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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2003
Makoto Yamauchi, Fukui-ken, JP;
Akihiro Shimizu, Fukui, JP;
Kazuaki Kawabata, Fukui, JP;
Hiroaki Taira, Izumo, JP;
Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Izumo, JP;
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A highly reliable monolithic ceramic capacitor which has no structural defect, e.g. peeling, and which is not susceptible to water from the outside and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. A lead portion of an internal electrode is configured to have a shape provided with a taper-shaped portion in which the width gradually decreases with increasing proximity to the end surface of a ceramic element, and the shape of the end portion opposite to the lead portion of the internal electrode is adjusted to be substantially rectangular. Regarding a pair of internal electrodes facing each other with the ceramic layer therebetween, the internal electrodes are laminated while the positions thereof are displaced with respect to each other in order that a corner portion in the substantially rectangular portion of one internal electrode are located in the vicinity of, but outside the taper-shaped portion of the other internal electrode.