Patent ID: 8315032

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a capacitor comprising: a. providing a plurality of electrically conductive, ductile capacitor plates, each of the capacitor plates having one exposed edge, all other edges thereof having an electrically insulating, ductile spacer disposed in abutment therewith, the capacitor plates and spacer having a known softening temperature; b. providing a plurality of electrically insulating, ductile insulator plates having a known softening temperature proximate to the softening temperature of the capacitor plates and spacer; c. assembling the capacitor plates and the insulator plates in a stack of subassemblies, each subassembly configured as follows: i. insulator plate, ii. capacitor plate having the exposed edge oriented in a first direction, iii. insulator plate, and iv. capacitor plate having the exposed edge oriented in a second direction which is opposite the first direction; d. completing the stack by adding a final insulator plate on a final capacitor plate iv; e. heating the stack to a temperature of at least the known softening temperature; and f. drawing the stack to fuse the stack and to decrease the dimensions of the stack that are perpendicular to the direction of the draw.