Fused monolithic ceramic capacitor package

摘要

A fuse for a monolithic ceramic capacitor is made of two exothermically alloyable materials such as aluminum and palladium. A monolithic ceramic body has two conventional conductive layer terminals contacting two groups of buried film electrodes. The body also has a third conductive layer that is spaced from the conventional terminals and the electrodes. A fuse is connected between a conventional terminal and the third layer. Alternatively, the conventional body without the third layer has two leads, one of which is connected to a first of the terminals and the other of which is insulated from both terminals but physically attached to the body. In this case the fuse is connected between the insulated of the leads and the second of the terminals.