Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Higuchi

Yoshiyuki Higuchi 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).

  • Publication number: 20240128948
    Abstract: A resonance device that includes: a first substrate having a first silicon substrate and a resonator, wherein the resonator includes a single-crystal silicon film and a first silicon oxide film interposed between the single-crystal silicon film and the first silicon substrate, and a through hole that passes through the single-crystal silicon film and the first silicon oxide film; a second substrate opposite the first substrate; a frame shaped bonding portion that bonds the first substrate to the second substrate to seal a vibration space of the resonator; and a first blocking member disposed in an interior of the through hole and surrounding a vibration portion of the resonator in a plan view of the first substrate so as to divide the first silicon oxide film, wherein the first blocking member has a lower helium permeability than the first silicon oxide film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Masakazu FUKUMITSU, Yoshiyuki HIGUCHI, Takehiko KISHI
  • Patent number: 11920591
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor including a motor shaft, a pump assembly including a vane pump driven by the motor to suction and discharge oil, and an inverter to drive the motor. The motor includes a rotor, a stator on a side outward from the rotor in a radial direction, and a motor housing containing the rotor and the stator. The motor housing includes a suction port through which the vane pump suctions oil from outside, and a discharge port through which the vane pump discharges oil to outside. The motor housing includes flat surface portions in a portion of an outer periphery thereof. The suction port and the discharge port are located in a first surface of side surfaces which are the flat surface portions of the motor housing and are parallel or substantially parallel to the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION, KYB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Higuchi, Yutaka Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Maki, Kohei Kubo
  • Patent number: 11824517
    Abstract: A resonator may include a vibrating portion that includes a plurality of vibrating arms to numbering in three or more, each having a fixed end, and including at least two vibrating arms to bend out of plane with different phases and a base portion having a fore end portion to which the fixed end of each of the plurality of vibrating arms to is connected and a rear end portion opposed to the fore end portion; a holding portion configured to hold the vibrating portion; and a support arm having one end connected to the holding portion and the other end connected to the rear end portion of the base portion. The support arm is asymmetric with respect to a center line of the vibrating portion with respect to a longitudinal direction in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ville Kaajakari, Ryota Kawai, Yoshiyuki Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20230361741
    Abstract: A manufacturing method is provided for a resonance device that includes preparing a collective board including first power supply terminals electrically connected to upper electrodes of a plurality of resonators, and a first coupling wire that electrically connects two or more of the first power supply terminals. The method includes dividing the collective board into a plurality of resonance devices. Moreover, the first power supply terminals include a first metal layer and a second metal layer covering the first metal layer. The first coupling wire includes a portion of the first metal layer that extends from a region covered with the second metal layer. The method further includes removing the portion of the first metal layer extending from the region covered with the second metal layer before the dividing the collective board into the plurality of resonance devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Masakazu FUKUMITSU, Yoshiyuki HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230361740
    Abstract: A resonance device is provided that includes a first substrate including a resonator; and a second substrate bonded to the first substrate. The second substrate includes a first power supply terminal electrically connected to an upper electrode of the resonator, and a ground terminal electrically connected to a lower electrode of the resonator. The first substrate includes a first inner wire that electrically connects the upper electrode to the first power supply terminal, and a first coupling wire connected to the first inner wire and having an end portion located at an outer edge of the first substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki HIGUCHI, Masakazu FUKUMITSU
  • Patent number: 11804820
    Abstract: A resonator is provided that includes a vibration member including three or more vibration arms that each have a fixed end with at least two vibration arms performing out-of-plane bending at different phases. The resonator also includes a base having a front end connected to the fixed end of each of the vibration arms and a rear end opposing the front end. A frame holds the vibration member and two support arms are provided with first ends connected to the frame. The second ends of the two support arms are connected to a location in the rear end of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryota Kawai, Yoshihisa Inoue, Yoshiyuki Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20230283257
    Abstract: A resonator is provided that includes a vibrating portion including three or more vibrating arms with at least two vibrating arms that bend out of plane with different phases and a base. The resonator also includes a frame that holds the vibrating portion; and a support arm having one end connected to the frame and the other end connected to a rear end portion of the base. The other end of the support arm is connected to a position in a range from ?0.1 WB to 0.1 WB, with respect to a base width WB of the base, relative to a position, on the rear end portion of the base where a center line passes in a plan view. A support arm length of the support arm is 0.2 or more times and 0.4 or less times a vibrating arm length of the vibrating arms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Ryota KAWAI, Masakazu FUKUMITSU, Yoshiyuki HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230208392
