An electrolytic capacitor including: a resin molding including a capacitor element with an anode, a dielectric layer, and a cathode, and a sealing resin sealing the capacitor element; a first external electrode on a first end surface; and a second external electrode connected to the cathode at a second end surface and including a first electrode portion on a first side surface and having a first electrode end in contact with the first side surface and closest to the first end surface in the length direction, and, when viewed in a thickness direction, a region where the capacitor element is opposite to the first electrode portion in a width direction includes a first region where a distance in the width direction between the capacitor element and the first electrode portion is shorter than a distance in the width direction between the capacitor element and the first electrode end.

An electrolytic capacitor including: a resin molding including a capacitor element with an anode, a dielectric layer, and a cathode, and a sealing resin sealing the capacitor element; a first external electrode on a first end surface; and a second external electrode connected to the cathode at a second end surface and including a first electrode portion on a first side surface and having a first electrode end in contact with the first side surface and closest to the first end surface in the length direction, and, when viewed in a thickness direction, a region where the capacitor element is opposite to the first electrode portion in a width direction includes a first region where a distance in the width direction between the capacitor element and the first electrode portion is shorter than a distance in the width direction between the capacitor element and the first electrode end.

An electrolytic capacitor that includes a resin molding that includes a capacitor element including an anode, a dielectric layer, and a cathode, a sealing resin sealing the capacitor element; a first external electrode on a first end surface of the resin molding; and a second external electrode on a second end surface and connected to the cathode exposed at the second end surface of the resin molding, wherein when viewed in a thickness direction perpendicular to the length direction, the anode includes a first anode region having a first outer edge exposed at the first end surface and connected to the first external electrode, and a second anode region having a second outer edge positioned closest to the second external electrode in the length direction, and a length of the first outer edge is greater than a length of the second outer edge in a width direction.

An electrolytic capacitor that includes a resin molding that includes a capacitor element including an anode, a dielectric layer, and a cathode, a sealing resin sealing the capacitor element; a first external electrode on a first end surface of the resin molding; and a second external electrode on a second end surface and connected to the cathode exposed at the second end surface of the resin molding, wherein when viewed in a thickness direction perpendicular to the length direction, the anode includes a first anode region having a first outer edge exposed at the first end surface and connected to the first external electrode, and a second anode region having a second outer edge positioned closest to the second external electrode in the length direction, and a length of the first outer edge is greater than a length of the second outer edge in a width direction.

A method of manufacturing high capacitance anode and cathode films of capacitors is revealed. Perform sputter deposition on a cathode aluminum foil in a vacuum chamber to form a cathode metal layer which is a titanium layer on a surface of the cathode aluminum foil. Then titanium continuously reacts with nitrogen to form cathode columnar crystal deposition on a surface of the cathode metal layer and get a cathode film. Perform sputter deposition on an anode aluminum foil in a vacuum chamber to form an anode metal layer which is a titanium layer on a surface of the anode aluminum foil. Then titanium continuously reacts with oxygen and nitrogen to form anode columnar crystal deposition on a surface of the anode metal layer and get an anode film. Next use the cathode and anode films with high capacitance to form cathode and anode electrodes of the capacitor.

An electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body, a dielectric layer formed on the anode body, and a conductive polymer layer covering at least a part of the dielectric layer. The conductive polymer layer includes a conductive polymer and a polymer dopant. The polymer dopant includes a copolymer that includes a first monomer unit and a second monomer unit. The first monomer unit has a sulfonate group. Time second monomer unit has a functional group represented by a formula (i); —CO—R.sup.1—COOH (where R.sup.1 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, an aromatic group, or a divalent group —OR.sup.2—, R.sup.2 representing an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or an aromatic group).

An electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body, a dielectric layer formed on the anode body, and a conductive polymer layer covering at least a part of the dielectric layer. The conductive polymer layer includes a conductive polymer and a polymer dopant. The polymer dopant includes a copolymer that includes a first monomer unit and a second monomer unit. The first monomer unit has a sulfonate group. Time second monomer unit has a functional group represented by a formula (i); —CO—R.sup.1—COOH (where R.sup.1 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, an aromatic group, or a divalent group —OR.sup.2—, R.sup.2 representing an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or an aromatic group).

A capacitor element includes an anode body including a porous region located at a surface of the anode body, a dielectric layer that covers at least a part of the anode body, and a cathode layer that covers at least a part of the dielectric layer. The anode body includes an anode part and a cathode formation part on which the cathode layer is disposed, the cathode formation part being adjacent to the anode part. At least a part of the porous region of the anode part includes a thin-thickness region that is thinner than the porous region in the cathode formation part, and a metal substrate is stacked on at least a part of the thin-thickness region. The metal substrate is denser than the porous region in the cathode formation part.

A capacitor element includes an anode body including a porous region located at a surface of the anode body, a dielectric layer that covers at least a part of the anode body, and a cathode layer that covers at least a part of the dielectric layer. The anode body includes an anode part and a cathode formation part on which the cathode layer is disposed, the cathode formation part being adjacent to the anode part. At least a part of the porous region of the anode part includes a thin-thickness region that is thinner than the porous region in the cathode formation part, and a metal substrate is stacked on at least a part of the thin-thickness region. The metal substrate is denser than the porous region in the cathode formation part.

An electrolytic capacitor that includes a stack having multiple capacitor elements stacked in a thickness direction perpendicular to a length direction, wherein a first end of a first cathode is first closest to a second external electrode among all of ends of the cathodes of the multiple capacitor elements, a second end of a second cathode is second closest to the second external electrode, and an end of the second external electrode is closer to a first external electrode than the second end of the second cathode.