Patents by Inventor Masayuki Yoneda
Masayuki Yoneda 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).
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Patent number: 11942259Abstract: An electronic component includes: a multilayer body; an inductor constituted of a plurality of inductor conductor layers and a via hole conductor, the inductor having a helical shape; a first outer electrode provided on a first end surface formed by contiguous outer edges of the insulation layers; and a second outer electrode provided on a second end surface. The plurality of inductor conductor layers have a first inductor conductor layer connected to the first outer electrode, and a second inductor conductor layer adjacent to the first inductor conductor layer on another side in the lamination direction. The via hole conductor connecting the first inductor conductor layer and the second inductor conductor layer is provided closer to the first outer electrode than the second outer electrode, and when viewed in plan view from a normal direction of the first end surface, does not overlap with the first outer electrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masayuki Yoneda
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Publication number: 20240096545Abstract: An inductor component includes a component body having a mounting surface and a top surface and provided therein with a spiral inductor wiring line advancing in the extending direction of a winding center axis. The inductor wiring line is connected to a first external electrode at a first end, and connected to a second external electrode at a second end. The component body includes: a first inclined surface connected to a first end of the mounting surface on a first side in a length direction and inclined toward the top surface as separating from the first end; and a second inclined surface connected to a second end of the mounting surface on a second side in the length direction and inclined toward the top surface as separating from the second end. The winding center axis extends in a direction parallel to the mounting surface and perpendicular to the length direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rikiya SANO, Masayuki YONEDA
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Patent number: 11869688Abstract: An inductor component includes a component body having a mounting surface and a top surface and provided therein with a spiral inductor wiring line advancing in the extending direction of a winding center axis. The inductor wiring line is connected to a first external electrode at a first end, and connected to a second external electrode at a second end. The component body includes: a first inclined surface connected to a first end of the mounting surface on a first side in a length direction and inclined toward the top surface as separating from the first end; and a second inclined surface connected to a second end of the mounting surface on a second side in the length direction and inclined toward the top surface as separating from the second end. The winding center axis extends in a direction parallel to the mounting surface and perpendicular to the length direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rikiya Sano, Masayuki Yoneda
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Publication number: 20230420178Abstract: To suppress interference between an inductor component and other electronic components, in the inductor component, the distance from the first end surface to the surface of the first covering electrode in the direction perpendicular to the first end surface is defined as the thickness of the first covering electrode. On a second virtual line that passes through a geometric center of the first end surface and is perpendicular to a first main surface, a position where the thickness of the first covering electrode is maximum is shifted toward the first main surface side with respect to the geometric center of the first end surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi SEKO, Masayuki YONEDA
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Publication number: 20220293329Abstract: An inductor component comprising an element body; and a coil disposed within the element body and wound along an axial direction. In an inner diameter of the coil, the inner diameter of the coil at both end portions in the axial direction is greater than the inner diameter of the coil at a central portion in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rikiya SANO, Masayuki YONEDA
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Patent number: 11366032Abstract: A sensor element includes a sensor chip and a diaphragm base joined to a surface of the sensor chip. The sensor chip includes a first diaphragm for measuring differential pressure between a first pressure and a second pressure and a second diaphragm for measuring absolute pressure or gage pressure of the second pressure. The diaphragm base includes a third diaphragm to directly receive a fluid that is a measurement target and has the first pressure, and a fourth diaphragm to directly receive a fluid that is a measurement target and having the second pressure. The sensor element has a liquid amount adjustment chamber to make an amount of a first pressure transmission medium filled in a first pressure introduction path and an amount of a second pressure transmission medium filled in a second pressure introduction path to be equal to each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohisa Tokuda, Masayuki Yoneda, Hirofumi Tojo, Ayumi Tsushima, Nozomi Kida
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Patent number: 11340128Abstract: A sensor chip of a sensor element includes a diaphragm for measuring a differential pressure between a first pressure and a second pressure, a diaphragm for measuring an absolute pressure or a gauge pressure of the second pressure, a first pressure introduction path that transmits the first pressure to the diaphragm for measuring a differential pressure, and a second pressure introduction path that transmits the second pressure to the diaphragms. When the transmission of the first pressure or the second pressure to the diaphragms is indicated by an equivalent circuit, a path for transmitting the first pressure and a path for transmitting the second pressure are symmetrically formed.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohisa Tokuda, Masayuki Yoneda, Hirofumi Tojo, Ayumi Tsushima, Nozomi Kida
