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Abstract

Disclosed is a multilayer capacitor consisting of a plurality of laminae with each of the laminae including a conductive plate portion and a non-conductive sheet portion. The conductive plate portion has at least one tab projecting to at least one edge of the conductive plate portion with the maximum number of tabs per conductive plate portion being limited to avoid excessive lateral congestion. The laminae are divided into different groups with the laminae from each group having the same number and location of tabs and with the laminae from different groups differing by at least the location of the tabs. The laminae are interleaved so that: (a) a lamina from one group alternates with a lamina from a different group, (b) the conductive plate portion of each lamina is in contact with the non-conductive sheet portion of each adjacent lamina, (c) the tabs are at a common edge of each lamina so that the tabs of the interleaved laminae form rows of tabs, and (d) the tabs from adjacent laminae are not in registry with each other. The capacitor finally includes islands of metallurgy joining selected groups of tabs in each row such that each of the islands covers a portion of each row of tabs.

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