Abstract: A highly compact piezoelectric resonator having excellent resonant characteristics and very small resonant resistance includes an upper electrode disposed on one of two main surfaces of a piezoelectric film and a lower electrode disposed on the other main surface of the piezoelectric film. The upper electrode includes a first external-signal extracting electrode, a first leading electrode, and three first vibrating electrodes. The lower electrode includes a second external-signal extracting electrode, a second leading electrode, and three second vibrating electrodes. The three first vibrating electrodes are arranged substantially perpendicularly to the three second vibrating electrodes via the piezoelectric film. Vibrating sections are located at positions where the first vibrating electrodes are arranged substantially perpendicularly to the second vibrating electrodes.

Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator includes a substrate, a vibration unit disposed on the substrate and having a structure in which at least one pair of an upper electrode and a lower electrode opposed to each other, the upper and lower electrodes sandwiching the upper and lower surfaces of an internal thin-film portion including at least one layer of a piezoelectric thin-film, and an external thin-film portion provided under the lower electrode and including at least one layer of a piezoelectric thin-film or a dielectric thin-film, the vibration unit being vibrated in an n-th harmonic (n is an integer of 2 or more), the upper electrode and the lower electrode being provided substantially in the positions of the loops of the n-th harmonic.

Abstract: The heat conductance of the heat transfer route through which heat flows into a heat sink from the central region and its neighborhood of an absorbent via the edge region of the absorbent is made to be smaller, by making the absorbent have such a form that the film thickness of the edge region of the pattern of the infrared absorbent formed on the surface of a temperature sensing part is smaller than that of the central region of the pattern. Efficient temperature rise of a temperature sensing part is realized.

Abstract: It is made possible to adjust the output of a thermopile-type thermoelectric sensor in such a way that a thermoelectric pattern for sensitivity adjustment is connected in series to a plurality of thermoelectric patterns constituting a thermopile short-circuited patterns for short-circuiting cold junctions of the thermoelectric pattern for sensitivity adjustment are formed, and the short-circuited patterns are selectively cut off.

Abstract: A highly compact piezoelectric resonator having excellent resonant characteristics and very small resonant resistance includes an upper electrode disposed on one of two main surfaces of a piezoelectric film and a lower electrode disposed on the other main surface of the piezoelectric film. The upper electrode includes a first external-signal extracting electrode, a first leading electrode, and three first vibrating electrodes. The lower electrode includes a second external-signal extracting electrode, a second leading electrode, and three second vibrating electrodes. The three first vibrating electrodes are arranged substantially perpendicularly to the three second vibrating electrodes via the piezoelectric film. Vibrating sections are located at positions where the first vibrating electrodes are arranged substantially perpendicularly to the second vibrating electrodes.

Abstract: By using a dual ion-beam sputtering apparatus, an aluminum thin-film is formed on a glass substrate made of an amorphous material. While radiating an ion beam for assisting the film formation from an ion source onto the glass substrate, the aluminum thin-film is formed by depositing the sputtering ions which are generated by radiating an ion beam onto an aluminum target.

Abstract: An electronic part having an air-bridge interconnection has a flat air-bridge interconnection body, no interconnection loss, high Q and low power consumption. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing such electronic parts. The flat air-bridge interconnection body is obtained by conducting two-stage selective plating including selective plating for forming posts on post base electrodes and selective plating for forming the air-bridge interconnection body.

Abstract: By using a dual ion-beam sputtering apparatus, an aluminum thin-film is formed on a glass substrate made of an amorphous material. While radiating an ion beam for assisting the film formation from an ion source onto the glass substrate, the aluminum thin-film is formed by depositing the sputtering ions which are generated by radiating an ion beam onto an aluminum target.

Abstract: An inexpensive and reliable thin-film multilayered electrode which is formable on a dielectric substrate such as a ceramic substrate. A thin-film multilayered electrode has thin-film conductors and thin-film dielectrics formed by alternately layering on a dielectric substrate with a predetermined dielectric constant. The dielectric constant for each of the thin-film dielectrics is selected such that the electromagnetic field created in the dielectric substrate and the electromagnetic field created in each of the thin-film dielectrics are substantially in phase with each other when the thin-film multilayered electrode is used at a predetermined frequency, and the film thickness of each of the thin-film dielectrics falls between 0.2 .mu.m and 2 .mu.m; and the film thickness of each of the thin-film conductors, other than a thin-film conductor formed most distant from the dielectric substrate, is thinner than the skin depth at the predetermined frequency.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a through-holed wiring board comprising a step of forming a through hole in a ceramic wiring board with a laser beam, and a step of removing an alteration layer, defined on an inner wall portion of the through hole by solidification after thermal melting, by sandblasting.

Abstract: A thin-film multilayered electrode of a high frequency electromagnetic field coupled type is disclosed. The thin-film multilayered electrode comprises thin-film conductors and dielectric thin films alternately stacked on a dielectric substrate so that a plurality of TEM mode transmission lines are multilayered. A film thickness of each of the dielectric thin films is set so that phase velocities of TEM waves which propagate through at least two of the plurality of TEM mode transmission lines are made substantially equal to each other, and a film thickness of each of the thin-film conductors is set so as to be smaller than a skin depth of a frequency which is used so that electromagnetic fields of at least two of the plurality of TEM mode transmission lines are coupled with each other.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide, as an auto-changer device, a medium recording-playback device which makes it possible to improve the ease of operations for ejecting plural recording medium elements from inside the device. The device possesses a stocker in which plural MDs are stored in respective storage sections that are distinguished by identification numbers, a carrier which loads installed MDs into the stocker or ejects them from an insertion port as far as a reloading position, an eject key which sets the eject mode for the MDs, and a CPU which, in response to input of the eject key, causes MDs that are present in the device to be ejected in a set order.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device is essentially composed of a piezoelectric transducer and a light transmitting protector. The protector is made of heat resisting glass, heat resisting acrylic, transparent ceramics or the like. By exposing the piezoelectric device to a laser beam and thereby causing it to penetrate through the protector to the piezoelectric transducer and to partly cut the surface of the piezoelectric transducer, or to change the intensity of polarization, mechanical coupling coefficient or dielectric constant of the piezoelectric transducer, its vibration frequency and resonance characteristic can be adjusted. If an ultraviolet-ray setting agent is used as adhesive, it can be hardened by exposing the piezoelectric device to ultraviolet rays to thereby cause it penetrate through the protector.