Using Surface Acoustic Waves Patents (Class 333/193)
  • Publication number: 20130169383
    Abstract: Switchable and/or tunable filters, methods of manufacture and design structures are disclosed herein. The method of forming the filters includes forming at least one piezoelectric filter structure comprising a plurality of electrodes formed on a piezoelectric substrate. The method further includes forming a micro-electro-mechanical structure (MEMS) comprising a MEMS beam formed above the piezoelectric substrate and at a location in which, upon actuation, the MEMS beam shorts the piezoelectric filter structure by contacting at least one of the plurality of electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James W. ADKISSON, Panglijen CANDRA, Thomas J. DUNBAR, Jeffrey P. GAMBINO, Mark D. JAFFE, Anthony K. STAMPER, Randy L. WOLF
  • Patent number: 8476991
    Abstract: An acoustic wave resonance device includes: piezoelectric substrate (1), first acoustic wave resonator (100) provided on an upper surface of piezoelectric substrate (1) and including first interdigital transducer electrode (110), and second acoustic wave resonator (200) provided on piezoelectric substrate (1) and including second interdigital transducer electrode (210). First acoustic wave resonator (100) and second acoustic wave resonator (200) are connected to each other. An overlap width of a plurality of first comb-shaped electrodes (112) forming first acoustic wave resonator (100) is larger than an overlap width of a plurality of second comb-shaped electrodes (212) forming second acoustic wave resonator (200). With such a configuration, frequencies in which a transverse mode spurious response is generated can be distributed and loss can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Rei Goto, Yosuke Hamaoka, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Tetsuya Tsurunari, Joji Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 8461942
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes a first filter and a second filter, each of them being a surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter including an odd number of at least three InterDigital Transducers (IDTs); an unbalanced terminal to which an unbalanced signal is input; a first balanced terminal from which a signal having a same phase as the unbalanced signal is output; and a second balanced terminal from which a signal having an opposite phase to the unbalanced signal is output. One of electrodes of a first center IDT and one of electrodes of a second center IDT are commonly connected to the unbalanced terminal, the first center IDT and the second center IDT being one out of the odd number of IDTs and locating at a center in the first filter and the second filter respectively. The number of electrode fingers of the first center IDT is an odd number, and the number of electrode fingers of the second center IDT is an even number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8461940
    Abstract: An elastic wave device has a structure that prevents flux from flowing into a hollow space of the device during mounting of the device using solder bumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihiko Takada, Atsushi Kadoi, Hayami Kudo
  • Patent number: 8463185
    Abstract: A system is for encoding information on a passive surface acoustic wave (SAW) device. The system includes a requesting unit configured to wirelessly transmit an impulse signal. The impulse signal is a signal that includes only a single pulse. A SAW device has an interdigital transducer (IDT) configured to physically store coded data. The SAW device is configured to receive the impulse signal. In response to receiving the impulse signal, the SAW device excites the IDT to generate a coded signal that includes the stored coded data and frequency components at a fundamental frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Peter J. Edmonson, Colin K. Campbell
  • Publication number: 20130120084
    Abstract: A SAW filter has two DMS tracks. Each DMS track includes six converters, with two converters each acting as input or output converters. The two DMS tracks are electrically connected in series by way of four pairs of coupling converters and the associated coupling lines. A common inner ground line is provided between the two DMS tracks, which extends over the entire length of the DMS tracks and crosses the coupling lines. The input converters of the first DMS track are connected to an asymmetrical port, while the output converters of the second DMS track are connected to a symmetrical port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Thomas Bauer, Andreas Detlefsen, Stephan Bolze, Ralph Durner
  • Patent number: 8436697
    Abstract: A small-sized surface acoustic wave filter device having favorable filter characteristics includes a transmission-side surface acoustic wave filter chip including a ladder surface acoustic wave filter unit located on a piezoelectric substrate. The ladder surface acoustic wave filter unit includes a series arm connected between an input pad and an output pad and a plurality of resonators and including at least one first resonator connected to the input pad or the output pad. A die-attach surface is provided with an inductor connected to the first resonator. The inductor is arranged such that at least a portion thereof faces the first resonator and does not face any of the plurality of resonators and other than the first resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Takamine
  • Patent number: 8427259
