Abstract: A common mode noise suppression circuit applicable to differential signal transmission performs common mode noise suppression with respect to differential signals transmitted by a transmission line. An inductance-capacitance resonant structure is formed based on electromagnetic coupling combining a ground structure to suppress common mode noise of differential mode signals at broadband meanwhile keeping low loss of the differential mode signals at broadband via differential transmission lines. By this, the common mode noise suppression circuit performs broadband suppression with related to the common mode noise within a frequency scope of several GHz without affecting the differential mode signals and improves manufacturing process miniaturization to decrease cost.

Abstract: An EBG (Electromagnetic Band Gap) structure according to an embodiment includes: an electrode that is made of a first conductor; a first insulating layer that is provided on the electrode; a patch unit that is provided in substantially parallel with the electrode on the first insulating layer, the patch unit including a first gap, the patch unit being made of a second conductor; a second insulating layer that is provided on the patch unit; a first via that is provided between the patch unit in the first insulating layer and the electrode and connected to the patch unit and the electrode; and a second via that is provided in the first and second insulating layers, the second via piercing the first gap and being connected to the electrode.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure illustrates a signal transmission cell having a first through third conductors, a capacitor and an inductor. The first and third conductors form a first transmission circuit, and the second and the third conductors form a second transmission circuit. Signals which are respectively conveyed on the first transmission circuit and the second transmission circuit have the same magnitude, but have the opposite phases to each other, so as to form a pair of differential transmission lines. A first end of the inductor is electrically connected to the third conductor, and a second end of the inductor is electrically connected to a ground voltage. A first end of the capacitor is electrically connected to the first end of the inductor, and a second end of the capacitor is electrically connected to the second end the inductor.

Abstract: A balance filter packaging chip having a balun mounted therein and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The balance filter packaging chip includes a device substrate; a balance filter mounted on the device substrate; a bonding layer stacked on a certain area of the device substrate; a packaging substrate having a cavity formed over the balance filter, and combined with the device substrate by the bonding layer; a balun located on a certain area over the packaging substrate; and an insulator layer for passivating the balun. Accordingly, the present invention can reduce an element size and simplify a manufacturing process.

Abstract: A power line filter including a socket, a housing, a plurality of filter elements and a ground inductor is disclosed. The socket includes at least one power pin and a ground pin. The housing is assembled with the socket, and includes a first receptacle and a second receptacle. The opening direction of the first receptacle is opposite to the opening direction of the second receptacle. The plurality of filter elements is disposed in the first receptacle. At least one of the filter elements is electrically connected to the power pin. The ground inductor is disposed in the second receptacle and electrically connected to the ground pin.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a capacitor having a desired capacitance value and a laminate including a plurality of laminated insulating material layers. Land electrodes are provided on a bottom surface of the laminate. Internal conductors face the land electrodes, respectively, across the insulating material layer within the laminate, have areas larger than those of the land electrodes, respectively, and contain the land electrodes, respectively, when seen in a planar view from a z-axis direction. A capacitor conductor is provided on the positive direction side of the capacitor conductors in the z-axis direction and faces the capacitor conductors.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a laminate including a plurality of insulator layers and a mounting surface. The mounting surface is defined by the outer edges of the plurality of insulator layers that are continuously joined together. An LC parallel resonator is embedded in the laminate, and includes a coil and a capacitor. An unbalanced signal is inputted to the LC parallel resonator. A coil is embedded in the laminate. The coil is electromagnetically coupled to the coil, and outputs balanced signals. Outer electrodes are provided on the mounting surface, and are grounded. A ground conductor layer of the capacitor is connected to an outer electrode by extending to the mounting surface.

Abstract: Analogue filter for filtering out a high-frequency switching noise in a pulse-width-modulated transmit signal, which is fed into a line by a line driver by means of a transformer, wherein at least one capacitor is connected in parallel to a secondary winding of the transformer and, together with a stray inductivity of the transformer, forms the analogue filter.

Abstract: A left-handed resonator according to the present invention includes: a series body in which an inductor component and a capacitor component are connected in series; and a parallel body in which an inductor component and a capacitor component are connected in parallel, wherein one end of the series body and one end of the parallel body are connected, the other end of the parallel body is grounded, and the other end of the series body is grounded. With this configuration, a ?1-order mode is excited using only one unit cell including the series body and the parallel body, so that dimensions of the left-handed resonator can be miniaturized.

