Patents Examined by Michael P McFadden
  • Patent number: 12191091
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor element includes an anode body, a dielectric layer disposed on a surface of the anode body, a solid electrolyte layer covering at least a part of the dielectric layer, and a cathode lead-out layer covering at least a part of the solid electrolyte layer. The cathode lead-out layer includes a carbon layer that is in contact with the solid electrolyte layer and covers at least a part of the solid electrolyte layer. The carbon layer includes a carbonaceous material and a cyclodextrin compound. The cyclodextrin compound has a concentration of a saturated aqueous solution at 25° C. of 1.5 mass % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Kurimoto
  • Patent number: 12191086
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic device includes a multilayer chip. The multilayer chip has a capacity section, a side margin and an intermediate portion. The intermediate portion is provided between the capacity section and the side margin. An A/B ratio is larger in the side margin than in the capacity section, and is smaller in the intermediate portion than in the capacity section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Tsushima, Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Koichiro Morita
  • Patent number: 12191087
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a case having an elliptical cross-section capable of receiving a plurality of capacitive elements. One or more of the capacitive elements provide at least one capacitor having a first capacitor terminal and a second capacitor terminal. The apparatus also includes a cover assembly that includes a deformable cover mountable to the case, and, a common cover terminal having a contact extending from the cover. The cover assembly also includes at least three capacitor cover terminals, each of the at least three capacitor cover terminals having at least one contact extending from the deformable cover. The deformable cover is configured to displace at least one of the at least three capacitor cover terminals upon an operative failure of at least one of the plurality of the capacitive elements. The cover assembly also includes at least four insulation structures. One of the four insulation structures is associated with one of the at least three capacitor cover terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: AmRad Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: Robert M. Stockman, Richard W. Stockman, Shaun Brandon Sirotiak
  • Patent number: 12191083
    Abstract: A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a plurality of dielectric layers, a side margin portion disposed on the body, and external electrodes disposed on the body. The body includes an active portion having internal electrodes alternately arranged with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween in the first direction and a cover portion disposed on both end surfaces of the active portion in a first direction, the active portion. The cover portion, and the side margin portion include molybdenum (Mo). A Mo content in an interfacial portion, a region of the active portion, adjacent to one of the cover portion or the side margin portion, is higher than a Mo content in a central portion of the active portion. A Mo content in the one of the cover portion and the side margin portion is higher than the Mo content in the interfacial portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Su Ji Kang
  • Patent number: 12191080
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode, and an external electrode disposed on the exterior of the body. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric grains and a grain boundary present between the dielectric grains. A molar ratio (Al/Ti) of Al and Ti included in the grain boundary satisfies 0.022 to 0.028.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woong Gi Kang, Hyung Joon Jeon, Ji Seop Oh, Jeong Ryeol Kim, Eun Jung Kim
  • Patent number: 12183511
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an energy storage device comprising: a housing for accommodating an electrolyte; an electrode element accommodated inside the housing; a case coupled to one side of the housing; and an electrode terminal inserted into the case so as to be electrically connected to the electrode element, wherein the case comprises: a base part having a through-hole into which the electrode terminal is inserted; and a sealing part coupled to the base part so as to seal the space between the base part and the electrode terminal, and the sealing part includes a terminal sealing member located at the through-hole so as to come into close contact with the electrode terminal, thereby sealing the space between the base part and the electrode terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyeong Hoon Park, Jung Gul Lee
  • Patent number: 12183515
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween, and including first and second surfaces opposing each other in a first direction, third and fourth surfaces connected to the first and second surfaces and opposing each other in a second direction, and fifth and sixth surfaces connected to the first to fourth surfaces and opposing each other in a third direction; a first band electrode disposed on a portion of the first surface adjacent to the third surface; a second band electrode disposed on another portion of the first surface adjacent to the fourth surface; and insulating members disposed between the first and second band electrodes disposed on the first surface and spaced apart from each other, wherein the first surface is exposed through a space between the plurality of insulating members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Hwan Park, Kyung Moon Jung, Sung Jun Lim
