Multilayer ceramic electronic component including metal terminals and protruding portions
AssigneeMurata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorSatoshi Miyauchi
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Abstract
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer ceramic capacitor main body, metal terminals connected to external electrodes via a bonding material, and an exterior material covering the multilayer ceramic capacitor main body. The metal terminals include bonding surfaces that bond the bonding material and contact surfaces in contact with the exterior material. The contact surfaces include an outermost surface metal film and a lower wettability surface having a lower wettability than that of the outermost surface metal film. A protruding portion is at a boundary portion between a surface of the outermost surface metal film and the lower wettability surface.
Claims19
A multilayer ceramic electronic component comprising:
- a multilayer ceramic electronic component main body including a multilayer body including a plurality of ceramic layers and a plurality of internal conductive layers that are laminated, a first main surface and a second main surface opposed to each other in a height direction, a first lateral surface and a second lateral surface opposed to each other in a width direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the height direction, and a first end surface and a second end surface opposed to each other in a length direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the height direction and the width direction, a first external electrode on the first end surface, and a second external electrode on the second end surface;
- a first metal terminal connected to the first external electrode via a bonding material;
- a second metal terminal connected to the second external electrode via a bonding material;
- and
- an exterior material that covers the multilayer ceramic electronic component main body, a portion of the first metal terminal, and a portion of the second metal terminal;
- wherein
- the first metal terminal includes a first bonding surface bonded to the bonding material and a first contact surface in contact with the exterior material;
- the second metal terminal includes a second bonding surface bonded to the bonding material and a second contact surface in contact with the exterior material;
- the first contact surface in contact with the exterior material includes a surface of a first outermost surface metal film and a first low wettability surface having a wettability lower than the first outermost surface metal film;
- the second contact surface in contact with the exterior material includes a surface of a second outermost surface metal film and a second low wettability surface having a wettability lower than the second outermost surface metal film;
- a first protruding portion is provided at a boundary portion between the surface of the first outermost surface metal film and the first low wettability surface;
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- a second protruding portion is provided at a boundary portion between the surface of the second outermost surface metal film and the second low wettability surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.