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Publication number: 20220130600Abstract: An inductor component includes a component body having a mounting surface and a top surface and provided therein with a spiral inductor wiring line advancing in the extending direction of a winding center axis. The inductor wiring line is connected to a first external electrode at a first end, and connected to a second external electrode at a second end. The component body includes: a first inclined surface connected to a first end of the mounting surface on a first side in a length direction and inclined toward the top surface as separating from the first end; and a second inclined surface connected to a second end of the mounting surface on a second side in the length direction and inclined toward the top surface as separating from the second end. The winding center axis extends in a direction parallel to the mounting surface and perpendicular to the length direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rikiya SANO, Masayuki YONEDA
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Publication number: 20220122761Abstract: An inductor component includes an element body. The element body has a mounting surface and a top surface that are parallel to each other, first and second parallel end surfaces, and first and second parallel side surfaces. An inductor wiring is disposed inside the element body. A first lead-out electrode is connected to a first end of the inductor wiring in an extension direction of the inductor wiring. A second lead-out electrode is connected to a second end of the inductor wiring in the extension direction of the inductor wiring. A lower surface of the first lead-out electrode and a lower surface of the second lead-out electrode are exposed from the mounting surface of the element body. The first lead-out electrode has a substantially quadrangular columnar shape that extends in a height direction. The first lead-out electrode is exposed from the first end surface and the first side surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rikiya SANO, Masayuki YONEDA
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Publication number: 20220093318Abstract: An electronic component includes: a multilayer body; an inductor constituted of a plurality of inductor conductor layers and a via hole conductor, the inductor having a helical shape; a first outer electrode provided on a first end surface formed by contiguous outer edges of the insulation layers; and a second outer electrode provided on a second end surface. The plurality of inductor conductor layers have a first inductor conductor layer connected to the first outer electrode, and a second inductor conductor layer adjacent to the first inductor conductor layer on another side in the lamination direction. The via hole conductor connecting the first inductor conductor layer and the second inductor conductor layer is provided closer to the first outer electrode than the second outer electrode, and when viewed in plan view from a normal direction of the first end surface, does not overlap with the first outer electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masayuki YONEDA
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Patent number: 11222743Abstract: An electronic component includes: a multilayer body; an inductor constituted of a plurality of inductor conductor layers and a via hole conductor, the inductor having a helical shape; a first outer electrode provided on a first end surface formed by contiguous outer edges of the insulation layers; and a second outer electrode provided on a second end surface. The plurality of inductor conductor layers have a first inductor conductor layer connected to the first outer electrode, and a second inductor conductor layer adjacent to the first inductor conductor layer on another side in the lamination direction. The via hole conductor connecting the first inductor conductor layer and the second inductor conductor layer is provided closer to the first outer electrode than the second outer electrode, and when viewed in plan view from a normal direction of the first end surface, does not overlap with the first outer electrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masayuki Yoneda
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Patent number: 11009417Abstract: A piezoresistive sensor includes a piezoresistive region to which first conductivity type impurity has been introduced, the piezoresistive region being formed in a semiconductor layer; a protection region to which second conductivity type impurity has been introduced, the protection region covering a top of a region in which the piezoresistive region is formed, the protection region being formed in the semiconductor layer; and contact regions to which the first conductivity type impurities have been introduced, the contact regions being connected to the piezoresistive region, the contact regions being formed so as to reach a surface of the semiconductor layer except a region in which the protection region is formed, in which the following inequality holds: impurity concentration of the piezoresistive region<impurity concentration of the protection region<impurity concentrations of the contact regions.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Yoneda, Hirofumi Tojo
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Publication number: 20210108979Abstract: A sensor element includes diaphragms that are respectively displaced by receiving pressures, and a plurality of pressure inlet passages (a first pressure inlet passage made up of through-holes, a groove, and recessed portions, and a second pressure inlet passage made up of a through-hole, a groove, and a recessed portion) that respectively transmit same or different pressures to the diaphragms. Each of the plurality of pressure inlet passages is filled with a pressure transmission medium capable of transmitting a pressure. A pressure is applied through part or all of the plurality of pressure inlet passages to each of the diaphragms.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: AZBIL CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi TOJO, Masayuki YONEDA, Tomohisa TOKUDA, Ayumi TSUSHIMA, Nozomi KIDA
