ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,116, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NIPPON CHEMI-CON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Capacitor and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Youhei Hashimoto (Tokyo), Kouichi Nakata (Tokyo), Ryuuta Inoue (Tokyo) and Keisuke Matsuhira (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor (2) includes a capacitor main body (4) and a base (6). The capacitor main body includes an opening sealing member (14) attached to an opening of an outer package case (10), and a terminal lead (16-1, 16-2) led out from a first insertion through hole portion (17-1, 17-2) of the opening sealing member. The base is disposed on the side of the opening sealing member...