Patent ID: 8107217
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: H01G

Abstract:
1. A multilayer capacitor comprising: a capacitor element body having first and second principal faces of a rectangular shape opposed to each other, first and second side faces opposed to each other and extending in a long-side direction of the first and second principal faces so as to connect the first and second principal faces, and third and fourth side faces opposed to each other and extending in a short-side direction of the first and second principal faces so as to connect the first and second principal faces; a first internal electrode arranged in the capacitor element body and having two lead portions extending in a first lead width and toward the first and second side faces, respectively; a second internal electrode arranged in the capacitor element body so as to be opposed at least in part to the first internal electrode in a direction in which the first and second principal faces are opposed, and having two lead portions extending in a second lead width and toward the first and second side faces, respectively; a first terminal electrode having first terminal portions arranged on the first side face and on the second side face, respectively, on the third side face side and connected to the two lead portions, respectively, of the first internal electrode, and second terminal portions arranged on the first side face side and on the second side face side, respectively, on the second principal face and connected to the first terminal portions, respectively; and a second terminal electrode having third terminal portions arranged on the first side face and on the second side face, respectively, on the fourth side face side and connected to the two lead portions, respectively, of the second internal electrode, and fourth terminal portions arranged on the first side face side and on the second side face side, respectively, on the second principal face and connected to the third terminal portions, respectively, wherein each of the second terminal portions of the first terminal electrode includes a wide part a width of which in a direction in which the first and second side faces are opposed, is wider than the first lead width of the lead portions in the first internal electrode, and a narrow part the width of which decreases from the wide part toward the second terminal electrode and toward the first or second side face side on which each second terminal portion is arranged.