Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi Yokoyama
Tsuyoshi Yokoyama 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: 20170257076Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: lower and upper electrodes located on a substrate and facing each other; a piezoelectric film sandwiched between the lower and upper electrodes and including lower and upper piezoelectric films, an outer outline of the upper piezoelectric film coinciding with or being located further out than an outer outline of a resonance region in a region surrounding the resonance region, the outer outline of the upper piezoelectric film being located further in than an outer outline of the lower piezoelectric film in the region; an insertion film interposed between the lower and upper piezoelectric films, located in an outer peripheral region within the resonance region, not located in a central region of the resonance region, and located on an upper surface of the lower piezoelectric film in the region; and a protective film located on the upper electrode in the resonance region, and located so as to cover an end face of the upper piezoelectric film and an upper surface of tType: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2017Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroomi KANEKO, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI, Shinji TANIGUCHI, Tokihiro NISHIHARA, Tsuyoshi YOKOYAMA
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Patent number: 9755611Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film provided on the substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode that sandwich at least a part of the piezoelectric film and face with each other; and an inserted film that is inserted in the piezoelectric film, is provided on an outer circumference region in a resonance region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode sandwich the piezoelectric film and face with each other, is not provided in a center region of the resonance region, and has a cutout in the resonance region.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Taniguchi, Tokihiro Nishihara, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Takeshi Sakashita
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Patent number: 9748925Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across at least a part of the piezoelectric film; and an insertion film inserted in the piezoelectric film, located in at least a part of an outer peripheral region within a resonance region where the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other across the piezoelectric film, and not located in a center region of the resonance region, wherein a difference between a total film thickness of the piezoelectric film and the insertion film in a first region, in which the insertion film is inserted, within the resonance region and a film thickness of the piezoelectric film in a second region, in which the insertion film is not inserted, is less than a film thickness of the insertion film.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Taniguchi, Tokihiro Nishihara, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Takeshi Sakashita
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Publication number: 20170230031Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a lower electrode located on the substrate; a piezoelectric film that has a step on an upper surface thereof and is located on the lower electrode, a film thickness of the piezoelectric film inside the step being greater than a film thickness of the piezoelectric film outside the step; an upper electrode located on the piezoelectric film so that a resonance region is formed, the lower electrode and the upper electrode facing each other across the piezoelectric film in the resonance region, the resonance region including the step in plan view; and an insertion film located in the piezoelectric film, between the piezoelectric film and the lower electrode, or between the piezoelectric film and the upper electrode in at least a part of an outer peripheral region within the resonance region, and not located in a central region of the resonance region.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi YOKOYAMA, Jiansong LIU
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Patent number: 9716956Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across a piezoelectric film; an insertion film inserted into the piezoelectric film, located in at least a part of an outer peripheral region in a resonance region and outside the outer peripheral region, and not located in a center region of the resonance region; a protective film on the upper electrode and the piezoelectric film; and a wiring line connecting to the lower electrode and covering an outer periphery of the protective film in an extraction region of the lower electrode, wherein in the extraction region, an outer periphery of the insertion film is further out than an outer periphery of the upper electrode and further in than an outer periphery of the piezoelectric film, and the outer periphery of the protective film is further out than the outer periphery of the insertion film.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryuichi Okamura, Hiroshi Kawakami, Hiroomi Kaneko, Shinji Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20170207768Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: an acoustic reflection layer including an air gap or an acoustic mirror; lower and upper electrodes facing each other in a stacking direction, at least a part of each of the lower and upper electrodes being located on or above the acoustic reflection layer; a piezoelectric film sandwiched between the lower and upper electrodes and including lower and upper piezoelectric films, at least a part of an end face of the piezoelectric film in a film thickness direction being located between outer outlines of the resonance region and the acoustic reflection layer in at least a part of a region surrounding a resonance region; and an insertion film inserted between the lower and upper piezoelectric films, located in at least a part of an outer peripheral region within the resonance region, and not located in a center region of the resonance region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2016Publication date: July 20, 2017Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiansong LIU, Tsuyoshi YOKOYAMA, Hiroomi KANEKO, Shinji TANIGUCHI, Tokihiro NISHIHARA
