Patent ID: 7828919

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic component, comprising the steps of: forming first ceramic green sheets supported by carrier films; forming second ceramic green sheets provided with internal electrodes thereon and supported by carrier films; pressure-bonding one of the first ceramic green sheets to a supporting member and then peeling off its carrier film to form a first-layer ceramic green sheet; sequentially pressure-bonding the other first ceramic green sheets or the second ceramic green sheets to the first-layer ceramic green sheet and peeling off their carrier films so as to sequentially laminate the first ceramic green sheets and the second ceramic green sheets to form a laminate; firing the laminate to form a sintered body; and forming external electrodes on surfaces of the sintered body; wherein among the first ceramic green sheets, in only the first-layer ceramic green sheet, the amount of a binder is changed in the thickness direction so that the amount at an open surface opposite to a surface at a carrier film side, which is supported by the carrier film, is larger than the amount at the surface at the carrier film side.