Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Kimura

Tetsuya Kimura 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).

  • Patent number: 11063202
    Abstract: An elastic wave device that utilizes a longitudinal wave leaky elastic wave includes a first medium layer, a second medium layer stacked on the first medium layer either directly or indirectly and that is a silicon oxide layer, a piezoelectric film stacked on the second medium layer either directly or indirectly, and an IDT electrode disposed on the piezoelectric film either directly or indirectly. In the elastic wave device, ?1×C11, which is a product of a density ?1 (kg/m3) of the first medium layer and an elastic constant C11 of the first medium layer, is larger than ?0×C11, which is a product of a density ?0 (kg/m3) of the piezoelectric film and an elastic constant C11 of the piezoelectric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kimura, Yutaka Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20210194402
    Abstract: Provided is an electric motor control device including: a speed controller configured to calculate an operation amount directed to an electric motor, and output the operation amount; a first filter configured to use the operation amount as an input to calculate a first correction amount in accordance with a first transfer function from the operation amount to the first correction amount, and output the first correction amount; a second filter configured to use a rotational speed as an input to calculate a second correction amount in accordance with the second transfer function from the rotational speed to the second correction amount, and output the second correction amount; and a control command calculator configured to add the first correction amount and the second correction amount to one another, to thereby calculate a control command, and output the control command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya KIMURA, Yasushi OTSUKA, Eiji YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210146402
    Abstract: A MEMS device includes a piezoelectric layer made of a piezoelectric single crystal, a first electrode on a first surface of the piezoelectric layer, and a first layer covering the first surface of the piezoelectric layer. At least a portion of the piezoelectric layer is included in a membrane portion. The first electrode is covered with the first layer and includes a recess. The piezoelectric layer includes a through hole that passes through the piezoelectric layer between a surface of the piezoelectric layer, which is opposite to the first direction, and the recess at a position corresponding to at least a portion of the first electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yutaka KISHIMOTO, Shinsuke IKEUCHI, Katsumi FUJIMOTO, Tetsuya KIMURA, Fumiya KUROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210147217
    Abstract: A MEMS device includes a membrane portion, a piezoelectric layer made of a piezoelectric single crystal, a first electrode on a first surface of the piezoelectric layer, a second electrode on a second surface of the piezoelectric layer opposite to the first direction, and a first layer covering the first surface of the piezoelectric layer. At least a portion of the piezoelectric layer is included in the membrane portion. Each of the first electrode and the second electrode has a tapered cross-sectional shape with a width which decreases with increasing distance from the piezoelectric layer on a cross section along a plane vertical to the surface in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yutaka KISHIMOTO, Shinsuke IKEUCHI, Katsumi FUJIMOTO, Tetsuya KIMURA, Fumiya KUROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210152149
    Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a membrane portion and a piezoelectric layer made of single crystal of a piezoelectric body. At least a portion of the piezoelectric layer is included in the membrane portion. An electrode is provided on a surface of the piezoelectric layer in the membrane portion. The piezoelectric layer includes a first polarization region in a first polarization state and a second polarization region in a second polarization state, and the first polarization region and the second polarization region are spaced apart from each other in a thickness direction or an in-plane direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Yutaka KISHIMOTO, Shinsuke IKEUCHI, Katsumi FUJIMOTO, Tetsuya KIMURA, Fumiya KUROKAWA
  • Patent number: 10951193
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes an interdigital transducer electrode including electrode fingers provided on a first principal surface of a piezoelectric thin film. A conductive layer is provided on a second principal surface of the piezoelectric thin film. An elastic wave propagates in the piezoelectric thin film in an S0 mode of a plate wave, and a piezoelectric thin film portion in a region below spaces between the electrode fingers of the interdigital transducer electrode is displaced by a greater amount than each electrode finger and a piezoelectric thin film portion in a region below each electrode finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kishimoto, Masashi Omura, Tetsuya Kimura
  • Publication number: 20210066575
    Abstract: An elastic wave device in which a recess is provided on an upper side of a support, a piezoelectric thin film covers the recess, and an IDT electrode is provided on an upper surface of the piezoelectric thin film. A plate wave of an S0 mode or SH0 mode is used. A plurality of grooves are provided in the upper surface or lower surface of the piezoelectric thin film at a portion of the piezoelectric thin film that is positioned on a hollow section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yutaka KISHIMOTO, Tetsuya KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10938374