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Publication number: 20170170809Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a piezoelectric film located on a substrate, and formed of stacked lower and upper piezoelectric films; lower and upper electrodes facing each other across at least a part of the piezoelectric film; and an insertion film inserted between the lower and upper piezoelectric films, wherein an air gap including a resonance region where the lower and upper electrodes face each other across the piezoelectric film and being larger than the resonance region is located under the lower electrode, and a multilayered film formed of the lower piezoelectric film, the insertion film, and the upper piezoelectric film is located in at least a part of a region located further out than an outer outline of the resonance region, further in than an outer outline of the air gap, and surrounding the resonance region, and is not located in a center region of the resonance region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi YOKOYAMA, Jiansong LIU
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Publication number: 20170170807Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode located on the substrate; a piezoelectric film, at least a part of the piezoelectric film being sandwiched between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, the piezoelectric film including a discontinuous portion in which the piezoelectric film discontinues in at least a part of a region surrounding a center region that includes a center of a resonance region where the upper electrode and the lower electrode face each other across the at least a part of the piezoelectric film.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi YOKOYAMA, Takeshi SAKASHITA, Shinji TANIGUCHI, Tokihiro NISHIHARA
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Patent number: 9595941Abstract: A filter includes: piezoelectric thin film resonators, each including a substrate, a piezoelectric film located on the substrate, a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across at least a part of the piezoelectric film, and an insertion film inserted in the piezoelectric film, located in at least a part of an outer peripheral region within a resonance region, and not located in a center region of the resonance region, the resonance region being a region where the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other across the piezoelectric film, wherein at least two piezoelectric thin film resonators out of the piezoelectric thin film resonators have different widths of the insertion films within the resonance regions.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tokihiro Nishihara, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Takeshi Sakashita, Shinji Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20170033769Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the substrate and having a Poisson's ratio of 0.33 or less; a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across the piezoelectric film; and an insertion film that is located in the piezoelectric film or on a lower surface or an upper surface of the piezoelectric film in an outer peripheral region within a resonance region, in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other across the piezoelectric film, and is not located in a center region of the resonance region, wherein at least one of the lower electrode, the piezoelectric film, and the upper electrode in the outer peripheral region within the resonance region is thinner than the at least one of the lower electrode, the piezoelectric film, and the upper electrode in the center region of the resonance region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsuyoshi YOKOYAMA
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Patent number: 9531342Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film provided on the substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode that are opposed to each other to put at least a part of the piezoelectric film therebetween; and an insertion film that is inserted into the piezoelectric film in a resonance region where at least the part of the piezoelectric film is put between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, at least a part of the insertion film corresponding to an outer circumference region in the resonance region being thicker than a part of the insertion film corresponding to a central region in the resonance region.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Taniguchi, Tokihiro Nishihara, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Takeshi Sakashita
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Publication number: 20160353221Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across a piezoelectric film; an insertion film inserted into the piezoelectric film, located in at least a part of an outer peripheral region in a resonance region and outside the outer peripheral region, and not located in a center region of the resonance region; a protective film on the upper electrode and the piezoelectric film; and a wiring line connecting to the lower electrode and covering an outer periphery of the protective film in an extraction region of the lower electrode, wherein in the extraction region, an outer periphery of the insertion film is further out than an outer periphery of the upper electrode and further in than an outer periphery of the piezoelectric film, and the outer periphery of the protective film is further out than the outer periphery of the insertion film.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2016Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryuichi OKAMURA, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI, Hiroomi KANEKO, Shinji TANIGUCHI, Tsuyoshi YOKOYAMA
