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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2000
Masaya Wajima, Shinminato, JP;
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A capacitor-containing piezoelectric resonance component is constructed to minimize variations in electrostatic capacitance. The component includes dielectric substrates that are disposed on upper and lower surfaces of an energy-trap type piezoelectric resonance element such that a vibration space is defined. On the dielectric substrates, first and second capacitor-defining electrodes are disposed to define a predetermined gap G in a direction that is substantially parallel to the main surface of the dielectric substrate. The second capacitor-defining electrode overlaps with the vibration space via either the dielectric substrates or portions of the dielectric substrates. When G′ represents the distance between an end portion of the second capacitor-defining electrode and an end portion of the vibratory space along the direction in which the first and the second capacitor-defining electrode oppose each other, one of the expressions G′/G≧1 and G′/G≦−0.4 is satisfied.