Details Of Electrical Connection Means (e.g., Terminal Or Lead) Patents (Class 361/306.1)
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Patent number: 10068707Abstract: A stacked MLCC capacitor is provided wherein the capacitor stack comprises multilayered ceramic capacitors wherein each multilayered ceramic capacitor comprises first electrodes and second electrodes in an alternating stack with a dielectric between each first electrode and each adjacent second electrode. The first electrodes terminate at a first side and the second electrodes second side. A first transient liquid phase sintering conductive layer is the first side and in electrical contact with each first electrode; and a second transient liquid phase sintering conductive layer is on the second side and in electrical contact with each second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: KEMET Electronics CorporationInventors: John E. McConnell, Garry L. Renner, John Bultitude, Allen Hill
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Patent number: 10056194Abstract: A capacitor provides a plurality of selectable capacitance values, by selective connection of six capacitor sections of a capacitive element each having a capacitance value. The capacitor sections are provided in a plurality of wound cylindrical capacitive elements. Two vertically stacked wound cylindrical capacitance elements may each provide three capacitor sections. There may be six separately wound cylindrical capacitive elements each providing a capacitor section. The capacitor sections have a common element terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: American Radionic Company, Inc.Inventor: Robert M. Stockman
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Patent number: 10057977Abstract: A wiring board includes a first wire, a second wire, a third wire and a fourth wire formed over a substrate and extending in a first direction respectively, the second wire being adjacent to the first wire in the first direction, and the third wire being adjacent to the first wire in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the fourth wire being adjacent to the second wire in the second direction, a pair of fifth wires, a pair of sixth wires, a pair of seventh wires and a pair of eighth wires formed in the substrate and extending in the second direction respectively, a pair of ninth signal vias, a pair of tenth signal vias, a pair of eleventh signal vias and a pair of twelfth signal vias formed in the substrate and extending in a third direction orthogonal to a surface of the substrate respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Kenichi Kawai
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Patent number: 10056320Abstract: An electronic component is provided with improved thermal stability. The electronic component comprises at least one capacitive element wherein the capacitive element comprises internal electrodes of alternating polarity separated by a dielectric. External terminations with a first external termination of the external terminations are in electrical contact with internal electrodes of a first polarity and a second external termination of the external terminations are in electrical contact with internal electrodes of a second polarity. A first external lead frame is in electrical contact with the first external termination with a conductive bond there between wherein the first external lead frame comprises at least one feature selected from the group consisting of a perforation, a protrusion and an edge indentation.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: KEMET Electronics CorporationInventors: Jeffrey S. Murrell, Lonnie G. Jones, Jeffrey W. Bell
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Patent number: 9997296Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body having a stacked plurality of dielectric layers and first and second end portions and a plurality of lateral surfaces. A plurality of internal electrodes stacked in the ceramic body face each other with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween and exposed to first and second lateral surfaces of the ceramic body opposing each other through respective lead portions thereof. At least two first external electrodes and at least two second external electrodes are provided on the first and second lateral surfaces to be connected to the respective lead portions, respectively. An insulation layer is provided on the first and second lateral surfaces of the ceramic body except for the first and second external electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung Kwon Oh, Jae Wook Lee, Min Sung Choi, Jae Yeol Choi
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Patent number: 9950965Abstract: A ceramic element includes: a ceramic body; a first coating layer disposed on a first part of a front surface of the ceramic body; and a second coating layer disposed on a second part of a back surface of the ceramic body. The first coating layer continuously extends from the front surface to a first region of a side surface of the ceramic body, the side surface being a machined surface, and the first region being a front side region of the side surface. The second coating layer continuously extends from the back surface to a second region of the side surface of the ceramic body, the second region being a back side region of the side surface. In the machined surface, one of the first and second coating layers is disposed at least partially on the other of the first and second coating layers.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Uetani, Masaki Hattori
