Patents Assigned to Epson Toyocom Corporation
  • Patent number: 7999626
    Abstract: A physical section of an atomic oscillator includes at least: a gas cell including a cylindrical portion and first and second windows respectively hermetically-closing openings of both sides of the cylindrical portion to form a cavity in which gaseous metal atoms are sealed; a light reflection unit disposed on the first window; a first heating unit disposed to be closely attached to the second window and heating the gas cell at a predetermined temperature; a light source disposed so as to allow a light emitting part thereof to face the light reflecting unit, emitting excitation light exciting the metal atoms in the gas cell, and provided on a side, which is a reverse side to a side to which the gas cell is provided, of the first heating unit; a light detection unit detecting the excitation light reflected by the light reflection unit and provided also on a side, which is a reverse side to a side to which the gas cell is provided, of the first heating unit; and a Peltier element interposed between the light so
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Chindo, Taku Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8000208
    Abstract: A laminated wave plate that corresponds to a plurality of wavelengths including at least two wavelengths of ?A and ?B, and includes a first wave plate disposed on an incident side and a second wave plate disposed on an emitting side, the first wave plate and the second wave plate being laminated in such a manner that their optical axes are intersected each other, includes the following equations from (1) to (5): ?A1=360°+360°×2NA??(1); ?A2=180°+360°×NA??(2); ?B1=360°×2NB??(3); ?B2=360°×NB??(4); and NB=(?nB/?nA)×(?A/?B)×(0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Oto
  • Patent number: 7995276
    Abstract: A first and a second wave plates using quartz crystal having birefringence are laminated together in such a manner that their optical axes intersect to form a laminated wave plate functioning as a half-wave plate as a whole. Phase differences of the first and the second wave plates relative to an ordinary ray and an extraordinary ray with respect to a predetermined wavelength ? are set to be ?1 and ?2, an order of a high-mode order is set to be a natural number n, whereby the high-order mode laminated half-wave plate is formed so as to satisfy: ?1=180°+360°×n; and ?2=180°+360°×n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Oto
  • Patent number: 7990616
    Abstract: An optical multilayer filter having an inorganic thin film composed of a plurality of layers on a substrate includes a fluorinated organic silicon compound film formed on a surface of the inorganic thin film, a low-density formation section forming a part of the inorganic thin film, having one or more layers including the most superficial layer of the inorganic thin film, the one or more layers being formed of at least one of a low-density titanium oxide layer and a low-density silicon oxide layer, and a high-density formation section forming another part of the inorganic thin film, disposed between the low-density formation section and the substrate, having silicon oxide layers with a density higher than the low-density silicon oxide layer and titanium oxide layers with a density higher than the low-density titanium oxide layer in a stacked manner. A total thickness of the low-density formation section is equal to or smaller than 280 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventor: Munehiro Shibuya
  • Patent number: 7990027
    Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes: a container; a piezoelectric resonator element accommodated in the container; a circuit element accommodated in the container so as not to overlap with the piezoelectric resonator element in a plan view; and a mounting stage to which the piezoelectric resonator element is fixed. The mounting stage is fixed inside the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventor: Seiichiro Tamura
  • Patent number: 7986194
    Abstract: An oscillator, includes an amplifier circuit including a semiconductor element having a first constant potential as reference potential for a power supply voltage, a variable capacitance element, a piezoelectric resonator, and a capacitance circuit constituting a closed circuit with the piezoelectric resonator. The amplifier circuit and the variable capacitance element are connected in series to provide a series circuit. The capacitance circuit connects the capacitance elements in a plurality of numbers in series. A connecting midpoint of the series connection is connected to a circuit for the first constant potential. Two connecting midpoints other than the midpoint of the closed circuit are used as connecting points to connect the series circuit and the closed circuit in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kiyohara, Takehiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7986608
    Abstract: A laminated wave plate of the present invention includes a first wave plate having a phase difference of ?1 and a second wave plate having a phase difference of ?2 with respect to a wavelength ?, the first wave plate and the second wave plate being bonded together so that an optical axis of the first wave plate and an optical axis of the second wave plate intersect each other to function as a quarter-wave plate as a whole, the laminated wave plate comprising following equations from (1) to (6): ?1=360×(n1+1) . . . (1); ?2=90×(2×n2+1 . . . (2); ??1=(?12a??11a)/(?12??11) . . . (3); ??2=(?12b??11b)/(?12??11) . . . (4); cos 2?1=1?(1?cos ??2)/{2×(1?cos ??1)}. . . (5); and ?2=45°±5°. . . (6), wherein ?1 is an optic axis orientation of the first wave plate, ?2 is an optic axis orientation of the second wave plate, and each of ?11????12, n1, and n2 is a natural number starting from 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Oto
