Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Nippon Hoso' Kyokai

Shinichiro Ichiguchi

Katsumi Fujimoto

Kenji Nishiyama

Chikahiro Horiguchi

Yasuhiro Kuratani

Takekazu Okada

Satoru Shinmura

Yuuki Ishii

Masaaki Takata

Fumio Kanaya

Yuzo Mizushima

Youhei Ishikawa

Hitoshi Sakaguchi

Toshihiro Nomoto

Toshihito Umegaki

A cleaning device for an imaging unit includes a housing that holds an imaging section, a protection cover provided in the visual field of the imaging section, a vibrator section that vibrates the protection cover, and a cleaning nozzle that discharges a cleaning liquid. The cleaning liquid discharged by the discharge section reaches a surface of side of the protection cover that is opposite to the side thereof adjacent to or in a vicinity of the imaging section. According to the vibrator section vibrating the protection cover, a portion of surface of the protection cover exhibits an amount of displacement larger than that of a portion of surface of the protection cover that the discharged cleaning liquid has reached.

Cleaning device and imaging unit including the same

A vibration device includes a light-transmitting body that is located on a subject side of an imaging element, a cylindrical body that includes a first end portion, a second end portion on the opposite side from the first end portion, and an outer surface and an inner surface that connect the first end portion and the second end portion to each other, the cylindrical body being connected to the light-transmitting body and holding the light-transmitting body on the first end portion side thereof, and a piezoelectric element provided along a circumferential direction of the cylindrical body and that torsionally vibrates the cylindrical body.

Vibration device

A cleaning device includes a casing holding an image capturing device, a protective cover disposed in a visual field of the image capturing device, a vibrator to vibrate the protective cover, a controller to control the vibrator, a monitor to detect an electrical characteristic value associated with a vibration of the vibrator, and a storage to store determination criteria based on which the controller evaluates the electrical characteristic value detected by the monitor. The controller is configured to evaluate the electrical characteristic value based on the plurality of determination criteria stored in the storage and clean a surface of the translucent body by controlling the vibrator according to the determination.

Cleaning device, and image capturing apparatus including cleaning device

A vibration device includes a top plate elastic body, a cylindrical body that includes a first end portion and a second end portion and is coupled with the top plate elastic body to retain the top plate elastic body on a side of the first end portion. The cylindrical body includes on a side of the second end portion, a ring-shaped flange portion extended outward in a radial direction of the cylindrical body, and a piezoelectric element fixed to the ring-shaped flange portion to cause the cylindrical body to vibrate.

A vibrating device includes a tubular body including a first end, a second end, and a plurality of side surfaces that connect the first and second ends, piezoelectric vibrators that are fixed to the tubular body and vibrate the tubular body, and a light transmitting body unit that is directly or indirectly connected to the second end of the tubular body.

Vibrating device, camera water-droplet-removing device, and camera

A vibrating device includes a tubular body including first and second end surfaces, and a side wall portion that connects the first and second end surfaces, a piezoelectric vibrator provided on the first end surface of the tubular body, and a light transmitting body that is directly or indirectly connected to the second end surface and covers an opening in the second end surface of the tubular body. A connecting portion is connected to the first end surface of the tubular body inside or outside an opening in the first end surface. A tubular bent portion is connected to a surface of the connecting portion that faces toward the second end surface of the tubular body. The tubular bent portion extends in a direction from the first end surface toward the second end surface of the tubular body.

The invention discloses a nonreciprocal circuit device, a composite electronic component, and a communication apparatus, which can achieve miniaturization and cost reduction while having good characteristics. In the nonreciprocal circuit device, one of a plurality of matching capacitors is connected in series between one of a plurality of central conductors and a port of the central conductor. An end of each of the remaining matching capacitors is connected in parallel to each of the remaining central conductors, and the connecting parts are continued to ports of the remaining central conductors.

Nonreciprocal circuit device with series and parallel matching capacitors at different ports

A magnetostatic wave device includes a dielectric substrate. Micro strip lines as transducers are formed by forming a ground electrode and strip-line electrodes, on both surfaces of the dielectric substrate. A ferrimagnetic base material formed with a GGG substrate and a YIG thin film on the GGG substrate is arranged on the strip-line electrodes. The ferrimagnetic base material is formed so that the end portions slant from the strip-line electrodes outwardly. The length of the ferrimagnetic base material is established to provide a minimum value.

Magnetostatic wave device having slanted end portions

A signal-to-noise enhancer 10 includes a first 90 degree hybrid set 20. A first output end of the first 90 degree hybrid set 20 is connected to an input end of a limiter used a magnetostatic wave element 62a utilized the magnetostatic surface wave mode. Also, a second output end of the first 90 degree hybrid set 20 is connected to an input end of a filter used a magnetostatic wave element 62b similar to the magnetostatic wave element 62a in structure, via a resistor 32 as a first attenuator. Furthermore, an output end of the limiter is connected to a first input end of a second 90 degree hybrid set 40 via a resistor 52 as a second attenuator. Also, an output end of the filter is connected to a second input end of the second 90 degree hybrid set 40.

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Nagaokakyo, Japan

Shinichiro Ichiguchi