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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 1984
Filed:
Jul. 07, 1982
Gerald E Roberts, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Alfred G Staples, Evergreen, VA (US);
General Electric Company, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Abstract
A multi-resonator crystal body is physically supported by electrical lead wires extending from a support substrate having individual shaped electrical conductors thereon which are thus connected to each resonator on the crystal body such that the individual resonator electrodes can be selectively short-circuited, or open-circuited, or displayed to an external electrical network to facilitate final finishing of the resonator electrodes. Predetermined electrical circuits (e.g. a short-circuit effected by conductive cement or paint) are thereafter connected across some of the resonator electrodes via the shaped conductive areas on the support substrate before the entire assembly is encapsulated in a standard pin connector housing arrangement. Besides greatly facilitating the tuning of individual crystal resonators to desired frequencies during the finishing operation, this mounting arrangement is also believed to provide improved temperature characteristics and/or shock mounting of the crystal body.