  • Patent number: 12181921
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first non-foldable area, a foldable area, and a second non-foldable area defined therein, a sensor including a plurality of loop portions and a plurality of line portions, and at least one transverse line comprising at least one of the loop portions and the line portions that overlaps substantially all of the first non-foldable area, the foldable area, and the second non-foldable area. The at least one transverse line includes a first rigid portion overlapping the first non-foldable area, a flexible portion overlapping the foldable area, and a second rigid portion overlapping the second non-foldable area. The flexible portion has a first width, the first rigid portion has a second width, the second rigid portion has a third width, with the first width being greater than the second width and the third width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kishimoto, Dasom Gu, Chul Ho Jeong
  • Patent number: 12183516
    Abstract: In a three-terminal multilayer ceramic capacitor, each of first through fourth external electrodes includes a base electrode layer including a conductive metal and a glass component, an organic layer including an organosilicon compound covering the base electrode layer, and a plating layer on the organic layer. On a surface of the organic layer in a portion facing the plating layer, an atomic concentration ratio of Si to Cu is greater than or equal to about 1.5% and less than or equal to about 5.5%, or greater than or equal to about 0.8% and less than or equal to about 2.8%, and a surface roughness is greater than or equal to about 0.334 and less than or equal to about 0.371, or greater than or equal to about 0.352 and less than or equal to about 0.395.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Morimoto, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Noriyuki Ookawa, Daisho Tsubokawa, Masaru Takahashi, Nobuyasu Hamamori
  • Patent number: 12176154
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers laminated on each other, inner electrode layers laminated on the dielectric layers, first and second main surfaces, first and second end surfaces, and first and second lateral surfaces, first and second external electrodes on the first and second end surfaces, an inner layer portion in which the inner electrode layers are opposed to each other, outer layer portions on first and second main surface sides and first and second lateral surface sides. Voids are provided in the outer layer portions on the first and second lateral surface sides. A ratio of a total area of the voids relative to an area of the outer layer portion on the first or second lateral surface side in a cross section of the multilayer body is greater than or equal to about 0.02% and less than or equal to about 0.2%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 12176153
    Abstract: A multilayer electronic component includes: a body having first and second surfaces opposing each other in a first direction and third and fourth surfaces connected to the first and second surfaces and opposing each other in a second direction; a first external electrode including a first connection portion, disposed on the third surface, and a first band portion extending from the first connection portion onto a portion of the first surface; a second external electrode including a second connection portion, disposed on the fourth surface, and a second band portion extending from the second connection portion onto a portion of the first surface; an insulating layer disposed on the second surface to extend to portions of the first and second connection portions; a first plating layer disposed on the first band portion; and a second plating layer disposed on the second band portion. The insulating layer includes a polymer resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ha Jeong Kim, Kangha Lee, Jun Hyeong Kim, Eui Hyun Jo, Myung Jun Park
  • Patent number: 12170175
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kotaro Mizuno
  • Patent number: 12170171
    Abstract: An electronic component that includes: a ceramic body; and an external electrode on a surface of the ceramic body, wherein the external electrode includes: a base layer in contact with the surface of the ceramic body, the base layer including a granulate of a metal material and a continuous phase of a titanium-containing oxide present around the granulate of the metal material; and a plating layer on the base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuuta Hoshino
  • Patent number: 12169424
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a first housing including an antenna provided on a side surface thereof, a second housing configured to slide in a first direction to be drawn out of the first housing and to slide in a direction opposite to the first direction to be drawn into the first housing, a flexible display including a first side comprising a fixed portion and a second side provided to be drawn out of an inside of the first housing or drawn into the inside of the first housing according to an operation of the second housing, and a protective cover provided between the fixed portion and the first housing to contact at least a portion of an upper portion of the fixed portion. A first space may be provided between the protective cover and a side portion of the fixed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moonchul Shin, Youngmin Kang, Yeonggyu Yoon, Seungjoon Lee, Joongyeon Cho, Jungyoung Choi, Myunghoon Kwak, Byounguk Yoon