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Publication number: 20210108981Abstract: A sensor element includes a first diaphragm for measuring differential pressure between first pressure and second pressure and a second diaphragm for measuring absolute pressure or gage pressure of the second pressure. The sensor element has a first pressure introduction path (through holes, a groove, and a depression) through which the first pressure is transmitted to the first diaphragm. The sensor element has a second pressure introduction path (through holes, grooves, and depressions) through which the second pressure is transmitted to the first and second diaphragms. The sensor element has a liquid amount adjustment chamber (depression) configured to make an amount of a first pressure transmission medium filled in the first pressure introduction path and an amount of a second pressure transmission medium filled in the second pressure introduction path to be equal to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: AZBIL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohisa Tokuda, Masayuki Yoneda, Hirofumi Tojo, Ayumi Tsushima, Nozomi Kida
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Publication number: 20210108980Abstract: A sensor chip of a sensor element includes a diaphragm for measuring a differential pressure between a first pressure and a second pressure, a diaphragm for measuring an absolute pressure or a gauge pressure of the second pressure, a first pressure introduction path that transmits the first pressure to the diaphragm for measuring a differential pressure, and a second pressure introduction path that transmits the second pressure to the diaphragms. When the transmission of the first pressure or the second pressure to the diaphragms is indicated by an equivalent circuit, a path for transmitting the first pressure and a path for transmitting the second pressure are symmetrically formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: AZBIL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohisa TOKUDA, Masayuki YONEDA, Hirofumi TOJO, Ayumi TSUSHIMA, Nozomi KIDA
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Patent number: 10704976Abstract: A pressure sensor according to the present invention includes a diaphragm (3) including a first principal surface (3A) and a second principal surface (3B) that is opposite thereto, the first principal surface receiving a pressure of a fluid; a semiconductor chip (1) provided with resistors that constitute a strain gauge; and at least three support members (2a, 2b, 2c) made of an insulating material, each support member being fixed to the second principal surface at one end thereof and to the semiconductor chip at the other end thereof and extending perpendicularly to the second principal surface so as to support the semiconductor chip. One of the support members (2a) is provided at a center (30) of the diaphragm in plan view.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Seto, Masayuki Yoneda, Yoshiyuki Ishikura, Tomohisa Tokuda, Rina Ogasawara
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Publication number: 20190285495Abstract: A piezoresistive sensor includes a piezoresistive region to which first conductivity type impurity has been introduced, the piezoresistive region being formed in a semiconductor layer; a protection region to which second conductivity type impurity has been introduced, the protection region covering a top of a region in which the piezoresistive region is formed, the protection region being formed in the semiconductor layer; and contact regions to which the first conductivity type impurities have been introduced, the contact regions being connected to the piezoresistive region, the contact regions being formed so as to reach a surface of the semiconductor layer except a region in which the protection region is formed, in which the following inequality holds: impurity concentration of the piezoresistive region<impurity concentration of the protection region<impurity concentrations of the contact regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Masayuki YONEDA, Hirofumi TOJO
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Patent number: 10418167Abstract: An inductor component has an element body defined by a length, a height, and a width, a coil disposed in the element body and helically wound in the width direction, and first and second external electrodes disposed in the element body and electrically connected to the coil. The coil includes a plurality of coil conductor layers arranged side by side in the width direction. The plurality of coil conductor layers is each wound in parallel with a plane including the length direction and the height direction. At least one of the coil conductor layers has a shortest distance of 140 ?m or less in at least one of the length and height directions between an inner circumferential surface of the coil conductor layer and an outer surface of the element body opposite to this inner circumferential surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiichi Yoshinaka, Masayuki Yoneda
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Patent number: 10269482Abstract: Outer terminal electrodes form exposed surfaces that extend in the form of a substantially L shape while at least part thereof are embedded in a component main-body. A loop conductor layer of the coil conductor has a lower side portion, lateral side portions, oblique side portions, and an upper side portion. The lower side portion has a length shorter than a gap between outer terminal electrodes, and is positioned within a range of the gap.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Yoneda, Keiichi Yoshinaka
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Publication number: 20190003910Abstract: A pressure sensor according to the present invention includes a diaphragm (3) including a first principal surface (3A) and a second principal surface (3B) that is opposite thereto, the first principal surface receiving a pressure of a fluid; a semiconductor chip (1) provided with resistors that constitute a strain gauge; and at least three support members (2a, 2b, 2c) made of an insulating material, each support member being fixed to the second principal surface at one end thereof and to the semiconductor chip at the other end thereof and extending perpendicularly to the second principal surface so as to support the semiconductor chip. One of the support members (2a) is provided at a center (30) of the diaphragm in plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2016Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: AZBIL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki SETO, Masayuki YONEDA, Yoshiyuki ISHIKURA, Tomohisa TOKUDA, Rina OGASAWARA