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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 12, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dean A. Webber, Pembroke, NH (US);
John E. Van Voorhis, Shapleigh, ME (US);
Assignee:
Vishay Sprague, Inc., Stanford, ME (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01G 9/145 ; H01G 9/00 ; H01G 9/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01G 9/145 ; H01G 9/00 ; H01G 9/04 ;
Abstract
A pellet for use in a capacitor includes a rectangular body formed from compressed and sintered particles of conductive material. The body has an exterior surface which is textured to form a plurality of indentations therein. The profile of the textured surface in cross section is selected from the group including essentially of a curved profile, a sine shape profile, a rectangular shaped profile, a U-shaped profile, and a V-shaped profile.