A composite film having a high dielectric permittivity engineered particles dispersed in a high breakdown strength polymer material to achieve high energy density.

Disclosed herein is a method of: placing between a cooling element and an opposing surface a slurry of: a dielectric powder containing barium titanate, a dispersant, a binder, and water; maintaining the cooling element at a temperature below the opposing surface to cause the formation of ice platelets perpendicular to the surface of the cooling element and having the powder between the platelets; subliming the ice platelets to create voids; sintering the powder to form the dielectric material; and filling the voids with the polymeric material. The process can produce a composite having: a sintered dielectric material of barium titanate and platelets of a polymeric material embedded in the dielectric material. Each of the platelets is perpendicular to a surface of the composite.

The present invention is a film capacitor comprising a dielectric film and a metal layer, the dielectric film being a resin film obtained by stretching an unstretched film produced using a crystalline hydrogenated dicyclopentadiene ring-opening polymer, and heating the resulting stretched film, and the resin film having a softening point of 250 to 320° C., a thermal shrinkage ratio of 0.01 to 5.0% when heated at 200° C. for 10 minutes, a loss tangent (tanδ) of 0.0001 to 0.0010, and a coefficient of static friction of 0.01 to 1.00. The present invention provides a film capacitor that includes a resin film as a dielectric film, the resin film exhibiting excellent heat resistance, excellent withstand voltage properties, and excellent workability.

A composite film having a high dielectric permittivity engineered particles dispersed in a high breakdown strength polymer material to achieve high energy density.

An energy storage device comprises a capacitor having a dielectric between opposite electrodes and a nonconductive coating between at least one electrode and the dielectric. The nonconductive coating allows for much higher voltages to be employed than in traditional EDLCs, which significantly increases energy stored in the capacitor. Viscosity of the dielectric material may be increased or decreased in a controlled manner, such as in response to an applied external stimulus, to control discharge and storage for extended periods of time.

There is provided a double-sided copper-clad laminate for forming a capacitor that can exhibit excellent properties in voltage endurance and peel strength, while ensuring high capacitor capacity, when used as a capacitor. This double-sided copper-clad laminate includes an adhesive layer and a copper foil in order on each of both surfaces of a resin film, the resin film is in a cured state at 25° C., and each of the copper foils has a maximum peak height Sp of 0.05 μm or more and 3.3 μm or less as measured in accordance with ISO 25178 on a surface on a side being in contact with the adhesive layer.

A capacitor includes a first conductive plate, a second conductive plate, a floating conductive plate and a dielectric material separating the floating conductive plate from the first conductive plate and from the second conductive plate. The floating conductive plate has a first surface closer to the first conductive plate than to the second conductive plate and has a second surface closer to the second conductive plate than to the first conductive plate. In response to an electric field between the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate, charge separation is induced in the floating conductive plate such that a first charge induced on the first surface has a first polarity and a second charge induced on the second surface has a second polarity, where the second polarity different from the first polarity.

A film capacitor includes a stacked body formed by stacking metalized films in each of which a metal electrode is formed on a surface of a dielectric film, at least one of the dielectric films containing a high thermal conductive filler; and external electrodes formed at electrode forming ends provided at opposed positions in the stacked body. The stacked body includes a high thermal conductive portion in which a content of the high thermal conductive filler in the at least one dielectric film is relatively high, and a low thermal conductive portion in which the content of the high thermal conductive filler in the at least one dielectric film is relatively low, or the high thermal conductive filler is not contained. The high thermal conductive portion is provided to continuously extend from an inside of the stacked body to a side portion other than the electrode forming ends.

A dielectric material is provided. The dielectric material includes at least one layer of a substantially continuous phase material. The material is selected from the group consisting of an organic, organometallic, or combination thereof in which the substantially continuous phase material has delocalized electrons.

A film capacitor preferably includes a single film capacitor layer wound around itself in adjacent layers to form a winding. The film capacitor layer preferably includes a dielectric film, a first metallization layer formed on the dielectric film, a dielectric coating formed on the first metallization layer, and a second metallization layer formed on the dielectric coating. A metallic contact layer is preferably formed on an outer edge of the winding. A terminal is preferably formed on an outer edge of the metallic contact layer. An insulating material preferably encapsulates the winding, the metallic contact layer, and a portion of the terminal. The capacitor as self-healing properties. Further, the border of the electrodes may be wave-cut. Further, an insulating gap may be added between the border and the upper electrode.