Patents by Inventor Motoki Ito

Motoki Ito has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210083644
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a substrate 3, a multilayer film 5 on the substrate 3, an LT layer 7 which is located on the multilayer film and is configured by a single crystal of LiTaO3, and an IDT electrode 19 on the LT layer 7. In the multilayer film 7, a differential value D obtained by subtracting a total value of values each obtained by multiplying a density and thickness of a film having a slower acoustic velocity than a transverse wave acoustic velocity of the LT layer 7 from a total value of values each obtained by multiplying a density and thickness of a film having a faster acoustic velocity than the transverse wave acoustic velocity of the LT layer 7 is negative, and a thickness of the LT layer 7 is less than 2 p where a pitch of electrode fingers in the IDT electrode 19 is “p”.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Motoki ITO, Tetsuya KISHINO
  • Patent number: 10951194
    Abstract: A filter body includes a serial arm and one or more parallel resonators in a state where they are connected in a ladder shape. The serial arm includes a plurality of serial resonators connected in series to each other. A difference of resonance frequencies among the plurality of serial resonators is smaller than a half of a difference between the resonance frequency and an antiresonance frequency of each serial resonator. The serial arm includes a first divided arm which extends from one side toward the other side in a predetermined direction on the piezoelectric substrate, and a second divided arm which is folded back from the other side of the first divided arm and extends toward the one side. The shield conductor includes a portion which is located between at least one of the serial resonators included in the first divided arm and at least one of the serial resonators included in the second divided arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Ito, Shigehiko Nagamine, Tomofumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210036679
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a substrate, a multilayer film on the substrate, an LT layer configured by a single crystal of LiTaO3 on the multilayer film, and an IDT electrode on the LT layer. The thickness of the LT layer is 0.3? or less where ? is two times a pitch p of electrode fingers in the IDT electrode. Euler angles of the LT layer are (0°±20°, ?5° to 65°, 0°±10°), (?120°±20°, ?5° to 65°, 0°±10°), or (120°±20°, ?5° to 65°, 0°±10°). The multilayer film is configured by alternately stacking at least one first layer and at least one second layer. The first layer is comprised of SiO2. The second layer is comprised of any one of Ta2O5, HfO2, ZrO2, TiO2, and MgO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Tetsuya KISHINO, Soichiro NOZOE, Motoki ITO
  • Patent number: 10911024
    Abstract: A SAW filter includes a piezoelectric substrate, a serial arm and a parallel resonance portion. The serial arm includes one or more serial resonance portions. The parallel resonance portion is located on the piezoelectric substrate and configures a ladder-type filter together with the serial arm. The parallel resonance portion includes a parallel resonator and a capacity element. The parallel resonator includes an IDT electrodes on the piezoelectric substrate and a pair of reflectors on the two sides thereof. The capacity element is connected in parallel with the parallel resonator. A capacitance of the capacity element is 0.8 time or more of a capacitance of the IDT electrode in the parallel resonator. A difference between an anti-resonance frequency and a resonance frequency of the first parallel resonance portion is smaller than a difference between an anti-resonance frequency and a resonance frequency of the first parallel resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Motoki Ito
  • Publication number: 20210006227
    Abstract: A filter body includes a serial arm and one or more parallel resonators in a state where they are connected in a ladder shape. The serial arm includes a plurality of serial resonators connected in series to each other. A difference of resonance frequencies among the plurality of serial resonators is smaller than a half of a difference between the resonance frequency and an antiresonance frequency of each serial resonator. The serial arm includes a first divided arm which extends from one side toward the other side in a predetermined direction on the piezoelectric substrate, and a second divided arm which is folded back from the other side of the first divided arm and extends toward the one side. The shield conductor includes a portion which is located between at least one of the serial resonators included in the first divided arm and at least one of the serial resonators included in the second divided arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Motoki ITO, Shigehiko NAGAMINE, Tomofumi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200403599
    Abstract: An acoustic wave element includes an IDT electrode which includes a plurality of electrode fingers and excites a surface acoustic wave, a first substrate on an upper surface of which the IDT electrode is located, has a thickness less than 2 times “p” of a repetition interval of the plurality of electrode fingers, and is made of a piezoelectric crystal, an intermediate layer which includes a first surface and a second surface, has the first surface joined to a lower surface of the first substrate, and is made of a material having a slower transverse wave acoustic velocity than the first substrate, and a second substrate made of sapphire which is joined to the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Motoki ITO, Tetsuya KISHINO