  • Patent number: 12165814
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes: a capacitor element including an anode body connected to an anode lead, a dielectric layer on a surface of the anode body, and a cathode layer opposite to the anode body via the dielectric layer; an exterior resin covering the capacitor element; a first external electrode terminal on a first outer surface of the exterior resin and electrically connected to the anode body; a second external electrode terminal on a second outer surface of the exterior resin and electrically connected to the cathode layer; and a resin layer having a lower filler content than the exterior resin and covering at least a portion of an outer periphery of the anode lead between the first outer surface of the exterior resin and the anode body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuuji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12165812
    Abstract: In a multilayer ceramic capacitor, a proportion of a glass component in a first side surface-side base electrode layer is about 60% or more in a first range from a tip in a vicinity of a second end surface of the first side surface-side base electrode layer to a position of a length which is about 10% of a dimension in a length direction of the first side surface-side base electrode layer, and a proportion of a glass component in a second side surface-side base electrode layer is about 60% or more in a second range from a tip in a vicinity of a first end surface of the second side surface-side base electrode layer to a position of a length which is about 10% of a dimension in a length direction of the second side surface-side base electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12165810
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including the dielectric ceramic layers and the internal electrode layers which are laminated, and external electrodes connected to the internal electrode layers. The multilayer body includes segregation including Si as a main component in a vicinity of an end of the internal electrode layer in a width direction. An average particle size of the dielectric particles in the vicinity of the end of the internal electrode layer in the width direction in the dielectric ceramic layer is smaller than an average particle size of a dielectric particles in a central portion of the internal electrode layer in the width direction in the dielectric ceramic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhisa Uchida
  • Patent number: 12154724
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including an inner layer portion including internal electrode layers and inner dielectric layers laminated alternately, and internal electrode layers at both ends thereof in a lamination direction, and outer dielectric layers covering the inner layer portion, and two external electrodes on both end surfaces of the multilayer body in a length direction intersecting the lamination direction. The inner and outer dielectric layers each include grains, and a difference between an average grain size of grains in the inner dielectric layers and an average grain size of grains in the outer dielectric layers is about 100 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akito Mori, Masahiro Wakashima, Sho Watanabe, Takumi Endou
  • Patent number: 12154722
    Abstract: A capacitor component includes a body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrode layers, and external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the first and second internal electrode layers, respectively. The body includes an active portion in which the first and second internal electrode layers are alternately disposed with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween, a cover portion disposed on an upper portion and a lower portion of the active portion, and a side margin portion disposed on both sides of the active portion opposing each other. When a content of magnesium (Mg) included in the active portion is A1, a content of magnesium (Mg) included in the cover portion is C1, and a content of magnesium (Mg) included in the margin portion is M1, 0<A1<M1?C1 and A1/C1?0.60 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Uk Cha, Chang Min Lee, Hye Sung Yoon, Seon A Jang, Ji Hyuk Lim, Ki Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 12154721
    Abstract: A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a plurality of dielectric layers, a plurality of internal electrodes, a capacitance formation portion in which the plurality of dielectric layers and the plurality of internal electrodes are alternately disposed in a first direction, a first cover portion disposed on one surface of the capacitance formation portion in the first direction and including a dielectric layer, and a second cover portion disposed on the other surface of the capacitance formation portion in the first direction and including a dielectric layer; and an external electrode disposed on the body, wherein, if an internal electrode disposed closest to the first cover portion, among the plurality of internal electrodes, is referred to as IE1, a ratio of Ni(OH)2 mass to NiO mass in IE1 is 4.5 or more and 7.5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Joon Oh, Jeong Ryeol Kim