Patents Assigned to Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10771038
    Abstract: A crystal unit includes an AT-cut crystal element that has a planar shape in a rectangular shape and a part as a thick portion. The crystal element includes a first end portion, a first depressed portion, the thick portion, a second depressed portion, and a second end portion in this order from a side of one short side, in viewing a cross section taken along a longitudinal direction near a center of the short side. The first depressed portion is a depressed portion disposed from the thick portion toward the first end portion side, depressed with a predetermined angle ?a and subsequently bulged, and connected to the first end portion. The second depressed portion is a depressed portion disposed from the thick portion toward the second end portion side, depressed with a predetermined angle ?b and subsequently bulged, and connected to the second end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Toshikawa, Shinobu Yoshida, Hirokazu Iwata
  • Patent number: 10763821
    Abstract: A crystal resonator vibrates in a thickness-shear mode. The crystal resonator includes excitation electrodes being disposed on a front surface and a back surface of a crystal element. The excitation electrodes are disposed on the crystal element to have a positional relationship, where a displacement distribution at an edge of the excitation electrode on the front surface is identical to a displacement distribution at an edge of the excitation electrode on the back surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigetaka Kaga, Yoshiro Teshima, Kazuhiro Hirota
  • Publication number: 20200274493
    Abstract: A sensing sensor includes an oscillator circuit, a base, a connection portion, and a temperature changing unit. The oscillator circuit oscillates the piezoelectric resonator. The base includes a base main body in which a depressed portion is provided and a lid portion at one side, supports the piezoelectric resonator at another side, and is for taking the oscillation frequency to an outside of the sensing sensor. The depressed portion houses the oscillator circuit. The lid portion covers the depressed portion. The connection portion is disposed at the one side of the base and connected to a cooling mechanism for cooling the base from the one side. The temperature changing unit is interposed between the piezoelectric resonator and the base, so as to cool and heat the piezoelectric resonator and transfer a heat radiated for cooling the piezoelectric resonator from the other side of the base to the one side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki YANAGISAWA, Hiroyuki KUKITA, Shohei NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 10756699
    Abstract: A pedestal for a vibration element includes a main body that includes two connection portions, two clearance portions, a mounting portion, and arm portions. The two connection portions are formed along long sides of the main body and contact the base plate. The two clearance portions are formed on insides of the main body with respect to the connection portions and formed along the long sides. The mounting portion is located between the two clearance portions. The vibration element is mounted to the mounting portion. The arm portions are formed on four corners of the main body and connect the mounting portion to the connection portions. A metal pattern is connected to an electrode formed on the vibration element. The metal pattern is formed to connect the mounting portion, the arm portions, and the connection portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomonori Abe
  • Publication number: 20200264054
    Abstract: To provide a temperature detector without possibility of interruption in temperature detection in detecting a temperature based on a change in oscillation frequency of a crystal element. First and second vibrating regions are formed on a crystal element, the first or the second vibrating region is oscillated with a third harmonic or a fundamental wave by switching switches. A data processing portion obtains frequency change rates of the third harmonic and the fundamental wave in the first vibrating region, and detects the temperature from a difference between them. Further, whether the oscillation of the first vibrating region is abnormal is monitored based on the measurement result of the frequency of the first vibrating region, and when the abnormality is determined, the temperature is detected from similar difference using the second vibrating region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KUKITA, Shunichi WAKAMATSU, Tsuyoshi SHIOBARA, Takayuki ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10743757
    Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes a piezoelectric element in round shape, an acoustic lens, and an acoustic matching layer. The piezoelectric element generates an ultrasonic sound wave. The acoustic matching layer decreases a reflection of the ultrasonic sound wave from a subject. The piezoelectric element has a center having a hole through which an optical fiber that guides a light of a light source passes. The ultrasonic transducer transmits and receives the ultrasonic sound wave while emitting the light. The acoustic lens has a material using a resin with a withstand voltage, mainly polymethylpentene. The acoustic matching layer has a thickness set to ?/4 by not applying a polyparaxylylene coating for ensuring the withstand voltage on the acoustic matching layer. The optical fiber has a distal end configured not to pass through the acoustic lens. The piezoelectric element and the acoustic matching layer have shapes in a planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Komiyama, Yasunobu Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10714674
    Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a base, a piezoelectric vibrating piece, and a cover. The base has a depressed portion and a bank portion. The piezoelectric vibrating piece is housed within the depressed portion. The cover is bonded on a top surface of the bank portion of the base with a sealing metal. The top surface of the base has an inclined surface that inclines down toward an inside of the base in a direction along a width direction of the bank portion or an inclined surface that inclines down toward an outside of the base in the direction along the width direction of the bank portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomotaka Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20200195224
    Abstract: An AT-cut crystal element includes a vibrator and a supporting portion. The vibrator has a planar shape with an approximately rectangular shape. The supporting portion is connected to one short side of the vibrator and has a thickness thicker than a thickness of the vibrator. The AT-cut crystal element has an oscillation frequency of approximately 76 Mhz. The vibrator has a distal end portion that is an end portion on a side opposite to the supporting portion. The distal end portion is formed to have a protrusion shape toward a distal end side thereof. The vibrator has both ends formed to have a protrusion shape toward an outside direction along the short side. The vibrator has a long side dimension L and a short side dimension W. A W/L is in a range of 0.74 to 0.79 or in a range of 0.81 to 0.93.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyoharu MATSUO
  • Patent number: 10673406
    Abstract: A piezoelectric device is provided and includes: a piezoelectric vibrating piece, having an outer shape in rectangular shape and including an excitation electrode formed on both principal surfaces which are a top surface and a lower surface, an electrode pad formed at both ends of one short side, and an extraction electrode extracted from the excitation electrode to the electrode pad to be electrically connected to the electrode pad; a package, including a placement surface on which the piezoelectric vibrating piece is placed as opposed to the lower surface of the piezoelectric vibrating piece, and an adhesion pad formed on the placement surface; and a conductive adhesive, securing the piezoelectric vibrating piece to the package and electrically connecting the adhesion pad to the electrode pad. An adhesive is applied on the top surface of the piezoelectric vibrating piece and between the conductive adhesive and the excitation electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10666194
    Abstract: An oven-controlled crystal oscillator includes a base substrate, a power transistor, and a surface mount type crystal resonator. The base substrate has a bottom surface on which a mounting terminal for surface mounting is disposed. The power transistor is mounted on the base substrate. The surface mount type crystal resonator is mounted on the power transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichi Arai
  • Publication number: 20200162052
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and a pair of interdigital transducer electrodes. The pair of interdigital transducer electrodes include an alternating region as a region where the electrode fingers connected to one busbar and the electrode fingers connected to the other busbar are alternately provided. When a region on an end portion side of the alternating region and a region including distal end portions of the plurality of electrode fingers is referred to as an edge region, a propagation velocity of a surface acoustic wave in the edge region is slower than a propagation velocity of a surface acoustic wave in the alternating region. A propagation velocity of a surface acoustic wave in a busbar region as a region where the busbar is disposed is faster than the propagation velocity of the surface acoustic wave in the alternating region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto MATSUOKA, Makiko NAKAMURA, Susumu YOSHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10659005
    Abstract: An AT-cut crystal element is provided. The AT-cut crystal element includes side surfaces intersecting with a Z?-axis of a crystallographic axis of a crystal. At least one side surface of the side surfaces is constituted of three surfaces of a first surface to a third surface. Besides, a crystal resonator including the AT-cut crystal element, and a crystal unit including the crystal resonator are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kuwahara, Kenji Shimao, Hirokazu Iwata
  • Patent number: 10637437
    Abstract: An AT-cut crystal element is provided for reducing unnecessary vibration and for improving impedance of a resonator. Two side surfaces intersecting with a Z?-axis of a crystallographic axis of crystal are constituted of three surfaces of a first surface as an m-surface of quartz crystal, a second surface that intersects with the first surface and is other than the m-surface, and a third surface that intersects with the second surface and is other than the m-surface. Moreover, the second surface is a surface corresponding to a surface obtained by rotating a principal surface of the AT-cut crystal element by ?74±3° having an X-axis of crystal as a rotation axis, and the third surface is a surface corresponding to a surface obtained by rotating the principal surface by ?56±3° having the X-axis of the crystal as the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Kazuhiko Osawa, Shohei Takeda
  • Patent number: 10620199