  • Publication number: 20200304098
    Abstract: A SAW device includes a mounting substrate including a mounting surface, a SAW chip mounted on the mounting surface, a dummy chip mounted on the mounting surface, and a resin part covering the acoustic wave chip and the dummy chip. The dummy chip includes an insulating dummy substrate, and one or more dummy terminals which are located on a surface of the dummy substrate on the mounting surface side and are bonded to the mounting surface. The dummy chip configures an open end when electrically viewed from the mounting substrate side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventor: Motoki ITO
  • Publication number: 20200287515
    Abstract: A composite substrate includes a first substrate which is comprised of a lithium tantalate crystal and has Euler angles (0, ?, ?), and a second substrate which is comprised of a single crystal of silicon bonded to the first substrate and has Euler angles (?45, ?54.7, ?). In the composite substrate, ? is ?40° to ?60° or 120° to 140° and ? is 0° or 180°, and either of following conditions is satisfied. (1) ? is in a range of ?=?±20° and its equivalent orientation and (2) ? is in a range of ?+160°????+200°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Motoki ITO, Tetsuya KISHINO, Soichiro NOZOE
  • Publication number: 20200028486
    Abstract: An acoustic wave element includes an IDT electrode including electrode fingers, a first substrate on an upper surface of which the IDT electrode is located, which has a thickness of less than 2 times a repetition interval of the electrode fingers and is configured by a piezoelectric crystal, a second substrate bonded to a lower surface of the first substrate, and configured by an Si single crystal having a plane orientation of a (100) plane or (110) plane or a plane equal to them, in which substrate a crystal axis of the Si single crystal parallel to a substrate surface of Si single crystal is inclined at any angle of 25° to 65°, 115° to 155°, 205° to 245°, and 295° to 345° relative to a direction of propagation of an acoustic wave when viewed from the upper surface of the superposed first substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Tetsuya KISHINO, Motoki ITO
  • Patent number: 10536134
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a plurality of serial resonators and a plurality of parallel resonators configured by acoustic wave elements, which plurality of serial resonators and plurality of parallel resonators configure a filter in which they are connected in a ladder configuration; a first capacitance part which is connected in parallel to at least one of the plurality of serial resonators; and a second capacitance part which is connected in series to at least one of the plurality of parallel resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Motoki Ito
  • Patent number: 10389391
    Abstract: An SAW resonator includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode, and a pair of reflectors. The IDT electrode includes pluralities of electrode fingers which are aligned on the piezoelectric substrate in a direction of propagation of a SAW. The pair of reflectors are located on the two sides of the pluralities of electrode fingers on the piezoelectric substrate in the direction of propagation. The IDT electrode includes a plurality of areas which includes pluralities of electrode fingers distributed to them and have different resonance frequencies from each other. The plurality of areas include at least three areas. The second highest resonance frequency among all areas is lower than an intermediate value between the lowest resonance frequency among all areas and the highest resonance frequency among all areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Ito, Tetsuya Kishino, Tsuyoshi Nakai
  • Publication number: 20190245518
    Abstract: A SAW filter includes a piezoelectric substrate, a serial arm and a parallel resonance portion. The serial arm includes one or more serial resonance portions. The parallel resonance portion is located on the piezoelectric substrate and configures a ladder-type filter together with the serial arm. The parallel resonance portion includes a parallel resonator and a capacity element. The parallel resonator includes an IDT electrodes on the piezoelectric substrate and a pair of reflectors on the two sides thereof. The capacity element is connected in parallel with the parallel resonator. A capacitance of the capacity element is 0.8 time or more of a capacitance of the IDT electrode in the parallel resonator. A difference between an anti-resonance frequency and a resonance frequency of the first parallel resonance portion is smaller than a difference between an anti-resonance frequency and a resonance frequency of the first parallel resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventor: Motoki ITO
  • Patent number: 10367473
    Abstract: An input port, an output port, and a plurality of serial resonators and a plurality of parallel resonators connected in a ladder type between the input port and the output port and including IDT electrodes are provided. The plurality of parallel resonators include at least one first parallel resonator having a resonance frequency lower than resonance frequencies of the plurality of serial resonators, and at least one second parallel resonator having a resonance frequency higher than antiresonance frequencies of the plurality of serial resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Ito, Tomonori Urata
  • Publication number: 20190036554
