Multilayer ceramic capacitor with foil terminal

Claim 1

A ceramic capacitor device comprising a ceramic chip containing embedded electrodes having a pair of opposed rectangular shaped end surfaces at which surfaces ends of alternate embedded electrodes are exposed and a pair of opposed rectangular shaped side surfaces parallel to said embedded electrodes and substantially larger in area than said opposed end surfaces, each opposed end surface being metallized to provide an electrical contact with exposed ends of embedded electrodes, and portions of each opposed side surface which are contiguous to an end surface being metallized to provide a pair of spaced apart metallized portions on each opposed side surface separated by unmetallized ceramic, a pair of metal foil terminal leads each having a strip portion of substantially the same width as the distance between the opposed end surfaces of the cermanic chip said strip portions being opposite and parallel to each other and parallel to the side surfaces of said ceramic chip, each said strip portion having (i) a first extension overlying one metallized portion of the side surface closest to said strip portion and also overlying most of the unmetallized ceramic of the same side surface and (ii) a second extension of substantially L-shaped cross section overlying the metallized end surface adjacent the aforesaid metallized side surface portion and the metallized portion of the other side surface contiguous to said metallized end surface, the said metallized portions being metallurgically bonded to said overlying metal foil extensions.