    Abstract: A sensing sensor includes a wiring board, a piezoelectric resonator, and a gel-like protective agent. The piezoelectric resonator has one surface side on which an adsorbing film is formed. The adsorbing film is constituted of biomolecules. The protective agent is disposed so as to cover a surface of the adsorbing film. The protective agent is configured to suppress an inactivation of the biomolecules. The channel forming member is disposed so as to cover a region of the one surface side of the wiring board including the piezoelectric resonator. The channel forming member includes an injection port of the sample solution. The flow passage is disposed between the wiring board and the channel forming member. The flow passage is configured to allow the sample solution supplied to the injection port to flow from one end side to another end side on the one surface side of the piezoelectric resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wakako Shinobu
  • Publication number: 20200113089
    Abstract: A module device includes a substrate, an upper-side case, a lower-side case, and an auxiliary member. The upper-side case has a first wall and covers at least a part of a first surface of the substrate. The lower-side case has a second wall that extends to the substrate and is in contact with the substrate. The lower-side case covers at least a part of a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface of the substrate. The auxiliary member assists an electrical connection between the second wall and at least one of the substrate and the first wall. The upper-side case is fitted to the lower-side case across the substrate to house at least a part of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya YORITA, Youhei NAKAJIMA, Hiroki KIMURA
  • Patent number: 10613008
    Abstract: A sensing sensor includes a main body portion, a piezoelectric resonator, a connecting terminal, and an information storage. The main body portion includes a supply region to which the sample solution is supplied. The piezoelectric resonator is disposed to face the supply region and includes a capturing layer that captures a sensing object. The connecting terminal is configured to attachably/detachably connect a conductive path connected to an electrode of the piezoelectric resonator to a frequency measuring unit. The information storage stores calibration curve information to specify a calibration curve that indicates a relationship between a density of the sensing object and a frequency variation amount of the piezoelectric resonator before and after supplying the sample solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunichi Wakamatsu, Wakako Shinobu
  • Publication number: 20200076401
    Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a cap, a base plate, and a flat bonding metal film. The cap has a flat plane area having a first width from a first outer peripheral end to a first inner peripheral end. The base plate has a first plane in contact with the cap and a second plane as an opposite surface of the first plane. The base plate has an outer periphery in a shape identical to the rectangular frame shape in plan view. The flat bonding metal film is formed on the first plane. The bonding metal film is formed in a rectangular frame shape in a size overlapping with the plane area. The bonding metal film has a second width from a second outer peripheral end to a second inner peripheral end. The second outer peripheral end is positioned outside the first outer peripheral end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi OKUBO, SHUICHI MIZUSAWA
  • Patent number: 10581437
    Abstract: A crystal controlled oscillator includes a crystal unit, an integrated circuit, and an insulating resin. The crystal unit contains a crystal vibrating piece resonating at a predetermined frequency. The integrated circuit places the crystal unit. The integrated circuit includes an oscillator circuit oscillating the crystal vibrating piece. The insulating resin is formed to cover the crystal unit on the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Kunitomo
  • Publication number: 20200036455
    Abstract: An angular error detecting device detects an angular error in a receiving direction of a frequency signal from a tracking target with respect to a front direction of an antenna based on a phase difference of a first reception signal received at a first receiving unit of the antenna and a second reception signal received at a second receiving unit having a receiving position in the antenna different from a receiving position of the first receiving unit. The angular error detecting device includes a reception signal output unit, a pilot signal supply unit, a pilot phase difference detection unit, a correction unit, and an angular error detection unit. The angular error detection unit detects the angular error based on the one side corrected at the correction unit and the other side that is not corrected of the sum signal and the difference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru KOBAYASHI, Naoki ONISHI
  • Patent number: 10541762
    Abstract: An angular error detecting device detects an angular error in a receiving direction of a frequency signal from a tracking target with respect to a front direction of an antenna based on a phase difference of a first reception signal received at a first receiving unit of the antenna and a second reception signal received at a second receiving unit having a receiving position in the antenna different from a receiving position of the first receiving unit. The angular error detecting device includes a reception signal output unit, a pilot signal supply unit, a pilot phase difference detection unit, a correction unit, and an angular error detection unit. The angular error detection unit detects the angular error based on the one side corrected at the correction unit and the other side that is not corrected of the sum signal and the difference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Kobayashi, Naoki Onishi