Patents by Inventor Kuniaki Yosui

Kuniaki Yosui 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: 11923123
    Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes first and second insulating layers stacked in a stacking direction with the second insulating layer located at a first side of the first insulating layer in the stacking direction, a first coil pattern disposed on a first principal surface of the first insulating layer on the first side of the first insulating layer in the stacking direction, and a second coil pattern disposed on a first principal surface of the second insulating layer on the first side of the second insulating layer in the stacking direction. The first and second coil patterns have spiral shapes. When viewed from the layer stacking direction, at least a portion of a first area in which the first coil pattern is disposed and at least a portion of a second area in which the second coil pattern is disposed overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Muraoka, Kuniaki Yosui, Yuki Ito, Naoki Gouchi
  • Patent number: 11735346
    Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes at least three coil conductors respectively patterned on different surfaces of a first main surface of a laminated body, a second main surface of the laminated body, and laminated interfaces of insulating base materials and that are arranged in a lamination direction. The at least three coil conductors include first and second coil conductors, and are connected in series between first and second external electrodes. A surface at which another coil conductor is provided is not interposed between two surfaces at which the first and second coil conductors are provided, respectively. Further, the first and second coil conductors are directly connected to the first and second external electrodes, respectively, without another coil conductor interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Ito, Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 11696392
    Abstract: A transmission line includes connecting portion connected to the outside and a main body connected to the connecting portion. The connecting portion includes a terminal electrode connected to an external electrode, a signal conductor, and a ground conductor. The main body includes the signal conductor and the ground conductor. The connecting portion includes a first region including the terminal electrode, a second region adjacent to the first region along a signal transmission path, and a third region located between the second region and the main body. Impedance matching at the at least one of the connecting portions is achieved by the first region, the second region, and the third region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Keiichi Hirose, Takahiro Baba
  • Publication number: 20230100141
    Abstract: A transmission line includes an element body and a signal conductor layer in the element body and having a linear shape. The transmission line includes a first, second, and third impedance sections, an impedance conversion section, and a reflection section. The second impedance section, the reflection section, the first impedance section, the impedance conversion section, and the third impedance section are positioned in this order along the signal conductor layer. Characteristic impedance of the first impedance section is lower than characteristic impedance in the second impedance section and characteristic impedance in the third impedance section. A change amount of characteristic impedance per unit length in the reflection section is larger than a change amount of characteristic impedance per unit length in the impedance conversion section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ryutatsu MIZUKAMI, Shuichi KEZUKA, Kuniaki YOSUI, Tomohiro NAGAI
  • Patent number: 11612053
    Abstract: A circuit board includes a first circuit board portion and a second circuit board portion. The first circuit board portion is provided with a first transmission line for a low-frequency signal or a low-speed signal, and the second circuit board portion is provided with a second transmission line for a high-frequency signal or a high-speed signal. The second circuit board portion is located on the first circuit board portion in a positional relationship in which the first transmission line and the second transmission line are side-by-side with each other. With this structure, signal leakage and interference between different signals are reduced or prevented in a line that transmits signals with different frequencies and different transmission speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Tenno, Takahiro Baba, Kuniaki Yosui, Yasuko Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 11588382
    Abstract: An actuator includes a coil substrate including a coil, a base substrate including a coil drive circuit, and a magnet to receive a magnetic field generated by the coil. A magnetic sensor is mounted on the coil substrate. The coil substrate on which the magnetic sensor is mounted is connected to the base substrate through a conductive bonding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Shingo Ito, Naoki Gouchi
  • Patent number: 11581117
    Abstract: A coil-incorporated multilayer substrate includes base materials and a coil portion including conductor patterns that are wound a plurality of times on at least one of the base materials, and, in a predetermined direction along the surface of the base material of the coil portion, the width of outermost conductor patterns is larger than the widths of the conductor patterns between an innermost conductor pattern and an outermost conductor pattern, the width of the innermost conductor pattern is larger than the widths of the conductor patterns between the outermost conductor pattern and the innermost conductor pattern, and the width of the innermost conductor pattern is larger than the distance between the innermost conductor pattern and the conductor pattern adjacent to the innermost conductor pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Shingo Ito
