Patents by Inventor Norihiko Nakahashi
Norihiko Nakahashi 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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Publication number: 20240250700Abstract: A multiplexer includes a common terminal, first and second input/output terminals, a filter connected between the common terminal and the first input/output terminals and having a pass band including a first frequency band, a filter that is connected between the common terminal and the second input/output terminal and having a pass band including a second frequency band lower than the first frequency band, and an additional circuit including a first end connected to the common terminal and a second end connected to portion of a path connecting the common terminal and the first input/output terminal, the portion excluding the common terminal. The additional circuit includes a resonator including IDT electrodes on a piezoelectric substrate, and the IDT electrode with a widest electrode finger pitch is connected to the common terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventor: Norihiko NAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240162885Abstract: An extractor includes an external connection terminal, a common terminal, input-output terminals, a band elimination filter that is connected to the common terminal and the first input-output terminal input-output terminal and that uses a first frequency band as a stop band, a band pass filter connected to the common terminal and the second input-output terminal and that uses a second frequency band overlapped with at least a portion of the first frequency band as a pass band, and an inductor connected on a path connecting the common terminal to the external connection terminal. The band elimination filter includes series arm resonators located on a series arm connecting the common terminal to the input-output terminal and an inductor that is located on the series arm between the series arm resonator and the first input-output terminal. The inductor is inductively coupled to the inductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2024Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventor: Norihiko NAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20240097714Abstract: A multiplexer includes a first filter connected between a common terminal and an input/output terminal and having a pass band including a first frequency band, a second filter connected between the common terminal and an input/output terminal and having a pass band including a second frequency band higher than the first frequency band, and an additional circuit connected in parallel to a path connecting the common terminal and the input/output terminal. The additional circuit includes a longitudinally coupled resonator including IDT electrodes. If a peak frequency in an IDT response occurring in a bandpass characteristic of the additional circuit is f1, and if a frequency corresponding to a lowest impedance among frequencies higher than the second frequency band in an impedance characteristic viewing the multiplexer from the common terminal is f2, f2×(1?0.0012)?f1?f2×(1+0.0012) is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Norihiko NAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11923828Abstract: An extractor includes an external connection terminal, a common terminal, input-output terminals, a band elimination filter that is connected to the common terminal and the first input-output terminal input-output terminal and that uses a first frequency band as a stop band, a band pass filter connected to the common terminal and the second input-output terminal and that uses a second frequency band overlapped with at least a portion of the first frequency band as a pass band, and an inductor connected on a path connecting the common terminal to the external connection terminal. The band elimination filter includes series arm resonators located on a series arm connecting the common terminal to the input-output terminal and an inductor that is located on the series arm between the series arm resonator and the first input-output terminal. The inductor is inductively coupled to the inductor.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Norihiko Nakahashi
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Patent number: 11831301Abstract: A filter device includes a common connection terminal, a first bandpass filter connected to the common connection terminal and including an inductor, and a second bandpass filter connected to the common connection terminal and having a pass band lower in frequency than a pass band of the first bandpass filter. The filter device uses SH waves. The first bandpass filter is a ladder filter. Each of series arm resonators and parallel arm resonators includes an interdigital transducer electrode. Of the parallel arm resonators of the first bandpass filter, the inductor is connected in series to the parallel arm resonator with a shortest electrode finger pitch of the interdigital transducer electrode.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Junji Osada, Norihiko Nakahashi
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Patent number: 11115000Abstract: An extractor includes a band elimination filter that is connected between a common terminal and a first input-output terminal and that has a stop band equal or substantially equal to a first frequency band, and a band pass filter that is connected between the common terminal and a second input-output terminal and that has a pass band equal or substantially equal to a second frequency band that overlaps the first frequency band. The band pass filter includes, series arm resonators, three or more parallel arm resonators, and three or more inductors that are connected between the ground and the parallel arm resonators. The L value of a first inductor that is connected and nearest to the common terminal is smaller than the L value of a third inductor, and the L value of a second inductor that is connected and second-nearest to the common terminal is smaller than the L value of the third inductor.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Norihiko Nakahashi