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Patent number: 9916929Abstract: A first metal terminal includes a first connection portion connected to an electrode portion of a second external electrode, and a first leg portion extending from the first connection portion. A second metal terminal includes a second connection portion connected to a conductor portion of a connection conductor, and a second leg portion extending from the second connection portion. A multilayer capacitor and an overcurrent protection device are disposed in such a manner that a first principal surface and a third side surface oppose each other. An electrode portion of a first external electrode and an electrode portion of a fourth external electrode are connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Norihisa Ando, Sunao Masuda, Masahiro Mori, Kayou Kusano
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Patent number: 9842699Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include: ceramic body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes, external electrodes including a connecting portion and band portion, terminal electrodes including upper and lower horizontal portion and vertical portion connecting end portion of the upper and lower horizontal portion and the conductive adhesive layers disposed to the upper surface of the band portion and upper horizontal portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Heung Kil Park, Sang Soo Park
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Patent number: 9805866Abstract: A laminated ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body, first and second inner electrodes within the ceramic body and including opposed portions opposed to each other in the thickness direction of the ceramic body, a first terminal electrode electrically connected to the first inner electrode, and a second terminal electrode electrically connected to the second inner electrode. The widthwise distance between first widthwise edges and second widthwise edges of the first and second terminal electrodes are smaller, in plan view, than widths of the first and second inner electrodes at the opposed portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke Takeuchi, Masashi Nishimura
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Patent number: 9805865Abstract: A ceramic electronic component has a ceramic element assembly, external electrodes, and metal terminals. The external electrodes are arranged on the surface of the ceramic element assembly. The external electrodes contain a sintered metal. The metal terminals are electrically connected to the external electrodes, respectively. The external electrode and the metal terminal are directly diffusion-bonded by diffusion of metal in the metal terminals into the external electrodes. The above arrangement provides a ceramic electronic component having highly reliable metal particle bonding and a method for manufacturing the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Otsuka, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Jun Sonoyama, Yoji Itagaki, Akihiko Nakata
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Patent number: 9796636Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of: placing between a cooling element and an opposing surface a slurry of: a dielectric powder containing barium titanate, a dispersant, a binder, and water; maintaining the cooling element at a temperature below the opposing surface to cause the formation of ice platelets perpendicular to the surface of the cooling element and having the powder between the platelets; subliming the ice platelets to create voids; sintering the powder to form the dielectric material; and filling the voids with the polymeric material. The process can produce a composite having: a sintered dielectric material of barium titanate and platelets of a polymeric material embedded in the dielectric material. Each of the platelets is perpendicular to a surface of the composite.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Edward P. Gorzkowski, III, Ming-Jen Pan
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Patent number: 9666371Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor has a laminate comprising dielectric layers stacked alternately with internal electrode layers of different polarities, wherein: the dielectric layers contain ceramic grains whose primary component is BaTiO3; the ceramic grains contain at least one type of donor element (D) selected from the group that includes Nb, Mo, Ta, and W, and at least one type of acceptor element (A) selected from the group that includes Mg and Mn; and the ratio of the concentration of the donor element (D) and that of the acceptor element (A) (D/A) is greater than 1 at the center parts of the ceramic grains, while the D/A ratio is less than 1 at the outer edge parts of the ceramic grains (if A=0, then D/A=? and D=A=0 never occurs).Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichiro Morita, Chie Kawamura, Minoru Ryu, Katsuya Taniguchi, Kazumichi Hiroi, Yoshiki Iwazaki
