Patents Assigned to Murata Manufacturing
  • Patent number: 12131871
    Abstract: An electronic component that includes an electronic component body including a first internal electrode exposed at a first end surface and a second internal electrode exposed at a second end surface; a first external electrode on the first end surface and a bottom surface of the electronic component body; and a second external electrode on the second end surface and the bottom surface of the electronic component body, wherein the first external electrode comprises a first end surface electrode and a first bottom surface electrode that are integrated, and a thickness of the first end surface electrode is smaller than a thickness of the first bottom surface electrode, and the second external electrode comprises a second end surface electrode and a second bottom surface electrode that are integrated, and a thickness of the second end surface electrode is smaller than a thickness of the second bottom surface electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tamatani, Kazuya Kusuda, Takeshi Furukawa
  • Patent number: 12131856
    Abstract: A coil component includes a core including a winding core portion and a first flange portion that is disposed on a first end portion of the winding core portion in a direction in which the winding core portion extends. A first curved portion is formed at a connection between a bottom surface of the winding core portion and the first flange portion. A ratio of a length of the first curved portion in a height direction to a distance in the height direction between the bottom surface and a first terminal electrode is no less than 20% and no more than 60% (i.e., from 20% to 60%).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Sukegawa, Yasuhiro Itani, Takanori Suzuki, Yuuki Kitadai, Yoshifumi Maki, Reiichi Matsuba
  • Patent number: 12132449
    Abstract: An amplification circuit includes: a power supply terminal that is connected to a power supply; a transistor that has a source terminal, a drain terminal, and a gate terminal to which a high-frequency signal is input; a transistor that has a source terminal that is connected to the drain terminal, a drain terminal that outputs a high-frequency signal, and a gate terminal that is grounded; a capacitor that is serially disposed on a second path that connects the gate terminal and the power supply terminal to each other; and a switch that is serially disposed on a first path or the second path. The drain terminal and the gate terminal are connected to each other via the switch and the capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12131851
    Abstract: A magnetic material includes magnetic particles. When a magnetic particle is rotated by 360/n degrees (n is an any integer equal to or greater than 2) around a gravity center position of the particle in a planar region, an area of the particle after the rotation overlaps with an area of the particle before the rotation by 90% or more. In the planar region, gravity center positions of from nine to eleven particles are present on a band portion in a rectangular shape. For the particles in the planar region, when a number-based 50% cumulative frequency distribution of maximum lengths in a direction passing through respective gravity center positions is defined as ?, a 10% cumulative frequency distribution is equal to or greater than 0.9?, and a 90% cumulative frequency distribution is equal to or less than 1.1?. A surface of the particle is covered with an insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isamu Miyake, Mikito Sugiyama, Mitsuru Odahara
  • Patent number: 12132507
    Abstract: A radio-frequency module includes a mounting substrate, a first power amplifier, a second power amplifier, a circuit component (IC chip), and an external connection terminal. The mounting substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface on opposite sides of the mounting substrate. The first power amplifier is mounted on the first main surface of the mounting substrate. The second power amplifier is mounted on the first main surface of the mounting substrate. The circuit component is mounted on the second main surface of the mounting substrate. The external connection terminal is disposed on the second main surface of the mounting substrate. The external connection terminal is connected to a power supply that supplies a power supply voltage to the first power amplifier and the second power amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO. , LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Horita, Yukiya Yamaguchi, Morio Takeuchi, Shigeru Tsuchida, Tomoaki Sato, Rui Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12133468
    Abstract: A low-profile ultrasonic wave generation device is provided that includes a drive unit having a piezoelectric member and an electrode formed on a surface of the piezoelectric member. The drive unit as a whole vibrates flexurally. The connection member is connected to a portion of the drive unit that includes a point of maximum displacement of the drive unit when the drive unit is subjected to flexural vibration. The vibrating unit is connected to the connection member. The vibrating unit vibrates due to the flexural vibration of the drive unit being transmitted by the connection member and thereby generates ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Asada, Motonori Nakamura, Shinichi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12131854
