Monolithic ceramic capacitor

A monolithic ceramic capacitor comprising a chip capacitor body having external electrodes formed on the opposite end portions thereof, and plural internal electrodes formed in lamination and each being electrically connected to a predetermined external electrode of said external electrodes, respectively, and

• terminal members each formed of a metal plate bonded to said external electrodes,
• each terminal member having plural terminal elements arranged so as to be distributed at intervals in the width direction of the external electrode,
• said plural terminal elements being arranged so as to set the degree by which each terminal element constrains a stress produced by the electrostriction phenomenon in said capacitor body, which is attributed to the bonding of a terminal element to the external electrode, wherein each of the terminal elements positioned at the ends in the arrangement direction has a lower degree of constraint than that of the terminal elements positioned in the center.

A monolithic ceramic capacitor comprising a chip capacitor body having external electrodes formed on the opposite end faces thereof, and plural internal electrodes formed in lamination and each being electrically connected to a predetermined one of said external electrodes, respectively, and

• terminal members each formed of a metal plate bonded to said external electrodes with a conductive bonding material,
• each terminal member having a protuberance projecting towards the external electrode so that the bonding portion where said terminal member is bonded to said external electrode, said bonding portion being formed with said conductive bonding material, is elongated substantially linearly on a part of said external electrode,
• wherein said internal electrodes have a width W3 which is wider than the width W4 of the terminal members.