Abstract: A wound capacitor and method therefor having metallized elongated dielectric webs. An additional dielectric web is wound about the capacitor roll and forms a protective wrap. The additional web has a pair of metallic band terminals formed on the side of the additional web remote from the capacitor roll with each band disposed adjacent a respective end of the capacitor roll. Terminals are bonded to each end of the capacitor with each terminal contacting a respective metallized electrode and an adjacent metallic bond. An additional dielectric web having a plurality of metallic bands is also wound about a capacitor roll of electrodes formed in staggered and overlapping arrangement relative to each other. The capacitor roll is then chopped to form substantially small sized capacitors each having a protective wrap with a pair of metallic band terminals.

Abstract: A metallized wound capacitor having a pair of elongated dielectric webs with a first electrode metallized on a first face of each dielectric web. The first electrodes extend from opposing longitudinal edges leaving respective bare margins of the dielectric webs along opposing edges. Each of the dielectric webs also has a second electrode metallized on a second face and opposing the respective bare margin. Each second electrode has a width which is substantially no greater than the respective bare margin. In this manner, each second electrode does not extend in an opposing relationship with its respective first electrode.

Abstract: Finished electrical components having wire lead terminals are converted to elements having planar terminations by placing end caps or shoes over the ends of an existing component. A finished film capacitor having radial wire leads that is presently on a distributor's shelf, ready for shipment, may be converted to a capacitor for solder reforming by the use of these conversion caps. The capacitor may then be secured in a planar fashion to a substrate.

Abstract: A method for fabricating substantially small sized capacitors in which capacitors are formed by winding a mated pair of dielectric webs having regularly spaced electrodes deposited thereon, into a tight coil. The electrodes are disposed so that in the finished product there is an electrode lying along one edge and an open space lying along the other edge in each layer of the wound coil, such arrangement alternating from lay to layer from the outermost to the innermost. The capacitor is finished by bonding a lead to the electrodes in each edge and potting the wound capacitor to withstand normal handling stresses.

Abstract: A method for fabricating substantially small sized capacitors in which capacitors are formed by winding a mated pair of dielectric webs having regularly spaced electrodes deposited thereon, into a tight coil. The electrodes are disposed so that in the finished product there is an electrode lying along one edge and an open space lying along the other edge in each layer of the wound coil, such arrangement alternating from lay to layer from the outermost to the innermost. The capacitor is finished by bonding a lead to the electrodes in each edge and potting the wound capacitor to withstand normal handling stresses.