Patents by Inventor Yohei KONAKA

Yohei KONAKA 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: 12294353
    Abstract: An acoustic wave element includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric substrate, and a reflector. The IDT electrode includes plural electrode fingers, and the reflector includes plural reflector electrode fingers. In a case where IRGAP is an IDT-reflector gap that is a distance between a center of the electrode finger located closest to the reflector and a center of the reflector electrode finger located closest to the IDT electrode, and ?REF is a reflector wave length that is twice a repetition pitch of the reflector electrode fingers, a ratio of about 0.25?IRGAP/?REF?about 0.44 is satisfied, and the reflector wave length is longer than an IDT wave length that is a repetition pitch of the electrode fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Konaka, Katsuya Daimon
  • Patent number: 12155375
    Abstract: An acoustic wave element includes an electrode-finger pitch of reflecting-electrode fingers greater than an electrode-finger pitch pi of comb-shaped electrode fingers, and a center-to-center distance between a reflecting-electrode finger and a comb-shaped electrode finger is equal to or less than about 0.9 times the electrode-finger pitch of the reflecting-electrode fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yohei Konaka
  • Publication number: 20240364301
    Abstract: An acoustic wave element includes IDT electrodes on two main surfaces of a piezoelectric layer, and reflectors on both of the two main surfaces. The IDT electrodes each include electrode fingers extending in a second direction that intersects a first direction. The reflectors each include reflection electrode fingers extending in the second direction. An array pitch of the electrode fingers along the first direction is Pi, an array pitch of the reflection electrode fingers is Pr, and an IDT-reflector gap in the first direction d1 between a center of an electrode finger and a center of a reflection electrode finger that is closest to the IDT electrode among the plurality of reflection electrode fingers is G, a thickness of the piezoelectric layer is smaller than or equal to twice Pi, G is smaller than Pr, and Pr is greater than Pi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventor: Yohei KONAKA
  • Publication number: 20240235524
    Abstract: An acoustic wave element includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode including comb electrode fingers, and a reflector including reflective electrode fingers. An average value of all pitches of the comb electrode fingers is smaller than an average value of all pitches of the reflective electrode fingers. When a total number of the comb electrode fingers is defined as N, at least one n-th end-side pitch satisfying 1?n?(0.233×N) is smaller than the average value of all the pitches of the comb electrode fingers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventor: Yohei KONAKA
  • Publication number: 20240235523
    Abstract: In an acoustic wave element, a distance between a comb electrode finger closest to a reflector and a reflective electrode finger closest to an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode is set as an IDT-reflector gap. An inter-center distance between adjacent electrode fingers is set as a pitch. The electrode fingers in a direction from the comb electrode finger closest to the reflector toward a center are sequentially set as an n-th end-side electrode finger, and a pitch between the n-th end-side electrode finger and an (n+1)-th end-side electrode finger is set as an n-th end-side pitch. An average value of each pitch by all the comb electrode fingers is set as an average IDT pitch, and an average value of each pitch by the reflective electrode fingers is set as an average reflector pitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventor: Yohei KONAKA
  • Publication number: 20240137003
    Abstract: An acoustic wave element includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode including comb electrode fingers, and a reflector including reflective electrode fingers. An average value of all pitches of the comb electrode fingers is smaller than an average value of all pitches of the reflective electrode fingers. When a total number of the comb electrode fingers is defined as N, at least one n-th end-side pitch satisfying 1?n?(0.233×N) is smaller than the average value of all the pitches of the comb electrode fingers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventor: Yohei KONAKA
  • Publication number: 20240137002
    Abstract: In an acoustic wave element, a distance between a comb electrode finger closest to a reflector and a reflective electrode finger closest to an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode is set as an IDT-reflector gap. An inter-center distance between adjacent electrode fingers is set as a pitch. The electrode fingers in a direction from the comb electrode finger closest to the reflector toward a center are sequentially set as an n-th end-side electrode finger, and a pitch between the n-th end-side electrode finger and an (n+1)-th end-side electrode finger is set as an n-th end-side pitch. An average value of each pitch by all the comb electrode fingers is set as an average IDT pitch, and an average value of each pitch by the reflective electrode fingers is set as an average reflector pitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventor: Yohei KONAKA
  • Patent number: 11855605
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter device includes a first longitudinally coupled acoustic wave resonator including an odd number of first IDT electrodes arranged along an acoustic wave propagation direction and a second longitudinally coupled acoustic wave resonator including an odd number of second IDT electrodes arranged in the acoustic wave propagation direction. Among the first IDT electrodes, the odd-numbered IDT electrodes are connected to a node and the even-numbered IDT electrodes are connected to a node. Among the second IDT electrodes, the odd-numbered IDT electrodes are connected to the node and the even-numbered IDT electrodes are connected to the node. The number of first IDT electrodes connected to the node and the number of second IDT electrodes connected to the node are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yohei Konaka
  • Publication number: 20230336158
    Abstract: An acoustic wave element includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric substrate, and a reflector. The IDT electrode includes plural electrode fingers, and the reflector includes plural reflector electrode fingers. In a case where IRGAP is an IDT-reflector gap that is a distance between a center of the electrode finger located closest to the reflector and a center of the reflector electrode finger located closest to the IDT electrode, and ?REF is a reflector wave length that is twice a repetition pitch of the reflector electrode fingers, a ratio of about 0.25?IRGAP/?REF?about 0.44 is satisfied, and the reflector wave length is longer than an IDT wave length that is a repetition pitch of the electrode fingers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yohei KONAKA, Katsuya DAIMON
  • Publication number: 20230275570
