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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7999637 | Piezoelectric vibration piece and piezoelectric device A piezoelectric vibration piece includes a base made of a piezoelectric material; a plurality of vibration arms which is integrally formed with the base and extends in parallel; elongate grooves which are formed along longitudinal directions of the vibration arms; a... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7889028 | Coupled resonator for regulating system The coupled resonator comprises a first low frequency resonator, such as a balance spring (1) and a second higher frequency resonator, such as a tuning fork (2), the two resonators (1 and 2) including permanent mechanical coupling means. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7764145 | Piezoelectric resonator, method of manufacturing the same and electronic part using the same The object of the present invention is to provide a piezoelectric resonator of which vibration frequency can be accurately adjusted and the adjustment accuracy of the vibration frequency can be improved. The piezoelectric resonator of the present invention includes ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7659798 | Piezoelectric vibration piece and piezoelectric device A piezoelectric vibration piece includes a base made of a piezoelectric material; a plurality of vibration arms which is integrally formed with the base and extends in parallel; elongate grooves which are formed along longitudinal directions of the vibration arms; a... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7564326 | Electronic apparatus and manufacturing method of the same An electronic apparatus comprises at least one quartz crystal oscillator comprised of a quartz crystal oscillating circuit having a quartz crystal resonator, an amplifier, at least one resistor, and capacitors. The quartz crystal resonator comprises a quartz crystal... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7427905 | Temperature controlled MEMS resonator and method for controlling resonator frequency There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a temperature compensated microelectromechanical resonator as well as fabricating, manufacturing, providing and/or controlling microelectromechanical reso... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7397172 | Piezoelectric resonator element, piezoelectric device and gyro sensor A piezoelectric resonator element, comprises: a base made of a piezoelectric material; at least a pair of resonating arms provided in a unified manner with the base and extending in parallel with each other from the base; a portion defining a long groove provided to... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7362197 | Temperature compensation for silicon MEMS resonator Thermally induced frequency variations in a micromechanical resonator are actively or passively mitigated by application of a compensating stiffness, or a compressive/tensile strain. Various composition materials may be selected according to their thermal expansion ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352117 | Piezoelectric vibrator A tuning fork type piezoelectric vibrator is provided with vibrating arms which can improve shock resistance while suppressing a CI value to a small value. A first groove (base end side) and a second groove (tip side) extend along a longitudinal direction from a bas... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7327208 | Printed circuit board including a notch filter for attenuating radio frequency interference A printed circuit board (PCB) including a notch filter, or other suitable filter, is implemented in a communication device for attenuating RFI in transmissions sent from the communication device. The filter includes filter line that runs between at least two conduct... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319372 | In-plane mechanically coupled microelectromechanical tuning fork resonators There are many inventions described and illustrated herein, as well as many aspects and embodiments of those inventions. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a resonator architecture including a plurality of in-plane vibration microelectromechanical r... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7307496 | Method and apparatus for frequency tuning of a micro-mechanical resonator A method for modifying the resonance frequency of a micro-mechanical resonator, and resonators on which the method is practiced. A packaged resonator is trimmed by directing electromagnetic energy to the resonator through a transparent portion of the package. The re... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7268646 | Temperature controlled MEMS resonator and method for controlling resonator frequency There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a temperature compensated microelectromechanical resonator as well as fabricating, manufacturing, providing and/or controlling microelectromechanical reso... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7221241 | Method for adjusting the frequency of a MEMS resonator There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. These inventions are directed to a method of fabricating a microelectromechanical resonator having an output frequency that may be adjusted, tuned, set, defined and/or selected whether before and/or after f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7202761 | Temperature compensation for silicon MEMS resonator Thermally induced frequency variations in a micromechanical resonator are actively or passively mitigated by application of a compensating stiffness, or a compressive/tensile strain. Various composition materials may be selected according to their thermal expansion ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193354 | Resonator, unit having resonator, oscillator having unit and electronic apparatus having oscillator An electronic apparatus comprises a display portion and a plurality of oscillators, one of which is a quartz crystal oscillator comprising: a quartz crystal oscillating circuit comprising; an amplification circuit and a feedback circuit. For example, the feedback ci... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7176770 | Capacitive vertical silicon bulk acoustic resonator Disclosed are high frequency, vertical silicon bulk acoustic resonators. Resonator structures having a relatively large transduction areas fabricated using a HARPSS fabrication process provide for high frequency capacitive resonators with significantly low impedance... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7168319 | Angular speed measuring transducer A transducer for measuring an angular velocity formed by a single piezoelectric tuning fork (21) that rotates at said angular velocity, including first (23) and second (24) vibrating legs extending from a base (22), excitation electrodes ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170369 | Method for frequency tuning of a micro-mechanical resonator A method for modifying the resonance frequency of a micro-mechanical resonator, and resonators on which the method is practiced. A packaged resonator is trimmed by directing electromagnetic energy to the resonator through a transparent portion of the package. The re... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170218 | Electronic apparatus with two quartz crystal oscillators utilizing different vibration modes The electronic apparatus comprises a display portion and a quartz crystal oscillator at least, and said electronic apparatus comprises at least two quartz crystal oscillators. Also, each of two quartz crystal oscillators of the at least two oscillators comprises a q... