Patent ID: 11948746
Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A multilayer ceramic capacitor comprising:
a multilayer body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes alternately stacked on one another, two main surfaces facing each other in a stacking direction, two end surfaces facing each other in a length direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the stacking direction, and two side surfaces facing each other in a width direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the stacking direction and the length direction; and
two external electrodes respectively on the two end surfaces of the multilayer body; wherein
each of the plurality of dielectric layers includes, at a location coincident with an end portion of a respective one of the internal electrodes, a thick-walled portion thicker in the stacking direction than a portion of the dielectric layer corresponding in position to a middle portion of the main surface; and
when viewed in the stacking direction, positions of some of the thick-walled portions of the plurality of dielectric layers are out of alignment with positions of a remainder of the thick-walled portions of the plurality of dielectric layers.