Wound Patents (Class 361/301.5)
  • Patent number: 11923147
    Abstract: A film capacitor that includes: an outer case defining an opening; a capacitor element within the outer case, the capacitor element including one or more metallized films, each metallized film including a resin film and a metal layer on a surface of the resin film; and a filling resin that fills a space between the capacitor element and the outer case, wherein the filling resin includes a first filling resin layer surrounding the capacitor element and a second filling resin layer disposed closer to the opening of the outer case than the first filling resin layer, the first filling resin layer and the second filling resin layer are made of the same resin and each contain a filler, and a filler content of the second filling resin layer is higher than a filler content of a portion of the first filling resin layer opposing the second filling resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Jogan, Hiroki Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11908622
    Abstract: Capacitor includes a capacitor element unit and a case that is made of a metal and houses the capacitor element unit. The capacitor element unit includes a capacitor element, a first bus bar and a second bus bar that are connected to the capacitor element, and an insulating member disposed between the first bus bar and the second bus bar. The insulating member includes a first mounting portion, and the case includes a second mounting portion to which the first mounting portion is attached so that the capacitor element unit is located at a predetermined position with respect to the case while the first bus bar and the second bus bar are not in contact with the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motohiro Kawahata, Eiji Koba
  • Patent number: 11776758
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a capacitor element, a bus bar connected to an electrode of the capacitor element, a case housing the capacitor element, and a filling resin filled in the case. The bus bar includes a first section and a second section. The first section is exposed from the filling resin and includes a connection terminal configured to be connected to an external terminal. The second section has a buried section buried in the filling resin and an exposed section exposed from the filling resin, and includes a connection part connected to the electrode. The exposed section is located away from the first section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Urano, Ayaka Nakada, Akihiro Ozaki
  • Patent number: 11062850
    Abstract: A film capacitor includes a capacitor element, a first bus bar, and a second bus bar. The first bus bar includes a first electrode connecting part connected to the first electrode of the capacitor element at one end and a first connection terminal at another end. The second bus bar includes a second electrode connecting part connected to the second electrode of the capacitor element at one end and a second connection terminal at another end. The first bus bar includes a branch part that is branched from a position closer to the first electrode connecting part than the first connection terminal and extends toward the second electrode along a peripheral surface of the capacitor element. The second bus bar includes an overlapping part that overlaps at least a part of the branch part. The overlapping part is along the peripheral surface of the capacitor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shozo Hiramoto, Hiroki Takeoka, Kazumasa Yoshida, Daisuke Mitani
  • Patent number: 10895102
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments relate to electric, potentially-driven shades usable with insulating glass (IG) units, IG units including such shades, and/or associated methods. In such a unit, a dynamic shade is located between the substrates defining the IG unit, and is movable between retracted and extended positions. The dynamic shade includes on-glass layers including a transparent conductor and an insulator or dielectric film, as well as a shutter. The shutter includes a resilient polymer, a conductor, and optional ink. Holes, invisible to the naked eye, may be formed in the polymer. Those holes may be sized, shaped, and arranged to promote summertime solar energy reflection and wintertime solar energy transmission. The conductor may be transparent or opaque. When the conductor is reflective, overcoat layers may be provided to help reduce internal reflection. The polymer may be capable of surviving high-temperature environments and may be colored in some instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Guardian Glass, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy J. Frey, Rudolph Hugo Petrmichl, Jason Blush
  • Patent number: 10879000
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes, first and second external electrode disposed on first and second external surfaces of the ceramic body to be electrically connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively, and an interposer including an insulating body having first and second recess regions and first and second terminal electrodes. The first and second recess regions are disposed in a central region of the insulating body in a width direction. A/B is within a range from 0.14 or more to 0.51 or less, where A is an area of each of the first and second recess regions, viewed in a cross-section in length and width directions, and B is an area of each of the first and second terminal electrodes, viewed in the cross-section in the length and width directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gu Won Ji, Ho Yoon Kim, Heung Kil Park, Sang Soo Park, Woo Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 10784049
