Disclosed herein is a method of forming strip-shaped electrodes over an end surface of a plate-shaped electronic component and two major surfaces which are in series with the end surface. A slit plate, which is provided with through slits having width corresponding to the width of electrodes to be formed, is located above an electrode paste bath while an electronic component is arranged above the slit plate so that its end surface extends across the through slits. Before or after this step, the electrodes paste is made to swell to a constant level beyond the upper surface of the slit plate, thereby applying the electrode paste to the end surface of the electronic component and the two major surfaces which are in series with the end surface in the form of strips.
Thin-walled biodegradable starch-based articles, particularly sheets of film including at least one first layer of polymeric material including starch and at least one second layer of hydrophobic material, are characterized in that the second layer includes a natural or synthetic wax or mixture of waxes.
A product and process of making such product in which a varistor is formed by diffusing lead borosilicate-type glass, into a surface of a fired or sintered zinc oxide substrate, i.e., "varistor element," during formation of an electrode on the surface of the substrate. Typically, an electrode paste or material, comprising a mixture or lead borosilicate-type glass frit and Ag powder, is applied to the substrate and provides the lead borosilicate-type glass for diffusing into the substrate. The improvement is that the lead borosilicate-type glass frit for the electrode paste or material comprises a mixture of PbO, B.sub.2 O.sub.3, SiO.sub.2 and at least one metal oxide selected from the group consisting of cobalt oxide, magnesium oxide, yttrium oxide, antimony oxide, manganese oxide, tellurium oxide, lanthanum oxide, cerium oxide, praseodium oxide, neodymium oxide, samarium oxide, europium oxide, gadolinium oxide, terbium oxide, dysprosium oxide, holmium oxide, erbium oxide, thulium oxide, ytterbium oxide and lutetium oxide.
An electronic component which comprises a substrate, conductive film on the surface of the substrate, a groove created on the conductive film, a protective material covering the groove, and terminals and on both ends of the substrate. Lengths P1 to P8 of the terminals and, the surface roughness and materials of the terminals and, and configuration of the protective material are specified for providing an electronic component and radio terminal with at least one of improved productivity, mountability, and characteristics.
The object of the present invention is to reduce irregularity of the amount of applying of the conductive paste applied for forming the side face electrode so as to be extended from a part of the side face of the component body up to a part of the face adjoining the side face, wherein the conductive paste is filled into the slit provided on the slit plate, and the component body is disposed with its side face toward the first principal face side of the slit plate, followed by allowing the shutter member to undergo elastic deformation toward the inside of the slit by compressing the shutter member comprising an elastic material with a projection on the compression member, thereby the conductive paste is applied so as to extend the paste from a part of the side face of the component body up to a part of the faces adjoining the side face while supplying the conductive paste on in the slit so as to swell on the first principal face.