Abstract: A receiver comprising: an antenna for receiving signals in a plurality of frequency bands; an integrated circuit including a plurality of amplifiers, wherein each of the plurality of amplifiers is configured to amplify signals in one of the plurality of frequency bands; and a plurality of selectable receive paths, each of the plurality of selectable receive paths connecting an output of the antenna to an input of one of the plurality of amplifiers and including a resonant circuit.

Abstract: A laminated body includes a plurality of insulator layers that are laminated to one another. First and second LC parallel resonators are loop-shaped or substantially loop-shaped and include via hole conductors extending in a z-axis direction and conductor layers provided on the insulator layers, and define a band pass filter. A first loop surface surrounded by the first LC parallel resonator is parallel or substantially parallel to a second loop surface surrounded by the second LC parallel resonator, and is disposed within the second loop surface in planar view in an x-axis direction.

Abstract: A balance filter includes an unbalanced terminal, a first balanced terminal, a second balanced terminal, a ground terminal, an unbalanced-side coupling coil, a balanced-side coupling coil electromagnetically coupled to the unbalanced-side coupling coil, and an unbalanced-side capacitor. The unbalanced-side capacitor, the unbalanced-side coupling coil, and a portion of the balanced-side coupling coil define an LC parallel resonant circuit. A first end of the balanced-side coupling coil is a terminal having the same polarity as that of a first end of the unbalanced-side coupling coil. A second end of the unbalanced-side coupling coil is connected to the first end of the balanced-side coupling coil.

Abstract: Provided are a stacked LC resonator and a band pass filter using the same. The stacked LC resonator includes a flat metal base layer; a plurality of spiral inductors disposed layer by layer, corresponding to the flat metal base layer; and a plurality of dielectric layers, formed between the spiral inductors, and between the flat metal base layer and the spiral inductor corresponding to the flat metal base layer. The band pass filter includes two resonators with symmetrical structures, wherein the spiral inductors of the two resonators are disposed corresponding to each other.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a passive device cell. The passive device cell has a substrate layer, a passive device, and an intermediary layer formed between the substrate layer and the passive device. The intermediary layer includes a plurality of LC resonators.

Abstract: There is provided an improved filter having resonators substantially disposed between conductive planes which form one or more loading capacitors that are in turn coupled to the resonators. Further, inclusion of a designed void or slot in one or more of the conductive planes allows for control of an introduced transmission zero to manipulate the performance of the filter to achieve desired results, such as improved skirt performance.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a capacitor having a desired capacitance value and a laminate including a plurality of laminated insulating material layers. Land electrodes are provided on a bottom surface of the laminate. Internal conductors face the land electrodes, respectively, across the insulating material layer within the laminate, have areas larger than those of the land electrodes, respectively, and contain the land electrodes, respectively, when seen in a planar view from a z-axis direction. A capacitor conductor is provided on the positive direction side of the capacitor conductors in the z-axis direction and faces the capacitor conductors.

Abstract: A filter element includes a laminate including insulator layers. A ring conductor pattern is provided on one of the insulator layers. Linear conductor patterns of a first inductor having a helical shape with an axial direction thereof being a laminating direction of the laminate and linear conductor patterns of a second inductor having a helical shape with an axial direction thereof being the laminating direction are provided on predetermined ones of the insulator layers. The ring conductor pattern is arranged such that inner regions of the linear conductor patterns of the first inductor and inner regions of the linear conductor patterns of the second inductor are included in an inner region of the ring conductor pattern.

Abstract: In an ultra-wideband (UWB) band-pass filter, an equivalent circuit of a band-pass filter for direct frequency conversion is configured to have a series LC resonator and a parallel LC resonator, the parallel LC resonator is implemented as a short stub and an open stub, and the series LC resonator is implemented by modeling an inductor and a capacitor as a distributed constant circuit. The series LC resonator is implemented to have a 3D structure for effective designing of the band-pass filter by a new method of implementing a series resonator circuit. In the UWB band-pass filter, a low-pass filter for improving band-stop characteristics is additionally connected.

