Patents Assigned to Epson Toyocom Corporation
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Patent number: 7714484Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator includes a piezoelectric resonator element having a base portion and a resonating arm extending from the base portion, a package including a bottom to which the piezoelectric resonator element is fixed and a frame wall that surrounds the bottom and having an opening above the bottom, and a lid for closing the opening of the package. In this piezoelectric resonator, the lid includes a main body having a through-hole formed therein, a flange formed to surround a periphery of the main body and to be thinner than the main body, and an optically transparent member located in the through-hole. The flange has a joining portion with an upper end surface of the frame wall, and the main body projects in a direction from the flange to the bottom in a thickness direction. Also, the through-hole is at a position displaced in a first direction approaching a first end of the main body from a center of the main body.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Epson Toyocom CorporationInventors: Akitoshi Hara, Katsuo Ishikawa, Yukihiro Tonegawa
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Publication number: 20100110543Abstract: A laminated quarter wave plate includes: a first wave plate made of an optically uniaxial crystal material; and a second wave plate made of an optically uniaxial crystal material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi KAIZAWA, Masayuki OTO, Hiroshi MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 7710002Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator for an oscillator contained in an upper concave portion of an insulating case that has a metal lid with which the upper concave portion is air-tightly closed comprises a GND electrode being conductively coupled to an earth pattern of the piezoelectric resonator and provided on an outer bottom face of the insulating case, a piezoelectric connecting electrode being conductively coupled to an excite electrode of the piezoelectric resonator and provided on the outer bottom face of the insulating case, and an adjustment electrode being conductively coupled to the metal lid and provided on the outer bottom face of the insulating case in such a way that a regulator circuit in an IC part conductively contacts with the adjustment electrode if the IC part including the oscillation circuit is attached to the outer bottom face of the insulating case, wherein the metal lid serves as an adjustment terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2007Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Epson Toyocom CorporationInventors: Kyo Horie, Makoto Komai
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Publication number: 20100102678Abstract: A package for an electronic component includes a first substrate and a second substrate. In the package, an interior space capable of housing the electronic component is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a sealing hole communicating with the interior space and an exterior is formed in at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, the interior space can be airtightly sealed by melting a solid sealant provided in the sealing hole, and an interior wall of the sealing hole has a curved surface extending in directions of penetration and inner periphery of the sealing hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyasu SAITA
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Publication number: 20100102669Abstract: A surface acoustic wave resonator includes a piezoelectric substrate and an interdigital transducer (IDT) that includes electrode fingers exciting a surface acoustic wave on the piezoelectric substrate, a first region at a center of the IDT, and a second region and a third region at opposite sides of the IDT. In the IDT, a line occupation rate at which an electromechanical coupling coefficient becomes a maximum is different from the line occupation rate at which reflection of the surface acoustic wave becomes a maximum.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventor: Kunihito YAMANAKA
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Publication number: 20100103084Abstract: A quarter wave plate that is a crystal plate made of an inorganic material having birefringence and optical rotatory power and has an optical axis, includes an incident surface positioned on one surface of the crystal plate; and an emitting surface positioned on another surface, which is opposed to the incident surface, of the crystal plate. In the quarter wave plate, linearly-polarized light incident from the incident surface is converted into circularly-polarized light so as to be emitted from the emitting surface, and circularly-polarized light incident from the incident surface is converted into linearly-polarized light so as to be emitted from the emitting surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventor: Masayuki OTO
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Publication number: 20100102893Abstract: A physical section of an atomic oscillator includes at least: a gas cell including a cylindrical portion and first and second windows respectively hermetically-closing openings of both sides of the cylindrical portion to form a cavity in which gaseous metal atoms are sealed; a light reflection unit disposed on the first window; a first heating unit disposed to be closely attached to the second window and heating the gas cell at a predetermined temperature; a light source disposed so as to allow a light emitting part thereof to face the light reflecting unit, emitting excitation light exciting the metal atoms in the gas cell, and provided on a side, which is a reverse side to a side to which the gas cell is provided, of the first heating unit; a light detection unit detecting the excitation light reflected by the light reflection unit and provided also on a side, which is a reverse side to a side to which the gas cell is provided, of the first heating unit; and a Peltier element interposed between the light soType: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Koji CHINDO, Taku AOYAMA
