Patent ID: 6967827

Claim:
A laminated capacitor comprising: a composite capacitor including at least first, second, and third capacitor elements; a capacitor main body having a laminated structure including a plurality of laminated dielectric layers and pluralities of first and second internal electrodes disposed along a plurality of interfaces between the dielectric layers, the first and second internal electrodes being alternately disposed in a lamination direction; first and second terminal electrodes disposed on an external surface of the capacitor main body; and first and second capacitance forming portions facing each other through a dielectric layer and first and second lead-out portions led out from the first and second capacitance forming portions and connected to the first and second terminal electrodes, contained by the first and second internal electrodes, respectively; wherein the first capacitor element includes a first capacitance component and a first inductance component, the first capacitance component is provided by the first and second capacitance forming portions facing each other, the first inductance component is mainly provided by the current pass between the first and second lead-out portions in the first and second internal electrodes in the frequency range of up to about 10 GHz, and the pass characteristics in the frequency range of up to about 10 GHz are provided by the first capacitance component and the first inductance component; the second capacitor element includes a second capacitance component and a second inductance component, the second capacitance component is provided by the first and second terminal electrodes facing each other, the second inductance component is mainly provided by the current pass between the first and second terminal electrodes in the frequency range of about 15 GHz to about 20 GHz, and the pass characteristics in the frequency range of about 15 GHz to about 20 GHz are provided by the second capacitance component and the second inductance component; the third capacitor element includes a third capacitance component and a third inductance component, the third capacitance component is provided by a set of the pluralities of first and second capacitance forming portions and the first and second terminal electrodes facing each other, the third inductance component is mainly provided by the current pass around the first and second capacitance forming portions in the frequency range of not less than about 30 GHz, and the pass characteristics in the frequency range of not less than about 30 GHz are provided by the third capacitance component and the third inductance component; and the first inductance component has an inductance value of not more than about 500 pH at about 10 GHz and is larger than both of the inductance value of the second inductance component at about 15 GHz to about 20 GHz and the inductance value of the third inductance component at about 30 GHz.