    Abstract: A common-mode choke coil includes a multilayer body, a first coil, and a second coil. The multilayer body includes plural non-conductor layers. The first and second coils are incorporated in the multilayer body. The first coil has a path length L1, the second coil has a path length L2, and the sum of the path length L1 and the path length L2 is less than or equal to 3.30 mm. The first coil has a first coil conductor, and the second coil has a second coil conductor. The first coil conductor and the second coil conductor have a spacing D between each other of greater than or equal to 6 ?m and less than or equal to 26 ?m (i.e., from 6 ?m to 26 ?m) in the stacking direction of the non-conductor layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouhei Matsuura, Atsuo Hirukawa, Hiroshi Ueki
  • Patent number: 12133328
    Abstract: A circuit board having an insulating layer containing a low-temperature sintering ceramic material and wiring. The wiring includes a thermal via having an area of 0.0025 mm2 or more in top view thereof, the thermal via is a stack of layers of tapered conductors, each having tapered end faces, and each end face of the tapered conductors are in direct contact with the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoki Kato
  • Patent number: 12132504
    Abstract: Attenuation on a receive path side in a pass band of a second filter is improved in a case where a first filter, which passes a receive signal, is an acoustic wave filter. A multiplexer includes a common terminal, a first terminal, a second terminal, a first filter, and a second filter. The first filter is an acoustic wave filter disposed on a receive path connecting the common terminal and the first terminal and passes a receive signal. The second filter is disposed on a transmit path connecting the common terminal and the second terminal and passes a transmit signal. The multiplexer further includes an LC filter. The LC filter is disposed on the receive path connecting the common terminal and the first terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Nagamori
  • Publication number: 20240352277
    Abstract: A coating process includes adding a body to a reactor; adding a metal alkoxide or precursors thereof to the reactor; adding a catalyst for the hydrolysis of the metal alkoxide to the reactor; and coating the surface of the body with a metal oxide-containing coating layer through the hydrolysis and dehydration condensation of the metal alkoxide. The addition of a body precedes at least one of the addition of a metal alkoxide or precursors thereof and the addition of a catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironobu KUBOTA, Tomoya OOSHIMA, Yuuta HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 12126308
    Abstract: A tracker module is provided that includes a second substrate that is separate from a first substrate, a tracker component, and a low pass filter. A power amplifier is disposed on or in the first substrate. Moreover, the tracker component supplies a power supply voltage to the power amplifier. The low pass filter is disposed on a path between an output terminal of the tracker component and the power amplifier. The tracker component and the low pass filter are disposed on or in the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kogure, Tomohide Aramata
  • Patent number: 12126089
    Abstract: The antenna device includes multiple first radiation plates and multiple second radiation plates. Each of the first radiation plates has a first feed point and a first ground end portion, and radiates a first radio wave. Each of the second radiation plates has a second feed point and a second ground end portion, and radiates a radio wave of a frequency different from the frequency of the first, radio wave. When the antenna device is viewed in a direction orthogonal to the polarization direction of the first radio wave, the first radiation plate and the second radiation plate are disposed so as not to overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kaoru Sudo
  • Patent number: 12127339
    Abstract: A stretchable mounting substrate that includes a first substrate including a stretchable base material and a stretchable wiring on the stretchable base material; a second substrate including a wiring for an electronic component, the second substrate overlapping at least a part of the first substrate in a plan view of the stretchable mounting substrate; and a connection member connecting the first substrate and the second substrate, the connection member including a connection base material and a connection wiring connecting the stretchable wiring of the first substrate and the wiring of the second substrate 20, wherein the connection member is configured to be deformed in accordance with an expansion/contraction direction of the first substrate so that an expansion/contraction ratio of a region of the first substrate overlapping the second substrate in the plan view is larger than an expansion/contraction ratio of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadahiko Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12126237
