Patents by Inventor Masafumi Iwaki

Masafumi Iwaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20180034443
    Abstract: A multiplexer includes: a first filter including a series resonator connected in series and a parallel resonator connected in parallel between a common terminal and a first terminal, each of the series resonator and the parallel resonator including an IDT located on a piezoelectric substrate, first and second regions being alternately located in an extension direction of electrode fingers, which excite an acoustic wave, within an overlap region of the IDT in which the electrode fingers overlap, a width of at least one of the electrode fingers in the second region being greater than that in the first region, one or some resonators of the parallel resonator and the series resonator having a larger number of the second regions than a remaining resonator; and a second filter connected between the common terminal and a second terminal and having a passband higher than a passband of the first filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetaro NAKAZAWA, Masafumi IWAKI, Takashi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20170373669
    Abstract: An acoustic wave resonator includes: a piezoelectric substrate; and a pair of grating electrodes that is formed on the piezoelectric substrate, one of the pair of grating electrodes including a plurality of first electrode fingers having electric potentials equal to each other, another of the pair of grating electrodes including a plurality of second electrode fingers having electric potentials that differ from the electric potentials of the plurality of first electrode fingers and are equal to each other, two second electrode fingers of the plurality of second electrode fingers being located between at least a pair of adjacent first electrode fingers of the plurality of first electrode fingers, Pg differing from ?/4 where ? represents a wavelength of an acoustic wave excited by the plurality of first electrode fingers and the plurality of second electrode fingers and Pg represents a distance between centers of the two second electrode fingers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi IWAKI, Takashi MATSUDA, Jun TSUTSUMI
  • Patent number: 9825609
    Abstract: A laterally coupled multi-mode monolithic filter includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film formed on the substrate; a ground electrode formed on a first surface of the piezoelectric film; and signal electrodes formed on a second surface of the piezoelectric film and arranged in parallel to each other, the second surface being opposite to the first surface, each of the signal electrodes including a first electrode finger and a second electrode finger, wherein the first electrode finger and the second electrode finger have different electric potentials; adjacent signal electrodes of the signal electrodes are at a distance from each other, the distance being greater than a pitch of the first electrode finger and the second electrode finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Iwaki, Takashi Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20170264262
    Abstract: An acoustic wave resonator includes: a piezoelectric substrate; and an IDT that is located on the piezoelectric substrate and includes first regions and second regions alternately arranged in an extension direction of electrode fingers, which excite an acoustic wave, in an overlap region in which the electrode fingers overlap, at least one electrode finger of the electrode fingers in the second regions having a different width from the at least one electrode finger in the first regions, a width of an outer second region of the second regions in the extension direction differs from a width of an inner second region of the second regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetaro NAKAZAWA, Masafumi IWAKI, Tabito TANAKA, Takashi MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 9742377
    Abstract: A filter includes: one or more series resonators that are connected in series between an input terminal and an output terminal; one or more parallel resonators that are connected in parallel between the input terminal and the output terminal; and a laterally coupled resonator that is connected in parallel with at least one of the one or more series resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Iwaki, Jun Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20170170808
    Abstract: An acoustic wave resonator includes: a piezoelectric substrate; and an IDT located on the piezoelectric substrate and including a pair of comb-shaped electrodes facing each other, each of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes including a grating electrode exciting an acoustic wave and a bus bar to which the grating electrode is connected, wherein an anisotropy coefficient in a cross region where the grating electrodes of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes cross each other is positive; an anisotropy coefficient in a gap region located between a tip of the grating electrode of one of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes and the bus bar of the other is less than the anisotropy coefficient in the cross region, and an acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave propagating through the gap region is equal to or less than an acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave propagating through the cross region at an antiresonant frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi IWAKI, Yoshio SATOH, Tabito TANAKA, Hidetaro NAKAZAWA, Takashi MATSUDA, Jun TSUTSUMI
  • Patent number: 9559661
    Abstract: A duplexer includes: a transmit filter that is connected between an antenna terminal and a transmit terminal and has a plurality of acoustic wave resonators; a receive filter that is connected between the antenna terminal and a receive terminal and has a plurality of acoustic wave resonators; and a delay line or a longitudinal coupling type resonator that is connected in parallel with at least one of the plurality of acoustic wave resonators of the transmit filter and the plurality of acoustic wave resonators of the receive filter and has at least two IDTs (Interdigital Transducers).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Inoue, Masafumi Iwaki, Jun Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20160211829
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: a Y-cut X-propagation lithium tantalate substrate having a cut angle of 20° or more and 48° or less; and a grating electrode that is composed of one or more metal films laminated on the substrate, and excites an acoustic wave, wherein when a density of each metal film in the one or more metal films is represented by ?i, a Poisson's ratio of each metal film is represented by Pi, a film thickness of each metal film is represented by hi, a density of Cu is represented by ?0, a Poisson's ratio of Cu is represented by P0 and a pitch is represented by ?, a total value of “(hi/?)×(?i/?0)×(Pi/P0)” for each metal film with respect to the one or more metal films is more than 0.08.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi IWAKI, Yoshio SATO, Tabito TANAKA, Hidetaro NAKAZAWA, Takashi MATSUDA, Jun TSUTSUMI
  • Patent number: 9397634
    Abstract: In a filter, two parallel resonators that are adjacent to each other are connected, in parallel, to a first portion of the signal line that connects a pair of two adjacent series resonators, at least one parallel resonator is connected, in parallel, to a second portion of the signal line that connects a different pair of two adjacent series resonators, a first inductor is connected to one parallel resonator of said two parallel resonators in series, a second inductor is connected to one parallel resonator of said at least one parallel resonator in series, a third inductor is connected to said two parallel resonators and said at least one parallel resonator, the first and third inductors' total inductance is different from the second and third inductor's total inductance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoaki Hara, Shogo Inoue, Masafumi Iwaki, Jun Tsutsumi, Masanori Ueda