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a winding-type stacked body for a condenser capable of realizing a high electrostatic capacitance and a high degree of withstand voltage. The purpose is accomplished by a winding-type stacked body for a condenser, comprising a metal layer and a dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer exists on the metal layer, two metal layers having the dielectric layers constitute a pair and are stacked and wound to configure the winding-type stacked body, which comprises no plastic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Shiraki, Sang-Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 10636573
    Abstract: A device and its method of manufacture, the device configured for providing electrical energy storage of high specific energy density. The device contains one or more layers of high dielectric constant material, such as Barium Titanate or Hexagonal Barium Titanate, sandwiched between electrode layers made up of one or more of a variety of possible conducting materials. The device includes one or more electrically insulating layers including carbon, such as carbon formed into diamond or a diamond-like arrangement, for insulating the electrode(s) from the dielectric layer(s) to provide for very high breakdown voltages with good heat conductivity. The layers can be created by a variety of methods including laser deposition, and assembled to form a capacitor device provides the high energy density storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Inventors: Barbara Stuart, Stephen L Cunningham
  • Patent number: 10586655
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a case having an elliptical cross-section capable of receiving a plurality of capacitive elements. One or more of the capacitive elements provide at least one capacitor having a first capacitor terminal and a second capacitor terminal. The apparatus also includes a cover assembly that includes a deformable cover mountable to the case, and, a common cover terminal having a contact extending from the cover. The cover assembly also includes at least three capacitor cover terminals, each of the at least three capacitor cover terminals having at least one contact extending from the deformable cover. The deformable cover is configured to displace at least one of the at least three capacitor cover terminals upon an operative failure of at least one of the plurality of the capacitive elements. The cover assembly also includes at least four insulation structures. One of the four insulation structures is associated with one of the at least three capacitor cover terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: American Radionic Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Stockman
  • Patent number: 10568208
    Abstract: There is provided a component carrier comprising: (a) a stack of at least one electrically conductive layer structure and at least one electrically insulating layer structure; and (b) a bypass capacitance structure formed on an/or within the stack. The bypass capacitance structure comprises an electrically conductive film structure having a rough surface, a dielectric film structure formed on the rough surface, and a further electrically conductive film structure formed on the dielectric film structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: AT & S AUSTRIA TECHNOLOGIE & SYSTEMTECHNIK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Wilhelm Tamm
  • Patent number: 10553366
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed which includes an electrolytic capacitive element with multiple capacitor sections, a pressure interrupter cover assembly, and a conductor configured to electrically connect a common terminal of the multiple capacitor sections to a common cover terminal. Each first terminal of the multiple capacitor sections is electrically connected to one of a plurality of capacitor cover terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: American Radionic Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Stockman
  • Patent number: 10541084
    Abstract: There is a film capacitor capable of suppressing decrease in the electrostatic capacitance even after a self-healing phenomenon has occurred. A film capacitor includes a dielectric film; and an electrode film disposed on a principal surface of the dielectric film, the dielectric film containing an organic resin and an organic component having a higher volatility than the organic resin. The organic resin is preferably any one of a cyclic olefin-based resin, a polyarylate resin, a polyphenylene ether resin and a polyetherimide resin. The organic component is preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of cyclohexane, ethylcyclohexane, toluene, xylene, chloroform, and tetrahydrofuran.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Maeda, Wataru Kato
  • Patent number: 10475588
