Composition Patents (Class 361/321.4)
  • Patent number: 10446321
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer electronic component which includes an element body where a plurality of internal electrode layers and dielectric layers are alternately laminated. Insulating layers are disposed on a pair of side surfaces of the element body, facing each other. The insulating layers contain a glass composition and a ceramic composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Noda, Hirobumi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10431385
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a pair of external electrodes; a first internal electrode containing a base metal and coupled to one of the external electrodes; a dielectric layer stacked on the first internal electrode and containing a ceramic material and the base metal; and a second internal electrode stacked on the dielectric layer, containing the base metal, and coupled to another one of the external electrodes, wherein a concentration of the base metal in each of five regions, which are equally divided regions of a region between locations 50 nm away from the first and second internal electrodes in a stacking direction between the first and second internal electrodes, is within ±20% of an average of the concentrations of the base metal in the five regions, and an average grain size in the dielectric layer is 200 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Taniguchi, Koichiro Morita, Minoru Ryu, Yoshiki Iwazaki
  • Patent number: 10340084
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a multilayer structure in which each of a plurality of ceramic dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers including a co-material are alternately stacked, wherein a Mo concentration in the co-material is smaller than that in a ceramic grain in the ceramic dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Chigira
  • Patent number: 10325721
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic device comprising: a ceramic element body, in which a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, and at least a pair of external electrodes which are connected to the internal electrode layers on surfaces of the ceramic element body; a thickness of the dielectric layers is 0.4 ?m or less, a width (W0) of the ceramic element body along a width-direction is 0.59 mm or less, a gap (Wgap) between an outer face of the ceramic element body and an end of the internal electrode layers along width-direction of the ceramic element body is 0.010 to 0.025 mm, and a ratio (Wgap/W0) of the gap with respect to the width is 0.025 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Murosawa, Toshihiko Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10312022
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a capacitor body having upper and lower surfaces and end surfaces connecting the upper and lower surfaces; and an external electrode disposed on a surface of the capacitor body and having a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a third electrode layer. The second electrode layer includes metal and resin and is interposed between the first electrode layer and the third electrode layer, and a portion of the second electrode layer covering the end surface of the capacitor body has a thickness less than that of a portion of the first electrode layer covering the end surface of the capacitor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Moon Lee, Myung Jun Park, Hye Jin Jeong, Chung Yeol Lee, Young Sook Lee, Jae Yeol Choi, Hye Young Choi, Byoung Jin Chun
  • Patent number: 10290423
    Abstract: A conductive powder for an internal electrode includes a metal particle; and a graphene layer or an oxidized graphene layer disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the metal particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Myeong Gi Kim, Yu Ra Shin, Jang Yeol Lee, Seong Min Chin, Hak Kwan Kim
  • Patent number: 10285272
    Abstract: A capacitor component includes a body including a plurality of dielectric layers having a stacked structure and a plurality of first internal electrodes and a plurality of second internal electrodes alternately disposed with dielectric layers disposed therebetween. A first external electrode is on a first surface and a second surface of the body, on the opposing side of the body, and connected to the plurality of first internal electrodes. A second external electrode is on a third surface and a fourth surface of the body, opposing each other, and connected to one or more of the plurality of second internal electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heung Kil Park, Jong Hwan Park
  • Patent number: 10262796