Abstract: In a multilayer band pass filter, via-electrodes and strip electrodes define inductors of LC parallel resonators in four stages. A capacitor electrode and a ground electrode define a capacitor of a first-stage LC parallel resonator. A capacitor electrode and the ground electrode define a capacitor of a fourth-stage LC parallel resonator. Capacitor electrodes define a second-stage LC parallel resonator. Capacitor electrodes define a third-stage LC parallel resonator. Among four or more of the LC parallel resonators, the coupling between certain LC parallel resonators is easily defined, and the attenuation characteristic of a filter is definable with a high degree of freedom.

Abstract: A unit of a metamaterial includes an uppermost part electrode, a lowermost part electrode, a first internal electrode, a second internal electrode, a third internal electrode, a fourth internal electrode, and a transmission line. The transmission line connects a section of the uppermost part electrode which extends in the ?z direction to a section of the lowermost part electrode which extends in the +z direction. The length of the transmission line is set to substantially ½ of a resonant wavelength. The first internal electrode and the fourth internal electrode are respectively placed so as to be opposed to the uppermost part electrode and the lowermost part electrode. The first internal electrode and the fourth internal electrode are not electrically connected directly to each other.

Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) Radio Frequency (RF) inductor-capacitor (LC) band pass filters having through-glass-vias (TGVs). One such L-C filter circuit includes a glass substrate, a first portion of a first inductor formed on a first surface of the glass substrate, a second portion of the first inductor formed on a second surface of the glass substrate, and a first set of TGVs configured to connect the first and second portions of the first inductor. Additionally the L-C filter circuit can include a second inductor similar to the first inductor, and a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor formed between the first and second inductor, such that the first and second inductor are coupled through the MIM capacitor.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of common mode filters and a structure of the same are revealed. A common mode choke layer is disposed over a composite substrate and a second magnetic material layer is coated on an upper surface of the common mode choke layer. The common mode choke layer is produced by a wafer-level electrode leading out method and having leading-out terminals on sides thereof. External electrodes are formed on sides of the common mode choke layer by partial cutting, sputtering, lithography and electroplating at wafer level and corresponding to the leading-out terminals. Thereby common mode filters produced are supported more stably. Moreover, the volume is minimized due to inductive coils and external electrodes connected by wafer level packaging. Thus the common mode filters are mass-produced, the cost is down and the defect rate is reduced.

Abstract: A band pass filter includes an original circuit. An interaction of at least two of components of the original circuit produces at least a mutual capacitor or at least a mutual inductor, which constitutes a resonance circuit with the original circuit to produce at least a transmission zero for increasing the attenuation rate of the stop band.

Abstract: The average EMR emissions of an electronic device may be reduced by implementing an electrically-active modulated termination. For example, the impedance may be continuously varied at one or more termination locations between two metal substructures to cause a like variation in the amplitude of each component of the EMR. According to one approach, cyclically varying the electrical impedance with a period of less than the time interval over which the EMR is measured will result in a reduction in the average measured EMR.

Abstract: In an electronic component, a laminated body includes a plurality of insulator layers laminated on each other. First, second and third LC parallel resonators are loop-shaped LC parallel resonators that include via hole conductors extending in a z-axis direction and conductor layers provided on the insulator layers, and define a band pass filter. Loop planes of the first and third LC parallel resonators and a loop plane of the second LC parallel resonator are parallel to the z-axis direction and not parallel to each other.

Abstract: A device according to various aspects of the present invention generally includes a surface mount device having a top side, a bottom side, a plurality of sidewalls, and a circuit comprising one or more layers. The device includes a first conductive surface covering a portion of one of the sidewalls for providing an input to the circuit, a second conductive surface covering a portion of one of the sidewalls for providing an output from the circuit, and a third conductive surface covering a portion of one of the sidewalls for providing an electrical ground to the circuit. When the surface mount device is mounted to a provided mounting surface, at least one layer of the circuit is orthogonal to the provided mounting surface.

Abstract: A capacitor is provided with a first electrode to which a direct current voltage is applied; a dielectric layer, which is arranged on the first electrode and is composed of an oxide dielectric material; and a second electrode, which is arranged on the dielectric layer, has a first portion where at least a part in contact with the dielectric layer is composed of a conductive oxide material having oxidizing property, and has a direct current voltage lower than that applied to the first electrode applied.