    Abstract: A capacitor provides a plurality of selectable capacitance values, by selective connection of six capacitor sections of a capacitive element each having a capacitance value. The capacitor sections are provided in a plurality of wound cylindrical capacitive elements. Two vertically stacked wound cylindrical capacitance elements may each provide three capacitor sections. There may be six separately wound cylindrical capacitive elements each providing a capacitor section. The capacitor sections have a common element terminal. A pressure interrupter cover assembly is sealingly secured to the open end of case for the elements and has a deformable cover with a centrally mounted common cover terminal and a plurality of section cover terminals mounted at spaced apart locations. A conductor frangibly connects the common element terminal of the capacitor section to the common cover terminal and conductors respectively frangibly connect the capacitor section terminals to the section cover terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: American Radionic Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Stockman
  • Patent number: 10153093
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the area of micro- and nanoelectronics and relates to ultra-compact micro capacitors, how they can be used, for example, in electrical and electronic devices. The object of the present invention consists in specifying an ultra-compact micro capacitor with the highest capacity. The problem is solved by an ultra-compact micro capacitor which is made from a rolled-up layer stack of alternatingly arranged layers of dielectric and/or electrically insulating and electrically conductive materials with rolled-up lengths of the layer stack of at least 1 mm, and an absolute electrical storage capacity of at least 10 nF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER FESTKOERPER-UND WERKSTOFFORSCHUNG DRESDEN E.V., MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel Grimm, Martin Bauer, Oliver G. Schmidt, Shoichiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10147558
    Abstract: A composition of a capacitor and a method to form same are disclosed. The capacitor comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and at least one cellular material disposed between said first electrode and said second electrode. Further, the capacitor is at least partially impregnated with one or more liquid prepolymers comprising an electrolyte material, which is cured to form a polymeric matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Inventors: Constantin Ciocanel, Cindy Browder, Bertrand Francis Cambou
  • Patent number: 10147549
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a case capable of receiving a plurality of capacitive elements, each capacitor element having at least two capacitors, and each capacitor having a capacitive value. The apparatus also includes a cover assembly with a peripheral edge secured to the case. The cover assembly includes, for each of the plurality of capacitive elements, a cover terminal that extends upwardly from the cover assembly generally at a central region of the cover assembly. Each cover terminal is connected to one of the at least two capacitors of the respective one of the plurality of capacitive elements. The cover assembly also includes, for each of the plurality of capacitive elements, a cover terminal that extends upwardly from the cover assembly at a position spaced apart from the cover terminal generally at the central region of the cover assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: American Radionic Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Stockman, Richard W. Stockman, Michael B. Tricano, Jonathan Charles
  • Patent number: 10079102
    Abstract: A metallized film capacitor includes a metallized film columnar body in which metallized films are stacked or wound, an external lead-out terminal, and a metal sprayed portion to which the external lead-out terminal is joined and that is provided in the metallized film columnar body. The metallized film columnar body includes (i) a metal deposition film includes (a) a non-slit-forming region that does not includes a non-deposition slit and (b) a slit-forming region including plural non-deposition slits and fuse portions that are present between the non-deposition slits, (ii) insulating non-melting films that are provided on at least the fuse portions closest to the non-slit-forming region and do not melt due to heat generated from fuse portions, and (iii) a dielectric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10056195
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed which includes an electrolytic capacitive element with multiple capacitor sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: American Radionic Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Stockman
  • Patent number: 9881736
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic component includes multilayer ceramic capacitors disposed on opposing surfaces of a board in a thickness direction of the board and metal terminals connected to electrode pads disposed on the board. The metal terminals are partially exposed to an exterior of the multilayer ceramic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Heung Kil Park
  • Patent number: 9779881
    Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes wound body, a solid electrolyte layer, and resin layer. Wound body is formed by winding a positive electrode member having a surface with a dielectric film thereon and a negative electrode member. The solid electrolyte layer is formed by impregnating wound body with a dispersion of a conductive polymer or a solution of a conductive polymer, and then drying the dispersion or the solution with which wound body is impregnated. Resin layer covers at least a part of an outer peripheral surface of wound body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 9693476
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus has a configuration in which plate-like bus-bars are laminated via an insulating material to define a pair of bus-bars. A laminated bus-bar, in which the pair of bus-bars is disposed vertically so that a width direction thereof is in a vertical direction, includes a pair of voltage measuring terminals that is correspondingly branched from a part of the pair of bus-bars to extend toward a circuit board. The pair of voltage measuring terminals is arranged symmetrically with respect to the pair of bus-bars to extend upward toward the circuit board, while extending in an intersecting direction intersecting with the pair of bus-bars, to be electrically connected to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Nagasawa, Hiroaki Iida, Morifumi Shigemasa, Yasuhiro Maeda, Masami Ogura, Hitoshi Nishio
  • Patent number: 9670066
    Abstract: A composition generally includes carbon particles. The particles are prepared by dissolving a carbohydrate-based precursor in water to form a precursor solution and placing the precursor solution in a pressure vessel. The precursor solution is placed in a pressure vessel. The pressure vessel is heated to a reaction temperature to form carbon particles. The carbon particles are subjected to a chemical activation and a physical activation. The composition includes, by weight, about 5% to about 30% oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Stephen M. Lipka, Christopher R. Swartz
  • Patent number: 9620285
    Abstract: A capacitor including: a first conductive plate; a second conductive pate arranged parallel to the first conductive plate to define a spacing between a surface of the first conductive plate and an opposing surface of the second conductive plate; a dielectric material disposed in the plate; and a capacitor lead connected to one of the first and second conductive plates at a connection region; wherein a thickness of the space is varied in the connection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: OMNITEK PARTNERS LLC
    Inventors: Jahangir S Rastegar, Dake Feng
  • Patent number: 9620297
    Abstract: An electrode material for electricity storage devices includes: an active material including at least one of quinone having a halogen group and hydroquinone having a halogen group; and a porous body supporting the active material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Itaru Honma, Satoshi Mitani, Takaaki Tomai
  • Patent number: 9406449
    Abstract: Supercapacitors have composite electrodes that include a porous carbonaceous material such as graphene onto which a metal oxide pseudocapacitor material is deposited in the form of nano-scale particles or a nano-scale film. The composite electrodes exhibit excellent specific capacitance, even at high scan rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate
    Inventors: Ming Xie, Steven M. George, Mattias J. Young, Xiang Sun, Jie Lian, Gongkai Wang
  • Patent number: 9362058
    Abstract: The invention relates to a safety vehicle capacitor. It includes a box-shaped capacitor shell, lead-out electrode sheet, capacitor core accommodated inside capacitor shell and epoxy resin used to encapsulate the capacitor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignees: SHANGHAI HAOYE ELECTRIC CO., LTD, SHANGHAI HAOYE CAPACITORS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zikui Zhang, Feng Xu, Jinhua Jiang
  • Patent number: 9362051
    Abstract: The capacitor (2) according to the invention comprises: an enclosure (4); an insulating material (6) contained in the enclosure (4); a capacitive device (8) comprising two conductive layers and at least one dielectric layer formed from a dielectric material and inserted between the two conductive layers; and a protection device (12) comprising a mechanism (40) for disconnecting the capacitive device (8) in case of overpressure in the enclosure (4); and characterized in that it further comprises, inside the enclosure (4), a degassing material (58) capable of releasing gas at a degassing temperature (Tgaz) below the decomposition temperature of the dielectric material to generate an overpressure in the enclosure (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Dujeu, Christophe Guillermin
  • Patent number: 9236183
    Abstract: A capacitor having a dielectric consisting of a glass layer with an alkali metal oxide content of at most 2 wt % and a thickness of at most 50 ?m is provided. The capacitor includes at least two metal layers which are separated by the glass layer. The glass layer is preferably produced by a down-draw method or by an overflow down-draw fusion method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Martin Letz, Hans-Heinrich Gundelach, Holger Wegener