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Patent number: 7705960Abstract: A dust-proof glass is provided on a light incident surface of a transmission-type liquid crystal panel. The dust-proof glass includes: a reflection section which is provided at an outer edge of a light incident surface of the dust-proof glass; and a notch section which is formed at an outer edge of a light emitting surface of the dust-proof glass.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2007Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Epson Toyocom CorporationInventors: Akihiro Shimizu, Masayuki Oto, Shuho Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20100096951Abstract: A contour resonator is provided with a vibrating body formed from a flat plate in a square shape, excitation electrodes formed on both front and back surfaces of the vibrating body and regulating a resonance frequency, and temperature characteristic adjustment films formed on surfaces of the excitation electrodes and adjusting a temperature characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventor: Akinori Yamada
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Publication number: 20100095778Abstract: A pressure sensor includes a pressure sensing element and a pressure receiver. The pressure sensing element includes a pressure sensing portion and a pair of base portions connected to both ends of the pressure sensing portion. The pressure receiver has a first main surface that is a pressure receiving surface and a second main surface that is a back side of the pressure receiving surface. The pressure receiver includes a pair of supporting portions provided on the second main surface. The pair of supporting portions cover one main surface of the pressure sensing element and support the pair of base portions of the pressure sensing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventor: Kenta SATO
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Publication number: 20100079035Abstract: An electronic device includes: a package including a lid and a package base, the package being formed by bonding the lid to a joint surface of the package base using a bonding material; and a resin portion covering the package. The resin portion covers at least the package base and the bonding material, and at least a part of the resin portion has a section outline. The section outline has an outermost portion thereof in a direction parallel with a mount surface of the electronic device. The outermost portion is located below a lower surface of the lid in a direction perpendicular to the mount surface of the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Juichiro MATSUZAWA, Kazuhiko SHIMODAIRA
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Patent number: 7681291Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator includes a resonator substrate, a base substrate supporting the resonator substrate, a lid substrate covering a surface of the resonator substrate, the surface being on an opposite side of a surface facing the base substrate, a first excitation electrode formed on the surface of the resonator substrate facing the lid substrate, a second excitation electrode formed on the surface of the resonator substrate facing the base substrate, and a third electrode provided on the surface of the resonator substrate facing the base substrate, the third electrode being electrically connected to the first excitation electrode through a concave portion which is formed on a side surface of the resonator substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Epson Toyocom CorporationInventor: Kenji Tsuchido
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Publication number: 20100064813Abstract: A vibratory sensor includes a resonator element including (i) a first base portion and a second base portion, each of the first and the second base portions having an upper main surface and a lower main surface, (ii) a resonating arm extended in a beam shape between the first and the second base portions to be vibrated at a predetermined resonance frequency, (iii) a first narrow portion formed by reducing a width of a portion extended from the first base portion to be smaller than a width of the first base portion in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the resonating arm, (iv) a second narrow portion formed by reducing a width of a portion extended from the second base portion to be smaller than a width of the second base portion in the direction orthogonal to the extending direction of the resonating arm, (v) a first support portion extended from the first narrow portion in a direction opposite to the first base portion, and (vi) a second support portion extended from the second narrow portioType: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicants: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Ryuta NISHIZAWA, Takahiro KAMETA
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Patent number: 7677105Abstract: To provide a double-ended tuning fork type piezoelectric resonator that includes: a piezoelectric element having two arm portions disposed in parallel, a first supporting portion that support one ends of each of the arm portions, a second supporting portion that support the other ends of each of the arm portions; and an exciting electrode formed on a surface of each of the arm portions, and has a structure suitable for being built into a pressure sensor as a pressure sensitive element. A double-ended tuning fork type piezoelectric resonator includes: a piezoelectric element 3 having two arm portions 4 disposed in parallel and apart from each other, and a first supporting portion 5 and a second supporting portion 6 that respectively support one ends and the other ends of each of the arm portions; and an exciting electrode 7 formed on a surface of each arm portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2006Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Epson Toyocom CorporationInventor: Osamu Ishii
