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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2000
Zelijko Arbanas, Springfield, MA (US);
Richard J. Galante, Wakefield, MA (US);
Acumentrics Corporation, Westwood, MA (US);
Abstract
A capacitor includes a capacitor body containing capacitive conductive plates. The capacitor body has a first end and a second opposing end, such as the opposite ends of a cylindrical body. A conductive shell is disposed around the capacitor body. The conductive shell has a first end conductively connected to a first one of the conductive plates at the first end of the capacitor body. The conductive shell also has flexible conductive members disposed at a second end adjacent to the second end of the capacitor body. The flexible conductive members extend away from the capacitor body so as to be brought into conductive contact with a conductive surface against which the capacitor is to be mounted in use, such as an upper layer of a multi-layer bus. One capacitor mounting arrangement uses the above capacitor with a multi-layer DC bus structure. In another mounting arrangement, a resilient conductive gasket is disposed between the hard edge of a capacitor shell and a surface of a bus structure. In yet another mounting arrangement, flexible conductive members are formed in the conductive surface to resiliently engage the hard edge of a capacitor shell.