Patents by Inventor Seiichi Mitobe

Seiichi Mitobe 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: 7795999
    Abstract: A filter includes a first filter that is connected between an input node and an output node and is a surface acoustic wave filter, and a second filter that is provided between the input node and the output node and is connected in parallel with the first filter. The first filter has a total number N1 of pairs of electrode fingers of interdigital transducers and the second filter having a total number N2 of pairs of electrode fingers of interdigital transducers, in which N1 is greater than N2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited
    Inventors: Yasufumi Kaneda, Osamu Kawachi, Seiichi Mitobe, Kouta Ookubo
  • Patent number: 7741931
    Abstract: A filter includes a parallel resonator having first comb electrodes provided on a piezoelectric substrate and a first dielectric film that covers the first comb electrodes, and a series resonator having second comb electrodes provided on the piezoelectric substrate and a second dielectric film covers the second comb electrodes and is made of a material identical to that of the first dielectric film. The first dielectric film has a different thickness from that of the second dielectric film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Satoru Matsuda, Michio Miura, Shogo Inoue, Takashi Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Patent number: 7688161
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a resonator having comb electrodes that are provided above the piezoelectric substrate and excite an acoustic wave, and a capacitor that is provided above the piezoelectric substrate and is connected in series or parallel with the resonator, the capacitor including electrodes that horizontally face each other above the piezoelectric substrate. The electrodes of the capacitor are further from the piezoelectric substrate than the comb electrodes of the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Michio Miura, Satoru Matsuda, Shogo Inoue, Takashi Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Patent number: 7659653
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric film formed on the piezoelectric substrate, and electrodes that are provided on the first dielectric film and excite an acoustic wave, the electrodes including electrode fingers. At least a part of the first dielectric film is cut out between adjacent electrode fingers among the electrode fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Matsuda, Shogo Inoue, Michio Miura, Satoru Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Patent number: 7629863
    Abstract: A duplexer includes: a first filter that is connected to a common terminal and a first terminal, and includes a first series-arm resonator; a second filter that is connected to the common terminal and a second terminal; a first inductor that is connected in parallel to the first series-arm resonator; a mounting unit that has the first filter and the second filter mounted thereon; a first inductor line that is provided on the mounting unit, and connects the first inductor and the first series-arm resonator; and a first terminal line that is provided on the mounting unit, and connects the first filter and the first terminal. In this duplexer, the directions of currents flowing through the first inductor line and the first terminal line cross each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yasuhide Iwamoto, Shogo Inoue, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Patent number: 7573178
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, comb electrodes formed above the piezoelectric substrate, and a first dielectric film provided so as to cover the comb electrodes, the first dielectric film having empty spaces associated with fingers of the comb electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shogo Inoue, Hiroyoshi Yasuda, Michio Miura, Satoru Matsuda, Takashi Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Patent number: 7564174
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric film provided on the piezoelectric substrate, electrodes that are provided on the first dielectric film and excite an acoustic wave, and a second dielectric film that is provided so as to cover the electrodes and is thicker than the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Matsuda, Shogo Inoue, Michio Miura, Satoru Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Patent number: 7554419
    Abstract: A balanced filter includes: a filter that has at least one unbalanced signal terminal; a balun that is a lumped parameter balun that inputs or outputs signals with different phases generated based on a signal input or output from the unbalanced signal terminal of the filter, the balun being formed with an integrated passive device; and a mounting unit in which the filter and the balun are flip-chip mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shogo Inoue, Takashi Matsuda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Patent number: 7522021
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave apparatus has a configuration by which the spurious of the higher-order transverse modes is suppressed and a SAW excitation intensity distribution is not changed in the propagation direction. The surface acoustic wave apparatus has at least one interdigital transducer, which is disposed such that a plurality of comb-shape electrodes respectively connected to common electrodes are interleaved, wherein a region with the plurality of interleaved comb-shape electrodes has a first overlapping region with a overlapping length constant over a whole area along a propagation direction of a surface acoustic wave and a second overlapping region formed on at least one side of the first overlapping region with a overlapping length weighted in the propagation direction of the surface acoustic wave, and wherein an overlapping-length weighting envelope curve in the second overlapping region has at least two changing points in the propagation direction of the surface acoustic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Koichi Wada, Seiichi Mitobe, Shogo Inoue
  • Patent number: 7482896
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave apparatus has a configuration by which the spurious of the higher-order transverse modes is suppressed and a SAW excitation intensity distribution is not changed in the propagation direction. The surface acoustic wave apparatus has at least one interdigital transducer; a region with the plurality of interleaved comb-shaped electrodes is formed with two regions which are a first overlapping region and a second overlapping region with overlapping-lengths weighted along a propagation direction of a surface acoustic wave; the first overlapping region and the second overlapping region are in contact or overlapped in a direction vertical to the propagation direction of the surface acoustic wave; and in either the first or the second overlapping region, an overlapping-length weighting envelope curve has at least two or more changing points in the propagation direction of the surface acoustic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Koichi Wada, Seiichi Mitobe, Shogo Inoue