Abstract: A laminated balance filter includes a first capacitor electrode and a ground electrode that are disposed opposite to each other to define a capacitor at an unbalanced side. An unbalanced side coil is provided in a dielectric layer. Three balanced side coils are provided in three dielectric layers. The three balanced side coils preferably have a substantially helical shape and are wound in the same winding directions. The coil located in the center of the three balanced side coils is disposed near the unbalanced side coil so as to be electromagnetic-field-coupled to the unbalanced side coil.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a common mode filter and a method for manufacturing the same. The common mode filter includes a first insulator sheet; a first circuit layer having a first-layered first coil and a first-layered second coil alternately and separately arranged; a second insulator sheet laminated on the first circuit layer; and a second circuit layer having a second-layered first coil and a second-layered second coil alternately and separately arranged, the second-layered first coil being connected to the first-layered first coil and the second-layered second coil being connected to the first-layered second coil through the plurality of penetration holes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a common mode filter and a method of manufacturing the same. In order to implement a common mode filter with low shrinkage, high substrate sintered density, and high strength, the present invention provides a common mode filter including: a lower substrate; an insulating layer having a conductor pattern inside and provided on the lower substrate; an upper substrate provided on the insulating layer; and a ferrite core made of ferrite and provided in the center of the insulating layer, the lower substrate, and the upper substrate by penetrating the insulating layer, the lower substrate, and the upper substrate, and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: An electronic component and method for manufacturing thereof allow efficient separation of a mother substrate into electronic components defining individual devices. The method includes forming a conductive layer including electrodes and pads for a plurality of devices, an insulating layer that partially covers the conductive layer and that includes pad openings surrounding the pads and exposing at least central portions of the pads, and power supply lines that connect the pads of neighboring ones of the devices in the mother substrate. Power is applied to the power supply lines, and electrolytic plating is performed. Thus, plating layers are formed in the pad openings. Subsequently, external terminals are formed on the plating layers. By cutting the mother substrate, the mother substrate is separated into individual components defining electronic devices. Divided surfaces of the plurality of power supply lines are formed on each of the components so as to be separated from one another.

Abstract: A filter for an automotive electrical system includes a substrate having first and second conductive members. First and second input terminals are mounted to the substrate. The first input terminal is electrically connected to the first conductive member, and the second input terminal is electrically connected to the second conductive member. A plurality of capacitors are mounted to the substrate. Each of the capacitors is electrically connected to at least one of the first and second conductive members. First and second power connectors are mounted to the substrate. The first power connector is electrically connected to the first conductive member, and the second power connector is electrically connected to the second conductive member. A common mode choke is coupled to the substrate and arranged such that the common mode choke extends around at least a portion of the substrate and the first and second conductive members.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a filter for removing noise, which includes: a lower magnetic body; an insulating layer provided on the lower magnetic body and including at least one conductor pattern; and an upper magnetic body including a primary ferrite composite provided on the insulating layer and a secondary ferrite composite provided on the primary ferrite composite to cover a pore formed on a surface of the primary ferrite composite, and a method of manufacturing the same. According to the present invention, it is possible to implement a filter for removing noise with high performance and characteristics by increasing magnetic permeability and improving impedance characteristics through simple structure and process.

Abstract: A monolithic ceramic electronic component includes at least two types of stacked ceramic layers having different dielectric constants and also includes internal electrodes partially disposed along boundaries between the ceramic layers having different dielectric constants. The internal electrodes include an additive component common to a component included in at least one of the ceramic layers adjacent to each other with the internal electrodes placed therebetween.

Abstract: A diplexer that can demultiplex and multiplex two signals having wide frequency bands, and a wireless communication module and a wireless communication apparatus using the same, are provided. A diplexer has a multilayer body including a first interlayer, a second interlayer and a third interlayer. On the first interlayer, first resonant electrodes are disposed in an interdigital form. On the second interlayer, a plurality of second resonant electrodes are disposed in an interdigital form. On the third interlayer, there are disposed an input coupling electrode that faces the input-stage first resonant electrode and the input-stage second resonant electrode in an interdigital form, a first output coupling electrode that faces the output-stage first resonant electrode in an interdigital form, and a second output coupling electrode that faces the output-stage second resonant electrode.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a filter for removing noise, which includes: a lower magnetic body; an insulating layer disposed on the lower magnetic body and including at least one conductor pattern; input and output stud terminals electrically connected to the conductor pattern for electrical input and output of the conductor pattern; and an upper magnetic body consisting of an inner upper magnetic body including ferrite powder with a size corresponding to the interval between the input and output stud terminals and an outer upper magnetic body including ferrite powder with a size corresponding to the interval between the input and output stud terminals and an outer surface of the lower magnetic body. According to the present invention, it is possible to implement a coil part with high performance and characteristics by increasing permeability and improving impedance characteristics through simple structure and process.

