Patents Assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co., Inc.
  • Patent number: 11978593
    Abstract: A film capacitor 1 that includes: a capacitor element including a metallized film with a resin film and a metal layer on a surface of the resin film; an outer case that houses the capacitor element; and a filling resin that fills a space between the capacitor element and the outer case, wherein the outer case includes a resin composition that contains a liquid crystal polymer and an inorganic filler, and an amount of exposure of the inorganic filler from an outer surface of the outer case is 5% to 90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., SHIZUKI ELECTRIC CO., INC.
    Inventors: Satoru Jogan, Kimiaki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11948748
    Abstract: A film capacitor that includes a dielectric resin film containing a cured product of a first organic material and a second organic material; and a metal layer on at least one surface of the dielectric resin film. The first organic material contains an organic polymer having a hydroxy group and a benzene ring in a repeating unit; the second organic material contains 4,4?-diphenylmethane diisocyanate, a modified product of 4,4?-diphenylmethane diisocyanate, or a mixture thereof; and 400 ppm to 700 ppm of chlorine ions and 300 ppm to 500 ppm of phosphorus ions are present inside the dielectric resin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., SHIZUKI ELECTRIC CO., INC.
    Inventors: Tomoki Inakura, Tomomichi Ichikawa, Atsushi Kawabata
  • Patent number: 9947972
    Abstract: A battery pack and a method of inspecting a storage state of a secondary battery in the battery pack are provided. In the method of inspecting a storage state of a secondary battery in the battery pack, the battery pack includes (A) a plurality of secondary batteries and (B) a housing, the housing having a plurality of storage sections and containing the secondary batteries in the respective storage sections; a conductive member 30 is attached to an outer surface of each of the secondary batteries made of a non-conductive material; each of the storage sections is provided with at least two detection sections; and depending on a storage state of each of the secondary batteries in each of the storage sections, two detection sections are in contact with the conductive member, or at least one detection section is not in contact with the conductive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ozawa, Shin Hotta, Kentaro Marutani, Shinichi Uesaka
  • Patent number: 9494684
    Abstract: A position measurement device that measures three-dimensional coordinates of an object using ultrasound. The position measurement device includes a transmitter that emits an ultrasonic wave; three receivers that receive an ultrasonic wave; a time determination unit that determines an arrival time candidate for each of the receivers wherein the arrival time candidate is a time period from emission to arrival of the ultrasonic wave after being reflected from an object, and determines a plurality of the arrival time candidates for at least one of the receivers; a coordinate calculation unit that calculates a plurality of candidates of three-dimensional coordinates indicative of positions of the object based on the arrival time candidates determined by the time determination unit and relative positions of the transmitter and the receivers; and a coordinate determination unit that determines the three-dimensional coordinates of the object based on the plurality of candidates of three-dimensional coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., INC.
    Inventor: Masayuki Honda
  • Patent number: 7791532
    Abstract: A radar wherein, in response to an increase in the level of noise appearing in a frequency spectrum caused by interference being superimposed on a beat signal, peaks exceeding a threshold are extracted as target peaks in an ordinary state and a predetermined number of peaks in descending order starting from the peak having the highest peak value are extracted in the case where interference occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Motoi Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 6479777
    Abstract: An electronic parts conveying apparatus reduces damage to electronic parts (e.g., chip-type electronic parts) and stabilizes the positions of the electronic parts during a conveying operation. The conveying apparatus has a conveying table having, on its entire outer-peripheral section, concave storage slots formed with identical pitches that store the electronic parts in series. The conveying table also has air holes, each of which passes through a respective concave storage slot. One end of the air hole terminates in an opening disposed on an inner-circumferential side surface of the concave storage slot. The other end of the air hole communicates through a selector valve with a negative air pressure source, which generates negative air pressure suction applied to suction the electronic part into the concave storage slot. The hole is also connected with a positive air pressure source, which generates air pressure to eject the electronic part from the concave storage slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 6369487
    Abstract: A piezoelectric resonance component includes a capacitor substrate, a piezoelectric resonator mounted on the capacitor substrate, and a cover member fixedly attached to the capacitor substrate. The capacitor substrate includes a dielectric substrate, a plurality of inner electrodes arranged in layers within the dielectric substrate, and a plurality of outer electrodes disposed on at least one of opposed side surfaces of the dielectric substrate. The plurality of inner electrodes include an inner electrode to be connected to a ground potential and a pair of split inner electrodes located at a common vertical position and spaced apart from each other with respect to a central portion of the dielectric substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Eitaro Kameda, Toshiyuki Baba, Jiro Inoue, Shoichi Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20020027486
    Abstract: Electrodes having slot patterns, electrodes having strip patterns, or dielectric strips, for example, form transmission lines and resonator patterns on the upper faces of dielectric substrates or conductive substrates, for example. Resonators formed by the resonator patterns are arranged at the ends of the transmission lines at the end portions of the substrates. A pair of the resonators are electromagnetically coupled to each other, whereby the corresponding transmission lines are also connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Mikami, Toshiro Hiratsuka, Tomiya Sonoda, Kiyoshi Kanagawa
  • Patent number: 5346638
    Abstract: An oxide magnetic material comprises a basic composition consisting essentially of 45.0 to 49.0 mol % of Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, 3.0 to 9.0 mol % of MgO, 1.0 to 4.0 mol % of CuO, 0.1 to 1.5 mol % of Bi.sub.2 O.sub.3, and the balance of NiO and additives, and contains, as additives, SiO.sub.2 and Co.sub.3 O.sub.4 incorporated in the basic composition in an amount of 0.1 to 0.5 wt % of SiO.sub.2 and 0.05 to 0.35 wt % of Co.sub.3 O.sub.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Kodama, Yasunobu Yoneda
  • Patent number: 5172299
    Abstract: A multilayer capacitor in which a plurality of inner electrodes are laminated while being separated by dielectric layers in a dielectric body, each of the inner electrodes having a plurality of inner electrode fingers formed while being separated by gaps, and respective ones of the plurality of inner electrode fingers having at least two different widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hideshi Yamada, Noboru Kato
  • Patent number: 4307356
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and a transmitting, a receiving and a reflecting transducer disposed thereon in a row along a predetermined path. The transmitting transducer is responsive to an input signal having a predetermined center frequency for propagating a first surface acoustic wave along the predetermined path. The receiving transducer is located at a location spaced a predetermined distance from the transmitting transducer and is adapted to convert the first acoustic wave to an electrical output signal, but also generates an undesired reflected wave. The reflecting transducer is provided close to one of the other two above-described transducers and is responsive to the first surface acoustic wave to generate a cancellation reflected wave which cancels the undesired reflected wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1981
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Seiichi Arai
  • Patent number: 4229786
    Abstract: In a fly-back transformer, the tertiary winding for obtaining the secondary B power source is wound in a position where the coupling with the primary winding is weak and where it interlinks the leakage flux of the secondary winding with the primary winding, and the output of the tertiary winding is rectified during the scanning period of a horizontal deflection circuit of a television receiver. Accordingly, only the wave crest value of the ringing is made smaller, regardless of the shot pulse to be obtained within the secondary winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1980
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Mitani, Katumi Tokuda, Saburo Kitao