Patents by Inventor Keisuke Takeyama

Keisuke Takeyama has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12255599
    Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator unit that includes a base, a cover, and a laminated structure disposed between the base and the cover. The laminated structure includes a piezoelectric resonator having a piezoelectric layer with a pair of principal surfaces facing each other, and a pair of excitation electrodes disposed on respective surfaces of the pair of principal surfaces so as to face each other with the piezoelectric layer therebetween, a semiconductor layer laminated on a side of one of the pair of principal surfaces of the piezoelectric layer, and a pair of measurement electrodes provided on the semiconductor layer. The pair of measurement electrodes measure signals based on temperature of the piezoelectric resonator through the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eitaro Kameda, Keisuke Takeyama, Toshio Nishimura, Hiroshi Nakatani
  • Patent number: 12107564
    Abstract: A resonator is provided that includes a vibrator with two portions that vibrate in phases opposite to each other; a frame that is disposed to surround at least part of the vibrator; and a holding unit that supports a boundary between the two portions and connects the vibrator to the frame. Moreover, a frequency adjustment film is disposed on a surface of the vibrator in an area between a connection portion of the holding unit connected to the vibrator and an end of the vibrator that faces the connection portion in a direction along the boundary between the two portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Takeyama, Toshio Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11876503
    Abstract: A resonance device that includes a lower cover, an upper cover joined to the lower cover, a resonator having vibrating arms that bend and vibrate in a vibration space between the lower cover and the upper cover, and particles attached to tip portions of the vibrating arms. When a median size of the particle is defined as D50, a specific gravity of the particle is defined as A, and a resonant frequency of the resonator is defined as X, D50?189/(X×?A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Goto, Keisuke Takeyama
  • Patent number: 11750173
    Abstract: A resonance device includes a resonator, an upper lid, and a lower lid. The resonator includes a vibration portion, a frame, and holding arms. The vibration portion includes a base and a plurality of vibration arms. The lower lid has a protruding portion protruding between two adjacent vibration arms, the protruding portion has an insulating film, the vibration arms have a weight portion that has a conductive film formed on the insulating film, and in a direction in which the plurality of vibration arms extend, a first distance between the weight portion of any one of the two adjacent vibration arms and the holding portion is less than a second distance between the weight portion and the protruding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota Kawai, Keisuke Takeyama, Yuichi Goto
  • Publication number: 20220278671
    Abstract: A resonator is provided that includes a vibrator with two portions that vibrate in phases opposite to each other; a frame that is disposed to surround at least part of the vibrator; and a holding unit that supports a boundary between the two portions and connects the vibrator to the frame. Moreover, a frequency adjustment film is disposed on a surface of the vibrator in an area between a connection portion of the holding unit connected to the vibrator and an end of the vibrator that faces the connection portion in a direction along the boundary between the two portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke TAKEYAMA, Toshio NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220123705
    Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator unit that includes a base, a cover, and a laminated structure disposed between the base and the cover. The laminated structure includes a piezoelectric resonator having a piezoelectric layer with a pair of principal surfaces facing each other, and a pair of excitation electrodes disposed on respective surfaces of the pair of principal surfaces so as to face each other with the piezoelectric layer therebetween, a semiconductor layer laminated on a side of one of the pair of principal surfaces of the piezoelectric layer, and a pair of measurement electrodes provided on the semiconductor layer. The pair of measurement electrodes measure signals based on temperature of the piezoelectric resonator through the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Eitaro KAMEDA, Keisuke TAKEYAMA, Toshio NISHIMURA, Hiroshi NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20210159884
    Abstract: A resonance device that includes a lower cover, an upper cover joined to the lower cover, a resonator having vibrating arms that bend and vibrate in a vibration space between the lower cover and the upper cover, and particles attached to tip portions of the vibrating arms. When a median size of the particle is defined as D50, a specific gravity of the particle is defined as A, and a resonant frequency of the resonator is defined as X, D50?189/(X×?A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Yuichi Goto, Keisuke Takeyama
  • Publication number: 20210006230