    Abstract: A dielectric composition is provided. The dielectric composition includes a tungsten bronze type complex oxide expressed by a chemical formula (K1-xNax)Sr2Nb5O15 as a main component, x satisfying 0?x?0.50, wherein the dielectric composition includes a secondary phase of at least one or more selected from: MgO.SiO2; BaO.2MgO.2SiO2; and 2MgO.B2O3; or the dielectric composition includes a tungsten bronze type complex oxide expressed by a chemical formula (K1-xNax)Sr2Nb5O15 as a main component, x satisfying 0?x?0.40, wherein the dielectric composition includes: MgO; BaO; B2O3; SiO2; and P2O5 as a first accessory component in a total content of 2.5 mol to 20.0 mol per 100 mol of the main component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10262797
    Abstract: A multilayer body includes a multilayer structure including a glass ceramic layer including a glass and a filler and a ferrite layer including a ferrite, in which the glass ceramic layer has a glass content of about 30.0% or more by weight and about 80.0% or less by weight and a filler content of about 20.0% or more by weight and about 70.0% or less by weight, the glass included in the glass ceramic layer includes about 0.5% or more by weight and about 5.0% or less by weight R2O (R represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, and K), about 0% or more by weight and about 5.0% or less by weight Al2O3, about 10.0% or more by weight and about 25.0% or less by weight B2O3, and about 70.0% or more by weight and about 85.0% or less by weight SiO2 based on the total weight of the glass, and the filler included in the glass ceramic layer includes at least one of SiO2 and Al2O3 and also includes about 5.0% or more by weight and about 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshige Adachi
  • Patent number: 10224148
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a multi-layer unit, a side margin, and a bonding unit. The multi-layer unit includes ceramic layers and internal electrodes. The ceramic layers are made of first ceramics and laminated in a first direction, the first ceramics having a first average crystal grain diameter. The internal electrodes are disposed between the ceramic layers. The side margin is made of second ceramics and covers the multi-layer unit from a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the second ceramics having a second average crystal grain diameter. The bonding unit is made of third ceramics and disposed between the multi-layer unit and the side margin, the third ceramics having a third average crystal grain diameter that is larger than the first average crystal grain diameter and the second average crystal grain diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Mizuno, Yukihiro Konishi, Yoichi Kato
  • Patent number: 10217925
    Abstract: A method of forming an electronic structural element having a stack including first and second electrode layers arranged alternatively with material layers is disclosed. A stack is formed with the first electrode layers projecting beyond a first lateral side of the stack and the second electrode layers spaced radially inward from the first lateral side. A first contacting structure that contacts each first electrode layer is applied directly to the first side of the stack, which contacting structure embeds such the projecting first electrode layers in an electrically conductive manner. A second contacting structure is formed by exposing the first and second electrode layers at a second side of the stack, forming, by an additive method, a solvent-free insulating structure that electrically insulates the first electrode layers, and applying an electrically conductive material over the solvent-free insulating structure to form the second contacting structure that contacts each second electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Richter, Claus Zumstrull
  • Patent number: 10153091
    Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a multi-layer unit and a side margin. The multi-layer unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction, internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers, and a side surface from which the internal electrodes are exposed, the side surface being oriented in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The side margin covers the side surface. The side margin includes a first area having a porosity of 10% or less, a dimension of the first area in the second direction from the side surface being ¼ of a dimension of the side margin in the second direction, and a second area having a porosity of 10% or more and 25% or less and having a porosity higher than the porosity of the first area, the second area covering the first area from the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Kowase
  • Patent number: 10147547
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes an inner layer part comprising dielectric layers and internal electrodes that are alternately disposed; and cover parts disposed on upper and lower surfaces of the inner layer part. The cover parts contain a nickel metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MACHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Jung Lee, Hyea Sun Yun, Sung Ho Lee, Hyo Sub Kim