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7157836 | Piezoelectric device A piezoelectric device including an IC chip mounted on an inner bottom surface of a package, and a piezoelectric vibrating reed electrically and mechanically connected onto a TAB tape in which a lead is provided on a surface of a resin tape. The TAB tape to which th... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7157990 | Radio frequency device and method using a carbon nanotube array A radio frequency (RF) filter includes a substrate, first and second dielectric layers formed on first and second portions of the substrate, a ground plane formed on a third portion of said substrate, a carbon nanotube array, and first and second electrodes. The thi... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7141912 | Piezoelectric/electrostrictive device and method of producing the same A piezoelectric/electrostrictive device includes a base 11 having a pair of movable parts 11a, 11b opposing each other and a connecting part 11c that connects movable parts 11a, 11b with ea... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7112915 | Resonator piece, resonator, oscillator and electronic device The invention provides a resonator piece, a resonator, an oscillator and an electronic device that can prevent in advance defects from arising in the electrodes and whose frequency characteristics of the resonator piece and CI value are stable. The resonator piece c... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7102467 | Method for adjusting the frequency of a MEMS resonator There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. These inventions are directed to a method of fabricating a microelectromechanical resonator having an output frequency that may be adjusted, tuned, set, defined and/or selected whether before and/or after f... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7075218 | Tuning fork type crystal component for angular velocity sensor and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides an angular velocity sensor element that can be produced easily with a high degree of accuracy, and a manufacturing method thereof. In the angular velocity sensor element of the present invention, the lengthwise direction of a tuning fo... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071794 | Quartz crystal resonator, unit having resonator, oscillator having unit, electronic apparatus having oscillator, and method for manufacturing electronic apparatus A quartz crystal resonator has a quartz crystal tuning fork base and quartz crystal tuning fork tines connected to the quartz crystal tuning fork base. Each of the quartz crystal tuning fork tines has opposite main surfaces, a groove formed in at least one of the ma... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7071793 | Temperature compensation for silicon MEMS resonator Thermally induced frequency variations in a micromechanical resonator are actively or passively mitigated by application of a compensating stiffness, or a compressive/tensile strain. Various composition materials may be selected according to their thermal expansion ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7067966 | Piezoelectric device, cellular phone system using the piezoelectric device, and electronic equipment using the piezoelectric device A piezoelectric device includes a base substrate constituting the bottom of the package; a framed resonator element layered on the base substrate; and a lid for hermetically sealing a space within the package, the lid being layered on the framed resonator element. T... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068125 | Temperature controlled MEMS resonator and method for controlling resonator frequency There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a temperature compensated microelectromechanical resonator as well as fabricating, manufacturing, providing and/or controlling microelectromechanical reso... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7015630 | Piezoelectric vibration piece, piezoelectric device using piezoelectric vibration piece, portable phone unit using piezoelectric device, and electronic equipment using piezoelectric device A piezoelectric vibration piece is provided including a pair of vibration arms that are formed of a piezoelectric material, and extend in a horizontal direction from a base section. Grooves with a bottom are provided in the vibration arms, and extend along the lengt... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015631 | Tuning-fork type piezo-oscillator piece and mounting method thereof Aspects of the invention can provide a tuning-fork type piezo-oscillator piece, whose package, in which the tuning-fork type piezo-oscillator piece is mounted, is protected from colliding with oscillating arms even though a physical shock is given onto the tuning-fo... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7002284 | Thin-film micromechanical resonator, thin-film micromechanical resonator gyro, and navigation system and automobile using the resonator gyro A thin film micromechanical resonator (resonator) having improved drive efficiency, a resonator gyro having improved sensitivity in detecting an angular velocity, and a navigation system and an automobile using the resonator gyro. The resonator includes a tuning for... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002436 | Vacuum-cavity MEMS resonator A microelectromechanical (MEMS) resonator with a vacuum-cavity is fabricated using polysilicon-enabled release methods. A vacuum-cavity surrounding the MEMS beam is formed by removing release material that surrounds the beam and sealing the resulting cavity under va... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6995633 | Micromachine vibration filter A compact high-performance mechanical vibration filter which deals with high frequency band signals. Microcolumn beams as minute mechanical vibrators are used to increase a mechanical resonance frequency. The plural microcolumn beams are arranged in an array and a c... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6949870 | Tuning fork-type crystal vibrator A tuning fork-type crystal vibrator is provided that has improved CI and shock resistance. The tuning fork-type crystal vibrator includes a tuning fork-shaped crystal element made of a pair of tuning fork arms having grooves in their principal surfaces, and a tuning... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6930440 | Tuning fork type crystal unit and bar type crystal unit A tuning fork type quartz crystal unit has a base and a pair of arms extending from respective ends of the base in a crystallographic Y direction of quartz crystal. Each of the arms comprises a first crystal member and a second crystal member which extend in the Y d... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6903618 | Quartz crystal unit, and quartz crystal oscillator having quartz crystal unit A quartz crystal unit has a quartz crystal tuning fork resonator capable of vibrating in a flexural mode of an inverse phase. The quartz crystal tuning fork resonator has a fundamental mode of vibration, a second overtone mode of vibration, a quartz crystal tuning f... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6897743 | Electronic apparatus with two quartz crystal oscillators utilizing different vibration modes An electronic apparatus has a display portion and quartz crystal oscillators having different modes of vibration. Each of the quartz crystal oscillators has a quartz crystal oscillating circuit having a quartz crystal resonator. The quartz crystal resonator of one o... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6861914 | Monolithic vibration isolation and an ultra-high Q mechanical resonator A mechanical oscillator is provided for use in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) for application in radio frequency filters and oscillators, motion and pressure sensors and other micro applications. The oscillator is of monolithic construction and has a high Q ... | 03/01/2005 |