    Abstract: An SAW resonator includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode, and a pair of reflectors. The IDT electrode includes pluralities of electrode fingers which are aligned on the piezoelectric substrate in a direction of propagation of a SAW. The pair of reflectors are located on the two sides of the pluralities of electrode fingers on the piezoelectric substrate in the direction of propagation. The IDT electrode includes a plurality of areas which includes pluralities of electrode fingers distributed to them and have different resonance frequencies from each other. The plurality of areas include at least three areas. The second highest resonance frequency among all areas is lower than an intermediate value between the lowest resonance frequency among all areas and the highest resonance frequency among all areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Motoki ITO, Tetsuya KISHINO, Tsuyoshi NAKAI
  • Publication number: 20180159506
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a plurality of serial resonators and a plurality of parallel resonators configured by acoustic wave elements, which plurality of serial resonators and plurality of parallel resonators configure a filter in which they are connected in a ladder configuration; a first capacitance part which is connected in parallel to at least one of the plurality of serial resonators; and a second capacitance part which is connected in series to at least one of the plurality of parallel resonators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventor: Motoki ITO
  • Publication number: 20180026605
    Abstract: An input port, an output port, and a plurality of serial resonators and a plurality of parallel resonators connected in a ladder type between the input port and the output port and including IDT electrodes are provided. The plurality of parallel resonators include at least one first parallel resonator having a resonance frequency lower than resonance frequencies of the plurality of serial resonators, and at least one second parallel resonator having a resonance frequency higher than antiresonance frequencies of the plurality of serial resonators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Motoki ITO, Tomonori URATA
  • Patent number: 9737850
    Abstract: Provided is a novel palladium catalyst capable of efficiently purifying carbon monoxide (CO) and total hydrocarbons (THC) under a fuel-rich atmosphere even when palladium (Pd) is used as a catalyst active component. Proposed is a palladium monolayer catalyst for an exhaust gas from a saddle-riding-type vehicle, which is an exhaust gas purification catalyst for a saddle-riding-type vehicle to be installed in an exhaust gas passage in an internal combustion engine. The palladium monolayer catalyst includes a substrate, and a catalyst layer that has the form of a monolayer and contains palladium acting as a catalyst active component, an inorganic porous body acting as a catalyst carrier, ceria (CeO2) particles acting as a promoter component, and barium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kimura, Hiroyuki Horimura, Akiko Koga, Motoki Ito, Masateru Tsuji, Takashi Wakabayashi, Yosuke Shibata, Yunosuke Nakahara, Kiyotaka Yasuda
  • Patent number: 9048816
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter has a first signal line connecting one among the plurality of first IDT electrodes and the first balanced signal terminal; a second signal line connecting the other first IDT electrode with the second balanced signal terminal; a third signal line connecting one among the plurality of second IDT electrodes with the second balanced signal terminal; and a fourth signal line connecting the other second IDT electrode with the first balanced signal terminal. The fourth signal line has an intersection portion three-dimensionally intersecting with a part of the second signal line. The intersection portion extends in a direction inclined relative to the second signal line on the major surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Ito, Naoki Hashimura
  • Publication number: 20150086434
    Abstract: Provided is a novel palladium catalyst capable of efficiently purifying carbon monoxide (CO) and total hydrocarbons (THC) under a fuel-rich atmosphere even when palladium (Pd) is used as a catalyst active component. Proposed is a palladium monolayer catalyst for an exhaust gas from a saddle-riding-type vehicle, which is an exhaust gas purification catalyst for a saddle-riding-type vehicle to be installed in an exhaust gas passage in an internal combustion engine. The palladium monolayer catalyst includes a substrate, and a catalyst layer that has the form of a monolayer and contains palladium acting as a catalyst active component, an inorganic porous body acting as a catalyst carrier, ceria (CeO2) particles acting as a promoter component, and barium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicants: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kimura, Hiroyuki Horimura, Akiko Koga, Motoki Ito, Masateru Tsuji, Takashi Wakabayashi, Yosuke Shibata, Yunosuke Nakahara, Kiyotaka Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20130335172
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter has a first signal line connecting one among the plurality of first IDT electrodes and the first balanced signal terminal; a second signal line connecting the other first IDT electrode with the second balanced signal terminal; a third signal line connecting one among the plurality of second IDT electrodes with the second balanced signal terminal; and a fourth signal line connecting the other second IDT electrode with the first balanced signal terminal. The fourth signal line has an intersection portion three-dimensionally intersecting with a part of the second signal line. The intersection portion extends in a direction inclined relative to the second signal line on the major surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Ito, Naoki Hashimura