Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Kosuke Nishio

Nobuo Ikemoto

Noriaki Okuda

Keiichi Ichikawa

Nobuyuki Tenno

Tomohiro Nagai

Kaoru Sudo

Masanori Okamoto

Keisuke Araki

Atsushi Kasuya

Tomohiko Naruoka

Kazuya Soda

Kosuke Kikuchi

An antenna element includes an insulative substrate including first and second main surfaces arranged in an up-down direction. At least one antenna conductor layer is provided on the first main surface of the insulative substrate. At least one insulative substrate non-forming region is provided between the insulative substrate and the antenna conductor layer in the up-down direction. An insulator layer does not exist in the at least one insulative substrate non-forming region. When seen in the up-down direction, all of an outer boundary of at least one antenna conductor overlaps the at least one insulative substrate non-forming region and is not in contact with the insulative substrate. At least one of the at least one insulative substrate non-forming region includes a void.

Antenna element and electronic device

A multilayer substrate includes laminated insulating layers each including a main surface on which a conductor is provided. The multilayer substrate also includes a signal line defined by the conductors, and a shield conductor defined by the conductors. The shield conductor includes an opening and a portion overlapping the signal line in plan view. At least one of the insulating layers includes a void that communicates with the opening and that is larger than the opening in plan view.

Multilayer substrate and method for manufacturing multilayer substrate

A transmission line component includes an insulation substrate, signal line conductors, and a common-mode choke coil. The insulation substrate is made of a flexible material, and has a shape extending in a first direction. The signal line conductors are on or in the insulation substrate, and extend mainly in the first direction. The common-mode choke coil includes linear conductors on or in the insulation substrate, and is connected to the signal line conductors. The insulation substrate includes a first signal line portion in which the signal line conductors are provided, and a coil portion in which the common-mode choke coil is provided in the first direction. The insulation substrate includes a bent portion in the first signal line portion.

Transmission line component and electronic device

In a transmission line, a multilayer body includes a hollow portion above a signal conductor layer and below a ground conductor layer and overlapping the ground conductor layer when viewed in an up-down direction, and a spacer facing the hollow portion. In a cross section orthogonal to a front-back direction, an overlapping region is a region in the hollow portion in which the hollow portion overlaps the spacer in the up-down direction. In a cross section orthogonal to the front-back direction, a non-overlapping region is a region in the hollow portion in which the hollow portion does not overlap the spacer in the up-down direction. A length of the hollow portion in the up-down direction in the overlapping region is shorter than a length of the hollow portion in the up-down direction in the non-overlapping region.

Transmission line and electronic device

An antenna element includes a first opening including an annular outer boundary in an antenna conductor layer. A first insulative substrate non-forming region is provided between an insulative substrate and the antenna conductor layer in an up-down direction. The insulative substrate does not exist in the first insulative substrate non-forming region. The outer boundary of the first opening overlaps one or more first insulative substrate non-forming regions and is not in contact with the insulative substrate. The first insulative substrate non-forming region is a first void, and a low dielectric constant material having a lower dielectric constant than that of a material of the insulative substrate or a high dielectric constant material having a higher dielectric constant than that of the material of the insulative substrate is provided in the first insulative substrate non-forming region.

Antenna element, electronic device, and method for manufacturing antenna element

When viewed in an up-down direction, a first line-shaped reference conductor layer extends along a first signal conductor layer such that portions thereof overlap. When viewed in the up-down direction, the first line-shaped reference conductor layer meanders such that one or more first projecting portions projecting from the first signal conductor layer in a first orthogonal direction and one or more second projecting portions projecting from the first signal conductor layer in a second orthogonal direction alternate in a transmission direction. A section of at least one or more first pairs of projecting portions excluding both ends thereof is not connected to a conductor layer other than one or more of the one or more first projecting portions and one or more of the one or more second projecting portions included in the at least one or more first pairs of projecting portions.

Circuit board

A circuit board includes one or more insulator layers, and upper and lower principal surfaces, and conductor layers in or on the substrate body. The conductor layers include a pair of first and second conductor layers on one of the insulator layers. Each of the pairs of the first and second conductor layers includes a first proximity section in which the first and second conductor layers are aligned in an orthogonal direction to an extending direction of the first conductor layer. A distance between the first and second conductor layers in the first proximity section is defined as a proximity distance. Most proximate first and second conductor layers are defined as the first and second conductor layers with a smallest proximity distance and are located on an upper principal surface of a first insulator layer of the one or more insulating layers.