    Abstract: A linear vibration motor and a linear vibration system include a housing, a moving member, a drive unit including a driving coil and driving magnets, and a bias unit including a biasing electromagnet and biasing magnets. The moving member vibrates in a first direction substantially orthogonal to a winding axis of the driving coil with Lorentz force generated by a magnetic field formed by the driving coil and a magnetic field formed by the driving magnets. The biasing electromagnet and the biasing magnets are disposed such that the same poles substantially face each other, and the moving member is biased in the first direction by a magnetic spring generated from a repulsive force between the biasing electromagnet and the biasing magnets. Moreover, a magnetic spring constant of the magnetic spring varies with variation in a value of a current flowing through a biasing coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Shirato, Masahiro Ozawa, Kazuhide Takata
  • Patent number: 12126328
    Abstract: Acoustic filters devices and methods of making the same. A filter device includes two or more series resonators acoustically coupled along a shared acoustic track, and two or more shunt resonators electrically coupled to the two or more series resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sean McHugh, Kurt Raihn
  • Patent number: 12126203
    Abstract: A charging device is provided. The charging device switches to a (n+1)-th charging rate from a n-th charging rate when constant current charging is performed on a secondary battery at the n-th charging rate, at an SOC smaller than an SOC at which a voltage local minimum value appears when an experimental battery is charged at the n-th charging rate. The (n+1)-th charging rate is lower than the n-th charging rate, and n is a natural number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyaki, Sho Takahashi, Takahisa Ishimatsu, Takahiro Shirai, Takamasa Ono
  • Patent number: 12126070
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a radiation element having feeding points, feeding wiring lines, and directional couplers. The feeding wiring line transmits a radio frequency signal from the RFIC to the feeding point. The feeding wiring line transmits a radio frequency signal from the RFIC to the feeding point. The directional coupler detects a radio frequency signal to be supplied to the radiation element through the feeding wiring line. The directional coupler detects a radio frequency signal to be supplied to the radiation element through the feeding wiring line. A polarization direction of a radio wave to be radiated with the radio frequency signal supplied to the feeding point is different from a polarization direction of a radio wave to be radiated with the radio frequency signal supplied to the feeding point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Mori, Yoshiaki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12123409
    Abstract: A first power supply member and a second power supply member are arranged on the same side of a first member in a thickness direction of an actuator. The first power supply member includes a first external connection terminal. The second power supply member includes a second external connection terminal. The first external connection terminal and the second external connection terminal are arranged on the same positions in the thickness direction. A second insulating layer is arranged between the second power supply member and a frame body. A far end side portion on an opposite side to a side, on which the first external connection terminal protrudes, in the first power supply member is bent toward the frame body to be electrically connected with the frame body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuhira Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12125624
    Abstract: A coil component that includes a core, a first wire, and a second wire. The core has a prism-shaped winding core part. The first wire and the second wire are wound around the winding core part. The coil component has an overlapping winding region in which the first wire is wound around the winding core part and the second wire is wound around the winding core part on top of the first wire. The overlapping winding region includes a prescribed part in which the first wire and the second wire are wound around the winding core part in such a manner that a gap is interposed between a part of the first wire that is wound along a first side surface of the winding core part and a part of the second wire that is wound along the first side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Hayashii, Ryota Hashimoto, Kaori Takezawa
  • Patent number: 12126184
    Abstract: A power receiver includes an outer case shaped to house a secondary battery, a power reception coil member disposed in the outer case, and a circuit board disposed in the outer case. On the circuit board, a power reception circuit electrically connected to a coil conductor of the power reception coil member and a charging circuit configured to charge and discharge the secondary battery are provided. The outer case includes a first outer case member near the power reception coil member and a second outer case member forming the outer case in combination with the first outer case member. The first outer case member has, for example, a flat surface, is disposed nearer to an external power transmission coil than the second outer case member, and has a structure with which the coil conductor of the power reception coil member and the power transmission coil can face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Yamada, Osamu Miki, Tatsuya Hosotani