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US 10,707,022 B2Granted
Feedthrough capacitor assembly and method of clamping same to a conductive substrate
AssigneeTe Connectivity Corporation
InventorEvan Lawrence Craig
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Abstract
A feedthrough capacitor assembly including a film-wound feedthrough capacitor and a mounting structure insulatively carrying the capacitor, the structure extendable through an opening in a conductive substrate and removably securable to the substrate. In response to opposed ends of the mounting structure applying a clamping force for non-movingly securing the capacitor to the substrate, the capacitor is not subjected to at least a portion of the clamping force.
Claims17
A feedthrough capacitor assembly comprising:
- a film-wound feedthrough capacitor;
- a mounting structure insulatively carrying the capacitor, the structure extendable through an opening in a conductive substrate and removably securable to the substrate, comprising
- a shaft having an axis and opposed enlarged ends, at least one of the opposed ends being removable from the shaft, at least one of the opposed ends being movable along the axis relative to another end, the shaft extendable through the substrate opening;
- and
- a tubular conductive member received by the shaft, the tubular conductive member extendable through the substrate opening;
- and in response to insertion of the shaft and the tubular conductive member through the substrate opening and the opposed enlarged ends being sufficiently
- brought toward one another to an installed position, the opposed enlarged ends applying a first clamping force for nonmovingly securing the substrate to the conductive member;
- wherein the capacitor is not subjected to at least a portion of the first clamping force.
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A feedthrough capacitor assembly comprising
- a film-wound feedthrough capacitor;
- a mounting structure insulatively carrying the capacitor, the structure extendable through an opening in a conductive substrate and selectably securable to the substrate, the mounting structure comprising
- a shaft having an axis and opposed enlarged ends, at least one of the opposed ends being removable from the shaft, at least one of the opposed ends being movable along the axis relative to another end, the shaft extendable through the substrate opening;
- and
- a tubular conductive member received by the shaft, the tubular conductive member extendable through the substrate opening;
- and
- in response to insertion of the shaft and the tubular conductive member through the substrate opening and the opposed enlarged ends being sufficiently brought toward one another to an installed position, the opposed enlarged ends applying a first clamping force for securing the substrate to the tubular conductive member;
- wherein the capacitor is not subjected to at least a portion of the first clamping force;
- and
- a resilient member exerting a second clamping force independent of the first clamping force for securing the capacitor to the substrate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.