Monolithic ceramic capacitor with free-flowed protective coating and method for making same

摘要

A monolithic ceramic capacitor has two lead wires each of which is doubly up-set to form two closely adjacent enlarged portions near one end thereof. The end-most enlarged portion of each wire is butt attached by solder to one of the two metallized terminations on the ceramic body. A conformal free-flowed protective resin coating covers the body and just a portion of the adjacent enlarged portion of each lead wire. The adjacent enlarged portion of each lead wire is spaced from 3/4 to 3 times the lead wire diameter from the end-most enlarged portion. This adjacent portion serves to stop wicking of the resin outwardly on the lead wire during its application in liquid form and serves as a mounting stand-off in radially leaded capacitor structures.