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Patent number: 7664002Abstract: A conventional broadband quarter-wave plate has not completely solved the wavelength dependence and has different efficiencies of shifting the phase by 90° depending on the wavelengths, and therefore has a problem that it cannot fulfill the strict specifications on the optical characteristics which are demanded of a wave plate from a viewpoint of the optical efficiency and the like in an optical pickup device compatible with a plurality of different wavelengths.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2007Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Epson Toyocom CorporationInventor: Masayuki Ooto
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Publication number: 20100018318Abstract: A pressure sensor includes: a housing; a pressure receiver which seals an opening of the housing and transmits pressure from outside the housing to the inside of the housing; and a pressure sensing element having a pressure sensing portion and a pair of base portions which are respectively coupled to both ends of the pressure sensing portion. In the pressure sensor, a force detecting direction is set to be a detection axis, a line connecting the pair of base portions and a displacement direction of the pressure receiver are arranged in parallel, one of the base portions is coupled to a central region, which is displaced by the pressure, of the pressure receiver, and the other of the base portions is coupled to a marginal region, which is at a fixing side, of the pressure receiver through a connecting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2009Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Jun WATANABE, Masanobu FUJISAKI, Hisao MOTOYAMA
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Publication number: 20100011858Abstract: An angular velocity detection circuit is connected to a resonator for making excited vibration on the basis of a drive signal and detects an angular velocity. The angular velocity detection circuit includes: a self-vibration component extraction unit that receives, from the resonator, a detection signal including an angular velocity component based on a Coriolis force and a self-vibration component based on the excited vibration of the resonator and extracts the self-vibration component from the detection signal; a direct-current conversion unit including an integration unit that integrates an output signal of the self-vibration component extraction unit; and an offset addition unit that adds an offset value to an output signal of the direct-current conversion unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji SATO
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Publication number: 20100002231Abstract: An optical system of an atomic oscillator that regulates an oscillation frequency by using an optical absorption property by one of a double resonance method utilizing light and micro waves and a coherent population trapping (CPT) method utilizing a quantum interference effect produced by two kinds of resonance light, includes: a light source emitting the resonance light; a gas cell disposed at an emitting side of the light source, sealing a gaseous metal atom therein and transmitting the resonance light through a metal atom gas; a light detecting unit detecting the transmitted light that is transmitted through the metal atom gas; and a fluorescence blocking unit blocking at least a part of fluorescence, which is emitted from the metal atom gas to the light detecting unit, and disposed between the metal atom gas and the light detecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventor: Koji CHINDO
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Publication number: 20100001621Abstract: A contour resonator reducing fluctuation of resonance frequency due to variety of a film thickness of an excitation electrode is provided. A counter resonator includes a quartz substrate and excitation electrodes respectively formed on front and back surfaces of the quartz substrate. There is a range where a frequency sensitivity with respect to an electrode film thickness is smaller than that in related art when a ratio Fe/Fb between a contour vibration frequency Fe of the excitation electrodes and a contour vibration frequency Fb of the substrate is larger than 0.69. That is, fluctuation of the contour vibration frequency with respect to variety of the electrode film thickness can be made small substantially.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2008Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: EPSON TOYOCOM CORPORATIONInventor: Akinori Yamada
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Publication number: 20090315629Abstract: An atomic oscillator includes: a gas cell in which a gaseous metal atom is sealed; heating units heating the gas cell to a predetermined temperature and being a first heater and a second heater; a light source of exciting light exciting the metal atom in the gas cell; a light detecting unit detecting the exciting light which has passed through the gas cell; a substrate including at least a temperature controlling circuit for the heating units; a first heater wiring coupling the first heater and the substrate; a second heater wiring coupling the second heater and the substrate; and a third heater wiring coupling the first heater and the second heater. In the atomic oscillator, the gas cell includes a cylindrical portion; and windows which respectively seal openings at both ends of the cylindrical portion and constitute an incident surface and an emitting surface on an optical path of the exciting light.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: Epson Toyocom CorporationInventors: Koji CHINDO, Taku AOYAMA