  • Patent number: 10096425
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a laminate constituted by internal electrode layers of different polarities alternately layered via dielectric layers, wherein the multilayer ceramic capacitor is such that the dielectric layers contain ceramic grains whose primary component is BaTiO3, the ceramic grains contain Mo, Mn, rare earth R, and at least one of V and W, and the average valence number of Mo in the ceramic grains is 4.50 to 5.50. The multilayer ceramic capacitor can offer excellent service life characteristics and sufficiently suppress leak current even when the thickness of the dielectric layer is 0.8 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chie Kawamura, Yoichiro Ogata, Tetsuo Shimura, Minoru Ryu, Yoshiki Iwazaki
  • Patent number: 10079106
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor that includes a ceramic laminated body having dielectric layers and internal electrodes at the interfaces between the dielectric layers, and external electrodes on the outer surface of the ceramic laminated body. The dielectric layers contain, as their main constituent, a perovskite-type compound including Ba, Ti, Zr, and M. M is at least one element of Ta, Nb, V, and W. The dielectric layers further contain Mn and Si as additive constituents. With respect to the total amount of Ti, Zr, and M, 40 mol %<Zr?90 mol %, M is 1 mol %?M?10 mol %. When the total amount of Ti, Zr, and M is regarded as 100 parts by mol, 1 part by mol?Mn?10 parts by mol, 1 part by mol?Si?5 parts by mol, and 0.5?Mn/M?3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichiro Suzuki, Takafumi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10074480
    Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition having good characteristic even under high electric field intensity, and particularly good IR characteristic and high temperature accelerated lifetime. The present invention is a dielectric ceramic composition comprising, a main component comprising a perovskite type compound shown by a compositional formula (Ba1-x-ySrxCay)m(Ti1-zZrz)O3, a first sub component comprising oxides of a rare earth element, a second sub component as a sintering agent, wherein said dielectric ceramic composition is a complete solid solution particle wherein the rare earth element is solid dissolved to entire dielectric particle, or a core-shell particle having high ratio of the diffusion phase, and comprises the dielectric particle having 5 to 20 atom % of the average concentration of the rare earth element in the diffusion phase, and having uniform concentration distribution of the rare earth element in the diffusion phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dan Sakurai, Nobuto Morigasaki, Tatsuya Ishii, Takuma Ariizumi, Shinsuke Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Ito
  • Patent number: 10059630
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide the dielectric ceramic composition having good characteristics even under the high electric field intensity, and particularly good IR characteristic and the high temperature accelerated lifetime. The dielectric ceramic composition according to the present invention comprises a main component comprising a perovskite type compound shown by a compositional formula (Ba1-x-ySrxCay)m(Ti1-zZrz)O3 (note that, said “m”, “x”, “y” and “z” all show a mol ratio, and each satisfies 0.94?m?1.1, 0?x?0.2, 0?y?0.2, 0.06?z<0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dan Sakurai, Nobuto Morigasaki, Tatsuya Ishii, Takuma Ariizumi
  • Patent number: 10062509
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor that includes a laminated body having a plurality of ceramic layers including crystal grains that have a perovskite structure, and a plurality of internal electrode layers; and external electrodes on first and second end surfaces of the laminated body and electrically connected to respective sets of the plurality of internal electrodes. In the ceramic layers, when the content of Ti is 100 parts by mol, the ceramic layers contain Ca at 0.10 to 15.00 parts by mol; Mg at 0.0010 to 0.0097 parts by mol; R at 0.50 to 4.00 parts by mol; M at 0.10 to 2.00 parts by mol; and Si at 0.50 to 2.00 parts by mol, and core parts of the crystal grains contain Ca.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei Shimada
  • Patent number: 10026552
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor that includes a laminated body having a plurality of ceramic layers including crystal grains that have a perovskite structure, and a plurality of internal electrode layers; and external electrodes on first and second end surfaces of the laminated body and electrically connected to respective sets of the plurality of internal electrodes. In the ceramic layers, when the content of Ti is 100 parts by mol, the ceramic layers contain Ca at 0.10 to 15.00 parts by mol; Mg at 0.0010 to 0.0097 parts by mol; R at 0.50 to 4.00 parts by mol; M at 0.10 to 2.00 parts by mol; and Si at 0.50 to 2.00 parts by mol, and core parts of the crystal grains contain Ca.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei Shimada
