Abstract: A structure for a capacitor or inductor. The structure includes a set of modular elements which stack together in a rectilinear stack and are electrically coupled at known coupling points. The modular elements may be combined (by connection at the coupling points) to form a capacitor, an inductor, or a circuit having both capacitors and/or inductors as elements. The circuit is constructed by stacking modular elements together and laminating the stack. Multiple circuits having capacitors and/or inductors are constructed at once using a stack of sheets of modular elements. Each stack is then cut into individual circuits and the circuits are fired to bake out organic material.

Abstract: A surface mount component outer surface inspection system comprising a loader for assembling an inventory of surface mount components and feeding them outward in controlled rectilinear manner and in a timed sequence, a first transfer assembly including a first moving endless belt in racetrack pattern, the belt having a partially perforated outer surface and a vacuum pulled through the perforations from the outer surface along a portion of the belt, for receipt of and retaining the surface mount components from the loader in spaced-apart arrangement on the belt, a surface-mount component, upper-surface viewing device for bringing the exposed surfaces of the moving components into focus at an area for inspecting them for visual defects, a second transfer assembly including a second moving endless belt in racetrack pattern, the belt having a partially perforated outer surface and a vacuum pulled through the perforations from the outer surface along a portion of the belt, the second assembly adjacent the first en