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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7397118 | Ceramic chip-type electronic component and method of making the same A chip-type electronic component includes a ceramic chip body, an external electrode formed on the chip body, a conductive elastic resin film made of a mixture of metal powder and elastic resin and formed to cover the external electrode, and a metal plating film. Th... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7365957 | Ceramic capacitor mounting structure and ceramic capacitor A ceramic capacitor comprises a ceramic sintered body, and first and second terminal electrodes formed on outer surfaces of the ceramic sintered body. The first terminal electrode is electrically connected to a land formed on a substrate through a first metal termin... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7348661 | Array capacitor apparatuses to filter input/output signal An apparatus for filtering noise from an input/output (I/O) signal is disclosed. In various embodiments, the apparatus may be an array capacitor, and may be disposed between an electronic package and an underlying substrate such as a printed circuit board. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7331799 | Stacked electronic component and fastening device thereof A stacked electronic component includes multiple energy storage units and a fastening device. Each energy storage unit has a first electrode and a second electrode. The fastening device includes first and second fastening member disposed on opposite sides of the ene... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7295421 | Multilayer ceramic electronic components and method for manufacturing the same A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a skittered laminated body including internal electrodes that have a strength that is greater than that of ceramic layers provided therein. End portions of the internal electrodes protrude from end surfaces of the l... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7212396 | Method for fabricating a thin film resistor A method of fabricating high resistivity thin film resistors. An isolation region is formed on a substrate to isolate the active regions. A polysilicon layer is formed above the substrate. A diffusion barrier layer is formed above the polysilicon layer. Lightly dope... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212394 | Apparatus and method for banding the interior substrate of a tubular device and the products formed therefrom Apparatus and method for depositing a banding material on the interior substrate of a tubular device, and the products formed therefrom. The tubular device is, generally, of relatively small diameter and comprises at least one band deposited from a first composition... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7177137 | Plated terminations A multilayer electronic component includes a plurality of dielectric layers interleaved with a plurality of internal electrode elements and a plurality of internal anchor tabs. Portions of the internal electrode elements and anchor tabs are exposed along the periphe... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7050289 | Multilayer capacitor A multilayer capacitor includes: a dielectric element; a pair of first internal conductors with same polarity disposed in the dielectric element to be adjacent to each other while being separated from each other by the dielectric layer; first leadout portions led ou... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046498 | C-shaped combination capacitor assembly A C-shaped combination capacitor assembly has a C-shaped shell, multiple capacitors, two conducting wires, two lead wires and encapsulant. The capacitors are mounted in the C-shaped shell. The conducting wires connect the capacitors in parallel. The two lead wires c... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7019396 | Electronic chip component and method for manufacturing electronic chip component An electronic chip component includes a component body and a plurality of terminal electrodes disposed on outer surfaces of the component body. At least one of the terminal electrodes includes a cured resin film including dispersed conductive particles, an outer con... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016176 | Low ESL and ESR chip capacitor A chip capacitor that includes a first and second terminal and a plurality of first and second conductive plates. The first terminal has a first interfacial attachment area that is adapted to be attached to a host substrate. The second terminal has a second interfac... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6958899 | Electronic device Terminal electrodes 11 and 12 of a main body 2 of a multilayer capacitor 1 are connected to electrode connection parts 21A and 22A of a pair of external terminals 21 and 22 formed by a metal material. At the bottom part of the electrode connection part 21A, an exter... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6924970 | Capacitor method and apparatus A method and apparatus is provided that pertains to a low inductance capacitor. The capacitor has a first surface electrically interconnected to a plurality of conductive electrodes and one or more second surfaces electrically interconnected to a plurality of electr... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6917510 | Extended terminal ceramic SMD Larger ceramic chip capacitors are reliably mounted with minimal risk of flexure induced cracking on circuit boards by adding terminal extensions to one face of the capacitor and soldering across all or part of the extensions. A ball grid array is preferred. ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6765781 | Multilayer capacitor A multilayer capacitor having a dielectric body formed by stacking dielectric sheets. At the outside of the dielectric body are arranged a pair of a first terminal electrode and a second terminal electrode insulated from each other and is arranged at least one first... | 07/20/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6657848 | Multilayer electronic device and method for producing same A multilayer electronic device comprised of a capacitor body in which a plurality of internal electrodes are separately arranged in a plurality of blocks via ceramic layers. At least one lead is led out from each internal electrode. The terminal electrode... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6498713 | Low-inductance capacitor and a method for minimizing inductance in a snubber circuit A low-voltage, low-inductance device for storing electrical charge in a snubber circuit and a method of minimizing inductance in the snubber circuit using the device, wherein the device includes a plurality of extended electrodes, in parallel or series, t... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6493207 | Multilayer ceramic capacitor The invention provides a multilayer ceramic capacitor capable of preventing the occurrence of cracks by inhibiting the multilayer capacitor from expanding in a stacking direction and a width direction. The multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6487064 | Bypass circuit with buried isolated electrode A bypass circuit includes a planar electrode layer which is mounted between a pair of dielectric layers. The electrode layer generally is centered inwardly with respect to the dielectric layers leaving an outward margin of dielectric material. One of the ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6470545 | Method of making an embedded green multi-layer ceramic chip capacitor in a low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrate Embedded green multi-layer ceramic capacitors in low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrates are provided. A first set of electrodes is printed on a ceramic tape. A first dielectric layer is placed over the first set of electrodes and the ceramic t... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6452781 | Multilayer electronic device The multilayer electronic device comprises a dielectric body formed by stacking dielectric layers. Flat first internal electrodes and flat second internal electrodes insulated via dielectric layers and arranged facing to the first internal electrodes are ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6441459 | Multilayer electronic device and method for producing same A multilayer electronic device comprised of a capacitor body in which a plurality of internal electrodes are separately arranged in a plurality of blocks via ceramic layers. At least one lead is led out from each internal electrode. The terminal electrode... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6433995 | Apparatus for forming electrode of chip-like electronic part An electrode is formed on a chip-like electronic part of the type having a central axis, a polygonal cross section as viewed in a plane which is perpendicular to the central axis, a plurality of side surfaces extending in respective planes which are gener... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6362947 | Multilayer ceramic capacitor A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a substantially cuboid-shaped laminated body formed with alternately stacked conductive layers and ceramic dielectric layers, and a pair of external electrodes respectively disposed at opposite end portions of the l... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6337790 | Thin-film capacitor The present invention provides a new type of thin-film capacitor which is insensitive to breakdown voltages during its mounting on a printed circuit board. Said capacitor has an insulating substrate having at least two internal electrode layers which are ... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6310758 | Lead terminal and electronic component including lead terminal An electronic component device includes first and second lead terminals arranged to hold an electronic component element, e.g. a piezoelectric resonator, and are electrically connected to the piezoelectric resonator. In the first and second lead terminals... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6270613 | Process of forming electrode of chip electronic part An electrode is formed on a chip-like electronic part of the type having a central axis, a polygonal cross section as viewed in a plane which is perpendicular to the central axis, a plurality of side surfaces extending in respective planes which are gener... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6252177 | Low inductance capacitor mounting structure for capacitors of a printed circuit board A low inductance capacitor mounting structure for capacitors of multilayer printed circuit boards is provided. The capacitor mounting structure includes pads onto which a capacitor is mounted and vias or slots for connecting the solder pads to an upper co... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6219220 | Ceramic electronic component having terminal electrode that includes a second porous layer The present invention provides an electronic component provided with the terminal electrode having a three layer structure comprising a first layer, a second layer and a third layer successively formed on each end face of the main electronic component, th... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6208501 | Standing axial-leaded surface mount capacitor A standing axial-leaded surface mount capacitor is formed of a dielectric chip capacitor sandwiched between first and second blocks. The end blocks have profiles to match the profile of said chip capacitor. The end blocks are conductive at least on their ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6201682 | Thin-film component A thin-film component, for example a capacitor, a resistor and a coil, as well as combinations thereof. A substrate of an electrically insulating material (preferably glass), is provided with two U-shaped side contacts and with an electrical structure whi... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6191932 | Monolithic capacitor A monolithic capacitor which can reduce equivalent series inductance (ESL) thereof includes a first extension of a first internal electrode which is extended onto two sides of a capacitor itself. A second extension of the first internal electrode is exten... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6185088 | Cardiac rhythm management system having multi-capacitor module A multi-capacitor module carries vertically-oriented surface mount tantalum capacitors. The module provides at least one conductor for coupling to the, substrate capacitor terminals that are distal thereto. The module occupies less space, when mounted to ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6134097 | Variable capacitor A variable capacitor has a stator, a rotor, and a cover. The stator includes a stator electrode and a stator terminal connected electrically to the stator electrode. The rotor includes a rotor electrode facing the stator electrode with a dielectric dispos... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6125027 | Component comprising a capacitor A component includes a substrate layer (1) of glass or Al2 O3, an anti-reaction layer (2) or a levelling layer (2), two electrode layers (3, 5) and a dielectric layer (4) as well as such a capacitor. Manufacture a component which pro... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6043972 | Film capacitor convertible to surface mounting device film capacitor Film capacitor of a film/foil or metallized embodiment with a wound or layered structure with a cup sheath or sheath made of thermosetting plastic material with axial or radial connecting wires, in which the sheathed film capacitor, which is a finished co... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6038121 | Monolithic capacitor The present invention is to provide a monolithic capacitor for reducing an equivalent series inductance of a monolithic capacitor. The external terminal electrodes are respectively provided on four corners of the capacitor body. External terminal electrod... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6011683 | Thin multilayer ceramic capacitors An improved structure for a thin multilayer capacitor where the electrodes are formed only on a portion of the ends of the package to reduce the footprint on the circuit board and the amount of noble metal used for each unit. The improved structure result... | 01/04/2000 |