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Publication number: 20210273633Abstract: A filter device includes a common connection terminal, a first bandpass filter connected to the common connection terminal and including an inductor, and a second bandpass filter connected to the common connection terminal and having a pass band lower in frequency than a pass band of the first bandpass filter. The filter device uses SH waves. The first bandpass filter is a ladder filter. Each of series arm resonators and parallel arm resonators includes an interdigital transducer electrode. Of the parallel arm resonators of the first bandpass filter, the inductor is connected in series to the parallel arm resonator with a shortest electrode finger pitch of the interdigital transducer electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Junji OSADA, Norihiko NAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20210265976Abstract: An extractor includes an external connection terminal, a common terminal, input-output terminals, a band elimination filter that is connected to the common terminal and the first input-output terminal input-output terminal and that uses a first frequency band as a stop band, a band pass filter connected to the common terminal and the second input-output terminal and that uses a second frequency band overlapped with at least a portion of the first frequency band as a pass band, and an inductor connected on a path connecting the common terminal to the external connection terminal. The band elimination filter includes series arm resonators located on a series arm connecting the common terminal to the input-output terminal and an inductor that is located on the series arm between the series arm resonator and the first input-output terminal. The inductor is inductively coupled to the inductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventor: Norihiko NAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 10958241Abstract: An extractor includes a band pass filter and a band elimination filter. In the band pass filter, an IDT electrode in at least one of a first series arm resonator and a first parallel arm resonator that are arranged at a series arm and a parallel arm, respectively, closest to a common terminal is a first IDT electrode in which neither a plurality of first electrode fingers nor a plurality of second electrode fingers is partially missing, and an IDT electrode in at least one of the first series arm resonator or the first parallel arm resonator that does not include the first IDT electrode, second series arm resonators, and second parallel arm resonators is a second IDT electrode in which at least one of a plurality of electrode fingers and a plurality of second electrode fingers is partially missing.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Norihiko Nakahashi
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Patent number: 10615770Abstract: A ladder filter includes serial arm resonators disposed along a serial arm and parallel arm resonators disposed along corresponding parallel arms. Ladder circuit units are disposed along a path from an input terminal, which is a first end, to an output terminal, which is a second end. Each of the ladder circuit units includes a single serial arm resonator and a single parallel arm resonator. The ladder circuit units are mirror-connected to one another. The impedance at the first end is different from the impedance at the second end.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Norihiko Nakahashi
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Publication number: 20200091894Abstract: An extractor includes a band elimination filter that is connected between a common terminal and a first input-output terminal and that has a stop band equal or substantially equal to a first frequency band, and a band pass filter that is connected between the common terminal and a second input-output terminal and that has a pass band equal or substantially equal to a second frequency band that overlaps the first frequency band. The band pass filter includes, series arm resonators, three or more parallel arm resonators, and three or more inductors that are connected between the ground and the parallel arm resonators. The L value of a first inductor that is connected and nearest to the common terminal is smaller than the L value of a third inductor, and the L value of a second inductor that is connected and second-nearest to the common terminal is smaller than the L value of the third inductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventor: Norihiko NAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20190379353Abstract: An extractor includes a band pass filter and a band elimination filter. In the band pass filter, an IDT electrode in at least one of a first series arm resonator and a first parallel arm resonator that are arranged at a series arm and a parallel arm, respectively, closest to a common terminal is a first IDT electrode in which neither a plurality of first electrode fingers nor a plurality of second electrode fingers is partially missing, and an IDT electrode in at least one of the first series arm resonator or the first parallel arm resonator that does not include the first IDT electrode, second series arm resonators, and second parallel arm resonators is a second IDT electrode in which at least one of a plurality of electrode fingers and a plurality of second electrode fingers is partially missing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventor: Norihiko NAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20190222192Abstract: A ladder filter includes serial arm resonators disposed along a serial arm and parallel arm resonators disposed along corresponding parallel arms. Ladder circuit units are disposed along a path from an input terminal, which is a first end, to an output terminal, which is a second end. Each of the ladder circuit units includes a single serial arm resonator and a single parallel arm resonator. The ladder circuit units are mirror-connected to one another. The impedance at the first end is different from the impedance at the second end.