  • Publication number: 20110170400
    Abstract: First and a second wave plates using quartz crystal having birefringence are laminated together in such a manner that their optical axes intersect to form a laminated wave plate functioning as a half-wave plate as a whole. Phase differences of the first and the second wave plates relative to an ordinary ray and an extraordinary ray with respect to a predetermined wavelength ? are set to be ?1 and ?2, an order of a high-mode order is set to be a natural number n, whereby the high-order mode laminated half-wave plate is formed so as to satisfy: ?1=180°+360°×n; and ?2=180°+360°×n.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki OTO
  • Publication number: 20110162452
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: an outline configuration including a first surface, a second surface facing opposite from the first surface, and a mounting surface coupled to the first and second surfaces; a first substrate including a first electrode; a second substrate including a second electrode; a resin disposed between the first and second substrates; and an electric element sealed with the resin and having an outline configuration of a polyhedron, the electric element being disposed such that a broadest surface of the polyhedron faces one of the first substrate and the second substrate. The first surface is one surface of the first substrate, the one surface being opposite from another surface of the first substrate on a side adjacent to the resin. The second surface is one surface of the second substrate, the one surface being opposite from another surface of the second substrate on a side adjacent to the resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi ONO, Yoshihiro KOBAYASHI, Shojiro KITAMURA, Masayuki MATSUNAGA, Akitoshi HARA
  • Patent number: 7969072
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a package including a lid and a package base, the package being formed by bonding the lid to a joint surface of the package base using a bonding material; and a resin portion covering the package. The resin portion covers at least the package base and the bonding material, and at least a part of the resin portion has a section outline. The section outline has an outermost portion thereof in a direction parallel with a mount surface of the electronic device. The outermost portion is located below a lower surface of the lid in a direction perpendicular to the mount surface of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventors: Juichiro Matsuzawa, Kazuhiko Shimodaira
  • Patent number: 7954215
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an acceleration sensing unit includes: providing an element support substrate in which a plurality of element supporting members is arranged so as to form a plane, each of the element supporting members being coupled to the other element supporting member through a supporting part and having a fixed part and a movable part that is supported by the fixed part through a beam, the beam having a flexibility with which the movable part is displaced along an acceleration detection axis direction when an acceleration is applied to the movable part; providing an stress sensing element substrate in which a plurality of stress sensing elements is arranged so as to form a plane, each of the stress sensing elements being coupled to the other stress sensing element through an element supporting part and having a stress sensing part and fixed ends that are formed so as to have a single body with the stress sensing part at both ends of the stress sensing part; disposing the stress sensing element
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikuni Saito
  • Patent number: 7956697
    Abstract: An atomic oscillator that controls an oscillation frequency by using an optical absorption property derived from a quantum interference effect occurring when two kinds of resonance light are made incident as coherent light having different wavelengths from each other, includes an optical system that includes: a gas cell sealing metal atoms in a gas state therein; a coherent light source for supplying the resonance light to the metal atoms being in the gas cell; and a light detector for detecting light transmitted through the gas cell. In the atomic oscillator, a first refraction unit is formed at a light incident side, on which coherent light is made incident, of the gas cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Aoyama, Hiroshi Nomura, Naoki Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20110113879
    Abstract: An inertial sensor, comprises a detection element detecting an amount of a physical quantity in a detection axis direction, a plurality of support members having flexibility and supporting nearly a center of the detection element, and a package substrate housing the detection element and the plurality of support members. In a case when an X-axis is defined as an extending direction of the plurality of support members, a Y-axis is perpendicular to the X-axis in a plane including the detection element, and a Z-axis is perpendicular to the X-axis and the Y-axis, one of load components in a direction of the Y-axis of the detection member applied to the plurality of support members is nearly equal to other among the plurality of support members, and one of load components in a direction of the Z-axis is nearly equal to the other among the plurality of support members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki MATSUNAGA, Kenji Sato
  • Patent number: 7943895
