Patent ID: 7128870
Filing Date: 2006-10-31
Classification: B32B,C04B,H01G

Abstract:
1. A method for manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic component, comprising the steps of: preparing an unsintered multilayer ceramic body including stacked ceramic layers and internal electrodes, the internal electrodes being made mainly of a base metal; removing organic materials from the unsintered multilayer ceramic body to provide a binder-removed multilayer ceramic body; and sintering the binder-removed multilayer ceramic body under a reductive atmosphere, wherein the amount of the organic materials remaining in the binder-removed multilayer ceramic body ranges from about 0.5 weight % to about 8.5 weight % of the binder-removed multilayer ceramic body, and wherein the removal of the organic materials from the internal electrodes starts at a temperature higher than that employed for the removal of the organic materials from the ceramic layers in order to remove the organic materials uniformly throughout the unsintered multilayer ceramic body.