    Abstract: An elastic wave filter has first, second, and third IDT electrodes whose wiring electrodes are connected to unbalanced signal terminal; fourth IDT electrode disposed between the first and second IDT electrodes; fifth IDT electrode disposed between the second and third IDT electrodes; and first and second balanced signal terminals connected to the wiring electrodes of fourth and fifth IDT electrodes, respectively. The ground electrodes of the first through fifth IDT electrodes are connected to the ground. Signals in opposite phase and in phase with a signal input to unbalanced signal terminal are output from first and second balanced signal terminals, respectively. The wiring electrodes of second and third IDT electrodes are adjacent to the ground electrode of fifth IDT electrode. The wiring electrode of one of first and second IDT electrodes is adjacent to the wiring electrode of fourth IDT electrode. The ground electrode of the other is adjacent to the ground electrode of fourth IDT electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Joji Fujiwara, Tetsuya Tsurunari, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Rei Goto
  • Publication number: 20130093537
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: an electrode that is located on a substrate and excites an acoustic wave; and an oxide silicon film that is doped with an element and provided so as to cover the electrode, wherein a normalized reflectance obtained by normalizing a local maximum value of a reflectance when a light is caused to enter an upper surface of the oxide silicon film doped with the element by a reflectance when a light having a wavelength at the local maximum value is caused to enter an upper surface of the substrate directly is equal to or larger than 0.96.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru MATSUDA, Takashi MATSUDA, Michio MIURA
  • Patent number: 8421558
    Abstract: A boundary acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate having an upper surface in which grooves are provided, IDT electrodes which are at least partially embedded in the grooves in the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate in a thickness direction of the IDT electrodes, and first and second dielectric layers stacked on the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate. The second dielectric layer has an acoustic velocity greater than that of the first dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Yamane
  • Patent number: 8421555
    Abstract: To provide a receiving side filter of a duplexer and a duplexer capable of preventing a leakage of an electric field and a magnetic field to the outside. In a receiving side filter having a longitudinal mode resonator type filter including cross finger electrodes and reflectors respectively formed on a piezoelectric substrate and an unbalanced input signal path and balanced output ports respectively provided on an input side and on an output side of the longitudinal mode resonator type filter, and used on a receiving side of a duplexer, a shield electrode connected to a ground electrode side of the cross finger electrode is disposed to surround a periphery of the receiving side filter so that an electric field and a magnetic field leaked to the outside from the receiving side filter are short-circuited by the shield electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Susumu Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 8421559
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of acoustic wave devices, and particularly to that of transducers capable of operating at very high frequencies, from a few hundred MHz to several gigahertz, and its subject is more particularly an interface acoustic wave device including at least two substrates and a layer of ferroelectric material, the latter being contained between a first electrode and a second electrode and having first positive-polarization domains and second negative-polarization domains, the first and second domains being alternated, wherein the assembly constituted by the first electrode, the layer of ferroelectric material, and the second electrode is contained between a first substrate and a second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Etat Francais Represente par le Delegue General pour l'Armement, Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, Université de Franche Comte
    Inventors: Roger Petit, Sylvain Ballandras, Emilie Courjon, Dorian Gachon
  • Publication number: 20130088305
    Abstract: A ladder acoustic wave filter device is constructed such that ripples in the pass band are suppressed, and insertion loss is small in both of a high frequency side portion and a low frequency side portion of the pass band. Apodization weighting is applied to a series-arm-side IDT electrode. Busbars of the series-arm-side IDT electrode are configured so that in an acoustic wave propagation direction, a distance in an overlap width direction between the busbars becomes shorter as the overlap width of electrode fingers becomes smaller. Each of a pair of comb-shaped electrodes of a parallel-arm-side IDT electrode further includes a plurality of dummy electrodes that extend from a busbar and are opposed to electrode fingers of the other comb-shaped electrode in the overlap width direction. The parallel-arm-side IDT electrode is a normal IDT electrode in which the overlap width is constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8416036
    Abstract: A branching filter includes a longitudinally-coupled-resonator-type elastic wave filter having a balanced-unbalanced transformation function and the branching filter has excellent balance characteristics and a small size. The branching filter includes a ladder elastic wave filter chip and a longitudinally-coupled-resonator-type elastic wave filter chip. An antenna back-surface electrode and an antenna electrode pad are connected to each other via a first wiring provided in a wiring substrate. The antenna electrode pad and a longitudinally-coupled-resonator-type elastic wave filter are connected to each other via a second wiring provided on a piezoelectric substrate. The second wiring extends in a first direction and a first functional electrode and a second functional electrode provided on the piezoelectric substrate are axisymmetrically arranged with respect to each other about a central axis that extends in the first direction of the second wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Takata, Yasuhiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8416038