Circuit board and method of manufacturing circuit board

A transmission line includes an element body, a signal conductor layer, and a ground conductor layer. The element body includes an insulator layer. The signal conductor layer is below the insulator layer, and the ground conductor layer is above the insulator layer in an element body up-down direction. A hole is located at a surface of the insulator layer and penetrates the insulator layer in the element body up-down direction. At least a portion of the hole overlaps the signal conductor layer when viewed in the element body up-down direction. The hole extends between a left hole-defining surface and a right hole-defining surface. In a cross section orthogonal to the element body front-back direction, the left hole-defining surface includes a left upper end and a left lower end in the element body left-right direction, and the right hole-defining surface includes a right upper end and a right lower end in the element body left-right direction.

A board main body includes first and second resin layers contacting each other and including thermoplastic resin, a first signal conductor layer on an upper main surface of the second resin layer, an overlapping region in which the first and second resin layers are present when viewed in an up-down direction, and a non-overlapping region in which the first resin layer is not present and the second resin layer is present when viewed in the up-down direction. The first signal conductor layer includes a first curved portion in which the first signal conductor layer is curved in the up-down direction such that the first signal conductor layer in the first non-overlapping region is above the first signal conductor layer in the overlapping region. The first signal conductor layer is electrically connectable to an element on the board main body in the first non-overlapping region.

A circuit board includes a board body, a signal conductor, a power supply conductor, and a first reference conductor. The signal conductor is in the board body and a high frequency signal is transmitted through the signal conductor. The power supply conductor is in the board body and is connected to a power supply potential. The power supply conductor extends along at least a portion of the signal conductor. The first reference conductor is in the board body and is insulated from the signal conductor and the power supply conductor.

Circuit board and electronic device

A multilayer board includes thermoplastic resin layers laminated together, a first-class conductor pattern including a conductor foil on a first surface of one of the thermoplastic resin layers, a second-class conductor pattern in contact with a second surface of the one of the thermoplastic resin layers, and an interlayer connection conductor in the one of the thermoplastic resin layers and including a first end surface connected to the first-class conductor pattern and a second end surface connected to a second-class conductor pattern. The second-class conductor pattern and the first interlayer connection conductor include a conductor of a single material including a resin, or a conductor of a single material including a metal with a melting point lower than that of the conductor foil.

Multilayer board and method of manufacturing the same

A circuit board includes a first section on a left side of a third section in a signal-conductor-layer left-right direction and extending in parallel or substantially in parallel with the third section in a signal-conductor-layer front-back direction when viewed in a stacking direction. The first section includes first thin line portions and first thick line portions, each of the first thick line portions has a line width greater than a line width of each of the first thin line portions. The first thin line portions and the first thick line portions are alternately arranged in the signal-conductor-layer front-back direction. In the signal-conductor-layer left-right direction, center lines of the first thin line portions are positioned leftward relative to center lines of the first thick line portions.

A multilayer substrate module includes a first substrate portion including a first substrate portion body including first insulator layers stacked in a vertical direction and a first conductor layer and/or a first interlayer connection conductor provided at the first substrate portion body. A second substrate portion includes a second substrate portion body including second insulator layers stacked in the vertical direction and a second conductor layer and a second interlayer connection conductor provided at the second substrate portion body, and is mounted on an upper surface of the first substrate portion. A mount device is mounted on an upper surface or a lower surface of the second substrate portion. At least a portion of an inductance component is defined by the first conductor layer and the first interlayer connection conductor.

Multilayer substrate module with filter function

In a transmission line, a signal conductor layer extends in a front-back direction orthogonal to an up-down direction. A ground conductor layer is above the signal conductor layer. When viewed in a first orthogonal direction, first hollow portions are arranged in the front-back direction in a first direction of the signal conductor layer, and second hollow portions are arranged in the front-back direction in a second direction of the signal conductor layer. Each of regions between adjacent first hollow portions in the front-back direction is a first region. Each of regions between adjacent second hollow portions in the front-back direction is a second region. Each of the first hollow portions overlaps with a corresponding one of the second regions when viewed in a second orthogonal direction. Each of the second hollow portions overlaps with a corresponding one of the first regions when viewed in the second orthogonal direction.

A multilayer substrate includes a multilayer body in which insulating layers are laminated in a laminating direction, a front electrode that is provided on a front surface side of a first insulating layer which is positioned on a front surface side of the multilayer body among the insulating layers, a first internal electrode that is provided on an opposite side to the front electrode with the first insulating layer interposed therebetween, and a first interlayer connection conductor that electrically connects the front electrode and the first internal electrode with each other. The first interlayer connection conductor includes a front side connection surface that is electrically connected with the front electrode and a back side connection surface that is electrically connected with the first internal electrode.

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