US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Dec. 30 for "Electrolytic capacitor manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,272, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrolytic capacitor manufacturing method" was invented by Tatsuji Aoyama (Kyoto Fu, Japan), Tomoyuki Tashiro (Yamaguchi Ken, Japan) and Shumpei Matsushita (Yamaguchi Ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed manufacturing method includes: a step (i) of preparing an anode substrate having a metal foil exposed at an end surface of the anode substrate; a step (ii) of connecting a plurality of anode lead members to the anode substrate and forming a second dielectric layer on the end surface; a step (iii) of formin...