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device comprises a piezoelectric substrate (1), at least one inter-digital transducers (IDT) (2) provided on the piezoelectric substrate, at least one elongated electrode pad (4) electrically connected to the IDT, and at least one stud bump (5) disposed on the electrode pad such that an LC component of the surface acoustic wave device has a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 77 LLC
    Inventor: Kenichi Anasako
  • Patent number: 8410865
    Abstract: A SAW filter includes a piezoelectric body, an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric body, and signal wiring electrically connected to the IDT electrode. The signal wiring has a thickness not less than a skin depth specified based on the frequency of a signal passing through the signal wiring and the electrical conductivity of the signal wiring. As a result, the signal wiring has low propagation loss of the signal passing through it, so that the SAW filter has excellent transmission characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Jibu, Shoji Okamoto, Yosuke Hamaoka, Hiroyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8410869
    Abstract: In an elastic-wave filter device that includes a band-pass filter and a band-eliminate filter connected to the band-pass filter, insertion loss in a pass band is significantly reduced and attenuation in a stop band is significantly increased. The elastic-wave filter device has a pass band and a stop band at frequencies higher than the pass band. The band-pass filter and the first band-eliminate filter are connected in series between an input terminal and an output terminal. A first parallel-arm resonator of the first band-eliminate filter includes a first resonance frequency in the stop band. A second parallel-arm resonator includes a second resonance frequency in the stop band, the second resonance frequency being higher than the first resonance frequency. An impedance value of the first parallel-arm resonator is larger than an impedance value of the second parallel-arm resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhito Omote, Yoshihiro Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 8405472
    Abstract: An elastic wave filter device includes first and second inductance elements included in a laminated substrate and first and second elastic wave filter chips mounted on the laminated substrate by flip-chip bonding. The first and second inductance elements provided in the laminated substrate include first and second coil patterns, respectively, which are provided in a plane located at a certain height level in the laminated substrate. The second coil pattern is arranged in a region in which the first coil pattern is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidekazu Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20130069742
    Abstract: A dual-band surface acoustic wave filter is mounted on a circuit board together with a high-frequency switch, constitutes a composite high-frequency component together with the high-frequency switch, and significantly reduces and prevents deterioration of filter characteristics of the composite high-frequency component. A first input terminal is located on a first corner portion of a second principal surface of a wiring board. A second input terminal is located on the second principal surface of the wiring board and along a first long side or a first short side so as to be next to the first input terminal. First and second output terminals are arranged on an edge portion of the second principal surface of the wiring board on a second long side and along the second long side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8397360
    Abstract: A method of adjustment on manufacturing of a monolithic oscillator including circuit elements and a BAW resonator, this method including the steps of: a) forming the circuit elements and the resonator and electrically connecting them; b) covering the resonator with a frequency adjustment layer; c) measuring the output frequency of the oscillator; d) modifying the thickness of the frequency adjustment layer to modify the output frequency of the oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Pierre Bar, Sylvain Joblot, Jean-Francois Carpentier
  • Patent number: 8394327
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of realizing a dual mode acoustic wave sensor capable of being operated in both a gas environment and a liquid environment in a single chip by disposing a surface acoustic wave filter and a surface skimming bulk wave filter perpendicular to each other on the same wafer using the peculiar cut-orientation of an piezoelectric element, i.e. ST-cut quartz. An acoustic wave biosensor can realize optimum detection performance by detecting the characteristics of a detection environment and a detection target in real time during the operation of a dual mode sensor, and automatically switching between an SAW mode and an SSBW mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Sang-Hun Lee
  • Publication number: 20130057361
