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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7570479 | Solid electrolytic capacitor An electrolytic capacitor has at least one capacitor element and an insulating housing. Each capacitor element has a body and at least two leads. The leads connect to the body. The insulating housing has a base. The base has a top with at least one opening, a bottom... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7511944 | Solid electrolytic capacitor and method for manufacturing same A solid electrolytic capacitor (A1) includes a porous sintered body (1) of valve metal, and a metal case (2) accommodating the porous sintered body. The metal case (2) and the porous sintered body (1) are electrically connected to ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7426101 | Container having an overpressure safety device In one embodiment, a container with an overpressure safety device comprises a wall having a depression in at least a portion of the wall that expands when the pressure inside the container exceeds a predetermined level. The container further comprises a clamp bridgi... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7355840 | Method and apparatus for a capacitor shell including two mateable cupped components One embodiment of the present subject matter includes a capacitor, comprising a first cupped shell having a first opening, and a second cupped shell having a second opening, wherein the first opening and the second opening are adapted to sealably mate to form a clos... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355841 | Configurations and methods for making capacitor connections An exemplary capacitor has a capacitor stack positioned in a case with a conductor positioned between the case and a lid. In one embodiment the conductor is positioned between the lid and an upper rim of the case and is welded to the lid and case. In one aspect, a c... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351921 | Assembly for a microstimulator An electrode assembly includes an electrode electrically connected to a capacitor with a wire. An assembly carrier may be used to hold and secure at least the wire and capacitor during assembly. A method of assembly for attaching a wire to a capacitor and an electro... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347880 | Flat capacitor having staked foils and edge-connected connection members A method of joining a connection member to a capacitor foil using a staking tool having a tip of less than 0.030″ (0.762 mm) in diameter. Another embodiment couples multiple connection members of a capacitor together by edge-connecting each connection member to it... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336491 | Heat sink A heat dissipation device for electrical components includes an outer surface and an inner surface. The outer surface is configured for mounting the electrical components thereon, wherein the components are mounted to the outer surface to allow the transfer of heat ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330347 | Capacitor A capacitor includes an anode body and a housing having a base surface. The housing encloses the anode body at least partially. The capacitor also includes an anode connector and an anode contact that extends outward from an interior of the anode body. The anode con... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7317607 | Electric double layer capacitor In an electric double layer capacitor including two plate-like polarizable electrodes stacked in layers via a separator and constituted by housing these in an outer packaging member, a contact area between a first polarizable electrode and the separator is different... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312979 | Stacked solid electrolytic capacitor A stacked solid electrolytic capacitor has a substrate, a capacitor element, and a metal cap. The substrate has electrical conductivity. The capacitor element is provided on the substrate. The metal cap is coupled to the substrate, covers the capacitor element and i... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304832 | Ceramic container and battery and electric double layer capacitor using the same A ceramic container includes a ceramic base having a hollow or open portion for accommodating a battery element or an electric double layer capacitor element, defined by a bottom portion and a side wall which surrounds a bottom surface of the bottom portion which bo... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7298605 | Electrolytic capacitor The present invention provides a low-cost electrolytic capacitor wherein the deformation of the casing due to the thermal expansion during reflowing is prevented. An electrolytic capacitor of a surface mounting type having a capacitor element that consists of a diel... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7283351 | Gas discharge lamp power supply A gas discharge lamp power supply having a base, a pair of opposed side walls extending from the base, and opposed first and second end walls extending from the base between the opposed side walls. The first end wall has a sloped wall extending angularly between the... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283352 | Solid electrolytic capacitor and method for manufacturing the same A portion of an anode lead frame 3 of a solid electrolytic capacitor 1 is bent to form a protruding portion 4 that protrudes toward an anode lead 20. The protruding portion 4 includes a first horizontal portion 41 positioned... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280343 | Low profile electrolytic capacitor assembly An integrated capacitor assembly that offers improved performance characteristics in a convenient and space-saving package is provided. The capacitor assembly contains multiple discrete solid electrolytic capacitors that are “finished” in the sense that they are... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277271 | Solid electrolytic capacitor A solid electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor unit having a cathode frame coupled to a cathode part of a capacitor element, and anode frames formed at the opposite sides of the capacitor unit sandwiching a cathode frame, and coupled to an anode part of the cap... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262955 | Solid electrolytic capacitor and method for manufacturing the same An anode terminal or a cathode terminal is provided with an exposure portion that extends substantially perpendicularly to an arrangement direction of the two terminals and that have an end face exposed on a side face of a housing. At least the end face on the expos... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7206186 | Hermetically sealed electrolytic capacitor An electrolytic capacitor is provided having a metal-glass-metal hermetic seal and a liquid seal, which protects the hermetic seal from the electrolyte solution in the capacitor. The liquid seal is formed by compressing an elastomeric ring between the underside of t... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206193 | Surface-mount capacitor and method of producing the same A surface-mount capacitor includes a multilayer capacitor structure formed by laminating plate-like capacitor elements each having anode lead portions 11 at opposite ends thereof and a cathode portion 12 at the center, an anode terminal 18 conne... