U.S. patent number RE44,998 [Application Number 13/416,810] was granted by the patent office on 2014-07-08 for optimized thin film capacitors. This patent grant is currently assigned to BlackBerry Limited. The grantee listed for this patent is James Martin, James Oakes. Invention is credited to James Martin, James Oakes.
United States Patent | RE44,998 |
Oakes , et al. | July 8, 2014 |
At least an embodiment of the present technology provides a capacitor, comprising a substrate, a first solid electrode disposed on the substrate, a second electrode broken into subsections, the subsections connected by a bus line and separated from the first electric by a dielectric medium. The second electrode broken into subsections may have a lower resistance than the first solid electrode and by changing the width and length of the sides of the subsections, the resistance of the first electrode is modifiable.
Inventors: | Oakes; James (Westford, MA), Martin; James (Londonberry, NH) | ||||||||||
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Assignee: | BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo,
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Family ID: | 43733198 | ||||||||||
Appl. No.: | 13/416,810 | ||||||||||
Filed: | March 9, 2012 |
Application Number | Filing Date | Patent Number | Issue Date | ||
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Reissue of: | 11602114 | Nov 20, 2006 | 8064188 | Nov 22, 2011 | |
Current U.S. Class: | 361/303; 361/330; 361/306.1 |
Current CPC Class: | H01Q 1/242 (20130101); H01Q 21/205 (20130101); H01Q 1/06 (20130101); H01Q 21/065 (20130101); H01Q 1/42 (20130101); H01Q 1/1242 (20130101); H01Q 21/28 (20130101); H01P 5/04 (20130101); H04B 1/0458 (20130101); H03H 2001/0014 (20130101) |
Current International Class: | H01G 4/005 (20060101); H01G 4/228 (20060101) |
Field of Search: | ;361/303-305,311,306.1,330 |
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