Electrical multilayer component comprising a sintered, monolithic ceramic body and method for its manufacture

In an electrical multilayer component including a sintered, monolithic ceramic body having cavities extending in alternating fashion from opposed end faces and extending partially into opposed lateral surfaces at right angles to said opposed end faces, said body also having an upper surface and a lower surface parallel thereto, both mutually perpendicular to said opposed end faces and said opposed lateral surfaces, ceramic particles disposed in said cavities to serve as support elements between adjoining layers of said ceramic body, metal layers completely filling said cavities and composed of a metal whose melting temperature is substantially lower than the sintering temperature of said ceramic body, and contact elements covering said end faces and extending partially about said lateral surfaces, said contact elements electrically connecting together said metal layers, the improvement which comprises:

• the edges between said end faces and their adjoining lateral surfaces as well as the edges between the end faces and said upper surface and said lower surface, as well as the edges between said upper and lower surfaces and the adjoining lateral surfaces being rounded off such that said metal layers extend out to said contact elements, and said contact elements being non-porous and covering those portions of said lateral surfaces which are open to the surfaces and are filled with metal layers.