  • Patent number: 10020115
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a dielectric composite comprising an organic polymer that has a glass transition temperature greater than or equal to about 250° C.; and a dielectric filler present in an amount effective to impart to the dielectric composite a dielectric constant that varies by less than 5% over a temperature range of 25° C. to 300° C., with an applied alternating electric field having a frequency of 104 Hz and a maximum operating electric field strength of at least 250 megavolt per meter. Disclosed herein too is a method of manufacturing the dielectric composite and articles that contain the dielectric composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Qing Wang, Qi Li
  • Patent number: 10008327
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor that includes a laminate which has a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers respectively laminated. The dielectric layers are a perovskite type structure containing Ba, Sr, Zr, Ti and Hf, and optionally Ca, and further include V, wherein (number of moles of Sr)/(number of moles of Ba+number of moles of Ca+number of moles of Sr) is 0.6 to 0.95, (number of moles of Zr)/(number of moles of Zr+number of moles of Ti+number of moles of Hf) is 0.9 to 0.98, thicknesses of the dielectric layers are 1 ?m or less, and an average particle size of dielectric particles constituting the dielectric layers is 0.8 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Isota, Tatsuya Izumi, Tomotaka Hirata, Yasuhiro Nishisaka
  • Patent number: 9984825
    Abstract: A dielectric material includes a barium titanate based base material main ingredient and an accessory ingredient. In a fine sintered structure of the dielectric material, crystal grains in which a content of Ca is less than 2.5 mol % are first crystal grains, crystal grains in which the content of Ca is 4.0 to 12.0 mol % are second crystal grains, and a ratio of an average size of the first crystal grains to an average size of the second crystal grains is in a range of 1.6 to 2.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Jung Park, Seok Hyun Yoon, Hyoung Uk Kim, Chang Hoon Kim, Doo Young Kim
  • Patent number: 9969933
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a phosphor represented by the Formula [1]: MaSrbCacAldSieNf, wherein the phosphor includes phosphor particles in which single crystallites are three-dimensionally coupled to each other, the phosphor particles include a crystal grain boundary triple point, and [a total number of the crystal grain boundary triple points (A)]/[the number of the phosphor particles (B)] is 1.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9966190
    Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition has good characteristics even under the high electric field intensity, and particularly good IR characteristic and the high temperature accelerated lifetime. The dielectric ceramic composition has a main component having a perovskite type compound shown by a compositional formula (Ba1-x-ySrxCay)m(Ti1-zZrz)O3, a first sub component having oxides of a rare earth element R, a second sub component as a sintering agent, wherein the dielectric particles has dielectric particles having high diffusion rate of the rare earth element, preferably of a complete solid solution particle, and when a concentration of Ti atom in the diffusion phase is 100 atom %, then an average concentration of the rare earth element R in the diffusion phase is 5 atom % or more, and an average concentration of Zr in the diffusion phase is 10 atom % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dan Sakurai, Nobuto Morigasaki, Tatsuya Ishii, Takuma Ariizumi, Shinsuke Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Ito
  • Patent number: 9847184
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing an electrolyte-impregnated laminar graphene structure for use as a supercapacitor electrode. The process comprises (a) preparing a graphene dispersion having multiple isolated graphene sheets dispersed in an electrolyte; and (b) subjecting the graphene dispersion to a forced assembly procedure, forcing the multiple graphene sheets to assemble into an electrolyte-impregnated laminar graphene structure, wherein the multiple graphene sheets are alternately spaced by thin electrolyte layers, less than 5 nm in thickness, and the graphene sheets are substantially aligned along a desired direction, and wherein the laminar structure has a physical density from 0.5 to 1.7 g/cm3 and a specific surface area from 50 to 3,300 m2/g, when measured in a dried state of the laminar structure with the electrolyte removed. This process leads to a supercapacitor having a large electrode thickness, high active mass loading, high tap density, and exceptional energy density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Nanotek Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Aruna Zhamu, Bor Z Jang