    Abstract: A resonance device includes a resonator, an upper lid, and a lower lid. The resonator includes a vibration portion, a frame, and holding arms. The vibration portion includes a base and a plurality of vibration arms. The lower lid has a protruding portion protruding between two adjacent vibration arms, the protruding portion has an insulating film, the vibration arms have a weight portion that has a conductive film formed on the insulating film, and in a direction in which the plurality of vibration arms extend, a first distance between the weight portion of any one of the two adjacent vibration arms and the holding portion is less than a second distance between the weight portion and the protruding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Ryota Kawai, Keisuke Takeyama, Yuichi Goto
  • Patent number: 10749496
    Abstract: A resonator is provided having a first electrode and a second electrode; and a piezoelectric film that is disposed between the first and second electrodes, has an upper surface opposing the first electrode, and that vibrates in a predetermined vibration mode when a voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes. Moreover, the resonator includes a protective film made of an insulator and disposed opposing the upper surface of the piezoelectric film with the first electrode interposed therebetween. Furthermore, a conductive film made of a conductor is provided that is disposed opposing the upper surface of the piezoelectric film with the protective film interposed therebetween, where the conductive film is electrically connected to any one of the first and second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Yoshii, Yuichi Goto, Keisuke Takeyama, Toshio Nishimura, Shungo Morinaga, Ryota Kawai, Yoshihisa Inoue
  • Patent number: 10673402
    Abstract: A resonator that includes a base and one or more vibration arms with fixed ends connected to a front end of the base and open ends extending therefrom. Moreover, the vibration arms include first and second electrodes and a piezoelectric film that is disposed therebetween. The resonator further includes a protective film disposed opposing an upper face of the piezoelectric film and sandwiching the first electrode and a temperature characteristics adjusting film formed of a material different from a material of the protective film and that is provided on the fixed end side relative to the center of the vibration arms such that part of the protective film is exposed to a surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Inoue, Toshio Nishimura, Keisuke Takeyama, Ryota Kawai, Yuichi Goto
  • Patent number: 10396752
    Abstract: A MEMS device that suppresses variations in a resistance value caused by contracting vibrations in a direction in which a holding portion extends. The MEMS device includes a frame, a rectangular plate that receives an input of a driving signal, and holding portions that anchor the rectangular plate to the frame. The frame and the rectangular plate are both rectangular in shape. The holding portions are provided extending toward the frame from central areas of the opposing sides of the rectangular plate, and anchor the rectangular plate to the frame. A resistive film is formed in a region that follows a straight line connecting the holding portions that anchor the rectangular plate to the frame and that corresponds to no more than half a maximum displacement from a vibration distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kaida, Eitaro Kameda, Keisuke Takeyama, Daisuke Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10333486
    Abstract: A piezoelectric vibrator that includes a piezoelectric film with a pair of electrodes disposed on opposing sides of the piezoelectric film. Moreover, the vibrator includes first and second adjustment films with the first adjustment film covering the first surface of the piezoelectric film in a first region and the second adjustment film covering the first surface of the piezoelectric film in a second region that is different from the first region. Moreover, the second region of the piezoelectric film has a greater displacement than the first region when the piezoelectric vibrator vibrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Takeyama, Daisuke Nakamura, Eitaro Kameda, Hiroaki Kaida
  • Publication number: 20190097600
    Abstract: A resonator is provided having a first electrode and a second electrode; and a piezoelectric film that is disposed between the first and second electrodes, has an upper surface opposing the first electrode, and that vibrates in a predetermined vibration mode when a voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes. Moreover, the resonator includes a protective film made of an insulator and disposed opposing the upper surface of the piezoelectric film with the first electrode interposed therebetween. Furthermore, a conductive film made of a conductor is provided that is disposed opposing the upper surface of the piezoelectric film with the protective film interposed therebetween, where the conductive film is electrically connected to any one of the first and second electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kentaro Yoshii, Yuichi Goto, Keisuke Takeyama, Toshio Nishimura, Shungo Morinaga, Ryota Kawai, Yoshihisa Inoue
  • Publication number: 20190074812
    Abstract: A resonator that includes a base and one or more vibration arms with fixed ends connected to a front end of the base and open ends extending therefrom. Moreover, the vibration arms include first and second electrodes and a piezoelectric film that is disposed therebetween. The resonator further includes a protective film disposed opposing an upper face of the piezoelectric film and sandwiching the first electrode and a temperature characteristics adjusting film formed of a material different from a material of the protective film and that is provided on the fixed end side relative to the center of the vibration arms such that part of the protective film is exposed to a surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Inoue, Toshio Nishimura, Keisuke Takeyama, Ryota Kawai, Yuichi Goto
