Patent ID: 8971016
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: H01G

Abstract:
1. A monolithic ceramic capacitor comprising: a ceramic element body including: a plurality of dielectric layers made of dielectric ceramic; and a plurality of inner electrodes stacked with the dielectric layers in a stacking direction; wherein adjacent ones of the plurality of inner electrodes with one of the plurality of dielectric layers disposed therebetween in the stacking direction alternately extend to a pair of mutually opposite end surfaces of the ceramic element body; and a pair of outer electrodes arranged on outer surfaces of the ceramic element body and electrically connected to respective ones of the inner electrodes; wherein one of the plurality of dielectric layers present between a pair of the inner electrodes in the stacking direction extending to one of the pair of end surfaces of the ceramic element body is an inter-electrode dielectric layer; and a gap is provided in the inter-electrode dielectric layer and extends in a direction connecting the pair of the inner electrodes with the inter-electrode dielectric layer located therebetween; wherein the gap is located at a position near or adjacent to at least one of the pair of the end surfaces of the ceramic element body, in about 5% or greater of inter-electrode dielectric layers among a plurality of the inter-electrode dielectric layers included in the ceramic element body.