ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,640, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ELECTRONICON Kondensatoren GmbH (Gera, Germany).
"Electrical capacitor" was invented by Volker Geitner (Hundhaupten, Germany) and Marko Stoike (Wunschendorf/Elster, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an electrical capacitor having a capacitor can, consisting of a can envelope and a can bottom, wherein the can bottom, when an internal pressure increases above a target value, is subjected to deformation which may be detected by a sensor system. For this purpose, the sensor system gets in operative connection with a bottom external side of the can bottom. The sensor sy...