  • Patent number: 11469027
    Abstract: In a built-in coil substrate, coil conductor patterns are provided on insulating base materials. Coil interlayer connection conductors, which provide interlayer connection between the coil conductor patterns, are provided on the insulating base materials and made of conductive paste. First and second external electrodes are provided on a first principal surface of a multilayer body. One of the coil conductor patterns is connected to the first external electrode by first-external-electrode connection conductors made of the conductive paste. Another one of the coil conductor patterns is connected to the second external electrode by a second-external-electrode connection conductor. The second-external-electrode connection conductor is a metal film provided in a through hole that extends through the multilayer body in a stacking direction in which the insulating base materials are stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Kezuka, Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 11470728
    Abstract: A multilayer board includes a flexible substrate including insulating layers stacked and a pair of through-holes penetrating the insulating layers, and an interlayer connecting conductor in an opposing region in which the pair of through-holes opposes each other in a plan view of the insulating layers viewed from a stacking direction. A cross section of the flexible substrate taken in a lateral direction passing through the pair of through-holes and the interlayer connecting conductor and the stacking direction has a U or S shape. In the cross section, a curvature radius of an inner region located between the pair of through-holes is larger than a curvature radius of an outer region adjacent to the pair of through-holes on an outer side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 11443886
    Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes a laminated body including thermoplastic resin layers, a conductor pattern, a level-difference eliminating through hole, and a thickness adjustment member. The conductor pattern is on a main surface of one of the resin layers and is in the laminated body. The level-difference eliminating through hole is located at a position different from the conductor pattern in a planar view of the laminated body and penetrates the resin layer in a thickness direction. The thickness adjustment member is made of the same material as the resin layers, is located in the through hole, and has a thickness greater than a thickness of the resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 11424063
    Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes an element assembly including insulating layers stacked along a layer stacking axis including a first direction and a second direction, and a coil disposed at the element assembly. The coil includes a spiral of two or more turns when viewed from the layer stacking axis and extending along the layer the first direction while spiraling from outside inward. A portion of the coil defining an outermost turn of the spiral is defined as a first coil portion, an inner portion of the coil that is the nth nearest from the first coil portion is defined as an n+1th coil portion, and a space between the nth coil portion and the n+1th coil portion is defined as an nth space, where n is a natural number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Kazufumi Aisu
  • Patent number: 11380474
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an inductor bridge that connects first and second circuits. The inductor bridge includes an insulating base material and a conical coil in the insulating base material. The conical coil includes loop shaped conductors arranged in a winding axis direction. Inner and outer diameters of the loop shaped conductors change is one way in the winding axis direction. A large-diameter loop shaped conductor, which is one of the loop shaped conductors that has the largest inner and outer diameters, is disposed such that the inner and outer diameters thereof relatively extend along the insulating base material compared with the other loop shaped conductors when the inductor bridge is bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bunta Okamoto, Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 11322819
    Abstract: An antenna module according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a dielectric substrate, a first antenna element, a first radio-frequency element, and a first heat-dissipating component. The first antenna element is provided on the dielectric substrate. The first radio-frequency element supplies electric power to the first antenna element. The first heat-dissipating component directs heat from the first radio-frequency element to the outside. The dielectric substrate, the first radio-frequency element, and the first heat-dissipating component are stacked in this order in the Z-axis direction, which is the direction normal to the dielectric substrate. The first heat-dissipating component includes metal. The first heat-dissipating component has a first width at its first position that differs from a second width at its second position located away from the first position in the Z-axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Onaka, Kuniaki Yosui, Hirotsugu Mori
  • Patent number: 11309114
