Abstract: An apparatus is provided for packaging a laminated capacitor made to have a low ESL value and is used for a decoupling capacitor to be connected to a power supply circuit for a MPU chip providing a MPU. The laminated capacitor is accommodated within a cavity provided on a wiring board. The capacitor includes a plurality of first external terminal electrodes connected to first internal electrodes via a plurality of first feedthrough conductors and a plurality of second external terminal electrodes connected to second internal electrodes via a plurality of second feedthrough conductors. The first external terminal electrodes provided on a first major surface of a capacitor body are connected to via-hole conductors at the hot side for the power source within a substrate, and the second external terminal electrodes provided on first and second major surfaces are connected to grounding via-hole conductors and a mother board within the substrate.

Abstract: A multi-layer capacitor includes first and second side-surface terminal electrodes alternately arranged on four side surfaces of a capacitor body. First and second major-surface terminal electrodes are arranged on a major surface of the capacitor body. First and second internal electrodes which are opposed to each other within the capacitor body are respectively electrically connected at ends thereof to the first and second side-surface terminal electrodes, and are also respectively electrically connected to the first and second major-surface terminal electrodes through via hole conductors. With this arrangement, the directions of the currents flowing within the multi-layer capacitor are diversified, and the lengths of current-carrying paths are shortened so as to achieve a very low ESL value.

Abstract: A capacitor array includes four internal electrodes and internal electrode extraction sections which are in electrical conduction with the corresponding internal electrodes and have predetermined widths which are symmetrically arranged relative to a long-side-direction center of each dielectric sheet. Here, the internal electrode extraction sections are arranged so that a pitch between the internal electrode extraction sections is smaller than a pitch between the internal electrodes. In other words, the internal electrode extraction sections are arranged so that they are disposed towards the center in the direction in which they are disposed. A predetermined number of dielectric sheets formed in this way are stacked, and dielectric sheets not having electrodes are stacked above and below the stacked predetermined number of dielectric sheets.

Abstract: A capacitor array includes four internal electrodes and internal electrode extraction sections which are in electrical conduction with the corresponding internal electrodes and have predetermined widths which are symmetrically arranged relative to a long-side-direction center of each dielectric sheet. Here, the internal electrode extraction sections are arranged so that a pitch between the internal electrode extraction sections is smaller than a pitch between the internal electrodes. In other words, the internal electrode extraction sections are arranged so that they are disposed towards the center in the direction in which they are disposed. A predetermined number of dielectric sheets formed in this way are stacked, and dielectric sheets not having electrodes are stacked above and below the stacked predetermined number of dielectric sheets.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for packaging a laminated capacitor made to have a low ESL value and is used for a decoupling capacitor to be connected to a power supply circuit for a MPU chip providing a MPU. The laminated capacitor is accommodated within a cavity provided on a wiring board. The capacitor includes a plurality of first external terminal electrodes connected to first internal electrodes via a plurality of first feedthrough conductors and a plurality of second external terminal electrodes connected to second internal electrodes via a plurality of second feedthrough conductors. The first external terminal electrodes provided on a first major surface of a capacitor body are connected to via-hole conductors at the hot side for the power source within a substrate, and the second external terminal electrodes provided on first and second major surfaces are connected to grounding via-hole conductors and a mother board within the substrate.

Abstract: First and second external terminal electrodes are formed on the same principal surface of a capacitor main body. The connection between first internal electrodes in the capacitor main body and the first external terminal electrodes, and the mutual connection between the plurality of first internal electrodes, is achieved by a first connection portion. The connection between second internal electrodes and the second external terminal electrodes, and the mutual connection between the plurality of second internal electrodes, is achieved by a second connection portion. The first and second connection portions are arranged alternately. Currents flow through the connection portions in opposite directions with the result that components of magnetic flux generated by such currents are cancelled and the ESL is reduced.

