Patents Assigned to Taiyo Yuden Co.
  • Patent number: 11848157
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer structure in which each of a plurality of internal electrode layers and each of three or more of dielectric layers of which a main component is ceramic are alternately stacked. The three or more of dielectric layers include Sn. A dielectric layer having a smaller Sn concentration is closer to an outermost end in a stacking direction than a dielectric layer having a larger Sn concentration and being located on a center side of the stacking direction, in a relationship of at least two of the three or more of dielectric layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11842839
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a magnetic coupling coil component having a coupling coefficient that can be readily adjusted. A coil component according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a drum core including a winding core, a first flange, and a second flange, the first flange being provided on one axial end of the winding core, the second flange being provided on another axial end of the winding core; a spacer provided on a surface of the winding core between the first flange and the second flange, the spacer being separate from the winding core; a first winding wire wound around the winding core between the first flange and the spacer; and a second winding wire wound around the winding core between the second flange and the spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kobayashi, Tomoo Kashiwa
  • Patent number: 11842854
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes: a ceramic main body having a parallelepiped shape in which edges of first internal electrode layers are led out to a first edge face and edges of second internal electrode layer are led out to a second edge face facing the first edge face; and external electrodes respectively formed on the first edge face and the second edge face and extending to at least one side face of the ceramic main body, wherein a distance in a length direction between first conductive layers of the respective external electrodes on the at least one side face is shorter between locations corresponding to corner portions of the ceramic main body, respectively, than between center portions of the first conductive layers of the respective external electrodes in a width direction orthogonal to the length direction on the at least one side face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakamura, Mikio Tahara, Michio Oshima, Hiroaki Uenishi, Takehiko Kamobe
  • Publication number: 20230395844
    Abstract: An all solid battery is characterized by including a solid electrolyte layer of which a main component is an oxide-based solid electrolyte having a NASICON type crystal structure which has a compositional formula of Li1+x+2y+aAyM?xM?2-x-yP3O12+c, in which “A” is a divalent metal element, “M?” is a trivalent metal element, “M?” is a quadrivalent transition metal, and satisfies 0<a<1.4, a first internal electrode which is provided on a first main face of the solid electrolyte layer and includes an electrode active material, and a second internal electrode which is provided on a second main face of the solid electrolyte layer and includes an electrode active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11837400
    Abstract: One object is to provide an electronic component in which a standoff for filling solder is maintained. An electronic component according to an embodiment of the present invention is configured to be surface-mountable on a circuit board. The electronic component includes: an insulating base member; an internal conductor provided in the base member; a first external electrode provided on the mounting surface of the base member so as to be electrically connected to the internal conductor; and a second external electrode provided on the mounting surface of the base member so as to be electrically connected to the internal conductor. The first external electrode has a first protrusion, and the second external electrode has a second protrusion. The first protrusion and the second protrusion enables a standoff for filling solder to be maintained within a region defined by the mounting surface of the base member and the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Sekiguchi, Tsuyoshi Ogino, Takao Shibuya
  • Patent number: 11834379
    Abstract: Ceramic raw material powder includes: a main phase having a perovskite structure, wherein elements acting as a donor and an acceptor are solid-solved in B sites of the perovskite structure, wherein a first relationship of value A<value B is satisfied in a center region of each grain of the ceramic raw material powder; a second relationship of value A>value B is satisfied in a circumference region of each grain of the ceramic raw material powder, and value A in the second relationship gradually decreases from the circumference region to the center, wherein value A is a value of (concentration of the element acting as a donor)×(valence of the element acting as a donor?4), and value B is a value of (concentration of the element acting as an acceptor)×(4?valence of the element acting as an acceptor).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Sogabe
  • Patent number: 11837408
    Abstract: A dielectric material includes a perovskite as a main phase, an A site of the perovskite including at least Ba, a B site of the perovskite including at least Ti, and Eu having +2 valence and +3 valence. A ratio of +2 valence of Eu is 21% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichiro Morita, Yasuhiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11837409
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes a plurality of dielectric layers of which a main component is a ceramic having a perovskite structure, and a plurality of internal electrode layers, each of which is stacked through each of the plurality of dielectric layers and includes a co-material which is inactive against the main component of the plurality of dielectric layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichiro Morita
  • Publication number: 20230387882
    Abstract: An acoustic wave resonator includes comb-shaped electrodes each including electrode fingers and dummy electrode fingers, first tips of the electrode fingers of one of the comb-shaped electrodes and second tips of the dummy electrode fingers of the other facing each other, each dummy electrode finger including a first portion located closer to the corresponding second tip and a second portion located farther from the corresponding second tip than the first portion, the first portion being narrower in a short direction than the second portion, and an insulating film that is provided from an edge region of an overlap region to a first region, where the first portions of the dummy electrode fingers are located, of a dummy region and is provided in neither a central region of the overlap region nor a second region, where the second portions of the dummy electrode fingers are located, of the dummy region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mayu TSUKADA, Shodai HARAI
  • Patent number: 11830658
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coil component includes: providing multiple metal magnetic grains; preparing a magnetic body paste by mixing the multiple metal magnetic grains, a binder resin containing a resinate having at least one element selected from the group consisting of Si, Al, Cr, Mg, Ti, and Zr, and a solvent; forming a compact using the magnetic body paste; heat-treating the compact to form, on surfaces of the metal magnetic grains, bonding parts constituted by an amorphous oxide containing carbon and the at least one element, thereby forming a magnetic base body wherein the multiple metal magnetic grains are bonded via the bonding parts; forming a coil that includes a metal conductor; and forming external electrodes on surfaces of the magnetic base body and connecting end parts of the coil to the external electrodes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Misawa, Kinshiro Takadate, Shinsuke Takeoka
