US 11,935,697 B2
Capacitor
Koichi Nishimura, Osaka (JP); Yukihiro Shimasaki, Hyogo (JP); Hiroki Takeoka, Nara (JP); Takafumi Okudo, Osaka (JP); Ritsuo Masaoka, Kyoto (JP); and Hiromasa Ozaki, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Jun. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/352,821.
Application 17/352,821 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/036586, filed on Sep. 18, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-243205 (JP), filed on Dec. 26, 2018; application No. 2018-243206 (JP), filed on Dec. 26, 2018; and application No. 2018-243207 (JP), filed on Dec. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0313112 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. H01G 2/10 (2006.01); H01G 2/14 (2006.01); H01G 4/248 (2006.01); H01G 4/32 (2006.01)
CPC H01G 2/103 (2013.01) [H01G 2/14 (2013.01); H01G 4/248 (2013.01); H01G 4/32 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A capacitor, comprising:
a capacitor element;
a pair of external electrodes provided at opposite ends of the capacitor element;
a pair of metal caps, the pair of metal caps each covering a corresponding one of the pair of external electrodes; and
a capacitor element protecting member being electrically insulating and covering at least part of the capacitor element,
the capacitor element protecting member covering interfaces between the capacitor element and each of the pair of external electrodes,
the pair of metal caps covering the interfaces via the capacitor element protecting member.