    Abstract: A wavelength splitting element for splitting a multiplexed light beam into separate wavelength bands and emitting the beams from separate emission ports including a first filter for splitting the multiplexed light beam into light beams in wavelength band ?1, which passes in a first direction, and wavelength bands ?2 and ?3, which reflects; a second filter, for splitting the reflected light into light beams in wavelength band ?3, which passes in a second direction, and wavelength band ?2, which reflects in a third direction; and a third filter, for passing the light beam in the wavelength band ?2. The first filter passes the light beam in the wavelength band ?2 reflected by the second filter and incident to the first filter again based on an incident angle, and the third filter passes only the light beam in the wavelength band ?2 that the first filter passes in the third direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Nakasendo, Masaki Iwamoto, Ayumu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7942062
    Abstract: A pressure sensor includes: a housing; an attachment having a pressure input orifice communicating with an interior of the housing; a first diaphragm that seals an opening of the pressure input orifice of the attachment, an external surface of the first diaphragm being a pressure receiving surface; a force transmitting member having an end which is coupled approximately perpendicular to a main surface of the first diaphragm, the main surface being opposite from the pressure receiving surface; a swing arm which is joined to the force transmitting member and is held to a retainer at a pivoting point as a fulcrum; and a pressure sensing element having a first end coupled to the retainer and a second end coupled to the swing arm, so that a displacement direction of the force transmitting member is the same direction as a line joining the first end and the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventor: Hisao Motoyama
  • Patent number: 7936115
    Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator element includes: a resonating arm extending in a first direction and cantilever-supported; a base portion cantilever-supporting the resonating arm; and an excitation electrode allowing the resonating arm to perform flexural vibration in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. In the piezoelectric resonator element, the resonating arm includes an adjusting part adjusting rigidity with respect to a bend in a third direction that is orthogonal to the first and second directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Kikushima
  • Patent number: 7936508
    Abstract: First and second wave plates using quartz crystal having birefringence are laminated together in such a manner that their optical axes intersect to form a laminated wave plate functioning as a half-wave plate as a whole. Phase differences of the first and the second wave plates relative to an ordinary ray and an extraordinary ray with respect to a predetermined wavelength ? are set to be ?1 and ?2, an order of a high-mode order is set to be a natural number n, whereby the high-order mode laminated half-wave plate is formed so as to satisfy: ?1=180°+360°×n; and ?2=180°+360°×n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Oto
  • Patent number: 7933128
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: an outline configuration including a first surface, a second surface facing opposite from the first surface, and a mounting surface coupled to the first and second surfaces; a first substrate including a first electrode; a second substrate including a second electrode; a resin disposed between the first and second substrates; and an electric element sealed with the resin and having an outline configuration of a polyhedron, the electric element being disposed such that a broadest surface of the polyhedron faces one of the first substrate and the second substrate. The first surface is one surface of the first substrate, the one surface being opposite from another surface of the first substrate on a side adjacent to the resin. The second surface is one surface of the second substrate, the one surface being opposite from another surface of the second substrate on a side adjacent to the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Epson Toyocom Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ono, Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Shojiro Kitamura, Masayuki Matsunaga, Akitoshi Hara
  • Patent number: 7932664
    Abstract: A resonator includes a base portion and a vibration arm. The vibration arm has first and second main faces opposite each other, the main faces have first and second grooves, the first groove has a plurality of first groove portions which are divided in the longitudinal direction of the vibration arm and arranged to be alternately shifted on both sides with respect to the longitudinal center line of the vibration arm, the second groove has a plurality of second groove portions arranged similar to the first groove portions on an opposite side to the first groove portions with respect to the longitudinal center line. A voltage is applied to excitation electrodes provided at the first and second grooves and second excitation electrodes provided on both side faces of the vibration arm, such that the vibration arm flexural-vibrates in the in-plane direction of the first or second main face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignees: Epson Toyocom Corporation, Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yamazaki, Makoto Furuhata
  • Publication number: 20110089788
    Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator element includes: a resonating arm extending in a first direction and cantilever-supported; a base portion cantilever-supporting the resonating arm; and an excitation electrode allowing the resonating arm to perform flexural vibration in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. In the piezoelectric resonator element, the resonating arm includes an adjusting part adjusting rigidity with respect to a bend in a third direction that is orthogonal to the first and second directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Kikushima