Patent ID: 9190213
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: H01G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A multilayer ceramic capacitor comprising: a ceramic element including first and second principal surfaces extending along a longitudinal direction and a width direction, first and second side surfaces extending along the longitudinal direction and a thickness direction, and first and second end surfaces extending along the width direction and the thickness direction; and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes spaced away from each other along the thickness direction in the ceramic element; wherein the first internal electrodes are exposed at the first end surface and not exposed at the second end surface; the second internal electrodes are exposed at the second end surface and not exposed at the first end surface; and each of the first internal electrodes and the second internal electrodes includes a first end on a first side in the width direction and a second end on a second side in the width direction, the first end of the first internal electrode is positioned outside the first end of the second internal electrode in the width direction, the second end of the first internal electrode is positioned inside the second end of the second internal electrode in the width direction, the second ends of the first internal electrodes are scattered in the width direction so as to be disposed at different positions from one another in the width direction, the first ends of the second internal electrodes are scattered in the width direction so as to be disposed at different positions from one another in the width direction, the second end of each of the first internal electrodes is thicker than other portions of the first internal electrode in the width direction, and the first end of each of the second internal electrodes is thicker than other portions of the second internal electrode in the width direction.