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7193840 | Solid electrolytic capacitor A solid electrolytic capacitor having a plurality of capacitor elements is provided that is small in size and has good electrical characteristics. The solid electrolytic capacitor includes a plurality of capacitor elements each having a dielectric film, a cathode la... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184257 | Solid electrolytic capacitor A solid electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element and a board mounting the capacitor element thereon. The capacitor element includes a support made of a valve metal, and an anode and a cathode provided on the support. Anode and cathode lead conductors conn... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177692 | Capacitor having a feedthrough assembly with a coupling member A flat capacitor includes a case having a feedthrough hole, a capacitor stack located within the case, a coupling member having a base surface directly attached to the capacitor stack and having a portion extending through the feedthrough hole, the coupling member h... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171267 | Reforming wet-tantalum capacitors in implantable defibrillators and other medical devices Miniature defibrillators and cardioverters detect abnormal heart rhythms and automatically apply electrical therapy to restore normal heart function. Critical components in these devices are aluminum electrolytic capacitors, which store and deliver one or more life-... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7157671 | Flat capacitor for an implantable medical device One aspect provides a capacitor having a first stack of capacitive elements a second stack of capacitive elements, wherein the first and second stacks are enclosed in separate compartments of a capacitor case that electrically isolate the electrolytes of each stack ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154739 | Flat capacitor having an active case A capacitor comprising an aluminum case; a capacitor stack mounted within the aluminum case, the capacitor stack comprising one or more anodes and one or more cathodes, one of the one or more anodes and one or more anodes attached to the aluminum case; wherein the c... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7141332 | Lightweight prismatic packaging structure for electrochemical devices and assembly method of the same The present invention pertains to lightweight, hard and leakproof prismatic packaging structures for electrochemical devices and economical method of assembly and hermetic sealing of said structures by plastic layers attached to their metal walls. Metal welding is a... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139163 | Solid electrolytic capacitor A mold member 5 packaging a capacitor element 2 is in the form of a generally rectangular parallelepiped whose length L is greater than the width W and the height H. The mold member 5 includes an opposite pair of side surfaces extending in the d... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7135754 | Chip type solid electrolytic capacitor having a small size and a simple structure In a chip type solid electrolytic capacitor including a capacitor element and a packaging resin covering the capacitor element, the packaging resin has a mount surface and a side surface adjacent to the mount surface. A terminal is electrically connected to the capa... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131988 | Reforming wet-tantalum capacitors in implantable medical devices Miniature defibrillators and cardioverters detect abnormal heart rhythms and automatically apply electrical therapy to restore normal heart function. Critical to this function, aluminum-electrolytic capacitors store and deliver life-saving bursts of electric charge ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7125429 | Protecting resin-encapsulated components A method of protecting surface mount capacitors from moisture and oxygen corrosion by applying a thermally curable pre-coat resin to a portion of the terminals of a capacitor and encapsulating the capacitor element(s) with a protective resin. The pre-coat resin is s... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7119663 | Remote control key for preventing theft of transponder and method for manufacturing the same A remote control key that may easily be disassembled while preventing theft of its transponder. The remote control key includes a transmitter for transmitting a signal to remotely control locking and unlocking of a door. The transponder transmits a predetermined ID ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113391 | Solid electrolytic capacitor and method for manufacturing the same An anode terminal or a cathode terminal is provided with an exposure portion that extends substantially perpendicularly to an arrangement direction of the two terminals and that have an end face exposed on a side face of a housing. At least the end face on the expos... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110244 | Production process for niobium capacitor A process for producing a niobium capacitor, including a step of exposing the dielectric oxide layer to a temperature of 100 to 1,400° C. is disclosed. A capacitor obtained by the production process of the present invention has excellent LC properties, and the redu... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107099 | Capacitor having a feedthrough assembly with a coupling member A flat capacitor includes a case having a feedthrough hole, a capacitor stack located within the case, a coupling member having a base surface directly attached to the capacitor stack and having a portion extending through the feedthrough hole, the coupling member h... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7095605 | Solid electrolytic capacitor A solid electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element and an outer shell, made of an insulating resin, that covers the capacitor element. The capacitor element has a winding portion that is formed by rolling an anode foil with a dielectric oxidized film formed... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092241 | Method and apparatus for connecting electrodes having apertures In various embodiments, the present subject matter includes a capacitor stack having a first substantially planar electrode having a first unetched portion, and a first aperture extending through the first substantially planar electrode and defined by material at le... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7085126 | Molded polymeric cradle for containing an anode in an electrolytic capacitor from high shock and vibration conditions A polymeric cradle molded about the periphery of an anode pellet in an electrolytic capacitor is described. The polymeric cradle contacts between a welding strap surrounding the butt seam between mating “clam shell” casing portions and the anode pellet sidewall.... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7075777 | Method and apparatus for a capacitor shell including two mateable cupped components One embodiment of the present subject matter includes a capacitor, comprising a first cupped shell having a first opening, and a second cupped shell having a second opening, wherein the first opening and the second opening are adapted to sealably mate to form a clos... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072713 | Flat capacitor for an implantable medical device One aspect provides a capacitor feedthrough assembly having an electrically conductive member dimensioned to extend at least partially through a feedthrough hole of a case of the capacitor, the conductive member having a passage therethrough. ... | 07/04/2006 |