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes a surface acoustic wave element including a plurality of electrode pads, and a mount substrate. The surface acoustic wave element is flip-chip mounted on a die-attach surface of the mount substrate by bumps made of Au. The mount substrate includes at least one resin layer including via-holes, a plurality of mount electrodes provided on the die-attach surface of the mount substrate, and via-hole conductors. The mount electrodes are bonded to the electrode pads via the bumps. The via-hole conductors are provided in the via-holes. At least one of each of the electrode pads and each of the mount electrodes includes a front layer made of Au. At least one of the via-hole conductors is located below the corresponding bump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 8390400
    Abstract: An acoustic wave element includes an IDT electrode in contact with a piezoelectric material and including a plurality of electrode fingers, which include first and second electrode fingers that adjoin each other in an acoustic wave propagation direction and that connect to different potentials and a first dummy electrode finger facing the first electrode finger via a gap located on an outer side in an electrode finger length direction of the first electrode finger. At an area near the gap, first protrusions are provided in at least one of the first electrode finger and the first dummy electrode finger, the first protrusion protruding in the acoustic wave propagation direction from at least one of side edges of the at least one of the first electrode finger and the first dummy electrode finger. The acoustic wave element has greatly improved resonance characteristics of a resonance frequency and prevents short-circuit failure between electrode fingers and degradation in insulation properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kando, Shunsuke Kido, Takeshi Nakao, Daisuke Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130049882
    Abstract: A communication module includes a plurality of duplexers, wherein at least either IDT electrodes of transmit filters of at least two of the plurality of duplexers having a different transmit band or IDT electrodes of receive filters of at least two of the plurality of duplexers having a different receive band are composed of a same material, have a same thickness and are provided on a single piezoelectric substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 8381386
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a boundary acoustic wave device includes the steps of forming an electrode on a first medium layer, forming a second medium layer so as to cover the electrode on the first medium layer, and forming a sound absorbing layer on an external surface of the second medium layer. The sound absorbing layer has an acoustic velocity of transverse waves that is lower than an acoustic velocity of transverse waves of the second medium layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Kando
  • Patent number: 8384495
    Abstract: An acoustic wave duplexer includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first filter and a second filter whose center frequency is higher than that of the first filter, the first and second filters being provided on the piezoelectric substrate. The first filter is structured as a ladder type. A resonator positioned nearest to an antenna terminal out of series-arm resonators is designated as a first resonator. A pitch of a comb-shaped electrode structuring the first resonator is set such that a bulk wave emission frequency of the first resonator becomes higher than a passband of the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Joji Fujiwara, Tetsuya Tsurunari, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Rei Goto
  • Patent number: 8381378
    Abstract: A method of forming a micromechanical resonator includes forming a resonator body anchored to a substrate by at least a first anchor. This resonator body may include a semiconductor or other first material having a negative temperature coefficient of elasticity (TCE). A two-dimensional array of spaced-apart trenches are provided in the resonator body. These trenches may be filled with an electrically insulating or other second material having a positive TCE. The array of trenches may extend uniformly across the resonator body, including regions in the body that have relatively high and low mechanical stress during resonance. This two-dimensional array (or network) of trenches can be modeled as a network of mass-spring systems with springs in parallel and/or in series with respect to a direction of a traveling acoustic wave within the resonator body during resonance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Farrokh Ayazi, Roozbeh Tabrizian, Giorgio Casinovi
  • Patent number: 8384496
    Abstract: A band-stop filter is proposed which is constructed on a multilayered substrate and consists of a parallel circuit comprising a bandpass filter and a high-pass filter. The two filters are at least partly realized in the form of LC-elements integrated into the substrate. Further circuit components can be arranged as discrete components on the substrate. In the filter branch having the bandpass filter, an electroacoustic resonator is arranged in a transverse branch to ground. By means of the filter, a wide stop band is obtained, while the passband or passbands can comprise a plurality of radio bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Thomas Bauer, Andreas Przadka
  • Patent number: 8368486
