Patents by Inventor Hirobumi Adachi

Hirobumi Adachi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20170186549
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a laminated body including ceramic layers and conductor layers stacked alternately; and first and second external electrodes provided on portions of the laminated body. Each of the first and second external electrodes includes a sintered metal layer provided on the laminated body, a conductive resin layer covering the sintered metal layer, and a plated layer covering the conductive resin layer. The maximum length of the sintered metal layer provided on the second principal surface is shorter than the maximum length of the sintered metal layer provided on each of the first and second side surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuki KUROKAWA, Hirobumi ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20170171980
    Abstract: An electronic component containing substrate includes a substrate, a first electronic component mounted on a main surface of the substrate, and an embedment layer provided on the main surface of the substrate and embedding the first electronic component. The first electronic component is a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a ceramic multilayer body including a layered portion and a first side portion and a second side portion between which the layered portion lies and having two end surfaces opposed to each other and side surfaces connecting the two end surfaces to each other. The first side portion is located between the layered portion and the main surface of the substrate in a direction of thickness which is a direction perpendicular to the main surface of the substrate. The embedment layer is smaller in elastic modulus than the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuo HATTORI, Isamu FUJIMOTO, Masaru TAKAHASHI, Choichiro FUJII, Hirobumi ADACHI
  • Patent number: 9653214
    Abstract: In a laminated capacitor, a distance between an inner internal electrode at a first principal surface side, from a pair of internal electrodes that sandwich an effective dielectric layer located closest to a second principal surface side in a first sub-electrostatic capacitance portion, and a second principal surface is smaller than or equal to a distance between an internal electrode located closest to the second principal surface side in a main electrostatic capacitance portion and the inner internal electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hattori, Isamu Fujimoto, Hirobumi Adachi
  • Publication number: 20170110247
    Abstract: A three-terminal capacitor includes a capacitor element including first through sixth surfaces, first-side and second-side outer electrodes, a center outer electrode between the first-side and second-side outer electrodes, and conductor layers within the capacitor element. A height H2 is greater than a height H3, where the height H2 represents a higher one of a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the fifth surface and a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the sixth surface, and the height H3 represents a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the third surface, wherein the height H2 and the height H3 extend in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Hirobumi ADACHI, Mitsuru IKEDA, Hitoaki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160293335
    Abstract: A composite electronic component includes a capacitor device and a resistance device which is disposed on the capacitor device and includes a resistor. The capacitor device includes a capacitor body and a first external electrode, a second external electrode, a third external electrode, and a fourth external electrode each provided on a surface of the capacitor body. The resistor is electrically connected to each of the third external electrode and the fourth external electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Hirobumi ADACHI, Hitoaki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160163459
    Abstract: A capacitor element includes first through sixth surfaces, a first-side outer electrode at a first end portion of the first surface and on portions of the third, fifth, and sixth surfaces, a second-side outer electrode at a second end portion of the first surface and on portions of the fourth, fifth, and sixth surfaces, a center outer electrode at a portion of the first surface between the first-side outer electrode and the second-side outer electrode and on portions of the fifth and sixth surfaces, and two outermost conductor layers of first and second conductor layers are disposed at both outermost ends in the width direction, a first of the two outermost conductor layers next to one of the first conductor layers with an inner dielectric layer therebetween is connected to the center outer electrode, and a second of the pair of outermost conductor layers next to one of the second conductor layers with an inner dielectric layer therebetween is connected to the first-side outer electrode and the second-side ou
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Mitsuru IKEDA, Hirobumi ADACHI, Hitoaki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160141104
    Abstract: A three terminal capacitor includes a capacitor element including first through sixth surfaces, first-side and second-side outer electrodes, a center outer electrode between the first-side and second-side outer electrodes, and conductor layers. The conductor layers include a pair of outermost conductor layers that are respectively nearest to the fifth and sixth surfaces, and thicknesses of the pair of outermost conductor layers are greater than a thickness of a center conductor layer nearest to a center of the capacitor element in a width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Hirobumi ADACHI, Mitsuru IKEDA, Hitoaki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160141105