Abstract: A circuit substrate includes resistive films are disposed on the surfaces of lands included in a circuit pattern and these resistive films are used as resistances connected in series to a capacitor. Therefore, the resistances are connected in series without increasing the inductance in the capacitor, and accordingly, a circuit having a small impedance variation with respect to frequency can be obtained. Therefore, it is possible to obtain a power supply circuit and so forth having stable operation and fast response.

Abstract: First and second external terminal electrodes are formed on the same principal surface of a capacitor main body. The connection between first internal electrodes in the capacitor main body, the first external terminal electrode and the mutual connection between the plurality of first internal electrodes is achieved by a first connection portion. The connection between second internal electrodes, the second external terminal electrode and the mutual connection between the plurality of second internal electrodes is achieved by a second connection portion. The first and second connection portions are arranged alternately. Currents flow through the connection portions in opposite directions with the result that components of magnetic flux generated by such currents are cancelled and the ESL is reduced.

Abstract: First and second external terminal electrodes are formed on the same principal surface of a capacitor main body. The connection between first internal electrodes in the capacitor main body, the first external terminal electrode and the mutual connection between the plurality of first internal electrodes is achieved by a first connection portion. The connection between second internal electrodes, the second external terminal electrode and the mutual connection between the plurality of second internal electrodes is achieved by a second connection portion. The first and second connection portions are arranged alternately. Currents flow through the connection portions in opposite directions with the result that components of magnetic flux generated by such currents are cancelled and the ESL is reduced.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for embedding and detecting an electronic watermark without requiring signals for geometric compensation. A particular embodiment uses a periodic pattern with repetition as an embedded pattern itself, which has information embedded as an electronic watermark, and observes the change of its period upon detection to calculate the scaling factor. When detecting the electronic watermark, the scaling factor of images is calculated from digital data that underwent the scaling processing, and then the processing to detect the electronic watermark is performed based on the obtained scaling factor.

Abstract: First and second external terminal electrodes are formed on the same principal surface of a capacitor main body. The connection between first internal electrodes in the capacitor main body, the first external terminal electrode and the mutual connection between the plurality of first internal electrodes is achieved by a first connection portion. The connection between second internal electrodes, the second external terminal electrode and the mutual connection between the plurality of second internal electrodes is achieved by a second connection portion. The first and second connection portions are arranged alternately. Currents flow through the connection portions in opposite directions with the result that components of magnetic flux generated by such currents are cancelled and the ESL is reduced.

Abstract: A multilayer capacitor whose equivalent series inductance is reduced includes a capacitor main body having a generally rectangular parallelpiped shape with two principal surfaces in a face-to-face relationship with each other and four side surfaces connecting the principal surfaces. A capacitor unit is formed in the capacitor main body by a respective pair of first and second internal electrodes disposed in the main body in a face-to-face relationship with a dielectric material layer interposed therebetween. At least three first external electrodes are located on respective ones of the side surfaces of the capacitor main body, with at least one of the first external electrodes being located on each of at least three of the side surfaces. The first internal electrode has at least three first lead electrodes, each of which extends to and is electrically coupled to a respective one of the first external electrodes.

Abstract: A multi-layer capacitor is constructed to minimize equivalent series inductance, increase resonance frequency, reduce the size of the capacitor and greatly improve the ease of mounting of the capacitor. A dimension in a length direction and a dimension in a width direction of a capacitor body are substantially equal, and a pattern of opposing first and second internal electrodes is substantially square. First lead-out portions of the first internal electrode and second lead-out portions of the second internal electrode are extended onto two side surfaces and two end surfaces. First external electrode terminals connected to the first lead-out portions and second external electrode terminals connected to the second lead-out portions are arranged so that they alternate adjacently and are arranged such that oppositely disposed external electrode terminals have opposite polarities.