    Abstract: A duplexer includes an acoustic wave element having a first terminal and a second terminal; a substrate; a first columnar conductor electrically connected to the first terminal, and drawn to a back surface of the substrate while partially in the substrate; a second columnar conductor electrically connected to the second terminal, and drawn to the back surface of the substrate while partially in the substrate. Additionally, a first ground pattern region is between the first columnar conductor drawn part and the second columnar conductor drawn part on the back surface of the substrate; a second ground pattern region is electrically connected to the first ground pattern region and arranged in the part not including the part between the first columnar conductor drawn part and the second columnar conductor drawn part; and a third columnar conductor electrically is connected to the first ground pattern region while partially in the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Tsurunari, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Joji Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20130027156
    Abstract: A SAW filter includes a piezoelectric substrate, a longitudinal coupling portion disposed on a main surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a support layer and cover layers covering the main surface of the piezoelectric substrate with an air gap on the longitudinal coupling portion, and bumps that are disposed on one of the cover layers and are electrically connected to the longitudinal coupling portion. A mount board is mounted on a motherboard. The SAW filter is mounted on the mount board via the bumps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Syuji YAMATO
  • Patent number: 8362852
    Abstract: A branching filter includes an antenna terminal, a transmission signal terminal, a reception signal terminal, a transmission filter element, and a reception filter element. At least one of the transmission filter element and the reception filter element includes a longitudinally coupled resonator filter element having first and second IDT electrodes arranged along a direction of propagation of an elastic wave. The first IDT electrode includes a first end connected to the antenna terminal. The second IDT electrode includes a first end connected to one of the transmission signal terminal and the reception signal terminal. The longitudinally coupled resonator filter element further includes an inductor connected in series between a second end of the first IDT electrode and a ground potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuhira Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130021116
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode located on the piezoelectric substrate, and a capacitive electrode that is located on the piezoelectric substrate and is connected in series with the IDT electrode. The capacitive electrode includes a plurality of capacitive electrode portions, each of which includes a pair of mutually interdigitated comb-shaped electrodes. The plurality of capacitive electrode portions are connected with each other in parallel. The plurality of capacitive electrode portions are arranged such that an intersecting width direction D1 of the capacitive electrode portions is inclined with respect to an intersecting width direction D2 of the IDT electrode. The plurality of capacitive electrode portions are arrayed in an elastic-wave propagating direction D3 of the IDT electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 8356399
    Abstract: A method of protecting a resonating sensor is described. The protected resonating sensor may include at least one passive ultrasonically excitable resonating sensor unit. Each sensor unit has one or more vibratable members having a resonating frequency that varies as a function of a physical variable in a measurement environment. The sensor is protected by forming one or more protective chambers defined between a compliant member and the vibratable member(s). A substantially non-compressible medium is disposed within the protective chamber(s). The compliant member has a first side that may be exposed to a measurement environment and a second side that may be exposed to the substantially non-compressible medium. The substantially non-compressible medium may be a liquid or gel and is in contact with the vibratable member(s). When the medium is a liquid, the chamber is sealed. When the medium is a gel, the chamber may be sealed or non-sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Microtech Medical Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Shay Kaplan
  • Patent number: 8354896
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a plurality of acoustic wave devices each including a substrate made of a piezoelectric material, a pair of interdigital electrodes formed on the substrate, each of the interdigital electrodes including a plurality of electrode fingers, and an adjustment medium. The adjustment medium includes at least a single layer and is formed on at least a part of the pair of the interdigital electrodes. The adjustment medium further includes at least one thick portion and a thin portion, the thin portion being null or thinner than the thick portion, a total area of the at least one thick portion in a region covering the pair of interdigital electrodes being determined according to a predetermined characteristic value, wherein the plurality of acoustic wave devices include at least two acoustic wave devices that differ from each other with respect to the size of the total area of the at least one thick portion of the adjustment medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Matsuda, Michio Miura, Takashi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8354897
