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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2008
Hiroaki Kaida, Moriyama, JP;
Shungo Kanai, Oumihachiman, JP;
Hitoshi Sakaguchi, Toyama, JP;
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto-fu, JP;
Abstract
An energy-trapping strip piezoelectric vibrator utilizing a third harmonic overtone of a thickness shear mode is provided. A piezoelectric vibratorhas a strip piezoelectric ceramic substratepolarized in a longitudinal direction, and first and second excitation electrodesandprovided on first and second principal surfacesandof the piezoelectric ceramic substrate. An excitation regionincluding a piezoelectric vibration portion that includes a portion where the first and second excitation electrodesandoverlap and that utilizes harmonics of the thickness shear mode is formed. A region around the piezoelectric vibration portion is set as a non-excitation region. At least a region of the non-excitation region neighboring the piezoelectric vibration portion is a region having the same polarization axis direction as the excitation regionand a relatively small polarization degree or is an unpolarized region.