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Patent number: 9655249Abstract: A substrate with a built-in capacitor includes an insulating base material layer, a build-up layer formed on the insulating base material layer and including a conductor layer and an insulating layer, and a multilayer ceramic capacitor positioned in an opening of the base material layer and including internal electrodes, ceramic dielectric layers and a pair of external electrodes. The ceramic capacitor has a cuboid shape having long sides and short sides, the pair of external electrodes is formed on opposing long-side sides such that the external electrodes are separated by a distance in range of 30 ?m to 200 ?m and that each external electrode includes a conductive paste layer connected to a respective group of the internal electrodes and a copper plated layer covering the conductive paste layer, and the conductive paste layer includes Ni paste or Cu paste including glass component in range of 5% to 40%.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignees: IBIDEN CO., LTD., MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Toyotaka Shimabe, Masahiro Kaneko, Toshiki Furutani, Takeshi Tashima, Yasuyuki Shimada, Naoki Shimizu
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Patent number: 9614522Abstract: The operating device, such as a human-machine interface, in particular for a vehicle component, is provided with a front wall having a front side that has several fixed symbol fields and having a rear side, a capacitive sensor system that has individual electrodes associated with the symbol fields, which electrodes are arranged on the rear side of the front wall, and a carrier plate that faces the rear side of the front wall and is arranged at a distance from the front wall.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2012Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Behr-Hella Thermocontrol GmbHInventors: Holger Kleine-Hollenhorst, Bernd Stich, Rainer Siebert
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Patent number: 9607964Abstract: Embodiments describe a semiconductor package that includes a substrate, a die bonded to the substrate, and a solder paste overmold layer formed over a top surface of the die. In an embodiment, the solder paste comprises a high-melting point metal, a solder matrix, intermetallic compounds and a polymer. The overmold layer has a high elastic modulus, a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to the substrate, and reduces the warpage of the package. In an embodiment, interconnects of a semiconductor package are formed with a no-slump solder paste that includes vents. Vents may be formed through a conductive network formed by the high-melting point metal, solder matrix and intermetallic compounds. In an embodiment, vents provide a path through the interconnect that allows for moisture outgassing. In an embodiment, a mold layer may be mechanically anchored to the interconnects by the vents, thereby providing improved mechanical continuity to the mold layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Omkar G. Karhade, Nitin A. Deshpande, Jr., Aditya Sundoctor Vaidya, Nachiket R. Raravikar, Eric J. Li
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Patent number: 9595391Abstract: A ceramic electronic component that includes a ceramic element, and baked electrodes on a surface of the ceramic element. A resin film is formed at boundary sites between the ceramic element and the baked electrodes. The resin film includes a resin, and a cationic element that is a constituent element of the glass component in the baked electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsunori Inoue, Naoko Nishimura, Tomohiko Mori
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Patent number: 9589728Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body including dielectric layers; first and second internal electrode groups disposed to be misaligned by a predetermined interval in the length direction, having the dielectric layers interposed therebetween; first and second external electrodes extended from at least one of the first and second side surfaces to at least one of the first and second main surfaces; and an insulating layer covering portions of the first and second external electrodes formed on the at least one of the first and second side surfaces, wherein the first internal electrode group includes first and second internal electrodes including first and second pattern parts and first and second lead parts, respectively, and the second internal electrode group includes third and fourth internal electrodes including third and fourth pattern parts and third and fourth lead parts, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yu Na Kim, Jae Yeol Choi, Jong Ho Lee, Sang Huk Kim, Doo Young Kim, Sung Woo Kim
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Patent number: 9576730Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition contains a base material main ingredient and an accessory ingredient. The base material main ingredient includes a first base material main ingredient containing BaTiO3 and a second base material main ingredient containing (Na1-yKy)NbO3. The base material main ingredient is represented by (1?x)BaTiO3-x(Na1-yKy)NbO3, in which x and y satisfy 0.005?x?0.5 and 0.3?y?1.0, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yun Jung Park, Seok Hyun Yoon, Chang Hoon Kim, Song Je Jeon, No Hoon Park, Soo Kyong Jo
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Patent number: 9552977Abstract: Embodiments of systems, devices, and methods to minimize warping of ultrathin IC packaged products are generally described herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an IC mounted on a package substrate, and a capacitive stiffener subassembly mounted on the package substrate. The capacitive stiffener subassembly includes a plurality of capacitive elements electrically connected to contacts of the IC.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Mihir K Roy, Mathew J Manusharow