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventor: Norihiko NAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 10122344Abstract: A ladder-type surface acoustic wave filter includes interdigital transducer electrodes disposed on a LiTaO3 piezoelectric substrate, and series resonators and parallel resonators defined by the interdigital transducer electrodes, and utilizes a leaky wave that propagates on the LiTaO3 piezoelectric substrate. A bandwidth ratio indicating a bandwidth of a passband of the ladder-type surface acoustic wave filter is about 2.5% or greater, and a cutoff frequency due to bulk wave radiation of one of the parallel resonators, is in a frequency range higher than the passband.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Norihiko Nakahashi, Koji Miyamoto
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Patent number: 10090824Abstract: A filter apparatus includes a plurality of stages of ladder circuits connected between an input terminal and an output terminal, and a band width ratio is about 4.3 % or higher. The ladder circuits of respective stages include series arm resonators, parallel arm resonators, first inductors respectively connected between a ground potential and first end portions, and second inductors respectively connected between the ground potential and second end portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Norihiko Nakahashi
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Publication number: 20160285431Abstract: A ladder-type surface acoustic wave filter includes interdigital transducer electrodes disposed on a LiTaO3 piezoelectric substrate, and series resonators and parallel resonators defined by the interdigital transducer electrodes, and utilizes a leaky wave that propagates on the LiTaO3 piezoelectric substrate. A bandwidth ratio indicating a bandwidth of a passband of the ladder-type surface acoustic wave filter is about 2.5% or greater, and a cutoff frequency due to bulk wave radiation of one of the parallel resonators, is in a frequency range higher than the passband.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Norihiko NAKAHASHI, Koji MIYAMOTO
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Publication number: 20160277002Abstract: A filter apparatus includes a plurality of stages of ladder circuits connected between an input terminal and an output terminal, and a band width ratio is about 4.3% or higher. The ladder circuits of respective stages include series arm resonators, parallel arm resonators, first inductors respectively connected between a ground potential and first end portions, and second inductors respectively connected between the ground potential and second end portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventor: Norihiko NAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 8773221Abstract: An inexpensive compact band rejection filter realizes a high sharpness of a filter characteristic at ends of passbands and has a large attenuation. In the band rejection filter, at least one of a plurality of elastic wave resonators, which contributes to formation of a transition band, has a propagation angle larger than those of the other elastic wave resonators. Accordingly, the at least one of the plurality of elastic wave resonators which contributes to the formation of the transition band has an electromechanical coupling coefficient that is smaller than electromechanical coupling coefficients of the other elastic wave resonators.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norihiko Nakahashi, Yasumasa Taniguchi
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Patent number: 8373329Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes an electrode and a dielectric layer laminated on a piezoelectric substrate, in which the electrode includes a first electrode film containing Pt, Au, Ag, or Cu and a second electrode film containing Al, the normalized film thickness h/? of the first electrode film is about 0.005 or more and at most about 0.015 in the case of Pt, the normalized film thickness h/? of the Al film is about 0.06 or more and at most about 0.185, and the normalized film thickness h/? of the dielectric layer is about 0.2 or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Norihiko Nakahashi
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Publication number: 20120187799Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes an electrode and a dielectric layer laminated on a piezoelectric substrate, in which the electrode includes a first electrode film containing Pt, Au, Ag, or Cu and a second electrode film containing Al, the normalized film thickness h/? of the first electrode film is about 0.005 or more and at most about 0.015 in the case of Pt, the normalized film thickness h/? of the Al film is about 0.06 or more and at most about 0.185, and the normalized film thickness h/? of the dielectric layer is about 0.2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Norihiko NAKAHASHI