Abstract: An electronic component includes a substrate, first electronic components mounted on a first principle surface of the substrate, a first resin layer that covers the first principal surface of the substrate and the first electronic components, a second electronic component mounted on a second principle surface of the substrate, a second resin layer that covers the second principal surface of the substrate and the second electronic component, an electrically conductive shield layer, and a ground electrode arranged in the substrate so as to reach a side surface of the substrate. The shield layer is a single continuous layer that covers the first resin layer, the side surface of the substrate, and a portion of the second resin layer adjacent to the substrate. The shield layer is in contact with and electrically connected to the ground electrode.

Abstract: In a composite electronic module, electronic components including magnetic substances are mounted on a substrate such that lines of magnetic force generated by a permanent magnet of a non-reciprocal circuit element are concentrated to the non-reciprocal circuit element side. Therefore, even when a metal yoke is omitted, for example, it is possible to reduce the number of lines of magnetic force generated by the permanent magnet and which leak to the outside of the substrate, and hence to significantly reduce and prevent the influence of a magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet upon other electronic components that are arranged near or adjacent to the composite electronic module around the substrate.

Abstract: In a laminated inductor element, a magnetic ferrite layer sandwiched between two conductor patterns is thinner than other magnetic ferrite layers. Therefore, a crack occurs in the magnetic ferrite layer due to firing. As a result of the occurrence of this crack, a stress applied to each layer is relaxed, and it becomes possible to avoid warpage, a crack, or the like. In addition, in the laminated type inductor element, the two conductor patterns are electrically connected by two via holes, and subjected to a same potential. Since the two conductor patterns correspond to a same wiring pattern and a coil of coil conductor is defined by the two conductor patterns, even if upper and lower coil conductors are electrically in contact with each other due to the crack, the two conductor patterns are not put into a short-circuited state.

Abstract: An antenna device or a communication terminal device including the antenna device includes ground conductor, which serves as a plate-shaped conductor and is provided in an inner layer of a circuit board. An antenna coil is mounted so that a first main surface of a magnetic core faces the circuit board. The antenna coil is arranged so that a first conductor portion of a coil conductor is at a position that is closer to the ground conductor than a second conductor portion. The antenna coil is arranged so that the first conductor portion of the coil conductor is positioned in the vicinity of a longitudinal direction end portion of a casing, and the first conductor portion of the coil conductor is bent in a direction toward the ground conductor.

Abstract: A laminated balanced filter includes one unbalanced terminal, two balanced terminals, a ground terminal, an unbalanced-side LC parallel resonator, an intermediate LC parallel resonator, and a balanced-side inductor. The inductor electrode pattern of the balanced-side inductor includes a first portion extending from one end portion to a connection portion and a second portion extending from the other end portion to the connection portion. A direction of a current flowing through the first portion is opposite to a direction of a current flowing through the inductor electrode pattern of the intermediate LC parallel resonator. A direction of a current flowing through the second portion of the balanced-side inductor is the same as a direction of a current flowing through the inductor electrode pattern of the intermediate LC parallel resonator. The laminated balanced filter further includes a coupling capacitor connected between a balanced terminal connected to the first portion and an unbalanced terminal.

Abstract: In an expanding device that can more effectively expand an adhesive tape in its wafer-attached region and can pick up components on the adhesive tape with high accuracy, a central first portion of an adhesive tape, including a portion with a wafer attached thereto, is laid on a top surface of a heating table, a non-heated ring is disposed to surround an outer peripheral edge of the heating table, a heat insulation is laid on an upper surface of the non-heated ring, a second portion of the adhesive tape located outwardly of the first portion thereof is located on or above the insulation, a third portion of the adhesive tape located outwardly of the second portion is held by a holder, and the holder is movable up and down relative to the heating table and the non-heated ring by a drive unit.

Abstract: A method for producing a laminated ceramic capacitor allows a surface of at least a portion of a ceramic element body chip to be brought into contact with a plated layer formed in advance in a mold member, and performs heat processing on the ceramic element body chip in that contact state, thereby to form an external conductor layer made of the plated layer on the surface of at least the portion of the ceramic element body chip. Thus, a method and an apparatus for producing a ceramic electronic component accurately and precisely controls the thickness of the external conductor layer to be small, and easily controls the length of the external conductor layer.

Abstract: A layered solid-state battery that includes a first unit cell, a second unit cell, and an internal collection layer that is disposed to intervene between the first unit cell and the second unit cell. Each of the unit cells is constituted of a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode layer that are sequentially stacked. The internal collection layer is disposed to be in contact with each of the negative electrode layers of the unit cells. Also, the internal collection layer contains an electron conductive material and an ion-conductively electrically conductive specific conductive material.

Abstract: An electrode active material that contains a lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt composite oxide having a hexagonal, layered rock-salt type crystal structure that belongs to the space group R3m. The lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt composite oxide is represented by the general formula Li1+?[NixMnyCoz]O2 (wherein ? satisfies 0.1<?<0.3, and x, y, and z satisfy x+y+z=1, 0.075<z<0.250, and 0.50<x/y<0.90). In the powder X-ray diffraction analysis of a powder of the lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt composite oxide using a CuK? ray, the peak intensity ratio (A/B) of the diffraction peak intensity (A) observed near 2?=18.6±0.2° to the diffraction peak intensity (B) observed near 2?=44.3±1.0° is more than 0 and less than 1.0.