Abstract: A multi-layer capacitor includes first and second side-surface terminal electrodes alternately arranged on four side surfaces of a capacitor body. First and second major-surface terminal electrodes are arranged on a major surface of the capacitor body. First and second internal electrodes which are opposed to each other within the capacitor body are respectively electrically connected at ends thereof to the first and second side-surface terminal electrodes, and are also respectively electrically connected to the first and second major-surface terminal electrodes through via hole conductors. With this arrangement, the directions of the currents flowing within the multi-layer capacitor are diversified, and the lengths of current-carrying paths are shortened so as to achieve a very low ESL value.

Abstract: A multi-layer capacitor includes first and second side-surface terminal electrodes alternately arranged on four side surfaces of a capacitor body. First and second major-surface terminal electrodes are arranged on a major surface of the capacitor body. First and second internal electrodes which are opposed to each other within the capacitor body are respectively electrically connected at ends thereof to the first and second side-surface terminal electrodes, and are also respectively electrically connected to the first and second major-surface terminal electrodes through via hole conductors. With this arrangement, the directions of the currents flowing within the multi-layer capacitor are diversified, and the lengths of current-carrying paths are shortened so as to achieve a very low ESL value.

Abstract: First and second external terminal electrodes are formed on the same principal surface of a capacitor main body. The connection between first internal electrodes in the capacitor main body, the first external terminal electrode and the mutual connection between the plurality of first internal electrodes is achieved by a first connection portion. The connection between second internal electrodes, the second external terminal electrode and the mutual connection between the plurality of second internal electrodes is achieved by a second connection portion. The first and second connection portions are arranged alternately. Currents flow through the connection portions in opposite directions with the result that components of magnetic flux generated by such currents are cancelled and the ESL is reduced.

Abstract: A multi-layer capacitor achieves significant reduction in equivalent series inductance (ESL) and includes first inner electrodes and second inner electrodes opposing each other, first feed-through conductors and second feed-through conductors, and first outer terminal electrodes and second outer terminal electrodes. The first feed-through conductors electrically connect the first inner electrodes and the first outer terminal electrodes, and the second feed-through conductors electrically connect the second inner electrodes and the second outer terminal electrodes. The first and second feed-through conductors are arranged such that the feed-through conductors mutually cancel magnetic fields induced by current flowing through the first and second inner electrodes. Furthermore, when an alignment pitch of the first and second feed-through conductors is indicated by P and the total number of the first and second feed-through conductors is indicated by N, an arrangement is set such that a ratio of P/N is about 0.

Abstract: A multi-layer capacitor is constructed to minimize equivalent series inductance (ESL) and includes first inner electrodes and second inner electrodes disposed opposite to each other. The first inner electrodes are electrically connected to a first outer terminal electrode via a first feed-through conductor and the second inner electrodes are electrically connected to a second outer terminal electrode via a second feed-through conductor. The first and second feed-through conductors are arranged in such a manner that magnetic fields induced by current flowing through the inner electrodes are cancelled. In addition, some of these feed-through conductors are arranged to define first and second peripheral feed-through conductors connected to the first and second inner electrodes at each periphery of the first and second inner electrodes.

Abstract: It is one object of the invention to optimize watermark data that indicate additional information, such as copyright information, in accordance with the contents of object data, and, for example, to embed the watermark data in image data.

Abstract: A multilayer capacitor whose equivalent series inductance is reduced includes a capacitor main body having a generally rectangular parallel piped shape with two principal surfaces in a face-to-face relationship with each other and four side surfaces connecting the principal surfaces. A capacitor unit is formed in the capacitor main body by a respective pair of first and second internal electrodes disposed in the main body in a face-to-face relationship with a dielectric material layer interposed therebetween. At least three first external electrodes are located on respective ones of the side surfaces of the capacitor main body, with at least one of the first external electrodes being located on each of at least three of the side surfaces. The first internal electrode has at least three first lead electrodes, each of which extends to and is electrically coupled to a respective one of the first external electrodes.