1-4. (canceled)
5. A method for manufacturing a multilayer chip capacitor, comprising the steps of:
forming screen patterns on a plurality of mother green sheets such that a widthwise margin is not formed on the mother green sheets, and a width of each screen pattern is greater than a distance between the screen patterns;
forming first internal electrode patterns and second internal electrode patterns on the plurality of mother green sheets by use of the screen patterns;
forming a stack of the mother green sheets by stacking the plurality of mother green sheets having the internal electrode patterns formed thereon;
forming a capacitor body having a plurality of first and second internal electrodes, each of the first and second internal electrodes comprising a main electrode portion and a lead portion, formed therein, by cutting the stack of the mother green sheets along cutting lines arranged in the width direction and the longitudinal direction;
forming chip-protecting side members on both sides of the capacitor body such that the chip-protecting side members contact both sides of the internal electrodes, respectively; and
forming a pair of terminal electrodes on the outer surface of the capacitor body such that the terminal electrodes are connected to the internal electrodes through the lead portions.
6. The method as set forth in claim 5, wherein the step of forming the internal electrode patterns comprises:
printing conductive paste on the mother green sheets using the screen patterns as a print mask; and
drying the printed conductive paste.
7. The method as set forth in claim 5, wherein the step of forming the stack of the mother green sheets comprises:
alternately stacking the mother green sheets having the first internal electrode patterns formed thereon, and the mother green sheets having the second internal electrode patterns formed thereon.
8. The method as set forth in claim 5, wherein each of the screen patterns covers longitudinal margin portions.
9. The method as set forth in claim 5, wherein the screen patterns are formed such that the area of the screen patterns is larger than the area of the regions corresponding to longitudinal margin portions.
10. The method as set forth in claim 5, wherein the screen patterns are arranged to partially overlap each other in the width direction.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. Reader (1) for IC cards (2) with improved man-machine interface, having means (10) for connection with an IC card, means for managing, at the instigation of the reader, exchanges of information with a connected IC card (2), means (11, 12) for displaying and entering information, and a circuit (14) with microcontroller (140) and memory (141) which operates using programmed logic and establishes and manages a transmission link with the connected IC card (2), manages the means (11, 12) for displaying and entering information, processes the information: data andor instructions received from the connected IC card (2) and works out information: data, instructions or reports intended for the connected IC card (2), the said IC card reader being characterized in that its circuit (14) with microcontroller (140) and memory (141) is provided with a multitask operating system, and contains space in memory (141) for a library of programs which define visual andor audio, or other objects that are displayed on the display means and are executed by the circuit (14) with microcontroller (140) and memory (141) of the said reader (1) under the supervision of its operating system, as basic background task, in response to a call coming from a transaction management program which may equally well run by the connected IC card (2) or by the said reader (1).
2. IC card reader according to claim 1, characterized in that the said library include programs defining visual, audio or other objects which are resident in memory and others which are imported from the connected IC card (2) or from a computer system connected to the said IC card reader (1).
3. IC card reader according to claim 1, characterized in that the said library include programs defining visual audio or other objects which are standardized and can be utilized in response to a call from various application management programs.