ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,343, issued on March 31, was assigned to NICHICON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Composite capacitor" was invented by Takashi Mori (Kyoto, Japan) and Takashi Nose (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a composite capacitor that withstands higher voltages and handles the high-frequency operations of switching elements. In a main capacitor 10 formed of a metallized film, first and second plate conductor terminals 12c, 13c as cathode and anode are continuously connected to first and second plate conductor bodies 12a, 13a. In a parallel plate sub-capacitor 20, a sheet dielectric 21 is inserted into a gap between opposed first ...