US Patent Issued to Rubycon on March 24 for "Capacitor and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,720, issued on March 24, was assigned to Rubycon Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Capacitor and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Tomonao Kako (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor (1) includes a main body (10) in which a dielectric layer (13) and an electrode layer (11) are laminated, and an external electrode (20) connected to at least a part of the main body. The electrode layer (11) includes a heavy edge portion (16) with a connecting part (18), which connects to the external electrode and is thicker than an internal electrode part (15). The capacitor (1) further includes an edge support layer (12) that i...