Abstract: A ceramic separator that includes an inorganic filler and an organic constituent. The inorganic filler is in the range of 55 to 80% in terms of a pigment volume concentration, and the inorganic filler has an average particle diameter of 1 ?m to 5 ?m, and a grain size distribution with a slope of 1.2 or more based on an approximation by a Rosin-Rammler distribution.

Abstract: A multilayer body includes a plurality of insulator layers that are stacked together and has top and bottom surfaces that oppose each other in a stacking direction and side surfaces that connect the top and bottom surfaces to each other. A coil is incorporated in the multilayer body. A connecting conductor is provided on the top surface of the multilayer body so as not to be in contact with the side surfaces of the multilayer body. An outer electrode is provided on the top surface of the multilayer body so as to cover the connecting conductor. A via-hole conductor connects an end portion of the coil and the connecting conductor to each other and extends through at least one of the insulator layers in the stacking direction.

Abstract: An antenna device includes an antenna coil including a first conductive pattern disposed on a first major surface of a magnetic sheet, a second conductive pattern disposed on a first major surface of a non-magnetic sheet, and an interlayer conductor connecting the first conductive pattern and second conductive pattern. The antenna coil including the first conductive pattern and second conductive pattern defines a spiral or substantially spiral pattern. The antenna device is a resin multilayer structure in which its base body is a laminate of the magnetic layer and non-magnetic layer and the predetermined patterns are disposed inside and outside the laminate.

Abstract: An ESD protection device is manufactured such that its ESD characteristics are easily adjusted and stabilized. The ESD protection device includes an insulating substrate, a cavity provided in the insulating substrate, at least one pair of discharge electrodes each including a portion exposed in the cavity, the exposed portions being arranged to face each other, and external electrodes provided on a surface of the insulating substrate and connected to the at least one pair of discharge electrodes.

Abstract: A layered solid-state battery that includes a first unit cell, a second unit cell, and an internal collection layer that is disposed to intervene between the unit cells. Each of the unit cells includes a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode layer that are sequentially stacked. The internal collection layer has one side surface that is in contact with the positive electrode layer of the first unit cell and the other side surface that is in contact with the negative electrode layer of the second unit cell. Also, the internal collection layer contains an electron conductive material and an ion-conductively insulating specific conductive material.

Abstract: Radiation electrodes are formed on a dielectric base body of an antenna chip. A capacitive feeding electrode is formed on a first end surface of the dielectric base body. A ground electrode, a feeding circuit connection electrode, feeding lines, a tip electrode, and the like are formed on the top surface of a base member of a substrate. When a first switching element selects the feeding line side, a second switching element is made to enter a conducting state. In this state, the radiation electrodes are capacitively fed. When the first switching element selects the feeding line side, the second switching element is made to enter an open state. In this state, the radiation electrodes are directly fed. In this manner, the directivity direction of an antenna can be switched using a single radiation element.

Abstract: A high-frequency module includes first and second demultiplexers and a band elimination filter. The first and second demultiplexers include common terminals, transmission filters, and reception filters, respectively. In the band elimination filter, a demultiplexer-side terminal is connected to the common terminal of the first demultiplexer. The band elimination filter includes a first pass band, and a second pass band and a stop band that are located adjacent to each other within the first pass band. The band elimination filter is configured so that the second pass band includes the pass band of each of the transmission filter and the reception filter in the first demultiplexer and the stop band includes the pass band of the transmission filter in the second demultiplexer.

Abstract: An RFID antenna is arranged in the vicinity of a metal portion of and on an outer surface side of a casing of a communication terminal device. The RFID antenna includes a magnetic core, and a coil conductor that is wound around the magnetic core. The coil conductor includes a first conductor portion positioned on a first main surface side of the magnetic core and a second conductor portion positioned on the second main surface side of the magnetic core and arranged at a different position than the first conductor portion when viewed in plan from the direction of the first and second main surfaces, and the coil conductor is arranged such that the first main surface side of the magnetic core is on the metal portion side and such that the first conductor portion of the coil conductor faces a leading end portion of the casing.

Abstract: An easily bendable high-frequency signal transmission line includes a dielectric body including a protection layer and dielectric sheets laminated on each other, a surface and an undersurface. A signal line is a linear conductor disposed in the dielectric body. A ground conductor is disposed in the dielectric body, faces the signal line via the dielectric sheet, and continuously extends along the signal line. A ground conductor is disposed in the dielectric body, faces the ground conductor via the signal line sandwiched therebetween, and includes a plurality of openings arranged along the signal line. The surface of the dielectric body on the side of the ground conductor with respect to the signal line is in contact with a battery pack.

Abstract: A laminated ceramic electronic component includes a laminated body including a plurality of stacked ceramic layers and a plurality of internal electrodes arranged along interfaces between the ceramic layers, and an external electrode located on an outer surface of the laminated body. In the laminated ceramic electronic component, the ceramic layers have a composition including a main constituent of a barium titanate-based compound and Bi2O3, and the internal electrodes have a main constituent of Al.

Abstract: In a non-reciprocal circuit element, a first center electrode and a second center electrode are disposed in a ferrite so as to intersect with each other in an insulated state. The ferrite receives a direct-current magnetic field from a permanent magnet. One end of the first center electrode is connected to a first port, the other end thereof is connected to a second port, one end of the second center electrode is connected to the second port, and the other end thereof is connected to a third port. Between the first and second ports, a terminating resistor and a capacitance-variable capacitor are connected in parallel to the first center electrode. By changing the capacitance value of the capacitor, the isolation frequency is adjusted.