    Abstract: A multiplexer includes a common terminal, a first band pass filter that is connected to the common terminal and has a first pass band, and a second band pass filter that is connected to the common terminal and has a second pass band located at higher frequencies than the first pass band. The first band pass filter includes an acoustic wave device that includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric body stacked on the support substrate, and an IDT electrode provided on the piezoelectric body. The piezoelectric body is made of lithium niobate. The acoustic wave device utilizes Rayleigh waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kimura
  • Publication number: 20210057693
    Abstract: A metallic accommodating frame is the metallic accommodating frame for a lead storage battery that accommodates the lead storage battery including an electrode group in which a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are stacked with a separator interposed therebetween, and a battery case for accommodating the electrode group, in which the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate are formed by filling an electrode material into a grid body having a protrusion that projects outwardly from a frame forming an outline in a plan view. The metallic accommodating frame includes: a conductive housing-having an opening that opens horizontally, and accommodating the lead storage battery therein; and a first protector that is disposed between a first surface facing the protrusion among surfaces forming the battery case of the lead storage battery accommodated in the housing and the housing, and is made of an insulating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji KARITANI, Tetsuya KIMURA, Yoshitaka OGASAHARA, Nobunaga TSUJII, Ichiroh MUKAITANI
  • Patent number: 10910445
    Abstract: A disclosed display device includes first electrodes, a second electrode, an organic layer arranged between the first electrodes and the second electrode, and an insulating film configured to cover at least a side face of each of the first electrodes. The insulating film includes a first insulating layer configured to cover at least a part of the side face of each of the first electrodes, and a second insulating layer configured to cover the side face. The first insulating layer is arranged between the side face and the second insulating layer, and includes a first part and a second part whose density is lower than a density of the first part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobutaka Ukigaya, Tetsuya Kimura, Daisuke Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 10910546
    Abstract: An end-surface-reflection surface acoustic wave device, which reflects a surface acoustic wave between first and second end surfaces facing each other, includes a support substrate, an intermediate layer, a piezoelectric layer, and an IDT electrode. The first end surface is located at one end portion in a surface-acoustic-wave propagation direction and extends from a main surface of the piezoelectric layer to at least a portion of the intermediate layer. The second end surface is located at the other end portion in the surface-acoustic-wave propagation direction and extends from the main surface of the piezoelectric layer to at least a portion of the intermediate layer. The support substrate includes support substrate portions that are located outside the first and second end surfaces in the surface-acoustic-wave propagation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kimura
  • Publication number: 20210028434
    Abstract: A short-circuit prevention member has electrical insulation and is attachable to and detachable from at least one of the positive electrode connecting member and the negative electrode connecting member, and in a state in which the short-circuit prevention member is mounted on the positive electrode connecting member and/or the negative electrode connecting member, the short-circuit prevention member covers at least one end portion of the positive electrode connecting member and/or the negative electrode connecting member in an extending direction and the tab of the positive electrode and/or the tab of the negative electrode located closest to the end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Shigeo AONE, Nobunaga TSUJII, Tetsuya KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10879870
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and an IDT electrode provided on the piezoelectric substrate. The IDT electrode includes a busbar electrode extending in an elastic wave propagation direction and electrode fingers connected to the busbar electrode and extending in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the elastic wave propagation direction. The piezoelectric substrate includes a groove extending along the elastic wave propagation direction. The groove is provided on a side across the busbar electrode in the perpendicular or substantially perpendicular direction from a side at which the electrode fingers are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kishimoto, Tetsuya Kimura
  • Patent number: 10862020
    Abstract: An elastic wave device in which a recess is provided on an upper side of a support, a piezoelectric thin film covers the recess, and an IDT electrode is provided on an upper surface of the piezoelectric thin film. A plate wave of an S0 mode or SH0 mode is used. A plurality of grooves are provided in the upper surface or lower surface of the piezoelectric thin film at a portion of the piezoelectric thin film that is positioned on a hollow section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kishimoto, Tetsuya Kimura
