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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8072276 | Surface mount crystal oscillator There is provided a surface mount oscillator of a junction type in which the size of an IC chip is increased while maintaining high performance thereof, and the outer dimension of the oscillator in plan view are small. In a surface mount crystal oscillator which: a ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8031013 | Surface-mount type crystal oscillator A surface-mount type crystal oscillator includes: a container body with a first recess and a second recess; a crystal blank including excitation electrodes on respective principal surfaces thereof and hermetically encapsulated in the first recess; and an IC chip whi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8008980 | Surface mount type crystal oscillator A surface mount crystal oscillator comprises a crystal blank, an IC chip having an oscillation circuit integrated thereon, and a hermetic package for accommodating the crystal blank and IC chip therein. The hermetic package comprises a substantially rectangular cera... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7973610 | Surface mount crystal oscillator An object of the invention is to provide a surface mount type crystal oscillator in which a probe can be easily brought into contact with a crystal inspection terminal. The surface mount type crystal oscillator is such that a crystal piece and an IC chip are housed ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7952440 | Crystal device for surface mounting A crystal device has an area defined inside a ceramic case thereof, and this area is made larger to increase the design freedom for mounting of a crystal unit (crystal element) in the crystal device. The crystal device is configured such that at least one crystal el... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7932786 | Surface mount type crystal oscillator A surface mount crystal oscillator comprises a crystal blank, an IC chip having an oscillation circuit integrated thereon, and a hermetic package for accommodating the crystal blank and IC chip therein. The hermetic package comprises a substantially rectangular cera... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7920031 | Crystal device for surface mounting A surface-mounted device includes a ceramic case, which has a concave portion formed by a bottom wall layer, a frame wall intermediate layer and a frame wall upper layer, and which houses at least a crystal element inside the concave portion. The ceramic case includ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7872537 | Surface-mount crystal oscillator A surface-mount crystal oscillator includes: a crystal blank; an IC chip in which at least an oscillation circuit using the crystal blank is integrated, a plurality of IC terminals are provided on one principal surface, and a plurality of mounting terminals for surf... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7868707 | Surface-mount type crystal oscillator The surface-mount type crystal oscillator includes a container body made of laminated ceramics, having a flat bottom wall layer, a frame wall defining a recess and a step portion formed at an inner wall of the recess, a crystal blank fixed to the step portion, an IC... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7859348 | Crystal device for surface mounting A crystal device for surface mounting, in which a metal cover is jointed to the metal ring by seam welding, satisfies relationships A2/A1 | 12/28/2010 |
| 7804373 | Method of fabricating hermetic terminal and hermetic terminal, method of fabricating piezoelectric oscillator and piezoelectric oscillator, oscillator, electronic appliance, and radio clock A method of fabricating a hermetic terminal includes: joining and firing wherein a bar-shaped member to be a lead is inserted into a ring, and they are fired to form a hermetic terminal intermediate having the bar-shaped member fixed in the ring; flattening wherein ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7795982 | Surface-mount type crystal oscillator A surface-mount type crystal oscillator includes a container body with a recess, a first holding terminal and a second holding terminal provided in the recess, a crystal blank secured to the first and second holding terminals, and an IC chip including a first termin... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7791421 | Surface-mounted piezoelectric oscillators Surface-mounted piezoelectric oscillators are disclosed that include a package in which a piezoelectric vibrating piece and an electronic circuit (IC) are mounted. At least two external terminals are formed on the external surface of the package and electrically con... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7768357 | Surface-mount type crystal oscillator A surface-mount type crystal oscillator comprises: a crystal blank; an IC chip on which at least an oscillation circuit using the crystal blank is integrated; a container that accommodates the crystal blank and the IC chip; a pair of inspection terminals provided on... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7760034 | Surface-mount type crystal oscillator A surface-mount type crystal oscillator has: a container body having a bottom wall and a frame wall having an opening and provided on one principal surface of the bottom wall; a quartz crystal blank hermetically encapsulated in a recess of the container body, which ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7746184 | Bonding-type surface-mount crystal oscillator A crystal oscillator has: a crystal unit having a container body in which a crystal blank is housed and hermetically sealed; and a mounting substrate that houses an IC chip having at least an integrated oscillating circuit that uses the crystal unit. External termin... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7714672 | Surface-mount crystal oscillator The crystal oscillator has a configuration where circuit elements including a crystal unit are arranged on a mounting board comprising external terminals, opening end faces of a concave metal cover are made to touch the surface of the mounting board, clearances from... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7573341 | Surface mount type crystal oscillator A surface mount type crystal oscillator is provided with a crystal blank, an IC chip which incorporates an oscillation circuit using the crystal blank, a substantially rectangular parallelepiped container body for surface mounting which houses the crystal blank and ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7551040 | Surface mount crystal oscillator A surface mount crystal oscillator comprises a package body having a first recess, a cover having a second recess, a crystal blank secured to an inner bottom surface of the second recess, and an IC chip secured to a bottom surface of the first recess. The IC chip ha... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7538627 | Surface mount crystal oscillator A surface mount crystal oscillator has a package body having a recess and formed with a step on an inner wall of the recess, a flat base plate having a peripheral region secured to the step, a crystal blank secured to the flat base plate, an IC chip having an oscill... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7486149 | Method of manufacturing surface mount type crystal oscillator A method of manufacturing a surface mount type crystal oscillator having a container body including a first recess and a second recess respectively formed in two main surfaces thereof, a crystal blank hermetically sealed in the first recess, an IC chip having an osc... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7471162 | Surface mount type temperature-compensated crystal oscillator A temperature-compensated crystal oscillator for surface mounting wherein an IC chip into which is integrated a temperature-compensated device having an oscillating circuit and a temperature sensor, which supplies a compensation voltage to a variable-voltage capacit... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7466210 | Voltage controlled surface acoustic wave oscillator module A module for a surface acoustic wave oscillator includes a substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface and peripheral side faces. Several castellations are located about the outer peripheral side faces thereof. The castellations form an electrical connection be... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7427902 | High-stability piezoelectric oscillator There is provided a high-stability piezoelectric oscillator. The high-stability piezoelectric oscillator includes an oscillating circuit unit that has a piezoelectric vibrator and oscillating circuit components, an inner oven that accommodates the oscillating circui... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7403077 | Reduced size VCO/PLL module A reduced-size VCO/PLL module including a circuit board having a plurality of components positioned, mounted and interconnected thereon in a manner allowing the same to fit in a 10.5 mm×14 mm×2.9 mm package. In one embodiment, an inner lid encloses the VCO portion... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7394327 | Surface mount type temperature-compensated crystal oscillator A surface mount type temperature-compensated crystal oscillator includes a crystal blank; an IC chip integrating an oscillation circuit using the crystal blank and a temperature compensation mechanism of compensating frequency temperature characteristics of the crys... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7378780 | Surface mount type crystal oscillator A surface mount type crystal oscillator includes: a container body composed of a laminated ceramic including a plate-shaped center layer, and first and second frame layers stacked on opposite surfaces of the center layer respectively; a crystal blank hermetically se... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7362586 | Electronic component with shielding case and method of manufacturing the same Shielding cases each include a pair of opposed first surfaces with catching pieces protruding therefrom and a pair of second surfaces without catching pieces. A motherboard forms substrates each including a pair of opposed first side surfaces with catching grooves a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353710 | Pressure sensor device with surface acoustic wave elements Thickness of a pressure-detecting piezoelectric substrate (2) that is thinner than that of a supporting piezoelectric substrate (3) and that has a surface acoustic wave element for pressure detection (7a) on its lower surface is mounted o... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348193 | Hermetic seals for micro-electromechanical system devices The invention is directed to a hermetically sealed device and a method for making such device. The device includes optical, micro-electromechanical, electronic and opto-electronic devices, having a substrate with one or a plurality of optical, opto-electronic, elect... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7321272 | Device for detecting the temperature of an oscillator crystal In a device for detecting the temperature of an oscillator crystal 2, arranged on a carrier, in particular in a mobile radio apparatus, the detected temperature should be as exact as possible a replica of the temperature to which the oscillator crystal 2 | 01/22/2008 |
| 7309264 | Electronic apparatus including circuit board chassis The electronic apparatus includes a circuit board on which electronic component is mounted and a chassis housing the circuit board. The chassis is provided with a biasing force applying member applying a biasing force to at least one of top and bottom surfaces of th... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304417 | Package for electronic device, base substrate, electronic device and fabrication method thereof A package for an electronic device includes a cavity that houses an electronic element, and grooves or holes formed on or in sidewalls that define the cavity. The grooves or holes extend from an open side of the cavity so as not to reach a bottom side of the package... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301408 | Integrated circuit with low dielectric loss packaging material An integrated circuit package comprises an integrated circuit that comprises a temperature sensor that senses a temperature of the integrated circuit. A memory module stores data relating to oscillator calibrations and selects one of the oscillator calibrations as a... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298069 | Crystal unit A crystal unit has a crystal blank provided with a pair of excitation electrodes and a pair of extension electrodes extended from the excitation electrodes, and a casing having a recess. A pair of connection terminals is formed on the bottom face of the recess. An i... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295083 | Structure for electromagnetically shielding a substrate A circuit board that requires electromagnetic shielding is enclosed in a cavity formed between a metal case and a base substrate. A ground plane, which is electrically conductive, is embedded in each of the base substrate and the circuit board. The metal case is ele... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292204 | Dielectric resonator antenna with a caved well A dielectric resonator antenna is a dielectric resonator mounted on a feed-in/feed-out component. The dielectric resonator is a rectangular parallelepiped made of a dielectric, and has a caved well passing through from the top surface to the bottom surface thereof. ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7279824 | Piezoelectric resonator element, piezoelectric device, method of manufacturing the same, cellular phone device utilizing piezoelectric device, and electronic equipment utilizing piezoelectric device A piezoelectric resonator element is provided including a base portion and a plurality of resonating arms extending from the base portion. A notch part is formed in the base portion. Grooves are formed in the front and back surfaces of the resonating arms. A driving... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276840 | Structure with a plurality of substrates, its manufacturing method and crystal oscillator with the structure The structure provided with a plurality of substrates of the present invention is provided with a plurality of substrates each provided with chip-shaped circuit devices connected by poles also used as electrical wiring. At least one pole connecting the plurality of ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274101 | Semiconductor package and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor package includes: a first substrate including: a semiconductor base material having a first side and a second side; a functional element that is provided at the first side of the semiconductor base material; a first wiring; a pad that is electrically... | 09/25/2007 |