Patents by Inventor Naohisa Obata

Naohisa Obata 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: 10797644
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a resonation element, a first package that houses the resonation element and airtightly sealed, a circuit element that is positioned outside the first package and electrically connected to the resonation element, and a second package that houses the first package and the circuit element and sealed in a depressurized state. In addition, the first package includes a first base having a first recessed portion, and a first lid joined to the first base so as to close an opening of the first recessed portion, and the second package includes a second base having a second recessed portion and a second lid joined to the second base so as to close an opening of the second recessed portion. The circuit element is attached to the first base, and the first base is attached to the second base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naohisa Obata
  • Patent number: 10720886
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a resonation element, a temperature sensitive element, a first package that houses the resonation element and the temperature sensitive element and is airtightly sealed, and a second package that houses the first package and is airtightly sealed. The first package includes a first base having a first recessed portion that is provided on one main surface side and a first lid that is joined to the first base so as to close an opening of the first recessed portion. The second package includes a second base having a second recessed portion that is provided on one main surface side and a second lid that is joined to the second base so as to close an opening of the second recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohisa Obata, Shinya Aoki, Shiro Murakami
  • Patent number: 10622942
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a first package that is airtightly sealed, a second package that is housed in the first package and airtightly sealed, a resonation element that is housed in the second package, and a circuit element that is housed in the first package in a state of being positioned outside the second package and electrically connected to the resonation element and has an oscillation circuit and a temperature compensation circuit. In addition, the first package includes a base having two main surfaces and a recessed portion provided on one of the main surfaces, and a lid joined to the base so as to close the opening of the recessed portion. The circuit element is attached to the base, and the second package is attached to the circuit element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naohisa Obata
  • Patent number: 10511259
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a vibration element, an oscillation circuit configured to oscillate the vibration element and output an oscillation signal, a temperature sensor, a temperature compensation circuit configured to compensate for a frequency temperature characteristic of the vibration element based on an output signal of the temperature sensor. The vibration element is within a first case having a first atmosphere, and the oscillation circuit, the temperature sensor, and the first case are within a second case having a second atmosphere, whereby the first atmosphere has a higher thermal conductivity than the second atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naohisa Obata
  • Publication number: 20190267940
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a resonation element, a first package that houses the resonation element and airtightly sealed, a circuit element that is positioned outside the first package and electrically connected to the resonation element, and a second package that houses the first package and the circuit element and sealed in a depressurized state. In addition, the first package includes a first base having a first recessed portion, and a first lid joined to the first base so as to close an opening of the first recessed portion, and the second package includes a second base having a second recessed portion and a second lid joined to the second base so as to close an opening of the second recessed portion. The circuit element is attached to the first base, and the first base is attached to the second base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naohisa OBATA
  • Publication number: 20190267941
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a first package that is airtightly sealed, a second package that is housed in the first package and airtightly sealed, a resonation element that is housed in the second package, and a circuit element that is housed in the first package in a state of being positioned outside the second package and electrically connected to the resonation element and has an oscillation circuit and a temperature compensation circuit. In addition, the first package includes abase having two main surfaces and a recessed portion provided on one of the main surfaces, and a lid joined to the base so as to close the opening of the recessed portion. The circuit element is attached to the base, and the second package is attached to the circuit element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naohisa OBATA
  • Publication number: 20190267943
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a resonation element, a temperature sensitive element, a first package that houses the resonation element and the temperature sensitive element and is airtightly sealed, and a second package that houses the first package and is airtightly sealed. The first package includes a first base having a first recessed portion that is provided on one main surface side and a first lid that is joined to the first base so as to close an opening of the first recessed portion. The second package includes a second base having a second recessed portion that is provided on one main surface side and a second lid that is joined to the second base so as to close an opening of the second recessed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohisa OBATA, Shinya AOKI, Shiro MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10389363
    Abstract: A temperature-compensated oscillator includes a resonator element, an oscillating circuit, and a temperature compensation circuit, and in a case of varying temperature in a temperature range of ±5° C. centered on a reference temperature in intervals of 6 minutes, and assuming observation period as ?, a wander performance fulfills a condition that an MTIE value is equal to or shorter than 6 ns in a range of 0 s<??0.1 s, the MTIE value is equal to or shorter than 27 ns in a range of 0.1 s<??1 s, the MTIE value is equal to or shorter than 250 ns in a range of 1 s<??10 s, the MTIE value is equal to or shorter than 100 ns in a range of 10 s<??1700 s, and the MTIE value is equal to or shorter than 6332 ns in a range of 100 s<??1000 s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Owaki, Naohisa Obata
  • Patent number: 10298239
    Abstract: A temperature-compensated oscillator includes a resonator element, an oscillating circuit, and a temperature compensation circuit, and a frequency deviation with respect to a frequency at a time point when power supply starts is within a range of ±8 ppb at a time point when 10 seconds elapse from when the power supply starts, within a range of ±10 ppb at a time point when 20 seconds elapse from when the power supply starts, and within a range of ±10 ppb at a time point when 30 seconds elapse from when the power supply starts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohisa Obata, Takuya Owaki
  • Publication number: 20190044499