    Abstract: A three-terminal capacitor includes a capacitor element including first through sixth surfaces, first-side and second-side outer electrodes, a center outer electrode between the first-side and second-side outer electrodes, and conductor layers within the capacitor element. A height H2 is greater than a height H3, where the height H2 represents a higher one of a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the fifth surface and a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the sixth surface, and the height H3 represents a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the third surface, wherein the height H2 and the height H3 extend in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Hirobumi ADACHI, Mitsuru IKEDA, Hitoaki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160099106
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a laminated body including ceramic layers and conductor layers stacked alternately; and first and second external electrodes provided on portions of the laminated body. Each of the first and second external electrodes includes a sintered metal layer provided on the laminated body, a conductive resin layer covering the sintered metal layer, and a plated layer covering the conductive resin layer. The maximum length of the sintered metal layer provided on the second principal surface is shorter than the maximum length of the sintered metal layer provided on each of the first and second side surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuki KUROKAWA, Hirobumi ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20160093439
    Abstract: An electronic component includes an electronic element including two outer electrodes on surfaces thereof and a board terminal including a board main body and two mounting electrodes. The board main body has electrical insulating properties and a first principal surface. The two mounting electrodes are disposed on the first principal surface and electrically coupled to the two outer electrodes, respectively. The electronic element is mounted on the first principal surface side. The two outer electrodes are partially disposed outside an outer edge of the board terminal when viewed from the first principal surface side. The height from an end of each of the two outer electrodes opposite the board terminal to an end of the board terminal opposite the electronic element is not greater than a larger dimension of the width of the electronic element and the width of the board terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Yukihiro FUJITA, Tadateru YAMADA, Hirobumi ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20150364258
    Abstract: In a laminated capacitor, a distance between an inner internal electrode at a first principal surface side, from a pair of internal electrodes that sandwich an effective dielectric layer located closest to a second principal surface side in a first sub-electrostatic capacitance portion, and a second principal surface is smaller than or equal to a distance between an internal electrode located closest to the second principal surface side in a main electrostatic capacitance portion and the inner internal electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuo HATTORI, Isamu FUJIMOTO, Hirobumi ADACHI
  • Patent number: 9214282
    Abstract: A length of a first-side outer electrode is E1, a length of a second-side outer electrode is E3, a length of a center outer electrode is E2, a distance between the first-side outer electrode and the center outer electrode is ME1, a distance between the center outer electrode and the second-side outer electrode is ME2, a length of a capacitor element is L, a width from an edge of the first side second extending portion closer to a third surface to the third surface is M1L, a width from an edge of the first side second extending portion closer to a fourth surface to an edge of the first-side outer electrode on a first surface is M1R, a width from an edge of the first extending portion closer to the third surface to an edge of the center outer electrode on the first surface closer to the third surface is M2L, and a width from an edge of the first extending portion closer to the fourth surface to an edge of the center outer electrode on the first surface closer to the fourth surface is M2R, such that E1+ME1+E2+ME
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Ikeda, Hirobumi Adachi, Hitoaki Kimura, Takashi Sawada
  • Publication number: 20150270065
    Abstract: An electronic component includes an electronic element including outer electrodes on a surface, a substrate terminal on which the electronic element is mounted, and a conductor that covers at least a portion of the substrate terminal. The substrate terminal includes a first main surface, a second main surface at a side opposite to the first main surface, and a side surface connecting the first main surface and the second main surface. The substrate terminal includes a mounting electrode that is provided on the first main surface and is electrically connected to the outer electrodes of the electronic element. The mounting electrode includes adjacent portions that are located to be adjacent to the side surface of the substrate terminal. The conductor covers at least a portion of the adjacent portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuo HATTORI, Isamu FUJIMOTO, Hirobumi ADACHI
  • Patent number: 9099246
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body and first and second outer electrodes. The body includes a multilayer unit with ceramic dielectric layers and conductive layers alternately stacked on each other. The body is sectioned into a thickness-direction inner layer section that includes the multilayer unit and thickness-direction first and second outer layer sections that sandwich the thickness-direction inner layer section therebetween. A dimension of the thickness-direction second outer layer section is greater than a dimension of the thickness-direction first outer layer section. A conductive layer closest to a first principal surface and a conductive layer closest to a second principal surface are first and second outermost conductive layers, respectively. A curving amount of an extension portion of the second outermost conductive layer is greater than that of an extension portion of the first outermost conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shota Kitano, Hiroaki Sugita, Mayumi Yamada, Hirobumi Adachi