Abstract:
A lamination type piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric member that is longer in one direction, and a plurality of internal electrodes extending substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction and arranged so as to be opposed to each other via piezoelectric layers, respectively. Bending vibration in which the piezoelectric member is bent substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction thereof is excited using a piezoelectric longitudinal effect.
Abstract:
A method of forming an electronic component includes laminating ceramic green sheets on a support film to obtain a ceramic green sheet laminate, forming through holes through the ceramic green sheet laminate at positions where via hole electrodes are to be located, applying conductive material into the through holes so as to fill the through holes and so as to be located on the upper surface of the ceramic green sheet laminate to form via hole electrodes, and sintering the ceramic green sheet laminate to form a substrate and so as to form protruding portions of the via hole electrodes which protrude upward from the upper surface of the substrate.
Abstract:
A piezoelectric resonator which achieves a compact oscillator with high performance having high thermal resistance and a narrow tolerance includes an element body having an excitation layer and a non-excitation layer. One vibration electrode is provided on the surface of the excitation layer and another vibration electrode is provided between the excitation layer and the non-excitation layer. The two vibration electrodes extend from opposing ends of the excitation layer toward the approximate central portion thereof so as to oppose each other at the approximate central portion of the excitation layer. On end-surfaces of the element body, end-surface electrodes are connected to the vibration electrodes, respectively.
Abstract:
The production efficiency of silicon single crystal produced by additional charge or recharge method is improved by avoiding loss due to undissolved portion of poly-silicon rod supplied in the additional charge or recharge. A poly-silicon rod 20 as an additional charge is brought down in a silicon melt 11 in a crucible 10, while being directly supported by a seed crystal 40. The poly-silicon rod 20 is brought down to be totally supplied to the silicon melt 11, and then silicon single crystal 44 is pulled using the seed crystal 40.
Abstract:
An energy-trapping piezoelectric resonator vibrates in a third-order wave of a thickness-extension vibration mode. The piezoelectric resonator includes a piezoelectric substrate polarized along its thickness. A ratio of the width W to the thickness T of the substrate is determined to be about 0.88.+-.5%, 1.06.+-.4%, 1.32.+-.5%, 1.80.+-.3%, 2.30.+-.3%, 2.69.+-.3%, 3.16.+-.2%, or 3.64.+-.2%. First and second electrodes are respectively disposed on the obverse and reverse surfaces of the substrate to cover the entire width and opposedly face each other at the central portion of the substrate in the longitudinal direction so as to form a resonance portion between the first and second electrodes. It is thus possible to obtain a piezoelectric resonator which does not require a large extra area of the substrate around the resonance portion and which exhibits good resonance characteristics by effectively suppressing unwanted spurious responses in a range between and near the resonant frequency and the anti-resonant frequency.
Abstract:
A ladder filter has a piezoelectric resonator having reduced spurious vibrations and having a wider range of selection of the difference .DELTA.F between the resonant frequency and the antiresonant frequency, and has a substantially reduced size. The ladder filter includes an insulating substrate on which four pattern electrodes are provided. Four lands are respectively formed as portions of the four pattern electrodes. Another land is formed as a portion of the second pattern electrode. External electrodes of four piezoelectric resonators adapted to vibrate in a longitudinal vibration mode and capable of being mounted in a surface mount manner are connected to the land of the pattern electrodes by supporting members made of an electroconductive material. The four piezoelectric resonators are arranged in a row in the order of a first series resonator, a first parallel resonator, a second parallel resonator and a second series resonator.
Abstract:
A piezoelectric element includes an internal electrode embedded in a piezoelectric ceramic body so as to extend in a longitudinal direction of the body. First to third surface electrodes are formed on upper and lower surfaces of the piezoelectric ceramic body in respective first to third portions along the longitudinal direction. Connecting electrodes are formed to connect the first to third surface electrodes with each other. The first to third portions are polarized so that the second portion is polarized opposite to the polarization of the first and third portions, and regions located above and below the internal electrode are polarized in opposite directions in the respective ones of the first to third portions.
Abstract:
To provide a mounting arrangement of acceleration detecting elements capable of detecting acceleration over a wide range with as few elements as possible and having substantially the same detection sensitivity with regard to acceleration operating in any direction of orthogonal coordinate axes, two acceleration detecting elements are disposed on an element attaching surface defining x-y plane in an x-y-z orthogonal coordinate system, such that orientations of the two acceleration detecting elements are along the x axis and y axis on the element attaching surface, a maximum sensitivity direction of one of the two acceleration detecting elements being inclined from the y axis toward the z axis by 40.degree. to 50.degree. and a maximum sensitivity direction of the other of the acceleration detecting elements being inclined from the x axis to the z axis by 40.degree.to 50.degree..
Abstract:
A vehicle door locking device comprises a first locking lever connected to an inside lock button for changing over the locking device to the lock state or unlock state, a second locking lever connected to a key cylinder and an actuator which has a roughly enclosed housing, a motor accommodated in the housing, a first shaft connected to the first locking lever and a second shaft connected to the second locking lever. A first switch mechanism for detecting the position of the first locking lever and a second switch mechanism for detecting the position of the second locking lever are provided in the housing.
Abstract:
An acceleration sensor having a specific insensitive direction along which no acceleration is detectable and an insulated case supporting the acceleration sensor body. The acceleration sensor body is so mounted on the insulated case that the insensitive direction is along a direction which is neither parallel nor perpendicular to a surface of the insulated case to be mounted on an external device.