  • Patent number: 9818545
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a dielectric layer and an electrode layer. The dielectric layer contains a plurality of ceramic particles and grain boundary phases present therebetween. A main component of the ceramic particles is barium titanate. An average thickness of the grain boundary phases is 1.0 nm or more. A thickness variation ? of the grain boundary phases is 0.1 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Sato, Yosuke Konno, Shunichi Yuri, Yasuhiro Ito, Tsutomu Odashima, Yushi Kanou
  • Patent number: 9812261
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body and external electrodes provided on opposite end surfaces of the ceramic body. The ceramic body includes an inner layer portion including a plurality of ceramic layers defining inner layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes each disposed at an interface of adjacent ones of the ceramic layers defining the inner layers, outer layer portions sandwiching the inner layer portion in a direction in which the layers are stacked, and side margin portions sandwiching the inner layer portion and the outer layer portions in a widthwise direction. The side margin portion includes pores that decrease in number along a direction from inside to outside of the ceramic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daiki Fukunaga, Hideaki Tanaka, Koji Moriyama
  • Patent number: 9812260
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body and external electrodes provided on opposite end surfaces of the ceramic body. The ceramic body includes an inner layer portion including a plurality of ceramic layers defining inner layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes each disposed at an interface of adjacent ones of the ceramic layers defining the inner layers, outer layer portions sandwiching the inner layer portion in a direction in which the layers are stacked, and side margin portions sandwiching the inner layer portion and the outer layer portions in a widthwise direction. The side margin portion includes pores that decrease in number along a direction from inside to outside of the ceramic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daiki Fukunaga, Hideaki Tanaka, Koji Moriyama
  • Patent number: 9799451
    Abstract: A dielectric composition and a multilayer ceramic capacitor containing the same are provided. The dielectric composition contains an oxide of Ba and Ti as a main ingredient, and the main ingredient is represented by (Ba1-x(Na, Ca)x)TiO3, where 0.005?x?0.035 and 0.994<(Ba1-x(Na, Ca)x)/Ti<1.003.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Sung Park, Jin Seong Kim, Doo Young Kim, Chang Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9735227
    Abstract: Devices and methods are described relating to capacitor energy storage devices that are small in size and have a high energy stored to volume ratio. The capacitor devices include 2D material electrodes. The capacitor devices offer very fine granularity with high stacking possibilities which may be used in super capacitors and capacitor arrays. The devices include interleaved laminations 2D material electrode layers, for example graphene, and dielectric layers, for example Hafnium Oxide. In an embodiment a capacitor device includes 10,000 layers of interleaved graphene separated by 9,999 layers of HfO. Odd layers of the graphene are electrically connected to a first terminal and even layers of graphene are electrically connected to a second terminal of the capacitor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SYNOPSYS, INC.
    Inventors: Jamil Kawa, Victor Moroz
  • Patent number: 9688582
    Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition and a ceramic electric device having a dielectric layer composed of the dielectric ceramic composition including a main component having a perovskite crystal structure expressed by general formula ABO3, an oxide of Eu, an oxide of Ra (Sc, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu), an oxide of Rb (Y, Dy, Ho, Tb and Gd) and an oxide of Si, in which 0.075???0.5, 0.5???3, 1.0???4, 1.5???5, and 0.030??/??0.250 where a content of an oxide of Eu is ? mole, a content of the oxide of Ra is ? mole, a content of the oxide of Rb is ? mole, and a content of the second sub-component is ? mole with respect to 100 moles of the main component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiko Kaneko, Tatsuya Fujino, Takeru Yoshida, Haruki Ebina, Nobuto Morigasaki
  • Patent number: 9666372
