Patents Assigned to Murata Manufacturing
  • Patent number: 12283659
    Abstract: A solid-state battery that includes a solid-state battery layered body including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte interposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, wherein at least one electrode layer of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer has a tapered shape toward an edge of the electrode layer in a sectional view thereof, and the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, and the solid electrolyte are an integrally sintered body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Yosuke Tomoshige, Akira Baba
  • Patent number: 12282374
    Abstract: An electronic card includes an electric storage device, a charging circuit, a wireless communication circuit, a processor, an electronic function circuit, a power management circuit, and a wakeup circuit configured to start the power management circuit upon receiving an external trigger. The power management circuit supplies, after being started by the wakeup circuit, power of the electric storage device to the processor and the electronic function circuit. The processor stores, before the start of wireless communication, an operation state or an output result of the electronic function circuit which is obtained by an operation with power of the electric storage device, and causes, after operation processing of the electronic function circuit, the wireless communication circuit to start the wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hosotani, Kiyokazu Yamada
  • Patent number: 12283759
    Abstract: An antenna module (10) includes a ground electrode (30) in which a slit (33) is formed in such a manner as to form an opening along a perimeter of the ground electrode, a first antenna (110) and a second antenna (110A) arranged in or on the ground electrode (30), and a coupling reducing electrode (200) connected to the ground electrode (30) within the slit (33). The slit (33) is formed on a path leading from the first antenna (110) to the second antenna (110A) along the perimeter of the ground electrode. The coupling reducing electrode (200) includes a first conductor (220) having a length corresponding to a first frequency and a second conductor (230) having a length corresponding to a second frequency, which is higher than the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Tanbo, Masahiro Izawa
  • Patent number: 12283414
    Abstract: A coil component includes a terminal electrode and a terminal of a wire connected by thermocompression bonding on a bottom surface of a flange portion, to achieve a strong fixing force without the terminal of the wire protruding from the terminal electrode. A terminal of a wire extends along a main surface of a terminal electrode while at least a part of the terminal is disposed in the terminal electrode, and has a top surface positioned on a side opposite to a bottom surface side of a flange portion with respect to the main surface. A fillet surface which rises from the main surface toward the top surface and forms a concave curved surface is on an outer surface of the terminal electrode. The main surface is configured by a solder wettable layer made of tin or a tin alloy as an outermost layer of the terminal electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Hashimoto, Shigeto Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Honda
  • Patent number: 12283934
    Abstract: A switching circuit includes a first antenna terminal and a second antenna terminal, a first input-output terminal and a second input-output terminal, a plurality of switches and a ground switch. When an electrical connection destination of the first input-output terminal is switched to the first antenna terminal, a first path switch included in the plurality of switches and provided along a first path connecting the first input-output terminal and the first antenna terminal to each other, and a second path switch and the ground switch provided along a second path connecting the second input-output terminal and the ground to each other, the second path switch included in the plurality of switches, are in conducting states, and a third path switch included in the plurality of switches and provided along a third path connecting the first path and the second path to each other is in a non-conducting state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Risa Takeda, Takehiko Kato
  • Patent number: 12283977
    Abstract: A high frequency circuit includes a main module and a diversity module. The main module includes a duplexer that transmits and receives a signal of a first communication band of a first communication system. The diversity module includes a duplexer that transmits and receives a signal of a second communication band of a second communication system, a reception filter that uses a reception band of the first communication band of the first communication system as a pass band, a power amplifier, a low noise amplifier, and a switch that exclusively switches between connection between a reception filter and the low noise amplifier and connection between the reception filter and the low noise amplifier. The first communication band and the second communication band have the same frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 12283699
    Abstract: A solid state battery that includes: a battery element including, along a stacking direction, one or more battery constituent units including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer; first and second external terminals joined to an extended portion of each electrode layer of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, respectively; and a protective layer that covers a surface of the battery element other than the extended portions of each electrode layer, the protective layer including a side portion on a central region of a side portion of the battery element extending in substantially the same direction as the stacking direction and in which a first thickness dimension of a first portion is larger than a second thickness dimension of a second portion other than the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Osamu Chikagawa