Abstract: A laminated balanced filter includes one unbalanced terminal, two balanced terminals, a ground terminal, an unbalanced-side LC parallel resonator, an intermediate LC parallel resonator, and a balanced-side inductor. The inductor electrode pattern of the balanced-side inductor includes a first portion extending from one end portion to a connection portion and a second portion extending from the other end portion to the connection portion. A direction of a current flowing through the first portion is opposite to a direction of a current flowing through the inductor electrode pattern of the intermediate LC parallel resonator. A direction of a current flowing through the second portion of the balanced-side inductor is the same as a direction of a current flowing through the inductor electrode pattern of the intermediate LC parallel resonator. The laminated balanced filter further includes a coupling capacitor connected between a balanced terminal connected to the first portion and an unbalanced terminal.

Abstract: A capacitor of a certain LC resonator, among multiple LC resonators in a band-pass filter, is arranged at a side of one main surface in a stacking direction of a multilayer body of the band-pass filter and the capacitors of the remaining LC resonators are arranged at a side of the other main surface in the stacking direction of the multilayer body. One of a pair of capacitor electrodes of the capacitor of the certain LC resonator is grounded. The one capacitor electrode that is grounded covers at least the plurality of LC resonators, as viewed from the stacking direction of the multilayer body.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a filter for removing noise, which includes: a lower magnetic substrate; a coil layer disposed on the lower magnetic substrate and including at least one conductor pattern and an insulating layer covering the conductor pattern; an upper magnetic substrate disposed on the coil layer; and a magnetic permeability enhancing layer disposed on the magnetic substrate with lower magnetic permeability of the lower magnetic substrate and the upper magnetic substrate. According to the present invention, it is possible to implement a filter for removing noise with high performance, characteristics, and reliability by increasing magnetic permeability to improve impedance characteristics and improving an effect of shielding electromagnetic waves such as jamming.

Abstract: A multilayer common mode filter is provided, which can inhibit cracks from occurring, while securing the magnetic coupling between coil conductors. Since magnetic layers are disposed in an inner region of spiral first and second coil conductors, the multilayer common mode filter can secure the magnetic coupling between the first and second coil conductors. In a columnar part including these magnetic layers, magnetic and nonmagnetic bodies are arranged alternately in the laminating direction, whereby the total volume of the magnetic layers in the inner region can be kept smaller than in the case where a magnetic layer penetrates through the inner region of the coil conductors. As a result, at the time of firing a matrix, the difference in the amount of shrinkage between the nonmagnetic and magnetic layers can be suppressed, so as to inhibit cracks from occurring at their interfaces.

Abstract: An electronic component and a passive component define correlation between a distance between a pair of identical patterns and a distance between pairs of identical patterns adjacent to each other in a laminating direction, and a value of an inductor is further improved, attenuation in adjacent frequency bands is ensured and low power consumption is achieved with low loss. A first inductor is composed of a pair of inductor forming electrodes, a pair of inductor forming electrodes and a pair of inductor forming electrodes. A relationship between a distance (Da) between the two electrodes configuring each pair of inductor forming electrodes and a distance (Db) between the pairs of inductor forming electrodes adjacent to each other in the laminating direction satisfy the following inequalities; 0<Da?Db and 0<Da?20 ?m.

Abstract: An RC filter that is tunable in terms of its cut-off frequency comprising a drop placed on one or more dielectric layers, a conducting layer underneath the dielectric layer, a nonconducting layer underneath the conducting layer, and an external resistor attached to the drop via an electrode, wherein the cut-off frequency of the filter is tuned by changing the shape or composition of the drop and methods of using the filter as a detector.