  • Publication number: 20150138690
    Abstract: A capacitor provides a plurality of selectable capacitance values, by selective connection of six capacitor sections of a capacitive element each having a capacitance value. The capacitor sections are provided in a plurality of wound cylindrical capacitive elements. Two vertically stacked wound cylindrical capacitance elements may each provide three capacitor sections. There may be six separately wound cylindrical capacitive elements each providing a capacitor section. The capacitor sections have a common element terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Robert M. Stockman
  • Patent number: 9019689
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a case capable of receiving a plurality of capacitive elements, each capacitor element having at least two capacitors, and each capacitor having a capacitive value. The apparatus also includes a cover assembly with a peripheral edge secured to the case. The cover assembly includes, for each of the plurality of capacitive elements, a cover terminal that extends upwardly from the cover assembly generally at a central region of the cover assembly. Each cover terminal is connected to one of the at least two capacitors of the respective one of the plurality of capacitive elements. The cover assembly also includes, for each of the plurality of capacitive elements, a cover terminal that extends upwardly from the cover assembly at a position spaced apart from the cover terminal generally at the central region of the cover assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: American Radionic Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Stockman, Richard W. Stockman, Michael B. Tricano, Jonathan Charles
  • Patent number: 9001497
    Abstract: An electrode foil includes a substrate and a coarse film layer having a void therein and formed on the substrate. The coarse film layer includes at least a first coarse film layer formed on the substrate. The first coarse film layer is composed of arrayed first columnar bodies. Each of the first columnar bodies is composed of metallic microparticles stacked on a surface of the substrate and extending in a curve from the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Oshima, Hiroki Kamiguchi, Masashi Shoji, Hitoshi Ishimoto
  • Publication number: 20140368970
    Abstract: A resin composition constituting dielectric resin films of a film capacitor includes a first atom group including at least one functional group selected from among a methylene group, an aromatic ring and an ether group and having a relatively small molar polarizability, and a second atom group including at least one functional group selected from among a hydroxyl group, an amino group and a carbonyl group and having a relatively large molar polarizability. The resin composition satisfies the condition that a value calculated from the formula (sum of absorption band intensities of first atom group)/(sum of absorption band intensities of second atom group) is 1.0 or more. Herein, as absorption band intensities of the functional groups, peak intensities detected in specific wavenumber ranges are employed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Tomomichi Ichikawa, Norihiro Yoshikawa, Shinichi Kobayashi, Yasunori Hioki, Ichiro Nakaso, Tomoki Inakura
  • Publication number: 20140355173
    Abstract: A uniaxially-stretched, high yield extruded film comprising a polyetherimide comprising units derived from polymerization of an aromatic dianhydride with a diamine selected from a meta-phenylene diamine, a para-phenylene diamine, and a combination thereof, wherein the polyetherimide is endcapped with an a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic primary monoamine; and wherein the high yield extruded film comprises at least 90 weight % of the polyetherimide before extrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES BV
    Inventors: Roy Ray Odle, Matthew Frank Niemeyer, Mark A. Sanner, Anne E. Bolvari, Neal Pfeiffenberger
  • Patent number: 8891224
    Abstract: A capacitor provides a plurality of selectable capacitance values, by selective connection of six capacitor sections of a capacitive element each having a capacitance value. The capacitor sections are provided in a plurality of wound cylindrical capacitive elements. Two vertically stacked wound cylindrical capacitance elements may each provide three capacitor sections. There may be six separately wound cylindrical capacitive elements each providing a capacitor section. The capacitor sections have a common element terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: America Radionic Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Stockman
  • Patent number: 8885318
    Abstract: A hard start capacitor replacement unit has a plurality of capacitors in a container sized to fit in existing hard start capacitor space. The capacitors are 4 metallized film capacitors wound in a single cylindrical capacitive element. The container has a common terminal and capacitors value terminals for the plurality of capacitors, which may be connected singly or in combination to provide a selected capacitance. An electronic or other relay connects the selected capacitance in parallel with a motor run capacitor. The hard start capacitor replacement unit is thereby adapted to replace a wide variety of hard start capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: American Radionic Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Stockman
