Patent ID: 7031140

Claim:
An electric double layer capacitor comprising a container made from a resin in a substantially rectangular parallelepipedal form by joining a first container half segment and a second container half segment each in the form of a box, the container having housed therein a pair of polarizable electrodes impregnated with an electrolyte, the second container segment being provided at one end thereof with an extension extending along an outer side surface of the first container segment to a bottom outer surface thereof, the extension having an end face in a common plane with the bottom outer surface of the first container segment, a platelike first lead member being provided on a bottom wall of a recessed portion of the first container segment, the first lead member being electrically connected to one of the pair of the electrodes, a platelike second lead member being provided on a bottom wall of a recessed portion of the second container segment, the second lead member being electrically connected to the other electrode, the first lead member having a portion closer to one end thereof and embedded in the first container segment, the first lead member portion being bent as embedded in the first container segment and being led out of the container to the outside thereof, and the second lead member having a portion closer to one end thereof and embedded in the second container segment, the second lead member portion being bent as embedded in the second container segment and extending through the extension to the outside of the container, the first lead member portion and the second lead member portion having respective outer ends projecting outward from the container and arranged on substantially the same plane as an outer lower surface of the container.