Flat electrical components
AssigneeAngstrohm Precision, Inc.
InventorBenjamin Solow
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Abstract
Substantially flat thin foil electrical components, e.g. thin foil resistors, are disclosed wherein a thin metallic foil is bonded to an insulating substrate and a circuit path is formed on the foil by photographic artwork-etching or other techniques. Terminal lands of the circuit are electroplated on the foil connecting leads having paddles or flattened portions formed with a hole or slot therein are soldered to the lands such that the solder extends into the hole or slot. The value of the resistor is finally adjusted by use of a laser beam, at least one bead of rubber is applied on at least a portion of the edges of the substrates, and the resistor is encapsulated.
Claims10
In an electrical device to be encapsulated in a hard insulative material, the improvement comprising:
- a thin substantially rigid substrate of electrically non-conductive material having at least one flat surface, said substrate having at least one longitudinally extending marginal edge surface;
- an electrical circuit of conductive foil material bonded to said flat surface, an electrical value of said circuit being variable in response to components of compressive force exerted on said substrate in a direction parallel with the plane of said flat surface and normal to said marginal edge surface by the setting of an encapsulating composition;
- a pair of electrical terminals connected to said electrical circuit to provide leads extending to the exterior of the encapsulating composition;
- the exposed surfaces of said substrate and conductive foil material being separated from direct contact with an encapsulating material by a layer of material including a moisture-resistant composition of insufficient thickness to absorb compressive forces of an encapsulating material comprising;
- a thin coating of material comprising at least one coating of a protective moisture-resistant composition
- and a relatively thick bead of resilient material extending both above and below the adjacent upper and lower corners of the substrate adhered only along the length of said marginal edge surface to absorb said components of compressive force.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.