    Abstract: An elastic wave filter includes at least a piezoelectric substrate and a longitudinally coupled resonator-type elastic wave filter unit provided on the piezoelectric substrate. The longitudinally coupled resonator-type elastic wave filter unit includes first to fifth IDTs and first and second reflectors arranged on either side of the first to fifth IDTs. The third IDT includes first and second divided comb-shaped electrodes. The second and fourth IDTs are connected to an unbalanced signal terminal, the first IDT and the first divided comb-shaped electrode of the third IDT are connected to a first balanced signal terminal, and the fifth IDT and the second divided comb-shaped electrode of the third IDT are connected to a second balanced signal terminal. The first and fifth IDTs each have a constant electrode finger pitch, and the electrode finger pitch of the first IDT is less than that of the fifth IDT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junpei Yasuda
  • Patent number: 8350643
    Abstract: In a high frequency device, resonators (IDT capacitors) that function as capacitors are included in a lumped constant balun included in a filter or duplexer, and furthermore, the resonance frequency of the IDT capacitors is set higher than the passband frequency of the filter. This improves the capacitor Q value, thus enabling the realization of a low-loss balance filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Inoue, Jun Tsutsumi, Motoaki Hara, Masufumi Iwaki, Takashi Matsuda, Masanori Ueda
  • Patent number: 8344825
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes an input terminal; a balun that is connected to the input terminal, converts a signal input from the input terminal into two anti-phase signals, and outputs the two anti-phase signals; and a filter that is connected to the balun, and outputs the two anti-phase signals input from the balun as balanced output signals. An output impedance of the balun is equal to an input impedance of the filter, and is larger than an output impedance of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Nishizawa, Go Endo
  • Publication number: 20120326808
    Abstract: The invention relates to a micro-acoustic filter having a first and a second converter, in which the electromagnetic and capacitive cross-talk between the first and second converters is compensated for by providing additional coupling capacitors and additional current loops. Additional coupling capacitors and current loops are arranged in such a manner that they can counteract the sign of the natural coupling specified by the design and thus completely compensate for said coupling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Guillermo Moreno Granado, Jürgen Kiwitt, Maximilian Pitschi, Tilo Gärtner
  • Patent number: 8339220
    Abstract: A SAW resonator filter including a SAW resonator, and a first inductive reactance in parallel with the SAW resonator for shifting the null points below and above the center frequency for establishing substantially symmetrical attenuation about the center frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: LoJack Operating Company, LP
    Inventor: Orest Fedan
  • Patent number: 8336192
    Abstract: A method of collective fabrication of remotely interrogatable sensors, wherein the method may include fabricating fabricating a first series of first resonators exhibiting a first resonant frequency at ambient temperature and a first static capacitance and fabricating a second series of second resonators exhibiting a second resonant frequency at ambient temperature and a second static capacitance. The method may also include performing a series of electrical measurements of the set of the first series of first resonators and of the set of the second series of second resonators, so as to determine first pairs and second pairs of resonant frequency and of capacitance of each of the first and second resonators and performing a series of matching of a first resonator and of a second resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Senseor
    Inventors: Jean-François Leguen, Luc Chommeloux
  • Patent number: 8339221
    Abstract: A 5-IDT longitudinally coupled resonator type elastic wave filter device includes a narrow-pitch electrode finger portion arranged to increase the steepness of the filter characteristic includes first to fifth IDTs. When the total number of electrode fingers in a first area and a fourth area is Nx and the total number of electrode fingers in a second area and a third area is Ny, an average period of electrode fingers in one of the areas including larger total numbers of the electrode fingers Nx and Ny is greater than that in the area including smaller total numbers of the electrode fingers Nx and Ny.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Takamine
  • Patent number: 8339217
    Abstract: A duplexer formed on a piezoelectric substrate includes a low band side filter and a high band side filter, and has an improved isolation characteristic in a pass frequency band of the high band side filter. Transmission and reception of signals are respectively performed from either of the low band side filter and the high band side filter and the other filter with respect to an input/output port. Series arms and parallel arms each formed of an elastic wave resonator form the low band side filter. A shield electrode is disposed close to either of the input/output port and a low band side filter port, and is grounded for capacitive coupling with same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Kawamoto, Susumu Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 8339219
    Abstract: The integration of surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters, microfabricated transmission lines, and sensors onto polymer substrates in order to enable a passive wireless sensor platform is described herein. Incident microwave pulses on an integrated antenna are converted to an acoustic wave via a SAW filter and transmitted to an impedance based sensor, which for this work is a photodiode. Changes in the sensor state induce a corresponding change in the impedance of the sensor resulting in a reflectance profile. Data collected at a calibrated receiver is used to infer the state of the sensor. Based on this principal, light levels were passively and wirelessly demonstrated to be sensed at distances of up to about 12 feet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sandia Corporation