  • Publication number: 20250125828
    Abstract: A radio frequency circuit includes: a first output terminal; a second output terminal; a first low-noise amplifier; a second low-noise amplifier; a first filter connected between an output end of the first low-noise amplifier and the first output terminal, the first filter having a passband that includes at least a portion of a first band; and a second filter connected between the output end of the first low-noise amplifier and the second output terminal, the second filter having a passband that includes at least a portion of a second band. The second low-noise amplifier is connected between the second filter and the second output terminal, and the first band and the second band are a combination of bands usable in dual connectivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoji NAGUMO
  • Publication number: 20250125083
    Abstract: An inductor component including an element body, a coil in the element body, and first and second outer electrodes that are at the element body and are electrically coupled to the coil. The coil includes a winding portion spirally wound along an axis direction. The coil includes the winding portion, and first and second extended wirings that couple one end and the other end of the winding portion to the first and second outer electrodes, respectively, at least one of the first and second outer electrodes includes an embedded portion embedded in the element body, at least one of the first and second extended wirings includes a coupling portion coupled to the winding portion and a curved portion curved from the coupling portion toward the embedded portion. In a view from the axial direction, the curved portion has a recessed shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seiya KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250125078
    Abstract: A coil component is capable of reducing specific resistance of a coil and reliably mitigating stress. A coil component includes a base body and a coil disposed in the base body. The base body includes a plurality of magnetic layers laminated in a first direction. The coil includes a plurality of coil wires laminated in the first direction. The coil wires extend along a plane orthogonal to the first direction. Each of the coil wires includes a first coil conductor layer and a second coil conductor layer laminated in the first direction. Specific resistance of the first coil conductor layer is smaller than specific resistance of the second coil conductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayuki OISHI
  • Patent number: 12278040
    Abstract: An inductor component and a method for manufacturing an inductor component that enables the inductor component to be miniaturized. An inductor component includes an annular core; and a coil including a plurality of pin members and wound on the core with neighboring pin members connected to each other. A first pin member and a second pin member both adjacent to each other have a welded part in which an end face of an end part of the first pin member and a peripheral surface of an end part of the second pin member are welded to each other. A width of a part, of the first pin member, except the welded part is smaller, as viewed from a direction along a center line of the end part of the second pin member, than a width of a part, of the second pin member, except the welded part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Hasegawa, Tatsuya Sasaki, Shinya Hirai, Ikuno Sugiyama, Toshimitsu Tamura
  • Patent number: 12278058
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric ceramic layers and internal electrode layers laminated alternately in a lamination direction, and a pair of external electrodes on both end portions in the length direction of the multilayer body and respectively connected to the internal electrode layers. The pair of external electrodes each include a base region covering at least each of the first and second end surfaces and connected to the internal electrode layers, and a cover region on the base region to cover the base region. The cover region includes maximum thickness portions each including a maximum thickness in the cover region, in a region corresponding to the ranges of about ±10 ?m in the lamination direction centered around internal electrode layers at both outermost ends in the lamination direction among the internal electrode layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukie Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12278609
    Abstract: A filter device includes a body, a ground terminal, and resonators in the body and coupled to each other by electromagnetic field coupling. The resonators include a first resonator coupled to an input terminal, a second resonator coupled to an output terminal, and third and fourth resonators. The second resonator is adjacent to the first resonator in a first direction. The third resonator is adjacent to the first resonator in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The fourth resonator is adjacent to the third resonator in the first direction. The third and fourth resonators partially share a path to the ground terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keisuke Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12278386