  • Patent number: 8871850
    Abstract: There is provided a highly dielectric film which has high dielectric property, can be formed into a think film and is excellent in winding property (flexibility). The highly dielectric film comprises (A) a vinylidene fluoride polymer, (B) barium titanate oxide particles and/or lead zirconium titanate oxide particles, and (C) an affinity improving agent, wherein the barium titanate oxide particles and/or lead zirconium titanate oxide particles (B) and the affinity improving agent (C) are contained in amounts of 10 to 500 parts by mass and 0.01 to 30 parts by mass, respectively based on 100 parts by mass of the vinylidene fluoride polymer (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Meiten Koh, Kouji Yokotani, Miharu Matsumura
  • Patent number: 8861177
    Abstract: A metallized film capacitor includes a dielectric film and two metal vapor-deposition electrodes facing each other across the dielectric film. At least one of the metal vapor-deposition electrodes is made of substantially only aluminum and magnesium. This metallized film capacitor has superior leak current characteristics and moisture resistant performances, and can be used for forming a case mold type capacitor with a small size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Takeoka, Hiroshi Kubota, Yukikazu Ohchi, Hiroshi Fujii, Yukihiro Shimasaki
  • Publication number: 20140301018
    Abstract: A metallized film capacitor includes first and second winding cores disposed along a center axis, and a capacitor element wound about the center axis around the first and the second winding cores. The second winding core is apart from the first winding core. The first and second winding cores have a thermal conductivity larger than that of the dielectric film of the capacitor element. Length Ld of the capacitor element in a direction of the center axis, length L1 of the first winding core inside the capacitor element in the direction of the center axis, and length L2 of the second winding core inside the capacitor element in the direction of the center axis satisfy the relations of L1>L2, L1+L2<Ld, L1?Ld/2, and L2?(Ld?L1)/2. The metallized film capacitor provides the capacitor element with improved heat dissipation performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ichinose, Hiroki Takeoka
  • Publication number: 20140285949
    Abstract: A hard start capacitor replacement unit has a plurality of capacitors in a container sized to fit in existing hard start capacitor space. The capacitors are 4 metallized film capacitors wound in a single cylindrical capacitive element. The container has a common terminal and capacitors value terminals for the plurality of capacitors, which may be connected singly or in combination to provide a selected capacitance. An electronic or other relay connects the selected capacitance in parallel with a motor run capacitor. The hard start capacitor replacement unit is thereby adapted to replace a wide variety of hard start capacitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Richard W. Stockman
  • Publication number: 20140286064
    Abstract: A capacitor device includes: a film capacitor element that comprises a coiled body in which an insulating layer and an electrification layer are laminated and wound together, and a pair of collector electrodes that are formed upon two opposite end faces of the coiled body; a case that comprises a capacitor housing portion within which the film capacitor element is received; a pair of inserts having insulation properties, one of which is inserted between one of the pair of collector electrodes and one of inner walls of the capacitor housing portion; and a mass of sealing and insulating material that is charged between the film capacitor element and the one of the inner walls of the capacitor housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KAMIZUMA, Kinya NAKATSU, Junpei KUSUKAWA, Takeshi TOKUYAMA
  • Patent number: 8830652
    Abstract: A capacitor having improved tolerance to humidity. The capacitor includes a packaging material and/or a dielectric material comprising a film having a water vapor transmission rate significantly lower than the dielectric films and/or packaging films used in conventional capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation
    Inventor: Allan Scott Baucom
  • Patent number: 8779047
    Abstract: There is provided a coating composition comprising (A) a thermoplastic non-fluorine-containing polymer, (B) inorganic ferroelectric particles, (C) an affinity-improving agent comprising at least one of a coupling agent, a surfactant and an epoxy group-containing compound, and (D) a solvent, and there is provided a film formed using the coating composition which has highly dielectric property and low dielectric loss, can be made thin, is excellent in winding property (flexibility) and is suitable as a highly dielectric film for a film capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Meiten Koh, Nobuyuki Komatsu, Kouji Yokotani, Miharu Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20140111903