    Abstract: A dielectric ceramic composition including a main component having a perovskite crystal structure expressed by general formula ABO3, a first sub-component of an oxide of a rare earth element, and a second sub-component of an oxide of Si, and at least dielectric particles having a core-shell structure and segregated particles, in which a concentration of the rare earth element in the segregated particles is two or more times an average concentration of the rare earth element in a shell portion of the dielectric particles having the core-shell structure, and an area of the region occupied by the segregated particles is 5.0% or less and an average of cross-sectional areas of the respective segregated particles is 0.075 ?m2 or less in a cross-section obtained by cutting the dielectric ceramic composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiko Kaneko, Tatsuya Fujino, Nobuto Morigasaki, Yasuhiro Ito
  • Patent number: 9653322
    Abstract: Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a semiconductor package comprising a laminate substrate. The laminate substrate includes at least one conductive layer laminated to a surface of an insulating core. The laminate substrate also includes one or more die openings, in which one or more semiconductor die are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Martin Standing, Andrew Roberts
  • Patent number: 9643890
    Abstract: A dielectric composition contains major components that are an A-group containing major components that are at least two selected from the group consisting of Ba, Ca, and Sr and a B-group which contains a major component that is selected from Zr and Ti and which contains at least Zr. The dielectric composition contains an amorphous substance containing the A-group and the B-group and a crystalline substance containing the A-group and the B-group. In the dielectric composition, the inequality 0.5???1.5 holds, where ? is the molar ratio of the A-group to the B-group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Raitarou Masaoka, Toshihiko Kaneko, Yuki Yamashita, Hiroki Uchiyama, Saori Takeda, Yuji Sezai, Shirou Ootsuki
  • Patent number: 9633788
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body and external electrodes provided on opposite end surfaces of the ceramic body. The ceramic body includes an inner layer portion including a plurality of ceramic layers defining inner layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes each disposed at an interface of adjacent ones of the ceramic layers defining the inner layers, outer layer portions sandwiching the inner layer portion in a direction in which the layers are stacked, and side margin portions sandwiching the inner layer portion and the outer layer portions in a widthwise direction. The side margin portion includes pores that decrease in number along a direction from inside to outside of the ceramic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiki Fukunaga, Hideaki Tanaka, Koji Moriyama
  • Patent number: 9613756
    Abstract: As a dielectric ceramic constituting dielectric layers of a laminated ceramic capacitor, a dielectric ceramic is used which contains, as its main constituent, a perovskite-type compound containing Ca and Zr and optionally containing Sr, Ba, and Ti, and further contains Si, Mn, and Al, and when the total content of Zr and Ti is regarded as 100 parts by mol, the total content (100×m) of Ca, Sr, and Ba meets 1.002?m?1.100 in terms of parts by mol, the Si content n meets 0.5?n?10 in terms of parts by mol, the Mn content u meets 0.5?u?10 in terms of parts by mol, and the Al content w meets 0.02?w?4 in terms of parts by mol, m and n satisfying ?0.4?100(m?1)?n?3.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Nishimura, Masahiro Naito
  • Patent number: 9607763
    Abstract: A monolithic ceramic electronic component includes a component body and outer electrodes. The component body includes a plurality of stacked ceramic layers and a plurality of inner electrodes which extend between the ceramic layers, which contain Ni, and which include exposed ends exposed on predetermined surfaces of the component body. The outer electrodes are electrically connected to the exposed ends of the inner electrodes and are formed on the predetermined surfaces of the component body by plating. The inner electrodes include Mg—Ni coexistence regions where Mg and Ni coexist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takehisa Sasabayashi, Akihiro Motoki, Makoto Ogawa
  • Patent number: 9583266
    Abstract: There is provided a dielectric ceramic composition including: a major component (a barium titanate-based base material); and a minor component, wherein the dielectric ceramic composition is sintered to form a sintered body having a fine structure, the fine structure includes first crystal grains in which a Ca content is lower than 2.5 mol % and second crystal grains in which a Ca content is between 2.5 mol % to 13.5 mol %, and the second crystal grains have a cross-sectional area ratio of 30% to 80% on the basis of 100% of an overall cross-sectional area of the fine structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok Hyun Yoon, Yun Jung Park, Doo Young Kim, Song Je Jeon, Chang Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9576729
