acoustic reflection film provided between the substrate and the lower electrode in the resonance region, the acoustic reflection film having low acoustic impedance films and high acoustic impedance films alternately laminated, and the acoustic reflection film satisfying 0<(G3?G2)/G1<0.96 where G1 is a product of an average thickness in the resonance region and a density of a first film, G2 is a product of an average thickness and a density of the lower electrode in the resonance region, and the G3 is a product of an average thickness in the resonance region and a density of a second film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mamoru ISHIDA
  • Patent number: 11901103
    Abstract: A magnetic body is constituted by grains of a soft magnetic alloy bonded together via an oxide layer, wherein: the soft magnetic alloy is an alloy containing Si by 1 to 5.5 percent by mass, and Cr or Al by 0.2 to 4 percent by mass in total, as constituent elements, with Fe and unavoidable impurities accounting for the remainder; and the oxide layer contains Si, as well as at least one of Cr and Al, where, among Fe, Si, Cr, and Al, Si is contained in the largest quantity based on mass. The magnetic body can have high magnetic permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoko Orimo, Shinsuke Takeoka
  • Patent number: 11901106
    Abstract: A coil element according to one embodiment of the present invention has a rectangular parallelepiped shape and has a principal surface including long sides and short sides. The coil element includes a drum core, a winding wound around the drum core, a first external electrode, a second external, and a covering portion covering at least a part of the winding core. The drum core in the embodiment includes a first flange, a second flange, and a winding core connecting between the first flange and the second flange. The winding core extends along the short sides of the principal surface. In one embodiment, the coil element has a height less than 0.85 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidenori Aoki, Tomoo Kashiwa
  • Patent number: 11901132
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer structure in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, a main component of the plurality of dielectric layers being a ceramic having a perovskite structure expressed by a general formula ABO3. At least one of crystal grains of the plurality of dielectric layers has a core-shell structure. A dispersion of atomic displacement amounts between B site atoms and oxygen atoms of a shell of the core-shell structure is larger than a dispersion of atomic displacement amounts between B site atoms and oxygen atoms of a core of the core-shell structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Ryu, Yoshiki Iwazaki
  • Patent number: 11901102
    Abstract: A coil component includes: a magnetic base body formed by metal magnetic grains containing Fe, Si, and Cr, whose intensity ratio (IM/IH) of the strongest line intensity (IM) in a range of wavenumbers 650 to 750 cm?1, to the strongest line intensity (IH) in a range of wavenumbers 400 to 450 cm?1, in a Raman spectrum measured at the center part is 2 or higher, and which also has a part on the surface side of the center part where the intensity ratio (IM/IH) in a Raman spectrum is under 2; and a conductor placed inside or on the surface of the magnetic base body. The magnetic base body is constituted by a powder magnetic core made to have excellent electrical insulating property and high magnetic permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Tanada
  • Patent number: 11895924
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a piezoelectric ceramic composition is an alkali niobate-based piezoelectric ceramic composition whose primary component is a compound expressed by the general formula LixNayK1-x-yNbO3 (where 0<x<1, 0<y<1, and x+y<1), and which contains 100 ppm or more but less than 1000 ppm of fluorine by mass. The alkali niobate-based piezoelectric ceramic composition demonstrates good properties even when sintered at low temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sadanori Shimoda, Keiichi Hatano