    Inventors: Jack L. Skinner, Eric Y Chu, Harvey Ho
  • Publication number: 20120319802
    Abstract: A SAW device (1) comprises a substrate (3); SAW elements (10) on a first main surface (3a) of the substrate (3); first lines (intermediate lines (29) and output side lines (31)) that are disposed upon the first main face (3a) and connected to the SAW elements (10); an insulator (21) that is layered upon the first lines; second lines (a second ground line (33b) and a third ground line (33c)) that are layered upon the insulator (21) and configure three-dimensional wiring parts (39) with the first lines; and a cover (5) that seals the SAW elements (10) and the three-dimensional wiring parts (39). Wiring spaces (53), formed between the first main face (3a) and the cover (5), houses the three-dimensional wiring parts (39), without housing the SAW elements (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ochiai, Junya Nishii, Tsuyoshi Nakai
  • Patent number: 8334737
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode on the substrate, an internal electrode above the substrate, a side wall above the internal electrode, a lid on the side wall, an electrode base layer on the internal electrode, a connection electrode on the electrode base layer, and an anti-corrosion layer between the internal electrode and the side wall. The internal electrode is electrically connected to the IDT electrode. The side wall surrounds the IDT electrode. The lid covers the IDT electrode to provide a space above the IDT electrode. The electrode base layer is provided outside the space and the side wall. The anti-corrosion layer protrudes outside the side wall, and is made of material less soluble in plating solution than the internal electrode. This acoustic wave device prevents the internal electrode from breaking due to plating solution, hence being manufactured at a high yield rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Yamaji, Koji Kawakita, Eiji Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 8335478
    Abstract: Provided are a first filter 63a and a second filter 63b each having a pass band in the range of a frequency band that is obtained by, for example, substantially bisecting a frequency band of f1 to f4. In that case, the regions of the first filter 63a and the second filter 63b partially overlap with each other with the center frequency f5 interposed therebetween. In practice, even if the division is not bisection, a configuration is adopted in which a frequency region of the wider band (the first frequency band 61a) closer to a second frequency band 61b side is covered by the second filter 63b. Accordingly, it is possible to suppress the influence of load fluctuation in a multiband-compatible radio communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroki Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 8330558
    Abstract: There is provided a filter including a first resonator, a second resonator in which an excitation efficiency is reduced more than the first resonator, and an inductor connected in parallel with the second resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Inoue, Tokihiro Nishihara, Takashi Matsuda, Masanori Ueda
  • Patent number: 8330557
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device is disclosed. The surface acoustic wave device includes: a substrate having a plane surface; multiple first electrodes formed on the plane surface of the substrate; and multiple second electrodes formed on the plane surface of the substrate. Each of the first and second electrodes has a predetermined closed ring shape. The first and second electrodes are concentric. The second electrodes are located radially inside or radially outside of the first electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Yamada, Kazuhiko Kano
  • Patent number: 8330553
    Abstract: A duplexer includes an acoustic wave element having a first terminal and a second terminal; a substrate; a first columnar conductor electrically connected to the first terminal, and drawn to a back surface of the substrate while partially in the substrate; a second columnar conductor electrically connected to the second terminal, and drawn to the back surface of the substrate while partially in the substrate. Additionally, a first ground pattern region is between the first columnar conductor drawn part and the second columnar conductor drawn part on the back surface of the substrate; a second ground pattern region is electrically connected to the first ground pattern region and arranged in the part not including the part between the first columnar conductor drawn part and the second columnar conductor drawn part; and a third columnar conductor electrically is connected to the first ground pattern region while partially in the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Tsurunari, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Joji Fujiwara
  • Patent number: RE43958
    Abstract: A polar SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) filter includes a band-pass ladder type SAW filter having a SAW resonator. A two-terminal pair circuit is serially connected to the band-pass ladder type SAW filter and includes a plurality of inductors. The polar SAW filter has attenuation poles in each of the higher-frequency and lower-frequency attenuation ranges of a pass band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 77 LLC
    Inventor: Tomokazu Komazaki