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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5903430 | Dynamic random access memory cell having an improved fin-structured storage electrode The present invention provides a capacitor comprising: a semiconductor substrate; an inter-layer insulator formed over the silicon substrate; at least two interconnections formed within the inter-layer insulator, the two interconnections being distanced a... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5898561 | Capacitor arrangement and method of stabilizing same A capacitor module having a solid dielectric is cleared in a gaseous environment having an electric strength greater than that of air at a pressure of one atmosphere. A plurality of such cleared capacitor modules is formed into a stack which itself is the... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5872695 | Integrated electronic components having conductive filled through holes A pad printer is used to apply multiple patterned layers of alternating materials to form capacitors and resistors within or on ceramic packages. Fast drying resistive, conductive and dielectric inks are used to form very thin (from about 5 to 20 micron) ... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5841626 | Dielectric ceramic composition and monolithic ceramic capacitor using same A dielectric ceramic composition and a monolithic ceramic capacitor using same are provided. The dielectric ceramic composition includes a main component of barium titanate, scandium oxide, yttrium oxide, manganese oxide and nickel oxide, having the compo... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5835337 | Stacked capacitor having a corrugated electrode In a semiconductor device, such as a memory cell, including a capacitor, a corrugated electrode is used as a lower electrode of the capacitor and is covered with an insulation film to be opposed to an upper electrode. The corrugated electrode is specified... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5835338 | Multilayer ceramic capacitor A multilayer ceramic capacitor comprising an interlayer, which mitigates stress of a dielectric material cause by a counter piezoelectric phenomenon, provided between capacity-forming layers. The capacity-forming layer preferably comprises seven or more i... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5814082 | Layered capacitor with alignment elements for an implantable cardiac defibrillator A capacitor for an implantable cardiac defibrillator with a housing defining a chamber. A plurality of flat, stacked, charge storing layers reside within the chamber. Each of the layers includes at least a first and a second electrically conductive sheets... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5805409 | Multi-layer electronic part having external electrodes that have a thermosetting resin and metal particles A multi-layer electronic part, such as a multi-layer ceramic capacitor, which comprises internal electrodes stacked alternately with layers of a dielectric material containing at least 50 wt % of lead in terms of PbO and external electrodes connected to t... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5800857 | Energy storage device and methods of manufacture A dry preunit (10), includes a plurality of cells (110, 112, 114) in a true bipolar configuration, which are stacked and bonded together, to impart to the device an integral and unitary construction. Each cell (114) includes two electrically conductive el... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5796573 | Overhanging separator for self-defining stacked capacitor An overhanging separator structure with a post projecting from a surface which may be a substrate, an underlying layer on the surface, and a separator layer on the underlying layer, with the separator layer overhanging the underlying layer. A discontinuou... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5793260 | Current controlled oscillator with voltage independent capacitance A current-controlled oscillator with first and second differential comparators (640, 840) serving as inputs, first and second voltage independent multi-layered integrated capacitors (600, 800) corresponding to the first and second comparators (640, 840), ... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5757612 | Structure and fabrication method for non-planar memory elements Structures for memory cell applications, including capacitors for DRAM and ferroelectric memory cells from FRAM, whose method of manufacture consists of depositing a ferroelectric or high-epsilon dielectric material to completely fill a cavity whose geome... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5745333 | Laminar stackable circuit board structure with capacitor Method and apparatus for fabricating fine pitch pattern multilayer printed circuit boards involving laminar stackable board layers providing power distribution, signal distribution and capacitive decoupling. In one respect, the invention relates to the fa... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5737179 | Metallized film capacitor Sheet capacitive materials for use in forming a thin-film capacitor comprise an electrically nonconductive substrate, a layer of electrically conductive material disposed a surface of the substrate, and a layer of electrically nonconductive material dispo... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5687056 | Variable voltage, variable capacitance chip capacitor device having lead pins electrically coupled to capacitor subassembly An electrochemical capacitor chip device (10) includes a plurality of capacitor subassemblies (12, 14, 16, 18, 20, and 22) arranged in stacked configuration. Each stacked capacitor assembly shares a single common electrode (48) from which extends a contac... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5621606 | Capacitor utilizing high dielectric constant material A side-by-side capacitor structure in which the side-by-side capacitors are formed using a common dielectric layer, with a capacitor plate electrode shaped as an electrostatic shield for preventing stray capacitance between the side-by-side capacitors. Mo... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5596266 | Metal particle detecting sensor, metal particle detecting method and metal particle detecting apparatus A metal particle detecting sensor (10), having a simple structure, can perform in-line analysis for metal particles in fluid and also can precisely estimate or detect the number of metal particles for each particle size. Metal films (1) and insulating fil... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5590017 | Alumina multilayer wiring substrate provided with high dielectric material layer An alumina multilayer wiring substrate having a high capacitance in the substrate on which a VLSI is to be mounted to effectively eliminate electrical noise(s) which may hinder the operation of the VLSI at high speed (frequency). The wiring substrate comp... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5581435 | Polyester film capacitor element A film capacitor element produced from a metallized polyester film is described. In the metallized polyester film, the adhesion between a vapor-deposited metal layer and a polyester substrate is improved by providing a coating layer comprising a specific ... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5574620 | Electrical component resistant to damage by infrared radiation In an electrical component that contains materials that can physically and/or chemically change under the influence of heat (infrared) radiation required during processing of the component and which in particular, is suitable for employment on printed cir... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5563762 | Capacitor for an integrated circuit and method of formation thereof, and a method of adding on-chip capacitors to an integrated circuit A capacitor structure and method of forming a capacitor structure for an integrated circuit is provided. The capacitor structure, comprising a bottom electrode, capacitor dielectric and top electrode, is formed on a passivation layer overlying the interco... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5563763 | Capacitor A capacitor for temporary storage of electrical energy comprising at least two capacitor elements (2) composed of electrodes (5) which are separated by one or more dielectrics (6), and especially a power capacitor for high voltage. When the capacitor is b... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5555486 | Hybrid metal/metal oxide electrodes for ferroelectric capacitors Ferroelectric capacitors with hybrid electrodes including both a conducting oxide and a noble metal may be used to achieve devices having improved performance over capacitors with either platinum or ruthenium oxide electrodes. These hybrid electrode struc... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5550705 | Electrical terminal connection employing plural materials A structure comprising an electrical component and a terminal for making external electrical connections to the electrical component. The substructure and method for making electrical connection between electrical components and their terminals, providing... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5541564 | Hybrid R-C component having an overlying dielectric layer A hybrid R-C component for use in oscilloscope probes of the type having a resistive element disposed on a first surface of a substrate, and having a first conductive coating disposed on a second surface of the substrate, and having a dielectric layer dis... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5450278 | Chip type capacitor for removing radio frequency noise A chip type capacitor with a multi-layer structure comprising a plurality of inner electrodes classified into two groups one being used as parts of signal lines and the other being connected to grounded lines. Each of the inner electrodes for radio freque... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5442516 | Method for controlling electric charge movement by segementing conductive surface A capacitor structure which provides improved electrical performance, utilizing a segmented plate and varied registration alignment. A method for providing improved electrical performance in a capacitor, utilizing a segmented plate structure with varied r... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5331505 | Multi-coplanar capacitor for electrical connector A multi-coplanar, multi-layer capacitor array for use as an RFI filter associated with an electrical connector module having a pattern of pin and socket connections includes a multi-layer board structure of super imposed layers including ground plane laye... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5157576 | Composite electric part of stacked multi-layer structure A composite electric part of a stacked multi-layer structure is composed of a capacor layer and a coil layer. The coil layer comprises a plurality of coils buried in a magnetic material. At least one of the coils includes a plurality of coil conductors wh... | 10/20/1992 |
| 4771362 | Electrical capacitor composed of a consolidated winding or consolidated stack of metallized plastic plies layered to one another and method for the manufacture thereof A capacitor composed of a consolidated winding or consolidated stack of plastic plies layered to one another and provided with metal coating layers has an incision at a narrow side to form projections. The metal coatings on the individual plastic plies ar... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4733327 | Electrical capacitor An electrical capacitor and manufacturing method therefor includes protective cover layers each of which has an insulating strip on each of two projections. During manufacture, an apparatus which forms intermittent metal-free strips during the winding of ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4635164 | Electrical capacitor and method for the manufacture thereof An electrical capacitor formed of metallized dielectric layers connected alternatingly to two power lead projections by the presence or absence of metal-free insulating strips includes a wavy cut edge and a smooth cut edge on alternate dielectric layers t... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4563724 | Electrical capacitor consisting of a consolidated stack of mutually layered, metallized dielectric plies and a method for the manufacture thereof A capacitor comprising a consolidated stack of mutually layered dielectric plies which are provided with a respective metal layer as coating. An incision is provided at one side by means of which the individual dielectric plies are lent projections on whi... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4424552 | Condenser block and voltage multiplier comprising such a condenser block A condenser block comprising a stack of insulating layers, separated by metal plates, arranged in relation to one another in such a way that at least part of each metal plate is approximately opposite at least part of another plate, in the direction of st... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4047240 | Multiple electrode capacitor assembly A multiple electrode capacitor assembly for operation at very high frequencies has one or more pairs of coplanar conductive electrode plates embedded in a dielectric block with inner ends thereof spaced apart and outer ends connected respectively to termi... | 09/06/1977 |