US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 6 for "Electrolytic capacitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,877, issued on May 6, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrolytic capacitor" was invented by Shinya Suzuki (Kyoto Fu, Japan), Takahiro Kumakawa (Kyoto Fu, Japan) and Junichi Kurita (Osaka Fu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolytic capacitor including: an element stack including a plurality of capacitor elements; a package body sealing the element stack; and a first and second external electrode. Each of the capacitor elements includes a first end at which the anode body is exposed, and a second end covered with the cathode section, with at least an end surface of the...