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US 9,712,139 B2Granted
Elastic wave filter device
AssigneeMurata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsYasumasa Taniguchi, Masato Araki, Katsuya Daimon, Masakazu Mimura
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Abstract
An elastic wave filter device includes serial and parallel arms and a plurality of elastic wave resonators. Each elastic wave resonator includes an IDT electrode. In the case where a direction in which electrode fingers extend is taken as a width direction of the IDT electrode, the IDT electrode includes a central area at a center in the width direction, a low acoustic velocity area at an outer side portion of the central area, and a high velocity area at a farther outer side portion thereof. A width of the low acoustic velocity area of at least one elastic wave resonator differs from a width of the low acoustic velocity area of the other elastic wave resonators.
Claims17
An elastic wave filter device comprising:
- a serial arm connecting an input terminal to an output terminal;
- a parallel arm connecting the serial arm to a ground potential;
- and
- a plurality of elastic wave resonators;
- wherein
- at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators includes a piezoelectric substrate and an interdigital transducer electrode located on the piezoelectric substrate;
- the interdigital transducer electrode includes:
- a first busbar;
- a second busbar spaced from the first busbar;
- a plurality of first electrode fingers, each base end of which is electrically connected to the first busbar, that extend toward the second busbar side;
- a plurality of second electrode fingers, each base end of which is electrically connected to the second bus bar, that extend toward the first busbar side and are interleaved with the plurality of first electrode fingers;
- a central area at a center in a direction in which the first and second electrode fingers of the interdigital transducer electrode extend;
- a low acoustic velocity area at an outer side portion of the central area in a direction in which the electrode fingers extend where an acoustic velocity is relatively low in comparison with the central area;
- and
- a high acoustic velocity area at an outer side portion in a direction in which the low acoustic velocity area extends where an elastic wave propagation velocity is higher than an elastic wave propagation velocity in the central area;
- when a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to an elastic wave propagation direction is taken as a width direction, a dimension of the low acoustic velocity area in the width direction of one of the at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators differs from a dimension of the low acoustic velocity area in the width direction of another one of the at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators;
- the first and second busbars respectively include a plurality of cavities arranged in a dispersed manner along the elastic wave propagation direction, an inner side portion relative to the cavities in the width direction of the interdigital transducer electrode is taken as an inner side busbar section, a portion where the plurality of cavities are provided is taken as a central busbar section, and an outer side portion relative to the central busbar section is taken as an outer side busbar section;
- the inner side busbar section is belt-shaped and extends in the elastic wave propagation direction;
- and
- the central busbar section defines the high acoustic velocity area.
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An elastic wave filter device comprising:
- a serial arm connecting an input terminal to an output terminal;
- a parallel arm connecting the serial arm to a ground potential;
- and
- a plurality of elastic wave resonators;
- wherein
- at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators includes a piezoelectric substrate and an interdigital transducer electrode located on the piezoelectric substrate;
- the interdigital transducer electrode includes:
- a first busbar;
- a second busbar spaced from the first busbar;
- a plurality of first electrode fingers, each base end of which is electrically connected to the first busbar, that extend toward the second busbar side;
- a plurality of second electrode fingers, each base end of which is electrically connected to the second bus bar, that extend toward the first busbar side and are interleaved with the plurality of first electrode fingers;
- a central area at a center in a direction in which the first and second electrode fingers of the interdigital transducer electrode extend;
- a low acoustic velocity area at an outer side portion of the central area in a direction in which the electrode fingers extend where an acoustic velocity is relatively low in comparison with the central area;
- and
- a high acoustic velocity area at an outer side portion in a direction in which the low acoustic velocity area extends where an elastic wave propagation velocity is higher than an elastic wave propagation velocity in the central area;
- when a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to an elastic wave propagation direction is taken as a width direction, a dimension of the low acoustic velocity area in the width direction of one of the at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators differs from a dimension of the low acoustic velocity area in the width direction of another one of the at least two plurality of elastic wave resonators;
- the serial arm includes at least two serial arm resonators included in the plurality of elastic wave resonators;
- and
- the at least two serial arm resonators include the one of the at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators and the another one of the at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators.
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An elastic wave filter device comprising:
- a serial arm connecting an input terminal to an output terminal;
- a parallel arm connecting the serial arm to a ground potential;
- and
- a plurality of elastic wave resonators;
- wherein
- at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators includes a piezoelectric substrate and an interdigital transducer electrode located on the piezoelectric substrate;
- the interdigital transducer electrode includes:
- a first busbar;
- a second busbar spaced from the first busbar;
- a plurality of first electrode fingers, each base end of which is electrically connected to the first busbar, that extend toward the second busbar side;
- a plurality of second electrode fingers, each base end of which is electrically connected to the second bus bar, that extend toward the first busbar side and are interleaved with the plurality of first electrode fingers;
- a central area at a center in a direction in which the first and second electrode fingers of the interdigital transducer electrode extend;
- a low acoustic velocity area at an outer side portion of the central area in a direction in which the electrode fingers extend where an acoustic velocity is relatively low in comparison with the central area;
- and
- a high acoustic velocity area at an outer side portion in a direction in which the low acoustic velocity area extends where an elastic wave propagation velocity is higher than an elastic wave propagation velocity in the central area;
- when a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to an elastic wave propagation direction is taken as a width direction, a dimension of the low acoustic velocity area in the width direction of at least one of the at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators differs from a dimension of the low acoustic velocity area in the width direction of another one of the at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators;
- the parallel arm includes at least two parallel arm resonators included in the plurality of elastic wave resonators;
- and
- the at least two parallel arm resonators include the one of the at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators and the another one of the at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators.
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An elastic wave filter device comprising:
- a serial arm connecting an input terminal to an output terminal;
- a parallel arm connecting the serial arm to a ground potential;
- a plurality of elastic wave resonators;
- and
- a capacitor;
- wherein
- at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators includes a piezoelectric substrate and an interdigital transducer electrode located on the piezoelectric substrate;
- the interdigital transducer electrode includes:
- a first busbar;
- a second busbar spaced from the first busbar;
- a plurality of first electrode fingers, each base end of which is electrically connected to the first busbar, that extend toward the second busbar side;
- a plurality of second electrode fingers, each base end of which is electrically connected to the second bus bar, that extend toward the first busbar side and are interleaved with the plurality of first electrode fingers;
- a central area at a center in a direction in which the first and second electrode fingers of the interdigital transducer electrode extend;
- a low acoustic velocity area at an outer side portion of the central area in a direction in which the electrode fingers extend where an acoustic velocity is relatively low in comparison with the central area;
- and
- a high acoustic velocity area at an outer side portion in a direction in which the low acoustic velocity area extends where an elastic wave propagation velocity is higher than an elastic wave propagation velocity in the central area;
- when a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to an elastic wave propagation direction is taken as a width direction, a dimension of the low acoustic velocity area in the width direction of at least one of the at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators differs from a dimension of the low acoustic velocity area in the width direction of another one of the at least two of the plurality of elastic wave resonators;
- the serial arm includes a plurality of serial arm resonators that are included in the plurality of elastic wave resonators;
- and
- the capacitor is connected in parallel to the plurality of serial arm resonators.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.