Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Noriyoshi Ota

Yuichi Takamine

Toshimaro Yoneda

Kentaro Nakamura

Takashi Yamane

Tsutomu Takai

Seiji Kai

Akira Michigami

Hisashi Yamazaki

Koji Yamamoto

Keiji Okada

Sunao Yamazaki

Atsushi Tanaka

Yuji Miwa

An acoustic wave resonator includes an IDT electrode that is on or above a piezoelectric plate and includes a periodic withdrawal weighted portion in each of a plurality of regions for at least two or more periods in an acoustic wave propagation direction. A periodic withdrawal weighted portion in at least one of the regions is different from a periodic withdrawal weighted portion in at least one of the other regions.

Acoustic wave resonator and multiplexer

A filter includes series resonators on a signal path, each of the series resonator including an IDT electrode that includes first electrode fingers each including a variant portion, second electrode fingers each including no variant portion, or both the first electrode fingers and the second electrode fingers, in the IDT electrode of one or more series resonators of the series resonators, a direction connecting other-side end portions of electrode fingers crosses an acoustic wave propagation direction, the IDT electrode includes the first electrode fingers, a first portion of an IDT electrode of another series resonator centrally located in the acoustic wave propagation direction, includes only the first electrode fingers, and a second portion and a third portion on two sides of the first portion each include only the second electrode fingers.

Filter, multiplexer, radio frequency front-end circuit, and communication device

A surface acoustic wave filter includes series and parallel arm resonance sections. The series arm resonance section is in a series arm. The parallel arm resonance section is in a parallel arm. The series arm resonance section includes one or more surface acoustic wave devices. Each surface acoustic wave device includes a first resonator group and a second resonator group. The first and second resonator groups are connected in parallel and include surface acoustic wave resonators. The first resonator group includes at least one surface acoustic wave resonator. The second resonator group includes a greater number of surface acoustic wave resonators than the at least one surface acoustic wave resonator in the first resonator group. The resonant frequency of the surface acoustic wave resonator in the first resonator group is higher than the resonant frequency of the surface acoustic wave resonators in the second resonator group.

Surface acoustic wave device and surface acoustic wave filter

A filter includes series resonators in a signal path. An IDT electrode included in the series resonators includes at least either first electrode fingers including variant portions or second electrode fingers not including variant portions. In the IDT electrode included in one or more series resonators of the series resonators, a direction that connects the respective other ends of a plurality of electrode fingers intersects an acoustic wave propagation direction. In a first portion and a second portion of the IDT electrode, the first and second electrode fingers are arranged in a predetermined order.

An elastic wave device includes a lamination layer film including a piezoelectric thin film on a support substrate. The lamination layer film is not partially present in a region located in an outer side portion of a region where IDT electrodes are provided. A first insulation layer extends from at least a portion of a region where the lamination layer film is not present to an upper portion of the piezoelectric thin film. A wiring electrode has a width of about 6 &#x3bc;m and extends from the upper portion of the piezoelectric thin film to an upper portion of the first insulation layer, and extends onto a section of the first insulation layer in the region.

Elastic wave device

In a multiplexer, input or output terminals of four acoustic wave filters are connected to, among a plurality of terminals provided on piezoelectric substrates, antenna terminals connected to an antenna connection terminal; the four acoustic wave filters include a first acoustic wave filter and a second acoustic wave filter that is located at a farther position from the antenna connection terminal than a position of the first acoustic wave filter in a plan view of a substrate; and among the plurality of terminals, the terminals located at the closest position to the antenna connection terminal in the plan view of the substrate are connected to the second acoustic wave filter as the antenna terminals.

Multiplexer, transmitting device, and receiving device

A multiplexer includes filters and a common terminal connected to an antenna element by a connection path, a first inductance element being connected between the connection path and a reference terminal. A terminal closer to the antenna element among an input terminal and an output terminal of one filter among the filters is connected to a parallel resonator and is connected to the common terminal with a second inductance element interposed therebetween. A terminal closer to the antenna element among an input terminal and an output terminal of each of other filters other than the one filter among the filters is connected to the common terminal and a series resonator.

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