Abstract: A plurality of regularly spaced solid electrolyte capacitor bodies are held by their anode leads. A group of cathode lead wires are held at the same spacing and an exothermically alloyable fuse strand is laid at right angles over the held cathode leads and attached thereto. The fuse strand is cut in the spaces between adjacent lead wires and the held lead wires are registered with the held capacitor bodies. An insulative layer is provided between each body and an adjacent lead wire. The free ends of the cut fuse segments are connected to the counterelectrodes of the adjacent capacitor bodies and the bodies with attached fuse segments are encapsulated as by molding.

Abstract: A method for making a solid electrolyte capacitor comprises forming a dielectric film on a porous valve-metal pellet, impregnating the pellet with a manganese salt and pyrolyzing, applying to the pellet a thixotropic coating of manganese salt, immersing the wet coated pellet into a fluidized bed of coarse manganese dioxide particles, pyrolyzing the coating and depositing on the rough surfaces of the coating a tightly bonded counterelectrode.