Patent ID: 7685703

Claim:
A method of making a printed circuit board comprising the steps of: providing a capacitor chip comprising a center ceramic dielectric between first and second conductive composite end blocks, the first and second conductive composite end blocks each consisting essentially of glass and a conductive metal in an amount sufficient to render the composite conductive, and each having a plurality of external faces and an internal vertical face, wherein the glass at the internal face of each of the first and second conductive composite end blocks is co-sintered to respective opposed surfaces of the center ceramic dielectric so as to have essentially no boundary therebetween, and wherein the center ceramic dielectric has a thickness in a direction between the opposed surfaces, and the first and second conductive composite end blocks each have a thickness in a corresponding direction that is at least two times the thickness of the center ceramic dielectric; bonding the capacitor onto a surface of a printed circuit board having first and second metallic surface traces thereon with one of the external faces of the first conductive composite end block bonded directly to the first metallic surface trace and one of the external faces of the second conductive composite end block bonded directly to the second metallic surface trace; wherein the external faces soldered to the metallic surface traces are substantially perpendicular to the internal faces whereby the center ceramic dielectric is oriented vertically with respect to the surface of the printed circuit board.