    Abstract: A resonator device includes a substrate, a resonator element including a base member having first and second surface, and a pair of excitation electrodes, and first and second bonding member. Defining center of the first and second bonding member as a first and second bonding center, a center of a resonating region as a resonating region center, and defining a distance between the first bonding center and the second bonding center as L1, a length of a perpendicular drawn from the resonating region center to an imaginary line connecting the first bonding center and the second bonding center to each other as L2, a linear expansion coefficient of the first metal layer, the second metal layer, and the base member as ?1, ?2, ?3 respectively, and a length of the resonator element as L3, 0<L1/L2?0.97, |(?2??1)/?1|?0.35, |(?3??1)/?1|?0.35, and L3?1.5 mm are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventor: Naohisa OBATA
  • Patent number: 10187010
    Abstract: In a crystal resonator, a resonator element is installed in a package via a first bonding member and a second bonding member, and when viewed from above, a distance between a first bonding center and a second bonding center is set to be L1, and a length of a perpendicular line drawn to a virtual line which connects the first bonding center and the second bonding center from the resonation area center is set to be L2, a relationship expressed by 0<L1/L2?0.97 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naohisa Obata
  • Patent number: 10122343
    Abstract: A resonator device includes a substrate, a resonator element including a base member having first and second surface, and a pair of excitation electrodes, and first and second bonding member. Defining center of the first and second bonding member as a first and second bonding center, a center of a resonating region as a resonating region center, and defining a distance between the first bonding center and the second bonding center as L1, a length of a perpendicular drawn from the resonating region center to an imaginary line connecting the first bonding center and the second bonding center to each other as L2, a linear expansion coefficient of the first metal layer, the second metal layer, and the base member as ?1, ?2, ?3 respectively, and a length of the resonator element as L3, 0<L1/L2?0.97, |(?2??1)/?1|?0.35, |(?3??1)/?1|?0.35, and L3?1.5 mm are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naohisa Obata
  • Publication number: 20180278209
    Abstract: A temperature compensated oscillator includes a resonator element, an oscillation circuit, and a temperature compensation circuit. Assuming an observation time as T, an MTIE value at 0.1 s<??1 s is 1.3 ns or less, an MTIE value at 1 s<??10 s is 1.3 ns or less, an MTIE value at 10 s<??100 s is 1.8 ns or less, an MTIE value at 100 s<??1000 s is 2.9 ns or less, a TDEV value at 0.1 s<??10 s is 47 ps or less, a TDEV value at 10 s<??100 s is 65 ps or less, and a TDEV value at 100 s<??1000 s is 94 ps or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohisa OBATA, Takuya OWAKI
  • Publication number: 20180269832
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a vibration element, an oscillation circuit configured to oscillate the vibration element and output an oscillation signal, a temperature sensor, a temperature compensation circuit configured to compensate for a frequency temperature characteristic of the vibration element based on an output signal of the temperature sensor. The vibration element is within a first case having a first atmosphere, and the oscillation circuit, the temperature sensor, and the first case are within a second case having a second atmosphere, whereby the first atmosphere has a higher thermal conductivity than the second atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naohisa OBATA
  • Patent number: 10075171
    Abstract: An oscillator includes a resonator element; an oscillation circuit which outputs an oscillation signal by oscillating the resonator element; and a temperature compensation circuit as a frequency control circuit which controls an oscillation frequency of the oscillation signal, wherein, if a resonance frequency of the resonator element is referred to as Fr (MHz) and an equivalent series capacitance is referred to as C1 (fF), a relationship of C1?0.00279×Fr2?0.05684×Fr+2.69481 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naohisa Obata
  • Publication number: 20180198408
    Abstract: A temperature compensated oscillator, includes resonator, first case that includes base and lid and accommodates resonator, electronic component that includes oscillation and temperature compensation circuit, and second case that accommodates first case and electronic component, wherein electronic component is bonded to first case's base, and wherein in a case where temperature range of ±5° C. is changed with six minute cycle on basis of reference temperature, wander performance satisfies condition that MTIE value of 0 s<??0.1 s is equal to or less than 6 ns, MTIE value of 0.1 s<??1 s is equal to or less than 27 ns, MTIE value of 1 s<??10 s is equal to or less than 250 ns, MTIE value of 10 s<??100 s is equal to or less than 1700 ns, and MTIE value of 100 s<??1000 s is equal to or less than 6332 ns when observation time is set to ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya OWAKI, Naohisa OBATA
  • Publication number: 20180159472
    Abstract: In a crystal resonator, a resonator element is installed in a package via a first bonding member and a second bonding member, and when viewed from above, a distance between a first bonding center and a second bonding center is set to be L1, and a length of a perpendicular line drawn to a virtual line which connects the first bonding center and the second bonding center from the resonation area center is set to be L2, a relationship expressed by 0<L1/L2?0.97 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventor: Naohisa Obata
  • Patent number: 9912292
    Abstract: In a crystal resonator, a resonator element is installed in a package via a first bonding member and a second bonding member, and when viewed from above, a distance between a first bonding center and a second bonding center is set to be L1, and a length of a perpendicular line drawn to a virtual line which connects the first bonding center and the second bonding center from the resonation area center is set to be L2, a relationship expressed by 0<L1/L2?0.97 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Naohisa Obata
  • Patent number: 9793875
    Abstract: A vibration element includes a substrate having first and second principal surfaces, a first excitation electrode on the first principal surface, a second excitation electrode on the second principal surface, and a first extraction electrode on the first principal surface, and connected to the first excitation electrode. The first extraction electrode includes a first electrode section, and a second electrode section extending from the first electrode section in a first direction and connected to the first excitation electrode. The second electrode section is narrower in a second direction than the first electrode section. When an area of the first excitation electrode is S1, and an area of an overlapping part where the second electrode section overlaps the second excitation electrode is S2, (S2/S1)?0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Naohisa Obata, Yusuke Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170279409
    Abstract: In a crystal resonator, a resonator element is installed in a package via a first bonding member and a second bonding member, and when viewed from above, a distance between a first bonding center and a second bonding center is set to be L1, and a length of a perpendicular line drawn to a virtual line which connects the first bonding center and the second bonding center from the resonation area center is set to be L2, a relationship expressed by 0<L1/L2?0.97 is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventor: Naohisa OBATA