  • Patent number: 7471171
    Abstract: An elastic boundary wave device includes a LiNbO3 substrate, an electrode exciting an elastic wave and provided on the substrate, and a silicon oxide film provided on the substrate to cover the electrode, and parameters of the elastic boundary wave device have any one of ranges, where “?” is a rotation Y cut angle of the substrate, “a” is a ratio of copper density with respect to a density of a material used as the electrode, “?” is a wavelength of the elastic wave excited by the electrode, “h” is a film thickness of the electrode, “H” is a thickness of the silicon oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignees: Fujitsu Media Devices Limited, Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Michio Miura, Satoru Matsuda, Takashi Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Patent number: 7466061
    Abstract: An acoustic boundary wave device includes a first medium having piezoelectricity, electrodes that are provided on the first medium and excite acoustic waves, a second medium made of a material different from the first medium and provided on the first medium so as to cover the electrodes, and a third medium that has a heat conductivity higher than that of the second medium and is provided so as to contact an upper surface of the second medium and at least a part of side surfaces of the second medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Media Devices Limited
    Inventors: Michio Miura, Satoru Matsuda, Takashi Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Publication number: 20080129418
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a resonator having comb electrodes that are provided above the piezoelectric substrate and excite an acoustic wave, and a capacitor that is provided above the piezoelectric substrate and is connected in series or parallel with the resonator, the capacitor including electrodes that horizontally face each other above the piezoelectric substrate. The electrodes of the capacitor are further from the piezoelectric substrate than the comb electrodes of the resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Michio Miura, Satoru Matsuda, Shogo Inoue, Takashi Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Publication number: 20080074212
    Abstract: A filter includes a parallel resonator having first comb electrodes provided on a piezoelectric substrate and a first dielectric film that covers the first comb electrodes, and a series resonator having second comb electrodes provided on the piezoelectric substrate and a second dielectric film covers the second comb electrodes and is made of a material identical to that of the first dielectric film. The first dielectric film has a different thickness from that of the second dielectric film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Satoru Matsuda, Michio Miura, Shogo Inoue, Takashi Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Publication number: 20080067896
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, comb electrodes formed above the piezoelectric substrate, and a first dielectric film provided so as to cover the comb electrodes, the first dielectric film having empty spaces associated with fingers of the comb electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Shogo Inoue, Hiroyoshi Yasuda, Michio Miura, Satoru Matsuda, Takashi Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Publication number: 20080067891
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric film formed on the piezoelectric substrate, and electrodes that are provided on the first dielectric film and excite an acoustic wave, the electrodes including electrode fingers. At least a part of the first dielectric film is cut out between adjacent electrode fingers among the electrode fingers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Takashi Matsuda, Shogo Inoue, Michio Miura, Satoru Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Publication number: 20080061657
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric film provided on the piezoelectric substrate, electrodes that are provided on the first dielectric film and excite an acoustic wave, and a second dielectric film that is provided so as to cover the electrodes and is thicker than the electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Takashi Matsuda, Shogo Inoue, Michio Miura, Satoru Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Publication number: 20080024246
    Abstract: A filter includes a first filter that is connected between an input node and an output node and is a surface acoustic wave filter, and a second filter that is provided between the input node and the output node and is connected in parallel with the first filter. The first filter has a total number N1 of pairs of electrode fingers of interdigital transducers and the second filter having a total number N2 of pairs of electrode fingers of interdigital transducers, in which N1 is greater than N2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: Yasufumi Kaneda, Osamu Kawachi, Seiichi Mitobe, Kouta Ookubo
  • Publication number: 20070278898
    Abstract: An acoustic boundary wave device includes a first medium having piezoelectricity, electrodes that are provided on the first medium and excite acoustic waves, a second medium made of a material different from the first medium and provided on the first medium so as to cover the electrodes, and a third medium that has a heat conductivity higher than that of the second medium and is provided so as to contact an upper surface of the second medium and at least a part of side surfaces of the second medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Michio Miura, Satoru Matsuda, Takashi Matsuda, Masanori Ueda, Seiichi Mitobe
  • Publication number: 20070268092
    Abstract: A balanced filter includes: a filter that has at least one unbalanced signal terminal; a balun that is a lumped parameter balun that inputs or outputs signals with different phases generated based on a signal input or output from the unbalanced signal terminal of the filter, the balun being formed with an integrated passive device; and a mounting unit in which the filter and the balun are flip-chip mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Shogo Inoue, Takashi Matsuda, Seiichi Mitobe