Abstract: High frequency circuits for wireless, digital and microwave applications place requirements upon the impedance of their signal lines, interconnects and packaging. In designing and implementing the substrates for these signal lines it is beneficial to employ meta-materials to provide the desired impedance. Such meta-materials providing a means to provide modified permittivity and permeability for the substrate, these being different than the real permittivity and permeability of the insulator used. In an example embodiment, a substrate is configured as a meta-material. It is desirable therefore to have a means to model these meta-material aspects of the signal lines rapidly and accurately allowing the circuits, interconnects and packages to be designed and implemented without expensive and exhaustive iterative experimental characterization.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a resonator device having a stacked arrangement of laminated layers including a plurality of dielectric layers, and at least one resonator comprising a short-circuit electrode, a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode. Each electrode comprises at least a portion of a layer of electrically conductive material provided on a surface of one of the dielectric layers. The second capacitor electrode is disposed spaced, in the stacking direction, from the short-circuit electrode and the first capacitor electrode. The short-circuit electrode and the second capacitor electrode are electrically interconnected by a first electrical connection comprising at least one via hole penetrating one or more of the dielectric layers.

Abstract: A high power band pass RF filtering device having a housing defining an interior chamber and having one or more walls for substantially dividing the interior chamber into one or more sections. A circuit with filtering components for achieving strong attenuation of out-of-band signals is disposed within the interior chamber, certain components of the circuit being separated from one another by the walls. Ports on the housing electrically connect to a respective input node and output node of the circuit and also connect to surge protection elements for dissipating surge conditions present at the ports. A non-surge signal can travel between the ports and through the filtering components. An oil or other fluid is disposed and completely contained within the housing and contacts the circuit components for cooling the circuit components.

Abstract: A filter device is provided including a substrate (302) and a plurality of horizontal gap closing actuator (GCA) devices (550) disposed on a first surface of the substrate. The plurality of GCA devices includes and one or more GCA varactors (700). Each one of the plurality of horizontal GCA devices includes at least one drive comb structure (602a, 602b, 702a, 702b), at least one input/output (I/O) comb structure (616a, 676b, 716a, 716b), and at least one truss comb structure (604, 704) interdigitating the drive comb and the I/O comb structures. The truss comb structure is configured to move along a motion axis between at least a first interdigitated position and a second interdigitated position based on a bias voltage applied between the truss comb structure and the drive comb structure.

Abstract: A high power band pass RF filtering device having a housing for containing a printed circuit board with filtering components for achieving strong attenuation of out-of-band signals. An input port and an output port on the housing electrically connect to a respective input node and output node on the printed circuit board. Surge protection elements are connected at the input port and at the output port for dissipating surge conditions present at the input port or the output port to the housing before the surge travels through the printed circuit board. A non-surge signal present on the input port can travel through the filtering components on the printed circuit board towards the output port. An oil or other fluid is disposed and completely contained within the housing and contacts the printed circuit board for cooling the printed circuit board or the filtering components.

Abstract: A multilayer electronic component and a multilayer electronic component manufacturing method are capable of easily controlling the degree of magnetic field coupling between inductors. Via-hole conductors are arranged so that they extend in a lamination direction in a laminate, and function as a first inductor. Via-hole conductors are arranged so that they extend in the lamination direction in the laminate, and function as a second inductor. A first capacitor and the first inductor define a first resonance circuit. A second capacitor and the second inductor define a second resonance circuit. The via-hole conductors are arranged in a first insulating layer so that they are spaced apart from each other by a first distance. The via-hole conductors are arranged in a second insulating layer so that they are spaced apart from each other by a second distance that is different from the first distance.

Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor is formed by stacking flat solid electrolytic capacitor elements. Negative electrode sections of a part of the solid electrolytic capacitor elements and negative electrode sections of the remaining part of the solid electrolytic capacitor elements are led out so as to be faced to each other, and are connected to the first and second negative electrode lead frames which are independent to each other, respectively. Two of negative electrode sections are insulated from each other in the solid electrolytic capacitor.

Abstract: A filter for filtering of electromagnetic interference, with a base element, with at least one electrical filter component and with at least two input terminal contacts and at least two output terminal contacts for connection of an electric line, the input terminal contacts being connected to the output terminal contacts by conductor paths located on the base element. In the filter, a simple configuration and flexible use are ensured by each conductor path having at least two longitudinal contacts, via which a filter component can be electrically connected to a conductor path such that the electrical connection of the conductor path leads between the two longitudinal contacts by the filter component, and each conductor path has at least one cross contact so that two conductor paths are electrically connected to one another by way of a filter component when the filter component is electrically connected to the cross contacts.