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Patent number: 9536665Abstract: A high capacitance single layer ceramic capacitor having a ceramic dielectric body containing one or more internal electrodes electrically connected to a metallization layer applied to the side and a top or bottom surface and a metallization pad electrically isolated from the metallization side and the top or bottom surface by a castellation or a via or separated by a dielectric insulating band positioned between the electrodes around the perimeter of the ceramic body and separating the top and bottom surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Knowles Capital Formation, Inc.Inventors: Ali Moalemi, Euan Patrick Armstrong
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Patent number: 9520234Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor and manufacturing method therefor, in which the capacitor includes a ceramic body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes; electrode layers connected to the internal electrodes; and a conductive resin layer formed on the electrode layers and including a first conductor, a second conductor having a fiber shape, and a base resin.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sim Chung Kang, Seung Hee Yoo, Jun Hyeong Kim, Eun Joo Choi, Kyu Ha Lee
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Patent number: 9520235Abstract: A clad metal bus bar for a film capacitor may include a clad metal layer including: an aluminum layer; a first copper layer stacked on one surface of the aluminum layer; and a second copper layer stacked on the other surface of the aluminum layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Deuk Kyu Hwang, Yong Chun, Kee Yang Lee
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Patent number: 9466429Abstract: A capacitor assembly is provided with a plurality of wound capacitor elements aligned horizontally in a longitudinally extended housing, whereby the largest capacitor element solely occupies a tier in the housing, another tier in the housing is solely occupied by two of the capacitor elements, and wherein the capacitor elements are configurable to provide various capacitance values.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Cornell Dubilier Marketing, Inc.Inventors: Hector Arsenio Casanova, Rui Miguel Batista, Brian L Padelford
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Patent number: 9458063Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition may include a base material main ingredient and an accessory ingredient. The accessory ingredient contains one or more selected from a group consisting of oxides and carbonates of one or more elements among Bi, Li, and Cu. When the accessory ingredient contains Bi, a content of Bi may be 0.1 to 1.0 part by mole, based on 100 parts by mole of the base material main ingredient, when the accessory ingredient contains Li, a content of Li may be 0.1 to 1.0 part by mole, based on 100 parts by mole of the base material main ingredient, and when the accessory ingredient contains Cu, a content of Cu may be 0.1 to 1.0 part by mole, based on 100 parts by mole of the base material main ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seok Hyun Yoon, Jae Sung Park, Chang Hoon Kim, Doo Young Kim
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Patent number: 9460852Abstract: A laminated ceramic capacitor having a laminated body composed of a plurality of ceramic layers for inner layers; a plurality of internal electrodes at the interfaces between the plurality of ceramic layers for inner layers; and a plurality of ceramic layers for outer layers, provided on the top and bottom so as to sandwich the plurality of ceramic layers for inner layers. The ceramic layers for inner layers are composed of a material containing a multiple oxide including an alkaline-earth metal. The ceramic layers for outer layers respectively have TiO2 ceramic layers containing TiO2 as their main constituent for certain layers including the outermost layers, and multiple oxide ceramic layers containing a multiple oxide including an alkaline-earth metal for the other layers.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Wada, Kohei Shimada, Kenji Takagi, Tomomi Koga, Tomotaka Hirata, Hitoshi Nishimura, Hiroki Awata, Sui Uno
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Patent number: 9396877Abstract: A high voltage capacitor comprises a columnar capacitor element body, made of a dielectric material, having a pair of principal surfaces opposing each other; a pair of electrodes arranged on the respective principal surfaces; a pair of terminal metal fittings connected to the respective electrodes; a case; and a resin part. The case contains a resin material and has a bottom part formed with an opening for exposing the terminal metal fitting and a trunk part extending from an edge of the bottom part in a direction intersecting the bottom part. The bottom part and trunk part define a space for containing the capacitor element body. The resin part is made of an insulating material and arranged within the case so as to seal the capacitor element body within the case. The case has a degree of hardness lower than that of the resin part.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Iwao Miura, Hitoshi Kudo, Masato Sakakibara
