Abstract:
Wound film capacitor and method of making wherein at least two layers of shrinkable thermoplastic dielectric are sandwiched between two layers of metallized or, preferably, foil, electrodes. A pair of lead wires are then positioned against the outer surfaces of the foils and rotated together in the manner of mandrels to wind the film and foil layers into a capacitor body. Flat, or otherwise deformed portions formed on a short portion of one end of each lead wire which is outside of the capacitor during winding are then drawn into the center of the capacitor by pulling on the other end of the wires. The capacitor body is then heated to shrink the dielectric and thereby cause the leads to be held in extremely firm engagement with the foil layers. Since the foils encircle at least 270* of the periphery of the lead wires, a very firm, low resistance, pressure bond is made which renders the capacitor able to withstand substantial amounts of heat applied during a soldering operation. The elimination of mandrel holes allows the capacitor to be extremely compact and usable for many applications without the addition of additional thicknesses of sealing materials.
Abstract:
Multiplayer chip capacitors and method of making whereby twoside metalized plastic strip material is wound in annular hoop form and opposite sides of hoop are pressed together to bond layers together. The metalized plastic strip is pre-coated with a very thin coating of a heat sealable material such as plastic which functions as a capacitor dielectric and also as a bonding agent. The marginal edges of the pressed hoop are sprayed with molten aluminum at high velocity which makes contact with the edges of the thin metalized layers and penetrates the plastic coating to also provide contact with marginal portions of the metalized electrode coatings. The flattened hoop is then sliced into a plurality of capacitors which can be made to have any value desired over a large range by cutting them to a particular width. Values can be controlled very precisely by first cutting and testing one capacitor and then altering the width of later cut capacitors relative to the tested one. The uncut capacitors can be stored and cut to value as needed.
Abstract:
Multilayer capacitor is formed so that certain of its alternating layers of electrodes have marginal portions which terminate at an edge of the capacitor while others are located entirely internally of the capacitor so that their marginal portions are positioned short of the edge. By removing some of the dielectric material which separates the concealed electrode margins from the edge, the concealed electrodes can be electrically connected to the electrodes terminating at the edge to increase the capacitance of the capacitor. The process permits a production batch of capacitors which normally includes a great percentage of capacitors differing from a desired value by more than acceptable tolerance levels to be simply and quickly adjusted so that all, or substantially all, of the capacitors in the batch will fall within the accepted tolerance level. The adjusting is done without altering the dimensions of the capacitors or disturbing the electric field region in any manner. In one embodiment of the invention, a plurality of different sized electrode areas are formed in one plane. By removing material from the several edges of the capacitors to expose various combinations of these areas, the value of the capacitor can be varied over a large range. For example, by providing three different size electrode areas, it is possible to achieve a capacitor having capacitance values in whole number multiples of each other in a range of from one to nine capacitance units. In another modification, a conductive terminal coating connecting all electrode areas of like polarity can be removed from certain edges of the capacitor to provide selective downward adjustment of the capacitor value.