Patent ID: 11929211
Assignee: TDK ELECTRONICS AG
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 27:
28. A multilayer capacitor comprising a capacitor element having at least two segments, each segment comprising a plurality of layer planes including dielectric layers of ceramics and electrode layers disposed therebetween and stacked in a stacking direction, the electrode layers comprising different electrodes including at least first and second electrodes, the different electrodes overlapping in active regions and not overlapping in passive regions, the different electrodes further including dummy electrodes in the passive regions that do not overlap with any electrode having a different polarity;
wherein the at least two segments are superimposed in the stacking direction;
wherein outermost dielectric layers of the at least two segments form a connection region in which the at least two segments are firmly connected to each other parallel to the layer planes;
wherein the connection region includes a relief region; and
wherein the relief region occupies at least the entire passive region of the capacitor.