FIM Products

FIMTechnology

TPC (acquired by AVX Corporation in 1979) has been at the forefrontof high performance film capacitor technology improvements for over 20 years. In 1979 they developed TRAFIM series (polypropylene Film, Impregnated and Metallizedwith aluminum) provided superior energy density due to impregnation with rape seed oil thereby enabling more compact capacitor designs. CONTROLLED SELF-HEALING technologyspecifically to enhance the performance of film power capacitors. This enabled the capacitor to continue to function without catastrophic failure by insulating the weak points of the dielectric material. During operation, the capacitor behaves like a battery. It will consume capacitance via the gradual breakdown of individual cells until it decreases down to 2% of the original value. Further improvements were made in 1988 for DC filtering applications.The DC filtering technologies: TRAFIM, FILFIM and CAPAFIM Energy storage and discharge technologies: DISFIM
( LCC and Thomson Passive Components were recognized trading names until the AVXacquisition took place.) This present catalog doesn’t include DISFIM products, if you are interested in energy storage or discharge industrial capacitors, please contact AVX sales for more information.The DISFIM Products guide for customer’s specific requirements is presented on page 31. 2