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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7289311 | Power ring pulse capacitor A wound, metallized dielectric film capacitor for pulsed power applications is disclosed. The capacitor forms a wound metallized polymer film in the shape of a closed path ring. The electrical load is placed within the inner opening of the capacitor. The capacitor h... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7152291 | Method for forming plated terminations Improved method steps for terminating multilayer electronic components are disclosed. Monolithic components are formed with plated terminations whereby the need for typical thick-film termination stripes is eliminated or greatly simplified. Such termination technolo... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6972943 | Electronic component having lead frame An electronic component has a lead frame attached to an element with a conductive adhesive. The lead frame has one of a hole, cavity, cutout and groove filled with the adhesive. The lead frame may be provided with a plurality of grooves intersecting one another and ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6944009 | Ultra broadband capacitor assembly Systems and apparatuses for providing a broadband capacitor assembly. One broadband capacitor assembly includes a first capacitor operable to provide a first end of an operational band of frequencies within an operational band of a broadband capacitor assembly. The ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6678927 | Miniature surface mount capacitor and method of making same Surface mount capacitors are made having ultra-small dimensions of length, width and height. For example, capacitors of 0402 size and smaller may be produced having lower height than has been achieved in the prior art. The components have L-shaped termina... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6552893 | Capacitor A capacitor comprising a capacitor element, a case for housing the capacitor element, and a fixing section having projections for attaching the case to electrical equipment. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the case and the fixing sect... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6518632 | Ceramic electronic part A ceramic electronic part wherein widths of portions of external terminals that are joined to end surfaces of a ceramic electronic part element are made equal to or less than widths of internal electrodes disposed in the ceramic electronic part element. T... | 02/11/2003 |
| 5808853 | Capacitor with multi-level interconnection technology This invention is directed to a capacitor having a multilevel interconnection technology. At least one solder ball is reflowed and secured onto the capacitor. The solder ball is in electrical communication with the capacitor through a contact. On this ref... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5371650 | Hermetically sealed capacitor and method for making the same A hermetically sealed capacitor including a metal tape (e.g, copper) having an adhesive on one side and being folded and wrapped around the capacitor winding in the manner that a Christmas package is wrapped. After wrapping, the tape initially extends bey... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5251094 | Terminal electrodes for multilayer ceramic capacitor and method of manufacture thereof There is provided terminal electrodes and methods of manufacture thereof which overcome the drawbacks of the prior art multilayer ceramic capacitor, namely, thickened terminal electrodes and size variation (low size precision) thereof. A ceramic main body... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5053916 | Surface-mounted multilayer capacitor and printed circuit board having such a multilayer capacitor A surface-mounted multilayer capacitor and a printed circuit board having such a capacitor. The capacitor comprises a multilayer of electrodes and dielectric layers which are alternately stacked. End contacts of the electrodes consist of a thin sprayed-me... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4764844 | Electronic component with terminal caps An electronic component comprising a generally cylindrical body having a pair of terminal caps mounted on respective opposite ends of the body. Each of the terminal caps has layers of solder material formed on inner and outer surface areas thereof. The th... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4695921 | Film chip capacitor A chip capacitor comprising a plurality of parallel plastic organic film ers which film layers may further include organically bonded ceramic particles, interleaved with multiple thin parallel non-precious metal electrode film layers of aluminum, copper ... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4685027 | High current capacitor and method for manufacturing the same The present invention concerns a high current capacitor and a method for producing the same, said capacitor being of the type obtained by winding at least two metallized dielectric films, while electrical connections are provided by schooped areas on the ... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4685026 | Capacitor forming and manufacturing method An improved metallized wrapped capacitor pressed into a predetermined cross-sectional form substantially without edge radii, together with its method of manufacture are disclosed. The capacitor is formed from elongated mated dielectric webs, each having a... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4618911 | End termination for chip capacitor A monolithic chip capacitor in which the electrode layers are bonded together at an edge. The capacitor includes an electrically conductive substrate that is electrically connected to the bonded edges of the electrode layers. The capacitor body has end te... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4614995 | Hermetically sealed ceramic cased surface mount capacitor A planar terminated capacitor and a method for fabricating planar terminated capacitors is disclosed wherein a capacitor element is inserted in a nonconductive ceramic case. The case extends outwardly beyond the ends of the capacitor element forming cavit... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4538205 | Means and method for fabricating planar terminated capacitors A planar terminated capacitor and a method for fabricating planar terminated capacitors is disclosed wherein a capacitor element is inserted in a nonconductive tubular sleeve. The sleeve extends outwardly beyond the ends of the capacitor element forming c... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4502096 | Low-inductance capacitor A low-inductance capacitor, and related method for manufacturing it, of a type that includes two foil strips and two dielectric strips interleaved together and wound into a spiral capacitor roll. The two foil strips are offset laterally with respect to ea... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4446502 | Metallurgical contacts in hermetically sealed glass encapsulated ceramic capacitors An improved hermetically sealed glass encapsulated monolithic ceramic capacitor in which a metallurgical bond between the capacitor termination and the end cap of its lead is effected by means of brazing.... | 05/01/1984 |