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Patent number: 9384891Abstract: Methods and systems for a metal finger capacitor with a triplet repeating sequence incorporating a metal underpass may comprise repeating triplet capacitors integrated on a semiconductor die. The capacitors may comprise a first set of interconnected metal fingers comprising a first terminal of a first capacitor, a second set of interconnected metal fingers comprising a first terminal of a second capacitor, and a third set of interconnected metal fingers comprising a common node that surrounds the first and second sets of interconnected metal fingers. The common node may comprise a second terminal of the capacitors. A repeating pattern of fingers may be: (third set/second set/third set/first set . . . ). The repeating pattern of metal fingers may be arranged in two parallel rows to mitigate variations in the semiconductor die. The interconnected metal fingers may comprise first and second metal layers formed on the semiconductor die.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Maxlinear, Inc.Inventor: Weizhong Cai
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Patent number: 9374908Abstract: In an electronic component, a laminate is obtained by laminating a plurality of ceramic layers, and includes an upper surface and a bottom surface which are at ends of the laminate in the z-axis direction, end surfaces facing each other, and side surfaces facing each other. First capacitor conductors, second capacitor conductors, and the ceramic layers are laminated. One of the first capacitor conductors and one of the second capacitor conductors face each other via one of the ceramic layers. A first external electrode and a second external electrode are located on one of the end surfaces and one of the side surfaces, respectively, and are connected to the first capacitor conductors. A third external electrode and a fourth external electrode are located on the other one of the end surfaces and the other one of the side surfaces, respectively, and are connected to the second capacitor conductors.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasuo Fujii
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Patent number: 9363896Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic element assembly and external electrodes. The external electrodes are disposed on the ceramic element assembly. The external electrodes include an underlying electrode layer and a first Cu plating film. The underlying electrode layer is disposed on the ceramic element assembly. The first Cu plating film is disposed on the underlying electrode layer. The underlying electrode layer includes a metal that is diffusible in Cu and a ceramic bonding material. The metal that is diffusible in Cu is diffused in at least a surface layer in the underlying electrode layer side of the first Cu plating film.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Nishisaka, Yukio Sanada, Koji Sato, Seiichi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 9355775Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes an electronic component body and a pair of metal terminals. The electronic component body includes a ceramic element assembly and outer electrodes. The pair of metal terminals are connected to the outer electrodes by a bonding member. Each of the pair of metal terminals includes a terminal body and a plated film that is located on a surface of the terminal body. In addition, each of the pair of metal terminals includes a terminal bonding portion, a mounting portion, and an extension portion that is provided between the terminal bonding portions and the mounting portion. A plating-removal portion from which the plated film is removed is provided at least at a peripheral surface of the mounting portion, and thus a surface of the terminal body is exposed.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoji Itagaki
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Patent number: 9336948Abstract: A laminated ceramic capacitor includes a laminate including an inner layer portion including a ceramic dielectric layer and an internal electrode, and an outer layer portion defined by a ceramic dielectric layer. At both end portions of the laminate, external electrodes are connected to the internal electrode. In the outer layer portion, a glass layer is provided. An outer ceramic dielectric layer positioned outwardly of the glass layer has a different color from the color of an inner ceramic dielectric layer positioned inwardly of the glass layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Awata, Sui Uno, Takatoshi Sueto
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Patent number: 9332645Abstract: A main body of an electronic part has multiple electrodes, to which multiple terminals are respectively connected. The terminals include a fuse terminal and a normal terminal, each of which extends from the main body to a printed board so that the main body is supported at a position above and separated from a board surface of the printed board. The fuse terminal has an intermediate portion between an electrode-connected portion and a land-connected portion. The intermediate portion has a cut-off portion having a smaller width than other portions of the fuse terminal, so that the cut-off portion is melted down when excess current flows in the fuse terminal. The intermediate portion extends in a direction parallel to the board surface or in a direction inclined to the board surface at an angle smaller than 90 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuuto Kamiya, Toru Itabashi, Ryoichi Shiraishi, Yuki Mikami, Akihiro Yanagisawa, Shigeki Nishiyama