    Abstract: A stacked body includes a base including a plurality of insulating base material layers, a coil including a winding-shaped conductive pattern located on at least one of the plurality of the insulating base material layers, and an electrically isolated dummy pattern extending along at least a portion of the coil outside of the coil on at least one of the plurality of the insulating base material layers in a plan view, wherein the stacked body includes a step at which a thickness of the stacked body is different in a stacking direction, and the dummy pattern is located between the coil and the step at a portion defining the step where the thickness of the stacked body is larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Nishino, Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 11291109
    Abstract: A transmission line includes connecting portions connected to the outside and a main body located between the connecting portions. Each of the connecting portions includes a terminal electrode connected to an external electrode, a signal conductor, and ground conductors. The main body includes the signal conductor and the ground conductors, and at least one of the plurality of connecting portions includes a first region including the terminal electrode, a second region adjacent to the first region along a signal propagation path, and a third region located between the second region and the main body. The first region, the second region, and the third region provide impedance matching at the connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 11245171
    Abstract: A transmission line device includes a first multilayer substrate with a transmission line including laminated insulating base materials and a conductor pattern on the insulating base materials, and a second multilayer substrate defining a connected member to which the transmission line of the first multilayer substrate is connected. The conductor pattern includes a signal conductor pattern and a signal electrode pad electrically connected to the signal conductor pattern. The first multilayer substrate includes a resist film provided on a surface of a laminate of the insulating base materials, and the resist film includes an opening that is separated from an outer edge of the signal electrode pad in a surface direction of the laminate of the insulating base material and exposes the signal electrode pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 11202371
    Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes a stacked body obtained by stacking a plurality of insulating base material layers, a driver IC including a plurality of mounting electrodes, coils, and magnetic sensors. The driver IC and the magnetic sensors are mounted to the stacked body. The coils include a first end and a second end that are electrically connected to the driver IC through a conductive bonding material. The first end and a mounting electrode are connected at one position through the conductive bonding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Shingo Ito
  • Patent number: 11114238
    Abstract: A multilayer substrate includes a lamination body including first and second resin substrates and a bonding layer that are hot-pressed. The first resin substrate includes a first surface provided with a first conductor pattern including a surface defined by a plated film, and a second surface provided with a second conductor pattern including a surface defined by a plated film. The second resin substrate includes a third surface provided with a third conductor pattern including a surface defined by a plated film, and a fourth surface provided with a fourth conductor pattern including a surface defined by a plated film. The first conductor pattern is located closer to a first outermost layer than the second conductor pattern. T1<T2 and T3<T4, where T1, T2, T3, and T4 respectively denote the thickness of the first, second, third, and fourth conductor patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui
  • Publication number: 20210274647
    Abstract: A circuit board includes a first circuit board portion and a second circuit board portion. The first circuit board portion is provided with a first transmission line for a low-frequency signal or a low-speed signal, and the second circuit board portion is provided with a second transmission line for a high-frequency signal or a high-speed signal. The second circuit board portion is located on the first circuit board portion in a positional relationship in which the first transmission line and the second transmission line are side-by-side with each other. With this structure, signal leakage and interference between different signals are reduced or prevented in a line that transmits signals with different frequencies and different transmission speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Nobuyuki TENNO, Takahiro BABA, Kuniaki YOSUI, Yasuko YOSHINAGA
  • Patent number: 11075092
    Abstract: A multi-layer substrate includes a first base material layer made of an insulating material, a first interlayer connection conductor provided in the first base material layer, an insulating layer, a second base material layer made of an insulating material and facing the first base material layer across the insulating layer, and a second interlayer connection conductor provided in the second base material layer and joined with the first interlayer connection conductor. The insulating layer is made of an insulation sheet on which no conductor pattern is provided. The insulation sheet includes an opening around a joining surface between the first interlayer connection conductor and the second interlayer connection conductor. The first interlayer connection conductor and the second interlayer connection conductor are joined with each other through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui