US 12,255,008 B2
Inductor component
Yasunari Nakashima, Nagaokakyo (JP); Shinya Tajima, Nagaokakyo (JP); Yuta Shimoda, Nagaokakyo (JP); and Daisuke Takahashi, Nagaokakyo (JP)
Assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto-fu (JP)
Filed by Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto-fu (JP)
Filed on Mar. 11, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/601,691.
Application 18/601,691 is a continuation of application No. 16/927,923, filed on Jul. 13, 2020, granted, now 12,020,846.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-145553 (JP), filed on Aug. 7, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0221996 A1, Jul. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. H01F 27/29 (2006.01); H01F 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01F 27/292 (2013.01) [H01F 17/0013 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inductor component comprising:
an element body having an end surface and a bottom surface;
a coil provided in the element body; and
an outer electrode provided to the element body and electrically connected to the coil, wherein
the outer electrode includes
an underlying layer embedded in the element body, in a view of the bottom surface of the element body, the underlying layer extends away from the end surface to an innermost edge, and
a coating film covering a portion of the underlying layer exposed at the element body, and
the coating film includes an outer peripheral edge, and the outer peripheral edge extends further from the end surface of the element body than the innermost edge of the underlying layer, and the outer peripheral edge has a convex surface in the view of the bottom surface of the element body.