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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2004
Masaki Takeuchi, Otsu, JP;
Hajime Yamada, Otsu, JP;
Yoshihiko Goto, Shiga-ken, JP;
Tadashi Nomura, Kyoto, JP;
Yukio Yoshino, Otsu, JP;
Masaki Takeuchi, Otsu, JP;
Hajime Yamada, Otsu, JP;
Yoshihiko Goto, Shiga-ken, JP;
Tadashi Nomura, Kyoto, JP;
Yukio Yoshino, Otsu, JP;
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A piezoelectric resonator includes a substrate, a vibration unit disposed on the substrate and having a structure in which at least one pair of an upper electrode and a lower electrode opposed to each other, the upper and lower electrodes sandwiching the upper and lower surfaces of an internal thin-film portion including at least one layer of a piezoelectric thin-film, and an external thin-film portion provided under the lower electrode and including at least one layer of a piezoelectric thin-film or a dielectric thin-film, the vibration unit being vibrated in an n-th harmonic (n is an integer of 2 or more), the upper electrode and the lower electrode being provided substantially in the positions of the loops of the n-th harmonic.