Patent ID: 8914956

Claim:
A manufacturing method for a monolithic ceramic electronic component, comprising the steps of: preparing a mother block including a plurality of ceramic green sheets that are stacked on each other, and an internal electrode pattern arranged along each of a plurality of interfaces between the ceramic green sheets; performing a first cutting including cutting the mother block along a first cutting line to obtain a plurality of rod-shaped green block bodies, the rod-shaped green block bodies each having a laminated structure including a plurality of ceramic layers and a plurality of internal electrodes that are in a raw state, the internal electrodes being exposed on a cut side surface that is produced by cutting along the first cutting line; applying a ceramic paste to the cut side surface to form a raw ceramic protective layer; performing a second cutting including cutting each of the rod-shaped green block bodies on which the raw ceramic protective layer has been formed along a second cutting line extending in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first cutting line to obtain a plurality of raw component bodies that are each a component body in a raw state; and firing each of the raw component bodies; wherein the applying step includes the steps of: preparing an application plate that holds the ceramic paste; bringing the ceramic paste held by the application plate into contact with the cut side surface of each of the rod-shaped green block bodies; and transferring the ceramic paste to the cut side surface of each of the rod-shaped green block bodies, by moving each of the rod-shaped green block bodies and the application plate relative to each other in a direction in which the cut side surface extends while separating each of the rod-shaped green block bodies from the application plate in a state in which the ceramic paste is connected to both of each of the rod-shaped green block bodies and the application plate.