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Patent number: 9324501Abstract: A hard start capacitor replacement unit has a plurality of capacitors in a container sized to fit in existing hard start capacitor space. The capacitors are 4 metallized film capacitors wound in a single cylindrical capacitive element. The container has a common terminal and capacitors value terminals for the plurality of capacitors, which may be connected singly or in combination to provide a selected capacitance. An electronic or other relay connects the selected capacitance in parallel with a motor run capacitor. The hard start capacitor replacement unit is thereby adapted to replace a wide variety of hard start capacitors.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: American Radionic Company, Inc.Inventor: Richard W. Stockman
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Patent number: 9313876Abstract: A mounting structure includes a first ceramic electronic component including a ceramic body including internal electrodes and outer electrodes. When a voltage is applied to the outer electrodes, the ceramic body is strained with a first strain amount, and a second ceramic electronic component including a ceramic body including internal electrodes and outer electrodes. When a voltage is applied to the outer electrodes, the ceramic body is strained with a second strain amount greater than the first strain amount. The second ceramic electronic component is arranged above the first ceramic electronic component, and the first and second ceramic electronic components are connected to each other via each other's outer electrodes. The first ceramic electronic component to which the second ceramic electronic component is connected is connected to a land on a circuit substrate via the outer electrodes of at least the first ceramic electronic component.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuo Dogauchi
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Patent number: 9269492Abstract: An orthogonal finger capacitor includes a layer having an anode bone frame adjacent a cathode bone frame, the anode bone frame having a first portion extending along an axis and a second portion extending perpendicular to the axis. A set of anode fingers extends from the first portion. A set of cathode fingers extends from the cathode bone frame, interdigitated with the set of anode fingers. An overlaying layer has another anode bone frame having a first portion parallel to the axis and a perpendicular second portion. A via couples the overlaying anode bone frame to the underlying anode bone frame. The via is located where the first portion of the overlaying anode bone frame overlaps the second portion of the underlying anode bone frame or, optionally, where the second portion of the overlying anode bone frame overlaps the first portion of the underlying anode bone frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: John J. Zhu, Pr Chidambaram, Lixin Ge, Bin Yang, Jihong Choi
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Patent number: 9240475Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided that includes a substrate including a device region and a peripheral region surrounding the device region, a first interconnection including one or more first conductive lines extending in a first direction, a second interconnection including one or more second conductive lines extending in the first direction, the second interconnection spaced apart from the first interconnection, a first conductive plate and a second conductive plate spaced apart from each other, the first conductive plate corresponding to the first interconnection and the second conductive plate corresponding to the second interconnection, one or more first vias connecting the first conductive lines to the first conductive plate and overlapping the device region and one or more second vias connecting the second conductive lines to the second conductive plate, the second vias overlapping the device region and arranged in a staggered, alternating configuration with the one or more first vias.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yong-Don Kim
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Patent number: 9209240Abstract: A capacitor from a Metal-Oxide-Metal (“MoM”) process may include a plurality of metal layers arranged with different design structures. The metal layers may be connected with vias. The metal layers may include wires, such as rows and/or fingers that are arranged for maximizing capacitance between adjacent fingers, as well as between fingers of different metal layers. As the spacing of the fingers is increased, the reliability, yield of final product, and ease of manufacturing both increase. The capacitor increases the spacing of wires/fingers while either maintaining or improving the capacitance per unit area.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: SanDisk Technologies Inc.Inventors: Santhosh Kumar, Smitha Naganna, Deepak Pancholi
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Patent number: 9171673Abstract: Methods of fabricating an on-chip capacitor with a variable capacitance, as well as methods of adjusting the capacitance of an on-chip capacitor and design structures for an on-chip capacitor. The method includes forming first and second ports configured to be powered with opposite polarities, first and second electrodes, and first and second voltage-controlled units. The method includes configuring the first voltage-controlled unit to selectively couple the first electrode with the first port, and the second voltage-controlled unit to selectively couple the second electrode with the second port. When the first electrode is coupled by the first voltage-controlled unit with the first port and the second electrode is coupled by the second voltage-controlled unit with the second port, the capacitance of the on-chip capacitor increases.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.Inventors: Douglas M. Daley, Mete Erturk, Edward J. Gordon