  • Patent number: 9905748
    Abstract: A vibrating device that is in the form of a rectangular plate having opposed long sides and opposed short sides, and that utilizes an expanding and contracting vibration mode in a direction of the short sides. The vibrating device includes a Si layer made of a degenerate semiconductor, a silicon oxide layer, a piezoelectric layer, and first and second electrodes through which a voltage is applied to the piezoelectric layer. When a total thickness of the Si layer is denoted by T1, a total thickness of the silicon oxide layer is denoted by T2, and the TCF in the vibrating device when the silicon oxide layer 3 is not provided is denoted by x(ppm/K), T2/(T1+T2) is within a range of (?0.0003x2?0.0256x+0.0008)±0.05.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Nishimura, Keiichi Umeda, Takashi Hase, Keisuke Takeyama, Takehiko Kishi, Hiroshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 9866199
    Abstract: A vibrating device having tuning fork arms extending in a first direction that are joined to a base portion and are arranged side by side in an second direction. Each of the tuning fork arms has a structure that a silicon oxide layer is laminated on a Si layer made of a degenerate semiconductor, and that an excitation portion is provided on the silicon oxide layer. When a total thickness of the Si layer is denoted by T1, a total thickness of the silicon oxide layer is denoted by T2, and the temperature coefficient of resonant frequency (TCF) when the silicon oxide layer is not provided on the Si layer is denoted by x, a thickness ratio T2/(T1+T2) is within a range of (?0.0002x2?0.0136x+0.0014)±0.05.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Nishimura, Takashi Hase, Keisuke Takeyama, Hiroaki Kaida, Keiichi Umeda, Takehiko Kishi, Hiroshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 9584093
    Abstract: A vibrating device having a number 2N (N is an integer equal to 2 or larger) of tuning fork arms extending in a first direction are arranged side by side in a second direction. Phases of flexural vibrations of the number N of tuning fork arms positioned at a first side of an imaginary line A, which passes a center of a region in the second direction where the number 2N of tuning fork arms are disposed and which extends in the first direction, are symmetric to phases of flexural vibrations of the number N of tuning fork arms positioned at a second side of the imaginary line opposite the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Nishimura, Takashi Hase, Keisuke Takeyama, Hiroaki Kaida, Keiichi Umeda, Takehiko Kishi, Hiroshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20160322954
    Abstract: A MEMS device that suppresses variations in a resistance value caused by contracting vibrations in a direction in which a holding portion extends. The MEMS device includes a frame, a rectangular plate that receives an input of a driving signal, and holding portions that anchor the rectangular plate to the frame. The frame and the rectangular plate are both rectangular in shape. The holding portions are provided extending toward the frame from central areas of the opposing sides of the rectangular plate, and anchor the rectangular plate to the frame. A resistive film is formed in a region that follows a straight line connecting the holding portions that anchor the rectangular plate to the frame and that corresponds to no more than half a maximum displacement from a vibration distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroaki KAIDA, Eitaro KAMEDA, Keisuke TAKEYAMA, Daisuke NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20160072473
    Abstract: A vibrating device having a number 2N (N is an integer equal to 2 or larger) of tuning fork arms extending in a first direction are arranged side by side in a second direction. Phases of flexural vibrations of the number N of tuning fork arms positioned at a first side of an imaginary line A, which passes a center of a region in the second direction where the number 2N of tuning fork arms are disposed and which extends in the first direction, are symmetric to phases of flexural vibrations of the number N of tuning fork arms positioned at a second side of the imaginary line opposite the first side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Toshio Nishimura, Takashi Hase, Keisuke Takeyama, Hiroaki Kaida, Keiichi Umeda, Takehiko Kishi, Hiroshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20160065173
    Abstract: A vibrating device having tuning fork arms extending in a first direction that are joined to a base portion and are arranged side by side in an second direction. Each of the tuning fork arms has a structure that a silicon oxide layer is laminated on a Si layer made of a degenerate semiconductor, and that an excitation portion is provided on the silicon oxide layer. When a total thickness of the Si layer is denoted by T1, a total thickness of the silicon oxide layer is denoted by T2, and the temperature coefficient of resonant frequency (TCF) when the silicon oxide layer is not provided on the Si layer is denoted by x, a thickness ratio T2/(T1+T2) is within a range of (?0.0002x2?0.0136x+0.0014)±0.05.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: TOSHIO NISHIMURA, Takashi Hase, Keisuke Takeyama, Hiroaki Kaida, Keiichi Umeda, Takehiko Kishi, Hiroshi Yamada