  • Patent number: 11830679
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic electronic component, including: a capacitance forming unit that includes internal electrodes and ceramic layers, the internal electrodes being laminated in a first direction via the ceramic layers; and a circumferential unit that is provided on a circumference of the capacitance forming unit and formed of insulating ceramics. The circumferential unit includes a cover that is provided to the capacitance forming unit outward in the first direction, a side margin that is provided to the capacitance forming unit outward in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a grain growth region that is formed at a boundary between the cover and the side margin and includes crystal grains of the insulating ceramics, the crystal grains having a mean grain size larger than a mean grain size of the crystal grains at a center portion of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11830674
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip in which a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers are stacked. The plurality of internal electrode layers include Au. Each of the plurality of internal electrode layers includes an Au-containing layer of which an Au concentration with respect to all detected elements is 5 at % or more, on an interface between the each of the plurality of internal electrode layers and a dielectric layer next to the each of the plurality of internal electrode layers. A relationship of C?500×t/T is satisfied when a thickness of the each of the plurality of internal electrode layers is T nm, a thickness of the Au-containing layer is t nm, and an Au concentration with respect to a total of Ni and Au in a whole of the each of the plurality of internal electrode layers is C at %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Masuda, Minoru Ryu, Teruo Atsumi
  • Publication number: 20230377805
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes: a multi-layer unit including ceramic layers laminated in a first direction and electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers, positions of end portions of the electrodes falling within a range of 0.5 ?m in a second direction; and side margins each containing manganese or magnesium and silicon and facing each other in the second direction. When each margin is equally divided into an inner region and an outer region, a total concentration of manganese and magnesium in the outer region is higher than a total concentration of manganese and magnesium in the inner region and higher than a total concentration of manganese and magnesium in the ceramic layers, and a concentration of silicon in the inner region is not less than a concentration of silicon in the outer region and higher than a concentration of silicon in the ceramic layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kotaro MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 11823834
    Abstract: A coil component according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a magnetic base body containing a plurality of metal magnetic particles and a binder binding the plurality of metal magnetic particles together; and a coil conductor provided in the magnetic base body and including a winding portion wound around a coil axis, wherein as viewed from a direction of the coil axis, the magnetic base body includes a core region enclosed by the winding portion, and a ratio of an area of the core region to a sum of an area of the winding portion and the area of the core region is 32% or larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daiki Mimura, Tetsuyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11823825
    Abstract: A metal magnetic powder is constituted by metal magnetic grains that each include: a metal phase where the percentage of Fe at its center part is 98 percent by mass or higher, while the mass percentage of Fe at its contour part is lower than that at the center part; and an oxide film covering the metal phase, so as to inhibit oxidation of Fe contained in the metal phase, despite the high content percentage of Fe in the metal phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoko Orimo
  • Patent number: 11823829
    Abstract: [Problem] To prevent peeling of a terminal electrode from a base portion and to improve precision in assembling a terminal electrode on a base portion. [Solution] Provided is a coil component comprising: a base portion having a first surface and a second surface connected to the first surface, a first virtual plane including the first surface and a second virtual plane including the second surface intersecting at an obtuse first angle; a coil portion formed by a conductor wound around the base portion; and a first terminal electrode connected electrically to the coil portion, the terminal electrode being made of a plate-shaped first metal plate having a first portion fixed to the first surface of the base portion by a first bonded portion, and a second portion bent towards the first portion and coming into contact at the leading end with the second surface of the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Oga, Katsuyuki Horie
  • Patent number: 11823843
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor 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 ceramic protection section includes a cover layer and a side margin. A main component ceramic of the ceramic protection section is a ceramic material having a perovskite structure expressed as a general formula ABO3. An A site of the perovskite structure includes at least Ba. A B site of the perovskite structure includes at least Ti and Zr. A Zr/Ti ratio which is a molar ratio of Zr and Ti is 0.010 or more and 0.25 or less. An A/B ratio which is a molar ratio of the A site and the B site is 0.990 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichiro Morita
  • Patent number: 11817246
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a wire-wound coil component and a drum core that can be manufactured easily and less affected by an inter-wire capacitance. A coil component includes: a drum core having a winding core extending along a front-rear direction and a first flange provided on a front end of the winding core; a first conductor wire wound around the winding core of the drum core; and a second conductor wire wound on an outer side of the first conductor wire in a direction orthogonal to the front-rear direction, wherein turns of a same number of the first conductor wire and the second conductor wire contact with each other, while turns of different numbers of the first conductor wire and the second conductor wire are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Horie
  • Patent number: 11810707
    Abstract: A coil component according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a magnetic base body, a first external electrode, a second external electrode, a coil conductor extending around a coil axis, and an insulator. The insulator is provided between the flange portion of the second external electrode and the second coil pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ichiro Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20230352240
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip. The multilayer chip has a capacity section and a side margin. The side margin includes boron and silicon, and includes a first section and a second section in order from the capacity section side toward outside. A boron concentration of the first section is larger than a boron concentration of the second section. A segregation degree of silicon in the second section is larger than a segregation degree of silicon in the first section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuya TANIGUCHI