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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hidehiro Inoue, Shiga, JP;
Yuichi Takaoka, Shiga, JP;
Assignee:
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01C 7/10 ; H01C 7/13 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01C 7/10 ; H01C 7/13 ;
Abstract
A thermistor element has a pair of electrodes formed in ohmic contact with and mutually opposite to each other on one of the surfaces of a thermistor body. These electrodes each have a thin-film contact layer and an external electrode layer which is formed either directly or indirectly over the contact layer and only on the surface on which these electrodes are formed opposite each other and is of a metallic material such as Au, Ag, Pd, Pt, Sn and their alloys.