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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184424 | Multilayer electronic component including a counter diffusion layer A multilayer electronic component includes a laminate including insulating layers that are laminated to each other and internal electrodes provided along interfaces between the insulating layers, edges of the internal electrodes being exposed at a predetermined surf... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183958 | Elastic-wave ladder filter An elastic-wave ladder filter significantly reduces loss within a passband while also increasing the passband and attenuation. The elastic-wave ladder filter includes a series arm that connects an input end and an output end and a parallel arm that connects the seri... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183737 | Surface acoustic wave device including electrode fingers partially disposed in grooves in a piezoelectric substrate An elastic wave device has a low temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF), a low insertion loss, a high electromechanical coupling coefficient (k2), and an increased pitch of the electrode fingers. The elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric compon... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179703 | Power factor correction converter A power factor correction converter includes an output voltage error amplifier which functions as a proportioning device in a low-frequency range in order to stabilize the output voltage by feedback control and obtains a reference current amplitude value vm by multi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179332 | Antenna coil and antenna device An antenna device is constructed such that an antenna coil including a magnetic core and a flexible substrate is mounted to a circuit board. A first coil portion having a coil axis parallel or substantially parallel with a main surface of the magnetic core includes ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179329 | Composite antenna A composite antenna achieves favorable radiation characteristics and favorable communication performance, and can be used in short distance communication as well as long distance communication. The composite antenna includes a dipole antenna having an elongated shap... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179207 | Resonator device, filter including the same, and duplexer A resonator device includes a plurality of resonators which are connected in series. An inductor and a capacitor are connected in parallel with at least one of the plurality of resonators. At least another one of the plurality of resonators has no inductor or capaci... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179206 | Low-voltage control high-frequency switch and composite high-frequency component In a transmission/reception selection switch, a first diode is arranged in series with a transmission signal line and a second diode is arranged in shunt with a reception signal line. A first current route where a direct current passes through the first diode is con... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179017 | Boundary acoustic wave device having three-medium structure A boundary acoustic wave device that has a three-medium structure and that prevents a high-order mode spurious response includes a piezoelectric substrate, a first dielectric layer laminated on the piezoelectric substrate, a second dielectric layer laminated on the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177138 | Radio IC device A radio IC device that is highly efficient in transmitting signals from a radio IC to a radiation pattern includes a radio IC chip arranged to processes radio signals, an auxiliary electrode pattern that is connected to the radio IC chip and includes a loop-shaped e... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174820 | Solid electrolytic capacitor and method for manufacturing same An element for a solid electrolytic capacitor having low equivalent series resistance (ESR) and high capacitance per unit volume obtained by controlling the composition or the thickness of the silver paste forming a laminated structure on the anode substrate having ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174815 | Monolithic ceramic electronic component and method for manufacturing the same In a method for manufacturing a monolithic ceramic electronic component, when an inner conductor is formed by printing an electrically conductive paste, a smear may be generated in an opening of the inner conductor at a side of the opening near to a position from wh... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173565 | Sintered body of low temperature cofired ceramic and multilayer ceramic substrate In a sintered body of low temperature cofired ceramic constituting ceramic layers of a multilayer ceramic substrate provided with external conductor films, which is obtained by sintering a non-glass low temperature cofired ceramic material, respective crystalline ph... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169796 | Isolated switching power supply apparatus In an isolated switching power supply apparatus, by performing on/off control of a first switching device and a second switching device, energy is transmitted from the primary side to the secondary side using a second primary winding and a second secondary winding w... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169288 | Electronic component and method for making the same An electronic component that reduces resistance and prevents occurrence of an edge effect, includes a laminated body formed by stacking insulator layers. Conductor layers are linear conductors, and define coils included in the laminated body. The conductor layers fa... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169278 | Surface acoustic wave device and duplexer A surface acoustic wave device in which miniaturization and a flat design implemented, is resistant to a deformation responsive to a pressure of a molten resin in the formation of a mold resin layer, and is less susceptible to a characteristic degradation. In the su... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169008 | Semiconductor device The present invention miniaturizes a HEMT element used as a switching element in a radio frequency module. A single gate electrode 17 is formed in an active region defined by an element separation portion 9 on a main surface of a substrate 1 com... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168288 | Multilayer ceramic substrate and method for manufacturing the same In a multilayer ceramic substrate manufactured by a non-shrinking process, a bonding strength of an external conductive film formed on a primary surface of the multilayer ceramic substrate is increased. After a laminate of a multilayer ceramic substrate is formed fr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162629 | Piezoelectric pump A piezoelectric pump includes a pump body with a pump chamber, and a piezoelectric element that closes the pump chamber. The central area and the peripheral area of the piezoelectric element are bent in opposite directions by applying voltages to the piezoelectric e... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160511 | Low-voltage control high-frequency switch and composite high-frequency component In a first high frequency switch, a current path and a current path are connected in parallel. When a positive voltage is applied to a control terminal, a current flows through a path passing through (Vc2)→(DL)→(DSL1)→(DDI)→(GSL2)→(DL)... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156827 | External force detection device An external force detection device includes a weight portion, a supporting portion, and a beam portion provided in an SOI substrate which includes an upper layer and a lower layer that are capable of being etched with a first etching gas and sandwich an intermediate... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156814 | Surface acoustic wave sensor A surface acoustic wave sensor detects a mass load on a resonator-type surface acoustic wave filter on the basis of a change in frequency and includes an IDT electrode arranged on a piezoelectric substrate to excite surface waves, an insulating film arranged so as t... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154848 | Multilayer ceramic electronic component including external electrodes that include a plating layer having a low film stress A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a laminate including a stack of a plurality of ceramic layers and a plurality of internal electrodes extending along interfaces between the ceramic layers, and a plurality of external electrodes electrically connect... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154215 | Discharge lamp lighting apparatus In a discharge-lamp lighting apparatus, a switching frequency of an AC voltage applied to an LC series circuit including an inductor and a capacitor is swept near a frequency having a value provided by dividing the resonant frequency of the LC series circuit by an o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149566 | Laminated electronic component and manufacturing method therefor A method for manufacturing a laminated electronic component includes the steps of preparing a component main body having a laminated structure, the component main body including a plurality of internal electrodes formed therein, and each of the internal electrodes b... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149561 | Ion generator An ion generator is capable of efficiently generating ions and includes a case accommodating an ion-generating element that generates ions by discharging electricity from a discharging needle electrode and a cover having openings for ion discharge. Resistive element... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145258 | Radio communication apparatus A radio communication apparatus includes housings that are connected via a hinge unit in an openable/closeable manner, and circuit boards in the housings. The circuit boards are connected via circuit connecting lines functioning as an inductor. One end of the hinge ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144449 | Electronic component and electronic component built-in substrate An electronic component includes an electronic component main body including opposed first and second main surfaces, opposed first and second side surfaces, and opposed first and second end surfaces and also includes first and second external terminal electrodes dis... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143762 | Elastic wave device using SH waves as the principal component An elastic wave device that achieves an improved frequency-temperature characteristic and a sufficiently reduced spurious component includes a piezoelectric body including a LiNbO3 substrate, a first dielectric layer including a SiO2 layer, a s... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139368 | Component-containing module A component-containing module includes a core substrate which includes a lower surface including recessed portions and a raised portion, and an upper surface facing the lower surface and which includes a plurality of in-plane conductors, an integrated circuit elemen... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139342 | Laminated electronic component and method for manufacturing the same A laminated electronic component is configured to include substrate plating films disposed on outer surfaces of an electronic component main body through direct plating such that external terminal electrodes are connected to exposed portions of internal conductors (... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134825 | Ceramic electronic component and method for manufacturing the same A ceramic electronic component has a ceramic element assembly, external electrodes, and metal terminals. The external electrodes are arranged on the surface of the ceramic element assembly. The external electrodes contain a sintered metal. The metal terminals are el... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134221 | Inductor and filter An inductor includes a first air-bridge section and a second air-bridge section. The first air-bridge unit extends in a floating location over a substrate between a plurality of support locations on the substrate. The second air-bridge unit extends in a floating loc... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130485 | Ceramic electronic component and method for manufacturing the same When external electrodes of a multilayer ceramic capacitor are formed by performing direct plating on surfaces at which internal electrodes are exposed without forming paste electrode layers, bonding forces of plating layers are relatively weak, and in addition, whe... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130484 | Monolithic ceramic electronic component and mounting structure thereof A monolithic ceramic electronic component includes a first internal electrode including a first region which extends to a first end surface and which has a relatively large dimension in a width direction and a second region which is located at the side closer to a f... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127607 | Angular velocity sensor interface circuit and angular velocity detection apparatus An angular velocity detection apparatus includes an angular velocity detection signal amplifier circuit which amplifies an angular velocity detection signal Vo output from an angular velocity sensor, and an offset control circuit which controls an offset so as to be... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125765 | Laminated ceramic electronic component In a laminated ceramic electronic component including a ceramic element body including a plurality of effective sections, each of which constitutes a circuit element such as a laminated capacitor unit, bumps generated between the effective portions and a gap interpo... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125764 | Electronic component An electronic component includes a substantially rectangular parallelepiped electronic component body and first to fourth external electrodes. The first to fourth external electrodes are arranged such that a shaped defined by joining the centers of portions of the f... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125401 | Antenna device An antenna device having a magnetic core to be surface-mounted on a circuit substrate includes a pair of coil portions spaced apart from each other at a predetermined interval. The coil portions are connected by a connecting conductor. An end of the magnetic core in... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124883 | Ceramic multilayer substrate and method for manufacturing the same In a method for manufacturing a ceramic multilayer substrate, when a green ceramic stack prepared by stacking a plurality of ceramic green sheets is fired simultaneously with a ceramic chip electronic component disposed inside the green ceramic stack and including a... | 02/28/2012 |