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Patent number: 9143011Abstract: A power receiving device includes a resonant coil, an electromagnetic coupling coil, a rectifier circuit, a smoothing circuit, a voltage converter circuit which converts a voltage value of DC power into another voltage value, a control circuit which obtains voltage and current values of the DC power input to the voltage converter circuit, calculates an impedance from the obtained voltage and current values, and generates a pulse width modulation signal for controlling an output voltage and an output current of the voltage converter circuit, and a load to which the output voltage and the output current of the voltage converter circuit are input. The duty ratio of the pulse width modulation signal is determined so that the impedance calculated by the control circuit becomes close to an impedance for the maximum efficiency in transferring the AC power. The power receiving device is included in a contactless power feeding system.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koichiro Kamata
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Patent number: 9117595Abstract: An electronic component with terminal strips joined to end faces of external electrodes via a solder is characterized in that two plate-like supports of each terminal strip are formed by bending two plate-like parts projecting outward in a line-symmetrical manner from both side edges of a plate-like leg in the width direction such that at least tips of the thickness surfaces on the electronic component sides of the two plate-like parts are positioned below an external electrode of the electronic component, and the electronic component is supported from below by the tips of the thickness surfaces on the electronic component sides of the four plate-like supports. Slipping of the electronic component from both terminal strips due to melting of the solder can be suppressed in a reliable manner.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Saito, Katsunosuke Haga, Jae Hee Oh
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Patent number: 9064640Abstract: An EMI filtered terminal assembly including at least one conductive terminal pin, a feedthrough capacitor, and a counter-bore associated with a passageway through the capacitor is described. Preferably, the feedthrough capacitor having counter-drilled or counter-bored holes on its top side is first bonded to a hermetic insulator. The counter-drilled or counter-bore holes in the capacitor provide greater volume for the electro-mechanical attachment between the capacitor and the terminal pin or lead wire, permitting robotic dispensing of, for example, thermal-setting conductive adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Greatbatch Ltd.Inventors: Richard L. Brendel, Jason Woods, Jose Luis Lorente-Adame, Robert A. Stevenson, John E. Roberts, Buehl E. Truex
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Patent number: 9042079Abstract: A ceramic electronic component comprising; including a chip component of approximately rectangular parallelepiped, a first metal terminal portion having a first flat plate portion facing a first end face, at least a pair of first fitting arm portions connected to the first flat plate portion, having a first engagement projection engaging with a first wraparound portion holding the first wraparound portion in between, and a first mounting portion connected to the first flat plate portion and extending approximately parallel to one side face, and a second metal terminal portion having a second flat plate portion facing the second end face, at least a pair of second fitting arm portions connected to the second flat plate portion, having a second engagement projection engaging with a second wraparound portion, holding the second wraparound portion in between, and a second mounting portion extending approximately parallel to one side face.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Sunao Masuda, Katsumi Kobayashi, Akitoshi Yoshii, Kazuyuki Hasebe, Takashi Komatsu, Kayou Kusano
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Patent number: 9042081Abstract: There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor including: a ceramic body having first and second side surfaces opposite to each other, and third and fourth end surfaces connecting the first and second side surfaces; a plurality of internal electrodes formed in the ceramic body and having one ends thereof exposed to the third or fourth end surface; and first and second side margin parts formed from the first and second side surfaces to respective edges of the internal electrodes, the first and second side margin parts having an average thickness of 18 ?m or less, wherein when a boundary surface between a cover layer and the first or second side margin part in the ceramic body is divided into two regions in a thickness direction of the ceramic body, a region adjacent to the internal electrode is S1, and a porosity of S1 is P1, 1?P1?20 is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hyung Joon Kim
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Patent number: 9042080Abstract: There are provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component and a method of manufacturing the same. Here, an average diameter (Dc) of ceramic grains in a cover area is smaller than an average diameter (Da) of ceramic grains in the active area, and when a thickness of the cover area is expressed by Tc, 9 um?Tc?25 um and Tc/Dc?55 are satisfied. A multilayer ceramic capacitor having excellent moisture-resistance properties may be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyo Jung Kim, Seok Hyun Yoon, Chang Hoon Kim, Byoung Hwa Lee, Sang Hoon Kwon
