Patent ID: 7329976

Claim:
A laminated electronic component comprising: a layered body of generally rectangular shape, having dielectric layers and internal electrode layers alternately laminated, where internal electrode layers are exposed alternately on either ends of the layered body; and external electrodes formed on both ends of the layered body and connected to the internal electrode layers; wherein the layered body includes a capacitance generation portion where the adjacent internal electrode layers are overlapped, and electrode extraction portions where the adjacent internal electrode layers are not overlapped, the internal electrode layers has a first end that is connected to the external electrode and a second end that is not connected to the external electrode, the internal electrode layer has a thickness that expands, from a point of a length less than or equal to five times as long as the length of the electrode extraction portion, gradually both in a laminate direction of the internal electrode layers and the opposite direction so as to extend in a direction from the second end to the first end to straddle a border between the capacitance generation portion and the electrode extraction portion, and the second end of the internal electrode layer is formed such that its thickness gradually becomes thinner towards the external electrode.