MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent cracks in a capacitor main body and fatigue failures at bonding parts of terminal members, to which stresses from electrostriction is applied because electrostriction easily occurs, when a high voltage or high-frequency current is applied to a capacitor wherein terminal members consisting of a metal plate are attached to the external electrodes of the capacitor body. SOLUTION: In this capacitor, a terminal member 5 is divided into a plurality of terminal elements 6 to 10, arrayed so that these are distributed with gaps between each other in the width direction of an external electrode 2. The dimensions in the width direction of the terminal elements 6, 10 positioned at the ends in the array direction are made smaller than that of the terminal element 8 positioned at the center. At the same time, the gaps between the terminal elements 6, 10 positioned at the ends and the neighboring terminal elements 7, 9 are made wider than those between the terminal element 8 positioned at the center and the neighboring terminal elements 7, 9.