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Patent number: 9496848Abstract: A piezoelectric thin-film resonator includes, a substrate, a piezoelectric film provided on the substrate, and a lower electrode and an upper electrode that face each other through the piezoelectric film. The piezoelectric film has an air space that is provided in at least part of an outer circumferential part of a resonance region in which the upper and lower electrodes face each other through the piezoelectric film and is not provided in a central part of the resonance region.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Tokihiro Nishihara, Takeshi Sakashita
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Patent number: 9444429Abstract: A piezoelectric thin-film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film having a lower piezoelectric film provided on the substrate and an upper piezoelectric film provided on the lower piezoelectric film; lower and upper electrodes that face each other through at least a part of the piezoelectric film; an interposed film that is interposed between the lower piezoelectric film and the upper piezoelectric film and is located in an outer circumferential part of a resonance region in which the lower and upper electrodes face each other through the piezoelectric film, the interposed film not being provided in a central part of the resonance region; an upper surface of the lower piezoelectric film having a first roughness in a region in which the interposed film is not provided and a second roughness in another region in which the interposed film is provided, the first roughness being smaller than the second roughness.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Sakashita, Tokihiro Nishihara, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama
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Patent number: 9356573Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a piezoelectric film provided on a substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode sandwiching at least a part of the piezoelectric film and facing with each other; and an inserted film that is inserted in the piezoelectric film, is provided in an outer circumference region of a resonance region and is not provided in a center region of the resonance region, wherein: an angle between an edge face of the lower electrode and a lower face of the lower electrode in the resonance region is an acute angle; and a width of the inserted film in the resonance region on a side for extracting the upper electrode from the resonance region is larger than another width of the inserted film in the resonance region on a side for extracting the lower electrode from the resonance region.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Tokihiro Nishihara, Takeshi Sakashita
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Publication number: 20160142038Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across at least a part of the piezoelectric film; and an insertion film inserted in the piezoelectric film, located in at least a part of an outer peripheral region within a resonance region where the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other across the piezoelectric film, and not located in a center region of the resonance region, wherein a difference between a total film thickness of the piezoelectric film and the insertion film in a first region, in which the insertion film is inserted, within the resonance region and a film thickness of the piezoelectric film in a second region, in which the insertion film is not inserted, is less than a film thickness of the insertion film.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2015Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji TANIGUCHI, Tokihiro NISHIHARA, Tsuyoshi YOKOYAMA, Takeshi SAKASHITA
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Publication number: 20160028371Abstract: A filter includes: piezoelectric thin film resonators, each including a substrate, a piezoelectric film located on the substrate, a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across at least a part of the piezoelectric film, and an insertion film inserted in the piezoelectric film, located in at least a part of an outer peripheral region within a resonance region, and not located in a center region of the resonance region, the resonance region being a region where the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other across the piezoelectric film, wherein at least two piezoelectric thin film resonators out of the piezoelectric thin film resonators have different widths of the insertion films within the resonance regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tokihiro NISHIHARA, Tsuyoshi YOKOYAMA, Takeshi SAKASHITA, Shinji TANIGUCHI
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Patent number: 9240769Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Sakashita, Motoaki Hara, Masafumi Iwaki, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Shinji Taniguchi, Tokihiro Nishihara, Masanori Ueda
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Patent number: 9184725Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: a substrate; a lower electrode formed on the substrate; at least two piezoelectric films formed on the lower electrode; an insulating film located between the at least two piezoelectric films; and an upper electrode formed on the at least two piezoelectric films, wherein an outer periphery of an uppermost piezoelectric film out of the at least two piezoelectric films in a region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other is positioned further in than an outer periphery of the upper electrode.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Taniguchi, Tokihiro Nishihara, Masanori Ueda, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Takeshi Sakashita
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Patent number: 9160298Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: a substrate; a lower electrode that is located on the substrate; a piezoelectric film that is located on the lower electrode and made of aluminum nitride of which a ratio of a lattice constant in a c-axis direction to a lattice constant in an a-axis direction is smaller than 1.6; and an upper electrode that is located on the piezoelectric film and faces the lower electrode across the piezoelectric film.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsuyoshi Yokoyama