    Abstract: There is provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component including: a ceramic body in which internal electrodes and dielectric layers containing a barium titanate-based compound containing calcium (Ca) are alternately stacked; and external electrodes disposed on outer surfaces of the ceramic body and electrically connected to the internal electrodes. The dielectric layer includes interfacial portions adjacent to the internal electrodes and a central portion disposed between the interfacial portions, the interfacial portion having a calcium (Ca) concentration higher than that of the central portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kum Jin Park, Chang Hak Choi, Chi Hwa Lee, Jong Hoon Yoo, Min Gi Sin
  • Patent number: 9536668
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric ceramic layers and inner electrode layers containing Ni and electrically connected to outer electrodes. The dielectric ceramic layers contain a Ba- and Ti-containing perovskite compound, Ca, Mg, R (at least one rare earth metal selected from La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and Y), M (at least one selected from Zr, Mn, Co, Fe, Cr, Cu, Al, V, Mo, and W), and Si. The number of parts by mole of each element relative to Ti as 100 parts is as follows: Ca, approximately 0.10 to 5.00 parts; Mg, approximately 0.0010 to 0.0098 parts; R in total, approximately 0.50 to 4.00 parts; M in total, approximately 0.10 to 2.00 parts; and Si, approximately 0.5 to 2.0 parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Shimada, Katsuya Ishida
  • Patent number: 9418790
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component including thin external terminal electrodes each having a superior bonding force to a ceramic base body is provided. In order to form the external terminal electrodes, after Cu plating films are deposited on exposed portions of internal electrodes by direct plating on a ceramic base body, a Cu liquid phase, an O2-containing liquid phase, and a Cu solid phase are generated between the Cu plating film and the ceramic base body by a heat treatment, so that Cu oxides are dispersed in the Cu plating film, at least near an interface with the ceramic base body. Since the Cu oxides function as an adhesive, a bonding force of the Cu plating film to the ceramic base body can be increased, and hence the external terminal electrode having a superior bonding force to the ceramic base body can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takeuchi, Kenichi Kawasaki, Akihiro Motoki, Makoto Ogawa, Shuji Matsumoto, Seiichi Nishihara
  • Patent number: 9406440
    Abstract: A laminated ceramic capacitor which has a long high temperature load life, small variations in life, large capacitance, high electrical insulation property, and favorable capacitance temperature characteristics, even when high strength electric field is applied while reducing the thickness of dielectric ceramic layers uses a dielectric ceramic represented by the formula: 100(Ba1-xCax)mTiO3+aMgO+bVO5/2+cReO3/2+dMnO+eSiO2 where Re being at least one of Y, La, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb), 0.05?x?0.15, 0.01?a?0.1, 0.05?b?0.5, 1.0?c?5.0, 0.1?d?1.0, 0.5?e?2.5, and 0.990?m?1.030.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9343522
    Abstract: A ceramic powder for use in a grain boundary insulated semiconductor ceramic that has an excellent ESD withstanding voltage, a semiconductor ceramic capacitor using the ceramic powder, and a manufacturing method therefor. The ceramic powder for use in a SrTiO3 based grain boundary insulated semiconductor ceramic has a specific surface area of 4.0 m2/g or more and 8.0 m2/g or less, and a cumulative 90% grain size D90 of 1.2 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsutoshi Kawamoto, Atsushi Sano, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Yasutomo Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Fujita, Yuki Kimura, Yuichi Kusano
  • Patent number: 9269494
    Abstract: Solder-repellent portions are each arranged so as to extend over all or substantially all of a portion of a corresponding one of outer electrodes provided on a corresponding one of end surfaces of a monolithic ceramic electronic component and partially on portions of the outer electrode provided over two side surfaces of the monolithic ceramic electronic component. When the monolithic ceramic electronic component is mounted on the circuit board, solder does not adhere to the end surfaces and portions of the outer electrode provided on portions of the two side surfaces. Thus, expansion and contraction that occur as a result of application of an AC voltage is not transmitted or is not significantly transmitted to the circuit board. Consequently, vibrations of the circuit board are significantly reduced or prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiji Okamoto, Toshihiro Nakai, Shingo Okuyama