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Patent number: 9035194Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a circuit board having integrated passive devices such as inductors, capacitors, resistors and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a circuit board having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and a passive device integral to the circuit board, the passive device having an input terminal configured to couple with electrical power of a die, an output terminal electrically coupled with the input terminal, and electrical routing features disposed between the first surface and the second surface of the circuit board and coupled with the input terminal and the output terminal to route the electrical power between the input terminal and the output terminal, wherein the input terminal includes a surface configured to receive a solder ball connection of a package assembly including the die. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: M D Altaf Hossain, Jin Zhao, John T. Vu
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Patent number: 9030802Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including dielectric layers stacked in a thickness direction and satisfying T/W>1.0 when a width thereof is W and a thickness thereof is T; first and second internal electrodes; and first and second external electrodes, wherein when the ceramic body is divided into five regions in a width direction and a central region among the five regions is CW1 and regions adjacent to the central region CW1 are CW2 and CW3, a difference between electrode connectivity of the central region CW1 and electrode connectivity of the region CW2 or CW3 satisfies 0.02?(CW2 or CW3)?CW1?0.10.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Min Gon Lee, Dae Bok Oh, Jong Han Kim, Seung Ho Lee
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Patent number: 9030800Abstract: A thin film capacitor includes an under electrode, a plurality of dielectric body layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers that are alternately laminated on the under electrode, the internal electrode layers respectively including protrusion parts that each protrude from the dielectric body layers viewed in the lamination direction, and connection electrodes to which at least a portion of each of the protrusion parts contacts. Assuming that protrusion amounts of the protrusion parts of the internal electrode layers that are connected to the same connection electrode are regarded as L, a protrusion amount Ln of a protrusion part of nth (n?2) internal electrode layer from the under electrode side is smaller than another protrusion amount Ln-1 of another protrusion part of (n?1)th internal electrode layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Namikawa, Yoshihiko Yano, Yasunobu Oikawa
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Patent number: 9030801Abstract: There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a ceramic body having first and second side surfaces facing each other, and third and fourth end surfaces connecting the first and second side surfaces, a plurality of internal electrodes formed in the ceramic body and having one ends thereof exposed to the third end surface or the fourth end surface, and a first side margin part and a second side margin part formed such that an average thickness thereof from the first and second side surfaces to edges of the internal electrodes is 18 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hyung Joon Kim
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Patent number: 9025310Abstract: There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a ceramic body having first and second side surfaces and third and fourth end surfaces, a plurality of internal electrodes and having one ends exposed to the third or fourth end surface, and first and second side margin parts formed so that an average thickness from the first and second side surfaces to edges of the internal electrodes is 18 ?m or less, wherein when the first or second side margin part is divided into two regions by a virtual line obtained by connecting mid points of distances between the edges of the internal electrodes and points at which lines extended from the internal electrodes contact the first or second side surface, when a region adjacent to the internal electrodes is defined as S1 and a porosity of S1 is defined as P1, P1 is in a range of 1 to 20 (1?P1?20).Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hyung Joon Kim
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Patent number: 9018537Abstract: A surface-mountable electronic device free of leads has a plurality of solderable connection surfaces at its lower side, with at least one of the connection surfaces having a rectangular portion. The outline of this rectangular portion corresponds to a connection surface of the JEDEC Standard MO-236 or of any other standard according to which the respective connection surface should not extend directly up to a side edge of the lower device side. The at least one connection surface furthermore has an extension section which extends, starting from the rectangular portion, in the direction of a side edge of the lower side of the device.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Vishay Semiconductor GmbHInventor: Heinrich Karrer