Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Taiyo Yudenco., Ltd.

Mikio Tahara

Tomoaki Nakamura

Satoshi Kobayashi

Takahisa Fukuda

Naoki Saito

Tetsuhiko Fukuoka

Kiyoshiro Yatagawa

Hiroaki Uenishi

Takehiko Kamobe

Atsuhiro Yanagisawa

Yoshinori Shibata

Michio Oshima

Masako Kanou

Fusao Sato

Koichiro Morita

Hiroki Shimizu

Yasuyuki Inomata

Minoru Ryu

Yasutomo Suga

Masaru Saito

Shoji Kusumoto

Kazumi Kaneda

Hirokazu Orimo

Sadanori Shimoda

Kayoko Hirayama

Reiko Shimoda

Tomio Inoue

A multilayer ceramic electronic device includes a ceramic main body and a pair of external electrodes respectively covering a pair of end surfaces of the ceramic main body, wherein the ceramic main body includes a laminated body including a plurality of internal electrodes laminated vertically therein, and a pair of side margin parts respectively covering a pair of side surfaces of the laminated body, and wherein a distance between a bottom surface of the ceramic main body and the bottommost internal electrode is greater than a distance between the top surface of the ceramic main body and the topmost internal electrode.

Method of making a multilayer ceramic electronic device

A multilayer ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip having a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers facing each other through each of the plurality of dielectric layers, an external electrode that is provided on an end face of the multilayer chip in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which the plurality of internal electrode layers face each other, and has a plurality of glass portions that are spaced from each other on a surface of the external electrode, and a plated layer that is provided on the external electrode and has discontinuous portions on the plurality of glass portions.

Multilayer ceramic electronic device

A multilayer ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip and external electrodes opposite to each other in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which internal electrode layers face and include a ceramic grain. 0.722×ln(W×T/E)−5.75+(α−α)+(t/12)≤6.02 is satisfied, when a dimension of the multilayer chip in the first direction is T (μm), a dimension of the multilayer chip in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction is W (μm), a number of the internal electrode layers is E, a thermal expansion coefficient of the external electrodes is α(×10/K), a thermal expansion coefficient of the multilayer chip is α(×10/K), and a maximum value of a thickness of the external electrodes on a main face in the first direction is t (μm).

Multilayer ceramic electronic device and manufacturing method of the same

A ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer chip having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers that are alternately stacked, a main component of the dielectric layers being ceramic, a main component of the internal electrode layers being Ni, the internal electrode layers being alternately exposed to two end faces of the multilayer chip opposite to each other, and external electrodes, each of which is provided on each of the two end faces. Each of the external electrodes includes a base layer contacting the internal electrode layers, a main component of the base layer being Cu. The base layer includes Ni of 1 wt % or more and 10 wt % or less on a presumption that an amount of Cu is 100 wt %.

Ceramic electronic device and manufacturing method of the same

A ceramic electronic device includes: a ceramic main body having a parallelepiped shape in which edges of first internal electrode layers are led out to a first edge face and edges of second internal electrode layer are led out to a second edge face facing the first edge face; and external electrodes respectively formed on the first edge face and the second edge face and extending to at least one side face of the ceramic main body, wherein a distance in a length direction between first conductive layers of the respective external electrodes on the at least one side face is shorter between locations corresponding to corner portions of the ceramic main body, respectively, than between center portions of the first conductive layers of the respective external electrodes in a width direction orthogonal to the length direction on the at least one side face.

Ceramic electronic device and manufacturing method of ceramic electronic device

A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip including a multilayer structure, a first cover layer and a second cover layer and having a parallelepiped shape, the multilayer structure having a structure in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked and are alternately exposed to a first end face and a second end face of the multilayer chip, the first end face being opposite to the second end face, the first cover layer being provided on an upper face of the multilayer structure in a stacking direction, the second cover layer being provided on a lower face of the multilayer structure, a first external electrode formed on the first end face, and a second external electrode formed on the second end face. In this structure, a relationship of 0.20&#x2264;R1/&#x221a;{square root over (&#x2003;)}(P1&#x2212;C1)&#x2264;0.80 is satisfied.

A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a multilayer chip in which dielectric layers mainly composed of ceramic and internal electrode layers are alternately stacked so that the internal electrode layers are alternately exposed to two end faces of the multilayer chip having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape; and a pair of external electrodes formed from the two end faces to at least one side face of side faces, wherein each external electrode includes a metal layer formed from the end face to the at least one side face and mainly composed of copper, and an oxide layer covering at least a part of the metal layer, mainly composed of copper oxide, and having a maximum thickness of 0.5 &#x3bc;m or greater, wherein a first surface, which is in contact with the plated layer, of the oxide layer has Cu particles formed thereon.

Multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacturing the same

A ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer chip having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers that are alternately stacked, the internal electrode layers being alternately exposed to two edge faces of the multilayer chip facing each other, and a pair of external electrodes respectively formed on the two edge faces so as to be connected to the internal electrode layers exposed on the respective edge faces, each external electrode extending to at least one side face of the multilayer chip, wherein in the multilayer chip, oxides including Zn and Ni are present around the internal electrode layer in a vicinity of a connection part connecting the internal electrode layer to the external electrode.

Ceramic electronic component and method of manufacturing the same

A ceramic electronic component includes external electrodes having conductive resin layers thereinside on respective two ends opposed to each other in a rectangular parallelepiped ceramic component body. Each of the external electrodes includes an underlying metal layer, an intermediate metal layer, a conductive resin layer, an external metal layer. A tip angle &#x3b1; between an outer face of a tip portion of the wraparound portion of the underlying metal layer and a surface of the ceramic component body is 20&#xb0; or smaller, and a tip angle &#x3b2; between an outer face of a tip portion of the wraparound portion of the intermediate metal layer and a surface of the ceramic component body is 20&#xb0; or smaller.

Ceramic electronic component and production method therefor

A ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer chip including a multilayer structure and cover layers disposed on top and bottom faces in a stack direction of the multilayer structure, and a pair of external electrodes respectively formed on two edge faces of the multilayer structure and extending to four side faces of the multilayer chip, wherein each external electrode has a recessed portion on at least one of two side faces facing each other in the stack direction or at least one of remaining two side faces, and wherein each external electrode has no recessed portion on the two side faces when each external electrode has the recessed portion on at least one of the remaining two side faces, and has no recessed portion on the remaining two side faces when each external electrode has the recessed portion on at least one of the two side faces.

Ceramic electronic component and manufacturing method of the same

A ceramic electronic device includes: a ceramic main body that has internal electrode layers inside thereof and has a parallelepiped shape in which a part of one of the internal electrode layers is extracted to a first edge face of the parallelepiped shape and a part of another internal electrode layer is extracted to a second edge face of the parallelepiped shape facing the first edge face; external electrodes that are respectively formed on the first edge face and the second edge face and extend to at least one of side faces of the ceramic main body, wherein an interval between side edge portions of the external electrodes on the at least one of side faces is shorter than center portions of the external electrodes on the at least one of side faces.

A ceramic electronic device includes: a multilayer chip including a multilayer structure and cover layers, the multilayer structure having a structure in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked and are alternately exposed to two edge faces of the multilayer chip, a main component of the plurality of dielectric layers being a ceramic, the cover layers being provided on an upper face and a lower face of the multilayer structure in a stacking direction; and a pair of external electrodes that are formed on the two edge faces, wherein each of the external electrodes has a smaller thickness on a corner portion of the cover layers, has a crook toward the internal electrode layers, and has a larger thickness on an area of the two edge faces where the internal electrode layers are extracted.

A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a multilayer chip in which dielectric layers mainly composed of ceramic and internal electrode layers are alternately stacked so that the internal electrode layers are alternately exposed to two end faces, which face each other, of the multilayer chip, the multilayer chip having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape; and a pair of external electrodes formed from the two end faces of the multilayer chip to at least one side face of side faces of the multilayer chip, wherein each of the pair of external electrodes includes a metal layer and an oxide layer, the metal layer being formed from the end face to the at least one side face and being mainly composed of copper, the oxide layer covering at least a part of the metal layer, being mainly composed of copper oxide, and having a maximum thickness of 0.5 &#x3bc;m or greater.

Multilayer ceramic capacitor with copper oxide layer and method of manufacturing the same

A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including: a multi-layer unit including a capacitance forming unit including ceramic layers laminated in a first direction and internal electrodes disposed therebetween, a side surface facing in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, an end surface facing in a third direction orthogonal to the above directions, a drawn portion extending from the capacitance forming unit in the third direction, the internal electrodes being drawn to the end surface, and a cover that covers the capacitance forming unit and the drawn portion in the first direction; and a side margin that covers the side surface. The drawn portion includes a first region and a second region disposed between the cover and the first region, an end portion of each internal electrode in the second region being positioned inward in the second direction relative to that in the first region.

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