  • Patent number: 9257233
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminated ceramic capacitor having a dielectric ceramic which contains, as its main constituent, a perovskite-type compound containing Ca and Zr and optionally containing Sr, Ba, and Ti, and further contains Si, Mn, and Al, and when the total content of Zr and Ti is regarded as 100 parts by mol, the total content (100×m) of Ca, Sr, and Ba meets 1.002?m?1.100 in terms of parts by mol, the Si content n meets 0.5?n?10 in terms of parts by mol, the Mn content u meets 0.5?u?10 in terms of parts by mol, and the Al content w meets 0.02?w?4 in terms of parts by mol, m and n satisfying ?0.4?100(m?1)?n?3.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Nishimura, Masahiro Naito
  • Patent number: 9245689
    Abstract: There is provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component including a ceramic body including dielectric layers, internal electrodes formed in the ceramic body and including pores, and first and second external electrodes formed on both end portions of the ceramic body, wherein in a cross section of the ceramic body in length and thickness directions, when a thickness of the internal electrode is to and a thickness of the pore is tp, 0.41?tp/te?0.86 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Ho Lee, Jong Han Kim, Yoon Hee Lee, Min Gon Lee, Jae Man Park
  • Patent number: 9236189
    Abstract: A direct current (DC) link capacitor module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) formed by sequentially disposing a first electrode substrate, an insulation substrate, a second electrode substrate, a third electrode substrate; a plurality of DC link capacitors connected in parallel to each of the first electrode substrate and the second electrode substrate; a plurality of first Y-capacitors connected in series to each of the first electrode substrate and the third electrode substrate, and connected in parallel to the DC link capacitors; and a plurality of second Y-capacitors connected in series to each of the first electrode substrate and the third electrode substrate, and connected in parallel to the first Y-capacitors, thereby achieving a miniaturization and facilitating a fabrication by connecting the plurality of DC link capacitors using the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SAMHWA CAPACITOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Joo Oh, Jung Rag Yoon, Kyung Min Lee, Young Min Yoo
  • Patent number: 9218907
    Abstract: A crystalline perovskite crystalline composite paraelectric material includes nano-regions containing rich N3? anions dispersed in a nano-grain sized matrix of crystalline oxide perovskite material, wherein (ABO3??)?-(ABO3????N?)1??. A represents a divalent element, B represents a tetravalent element, ? satisfies 0.005???1.0, 1?? satisfies 0.05?1???0.9, and 1?? is an area ratio between the regions containing rich N3? anions and the matrix of remaining oxide perovskite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ivoyl Koutsaroff, Shinichi Higai, Akira Ando
  • Patent number: 9209619
    Abstract: An ESD protection component includes a ceramic material and a BGA or LGA termination. In addition, an ESD protection component includes a basic body with a lower side. The basic body includes a ceramic material. At least one floating inner electrode is located at a distance from the lower side of two to 100 ceramic grains. Also a component includes a carrier, on which an LED and an ESD protection component are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Thomas Feichtinger, Oliver Dernovsek
  • Patent number: 9190207
    Abstract: There is provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component, including a ceramic body including dielectric layers; a plurality of internal electrodes stacked within the ceramic body, and external electrodes formed on external surfaces of the ceramic body and electrically connected to the internal electrodes, wherein the external electrodes include a metal layer and a conductive resin layer formed on the metal layer, the conducive resin layer containing a copper powder and an epoxy resin, the copper powder including a first copper powder having a content of 10 wt % or more and a particle diameter of 2 ?m or greater and a second copper powder having a content of 5 wt % or more and a particle diameter of 0.7 ?m or smaller, the first copper powder being a mixture of spherical powder particles and flake type powder particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Pyo Hong, Byung Jun Jeon, Byoung Jin Chun, Jae Hwan Han