  • Patent number: 10817772
    Abstract: An identity determination apparatus includes a first storage unit that stores registration apparatus information used in a case where reference data obtained by imaging a portion of a surface of an object to be determined is registered, material information regarding the object which is a target for identity determination, collation apparatus information used in a case where collation data is acquired, and collation reference information used in collation in association with each other, a second storage unit that stores the registration apparatus information and the material information in association with reference data acquired in advance, a reception unit that receives collation data acquired from the object to be determined in a case where a determination process is performed, the material information, and the collation apparatus information, and a determination unit that reads out the collation reference information corresponding to the material information and the collation apparatus information which a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Oneda, Tatsuya Yamamoto, Tetsuya Kimura, Kenichiro Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10771039
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes first and second electrode fingers provided on a first principal surface of a piezoelectric body. In a case that a portion where the first electrode finger and the second electrode finger overlap with each other when they are viewed from a first direction connecting the first and second end surfaces is an intersecting portion, and a distance between the first end surface and the second end surface in the piezoelectric body is a width of the piezoelectric body, a different width portion having a width different from the width of the piezoelectric body at a central portion of the intersecting portion in a second direction is provided in a region where the first end surface and the second end surface oppose each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kimura, Ville Kaajakari
  • Patent number: 10715105
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric laminate, and first and second interdigital transducer electrodes. The piezoelectric laminate includes an intermediate layer provided directly or indirectly on the support substrate and a piezoelectric thin film provided on the intermediate layer. The first and second interdigital transducer electrodes are provided on the piezoelectric thin film of the piezoelectric laminate so as to be disposed in an identical or substantially identical plane. In the piezoelectric laminate, a thickness of a portion where the first interdigital transducer electrode is provided is different from a thickness of a portion where the second interdigital transducer electrode is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kishimoto, Masashi Omura, Tetsuya Kimura
  • Publication number: 20200175437
    Abstract: A production management system 100 includes an operating state acquisition apparatus 20a and a production management apparatus 10. The operating state acquisition apparatus 20a includes a detector 21a that is retrofitted to be mounted on a production equipment 31 disposed on a manufacturing line L1 or retrofitted to be disposed in a vicinity of the production equipment 31, and which outputs a detection signal indicating an operating state of the production equipment 31, and includes a transmitter 22a that transmits the detection signal. The production management apparatus 10 includes a generator for generating information on production state of the manufacturing line L1 by use of the detection signal received from the operating state acquisition apparatus 20a, and includes a display device for displaying the generated information on production state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: i Smart Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kimura
  • Publication number: 20200168787
    Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric single crystal body with a homogeneous polarization state and of which at least a portion flexurally vibrates, an upper electrode on an upper surface of the piezoelectric single crystal body, a lower electrode on a lower surface of the piezoelectric single crystal body, and a supporting substrate below the piezoelectric single crystal body. A recess extends from a lower surface of the supporting substrate toward the lower surface of the piezoelectric single crystal body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Shinsuke IKEUCHI, Tetsuya KIMURA, Katsumi FUJIMOTO, Yutaka KISHIMOTO, Fumiya KUROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200168785
    Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric body at least a portion of which can bend and vibrate, an upper electrode on an upper surface of the piezoelectric body and in which distortion of a crystal lattice is reduced as a distance from the upper surface of the piezoelectric body increases, a lower electrode on a lower surface of the piezoelectric body and in which distortion of a crystal lattice is reduced as a distance from the upper surface of the piezoelectric body increases, and a support substrate below the piezoelectric body, in which a recess extending from a lower surface of the support substrate toward the lower surface of the piezoelectric device is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Shinsuke IKEUCHI, Tetsuya KIMURA, Katsumi FUJIMOTO, Yutaka KISHIMOTO, Fumiya KUROKAWA, Yuzo KISHI