Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor which is suitable for SMD-mounting is described. The capacitor is closed by a flat cover which seals the capacitor under a clamping force in a gas-tight and liquid-tight manner through an elastic sealing material. The direction of the clamping force extends substantially in the plane of the cover. The capacitor is also provided with a shear flange which causes the diffusion path of the electrolyte liquid around the sealing material to be extra long.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of accommodating an object which carries current during operation, in particular a capacitor which is provided with a lead in the vicinity of both facing ends, in a synthetic resin housing which is open on one side so that the object can be introduced into a space which is limited by the housing. This space is filled with a curing synthetic resin after the object has been introduced. To prevent the object from floating when the space is filled with synthetic resin, resilient members which partly surround the object are provided in the housing near the ends of the object between the object and the walls of the housing. Each resilient member comprises two legs which are each situated between one of two facing walls of the housing and the object, and which comprise angular portions whose vertices engage against the object and a wall of the housing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of providing a lead to an end of a capacitor which is formed of two metal foils which are wound together and between which an insulating material is provided, in which at one end of the capacitor the edge of one foil projects from the edge of the other, and at the opposite end of the capacitor the edge of the latter foil projects from the edge of the former, viewed in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the foils.According to the invention the projecting ends of the foils are coated with a metal layer. Next, the end of a lead is pressed onto the metal layer at each end of the capacitor, while heating the lead and/or the metal layer. The said end has two substantially contiguous portions which are pressed against the outside of the metal layer and are interconnected by a connecting portion which is offset from the plane of symmetry of the contiguous portions and is pressed into the metal layer.

Abstract: An electrical component with an electric circuit element having two mutually parallel external leads which are directed parallel to the end faces of the circuit element which element is secured in a housing which is open on one side by an electrically insulating material, having the particularity that two pairs of resilient clamping members extend from side walls of the housing. The resilient clamping members of each respective pair converge inwardly and clamp a respective external lead of the circuit element in such a position that the leads are centered with respect to the walls of the housing.