    Abstract: An acoustic wave element includes an electrode-finger pitch of reflecting-electrode fingers greater than an electrode-finger pitch pi of comb-shaped electrode fingers, and a center-to-center distance between a reflecting-electrode finger and a comb-shaped electrode finger is equal to or less than about 0.9 times the electrode-finger pitch of the reflecting-electrode fingers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventor: Yohei KONAKA
  • Publication number: 20210384886
    Abstract: An acoustic wave filter device includes a first longitudinally coupled acoustic wave resonator including an odd number of first IDT electrodes arranged along an acoustic wave propagation direction and a second longitudinally coupled acoustic wave resonator including an odd number of second IDT electrodes arranged in the acoustic wave propagation direction. Among the first IDT electrodes, the odd-numbered IDT electrodes are connected to a node and the even-numbered IDT electrodes are connected to a node. Among the second IDT electrodes, the odd-numbered IDT electrodes are connected to the node and the even-numbered IDT electrodes are connected to the node. The number of first IDT electrodes connected to the node and the number of second IDT electrodes connected to the node are the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventor: Yohei KONAKA
  • Publication number: 20200280301
    Abstract: A multiplexer includes a first filter which is a receive filter using acoustic waves and whose pass band is a first frequency band, a second filter whose pass band is a second frequency band, and a third filter whose pass band is a third frequency band. The first filter includes a ladder circuit including serial arm resonators and multiple parallel arm circuits. A parallel arm resonator is included in at least one of the multiple parallel arm circuits except the parallel arm circuit. The parallel arm circuit is connected at the position closest to a common terminal. At least one of the frequencies expressed by ±M×f1±N×f2 is included in the third frequency band, and the resonant frequency of the parallel arm resonator is included in the third frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventor: Yohei KONAKA
  • Patent number: 10715108
    Abstract: A filter device includes a first ladder filter including serial resonators disposed in a terminal-to-terminal path and parallel resonators disposed in connection paths, a first acoustic wave resonator disposed in parallel to the parallel resonator, and a second acoustic wave resonator disposed in parallel to the serial resonator. Resonance points and anti-resonance points of the first and second acoustic wave resonators are both positioned on the lower frequency side or the higher frequency side of a pass band of the first ladder filter, and on the same side of the pass band of the first ladder filter, when viewed from the pass band of the first filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yohei Konaka
  • Patent number: 10630260
    Abstract: An elastic wave apparatus includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric film provided on the piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode provided on the first dielectric film, and a capacitor that includes a pair of comb-shaped electrodes provided directly on the piezoelectric substrate and is electrically connected to the IDT electrode. An elastic wave resonator including the IDT electrode is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yohei Konaka
  • Publication number: 20200007110
    Abstract: An acoustic wave element includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric substrate, and a reflector. The IDT electrode includes plural electrode fingers, and the reflector includes plural reflector electrode fingers. An IDT-reflector gap that is a distance between a center of the electrode finger located closest to the reflector and a center of the reflector electrode finger located closest to the IDT electrode is not more than about 0.45 times an IDT wave length as a repetition pitch of the electrode fingers, and a reflector wave length that is twice a repetition pitch of the reflector electrode fingers is longer than the IDT wave length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yohei KONAKA, Katsuya DAIMON
  • Patent number: 10447232
    Abstract: A filter device includes an antenna terminal to be connected to an antenna, first inductors connected between the antenna terminal and a ground potential and defined by parallel divided inductors, and first and second acoustic wave filters commonly connected to the antenna terminal and including second inductors, respectively. The first inductors and the second inductors are electromagnetically coupled to each other mainly in a one-to-one relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yohei Konaka
  • Patent number: 10411674
    Abstract: An elastic wave device includes first and second longitudinally coupled resonator elastic wave elements aligned on a piezoelectric substrate. A second reflector of the first longitudinally coupled resonator elastic wave element and a third reflector of the second longitudinally coupled resonator elastic wave element are adjacent to each other in an elastic wave propagation direction. A ground interconnection extends in a direction intersecting with the elastic wave propagation direction and in a region between the second reflector and the third reflector. A gap in one portion of the ground interconnection includes a different acoustic velocity portion where an acoustic velocity is different from an acoustic velocity in another portion of the ground interconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yohei Konaka
  • Publication number: 20190253037
    Abstract: A filter device includes a first ladder filter including serial resonators disposed in a terminal-to-terminal path and parallel resonators disposed in connection paths, a first acoustic wave resonator disposed in parallel to the parallel resonator, and a second acoustic wave resonator disposed in parallel to the serial resonator. Resonance points and anti-resonance points of the first and second acoustic wave resonators are both positioned on the lower frequency side or the higher frequency side of a pass band of the first ladder filter, and on the same side of the pass band of the first ladder filter, when viewed from the pass band of the first filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventor: Yohei KONAKA
  • Publication number: 20190089329
    Abstract: A filter device includes an antenna terminal to be connected to an antenna, first inductors connected between the antenna terminal and a ground potential and defined by parallel divided inductors, and first and second acoustic wave filters commonly connected to the antenna terminal and including second inductors, respectively. The first inductors and the second inductors are electromagnetically coupled to each other mainly in a one-to-one relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Yohei KONAKA
  • Publication number: 20180367120
    Abstract: An elastic wave apparatus includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric film provided on the piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode provided on the first dielectric film, and a capacitor that includes a pair of comb-shaped electrodes provided directly on the piezoelectric substrate and is electrically connected to the IDT electrode. An elastic wave resonator including the IDT electrode is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventor: Yohei KONAKA