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a circuit board, a battery cell, an exterior case having a cylindrical shape, and a pair of external terminals respectively provided at both ends of the exterior case, in which each of the external terminals includes an inserted portion to be inserted into the exterior case and an uninserted portion not to be inserted into the exterior case, at least a part of the circuit board is disposed between the battery cell and the external terminals, and an elastic resin is provided so as to be in contact with the battery cell, the at least part of the circuit board, and the external terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Sato, Madoka Hamano, Kenichi Ozawa, Masashi Sato, Mikio Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ito
  • Patent number: 12278610
    Abstract: Multiple LC parallel resonators in which inductors and capacitors are connected in parallel are located inside a multilayer body. The inductors each include a loop inductor including a line-shaped conductor pattern and at least one pair of via conductors connected to the line-shaped conductor pattern. When the multilayer body is seen through in a height direction, in all the loop inductors of the LC parallel resonators, open via conductors are closer to a center of the multilayer body, and short-circuit via conductors are closer to an outer side of the multilayer body in at least one of a width direction and a length direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keisuke Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12278617
    Abstract: Acoustic resonators and filters are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate, a piezoelectric plate and an acoustic Bragg reflector between a surface of the substrate and a back surface of the piezoelectric plate. A conductor pattern on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate includes an interdigital transducer (IDT). The IDT includes a first busbar, a second busbar, and interleaved parallel fingers extending alternately from the first and second busbars. The fingers include a first finger and a last finger at opposing ends of the IDT. A first reflector element is proximate and parallel to the first finger and a second reflector element is proximate and parallel to the last finger. A distance pr between the first reflector element and the first finger and between the second reflector element and the last finger is greater than a pitch p of the IDT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bryant Garcia, Greg Dyer
  • Patent number: 12279374
    Abstract: A circuit module includes: a main substrate; a submodule that is mounted on a top surface of the main substrate; a main sealing resin that is provided on the top surface of the main substrate, and covers at least part of the submodule; and a conductive shield film that covers at least part of the main sealing resin. The submodule includes a sub-substrate, an electronic part that is mounted on a top surface of the sub-substrate, a plurality of conductive members that have linear shapes, and are connected to the top surface of the sub-substrate and the shield film, and a subsealing resin that is provided on the top surface of the sub-substrate, and covers the electronic part and part of each of the plurality of conductive members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Otsubo, Minoru Hatase
  • Patent number: 12275040
    Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a substrate, a piezoelectric element, and a lid. The piezoelectric element includes a base portion and a membrane portion. The base portion is on a first main surface and has an annular outer shape when viewed from a normal direction of the first main surface. The membrane portion is at an inner side portion of the base portion when viewed from the normal direction. The lid is on the first main surface, covers the piezoelectric element, and is spaced apart from the piezoelectric element on the first main surface side. In the substrate, a first through hole extending from the first main surface to a second main surface is facing the membrane portion. The membrane portion includes a through slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Umezawa, Shinsuke Ikeuchi, Fumiya Kurokawa, Nobuyoshi Adachi, Masayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12278616
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an insulation material layer provided on a first main surface of a piezoelectric substrate and surrounding a functional element, and a protective layer provided on the insulation material layer. The piezoelectric substrate and the insulation material layer define a hollow portion accommodating the functional element. The protective layer includes a first portion above the hollow portion, a second portion adjacent to the first portion at one end of the second portion, and a third portion adjacent to the second portion at another end of the second portion. A distance between the first main surface and a surface of the protective layer in the thickness direction is greatest at a location where the second portion is adjacent to or in a vicinity of the first portion, and the distance is shortest at a location where the second portion is adjacent to or in a vicinity of the third portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 12276274
    Abstract: A fluid control device has a housing. A first main plate of the housing includes a vibration portion, on which a drive body is disposed, having a rotationally symmetric shape in plan view, and multiple openings which is formed outside the vibration portion and through which a pump chamber and the outside communicate with each other. A second main plate includes an opening through which the pump chamber and the outside communicate with each other and which has a rotationally symmetric shape in plan view. The opening is arranged to include the center of the vibration portion in plan view of the first main plate and the second main plate. An opening area of the opening is from 10% to 75% of an area of the vibration portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutoku Kawabata, Nobuhira Tanaka