    Abstract: Three-phase electrical can capacitor with three star-connected capacitances in a housing, characterized in that two polymer film capacitor coils (10, 12), which each have a hollow capacitor coil core (14) and are provided on the end sides with in each case one end contact layer (16, 18 and 20, 22), are arranged one above the other in the form of a column in the housing, wherein one (10) of the two polymer film capacitor coils (10, 12) has one individual capacitance and the other (12) of the two polymer film capacitor coils has two individual capacitances, and all of the individual capacitances are equal in size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Frako Kondensatoren-und Anlagenabu GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Georg Reinbold
  • Patent number: 8693165
    Abstract: A device for generating electrical energy from the heat dissipated by a heat source, comprising: a capacitor comprising two electrodes between which a ferroelectric material is present, said capacitor being arranged so as to be positioned to capture all or part of the heat dissipated by said heat source; a capacitive element a first electrode of which is connected to a first electrode of said capacitor; a recovery circuit interposed between the second electrode of said capacitor and the second electrode of the capacitive element, and able to have the current flowing between said second electrodes pass through it. a mechanism adapted to move the capacitor with respect to the heat source, said mechanism having at least one arm able to move between two positions, the capacitor being closer to the heat source in one of the two positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS
    Inventors: Thomas Skotnicki, Stéphane Monfray
  • Patent number: 8654503
    Abstract: A capacitor having improved tolerance to humidity. The capacitor includes a packaging material and/or a dielectric material comprising a film having a water vapor transmission rate significantly lower than the dielectric films and/or packaging films used in conventional capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation
    Inventor: Allan Scott Baucom
  • Publication number: 20140022697
    Abstract: A metallized film composed of a dielectric film, a metal thin film layer and a dielectric layer, the metal thin film layer being formed on at least one surface of the dielectric film, the dielectric layer being formed on the metal thin film layer, and the dielectric layer being composed of acrylic acid ester resin as a main component being composed of dimethylol tricyclodecane diacrylate and monoacrylate containing a heterocycle
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukikazu Ohchi
  • Publication number: 20140002954
    Abstract: A capacitor having improved tolerance to humidity. The capacitor includes a packaging material and/or a dielectric material comprising a film having a water vapor transmission rate significantly lower than the dielectric films and/or packaging films used in conventional capacitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: ZOLL MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Allan Scott Baucom
  • Publication number: 20130344419
    Abstract: The present invention relates to one or more electrode plates, which are installed with current collecting terminals at two or more sides thereof, and joined to an auxiliary conductor made of a material having a conductivity that is higher than that of the electrode plates. Current collecting terminals are installed at two or more sides of the auxiliary conductor, for linking with current collecting terminals installed at two or more sides of the electrode plates, and at least one of linked terminals is used as a general current collecting terminal to output current to an external part or to receive input current from the external part. Finally, insulators installed between the auxiliary conductor and the electrode plates to constitute an electrode unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventor: Tai-Her YANG
  • Patent number: 8593781
    Abstract: Disclosed is a metalized film capacitor having excellent safety preservation ability and an excellent withstand voltage at high temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Nichicon Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Takagaki
  • Publication number: 20130250475
    Abstract: A capacitor includes a capacitor element that is a wound element or an element other than the wound element, and that includes electrode bodies each of which is in an anode side and a cathode side, and separators that intervenes between the electrode bodies; a sealing member that seals an opening of a case member accommodating the capacitor element; at least one electrode protrusion that protrudes from one of the electrode bodies on an element end-face of the capacitor element, at least one of current collector plate that is connected to the electric protrusion; and at least one terminal member that is disposed in the sealing member, and is superposed on the current collector plate, a side face part of the terminal member being welded to a side face part of the current collector plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON CHEMI-CON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Mori, Tatsuo Kubouchi, Akihiro Furusawa