Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Yuji Kobayashi

Toshiyuki Horitani

Tomohiro Sasaki

Yuichiro Tanaka

Satoshi Ishitobi

Daisuke Oyama

A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers, and external electrodes electrically connected to the internal electrode layers. A difference of about 3 μm or less exists between a maximum thickness of a center portion of the external electrode and a thickness of a peripheral portion of the external electrode, and in a range of a field of view of about 50 μm square centered at a point located farther inward by about 15% than a peripheral end portion of the external electrode, an angle θ of about 4 degrees or less is defined by a straight line connecting two points of intersection of a surface of the external electrode and a sectional line defining the range of the field of view of about 50 μm square and a perpendicular line to a vertical line passing through one of the two points of intersection.

Multilayer ceramic capacitor

A capacitor component includes a laminate including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers, first and second external electrodes respectively provided on first and second end surfaces of the laminate, and a third external electrode provided on at least one of first and second lateral surfaces of the laminate. The internal electrode layers include a first internal electrode layer connected to the first external electrode and not connected to either the second or the third external electrode; a second internal electrode layer connected to the second external electrode and not connected to either the first or the third external electrode; a third internal electrode layer not connected to any of the first, the second, or the third external electrode; and a fourth internal electrode layer connected to the third external electrode and not connected to either the first or the second external electrode.

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Nagaokakyo, Japan

Yuji Kobayashi