  • Publication number: 20160172573
    Abstract: A laterally coupled multi-mode monolithic filter includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film formed on the substrate; a ground electrode formed on a first surface of the piezoelectric film; and signal electrodes formed on a second surface of the piezoelectric film and arranged in parallel to each other, the second surface being opposite to the first surface, each of the signal electrodes including a first electrode finger and a second electrode finger, wherein the first electrode finger and the second electrode finger have different electric potentials; adjacent signal electrodes of the signal electrodes are at a distance from each other, the distance being greater than a pitch of the first electrode finger and the second electrode finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi IWAKI, Takashi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20160072477
    Abstract: A duplexer includes: a transmit filter that is connected between an antenna terminal and a transmit terminal and has a plurality of acoustic wave resonators; a receive filter that is connected between the antenna terminal and a receive terminal and has a plurality of acoustic wave resonators; and a delay line or a longitudinal coupling type resonator that is connected in parallel with at least one of the plurality of acoustic wave resonators of the transmit filter and the plurality of acoustic wave resonators of the receive filter and has at least two IDTs (Interdigital Transducers).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo INOUE, Masafumi IWAKI, Jun TSUTSUMI
  • Patent number: 9270263
    Abstract: A switching device includes: a switch that selects and connects one of at least three terminals including a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal to a common terminal; and a compensating circuit that shifts a phase of at least one of a first signal transmitted through the second terminal and a second signal transmitted through the third terminal so that the first signal and the second signal compensate each other and unifies and outputs the first signal and the second signal to a fourth terminal as a third signal, or that branches a third signal input to the fourth terminal into the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masafumi Iwaki
  • Patent number: 9240769
    Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes a substrate, a lower electrode provided on the substrate, a piezoelectric film provided on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode provided on the piezoelectric film. At least a portion of the upper electrode and that of the lower electrode oppose each other through the piezoelectric film, and at least a portion of the periphery of the upper electrode is reversely tapered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Sakashita, Motoaki Hara, Masafumi Iwaki, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Shinji Taniguchi, Tokihiro Nishihara, Masanori Ueda
  • Patent number: 9219467
    Abstract: A duplexer includes: a transmit filter that is connected between an antenna terminal and a transmit terminal and has a plurality of acoustic wave resonators; a receive filter that is connected between the antenna terminal and a receive terminal and has a plurality of acoustic wave resonators; and a delay line or a longitudinal coupling type resonator that is connected in parallel with at least one of the plurality of acoustic wave resonators of the transmit filter and the plurality of acoustic wave resonators of the receive filter and has at least two IDTs (Interdigital Transducers).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Inoue, Masafumi Iwaki, Jun Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 9203377
    Abstract: A duplexer includes: a first filter of which first and second ends connect to a common terminal and a first terminal respectively; and a second filter having a passband higher than that of the first filter, a first end and second end thereof connecting to the common terminal and a second terminal respectively, wherein a phase shifter is located neither between the first filter and the common terminal nor between the second filter and the common terminal, the second filter is a ladder-type filter including piezoelectric thin film resonators connected in a ladder shape, a propagation constant in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of a piezoelectric thin film in the piezoelectric thin film resonator is a real number at frequencies lower than a resonance frequency of the piezoelectric thin film resonator, and a resonator at a first stage is a parallel resonator in the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoaki Hara, Shogo Inoue, Masafumi Iwaki, Jun Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20150341016
    Abstract: A filter includes: one or more series resonators that are connected in series between an input terminal and an output terminal; one or more parallel resonators that are connected in parallel between the input terminal and the output terminal; and a laterally coupled resonator that is connected in parallel with at least one of the one or more series resonators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi IWAKI, Jun TSUTSUMI
  • Patent number: 9148119
    Abstract: A filter includes: first series resonators and first parallel resonators that are connected in a ladder shape between an input terminal and an output terminal; a first inductor that is connected in parallel to at least one first series resonator; one or more second parallel resonators that are provided separately from the first parallel resonators, are connected between the input terminal and the output terminal, and have a resonance frequency and an anti-resonance frequency at frequencies lower than a passband formed by the first series resonators and the first parallel resonators; wherein an attenuation region is formed by a first attenuation pole formed by the at least one first series resonator and the first inductor and a second attenuation pole formed by a resonant response of the one or more second parallel resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Iwaki, Shogo Inoue
  • Patent number: 9148106
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: an acoustic wave filter chip that is mounted on a multilayered substrate including wiring layers; a first wiring that is electrically coupled to an internal circuit of the acoustic wave filter chip and formed in a first wiring layer of the multilayered substrate; a second wiring that is formed in a second wiring layer separate from the first wiring layer; and a via wiring that penetrates at least a part of the multilayered substrate and connects the first wiring to the second wiring; wherein the first wiring, the second wiring, and the via wiring forms a first inductor of which a direction of magnetic flux intersects with a stacking direction of the multilayered substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masafumi Iwaki
  • Patent number: 9148107
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an acoustic wave device includes: bonding a piezoelectric substrate to a first surface of a first support substrate; thinning the piezoelectric substrate after the bonding to thus form a piezoelectric layer; forming a first electrode on a first surface of the piezoelectric layer; forming holes in the first support substrate located below the first electrode; and bonding a second support substrate to a second surface of the first support substrate opposite to the first surface after the forming of holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Ueda, Masafumi Iwaki, Tokihiro Nishihara
  • Patent number: 9093976
    Abstract: A switching device includes: a switch that selects and connects one of input-output terminals to a common terminal; and a delay line that is connected in parallel to the switch between two terminals of the input-output terminals and delays a signal by using an acoustic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masafumi Iwaki