Patent ID: 6366443
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: H01G,H05K

Abstract:
A ceramic capacitor comprising:a ceramic body; at least one exterior metallization area to which electrical connections are made on a portion of each of two opposite exterior substantially co-planar surfaces of the ceramic body; at least one interior metallization region (i) interior to the body between the at least two exterior metallization areas, and thus more closely situated to each exterior metallization area than the exterior metallization areas are to each other, and (ii) imperfectly positionally aligned to at least one of the two exterior metallization areas so that the external area and internal region are not coextensive or do not completely overlap each other or are both not coextensive and incompletely overlapping; and a multiplicity of vias, located between the at least one exterior metallization area and the at least one interior metallization region in substantially a location and an area of a smaller of the at least one exterior metallization area and the at least one interior metallization region redundantly electrically connecting the at least one exterior metallization area to the at least one interior metallization region through most of the vias, but with at least one of the multiplicity of vias, failing to electrically connect the at least one exterior metallization area to the at least one interior metallization region with which it is imperfectly positionally aligned; wherein the redundant electrical connections accorded by the multiplicity of vias permit that the at least one exterior metallization area is reliably electrically connected to the at least one interior metallization region regardless that the at least one exterior metallization area and the at least one interior metallization region should be imperfectly positionally aligned.