    Abstract: A resonance device that includes a MEMS substrate, a top cover, and a bonding part. The MEMS substrate includes a resonator. The bonding part is electrically conductive and bonds the MEMS substrate and the top cover to each other. The MEMS substrate further includes a wiring line layer and an anti-diffusion layer. The wiring line layer is electrically connected to a Si substrate serving as a lower electrode of the resonator. The anti-diffusion layer electrically connects the wiring line layer and the bonding part to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki HIGUCHI, Masakazu FUKUMITSU
  • Publication number: 20230015447
    Abstract: A resonator is provided that includes a vibration member including three or more vibration arms that each have a fixed end with at least two vibration arms performing out-of-plane bending at different phases. The resonator also includes a base having a front end connected to the fixed end of each of the vibration arms and a rear end opposing the front end. A frame holds the vibration member and two support arms are provided with first ends connected to the frame. The second ends of the two support arms are connected to a location in the rear end of the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Ryota KAWAI, Yoshihisa INOUE, Yoshiyuki HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230018209
    Abstract: A vibration member is provided that includes a base with front and rear ends opposite to each other, and vibration arms fixed to the front end, extending away therefrom, and including at least one first vibration arm and a pair of second vibration arms positioned on both sides of a first vibration arm group including the at least one first vibration arm in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction. A holding arm is provided that has one end connected to the base and the other end connected to a frame. A plurality of vibration portions include a piezoelectric film, and a lower electrode and an upper electrode that sandwich the piezoelectric film. A connection wiring line that connects the respective upper electrodes of the pair of second vibration arms to each other is provided in a region of at least either of the base or the holding arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki HIGUCHI, Ryota KAWAI, Yoshihisa INOUE, Masakazu FUKUMITSU
  • Publication number: 20230014350
    Abstract: A resonator may include a vibrating portion that includes a plurality of vibrating arms to numbering in three or more, each having a fixed end, and including at least two vibrating arms to bend out of plane with different phases and a base portion having a fore end portion to which the fixed end of each of the plurality of vibrating arms to is connected and a rear end portion opposed to the fore end portion; a holding portion configured to hold the vibrating portion; and a support arm having one end connected to the holding portion and the other end connected to the rear end portion of the base portion. The support arm is asymmetric with respect to a center line of the vibrating portion with respect to a longitudinal direction in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Ville KAAJAKARI, Ryota KAWAI, Yoshiyuki HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220231663
    Abstract: A resonance device is provided that includes a lower cover; an upper cover coupled to the lower cover; and a resonator that has vibration arms that generate bending vibration in an interior space provided between the lower cover and the upper cover. Moreover, the vibration arms have distal ends provided with metal films on a side that faces the upper cover, and a gap is provided between the distal ends of the vibration arms and the upper cover that is larger than a gap between the distal ends of the vibration arms and the lower cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Masakazu FUKUMITSU, Takehiko KISHI, Yoshiyuki HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220153573
    Abstract: A package structure that includes a pair of substrates arranged to oppose each other so as to form an internal space; a bonding portion sealing the pair of substrates; an element is sealed in the internal space and surrounded by the pair of substrates; an adsorption layer within the internal space and opposing at least one substrate of the pair of substrates, the adsorption layer constructed to adsorbs at least hydrogen; and a diffusion-inhibiting layer between the at least one substrate and the adsorption layer, and in which hydrogen is more difficult to diffuse compared with in the at least one substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki HIGUCHI, Masakazu FUKUMITSU
  • Publication number: 20210403316
    Abstract: A resonance device that includes a MEMS substrate including a resonator, an upper lid that seals a vibration space of the resonator, and a ground portion positioned between the MEMS substrate and the upper lid, the ground portion being extended to an inside of the upper lid and electrically connected to the upper lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Masakazu Fukumitsu, Yoshiyuki Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20210371273
    Abstract: A resonance device that includes a MEMS substrate that includes a resonator, a top cover having a silicon oxide film on a surface thereof that faces the MEMS substrate, and a bonding part that bonds the MEMS substrate and the top cover to each other so as to seal a vibration space of the resonator. The silicon oxide film includes a through hole that is formed along at least part of the periphery of the vibration space when the top cover is viewed in a plan view and that penetrates to a surface of the top cover. The through hole includes a first metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Masakazu Fukumitsu, Yoshiyuki Higuchi
  • Patent number: 5596041
    Abstract: A hydrogenated block copolymer or hydrogenated block copolymer mixture consisting essentially of (a) hydrogenation product of a star-branched block copolymer represented by the structural formula (A-B).sub.n X wherein A is a polybutadiene block having a 1,2-vinyl content of less than 25% by weight and B is a copolymer block containing 50% by weight or more of a conjugated diene compound whose vinyl content is 25% by weight or more, X is a coupling agent residue and n is an integer of 3 or more, and (b) a hydrogenation product of a straight chain block copolymer represented by the structural formula A-B wherein A and B are as defined above, the weight ratio of the component (a) to the component (b) being 100/0 to 5/95, and a hydrogenated block copolymer composition comprising (I) 1 to 99 parts by weight of said hydrogenated block copolymer or hydrogenated block copolymer mixture and (II) 99 to 1 part by weight of a thermoplastic resin and/or a rubbery polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Assignee: Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Hashiguchi, Minoru Hasegawa, Kunio Goshima, Yasuhiko Takemura, Yoshiyuki Higuchi, Motokazu Takeuchi